Corsair CC-9011077-WW Carbide Series 100R Silent Mid-Tower ATX Computer Case - Black

As per usual my review will be split into Quick and Detailed...Quick ReviewPros- Good brand- Fair price- Lightweight- Looks good- Really quiet- Enough HDD / SSD space for most people (4 bays)- 2 Optical bays- 2 Cooling fans included and are controllable (low / medium / high) via a small switch on rear- Plenty of included screws and cable ties- Thumb screw case opening- Tool-less HDD mountingCONS- Rear of hard drive cage has very little clearance for power and sata cables- USB 3 ports on front not compatible with older motherboards no option for USB 2 connectivity- Not a massive amount of room in generalDetailed ReviewNeeded a new case as the old Cooler Master case I was using was turning into a rattling mess that was driving me mad with vibration noise and being a fan of Corsair memory products I thought I would give this case a try given it was marketed as being silent.First impressions of the case were that it looked pretty good I had ordered the non windowed version as I am not very good at cable management and didn't want to look in at a rat's nest of cables. Came with a multi language instruction book which wasn't bad but could have included a few tips on cable management and several bags of mixed sized screws for things such as mounting SSD drives to the hard drive caddy trays, additional cooling fan screws, motherboard screws etc so plenty left for spare.The case has motherboard risers already installed and I only had to move one to get my board installed. PSU (power supply) slid in well and a lot easier / better than my previous case although new to me is having the PSU at the bottom of the case which actually makes a lot of sense. There is a air vent with dust filter built into the bottom of the case under where the power supply is to vent hot air from the PSU out of the case which is a nice touch.The case comes with two Corsair branded fans one at the rear and another at the front. The case comes with a power connector for the fans which then branch of into several 3 pin extensions for additional fans if you want more. The fans are controllable via a switch on the rear of the case for low, medium and high which again I thought was another nice touch.Case has a hard drive caddy system which seems to be standard on cases these days and there was room for 4 drives either standard HDDs or SSDs. Storage drives are attached to plastic trays which slide in and out of the caddy and normal HDDs are tool-less and the tray snaps on to the screw hole mounting points but SSDs are attached via 4 included small screws. The drive caddy was one place I wasn't overly keen on as all connectors on the drives are at the back of the caddy and for someone like me that has full sized (not flat) power supply cables it was a very snug fit between the connectors / cables on the hard drives and the side of the case and it involved some considerable folding and tucking of cables but eventually got it all to fit.As I have already said I am not much good at cable management but eventually managed to hide the bulk of the spare power supply cables in the 2 slot optical drive bays as I don't have optical drives (DVD / Blu Ray) and the rest in the forth HDD slot (only used three of the bays for drives).My system is getting on a bit in age but it does have USB 3.0 support and ports but on the actual motherboard itself there is only connectors for USB 2.0 and the connector that came with the case for the two USB ports on the front is for something that was not on my motherboard which is a shame as there was no option to just run the ports at the lower speed but I imagine for most people buying this case will be for a new machine build so you will probably be ok with a brand new motherboard.There is sound proofing material on the inside top of the case and also on both sides. This case really is ultra quiet even with the fan control set to high it really is very impressive.Apart from the couple of niggles mentioned above I am very impressed with the case and especially at this price point and I think it's excellent value for money. If you are looking for some crazy gaming case with RGB lights and all that carry on then I don't think this is for you but for anyone else that is in the market for a full sized ATX case that does a great job at being quiet and looks pretty good without being in your face then look no further.Very happy with the purchase and would recommend

I bought this case for my first pc build, the components were fairly low end but still powerful enough to play most games at 1080p with the detail at low to medium and get reasonable framerates. I had an i5 4440 and a gtx 750ti chucking out most the the heat in the case but these were fairly low power components so I thought it acceptable to leave the case with the 1 exaust fan for now. While building the pc I came across a couple of issues, firstly there is limited cable management space at the back, I am sure it would be ample for an experienced builder but my inexperience left the right side panel bulging slightly, secondly I wanted to move the fan that is provided to the front of the case to act as an intake so it would be positive pressure but couldn't for the life of me work out how to mount it as the screws wouldn't fit (again, this could be down to stupidity).This year I decided to upgrade my hardware in a big way as I wanted to get an htc vive. It started with an i5 6600k, I know this is slightly over the top for gaming but I do quite a lot of video editing so I thought the extra cost worth it for overclocking (did however fail to by an unlocked motherboard, another example of my stupidity) and as I wanted to overclock I decided the stock intel heatsink wouldn't sufice so I got a coolermaster hyper t3 which fits in the case "hooray". I then got a msi gaming gtx 1070 and at that point decided I needed more cooling and as the case said it supported a 140mm fan bought a noctua nfa 14. I initialy tried to mount it inside the frame at the front but it quickly became apparent that it wouldn't fit as the optical drive rack is blocking two of the mounting holes. I then decided to mount it between the front shroud and the frame (just something to note, before removing the front shroud remove any optical drives that are installed, I didn't initally and manged to damage my optical drive) the front shroud isn't mounted in the most sophisticated manner either, six plastic squeezy pins that require quite alot of force to get the front off, hence the damaged optical drive. The fan fit here, if only just and I reassembled my pc and turned it on, no problem, all working, great. It was a week later when I was playing a particularly demanding game, crysis 3 I think that I noticed heat radiating off my case, I turned off the game opened my side panel and sure enough I could have cooked christmas dinner in there. Wondering why, I put my hand in to feel for airflow and there was very little coming from my intake fan so I opened up the whole pc and took off the front shroud to try and work out why. My lack of airflow was because there was too little space between the frame and the shroud so it couldn't get enough air. So I decided to move the fan but there were no other 140mm mounting points so this was where I had to get creative, I removed the hard-drive rack and joy of joys there was room to mount a 140mm fan inside the case so I line the fan up and put the long srews provided through the fan and discover they don't reach the screw holes on the frame as it is pressed out. Then I remember the rubber mounting things that came with the noctua fan and try to use them, unfortunately these hole are to small for both the rubber mounting thing and the srews that came with the fan. I then decide to screw the screws in from the front which might be enough to hold the fan in-place, it wasn't so in the end I resorted to using some string to hold it steady, I am happy to report that this is working well. During the fan mounting I had forgotten about my hard-drive and ssd which no longer had a rack to sit in, and there are no other ways to mount the rack so they now sit on the bottom of the case in there sleds which works for now but I have a new case on the way.In summary then this case is fine, it served me well as an entry level case and did everything it said on the tin. The problems I've had with it are probably quite unique and completly avoidable on my part but some of the flaws with this case could easily have been fixed with some thought from corsair, slightly more cable management space, and not using proprietary mount holes for fans.