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I have a love-hate relationship with the Corsair 460 X RGB the RGB meaning that ships with three RGB capable fans as well as an integrated RGB controller all that is up top here we'll go through that in a second but my opinions of this case really haven't changed much since my initial review of the Corsair 400 C which you can check out in a card right here it's fairly old video but most of what I said still stands and I say that because the two cases in their dimensions are nearly identical I don't think there's really anything that they change up significant between the two I do which I still had the 400 C so we can just do a side-by-side comparison but pretty much anything that that I praised in that video still applies here and there are also a few other things obviously the tempered glass side panel as well as the front panel now make this case you know have a bit more sex appeal than the original 400 C hat although the forward sees you know opening window kind of like a door was a pretty cool feature but I'd much rather trade that out for tempered glass that's the end thing right now and if I had to if I had to compare this to other cases that built in I would say this is probably third in my order of favorite mid tower cases in terms of looks the first being the NZXT s340 elite the second being the fantex P 400 tempered glass Edition and the third being the 460 X so let's talk first about the positives and there are a number of them it's the reason why I chose the course they're 460 X for my first ever AMD risin PC build I left everything in here to show you what the finished product would look like that's you know that's the big thing I was always concerned about when I was first looking at PC cases what is it all going to look like when it's all said and done and despite the you know I would say kind of clashing color schemes here with the red and white black pretty much complements everything it's the only color you can get this case in currently but you're not gonna have a problem with if you go with a purple and green same black still going to look okay and then that's why a lot of case manufacturers choose black first off and then if they have an up demand then we move on to the white side as well the first thing I notice is plenty of support up in the front here there's a good bit of space between the shroud which is completely removable it comes in two pieces it's a bit of a pain to disassemble and reassemble but it does come out it's exactly the same of I was talking about with a 400 C in that older video but you have space up here for a 120 140 to 40 to 80 or even three hundred and sixty millimeter AIO with room to spare down below and above you know that you always have these these little things on the bottom and top here where the fluid moves around the radiator that kind of extend that height a bit but you have you know full-on compatibility for 360 mil in the front here and you can just mount those to the three integrated fans this is in this case here there are GB you can also work up top there isn't as much space up top at but you do have kind of a frontward juxtaposed mounting system so if you wanted you could just put a couple fans up here or you could actually put something like a 240 up top but you'll be covering up your motherboard a bit just because there isn't much of a clearance between the top of the motherboard and the top of the tower now just behind the radiator you'll find three large rubber grommets good for cable managing always good to see a mid tower case it can be a bit difficult to get those cables routed properly and efficiently in a mid-sized Tower but that's there's a whole other story to this case behind the scenes literally on the backside now you'll see that soon but from the front I mean if you really take your time you can make this look clean you also get a cutout in the basement down below throughout your your graphics card eight pin or six pin whatever you got going on down there it is a bit off-centered unless you have a very short graphics card maybe something like an R 9 Fury nano or a short you know 750ti something like that then your cables going to have to kind of stretch over you could also route it through the grommets in the back here just depends on on what you think looks good and your build you'll also have a few cutouts down below one large one good for primarily the HD audio cable that's really about it I was kind of disappointed that I had to route the front i/o connectors through one of the large rubber grommets I would I would like to have seen another cutout down below strictly for the front IO connectors now if you want to be really weird and quirky you could actually fit some server motherboards a ATX in here you might be covering up the rubber grommets here to the right but I don't be kind of weird to put in a server board in a case like this most of the time you're not wanting to just show those off through a tempered glass panel but you can do that that's the perk having a very flat interior here you don't have any grooves impeding motherboard extensions if they are required there are seven PCI slots at the back of the case and just above that you have a single 120 millimeter fan mount with some room to spare you can slide that that fan vertically up and down just according to how you want to configure things you could also barely just barely fit a 120 rad up here so if you have a water-cooled card now a i/o style then you can make that work here but you'll be cutting it very close don't don't buy any read it's super bulky because it will not fit it's just too narrow one other tasteful feature course is included in there for 60 X it's this arrangement of cutouts here good for any screw driver you know when you want to get to these PCI slots here at the back sometimes it's a little difficult to angle it this way sometimes they have them cut out in the back but that extends the length of the case so what they've done is included the screws on the inside but they've made it easier to access those screws if you want to remove some covers and insert in a Wi-Fi card or just your graphics card something like that you can just slide your screwdriver through these cutouts here and access those screws directly which is it's just a cool extra feature that I think is a it's nice that they didn't overlook because that's that's a pain and a lot of other cases that I built in something else I did want to show you the front of the 460 X you don't only get a tempered glass panel on the left side but you also get one in the front and that's good for either variant of the 468 the RGB edition or just think they have a red version so the fans are only set to a red LED