Most filters of the style that Corsair has chosen use plastic crossbars to give greater support to the mesh and prevent it from sagging, but crossbars get in the way of RGB fans and break up their outlines- see the Alpha 550X for an example. Top mounted radiators and fans will overlap the motherboard, so consider the location of RAM slots and EPS12V connections carefully when planning a build.įor the most part, the 4000D Airflow manages to combine form and function, but the front filter is one area where this falls apart. To summarize, this case is relatively short (in height) and wide. The 120mm and 140mm top fan mounts are offset away from the motherboard tray by 5.25cm and 7.25cm respectively in an attempt to keep them from interfering with the motherboard that’s because the top edge of the motherboard is only about 2.5cm below the mounts. Note that this only applies to CLCs: open loop cooling is a different beast, and a 360mm radiator could be made to work. The largest CLC the case can truly support is a single 280mm unit at the top. There’s absolutely not enough room to mount a 360mm CLC and fans properly with tube-side-down at the front of the case, or even a 280mm, since the front I/O occupies a few key millimeters of space needed for the radiator. Since fans and radiators only fit on the inside of the case, that limits combined radiator/fan thickness at the level of the PSU shroud to 6cm at the absolute most, but we recommend against installing radiators down there at all. 120mm fans should be unaffected by this issue if they’re lined-up with the front panel cutouts: this is another case where the front panel has been designed around 120mm fans.įans can only be mounted on the inside of the chassis behind the front filter, which is another area (in addition to airflow) where “front-panel-is-the-filter” cases like the Cooler Master TD500 Mesh and Phanteks P400A have an advantage. Either way, the point stands: the brackets are delicate. Of the three cases we received, only one of them had this issue.
#4000D AIRFLOW WHITE PC#
When installing 140mm fans in this case, rotate the blades with a finger before turning the PC on to make sure the mounting bracket hasn’t warped inwards in a way that will clip the fan blades. The mounting points for front fans are extremely flexible and delicate, which is a tradeoff for the fact that they use little material and don’t overly obstruct airflow.
There was one minor fit-and-finish flaw in our review sample, but it nearly broke one of the fans we use for testing. *Specs table copied directly from product page, please read review for our own measurements and opinions THE BUILD With all that effort, it’s somewhat surprising that the stock fans are just two plain black 120mm case fans-they don’t clash with the color scheme, but they are certainly a cost-cutting measure, especially compared to the RGB stock fans on the 4000X. A triangular motif is also present throughout the entire case, most impressively in the top filter, which has tiny triangular holes rather than the standard hexagonal ones. We have mixed feelings about the yellow accents scattered throughout the case, but they are at least consistent: yellow plastic washers under various thumbscrews, a yellow pull-tab on the top filter, and yellow USB type-A port on the front panel. Black is still the default, cheap-to-produce color for cases and case hardware, and Corsair has obviously worked hard to make this design possible at $80. Even some hidden elements like the plastic snaps that hold in the panels are color-matched: they’re gray on the white case and black on the black model. Corsair also color-matched the top surface of the magnets for the top filter so that they’re less visible, and the magnets are intentionally arranged so that they don’t line-up with radiator screws that might push it upwards. The glass is tinted for the black version and untinted for the white, with white masking around the border. Almost every part of the case is painted white or gray, including the borders of the glass panel, the rear PCIe slot covers, and all the externally-visible rivets on the rear panel. The white color scheme is well done, and the case’s appearance in general deserves discussion as Corsair has clearly devoted extra attention to it. The 4000D samples we were sent are both white, but they come in black as well.
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