CORSAIR Carbide 330R Mid-Tower Case - Titanium Edition

What is the Corsair Carbide Series 330R Titanium Edition Mid Tower Case and what is it Not?First, let us take a look at what is different between the 330R and 330R Titanium Edition.There are only two differences between the cases where the Titanium has a gunmetal color brushed aluminum door insert and a fan speed control switch while the 330R has a black brushed aluminum door insert and no fan speed switch. I optioned for the Titanium because I think the gunmetal door insert has a more elegant look than the rather stealth look of an all black computer chassis. Both are constructed to be "quiet" cases and both are ATX form factor.If you are not familiar with Corsair brand computer chassis cases, you will find that they are a premium line and generally of good design and quality for general consumer use. Corsair brand computer chassis cases as a rule tend to be rather large for their intended audience while this "mid-tower" case is no exception. It is "big" for a mid tower when compared to an off the shelf consumer grade desktop mid-tower case by Acer, Dell, or HP.I purchased this chassis to house a full size ATX form factor motherboard, Intel 750 Series NVM-e drive, full size graphics card, and oversized closed loop liquid CPU cooler (H110).The logic behind this particular build is quiet and cool, which as a rule do not go together. Normally one must sacrifice cooling airflow for quiet operation. Since I am utilizing a triple fan cooled GPU in a quiet case I needed substantial exhaust which is provided by the dual 140mm radiator fans. The larger the fan, the slower it turns to produce matched laminar flow. Passive cooling works great if your ambient room temperature never exceeds 60F or 15c which is not possible where I live.Where does the Corsair Carbide Series 330R Titanium Case fall short of expectations?There is no anti-vibration built into the case for the power supply at all. It would have been very simple to design a pair of recess sleds in the base of the case and fill them with a rubber strip but that was not done. There are NO grommets in the main structure (motherboard tray) where wires pass through from the power supply to motherboard nor any other cable management access hole. The cable management holes do have smoothed edges and are painted but neither rounded nor protected and resemble the edge of a butter knife in my opinion.There are three available 5.25 drive bays located in the top front portion of the case. If you choose to utilize the Corsair H110 cooler as I did, you sacrifice the top bay and severely limit the depth of the middle drive bay. So who then uses old school 5.25 drive bays this day in age? I do. I needed one for a hot swap dual bay drive enclosure, and the other for a Blu-ray writer. Fortunately, I was able to place the hot swap drive bay at the bottom of the stack and the shorter Blu-ray writer in the next level up and still have enough clearance for the liquid cooling supply and return hoses, but just barely enough room. The lower front section of the case contains a 4 bay 3.5" box which is permanently attached to the case. My particular build rendered this section of the case empty and wishing I could remove the drive bay enclosure. Yes, I could remove it by drilling out the rivets securing the enclosure, but that is a hack mod that would serve no real purpose for me unless I were to install an additional fan in the lower front section of the chassis, thusly starving the upper fan for fresh air because the case was never designed for that purpose.In conclusion:The Corsair Series 330R Titanium Edition case is first and foremost designed to be a "quiet" case with good airflow (not optimal) but adequate airflow and it does perform well for that design. The chassis sides and top are coated with a synthetic material to dampen noise and do a very good job for that purpose. The air inlet and exhaust are channeled and designed to draw air into the case from the middle front, and across your GPU (assuming first slot location) and exit through the rear and top of the chassis. This makes for a well thought out "quiet" design. I can not fault Corsair in that respect.I found the chassis to be below standard for the premium price range as it lacked simple touches such as anti-vibration for the power supply and absolutely no grommet protection for cable management passage through the chassis. Utilizing Corsair designed optimal cooling will limit external drive bay access either way the upper cooler is mounted. Reversing a top mounted cooler with the cooling hoses facing the rear of the chassis will eliminate the rear chassis fan and still obstruct the front top 5.25 bay. Airflow was carefully engineered for this chassis, so the idea of eliminating a chassis fan was not one I would consider. Including just enough fasteners to mount a motherboard and one SSD sets a bad taste for me when lesser quality chassis selling for half the cost will include an abundance of fasteners.

Nice and quiet computer enclosure.I had to transfer all components from my existing system.The reason I purchased this enclosure, was some mechanical limitation regarding my liquid CPU cooler (240mm).Couldn't mount it correctly into my Cooler Master HAF.The Cosair has plenty of room to install the 240 mm cooler on the top, configured to exhaust the heated air. Basically I disagree with this configuration, since the radiator will get the heated air from the Video cards and other components. If airflow is reversed, the radiator is getting cool outside air, but blows the heated air onto the GPU(s). On the other hand the cooler is efficient enough to keep the CPU temperature within or below the CPU specification. Would be nice to mount the cooler to the front to draw cool air through the radiator, but no worries here.The goal was to achieve a better airflow for the GPU's (two radeon R390X's) because they will get close to 90 C and I don't like this. With the new case and a reasonable airflow, the GPU's will stay at about 85 C, which really doesn't seem much, but 5 C less is actually a lot better.Unfortunately, it seems that the lower GPU, in addition, heats the upper one (VERY LITTLE COOL AIR FLOW, between) and causes almost a 10 C difference between the two cards, which I haven't resolved yet, even with this case. I believe this is an issue with the MB (Motherboard) that the two slots are simply too close for high power cards.The case itself is very quite and dampens noise coming from the fans, very good. The three position fan speed control, for those fans that don't have a home on the motherboard, also come in handy.For less heat generating applications, simply switch to a lower speed and you'll hear even less noise.I personally monitor the temperatures inside the box which are in range and therefore, I keep the front door closed. If it goes up, because of ambient temperature increase, I open the door and get a little more cool air intake.The top cover is removable (semi secured by magnets) and should be taken off, if there is any fan mounted beneath it.The front intake allows for mounting a second (up to 140 mm) fan. All intakes have removable dust filter.Hard drives are easy to install and don't require any tools. Cable management is intuitive, once the second panel is removed. Pretty much everything can be routed out of the internal airflow and thereby minimizes flow disturbances.All over, at the price you'll get a lot of enclosure.

Como el anuncio indica, este gabinete tiene paneles de goma en los costados que si ayudan a aislar el ruido del interior del gabinete, aunque si tienes una tarjeta grafica tipo "blower" si se va escuchar cuando los ventiladores estén girando al 75%.Algo a considerar es que el gabinete es mas grande de lo que aparente, dice que es mid-tower pero es mas grande que el mid-tower que antes tenia. Hay que tener eso en cuenta por el espacio.Lo mejor es que viene con 2 ventiladores incluidos, 1 frontal y 1 trasero, ambos con velocidad ajustable.Recomiendo este producto

This is not my first Corsair Carbide series case, and like the others, always great. The feature set and flexibility of cooling makes this series one of the best. Not many other case manufacturers are this consistent.

Great case. It is a full size case that looks really modern, and the front is actually a door to mask the disk slots and keep the noise level down. It is very quiet, even with all fans running, due to built in baffles and noise paths. Corsair really knows how to build great cases. We have used their products a number of times in the past, always with great results. For this build we also used a power supply from Corsair and their memory too.

very silent and wonderful product. extremely satisfied

Je viens de terminer l'installation d'un nouveau système basé sur un AMD Ryzen 7 1700x, avec un ventilateur Be Quiet.La tour est juste excellente. Look class, intérieur spacieux, de la place pour les cables. Pas besoin de vis pour installer les disques. Vraiment tres content de cet achat, pour le moment :-)