Corsair Carbide 600C

[Darksaber]

The Corsair Carbide 600C comes with an inverted motherboard layout and aims to offer a perfect mix for those looking to take advantage of such an interior with a wide body, plenty of liquid-cooling compatibility, a 3-stage fan controller, and great cable management.

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[ChaoticG8R]

Top mounted PSUs make a return?!

 

[Mistral]

Feels like the exterior design is ended in an awkward place.
It doesn't manage to be clean or minimal enough, which is what I suppose they were going for, nor does it have a specific charm to it.

Kudos on the insides though, as much as I prefer my PSUs laying low.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

There's lots of info here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...ses-the-carbide-600q-and-carbide-600c.218194/

 

[AsRock]

Top mounted PSUs make a return?!

Finally best place for them.


Anyways @Darksaber you think it be possible to flip the psu the other way around and make a 140mm hole at the top of the case ?.


Nice case great review, been thinking of picking up a Air 540 but dunno know with this one . It's been a while since i got a new case this TT Armor case has had 4 systems in it since i got it.

 

[Phobia9651]

Feels like the exterior design is ended in an awkward place.
It doesn't manage to be clean or minimal enough, which is what I suppose they were going for, nor does it have a specific charm to it.

Kudos on the insides though, as much as I prefer my PSUs laying low.

That is exactly what I thought, I just can't wrap my head around the aesthetics of the new 600C and 400C. It's not sleek nor truly minimal.

 

[RejZoR]

Who's the idiot designing the bottom air intake and filter? Instead of making it a sliding "mechanism" so you can pull the filter out without flipping the case over, you have to fiddle with damn magnets. Same nonsense on my Carbide 330R case. I have to lean the case a bit so I can see what the hell I'm doing with the filter because it wraps around the case feet. For some stupid reason. Lazy design.

 

[AsRock]

Who's the idiot designing the bottom air intake and filter? Instead of making it a sliding "mechanism" so you can pull the filter out without flipping the case over, you have to fiddle with damn magnets. Same nonsense on my Carbide 330R case. I have to lean the case a bit so I can see what the hell I'm doing with the filter because it wraps around the case feet. For some stupid reason. Lazy design.

that's not true, problem actually is if you don't have the space behind the system to take out the filter, although that may be possible with some extra effort.

Check 2:36 of this video

 

[RejZoR]

Or in the front. Instead of making the filter this weird shaped thingie, why not make it perfect rectangle so you can pull it out easily? It could be done, but someone designing the case just couldn't be bothered to do it. It's not a matter of price, because it's cheaper to produce rectangular filters than these weird shapes. Not to mention punctured holes in the bottom of the case.

 

[AsRock]

It's defiantly a over sight for sure.

Thinking the Air 540 is a better option for me to now too, not enough SSD space for me either but i was sure i could work around that.

 

[Footman]

I just picked up this case for a new build.
4790K @ 4.6ghz, 16gb DDR3 2400, Creative Sound Blaster Zx, Samsung 850 SSD and a pair of 3TB HDD's along with an overclocked GTX 980Ti. Watercooled CPU and GPU.
It was not an easy build, regardless of what Corsair might have you believe, the options for rads is limited.
It is not possible to place a 140mm rad at the back unless you place the fan between the rad and back of the case. I don't want this as I usually want to 'push' air through this rad and not 'pull'.
Corsair states that you can place a 360 at the bottom, which is true, however this prevents you from placing at rad at the back and using more than a 120 at the front!!.

Best combination I could actually use for this build was a 240 at the front and a 120 at the back. Just as well my cpu and gpu are not power hogs. At least the resulting build is neat and keeps cool.

I can't really recommend this case for watercooled builds and in hindsight would have been better off with the Thermaltake Core V51, a smaller version of the V71 I built in to just before the Corsair.

Here is the Core V71 build, same cpu, pair of GTX 970's, a 360 at the front and 240 at the top, room for a 140 at the back too. I checked the V51 has the same rad space as the V71..

 

[Divide Overflow]

Just un-boxed my 600Q and only noticed two fans installed, one in the front and another in the back. It took me a minute to locate the third fan packed away as an included optional item. I'm only planning on air cooling for now, so I'm glad this wasn't shorted. I do agree with the review that their orientation needs to be changed for better lead management, but that just gave me something to fuss over!

 

[AsRock]

I guess heat pipes should work better in this case due to heat rising bottom to top.

