Hands-on with Corsair's 2500D Airflow case: Roomy at the back, for rear-connector motherboard cables

[Admin]

But big for Micro ATX, and expensive with accessories.

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[JamesLahey]

Anyone else feel like Corsair has lost that special edge?

Ever since the company sold - I think it was a venture capital group that bought it - I haven’t seen products that really wow.

I know that they compete in so many segments that it’s hard to be tops all the time, but there was a time when I could basically pick any upper-mid Corsair product and it would be generally performing at the top of its class and was always aesthetically appealing.

 

[Notton]

Anyone else feel like Corsair has lost that special edge?

Nah, they never had anything particularly interesting for at least a decade.
What they were good at was availability.

Their cases have been average from the start. They usually oversize it to compensate for any airflow design flaws.
Their maglev fans have bearings that are trash.
Their AIO/CLC are decent, but they're kind of expensive for what they do.
Their keyboards had an edge in a sense. Their earlier designs had folded aluminum mount plates that were oversized and it had very sharp corners and edges.
Their mouse were never good
Their wireless headsets were good for a time, but they never bothered to improve it so now they are just average.
Their RAM and SSD lineup has good availability, but prices are premium and quality varies.
Their PSUs are great, but they like to skimp on the fan.
Their prebuilts are okay, just like other brands that offer prebuilts.

I think their Xeneon Flex monitor is their most interesting product, but it's so expensive.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

For the graphics card, I used a Gigabyte RX 7700 XT, and nearly any card should fit in this case, as there are 15.75 inches of clearance and four slots available. Vertical mounting is also supported, but again, you'll need to buy a $70 accessory with a bracket and PCIe cable to put your graphics card on full display here.

Think you need to asterisk that if you are mounting vertically, it doesn't look like any GPU with more than two fans will fit.

 

[islandwalker]

Think you need to asterisk that if you are mounting vertically, it doesn't look like any GPU with more than two fans will fit.

Corsair didn't send the vertical kit, so there's no way for me to actually test that. But the kit has four slots. And if you are referencing the side fans in front of the GPU in the image above, they are on the back of the case, behind /below the motherboard area. They aren't going to cause any physical interference. Could mess with the airflow on that lower fan.

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-...eries-vertical-gpu-mount-kit-white-cc-8900707

But really, if you're going with a vertical GPU setup in this case, especially if you're using the glass-fronted X model in the image above, you're probably going to want to rely mostly on bottom-to-top airflow anyway.

 

[Phaaze88]

But big for Micro ATX, and expensive with accessories.

'But'?
Did you mean 'Bit'?

 

[JasonovichClone]

It seems they're all following Lian Li O11 fish tank look, no bad thing. I had the Lian Li O11 D before switching to NZXT H9 Flow. I'm not sure I like the Corsair mesh look but I do think Corsairs 6500x fish tank ticks all the right boxes.

 

[Vanderlindemedia]

I like the case. nice and industrial, large. It has something to offer.

 

[RandomWan]

I think their Xeneon Flex monitor is their most interesting product, but it's so expensive.

Literally their least interesting product. An oversized 3440x1440 monitor, married to a desktop base, with manual adjustments for the flex. The pixel density is terrible, the base requires you to sacrifice desktop real estate to it, and most people will stop bothering with changing the curvature after the newness of the gimmick wears off.