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The drives to the lower two drive bays are installed by first snapping plastic rails to both sides of the drives and then just sliding the drive in place. No hot-swap here, but again the installation is very easy and feels secure enough. After the drives are in place, a small plastic hatch can be mounted over the holes.
Installing a setup to the Obsidian is really a pleasure. Corsair has done awesome job with the cable managing and with the extremely roomy interior, it's so easy to just drop everything in place. On another note the case makes the normal ATX motherboard and the 8800GT graphics card look positively tiny. I sure hope Corsair will take the build quality and attention to detail seen in the Obsidian 800D and apply those into some smaller case in the near future.
Temperatures
During the temperature testing all the case fans, as well as the fan on the CPU cooler were set to run at maximum speed. The load temperatures were achieved using Furmark and Intel Burntest.
Hardware used for the test:- Processor: Intel C2Q Q9450 (2,66 GHz, 1,26 V, boxed cooler)
- Motherboard: Asus P5Q-VM
- Memory: Team Group 2*2 GB Dark Xtreem
- GFX Card: Gainward 8800GT 1 GB Golden Sample
- Hard drive: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB
- Power supply: SilverStone ST40NF
- Enclosure: Being tested...
For such a huge case three fans isn't a lot of cooling, and of those three one is dedicated to cooling the hot-swap drive bays. Despite this, the temperatures turned out to be very much what we've used to see from tower cases. With all the optional 120 mm fans the 800D is likely to show some really outstanding results in the cooling sector.
Noise
When it comes to noise the 800D performs pretty well - it is, after all, made from solid steel and beside the roof fan holes it doesn't have too many openings. The supplied fans turn at about 1000 RPM and are pleasingly quiet as well. Unfortunately none of the hard drive bays comes with vibration dampening and so the seek noises sound sharper than in some other cases.
Conclusion
Overall then, the 800D is exactly what it says in the tin - an enthusiast case that's especially aimed at water coolers. It just seems to check all the boxes so well there's not much to add, really. The build quality and design are outstanding, you can fit everything in there with ease, the cable managing is the best we've seen so far, and the temperature results are good as well. It's an impressive case and only leaves me hoping for a smaller version. As seen in the finished assembly picture, for an average gaming setup there's cubic meters of free space left. With the only real downside being the dust filter that requires a lot of room behind the case to remove, all I can say is that I want a smaller case with the same build quality and feature set. |
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