Published: Thursday 30th July, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: Obsidian Series 800D
Companies: Corsair (All Corsair content)
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Corsair had originally stated that the monster chassis would hit stores in July with a price estimated at around $299. Well, here we are, nearing the end of July, and the Obsidian 800D has finally made its appearance at UK etailer SCAN.co.uk* with a pre-order price of £209.99.
That's a whole lot of cash, but then, this is a whole lot of chassis, too. As with most things Corsair, the Obsidian 800D is targeting the hardcore enthusiast, and it aims to do enclosures better than all the competition. There's the promise of lots and lots of room, thorough cable management, hot-swap SATA, a tool-free design and plenty more.
But is it worth over two-hundred notes of your hard earned? Stay tuned as we'll be passing our verdict in an upcoming review.
In the meantime, if you're itching to know more about the chassis itself, check out the following video walkthrough with Corsair's Rob Pearce:
*As always, UK-based HEXUS.community discussion forum members will benefit from the SCAN2HEXUS Free Shipping initiative, which will save you a further few pounds plus also top-notch, priority customer service and technical support backed up by the SCANcare@HEXUS forum.
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Also, why no eSATA port on the front? Seems like a bit of an oversight on a £200+ case!
Other than that, very tasty. Looking forward to the review on this puppy. Fingers crossed they will also produce one with no window!
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Nice features that will filter soon to other manufactures. The rubber over the cable holes are good.
But £200 plus for a steel case is horrible..
For they first case they should have come in cheap and hard to get attention but this will pass by with not much attention at this price.
Its up against some much nicer cases and popular ones at this price.Quote
With motherboards like the Asus Rampage II Gene (http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=18385) and 2.5" SSDs/Velociraptor's there's no need for a case this huge these days. Also who needs 5 x 5.25" drive bays in a case? Things should be getting smaller, not bigger.Quote
With motherboards like the Asus Rampage II Gene (http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=18385) and 2.5" SSDs/Velociraptor's there's no need for a case this huge these days. Also who needs 5 x 5.25" drive bays in a case? Things should be getting smaller, not bigger.
I've got a fan controller/allinone media thingy (usefully called the AKASA AllInOne), a single DVD/RW and a couple of IcyBox 3.5" hotswappable things in my tower. Only a single bay left, and I was going to replace the 2 IcyBox bays with a 4 or 5-hdd hotswappable set up, but wanted that 5th drive bay free in case I needed it in the future.
I always go for quality, large cases such as this (though there are a few quirks with it I dislike... one being that it must weight about 4 tonnes without anything in it). If you're the sort of enthusiast who just has a system in a system, then a smaller, MicroATX-based high-end system is great, but I'd imagine there are more enthusiasts who have such a high-end system and have lots bolted on to it too.
And we've not even mentioned water-cooling yet (though I'm not a great fan of that either).Quote
And we've not even mentioned water-cooling yet (though I'm not a great fan of that either).
Indeed, there's plenty of watercooling reservoirs that take up 2 of your 5 5.25" bays already. Add to that a fan controller and a couple of optical drives - whoops, drive bays gone! There's all sorts of useful things you can put in a 5.25" drive bay that *aren't* optical drives - so there's no convincing reason to not include plenty of them in a top-end enthusiast chassis...Quote
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