Corsair Carbide 400R Quality enclosure for price-conscious shoppers

Author: Jouni 'Jipa' Vasama Published: 09.10.2011 Manufacturer: Corsair Product Group: Enclosures In English Suomeksi

Installation

• Motherboard: MSI 890GXM-G65
• Processor: AMD Phenom X4 980 BE (3,7 GHz)
• CPU-cooler: Noctua NH-D14
• Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 6870
• Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 2*2 GB DDR3 2000 CL9
• PSU: Xigmatek NRP-HC1201
• HDD: Seagate 7200.11 250 GB

For HDD’s there are plastic sledges that alone feel rather flimsy, but with the drive installed fit snuggly in the cage with no room to move around. There are small rubber grommets around the mounting pins as well, which should help reduce the vibrations.

There’s really nothing special about the rest of the installation. The case isn’t quite as roomy as the earlier Corsair cases we’ve seen, but there’s still plenty of room to work with. With a mATX-sized board the reduced number of cable holes does show, but it’s still easy to do a clean looking installation.

As mentioned earlier, there’s plenty of room behind the motherboard tray, so there’s really no need to be too fuzzy with the cables here. Just use the loops and some zip ties to fix everything in place and there’ll be no problems fitting the panel in place.

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