Sunday, March 11th 2018
Corsair Obsidian 1000D Leaked to Amazon
It's been a while since Corsair pushed the upper end of its Obsidian series high-end PC cases. The Obsidian 900D has held the fort since 2013, but could be getting dated in the wake of newer standards such as tempered glass, RGB lighting, newer connectors, etc. Corsair is careful not to just make a mash of glass and RGB lighting; when designing its upcoming flagship case, the Obsidian 1000D super-tower (model: CC-9011115-WW), which leaked to the web thanks to an eager Amazon listing, in which it's priced at USD $500. The Obsidian 1000D retains the "for grownups only" styling of the series, with a beautiful combination of curved tempered glass, matte black aluminium, and subtlety in the amount of RGB LED lighting elements on use. The feature-set of this full-tower will blow any high-end case out of the water.
The front, sides, and top panels are made of curved tempered glass with aluminium inserts, and enough discrete air inlets for the countless fan mounts inside. The front-panel features four USB 3.1 type-A, and two type-C ports; in addition to audio jacks. Connectors are framed by RGB lighting diffusers. The case is highly modular, and you can either choose between storage-heavy configurations, or cooling-heavy configuration that frees up room for multiple liquid cooling loops. The rear I/O can be configured to be perpendicular to the plane of the motherboard with 8+2 slots, or parallel to its plane, with 5+2 slots. You can install E-ATX and everything smaller, but longer 10-slot form-factors such as HPTX and XL-ATX are a notable exclusion.
This case is so large, that it can mount up to eight 120 mm fans along the front panel (four on each side of an inner grill), three 140 mm top exhausts, and two 120 mm rear exhausts. Its radiator support will hence be 480 mm x 120 mm front, 420 mm x 140 mm top, and 240 mm x 120 mm rear. Drive mounts include six 2.5-inch and three 3.5-inch. A Corsair Commander Pro fan- and lighting-controller comes integrated.
Source:
clar1ty1488 (Reddit)
The front, sides, and top panels are made of curved tempered glass with aluminium inserts, and enough discrete air inlets for the countless fan mounts inside. The front-panel features four USB 3.1 type-A, and two type-C ports; in addition to audio jacks. Connectors are framed by RGB lighting diffusers. The case is highly modular, and you can either choose between storage-heavy configurations, or cooling-heavy configuration that frees up room for multiple liquid cooling loops. The rear I/O can be configured to be perpendicular to the plane of the motherboard with 8+2 slots, or parallel to its plane, with 5+2 slots. You can install E-ATX and everything smaller, but longer 10-slot form-factors such as HPTX and XL-ATX are a notable exclusion.
33 Comments on Corsair Obsidian 1000D Leaked to Amazon
maybe have turned the PSU bracket 90° so it can fit 2? one just for the water loops!
As for this monstrosity, am I the only one that thinks it looks like you can fit an ATX and a mini-ITX board into it at the same time?
It's indeed a dual system according to their listing.
Edit: Found a couple of picture of the internals as well, which shows all the drive mounts etc
or is this not knock knock?
I think my EK-CoolStream XE 480 and Hwlabs SR2 480 just found their new home ^_^
Back in 2009 i would love to have this kind of thing
I've met case manufacturers who have told me that Lian-Li found out that they were working with certain aluminum suppliers/vendors and went and threatened the suppliers/vendors, as Lian-Li claimed they had exclusive rights to make aluminium cases and they'd take both the suppliers/vendors and the case makers to court over it. In Asia, no-one likes to be taken to court, unlike the US...
It's obviously still possible to make aluminium cases outside of Taiwan, but for whatever reason this doesn't seem to be done.
As for why the case frame is done in stamped metal, well, it's fast and it's cheap. If you're going to produce 10k cases, you either need a highly specialised factory like Lian-Li where you have all the machinery in-house and have trained staff that knows what they're doing, or you end up outsourcing it, which is what most case makers do. This is also why you'll find the same internal case design reoccurring with different fronts, as even making the tooling for the stamping of the metal for a case doesn't come cheap. This is where Lian-Li has a huge competitive advantage when it comes to making new models, as they have a limited amount of fixed tooling.
Then again, Lian-Li could with some better engineers. Example. At one point they had locking clasps on their high-end cases, but they could only make a set of seven, as the mechanism was designed by a Japanese partner of Lian-Li's and for whatever reason they couldn't work out how to make it bigger or smaller to fit cases with four, five or eight expansion slots...
I guess this is a bit off topic, but it's a fiercely competitive, nasty industry that most people never hear about.
I'm just surprised that no-one has ever wondered why there are so few case makers that produce aluminium cases, but then again, people don't tend to question things too much...