Reviews - Corsair Obsidian Series 700D: more than a case of déjà vu?

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Looking to spend up to £200 on a high-end chassis? We find out if Corsair's second Obsidian is worthy of consideration.

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[Commission3r]

will corsair ever release a midi version of the 800
this 700 makes no sense with a difference of £40 i wud rather have the window and ez drive access

[GageC]

Personally, I like the 700D better than the 800D, granted the minimal drop in price is somewhat crap, I think somewhere around the £160 mark would be better, but I'm putting my next build into one of these. The 800D is useless to me, no need for the window or the hot swappable disks, but I want a big case, with good cooling performance. On top of that, it's nice and simple looking, I don't like all of these extreme looking cases with lots of weird looking edges.

[Roobubba]

So how noisy is it?! How well does it block system noise to the outside?

Am I the only one that wants a quiet case? I was very disappointed with my Lian Li case - yes it's all aluminium and looks nice from the outside... but they claim 'quiet computing' but epically fail to deliver.
I had hoped that reviewers would start to compare new cases for noise levels, but once again the review is bereft of this!

And Corsair's lack of eSATA is puzzling...

Roo

[TAKTAK]

Look on SPCR... It's what they do...

[jetfire]

this is probably the best quiet case you can get

http://www.paqt.co.uk/

[adamsonm]

If you guys are looking for a case with brilliant airflow and relatively cheap I would reccomend the Lancool series, they are brilliant.

[PeteG@Scan]

Am I the only one that wants a quiet case? I was very disappointed with my Lian Li case - yes it's all aluminium and looks nice from the outside... but they claim 'quiet computing' but epically fail to deliver.

The Lians whilst they look nice always feel a bit too thin and flimsy as far as the side panels go, and you want those to be nice and heavy to remove vibration otherwise as you note it all gets a bit noisy.

this is probably the best quiet case you can get
http://www.paqt.co.uk/

I was in talks with them about a case for our audio section being developed. We were almost at the final stage of testing when the owner and designer fell ill with health complications. Since then Paqt's been rather quiet so unless they have stock still of the older cases you may be out of luck at this point. A shame as they did design the best quiet cases I've ever seen.

[MonkeyL]

So how noisy is it?! How well does it block system noise to the outside?

It is staggeringly noisey. I'm pretty surprised.

The HD mounts have small silicone gromits but these don't appear to work very well. Vibration noise from the hard drive is amplified by case itself, like a resonating chamber. Very poor IMHO.

If you place the case on a wooden floor, then the vibration is passed through the case base into the floor (to make it even louder). The feet are very poor.

This isn't helped by the case sides, which are the flimsiest I've ever owned. They don't fit snugly and also vibrate and create their own noise due to the HD vibration. Again, very poor.

Am I the only one that wants a quiet case?

I was very disappointed with my Lian Li case - yes it's all aluminium and looks nice from the outside... but they claim 'quiet computing' but epically fail to deliver.
I had hoped that reviewers would start to compare new cases for noise levels, but once again the review is bereft of this!

Same here. The complete lack of any information regarding noise seems like a major oversight. Not a good review.

Love the size of the case and the space inside, don't like it's total lack of anything to suppress noise and vibration. The flimsy ill fitting sides really are pretty poor.