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in early 2018 courser have finally refreshed their obsidian lineup of cases this here beside me is the 500 d which is a mid-sized tower ATX case aimed at a single workstation user and/or gamer of course it comes with the tempered glass now in 2018 it also comes with doors that open and close and are attached via magnets though is this case at 150 US dollars or $299 worth your money and is there anything wrong with it let's find out welcome back to tech yesterday this is brian coming to you guys today with a thorough look at the Obsidian 500 d now Corsair sent this in for review and I decided to do a build with it with the x79 one and motherboard so that's kind of like a new post gen motherboard but still for sale on our Lee Express and of course a little teaser for an upcoming video I'm gonna be testing this motherboard and overclocking it in this case with the corsair 360 mil rad now with this case itself you get the option finally to install without any hassles a corsair 280 mil h 110 i GT or h 115 ir g be cooler that they recently released i decided however with the front being so easy to install a cooler so what you do is you can take the metal plate out and then just attach your cooler and then put the plate back in so you don't have to actually undo the front panel itself and you don't even have to take off the top of the case which also supports a 280 mm rod or a 240 ml rad by doing the same mechanism you just remove the metal plate and on that note you've got a magnetic dust filter on the front panel and the top of the case which are easily removable and there's also one on the bottom of the case also on the bottom of the case there's four feet that are pretty thick and very solid so you're not gonna have a problem with these falling off even if your rough like me and you move the case around and bang it around quite a lot and with the construction of this case you get an all steel chassis with the machined alloy front and top the sides of the panels are tempered glass and they are quite thick they come in at 5 mil panels and with that they close by magnets as I said before however one thing I will critique about the opening and closing of these doors is that I wish they had a locking mechanism of is if you want to port this build around or port this case to your friend's house for example when you're traveling with it the doors are gonna open and closed if you move it and jolt it around which you're most likely going to do since it is tempered glass and it is quite heavy so I would like to see a locking mechanism of some kind added though if you are gonna do a building this seriously just take these panels off straight away don't try like I did when you look at the build you like ok I'll maybe just get away with putting the build in quickly don't do that just seriously there's a screw on top of the hinges one screw on each side take that off you can then easily remove the panel and then get on with your build as the building in the case itself it's very straightforward at the rear of the case you've got two 3.5 inch drive bays which come off easily you can put your drive in there with no screws that's a screwless installation and then put those two 3.5 inch drives back there's also support for three 2.5 inch SSDs via their own trays though you will need the little included screws to screw these down to the tray itself and then put that back down as for cable management there is a bracket that you can take off then below that is your front panel USB 3 and also external hard drive connection power and reset buttons and audio in and out as well but oddly enough there's no USB 2 front panel connections which I guess going into a new age every new motherboard does have a USB 3 front panel out so if you like me and you kind of like putting those older builds in like x58 for example into a case like this because the new cases are constantly improving then you won't have any front panel USB connections so I would like to see Corsair maybe on the front panel implement a hybrid USB 3 USB 2 connection in a future reiteration of this case they're getting back to the cable management itself you've got about 40 mil clearance to do your cable management and I found it so easy to do cables and run them in this case and know that there's no RGB controllers this time around with the Obsidian 500 d so you've got less clutter from the get-go as opposed to the 570 X you do have all those controllers and it does make cable management a little bit difficult the 500 d is going for that clean aesthetic you only get two included fans so I decided to take the front fan off and then put a 360 mil rat in now on that note of temperatures with tempered glass on both the sides of this case you're probably thinking the temperatures are going to suffer quite a lot and honestly no we're using a 780ti we're using a 6 core on the X 79 platform which does put out a lot of heat we're coupling that with a 650 watt power supply and with the panel's closed doing a stress test and this is in 32 degree ambient temperatures by the way we've got a maximum of about 66 degrees on the CPU 83 degrees on the GPU where the side panels closed and then with the side panel open we only got one degree less 82 on the GPU 65 max on the CPU so the cooling even with just the 360 Miller out of the and also the included fan at the back doing outtakes or push-pull configuration I found this case was cooling very well and keep in mind as I said before this is a pretty high-powered build as I believe from memory the 780ti juice is roughly the same power if not a little bit more than a 10 atti anyway moving to the front of the case and moving inside you've got a lot of room to work with if you're familiar with the air series cases the air 540 for example this reminds me of that a lot of room to install your fans at the front or the top of the case and also just a lot of room to work with in general inside the case itself it's as if they've copied that air series design and gone with that for the Obsidian case itself of course the big difference being that power supply shroud which this time around is fully enclosed itself and can only be accessed from the rear of the case I do recommend if you've got a modular power supply installing your cables before you fit the power supply in itself they're moving further up the top of the case there's a nice little socket there to slot your 8 pin CPU cable through from the rear which is very handy a lot of the times I have trouble pushing the CPU 8 pin through on this case it was a breeze and then moving a little bit down there is an option there to mount a vertically mounted GPU if you so wish you will need the kit to do this I didn't get this kit sent with this case so I couldn't vertically mount a GPU of my own so I just went with the standard straight sagging GPU with the 780ti and honestly this case looks really good the lights will shine through of course you can see with the glass itself it is tinted a dark color though your RGB lighting or any lighting scheme you go with will shine through really easy of course the case itself will fingerprint quite easily especially if you're like me and you like to use a bit of wd-40 to give it that final look shine and I must say though after you do give it that final look shine and if you're living in an aesthetic setup then this case will look phenomenal so when it all comes down to it is the Obsidian 500 d worth 150 US or worth 219 Australian dollars and in my opinion yes it is a premium case comes with 2 included fans and it does an extremely good job if you've got a push-pull setup cooling this thing as we saw before the results one degree difference also the case itself does provide some type of noise reduction I'll let you guys take a quick listen with the side panel closed versus open so the temperatures are good the noise is good and the build quality is good on the 500d the three main points that you should look for with the case and this has it there's also no sharp edges throughout this case so diabetics will be home and hosed and also those I pointed out before some things that I'd like to see with this case maybe in a future improvement would be some locking mechanism on the side panels themselves be very careful if you are traveling with this PC or you are moving it around a lot though if you're doing a one-off build take the panels off do you build then put the panels back on and for a static setup it's gonna be an amazing case as well with those three magnetic removable dust filters gonna be very easy to work with and the final result is one that is very nice anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's review of the Obsidian 500 d if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comments section below do you like dark volcanic matter because I think that's what obsidian stands for I actually didn't know before I did this review but I then googled it and found out what it meant anyway it is a case that is pretty damn nice I do like this thing I'm not sure if it will replace the air series though I do love my air 740 that thing is just amazing of course this does have a proper magnetic dust filter that is easily removable at the front the s7 40 for example man that's hard to remove that front dust filter I'm dreading the day that I actually have to do it now but I'm dreading the day that I have to do it which should be now and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon he's out for now bye welcome back to tech yeah City this is brian coming to you guys today welcome back to there guys will catch you in another tech video very soon peace out banana buddy dude you you and you guys I'll catch you in a used parts hunt very soon anyway guys hope you enjoyed it