Corsair Air 540 review on Guru3D

[DigDog]

Is out;

my kind of case, doing away stylishly with the horrid HD cages. All it needs now is a handle on the top 😀

guru3d review

H.C. YouTube review

Corsair webpage

Looks big, but its not. It's quite boxy, though.
No room for water .. but a H100 would fit.

The case is a two-level case, like a test rack, but one level is on each side, with the mobo in the middle; check out the reviews.
(imho, it can be improved still. slightly teller, PSU in one section, cooling in other section.)
£114 or $139

 

[dawp]

according to the review here on anand ( http://anandtech.com/show/7124/corsair-carbide-air-540-case-review ), it will accommodate 2 rads, one 360 front and one 240 or 280 top. you'll just have to figure out where to put the pump.

 

[felang]

Definitely has ample room for WC setup

http://www.overclock.net/t/1402099/build-log-water-cooled-corsair-carbide-series-air-540

 

[DigDog]

pump on top of power supply?
im not convinced; still, its a lovely case.

 

[gorobei]

the lack of 3.5" drive mounts and the wasted space in back is concerning, but if the noise levels was comparable to the FT02 i might consider the air540 since it is $100 cheaper than the silverstone.

 

[AustinInDallas]

move the power supply to the main bay with vent down. make second side only thick enough for one optical bay.

thats the case Im waiting for

 

[Aikouka]

I thought I read that you're not supposed to use angled fittings on the pump input?

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I love this case. I could see fitting 2x 240mm rads, 1x360mm rad, and one 120mm rad in the box and still have room for 3 gpu's. Pretty awesome. I would attempt to move the hot swap bays at the bottom to the other side. Remove the 5.25" bays from the from, and custom make a HDD cage that could support a lot of HD's. Pump/Res in the other chamber is great.

It's either this or the Caselabs Mercury S3 which cannot handle ATX mobo's. I would like them to make a Obsidian version of this case with the more spartan styling of that line.

 

[neilsabo]

been thinking of buying this case, and trying it out with 3x120mm fans in the front so that the hard drives on the bottom get more direct air

 

[Slufa111]

any more of these types of cases with the hd and psu in the rear?

 

[SexyK]

Thinking about doing a water cooled rig in this case. Any reason that you couldn't use something like this vertically in the two 5 1/4" bays if you use one of the extra G1/4" ports on the back as a fill port?

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1...ervoir_-_Black_45201.html?tl=g30c97s165#blank

 

[SexyK]

Case is arriving on Monday. I'll give some first impressions once it arrives and I have some time to play around with it.