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It wasn't long ago that I was taking a look at the Corsair 300R, a budget friendly £65 offering that easily won our eTeknix Editors Choice award for providing rock solid build quality and performance in a neat and tidy package, that didn't cost the earth. So what does the 200R have to offer us and will it be worth another eTeknix award?
With a price tag of around £55 (at time of writing) the 200R is targeted at the higher quality end of the budget market, while of course there are cheaper chassis' on the market than this, it's rare to find anything note worthy below £40. Yet for more budget conscious consumers and system builders £50+ is still a big investment and no one likes to throw away their hard earned money on a cheap quality product.
Because of its price, I won't be looking for ground breaking performance or lots of stand out features, what we want to see in this price range is typically a decent amount of component compatibility, build quality and a little bit of style.
So let's take a look at the specifications and see just what the 200R has to offer before we move on to take a closer look at the chassis itself.
Today we are looking at the smallest of Corsair’s Carbide series, the Carbide 300R. The Corsair Carbide 300R is a compact midtower gaming chassis that can support long graphics cards, large air coolers, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and up to seven 120mm fans. Not bad for a case that can be found online for $80 shipped. Join us to see if the Carbide 300R from Corsair would be a good fit for your next PC build!
Corsair offers a Carbide chassis that is stripped of all the non-essentials and delivers an affordable solution that has style and basic functionality.
Continuing the expansion of its chassis range, Corsair has added a low-noise option to its Carbide series. Can the Corsair Carbide 330R quiet case prove that it can compete in a tough market?
We’re big fans of the Corsair Carbide series here at eTeknix, from the products we’ve seen in the range so far it seems that Corsair cannot put a foot wrong and their design team seem to be at the top of their game, producing one excellent product after another. This much seems to be true of much of the Corsair product range in recent years, taking a look at their Vengeance products you’ll find award winning memory modules, gaming mice and keyboards, their entire chassis range is full of high quality solutions and their CPU coolers are some of the most popular on the market, so I think its safe to say that I have high expectations for the 330R, it has a strong reputation to uphold.
Priced at around £75 the 330R isn’t exactly cheap, or at least that’s a higher than average price for a mid-tower and that means that we’ll be expecting premium quality to match the premium price tag, but with steel construction, sound proofing material pre-installed, two high quality pre-installed fans, USB 3.0 support and more it looks like Corsair might be able to deliver the premium features we are looking for.
Corsair is going to release a new mid-tower series of computer cases, named Carbide, with two models. The 400R is scheduled to arrive on the market on 08/31/2011 at USD 100, and the 500R is scheduled to arrive on the market on 09/30/2011. They have features not usually found on mid-tower cases such as eight expansion slots. Let's see if the 400R will be a good buy.
Corsair has recently manufactured some great top end PC cases. Now the Carbide Series will follow up in a more affordable fashion allowing more PC builders to touch upon and utilize the main functions of the Obsidian and Graphite series. Simply put, this is a case built for builders and won't break the bank when building your new rig.
Corsair now brings forth the latest series of cases with the newly released Carbide Series to follow the Graphite and Obsidian series cases before this. Looking to Corsair to get a little background information on this new series, I gathered a couple of things that stood out to me. In their videos of the new Carbide cases from Computex 2011, George made two points very clear.
Today we are looking at the second chassis in the Carbide series. For those who follow what I write about, the 400R wasn't all that long ago. In my time looking up information on the 400R, I found myself sitting there admiring its bigger brother more than I was actually looking into the 400R. My feelings were even written when I reviewed the first in the Carbide series that while the 400R offers plenty of bang for the buck, I wanted to see this version of a similarly designed chassis to give a more informed answer as to which of the two I would put my money on.
The Corsair Carbide Series features two models so far, the 400R and the 500R. We reviewed the 400R a couple of months ago, and it proved to carry a terrific cost/benefit ratio, deserving our Golden Award. Let's see if its brother, the 500R, follows the same heritage.
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