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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the corsair carbide 200 R this is nel d oh you know I shouldn't say lowest end case although it is the most value oriented and Corsairs lineup coming in at a pretty wicked price well under 200 well under a hundred bucks but trying to still continue to deliver Corsairs trademark gaming oriented features so we're going to go ahead and spend a little bit of time on the outside of the case by peeling away all of the information that I am able to find about the case so easy builds the only time you'll need a screwdrivers to install the motherboard something something is out here yes if we remove the shipping information then we can read it like yes haha oh man this something tower form factor is compact and USB three and no this is just an awful awful experience of trying to operate the packaging so we're just going to jump right into it and open this bad boy up I've been asked a number of times in the past why I insist on flipping the box over to get back the case from it rather than just cutting open the bottom of the box and the reason for that is actually that I usually store the cases in a big pile so if I can't keep track of which ones have the top cut open and which ones have the bottom cut open at some point I will open up or I'll pick up a box and the thing will fall out at the bottom and that'll be a bad experience for everyone now this case is a low in case it is lighter but I'd say Corsair probably could stand to use a little bit thicker a little bit more rugged foam on this one I love to see soft foam but with these value oriented products I understand why we're using a molded hard foam because it is a lot less expensive on the packaging side now it looks like I've got the case upside down right now which is okay because the plastic wrap it looks like it's also on upside down so I don't know if that's something that happens just with the sample cases or something that happens with all of them but there you go what we start at the bottom of the case since that's what we're doing anyway we have a mount for 120 or 140 millimeter fan rubber feet keep it from slip and you've got a fan filter that is easily we whoops today's is easily removable for the bottom mounting power supply fan let's go ahead and flip the case back around to the orientation that it's supposed to live in and we'll go have a look at the front of the case two USB 3.0 front panel ports headphone microphone reset switch and power switch as well as a power indicator LED wouldn't mind seeing this reset switch a little bit further away from the power switch but as long as you're careful you shouldn't have too much trouble with that three five and a quarter inch bays and looks like not a removable front piece here however the ventilation is going to come from these holes on the side and on the side of well the other side on the side panel huh it's a good thing we have video to go along with this because if I was a radio personality explaining this I'd be like they'd be like what well what are their vents on the side are their fans on the side are there like children on the side anyway so there's two 120 millimeter or 140 millimeter fan mounts above the CPU area and the GPU area on the top of the case you find ah this is pretty much the most practical configuration for these holes so you can do two 140 s and they'll be right up against each other and then what Corsairs done is they've moved the two 120 s a little bit away from the motherboard tray to give you clearance for the vrm cooler the CPU block or heatsink or whatever else is going on in order to make it so that you can install an H 100 dual radiator in here without interfering with any of the other components inside your system so while it looks a little bit sort of off-center because it is when you have dual 120 s in there it's again very very practical as as far as ways to approach that goes this is actually surprisingly surprisingly thick type panel material for a value oriented case like this and the entire interior of the case is a black painted which is awesome so I'm just going to take off both side panels here and get a really good look at things they've also got these awesome little rubber grommets these are great for noise isolation and what those do is they easily remove and then they can be installed in the different holes if those are the ones that you'd prefer to use so you see that if you want to use 140 mm your friends you just move all those around and you'll get that same noise dampening yeah no matter what size of fan you decide to use now that we're inside we can see oh this is convenient look at that they've actually they're assuming you're going to install ITX em ATX which I believe is sort of over to here or yes these two are removable actually you see are they yeah some of them are removable this is removable this is removable and this is removable you better remove this one unless you're installing an m-80 export I wish they hadn't pre-installed that so be really careful guys that'll short out an ATX board but they've pre-installed the whole the the standoffs you need in order to install your motherboard you got a nice big CPU cutout 120 millimeter rear fan which is as compatible with a water cooler as these top 100 and as these top 120 fent mounts and you can see the way they've oriented the top 120 s actually leaves room for a radiator here as well so you could potentially do a single 120 a dual 120 and then an additional single 120 down here if you've actually wanted to you could put a pretty beast water cooling setup in this case in spite of its price the tool is five and a quarter inch bays are handled just with simple tension mounted there's little clips in there that are going to clip into the side of the drive so you just pull those up when you want to slide the drive out no problems whatsoever the front cooling is done by a single 120 millimeter fan so it should get ample airflow from these from these vents on either side of it you've got a couple of SSD mounts actually for SSD vents lots of standing for SSD mounts here that are just kind of pressure mounted as well so they shouldn't yes they clip in from the back right there so they're not going anywhere even in shipping and then you've got four three-and-a-half inch drives actually a very smart internal layout this is completely custom chassis here so I'm going to lay it down for a second or just a little bit and show you guys the cable management and so cable management is going to be done here for actually for nothing because the power supply will be there here for everything that you're going to run up here 24-pin power for your optical drives all the power for your hard drives and all that good stuff and then well I think that's pretty self-explanatory here's all your front panel connectors including something that I am NOT a hundred percent sure I guess okay so they've got a nice flat ribbon cable for the front USB 3 that's actually the first time I've seen that that looks really sharp and is going to be able to bend much tighter do that then USB 3 cables on other motherboards that I've seen in the past what's cool about that is it's going to make your cable management look quite a bit tidier again in spite of the fact that this is a very value oriented case now let's go ahead and pop out this sorry for being in my living room here guys but I really don't have much of a choice right now I got to get this case unbox immolated so here we go some cable ties for cable management some mounting screws for fans and what not radiators more likely mounting screws for motherboard in all likelihood and mounting screws for optical drives in all likelihood mounting screws for fans oh one more rubber grommets in case you lose some I guess cool good thinking Corsair and it looks like yeah these are clippings too so see there's a there's clipping pieces right here the way they've done that yeah if you stand there it's still good there we go ah the way they've done the coolest on this case is actually outstanding so this will clip in and then if you want more security you can screw it in here without much difficulty so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at what may be the new sort of lightweight lightweight champ for for value gaming computer cases the Corsair 200 our don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos