An Airflow case that has ACTUAL AIRFLOW!

you've seen us talk about this case in our ads today we're going to actually open it up and take a look at it as we prepare for a very overdue long and longly longly an anticipated update to our how to water cool a computer guide the last one we did was from like 2013 that j is a very different j [Music] the elite xg270 qg from vue sonic breaks the traditional ugly appearance of gaming monitors by providing an ultra clean design while still delivering gamers the features that they want most features like a one millisecond response time ips 165 hertz overclock display black brushed aluminum stand with tilt and swivel mouse and keyboard cable anchors and customizable subtle lighting to learn more about the xg270gq from viewsonic and to see current pricing click the link in the description below the corsair 5000d it's funny how the numbers just keep getting bigger and they all have the d moving on this is the airflow version and i one of the things i like about corsair is they still stay fairly true to the mid tower form factor yes there's the 1000 d you would think the 5000 d would be five times bigger than the thousand d right no the thousand d is the one that's like double wide you can fit two systems in it and like 6200 fans but their mid tower cases are fairly similar in the sense that a lot of them are based off of the same main steel structure but they kind of change some of the internal stuff and then sort of the external layout to make them feel like different cases and not just another boring rectangle fractal so i'm unboxing the white one here because well it's a lot easier to film than the black one right phil happy okay um one of the last builds i did using a corsair case was using a case that wasn't new but i still really liked and that was a 570x crystal that's the one that had the glass top glass sides glass back glass front and it was a real pita to cable manage because you can see everything but the nice thing about the airflow case here is you have tempered glass panel on just one side but as you can see that is a thick manual for a case look at the size of this manual so in terms of the size of the book that's the english manual so the airflow version of the 5000d is it's all the same structure as the non-airflow with the solid panel it's just as you can see we've got ventilation here a lot of open ventilation same thing on the top you see we got some ventilation there with the same open gaps that you would expect so all this vent there's also a mesh up there to stop uh dust and stuff there is a dust filter but you got nice gapped open sides both on the front and the top to give you the best amount of intake and exhaust possible the one thing that's sort of new for the 5000 d that doesn't exist on the 570x crystal is the side vents right here this is something that i think liam lee sort of pioneered and i think a lot of other brands are kind of starting to follow suit but that is allowing for having rear mounted radiators or fans along the motherboard tray i've not personally used smoke to test what that does to the airflow i tend to not really utilize that if i have an option of using front and top because i would much rather have airflow come in the front of the case and make a nice swooping turn to the top rather than having to come in and do like a 90 and a 90 or like a crazy turn because the more air has to turn the more turbulent it is the less airflow there is so that's the back panel right there you can see the filter in there and as you can see the air filter does come out the front side panel does have a plastic protection film on it so that's why it's kind of cloudy right now i do like that it has the white frosted sides white cases i like using them in videos because like i've already said for phil it makes them a lot easier to film rather than seeing uh just black shadowy mess everywhere you do get two fans with this case although they're kind of pitiful they've got one 120 millimeter fan right here in the front in the center and one in the exhaust what why can't they do this on the 570x crystal that way you have to close away all the wires and then have a glass panel here we have what appears to be about one inch or maybe about 24 millimeters of depth between the back of the motherboard tray and this little door that closes so you're clearly going to have to be mindful of your cable management so that you are not causing yourself uh an issue of trying to close this door nothing sucks more getting all your cables everything in here and you're like okay let's close up and play and you're like oh man and then you can't close it i've dealt with doors like this in in other cases um it does probably lift up yep and comes off just like that now you can see starting on the back here we have another cable tray so this allows us to route some cables and one of the things that we talked about in the ad as well is that uh it has internal cable management which allows you to keep things as tidy as possible so this would be perfect for running uh eight pin eps maybe pci express depending on the angle you want the wires to come down at three sata trays right here the two and a half inch drive satas or two and a half inch accessories because a lot of accessories now like rgb controllers fan controllers other controllers i can't think of anything else to top my head right now we'll use the same mounting hole so you got three options there looks like you do have some holes here on the back side of the motherboard tray which might allow you to have something else to mount to there this is a got a nice giant opening as well this comes off so that you can access the back side of the motherboard so you can put in things like your aio coolers and stuff without having to take the motherboard off to get to the back bracket this appears to be some sort of a psu shroud that goes somewhere and then you do have another hard drive tray right here with two removable sleds that you can mount either again more controllers too rgb controllers three and a half inch drives or two and a half inch drives and then have plenty of storage or you can remove it entirely which we tend to do because i don't use three and a half inch drives anymore because say the ssds are cheap and have big capacity and we use a lot of m.2 in what we do hey