color this panel is also removable by the way but because you have a tempered glass panel you can see straight through the thing and it does look very cool check out those accents and if you're worried at all about dust and you know how the 460 ex handles that you see our panels are starting to come off here these screws are very long by the way they go through the front panel and into the the chassis main compartment the Corsair has done a great thing with the dust prevention here they have this panel that is it's literally a dedicated panel on the board and it slides off very easily it just clips on and clips off not to be weird or anything this is probably one of the smoothest just best feeling dust filters I've ever seen it's very fine it's magnetic mesh is very well built it's good to see some of the finer details were very closely paid attention to and down below we have our lighting control unit on the far right here you'll have animation button you can cycle through fading in and out blinking I even have the colors fade between one another in the middle here is your rate button control how fast at which that animation occurs and then the far left is your I believe this is just the brightness control in turn things on and off so at the far left but you can just play around with all three you'll get used to it very simple to do and if you're like me you just set it to one color and you just kind of leave it there right here you've got a reset switch good see a dedicated one of those hard drive led headphone jack microphone jack and then two USB 2.0 ports and then this power button here probably one of the smoothest feeling power buttons you know some of them like really clicking really loud some of them feel very mechanical this is just this is the sweet spot folks right here oh yeah now here is where things get dicey this is the little one major pain about the 460 X and it keeps me from from D me SD best mid tower case on the market if they had to figure it out and I think I have a simple solution to this but it's a little too late for it now if they figured this out this would be one of the best cases period but it only ranks third and you can kind of see why it's a mess back here and let me tell you I put a lot of thought into cable management you guys seen more than likely this video right here cable management is a passion of mine I like to open up the backside of my case and see everything nice and neatly organized but that's impossible here it is straight up impossible the Corsair force 460 X is one of the worst cases when it comes to cable management period and there's a simple reason for why that's the case using the other definition of case of Medicine's course there did not make the 460 X wide enough and it was the exact same issue that plagued the 400 C so they made a barely enough room for a 120 in the front and then of course once you get past the motherboard tray all you've got left is about I would say that's around half an inch and that's too that's that's not enough you want about three quarters of an inch to an inch of lead weighed between the motherboard tray and the right side panel in order to have a a nice and pleasant cable management experience you do not get that here on top of that you've got a lot of things that are that are popping out look the distance between the SSD trays and the rear panel is literally negligible there's like no space at all between this and the panel so you know with how easy course there's made it to you know insert SSDs and even to remove hard drive trays things like that you really don't have any room to store cables and if you're not using anything other than a fully modular power supply with custom sleeves and custom length cables going to have a badge on you'll have a lot of bolts here at the bottom more than likely I have about probably half an inch of voltage here at the bottom and it's pretty much good up top but that's because there's nothing up top so just this is something that they'd plagued the 400 see it's still playing in the 460 X if cable management huge concern over areas you have a ton of cables a ton of peripherals to put into your case then I recommend stepping up to the 570 X which is kind of like the 460 X's old brother it's a bigger case bigger chassis it's also longer so you'll have a lot of room for other things but this is this is about as compact as you can get with the mid tower case without just plan up not being able to insert your power supply and make the cables fit in the back I mean just look at how little space I have between the edge of my power supply and the front of my hard drive tray so if you want to go to hard drive in the 460 X or the 400 C for that matter you better not choose a power supply any longer than this one right here I know I'm kind of playing the roles captain hindsight here granted I knew this was going to happen because I already experienced this for the 400 C so it seems like I'm being a bit rough on the case but I have to be completely honest with all of you because if you buy this case and figure out that it's going to be a pain to build in you're going to come back and need say why didn't you say that so I've got to say it because I felt the same way about it it's nothing that I can really hide this point the building process is a major pain now it will pay off in the end in the sense that everything's gonna look super slick and super compact the way it should in a midsize case but it's going to be rough it's going to be tough and it's going to require some skill to get those cables in just the correct places to make that back panel slide on the way it needs to and even then it still probably won't slide on the way it needs to in the looks department I think it's a 10 out of 10 I think they nailed it here I'm glad they didn't really change much of the aesthetic design from the 400 seat because it was already a good-looking case in the price department I think it's very competitively priced no complaints here it's actually very similar to its other tempered glass counterparts but in the building experience Department which a lot of people heavily weigh when considering a new case it's like a six out of ten and that's a conservative estimate it all really comes down to whether or not you have the patience and mine was wearing very very thin I have a 460 X link in the video description check it out if you haven't already let me know if you have this case and what your thoughts are or if you're considering this or one of its close competitors be sure to give this video a thumbs up it's dotted with cool thumbs down for the opposite click to subscribe and if you haven't already I will catch you in the next video this is Salazar studio thanks for learning with