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Corsair Air 240 micro atx case

1quickchic

This is my first review here on ltt, I've been surfing for a bit and want to try your give back to the community and to the show, so I hope you guys like it.

I chose the corsair Air 240 to build my media pc for my living room. I chose this case primarily for its looks but size, cooling potential, and the overall features made me make the decision. This case was in compition with the node 804 from fractal design, as their price was real close, but I ultimate chose the corsair because I could have it sitting with the window facing up. I believe overall the node is a better case considering the cooling capacity and filtration but none the less I chose the corsair. Overall I am happy, this is the first micro atx build I have done and took my time to make it clean. The case has fantastic ventilation and I was really surprised how much I could cram in it. The current parts that are in it as far as hardware and fans are concerned are as listed.

Asrock h97 pro 4 mb

Intel g3258

Evga 750ti (atx cooler)

8gqb corsair ram

H105 corsair liquid cooler configured as push/pull (4 fans)

8 120mm fans total including the H105

Corsair 750w semi mod psu (soon the be replaced with a mod 500psu from corsair)

Kingston 120gb ssd

Samsung/Seagate 1tb convential 2.5 drive.

Everything fits and runs super cold! CPU is clocked @4.8 stable with an idle of 29-32c and a load temp of 56-62c all via Aida64

So far it is blistering fast, much faster then I thought it would be, I have used it so far for movies, YouTube, Hulu, music, as well as some gaming which includes a few emulators (snes, n64,mame) as well as a couple steam arcade game and it hasn't flinched! So far it's done all I wanted it to do, in the future I want to mod the case a little to flush install all m emulator game controller adaptors so I don't have the hanging off it..

Not for cons, some of the paneling is a pair and we'll it's plastic, also filters are not easily removable being the are screwed to the panels, imo there was enough room on this case to make proper filters, and for the price it just doesn't make sense to me. Honestly this should be more like 69.00 case

But as said earlier airflow is fantastic, and because of which the fans are running 800-1200rpm so it is very quiet.

So in closing my review, I was a Lil bit disappointed in the case because of the cost/value which could have been fixed with better filtration, and some metal paneling.

But overall I am still satisfied, it is small, has ample cooling, wasn't to difficult to build, has a look I wanted, and a huge window that I can point up.

So 4 out of 5 for me

I hope everyone likes my review and find it helpful!! And I'll try to snap some pics!

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