they're right all right so you got a fan controller that's built in here this that's our sata plug this probably goes to yes right here so you've got a pwm and rpm wire here it looks like there's rpm wire that plugs into your motherboard you can actually control six fans on this case using one motherboard header i would preferably use your cpu header or your cpu optional if you are going to be using something like the commander pro or any sort of the corsair accessories uh i would probably take this out entirely and then just have it look a little bit cleaner with less wires here but the nice thing is you can control six fans be three front three top if i had my choice and then take the rear fan if you're going to run one and plug that into the chassis header on the motherboard you can have all of them controlled off of two headers which is kind of nice um it gets its supplementary supplementary supplement supplemental power from the sata plug here so you have to worry about overloading your header with six fans so i like seeing cases that come with built-in fan controllers especially with how many fans uh you can run nowadays you run ten fans in this one right three in the top three in the front three in the top right yeah three on top three in the front three on the side one in the rear so 10 fans they should have given you two of these now let's talk about this shroud right here the nice thing about this is it's got this kind of a curved cover right here so you could put three fans in here or two or just one if you want and what will happen is it'll pull in air through this side vent we showed you over here on the side panel and then it will actually curve that air and blow it across the motherboard now that would be nice to use like some lower speed rpm fans on there when fans are making and the air has to make that crazy turn the turbulence of the air hitting the shroud is what's going to make the noise not the actual fan or the blades itself so i would actually run some high static pressure low rpm fans that way you could have some active airflow over your motherboard which is something a lot of people forget when it comes to overclocking or building custom cooled systems especially if you're running water cooled systems most of the time unless you have an actively cooled vrm on your motherboard the motherboard starts to get stifled of air because people run lower speed rpm fans on their radiators because they're like hey it's all nice and quiet and the cpu is nice and cool and they forget about the other air cooled components on the motherboard so this shroud would actually direct the air over the motherboard giving you active cooling to an otherwise forgotten piece of cooling when it comes to your system so i like that you can take the shroud off if you want and then just have it be a direct airflow with a rat or something there i personally don't think that makes sense when you have room for the rads on the top and on the front i would use that for a motherboard cooling shield uh or shroud like i already said all right so we got a truck out there unloading so if you guys hear that let's go and talk about the business side of the case what you're gonna see if you haven't noticed already there are gray accents on this case gray on the front even the i o covers are gray the gray actually looks really good against the white even the little corsair logo right here on the top is gray so it looks pretty dope yeah i said dope it looks dope i took off one of the shrouds on the back which i want to point out uh are the brackets for the drives these are metal so you can if you've got some cool drives to show off mount them on the front right here if you had some cool rgb drives or something that you could you know i kind of wish this was great to match i guess technically you could spray paint this gray to match just remove the captive screw here paint it to match and then put it back in there and then you could have drives that show off or leave them on the back side because showing off your ssds these days especially if they're sata drives which is kind of oh i expect it to be longer i'm so used to the ones that are like the full length of the bottom i was like oh this would be a nice long power supply drive bracket filter all right so let's talk about motherboard fitment and size this uh already has standoffs in here for atx um eatx will fit in here as well it's just you want to keep in mind like like we talked about in the past there's no standard these days for eatx they just call anything wider than atx eatx and that could be a little bit wider or way wider and there's ee atx which is really really wide and even longer i'm only mentioning that because a standard atx will fit in here but because of this shroud you need to keep a couple of things in mind if your motherboard is making it all the way to the edge of the shroud that looks super clean where your wires gonna go so you might have to take the shroud off depending on the width of your motherboard to be able to fit the wires through the grommets that are under here so as you can see on the back side there are grommets there they're kind of hidden underneath the wire channel right here but that goes right into the shroud so that in my opinion is a little bit of a design flaw you don't want it to be all like that is your cable guide okay so keep that in mind if it does interfere you can remove the shroud it'll just be a little bit uglier without it there so that's something you want to keep in mind when it comes to the shroud and such you do have openings in that shroud here for your fans to run through ironically they the preinstalled fan does not actually utilize any of those holes it just kind of goes up and over most people are going to go ahead and probably customize this layout to their um needs anyway when it comes to taking off the back piece here it literally or the top piece it literally just pops off with these little nubbins which is kind of nice that's thick metal that's nice and now you've got your air filter here which has a little rubber yellow rubber grabber it is held on with magnets if you're using it for an exhaust i would recommend removing it entirely and then you can see the amount of opening and adjustments you have to be able to mount a radiator there slide it where you want um 140s and 120s will fit up there you can see it's a pretty well thought out chassis so when it comes to the front i assume it's going to come off in the same way absolutely there it is and then same thing here with the filter you have access now to your fans so the top piece is solid with the chassis it doesn't come off to mount radiators and stuff but the side piece here the side piece it does but it's kind of like there we go there's not much slack on that wire because it's already sort of in there but as you can see you take the bracket out mount your fans and your rad to it the fans do need to go on the inside there's not enough room on the outside to clear the chassis front pieces there's not enough room to clear the chassis front pieces so it doesn't mount on the inside and then the radiator on it so you're going to have about 55 millimeters of thickness if you use a standard like 30 millimeter thick radiator plus a 25 millimeter fan which means this bottom shroud right here whether or not this has to come off because you can see there is an indentation right here to clear rads and fans whether this has to come off is going to depend on the thickness of the rad you go with now one of the problems with removing these lower covers like this is if you go with a thicker radiator and fan setup like i just said you know you're going to hit this now if you take this out like this this is where this optional plate comes in so you can slide this one in in its place so now a couple of things have happened here one you've created a nice cover that covers the end of the piece right here one of the biggest complaints people had about the 570x crystal was that it just had this open shroud and it looked really dumb like that and two this also allows an air scoop so if you have all three fans right here and now you can fit a thick radiator or a reservoir or something here the air is going to hit this and it's going to kind of make this sort of a transition up i don't know how well it's going to scoop it's fairly 90 degree there's a little bit of a curve to it but it's just a nicer looking piece right there but that's the alternative right you can see the drive tray or whatever which is just really ugly i have a feeling i might end up using this one anyway just because i kind of like the way that that looks the only downside of using this piece is it kind of exposes the bottom down here which isn't the prettiest so you have shroud options which is kind of nice i'm starting to get excited about doing a build in this case um so in terms of height clearances and stuff this size chassis is going to fit pretty much just about any air cooler and such on the market so i'll give you some official figures here maximum gpu length is going to be 370 millimeters that's going to obviously depend on how thick of a setup you go within the front if you go with fans and a radiator and then a reservoir or something mounted here that's all going to cut into the amount of link that you have available to it so 370 millimeters is going to really depend on your front setup maximum cpu cooler height millimeters not the highest i mean some of your noctua giant uh twin you know dual cooling tower setups uh may not clear the height of the side panel right here so you need to keep in mind air coolers need to be a 170 millimeters or less one thing people tend to not remember here is a lot of times on the top of the fin stack you have a little bit of the tube or the heat pipe that sticks up where it's crimped and that adds a few extra millimeters so be diligent checking your air coolers to make sure that that little bit of height whether it be two to five millimeters is accounted for trust me when i say i've had builds in the past before where that amount kept me from closing the side panel and when it's glass you can't modify it to make it close so keep that in mind then the maximum psu length says 180 millimeters once again that's going to be also dependent upon the lower hard drive bracket right here that measurement is going to be with the drive bracket in if you take the bracket out which i'm planning on doing then you'll have a lot of room right here to put a big power supply something like a 1600 watt if you want if you're running like dual 30 90s for like sli overclocking for like port royal and stuff like that um it's a pretty well thought out case it seems like corsair is kind of just built upon what they've learned over the years in terms of how to keep a rectangle exciting because let's face it i'm more into like the really weird odd shapes and stuff when it comes to cases but most people are just looking for a tower that can kind of give them flexibility options modularity to kind of set it up how they want and they're maybe not interested in the crazy angles and stuff so being able to have this much flexibility with radiator mounts in three different locations um airflow obviously anything designed for good air flows also be great for radiators they do have a more solid panel version which is a little bit more for acoustics being a little bit quieter you do sacrifice airflow for that that's the non-airflow addition obviously but we're going to be doing a complete build in this we're going to be using this chassis as well as a lot of corsair water cooling stuff to show you guys how to water cool your computer here in 2021 and updating like i said my really old beginner's guide that i did going on what eight nine years ago so with that i'm gonna go ahead and put a link to this product down the description below this was not a sponsored review or anything like that of the case i just like to this is something i always do if i'm getting ready to do a build in something i sort of tear it down get an idea of what me go where to know okay i can fit this radiator i can't fit that radiator and then i'll start preparing for the build rather than trying to figure it out as i go let's face it a big amount of it's gonna be figured out as i go but at least i get the big picture of what can and can't fit so corsair 5000d this is the white edition they also have black um links to it are gonna be in the description below as always guys thanks for watching and we will see you in the next 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Length: 17min 23sec (1043 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 03 2021