Obsidian 650d USB problem / case advice

[War Desu Bull]

Ok first off, hi to everyone, I'm new and this is my first post.

 

I was looking for a case upgrade since the one that I bought some months ago when building the pc is waaaay too cheap (36€, I'm not even gonna tell you the mess there's inside it). Since the components inside it are not cheap nor so much low-end I was looking around for a case that would fit them fine AND that looks good.

I was going with the 650d when I saw that awful usb 3 connector. Is that case still crippled by that feature? Has Corsair upgraded it with an internal header yet?

 

If not, I guess I will move onto another case but then again, which one?

 

Here are my choices and I was asking you for a little advice (keep in mind I have a limited budget, around 150€ not more):

 

Corsair Graphite 600t

Corsair Carbide air540 (even if I don't like the form factor that much)

Antec Twelvehundred

 

or... what?

 

Thank you all in advance

[airdeano]

welcome to the LinusTechTips forum,

 

well the 650D and 600t use the same front panel i/o for USB 3.0, the cable

pass-through idea. not a real problem, Silverstone has the answer.. LINKY

 

Fractal Design R4 or Arc Midi are usually way under the price in budget. and

use the standard USB 3.0 mobo header.

 

again welcome and enjoy LinusTechTips forums

 

airdeano

[Biased Opinion]

welcome to the LinusTechTips forum,

 

well the 650D and 600t use the same front panel i/o for USB 3.0, the cable

pass-through idea. not a real problem, Silverstone has the answer.. LINKY

 

Fractal Design R4 or Arc Midi are usually way under the price in budget. and

use the standard USB 3.0 mobo header.

 

again welcome and enjoy LinusTechTips forums

 

airdeano

bit fenix also make one of those things as well so silverstone is not your only option

[Nit3Rid3R]

The Corsair Carbide air540 is a very good choice, it makes builds look very clean, it's very easy to build in them, it has 1 downside however, they only give you 2 HDD bays at the bottom, which I don't think is enough for anyone (Unless you get 2 x 4TB drives). Other than that this case is overall perfect, watercooling and air cooling both work extremely well.

[Willson94]

I just bought this for my 650D.
Easy enough to manage at the back, if the R4 was out when I bought my 650D I'd have it though cheaper, usb3 header and better window placement. 

[War Desu Bull]

Hm so I guess I will have to deal with it and buy an adaptor... and unfortunately they don't sell the R4 windowed version here in italy

what about the Vengeance C70? It's my last choice but I don't know if it is big enough, seems like the cable management grommets are very few.