Corsair Air 540 and Cooler Master HAF RC-902XB-KKN1

lordlagasse

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I am impressed with the design of the Corsair Air 540 design and wonder if any other cases had similar designs. I ran across the Cooler Master HAF RC-902XB-KKN1.

Does anyone have experience with the Cooler Master case? I wonder how it would compare to the AIR 540. Any chance of getting one to review?
 

Subyman

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I have a HAF XB. It is a fine case. It must be noted that it only has two spots for 3.5" drives, which I didn't look at when I first made the purchase. Otherwise the design is fine although I think they could have spent a more time optimizing the space especially under the motherboard tray. One bad thing is that you have to completely remove the motherboard to work with the wiring on the lower level.

Looking at both of them, I'd go with the 540. It is a newer design and seems better.
 

T_Yamamoto

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There are some boutique cases where you'll have to pony up a lot of money (Caselabs cases)
 

andrx47

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I recently just received my Corsair 540 in mail and installed everything in it. It is a very easy case to work with. You don't even have to remove the motherboard to install a new CPU cooler (there is access from the back to install a back plate). If you are someone who wants good cable management, but doesn't want to deal with all of the effort of hiding cables, this is a great case for that. You basically just have to feed all of you excess cable to the PSU side of the case and never have to look at it again. Everything is tooless and it works incredibly well. Some people have complained about the disk drives having to be vertically mounted, but almost all disk trays support this functionality (as far as I can tell). The only down side I can find (which has been mentioned in reviews) is that it isn't the quietest case, but I feel the cooling capabilities, space management, and features easily make this case worth it. It is a little difficult to get a hold of right now, but I believe Newegg is getting it in stock tomorrow (according to their website).
 
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