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welcome to my unboxing of the corsair carbine series 400 our case here you can see a kind of blown-up view of the case and while I could show you all of the features on here I am not really going to do that because we're going to open up the case anyway and I would rather show you on the actual chassis itself right now I'm just showing you the blocks because this is an unboxing although I don't like to think of them as just unboxings because unboxings are usually pretty dry to be honest so right now I'm making an incision on this side now I'm making it sitting on the other side now I'm really excited about what's inside this box and I think that you guys will be excited too because yes pretty this is pretty cool look at this oh wow a box um so you know what I'm not going to make you guys sit through that give me two seconds I'm going to get the case extracted from the padding I just want to show you guys the styrofoam packaging so they've gone with sort of thin here but up to an about an inch plus thick on the sides and then on the top we're looking at about the same thickness well look at that about an inch or even more depending on which part of the case is being supported by the foam inserts they are using a stiff foam this is a value case so Corsair has gone with saving a little bit of money on the packaging compared to their more expensive cases like the 650d or the 800 d so the first thing I noticed about this case was that it has a pretty robust carrying handle on the top of it we'll go ahead and put that down there so you can kind of see nice and deep so even if you have long fingers you're going to be able to get a good grip on that on the top we find dual 120 millimeter fans or dual 140 millimeter fans and what's cool is the way Corsair has faced this out it's so that you can actually put the fans right next to each other for a clean aesthetic whether they're 120 or whether they're 140 because they have expanded the 140 compatibility out the other side rather than spacing the sorry about that guys we ran out of space and all the footage on there was important so I don't really remember where I left off yesterday but here we are so it has the carrying handle we talk about that it has the fan spacing which is pretty ideal I believe we talked about that briefly let's do a bit of an overview of the outside of the case as a whole so in addition to those dual 120 s or dual 140 s on the top we've also got dual 120 s or dual 140 s here on the side so this is going to give you a ton a buttload so to speak of airflow over your CPU area as well as your video card area and then on the back other cooling options we've also got a 120 or 140 millimeter fan mount whichever you choose to go with one two three four five six seven eight look at that this is one of the least expensive cases I've yet seen that has eight expansion slots so that's will allow you even with a standard ATX board you can sometimes use eight expansion slots because if you have a PCIe slot right at the bottom you can then install a dual slot a dual with graphics card in that very bottom slot without any difficulty so that's not pretty cool okay on the other side we see that the overall design of the case favors a narrow narrower footprint to the case and then a widening of the side panels for better cable routing better cable management that's one of the things Corsair is good about they have good aesthetic to their cases but they also really do take functionality into consideration when they are designing these things so on the front we've got our power button our hard drive led two USB 3.0 ports a microphone port headphone port firewire port now that's an odd one but hey I guess some people still use it that looks like some kind of an LED button hmm okay and then finally we have a reset button for five and a quarter inch bays which is a good number and then in the front we've got another two 120 millimeter fans which we can see through that that mesh on the front so this is definitely a coolers dream because one two three four surface four of the six sir of this case actually have room to mount cooling fans and by four what I meant was five because you can clearly see on the bottom here there is room to mount yet another single one twenty millimeter or single 140 millimeter fan and I forgot to turn on my lights of animus on them should be a little bit better for you guys alright what else do we find inside this is interesting the motherboard tray is actually recessed so what they've done here is they've taken what is normally a flat backplane on a case like this and here I'm going to hold up the side panel just so that I can show you guys so you can kind of relate this to the side panel on the other side so where the side panel doesn't jut out as much we've gone with a flat like like a they've gone with something that's even with the overall profile of the case and then where the side panel bulges out so where it bulges out like this they've recessed the motherboard tray so throughout the entire back of the motherboard tray and then back behind here behind the rubber grommets you should have consistent space for managing cables very very interesting something I haven't seen before standard ATX only so you're not going to be able to fit any wider motherboards or longer motherboards due to that design decision but I mean 99% of boards out there are going to fit just fine anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about it we've also got on the inside okay so we pointed out the 120mm fan already these are going to be useful for you so you're going to go ahead and mount your bottom mounted power supply here we've got a removable filter that acts as both a filter for this fan intake as well as the power supply bottom 120 millimeter intake rubber grommets here keep the power supply from being damaged or scratched or moving around alright so you're going to be able to route all your cables up through here and then coming out wherever they are needed speaking of cables coming out where there need it these are your front panel connectors so I'm go ahead and see if I can remove the cover on here and I'm not having a whole lot of success just neat just now but I think I've made progress yes I have there we are alright so we find USB three HD audio front panel so there's all your switches and LEDs and finally your front firewire or 1394 as PC guys are supposed to call it last but not least we've got a power connector so I'm guessing that something to do with that light button there alright in terms of mounting we've got five and a quarter inch tool list mounts here you also have the option of screwing them in both at the front and the back if you are shipping the system or whatever else you want it to be more secure you're going to go ahead and do that we've got here six mounts for both three and a half inch using two lists dramedy things here as well as two and a half inch using screws hard drive sleds in terms of accessories I'm going to go ahead and have a look at what's included here in this box oh that's so funny look at this it's the size and shape it's like a hard drive placeholder kind of thing it's got holes on the side for your hard drive we'll put it in there brilliant I guess alright oh oh this is a great inclusion USB 3 2 USB 2 adapter so if you don't have USB 3 on your motherboard natively you go ahead throw that on there you plug this into USB 2 header you got USB 2 on the front handy all right we got some screws down screws how many of they included one two three four one two three four so enough to mount a three fans so I wonder what under which particular mounts those are for because usually these are used for mounting fans to radiators there's ones with the long bolts and then the screws in the front if you guys have any insight as to why they've included this particular type of fan screw I would love to hear about it so there you go alright next we've got some hard drive screws we've got some optical drive screws we've got some power supply screws cable management zip ties and little plastic clips and finally a few motherboard standoffs because most of them other board standoffs are already built into the case now I've talked a lot about the cable management of this case but this is all based on sort of my impressions of what it might be like because I haven't opened up the other side panel yet so I'm going to go ahead and do that now and we're going to find it if I was right so I'm going to lay that down like that so you can kind of see if I was on the right track here so yes so there's more room here due to this the indentation of the back of the tray and then there's less room for two here so it works up probably about the same as here where there's the Bulge and here where the motherboard sits a little bit further back so I'm guessing what Corsair is done here is two things they've given you room to manage cables at the back and they've done a nice thin case that also has room for tall CPU heat sinks they've also given you a very large hole at the back of the motherboard tray in order to install any backplate requiring CPU heat sinks or water cooling units without removing your motherboard they've shown you how to use the cable management here lots of little loops here for securing zip ties here here okay that's pretty much it not much here but then the only thing you're going to write up here is your 8 pin TPS which they've left space for and I think that pretty much covers it so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look or overview of the Corsair 400 R don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos