Corsair Obsidian Series 800D PC Case

[Kuky]

If I was looking for a case right now I'd be getting this one:

 

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Absolutely awesome case if you ask me

[159th_Viper]

Interesting. What adverse effect, if any, would one get with the Power-Supply Bay sitting on the Bottom (Hot Air Rising and all that...)?

 

Still prefer the Armorsuit though :)

[Feuerfalke]

They look very stylish, but IMHO they have two downsides:

 

1. The PSU below the board is confined in a separated chamber. In theory it's good that the heat does not influence the main PC-parts, but that's not much anyway, as the heat is blown out of the back of the PSU/PC.

In reality you remove one chance to remove heat from the case and work against the L-shaped airflow of most PSUs, that by design suck in air from below and blow it to the rear. In this configuration you'd benefit most from an inline PSU, which is quite rare. Thus to allow the PSU to take air in from above or below the case is increased in height...

 

2. .. which is why the case looks really huge. That's especially the case because it has additional room for water-cooling above and below the mainboard, as well as in other parts (the star-shaped-cut rubber parts). If you want to go for water-cooling that's great, if you don't you should consider if you really want to leave so much room for those parts and just stick some cables through like in the clip you posted.

 

(#1 & 2 are first hand experience :mad:. The separated chamber increases weight, reduces airflow and limits acces to vital parts. If such a config is really wanted, I'd recommend going for an Antec-Case and getting the Antec PSU with the 120mm cooler with inline-config.

The parts for adding water-cooling or hide your cables is a PITA. It looks very stylish, but if you want to change parts, adjust fans etc. you always need to take the whole case appart.)

 

Well, my 2 cents ;)

Edited November 17, 2009 by Feuerfalke

[Kuky]

The PSU does not cause an issue in fact the way case is designed even bigest PSU will fit with nothing in a way (unlike for Antec P190 I have which by default holds 2 PSU but these are very short in length and when I bought 1200W PSU I had to bend the case partitioning wall to fit it)

 

I really like this case because it's all black, routing cabling is very nicely done and has very nice positioning for internal 3x120 radiator on top for water cooling and also you have all the pre-drilled holes with rubber between space in bellow and upper compartment. All of the air is taken in from bellow where the air is coolest so this is actually only an issue if you keep the case on thicker carpet but I would never recommend that anyway because you'll be sucking lot of hair dust in like that. Even the power cables for HDD can be hidden... very nicely thought off I think

[Feuerfalke]

Fitting a PSU is not the problem - getting fresh air through it is ;)

 

I agree that the case is really nice and it's a good design. I like the fan at the HDDs and between the compartments and the internal cable-management is done really nice. Definitely a jump forward from the Antec case.

(Had an Antec case as well, the 180mini - luckily I got it from ebay for a fraction of the original price, but I just hated it.)

 

I just concluded from my experience with the Antec-Case, that I don't want to have 2 compartments and no cable-management. I liked to look at it, but I hated to change anything on my rig, which I do quite often, though. ;)

 

 

 

EDIT: Picking myself off the floor after looking at it's price and weight.

[Kuky]

Fitting a PSU is not the problem - getting fresh air through it is

 

The air would be taken in from the bottom of the case, the whole underside is with holes... the way PSU is rotated the intake fan is facing the bottom also, couldn't get better than that really. But also keep in mind unless you're stressing the PSU a lot *using min power rating for your hardware the PSU does not heap up that much at all... I can't even feel any warm air from mine (Corsair 850W Professional series)

[Feuerfalke]

the way PSU is rotated the intake fan is facing the bottom also, couldn't get better than that really.

 

At least not if you clean it regulary, as your PC acts as a real expensive vacuum cleaner ;) - mine in the same config sure did.

 

Also, I'm not worried about PSU-heating in idle mode - I work and I fly on my PC :)