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CORSAIR Cases at 2024 CES: 6500X and 2500X

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CORSAIR had a brisk 2024 International CES announcements, and we begin our coverage with two new cases the gaming lifestyle brand debuted this year—the 6500X and the 2500X. The 6500X is a new vertically partitioned case with, or it looks that way from the front. The right-size partition begins from behind the motherboard tray, so the extra width toward the front of the case can be used to neatly slot in a 360 mm radiator in a manner that it doesn't obstruct long graphics cards; as shown in the example build below. There is no front-left pillar. There are plenty of fan vents, including three along the right side, along the bottom, the top, and the rear. As you can see, even an RTX 4080 ROG Strix can stretch itself without a side-facing radiator coming in the way—again, because the vertical partition begins behind the motherboard tray and doesn't extend all the way to the front.

The CORSAIR 2500X is a miniaturized version of the 6500X design concept, where the case is vertically partitioned, but the partitioning doesn't extend all the way to the front; creating space for the side-facing radiator, so it doesn't obstruct a long graphics card. This case is designed for Micro-ATX (or smaller) motherboards. The 2500X has a cozy, wood-like accents along the top, front-right, and top-right edges. It lacks a left pillar just like the 6500X. Perhaps the most interesting aspect about the 2500X and 6500X is that they support both MSI Project Zero and ASUS BTF motherboard types, with their backside connectivity. The 2500X has enough room for up to three 120 mm fans along the bottom and top panels; and two along the side panel. Corsair is expected to launch the 6500X and 2500X toward the end of February, 2024. The company hasn't finalized pricing. The company also showed off some user-replaceable body panels for these cases.



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Yes, and no, iirc the Carbide 540 got released earlier than the PC-08 by quite a bit.
Carbide came in 2013 while Patent trolls O8 came nearly 2 years after that. There was also fractal dual chamber case not sure if it came before or later.
 
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There are so many 011's around these days, it's amazing.
The Carbide 540 is just a square case.

Fortunately Lian Li can just add this lawsuit to it's current lawsuit.
 
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Now if we could only get standardized hard wiring thru the motherboard for the GPU power and water cooling connectors on the back of the motherboard.
 

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There are so many 011 around these days, it's amazing.
The Carbide 540 is just a sqaure case.

Fortunately Lian Li can just add this lawsuit to it's current lawsuit.
Can you even copyright a casedesign? :D
 
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I'm sure Lian Li is asking their lawyers if they haven't all ready.
I'm VERY interested to hear why you think Lian Li's lawsuit is frivolous
 
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Now if they moved the front panel ports to the actual front panel instead of the top it would be perfect.
 
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There are so many 011's around these days, it's amazing.
The Carbide 540 is just a square case.

Fortunately Lian Li can just add this lawsuit to it's current lawsuit.
It's not just a square, it has a dual chamber design which is practically what O11 is famous for.

Mind you, I own a carbide 540 and I don't really like it, but I think the comment about O11-knockoffs is a bit unfair considering the 540 came first. As to why I don't like it, it's the flimsiest made corsair case I've ever had, the HDD cages break and snap simply by pushing them, and the power button design is so problematic that a lot of people have had issues with power being registered as pushed simply by touching the front panel (some plastic thingy easily warps while removing and reinserting the front panel, and you get left with a case that powers off your pc because you touched it on the front).

It's not a good case.

But it still predated the O11 (which I'd rather have) on the dual chamber design aspect.
 
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It's not just a square, it has a dual chamber design which is practically what O11 is famous for.

Mind you, I own a carbide 540 and I don't really like it, but I think the comment about O11-knockoffs is a bit unfair considering the 540 came first. As to why I don't like it, it's the flimsiest made corsair case I've ever had, the HDD cages break and snap simply by pushing them, and the power button design is so problematic that a lot of people have had issues with power being registered as pushed simply by touching the front panel (some plastic thingy easily warps while removing and reinserting the front panel, and you get left with a case that powers off your pc because you touched it on the front).

It's not a good case.

But it still predated the O11 (which I'd rather have) on the dual chamber design aspect.
I had the Carbide as well and i agree about how cheap\flimsy some of the components were.
In looks, it was nothing like a 011(except for been square), now evey manufacturer has an 011 clone.
Just a different zoom on the copying settings and that even includes Lian Li.

A lot of cases have a dual chamber design, the HAF 700 has a dual chamber design.
Technically my Core X5 has a open dual chamber design, HDD's and PSU are at the bottom and Motherboard and GPU at the top.
There is a shelf in the middle of the case that the motherbord sits on.

I think the 011 became very popular because people can show their look at me lights
The problem I have with cases like the 540, 011 and even my HAF 700, is that they don't care about the cooling of the hdd's.
In my HAF the hdd's were going over 50 degrees Celsius on very hot days, in my Core X5 I can mount a fan near the HDD's and they touch about 40 now
 
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The unevenness along the top of the case isn't exactly pleasing to the eye.
 
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This is all the cases they showed off? Disappointing.
 

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Didn't Mountain Mods make a dual-chamber case two decades ago? I want to say I got my U2-UFO Horizon back in 2006 and it was like the third or fourth version they released.
 
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