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graphite it's not quite as strong as obsidian but it's still pretty cool because you can actually put it in pencils and write with it and apparently you can also brand a Corsair case with graphite so this is the graphite series 600 T from Corsair I've received yes I know you know what I'm about to say but I'm going to say it anyway I have received endless requests to unbox and do a first look video of this case I actually should have had one sooner but it looks like it got lost in the mail or something something terrible happened and I didn't have one until now but I finally do and we are going to run it through the paces so I am doing the unboxing portion of the video now where I unbox and then we will proceed in just a moment with looking at the case and doing the first look part of the video now I've actually seen one in person already so I cheated a little bit so not quite be my first look but it might be your first look and it will certainly be my first hands-on so first let's have a look at the box itself you can see that course are actually conveniently labels all of the features that they want to talk about on this case here so you've got dual 200 millimeter fans provided that is one on the top and one in the front by the look of things we've got easily accessible dust filters and oh they make maintenance simple and hassle-free okay that's terrific we've got actually here cameramen if you want to look at the picture and then I'll kind of read them out we've got quick-release side panels just like the 800 deal though it looks like a different mechanism we have an integrated fan controller that allows you to adjust for other performance or silence for tool-free optical bays and up to six SSD ready hard drive trays CPU backplate cutout allows you to take out your CPU cooler or install a new one without actually removing the motherboard which is brilliant as well as the brilliant cable routing system which just like the 800 D is really almost the most critical part of case design after aesthetics and my opinion because it's such an important part of aesthetics adjustable drive cages room for long power supplies and eight expansion slots giving you room even for those new XL ATX motherboards from the likes of gigabyte cameraman is giving me a hard time about how long we've been doing an unboxing without finishing opening the box as you can see it comes in wow just like 2 inch thick foam all around the entire case so this thing will make it to you and it will not be destroyed when it's way I have failed at unboxing it is upside down that's okay I can flip it over okay so I'm just gonna do now there we are here it is in all of its glory the Corsair graphite 600 T so let's do our exterior impressions first so cameraman if you want to come in and have a look at the front you can see the entire front of the case is a dust filter mesh finish so that means that you're going to have excellent airflow coming from the front of the case you've got your for optical base here in the top and then down here you can clearly see there is a cooling fan installed behind this mesh and we'll have a closer look at that once we open it up on the top of the case we've got four USB 2.0 ports as well as that fan controller not that they were talking about on the outside of the box a headphone port microphone port USB 3.0 superspeed port as well as firewire and then finally a hard drive LED there's a power switch here a reset switch here they both have satisfying clicks to them and then we've bought yes more cooling more mesh Corsair is serious about the cooling it's a gaming oriented company so it makes sense that this case is going to be geared towards gamers move around to the back of the case you can see the side panels aren't quite clear this is not a windowed case although as we're about to find out just because there's no window doesn't mean you can't have a nice interior we've got a 120 millimeter cooling fan which would be perfect for an age 50 or H 70 we've got room for our IO shield we have eight PCI expansion slots two little water cooling grommets as well as room to install a standard ATX power supply case we will find nothing out of the ordinary and I guess we might as well have a quick look at the bottom you see I'm having trouble twisting it around it's because it has these great rubber feet on the bottom that are going to keep it from sliding off your desk or having any other kinds of ah difficulties with the case see they're very good I can put all my weight on it not that I weighed a lot although we did just have Thanksgiving up here so I had a lot of Turkey side panel you can see right here there's not a whole lot of flex to it you expect a little bit but Corsair really doesn't skimp on the materials and you can see the way that there latch works is quite robust a lot of the time you look at these tool free mechanisms and you just go yep that's going to break this does not look like that is going to be the case so we'll take off that side panel take off the other side panel so we can get a really clear look at what we're dealing with here and let's have a look at the inside so we find zip tied to the inside or rather twist tied to the inside an instruction manual as well as some accessories so cameraman can sort of take you on a video silent video tour the inside of the case while I look at the accessories and decide which ones are noteworthy enough to talk about alright I'm done cameraman come back okay we have keys so this is to lock the side panel of the case so that thieves cannot steal your stuff excellent at least I think so then we have some black zip ties for managing your cables they include probably about enough to do a typical build then we have motherboard screws as well as other screws that you will need fan screws and then some rubber grommets okay let's have a look at the interior so here we go this is become sort of Corsairs trademark thing these silicone rubbery dramedy things so you install your power supply here and then basically these allow you to route cables wherever you could possibly want them to go so you take them right out here or through this cutout here you bring out your 24 pin here you bring out your 8 pin up here you bring your your optical drive connectors way up here so it means that you never have to see cables running anywhere all you see is that the cable goes in this and then it comes out exactly where it needs to be and they've included ample space on the back of the motherboard tray and this one drives me nuts when manufacturers do this when they create cable routing options and then there isn't actually really enough space on the back to route the cable like you look there's quite a bit of space there so if you're running a 24 pin cable you're actually going to be able to close your panel I've seen cases that have room to route a 24 pin cable on the back and you can't close the panel once you've actually got it back here they've also bought a couple little loops where you can install zip ties here here and here so you can use those to make sure that the cables stay down flat when you're running them up the back of the case here are the connectors for all of your internal so all of your front panel connectors you can see they're all sleeved in black and there's a lot of them I already covered what's up there so I don't really need to tell you too much more about that the front panel fan controller is here and we're about to find out because I have no idea to be perfectly honest with you how many fans it can control and the answer is four so there's two included fans here another one here and then it looks like you can open another one here so by default no that's power so by default you can control the three included fans and then one additional one with the fan control or not and then this looks like power for the fan controller knob itself okay so here we have six three and a half inch hard drive installation trays I'm going to go ahead and pull one of those out from the other side and I think I'm actually going to turn the case around because we've seen everything that we need to see from that side I turn the case around I mean turn cameraman around because that's sort of more effective now you can see these have a bit of a flimsy look to them but I've seen these before as soon as you install a hard drive in them they firm right up you slide them in boom your hard drives installed it's completely tool-less and you see how they Diggle now once the hard drives in there they will not move they're actually a very ingenious design and I really really like them here at the front we have that one 200 millimeter fan and then up in the top we have an oh i'm sorry hold on yeah and then we have another 200 millimeter fan up in the top you can see it has a good number of blades on it and it is quite nice looking although you do not have to use those fans it looks like we've got mounting holes for potentially a variety of other sizes of fans for the top so that's pretty cool too there's the 120 millimeter fan that I showed you from the back and here's a little design by Corsair logo so you can actually see that is right below the cameraman that is right below the CPU cutout so that's quite a large CPU cutout no matter where your socket is located you will be able to remove the backplate and remove the CPU cooler without any hassle here is our tool free five and a quarter inch pay device installation and removal gadgets okay that's I think what they're called on the Corsair sheet although probably not so you pull that out you pull your drive out you push that in after you put it in and that installs your drive is as simple and you can actually put in a screw from the other side if that's not quite secure enough or if you're going to ship the system or anything like that I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the 600 t thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look and don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips cameraman and I found a few more things off-camera first of all this is removable so you can reach the fan in the front you can clean the dust filter which is part of this little panel with the Corsair branding on it there's also a removable dust filter in the bottom which I showed you before but didn't really talk about so you can take that out just like the 800 D you can remove that clean it all that good stuff and then this whole panel is actually removable as well you just click down on it and then you can use the key that I talked about but I couldn't find the keyhole for to lock the the side panel or to unlock it so that is all I wanted to say about the 600 T