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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service hello everyone I'm Dimitri with Huracan accent welcome to another video back in December we reviewed this guy this the 600 C from Corsair it was an interesting inverted ATX layout with an awesome elegant exterior but many of you have expressed your interest in a smaller non-inverted standard ATX layout and now we have 400 C which satisfies those demands perfectly the Corsair 400 C is a fantastic addition to the Carbide series because they brought some needed updates on the interior to remain competitive and the $99 price point I feel is well-placed when you look at coursers entire catalog but it's when you start to compare to the price ranges of the defined tests and the fantex p 400 or the n3 pro m then the 400 c loses some competitive points now in terms of size and design here it is next to the bigger brother 600 C and the 400 C is both much smaller and thinner thanks to the omission of the five and a quarter inch drive bays and an overall smaller internal design with seven PCI slots instead of eight on the bigger guide but I can definitely appreciate the consistency in design language with metal plated front panel that's fully solid and curves at the top and only has a small Corsair logo in the bottom corner and then the large acrylic side panel that's slightly tinted and is fairly resilient to scratch marks we have this handle to open the panel and it can be removed from the frame completely if needed on our 600 C sample the panel came off with ease but here the hinges are much tighter that requires upward wiggle motion to get the hinges released in my opinion the acrylic is totally fine here at this price point we cannot expect tempered glass but at least the nature of the side panel mount means we could potentially see different materials in the future the front panel is well spaced out to allow unrestrictive intake and behind it we find the fine mesh dust filter spending the entire fan area which can support triple 120 or dual 140 mm with a single 140 Milner fan included and I ended up adding a second 120mm fan for my CPU cooler but notice the mounting strips running down for flexible fan installation which is awesome the i/o includes a power button dual USB 300 jacks and hard drive activity LED and a reset switch the top of the case was fully covered with a magnetic filter that is coarse enough to allow proper exhaust but it will prevent dust from settling through the top here we get dual 140 and 120mm mounts that are offset closer to the side panel for best internal clearance although there isn't much hight clearance here so your best bet is to utilize the front of the case for radiators and top for fans only the 400 C is very well elevated which makes it slightly bigger than needed but at least the feet are rubberized and it does filter is present under your power supply speaking of the power supply corsair is taking a modular approach towards the shroud which is in two pieces but still leaving plenty of clearance from the front panel if you want to occupy all three fan slots and pop in a radiator in there removing the first cover reveals the drive cage that is very well hidden and you have two brackets and the drive cage is also removable and so is the last power supply cover and you have to remove both pieces of the shroud in order to install your power supply and courser makes it super simple with a few thumb screws taking a look at the back we find the tools three slot cage for your SSDs that is also removable and several cable type points around key areas particularly around the large rubber grommets and I decided to place a micro ATX system inside the case because this is actually a hackintosh in these guys so if you want to see a video on my full experience in that let us know by leaving a comment or a like on this video so a couple of points to mention the rubber grommets are a little bit distant from the motherboard although standard ATX motherboards would be slightly wider than what you see here and thus it would be closer to the grommets and not a big issue there are no direct cutouts underneath the micro ATX board but that's totally fine as you have plenty of routes to direct your cables and I really love the totally unrestricted front intake the delivers cool air to your GPU and the general interior the cutout on the power supply shroud allows you to route PCIe cables to your GPU but the cut out is a little further back it's kind of in the middle of the shroud resulting in curved cables and not that totally clean exit coming around - this was no effort at all aside from needing to do some extra work around the SSD cage and making sure that all the cables here are not sticking out but I'm pretty happy with the overall cleanliness of the 400 C and even though I've removed the hard drive cage you would still have plenty of room in front of the power supply for excess cables now there's plenty of width here to tuck away your cables but you have to make sure that they're all flat so the panel can close just fine because there is no extra you know space once you put the panel on this is all you have to deal with so here's the thing about 400 C it's a compact brother - the 600 C which makes sense for less demanding configurations and still allow you to populate radiator at the front and I love this dual piece shroud design in terms of features it is competing with cases that are 20 and 10 dollars cheaper but it does offer that clean exterior and full acrylic panel and very satisfying assembly process and because of this we're giving it the Haruka Knox damn good award and if you can find it on sale it would definitely be on our recommendation list because for 2016 release it offers you everything you'd want it's not too bulky for ITX and you can build a satisfying system around what this case offers so as I said earlier we are doing a hackintosh build inside this case with the system that exact same system so if you want to see video on that wish me luck and we'll see you in the next video