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so I want to get started on boxing the carbide 500 are from Corsair right away this is what I would consider to be a bigger brother to the 400 R which is also in the carbide family products remember Corsairs highest sentence there obsidian line followed by the graphite line and then by the carbon or a carbide line at the lowest end in their current lineup of gaming cases which isn't to say that even a lowest end Corsair case is not a good choice because it would be Corsairs philosophy for the design of their gaming cases is all about functionality while maintaining a certain aesthetic appeal so when we saw the 800 d come out with a ton of features that just hadn't been done before the expectation was that the rest of a course our case lineup would include a ton of features that haven't been done before at the price points that they're going to be arriving Pat and you technically can't end a sentence with the word @ but I did it so here we are so there are some key differences already between sorry guys the 500 R and the 400 are but let's start with the overall look at the outside of the case and we'll go from there so in the front of the case yeah let's do that we have dual 120 millimeter fan mounts here and here we've got a nice mesh finish and then we've got four or five and a quarter inch base a power button two USB 3.0 ports a hard drive led microphone and headphone ports firewire looks like you're able to turn the LEDs on and off and a fan speed controller the fan speed controller is not included on the 400 are finally a reset switch the sides of this case are very clean looking so we've got this bulge which exists for a reason that's to give you clearance for the side fans to blow down on the CPU area as well as the video card area in this case you can doodool 120s dual 140s and they all have rubber grommets for noise dampening at or you can do a single 200 millimeter and in this case it's a white LED fan that is included ok on the other side we find lots of room for cable routing in the form of a bulge that comes out of the side but it's sort of a sleek-looking bulge it's very aerodynamic so if the case was like going really fast like it wouldn't actually cause that much of a disturbance in the airflow pattern ok it's hard for me to get away with sort of stuff like that but it doesn't actually it actually looks pretty good things that are aerodynamic I personally find them to look better than things that are not aerodynamic and I think when you look at car design you find that to be somewhat somewhat true you know more you know sleek curvy angular type cars tend to look better than like a box on wheels right alright so at the back we find as I mentioned before lots of cable routing space although it doesn't look like it based on that if there was a flush side panel it would sit like this far above the motherboard tray but because of the way they designed the side panel there'll be plenty of room to run your EPS for pin any fan cables you want to run anything like that so say you wanted to you know put this under your motherboard and run it down the back then you would be able to do that without any difficulty these are plugged into the fan controller at this point in time so those are the front white LED 120 millimeter fans that are also included and then I think that pretty much covers it for the back here there's not a whole lot that I want to say about that on the other side we open up the case and we find we are hey check this out you can't lose your thumb screws they don't come out I have seen that feature before but I haven't seen it in a while so there you go there's your fan and there's your panel putting that away alright so inside here the first thing I want to try to figure out because right now I'm not really sure what's going on here uh-huh here sorry come up to the front I hope no ha there we are I was trying to figure out this whole time how that comes out now I know so it clicks in here and you just kind of push it in from the back and click it like that and it comes up so there's your mesh okay which is going to cover up an area where you can mount your top mounted 120 millimeter water cooling unit so Corsairs done very smart work here with the spacing of their 120 or 140 millimeter mounting holes and they put them as close together as possible so that regardless of which kind of a radiator you have you will be able to install it without any difficulty here's where you can route your fan wires and over here is where you will mount the tubes that come out at the top of your rad down to your CPU socket so I'm going to go ahead and put this back on so that the case doesn't just look you know totally skeleton by the end of the video here and let's have a look at the inside layout it's very similar to the 400r except for I'd say at least one key thing and that is this so check this up you can actually completely remove the top set of three harddrive cages well hard drive or SSD cages whichever you prefer oh hold on I believe there are also screws on the back that are preventing me from removing it at this time okay so I'm go ahead and remove those so it's difficult to remove I'd say but this isn't the kind of thing that you would have to remove just for installing a hard drive you can still install a hard drive just by using the sliding plastic rails and that is compatible with both three and a half inch and two and a half inch drives but when you're building machine your machine initially and you go to install a Radeon 6990 that you happen to have lying around and you discover that okay it fits anyway so that's clearly not what they were thinking here remember this is the longest graphics card in existence at this time at least on the consumer side of things so if there are longer graphics cards in the future you can go ahead and pull this out I mean imagine what a graphics card that long would would look like but I mean I'm not here to judge right so so yeah you would be able to remove that and I believe the other one also comes out as well just by undoing the screws on the back so like I said this is how you actually install a drive that is only if you discover during your build that you you know maybe you want to have less restriction on the fan that's blowing over your graphics card maybe you have a longer graphics card I don't know what your reasoning is I don't really care it doesn't matter because it's your reasoning not mine you can remove the cage all right let's go and look at what's in here here's your there little hard drive sort of mimicker cardboard piece here we have something that won't be relevant until a minute from now when I explain why it's here so here's power for the fan controller and whatnot here's another another header for the fan controller so you can plug in the side panel fan alright the back fan doesn't run off that and I will tell you why because the expectation from Corsair is that if you're building an ultimate machine and you know who Corsair is and you bought this case you're probably going to go with an H ad or an H 100 to cool your cpu so if that's the case that's going to go ahead and take care of the control of that back fan for you you don't need your case to do it so there you go alright we've got our front USB 3 and we also have included an adapter which we can put on like this if you want to use front USB 2 instead of front USB 3 because your case doesn't support front USB 3 or your motherboard doesn't support it your case does you have front 1394 firewire Front HD audio and front switches and LEDs and whatnots all kinds of good stuff you've got lots of grommets so these are two filtered either 120 140 millimeter fan mounts or power supply rubber grommets to support it and then ventilation holes to make sure that your 120mm fan on your power supply is getting lots of air because there are rubber feet on the bottom of the case which is going to keep it raised off the table or carpet or wherever you happen to put it and make sure your power supply doesn't starve alright I already mentioned the rubber grommets here's the CPU cutout as well as the motherboard backplate our motherboard tray being very reinforced it does reinforce it to put these patterns in it so it's a very rigid motherboard backplate that's good especially if you are shipping the system I haven't forgotten the accessories but I am getting a prompt about I think that's it so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PCI slot which is great because if you have a bottom PCI Express slot at the very bottom of your board you can still install a dual slot graphics card should you desire to do so last but not least the rest of the accessories which includes some zip ties some plastic clips for mounting cables or for running cables we got some fair some screws some more different screws some motherboard standoffs some other more different screws and finally the more different 2 screws that we have seen yet so thank you for checking 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