News - Corsair Obsidian 800D chassis now up for pre-order

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Corsair's monster chassis shows up at retail with monster asking price.

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[Jay]

thats a bit expensive

[kalniel]

Obviuosly a top-end enthusiast case. Does it have mounting points for Corsair's own enthusiast SSD drives?

[PeterStoba]

Ridiculous price

[Biscuit]

it is expensive... but its a lot of chassis. I would'nt go so far as to say its worth £200 but things like that dont come cheap.

[jim]

I'm sure if I bought this case I'd be able to improve the cable management in my case, which would be the only reason I'd want one. But for those kinds of prices, it would be cheaper to buy prebuilt, from Scan say, and have somebody else sort the cables out for me in a much cheaper case.

It's a nice idea, but surely you'd have to be nuts to pay that much...

[LuckyNV]

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[LuckyNV]

Obviuosly a top-end enthusiast case. Does it have mounting points for Corsair's own enthusiast SSD drives?

It has hot swap capability for ALL SSDs that have standard 2.5" mounts, 4 hotswap bays and I believe an extra 3 spaces for HDDs at the bottom.

I'm actually surprised at the price, I thought the UK pricing would be at least £250, but at £210 its definitely a good price for what you are getting. You get good looks plus solid features and design rather than just exterior looks and standard 1990s interiors.

Corsair are intending on a mid tower for Xmas release, I think they mention that in the video, I hope its actually going to be a bit bigger than a standard tower, like somewhere between a full tower and mid tower.

[pollaxe]

Very expensive but very nice.. (especially if you can get one without a windowed side panel..)

[Roobubba]

No-one seems to have mentioned noise at all regarding this chassis. Have any of you guys who've seen it had a chance to assess how quiet it is likely to be? It's a very good-looking chassis and is feature-rich, but it's very, very expensive (dare I say it, for what it is...). I would only consider dropping that kind of money on a case if it was essentially silent (without having to swap out the fans for better models) in addition to offering what it does.
Also, why no eSATA port on the front? Seems like a bit of an oversight on a £200+ case!

Other than that, very tasty. Looking forward to the review on this puppy. Fingers crossed they will also produce one with no window!

Roo

[Brewster0101]

Thats alot of money for a steel case. I would take a Lian Li case over this any day.

Nice features that will filter soon to other manufactures. The rubber over the cable holes are good.

But £200 plus for a steel case is horrible..

For they first case they should have come in cheap and hard to get attention but this will pass by with not much attention at this price.

Its up against some much nicer cases and popular ones at this price.

[aceuk]

Looks nice, but a smaller (and slightly cheaper) version would be nice. Is this the version coming out at Christmas perhaps?

With motherboards like the Asus Rampage II Gene and 2.5" SSDs/Velociraptor's there's no need for a case this huge these days. Also who needs 5 x 5.25" drive bays in a case? Things should be getting smaller, not bigger.

[this_is_gav]

With motherboards like the Asus Rampage II Gene and 2.5" SSDs/Velociraptor's there's no need for a case this huge these days. Also who needs 5 x 5.25" drive bays in a case? Things should be getting smaller, not bigger.

I've got a fan controller/allinone media thingy (usefully called the AKASA AllInOne), a single DVD/RW and a couple of IcyBox 3.5" hotswappable things in my tower. Only a single bay left, and I was going to replace the 2 IcyBox bays with a 4 or 5-hdd hotswappable set up, but wanted that 5th drive bay free in case I needed it in the future.

I always go for quality, large cases such as this (though there are a few quirks with it I dislike... one being that it must weight about 4 tonnes without anything in it). If you're the sort of enthusiast who just has a system in a system, then a smaller, MicroATX-based high-end system is great, but I'd imagine there are more enthusiasts who have such a high-end system and have lots bolted on to it too.

And we've not even mentioned water-cooling yet (though I'm not a great fan of that either).

[scaryjim]

And we've not even mentioned water-cooling yet (though I'm not a great fan of that either).

Indeed, there's plenty of watercooling reservoirs that take up 2 of your 5 5.25" bays already. Add to that a fan controller and a couple of optical drives - whoops, drive bays gone! There's all sorts of useful things you can put in a 5.25" drive bay that *aren't* optical drives - so there's no convincing reason to not include plenty of them in a top-end enthusiast chassis...