It bothers me about the PSU as thats going be trying to get air as well ( in my case ) 120 fans for the GPU.

Then are the fans for the gpu going starve the PSU and drag dust in though the back.


And trying to work out how to fit 6 SSD's and 2 HDD's in it too lol.

 

[Divide Overflow]

It bothers me about the PSU as thats going be trying to get air as well ( in my case ) 120 fans for the GPU.

Then are the fans for the gpu going starve the PSU and drag dust in though the back.

The case seems designed for positive pressure. There's two intake fans (with options for more) and one exhaust, plus your PSU. Even at max GPU fan settings I don't see this reversing the airflow on the PSU. If you manage it, I'd sure like to see what you're using!

 

[micropage7]

the front bezel reminds me of refrigerator

 

[AsRock]

The case seems designed for positive pressure. There's two intake fans (with options for more) and one exhaust, plus your PSU. Even at max GPU fan settings I don't see this reversing the airflow on the PSU. If you manage it, I'd sure like to see what you're using!

Was thinking that if 2 more fans were added at the bottom of the case as intakes it should be a none issue.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I guess heat pipes should work better in this case due to heat rising bottom to top.

It bothers me about the PSU as thats going be trying to get air as well ( in my case ) 120 fans for the GPU.

Then are the fans for the gpu going starve the PSU and drag dust in though the back.

Look at Kit-Guru's review. 4 intake fans and a passive PSU! Also, I don't think most people realize how much room is up there for a couple of GPU's, and how much space there will be between the top GPU and the PSU. There will be plenty of air for the GPU's and PSU. Now I do take exception to Corsair's own pictures of this case with a 240 AIO on the bottom blowing out. That would set up 2 fans blowing in with 5 fans, including the GPU, blowing out. I realize that it most likely works, but much of the air coming into the case will not be coming through the filters.

 

[AsRock]

Vid tells me nothing really, most if not all video's with this case are with reference coolers. In my case their be at least 2x120mm fans up their trying to get air from were ?. And don't say from the front as the chances are the gpu fans are going be pushing that air away.

Only real way i can see it being solved is by making a hole(s) at the top for fans, one for intake and flipping the PSU and have it taking from outside the case then getting a nice looking magnet filter to cover it up so it looks more in place.

I just don't know if i am in the mood in modding a new case, even more so with the Air 540 which i would not have to do any thing with. Just with this case the gpu heat pipes should work better as that's how they designed to work.

 

[Shou Miko]

@Darksaber didn't u forget to point out it got a nice big cut out so it's easy to change cpu cooler, I think that's a goes to the thumbs up list or am I wrong?

Other than this, a nice review of a fine looking case

 

[mcraygsx]

I was under the impression that this is Full Size Tower but front page said Mid-Tower, maybe I received a conflicting information about its size.

Also will it support 3 way SLI ?

 

[Caring1]

Nice review, but so many things I dislike about this case.
Inverted Motherboard position to start with, It just doesn't make sense to me.
Windowed panel on a very ordinary box, seems out of place, and is on the wrong side for my needs, the side panels should be interchangeable.
Fans on the base are dust intakes as far as I am concerned, filters clog up and would need cleaning too often.
I could forgive the top mount PSU, if the Motherboard faced the other way and the top GPU wasn't fighting it for air flow.
The V51 is a far superior case (for my needs).

 

[AsRock]

Nice review, but so many things I dislike about this case.
Inverted Motherboard position to start with, It just doesn't make sense to me.
Windowed panel on a very ordinary box, seems out of place, and is on the wrong side for my needs, the side panels should be interchangeable.
Fans on the base are dust intakes as far as I am concerned, filters clog up and would need cleaning too often.
I could forgive the top mount PSU, if the Motherboard faced the other way and the top GPU wasn't fighting it for air flow.
The V51 is a far superior case (for my needs).

Yeah i was kinda bothered about how much air the GPU would take in and if i got one i be making intakes on the top of the case to fight that, although maybe not a issue with a leaf blower type cooler though.

Inverted motherboard makes perfect sense if using a 3rd party cooler as the heat pipes would work as intended, when the heat pipes are upside down it goes 100% against how they work.

But if your going let that bother you the CPU cooler is not working at 100% with it being side ways, so i guess if you want all the heat pipes working as they were designed you be better of with a larger foot print on how they used to make cases and sit a monitor on top of lol. At least with that design you could get a PCI-e extender to get the GFX card installed how you wanted it.