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this video was brought to you by NCI X great technology selections and service the very first air series case from Corsair was a popular hit combining the dual chamber design with excellent direct airflow and enthusiast rating internals that was the air 540 and since then this cube concept has really picked up with many other entries like the note 804 from practical design and some other leonie offerings to feel the desire for something different and today we're taking a look at the second chassis in the air series this is the air 240 released in both black and white versions for eighty nine and ninety nine dollars respectively it still carries the distinct looked as we saw with the original 540 but in a smaller form factor as this would be for micro ATX and mini ITX builds here's a better view of really how compact this case is next to my h4 40min tower and given the addition of that second chamber it is obviously wider then the cool thing with this case is the flexibility for orientation either standing with the window on the side sort of your default method or turn it for top window display that would allow internal showcase in some situation so that's pretty cool and plus you see this Corsair logo square in the middle well that can be changed as well depending on the orientation so that's considerate now one thing to keep in mind because of this user-defined orientation is to be careful with placement as the panels are plastic and can be scratched easily and we would recommend applying the included adhesive rubber case feet right away to avoid any possible damage there are no optical base here at the front just a front mesh for the main chamber with PR buttons audio jacks and dual USB 3 ports on the side behind the panel the dust filter is built-in and here we get dual 120 millimeter intake fans for direct airflow delivery and on the right side there is an easily removable magnetic dust filter for your power supply and the optional fan mount to help with cooling in this passive chamber the side window is large and revealing would stay on thumb screws that I would love to see get standardized however both side panels are almost paper thin and extremely flimsy something Corsair really needs to improve on at the rear we can see that clear dual chamber separation with power supply in one along with the rear accessing storage compartment with this removable door that also has a stay on thumb screw very nice to see that behind it are three caddies and actually this exterior removal works very well with the design given the compact nature of the case but of course it could be inconvenient in some instances as you do have to have rear access to those drives following into the main chamber we have dual eighty millimeter mounts with four PCI slots and coming to the top the panel continues with an identical mesh to keep the design uniform removing it reveals a single exhaust fan with flexible mounting strips and with optional second fan placement and here's another exterior access point for SSDs they actually utilize tools caddies and this installation from the outside makes perfect sense to simplify the internal cabling work the bottom of the case or the GPU side of the case is also filtered with an additional fan mounting points that could potentially help with GPU cooling but I noticed there was not enough clearance for a fan with our micro ATX board installed so you'll only be able to utilize those fan slots at the bottom for mini ITX motherboards coming into the main chamber there are many rubber grommets accommodating for both motherboard sizes this direct airflow design is outstanding to keep your components cool as there's nothing abstracting the air channel 13 inch GPUs are supported meaning there's enough clearance to install a radiator at the front if you wish and PCI brackets are secured with a toolless clamp type system that doesn't fully secure the GPU in place and I would prefer a more conventional method of just using you only standard thumb screws coming around to the back both three and a half inch and two and a half inch drive cages are removable that are held in with the thumb screws that also stay with the cage awesome and I love these small considerations to really simplify re installation by removing the larger drive ke and the power supply you get convenient full access to the large CPU cutout for cooler swap nice now each cage is also quite open to avoid heat buildup and that's an important thing to consider given these items are not actively cooled and with the optional fan mount on the side you can still make sure the rear chamber is well ventilated the power supply mounts on its side and given how much room there is the heir to 40 would have no problem accommodating really long units and here's the finished build the heir to 40 is designed to accommodate all in one liquid coolers at the front only and you could actually experiment with those fans for either intake or exhaust depending on you temperatures and depending on the cooler of your graphics card the top slot can only accommodate a set of fans as there is no additional clearance for radiators cable management in the main chamber is cleaned up with minimal effort thanks to all these rubber grommets but I wish there were some additional smaller cutouts right underneath the motherboard for even clean and routing now you could spend some time cleaning up the cables at the back but since they're not on the way it doesn't really matter unless you plan on populating that side fan on the panel and given how close the drive cages are together I had no problems connecting all three drives we had installed with a single SATA extension from the power supply now I want to say that while courser has its issues with quality control and cheapening out on some parts like the flimsy side panels they have sure nailed that nomas perfect user-friendly design with the air 240 partially because of the dual chamber design but also the right execution for all the small details that makes you preserve your nerves during installation and aside from that we also get excellent airflow and full dust proof design with flexible orientation and the well utilized and efficient internal layout now on the other hand the completely flimsy side panels and not totally secure tooless PCI clamp that left our GPU to wobble doesn't reflect well on the asking price of $99 for the white version and because of that it just missed the damn good award as we keep seeing these quality issues from Corsair that we hope might soon be addressed or these see some type of pricing reductions but what do you guys think of the heir to 40 from poor sir I certainly feel it's a much better design than the original 540 and that shows that they're listening and it will be interesting to see what type of changes they make on the next heir series design so as always thanks for watching make sure to leave us like if you found this review helpful 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