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 |  Assunto: CeBIT: Corsair raids the chassis market: competitors beware?  Ter Mar 03, 2009 8:07 am | |
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Corsair Rep:
The case has a 140mm fan for blowing air across the four hot swappable bays, the airflow in this case works different, there's no front intake fans. All intake is done from the bottom of the case right now, through vents. The case sits about 1-2" above the floor on feet to allow for this, and pretty much the entire bottom is perforated with ventilation holes. The fan intakes from the bottom, blows across the hard drives, and the air is then ducted out behind the motherboard tray plenum for the hard drive cooling section.
The Motherboard/GPU cooling section is cooled by intake through the bottom with another 140mm fan, and exhaust through the rear. On the tooling sample at CEBIT there are a lot of pre-production bugs. The final version will have mounting holes for the triple 120mm radiator on top, as well as watercooling holes pre-cut in the separator between the PSU chamber and the motherboard chamber. This is an entirely custom chassis so it's taken some time to develop. Glad you guys like it for the most part.
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We're looking into it as we speak. We might release future variants of the case targeted towards specific uses, like large diameter top/side panel fans, etc. But right now the case doesn't allow for a large top exhaust for a 230mm fan.
Keep in mind the version at CEBIT is a pre-tooling prototype and the overall features and design might change a bit between now and launch.
Should everything work out we hope to have the case in stores in early May.
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The exhaust won't change much, the layout of the case doesn't allow for a large diameter exhaust fan on this version. That's not to say we won't launch a future version, but right now we felt that when it came down to costs, the version we have now is going to appeal to the larger majority.
Gareth (guy interviewed in the hexus video, and our main tech guy in the UK) is right - we have some changes for the tooled version and we'll likely make a few more changes before it hits the streets.
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Depends which competition we're talking about! hahaha...
The guys selling $99 cases don't have anything to worry about....yet.
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