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all right so we're doing something a bit different today take a look at the Corsair obsidian 800 d case now this isn't the official review that's gonna be coming out in about a week but we wanted to do sort of a preview sneak peek for you so without further ado let's uh yeah let's take a look alright so the first thing you're going to notice with this case is you probably saw with the with the box there is this thing is big we have a motherboard box here and you're looking at at least double the size high and then double the size wide it is not small it's made out of mostly steel the front has an aluminum front bezel which will you'll see in a sec the side is the side and interior is steel so it's big it's heavy but it looks pretty cool starting off at the top we have our front panel ports with four USB firewire audio and microphone jacks as well as a reset switch off to the side there's the start button with LEDs and then moving down there's one two three four five external front ports and right sort of in the middle at the bottom there and yet one of the standout features of the case which is a hot swappable drive tray there's actually four of them at the front maybe what you do is you're going to be able to pull out the drive tray now it is does require screws it isn't a screw list design so you're stuck having them screw your drives in you're gonna pop it in now you'll be able to slide it back in and it's SATA hot swappable so you have the instant access to the hard drives moving the case over to the side we have a rather large side windows not just square it's got a little bit of a curve to it so a bit of a design I also see that it is raised up with its feet so there is room for airflow underneath rotating around to the back here what we have it's base for air intake you had a couple of buttons here which we'll show you in a sec water cooling holes 120mm fan i/o area seven PCI slots and space for the bottom mounted power supply there is also an air intake on the side here for air to get in the back the back is completely clear and then we're around in the front now just focusing it on the back one of the coolest things about this case is how easy it is to open what you do is you push this button down and you're gonna pull out and then pull off now the first thing that you really notice about this case when you open it up is how everything is black the even gone so far as to make the fan the fan cables and headers a black as well so they want to keep a uniform look to it as we zoom into the motherboard tray you'll notice a rather large space in the tray that is because this trade accepts ATX ma T X and E ATX motherboards and that is the CPU backplate opening for all of those form factors what you'll also notice is that there are rubberized holes in the tray for all those sizes in order to run cables from the from the back of the case out to the front and on to the motherboard at the front of the case we have a toolless external drive bay and then moving down we have a hundred and forty millimeter fan on the side of the hard drive area this is in the back here is where the hot swappable module is going to go and then down below even below that in the bottom chamber there is room for another three hard drive to sit as well as a hundred another 120 millimeter fan I believe and then right down at the bottom is where the power supply is going to sit there's definitely enough room for extended power supplies like say the Corsair 1000 watt series the other thing you'll notice is that there's water cooling hole tubes right here in the in the divider that means that you're able to you're gonna be able to put a pump right down at the bottom here run it up to the other components up top we're gonna take a quick look at the accessories which as you can see I've already opened I don't want any surprises so what we have here is basically the usual assortment of screws and zap straps 120 mil fan vibration dampener for a bottom fan there's also some drive rails and this is going to be a disappointment before to do a lot of people we have mentioned earlier about the hot swappable capabilities of the of the Corsair with that front mounted rack style system and here's your hot swappable module basically what it is is a quadruple is a quadruple power connector which you're gonna have to connect and four SATA cables so it's not actually a physical module that you're going to be able to slide in and then slide out you're still gonna have to go inside the case install this onto your drives and then install SATA cables onto the drives as well bill thing that corsair has done is that they've set this up for water cooling what you have at the top here is one two three hundred and twenty mill fans spacing for 120 mill rad you can either you can install the fans on the top the other thing you can do is because there is enough space between the tray and the and the top there you can actually install a triple radiator inside of the case if you wanted to and have the air blowing out I install the fans on the top right here on the top however whichever way you want to do it right and so that there is our quick look at the Corsair obsidian 800 D it should be hitting shelves relatively shortly don't forget the official hardware connects review is going to be coming out on that in a couple of weeks so check the YouTube channel and be sure to check the website for updates we'll see you then