Corsair 650D

conoflex · 18 Mar 2011 at 10:08

Nice one, thanks.

mothermachine · 18 Mar 2011 at 10:51

This is on my list. But can anyone confirm if it's a good case for air cooling? Are the fans ok as-is? I want to replace my lian-li which has terrible cooling and required a fan controller to keep the noise down. My 700D is extremely quiet but far too big and heavy for my needs.

Just wondering if this is a good case for cooling and noise.

Cheers,

coldfused · 18 Mar 2011 at 10:53

Just think of it as the 700D but a lot smaller. The 650D also comes with a fan controller.

mothermachine · 18 Mar 2011 at 10:55

coldfused said:
Just think of it as the 700D but a lot smaller. The 650D also comes with a fan controller.

Sounds perfect then! Awesome. Might pre-order....

Cheers,

EDIT: Native SSD support as well. About time!

conoflex · 18 Mar 2011 at 11:03

mothermachine said:
Sounds perfect then! Awesome. Might pre-order.... Cheers,

EDIT: Native SSD support as well. About time!

I don't think you will regret getting one

mothermachine · 18 Mar 2011 at 11:21

I just wish these were on wheels. So much easier to lug around. That's the only drawback as far as I can see. And maybe the weight.

conoflex · 18 Mar 2011 at 11:47

mothermachine said:
I just wish these were on wheels. So much easier to lug around. That's the only drawback as far as I can see. And maybe the weight.

I got a set of small casters that I fit to every rig I build, work great too ! got them from Ikea

mothermachine · 18 Mar 2011 at 11:48

conoflex said:
I got a set of small casters that I fit to every rig I build, work great too ! got them from Ikea

not a bad idea, that!

conoflex · 18 Mar 2011 at 11:55

This is just one very very rough mock up of my Corsair 650D & EK water cooling kit and a couple of the 650D, just to get prospective on it (build log coming later)
Does the water setup look ok ??
Anything I need to do ?

mothermachine · 18 Mar 2011 at 12:00

Loads more space between the PSU and the HDDs. Excellent! Deffo getting one. Thanks for the shots conoflex!

conoflex · 18 Mar 2011 at 12:22

mothermachine said:
Loads more space between the PSU and the HDDs. Excellent! Deffo getting one. Thanks for the shots conoflex!

NP, you won't be disappointed either

Larrs888 · 21 Mar 2011 at 18:39

Well I got one at the weekend and it had a manufacturing defect on the brushed aluminium bezel, the top bit was all bent and falling off :mad:

Got another one now and will move my bits across this coming weekend when I get the chance. I can't be bothered after work mid-week.

I have to say it's rather massive comming from a Fractal R2, I'd hate to see the 800d next to mine. At least my parts will have more space and I'll finaly be able do a decent cable management job.

I just need a blu-ray drive and I'm set!

Larrs888 · 3 Apr 2011 at 16:36

Well I got my build sorted last week, overall I like the case, plenty of room inside and it looks the part. A couple of things I hate are that the side panels don't sit completely flush with the rest of the case due to the clips being in the top and rather far from the edges. Secondly there is very little room at the back of the motherboard tray to route cables and I had to force the rear side panel on, again it is far from flush and sticks out.

There is no drive bay converter included either so at the moment I can't use my 3/12 internal card reader :mad:

The fan controller works well, the USB 3.0 pass through cables can be neatly routed of which there are two.

Overall 8/10

Anyway here are a couple of pics:

Schizo · 3 Apr 2011 at 17:23

nice build dude.

nice pictures as well

conoflex · 3 Apr 2011 at 17:35

Larrs888 said:
Well I got my build sorted last week, overall I like the case, plenty of room inside and it looks the part. A couple of things I hate are that the side panels don't sit completely flush with the rest of the case due to the clips being in the top and rather far from the edges. Secondly there is very little room at the back of the motherboard tray to route cables and I had to force the rear side panel on, again it is far from flush and sticks out.

There is no drive bay converter included either so at the moment I can't use my 3/12 internal card reader

The fan controller works well, the USB 3.0 pass through cables can be neatly routed of which there are two.

Overall 8/10

Must agree with that too side panels don't fit flush and no drive bay converter(but don't use one anyway so np) So I will give it 9/10

alex24 · 3 Apr 2011 at 20:29

Hey guys, anyone got a pic of some cables routed around the back of the case? I know it looks untidy but I won't think less of you....! Just interested to see how the clearance works out.

conoflex · 3 Apr 2011 at 20:46

I have a couple somewhere I think before it was finished, i'll try an dig them out and post them here.

MumboJumbo · 3 Apr 2011 at 20:51

I'm glad mine arn't the only non-flush ones. Also do your fan controllers actually make a blind bit of difference?

alexhull24 said:
Hey guys, anyone got a pic of some cables routed around the back of the case? I know it looks untidy but I won't think less of you....! Just interested to see how the clearance works out.

If you check the other thread I wrote a little summary of my findings. Basicaly the reason the clips are there is because there isn't a huge amount of clearance but they allow you to cram it all in so it works fine, you wouldn't be able to do that otherwise.

conoflex · 3 Apr 2011 at 20:59

8igdave said:
I'm glad mine arn't the only non-flush ones. Also do your fan controllers actually make a blind bit of difference?

You know saying that I don't it does if you mean the Corsair one (have rear 120mm on it) if you mean the lamptron fc6 I use yes it does

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MumboJumbo · 3 Apr 2011 at 21:40

Does anyone elses 650d turn on if you pull it forward? I'm not sure if it only happens when you use the bottom of the case at the front to pull it. But it definitely keeps happening. I'm guessing it must push pressure on the switch some how?