Sunday, March 11th 2018
Corsair Obsidian 1000D Leaked to Amazon
It's been a while since Corsair pushed the upper end of its Obsidian series high-end PC cases. The Obsidian 900D has held the fort since 2013, but could be getting dated in the wake of newer standards such as tempered glass, RGB lighting, newer connectors, etc. Corsair is careful not to just make a mash of glass and RGB lighting; when designing its upcoming flagship case, the Obsidian 1000D super-tower (model: CC-9011115-WW), which leaked to the web thanks to an eager Amazon listing, in which it's priced at USD $500. The Obsidian 1000D retains the "for grownups only" styling of the series, with a beautiful combination of curved tempered glass, matte black aluminium, and subtlety in the amount of RGB LED lighting elements on use. The feature-set of this full-tower will blow any high-end case out of the water.
The front, sides, and top panels are made of curved tempered glass with aluminium inserts, and enough discrete air inlets for the countless fan mounts inside. The front-panel features four USB 3.1 type-A, and two type-C ports; in addition to audio jacks. Connectors are framed by RGB lighting diffusers. The case is highly modular, and you can either choose between storage-heavy configurations, or cooling-heavy configuration that frees up room for multiple liquid cooling loops. The rear I/O can be configured to be perpendicular to the plane of the motherboard with 8+2 slots, or parallel to its plane, with 5+2 slots. You can install E-ATX and everything smaller, but longer 10-slot form-factors such as HPTX and XL-ATX are a notable exclusion.
This case is so large, that it can mount up to eight 120 mm fans along the front panel (four on each side of an inner grill), three 140 mm top exhausts, and two 120 mm rear exhausts. Its radiator support will hence be 480 mm x 120 mm front, 420 mm x 140 mm top, and 240 mm x 120 mm rear. Drive mounts include six 2.5-inch and three 3.5-inch. A Corsair Commander Pro fan- and lighting-controller comes integrated.
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clar1ty1488 (Reddit)
The front, sides, and top panels are made of curved tempered glass with aluminium inserts, and enough discrete air inlets for the countless fan mounts inside. The front-panel features four USB 3.1 type-A, and two type-C ports; in addition to audio jacks. Connectors are framed by RGB lighting diffusers. The case is highly modular, and you can either choose between storage-heavy configurations, or cooling-heavy configuration that frees up room for multiple liquid cooling loops. The rear I/O can be configured to be perpendicular to the plane of the motherboard with 8+2 slots, or parallel to its plane, with 5+2 slots. You can install E-ATX and everything smaller, but longer 10-slot form-factors such as HPTX and XL-ATX are a notable exclusion.
33 Comments on Corsair Obsidian 1000D Leaked to Amazon
It has way too much plastic which made it feel really cheap and nasty and was also very fragile.
There was not enough clearance to do the screws up that hold the GPU brackets.
The filters where always moving around as the magnetic attachments were total crap.
It has to be one of the worst designed cases ever.
Lets hope the 1000D is an improvement but I would not count on it.
This one looks meh from the outside. And this comes from a guy who loves super towers like this. Currently i'd rather go with Cooler Master C700P. Atleast that one has some style and costs nearly half less than this: www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Cooler_Master/Cosmos_C700P/
The 1000D supports server motherboards, allows the PCIe slots to rotate if you want to show off your GPUs, and has space to mount a second system running on an ITX motherboard with 2-slot GPU on top of the power supply. It's a completely different beast compared to the Cooler Master Cosmos series. Is it worth $500? Hard to say. I've never been in the market for a case that cost anywhere near that much. But it's a LOT more case than the $299 Cosmos offers.
However i have to disagree on the motherboard part. C700P also supports E-ATX boards (wich in context are not exclusively server boards). Also supports vertical GPU (trough add in module). However C700P has other advantages like rotating the tray to BTX layout instead or the fact the the motherboard tray is removable wich allows one to use it as an open air test bench instead.
I also can't imagine many folks are buying $300 cases just to pull the motherboard tray out and use it as a test bench. Good for Cooler Master for adding the functionality though.
900D? Costs about the same for so much less case (and much less pretty as well, IMO).
Enthoo elite? Costs even more while being smaller.
TJ07/TJ11? Much closer, but they're old designs (5.25" bays in 2018?!), and the TJ07 in particular requires modding before you get to bolt in your 480mm at all. AND they cost 500+!
Caselabs/MountainMods? you could build the second system in the 1000D using just leftovers from not buying a 1000D equivalent case from them...
Thermaltake? The View 91 is nice, but at the same price not worth it IMO. The Core W100 is the real competition: It's cheaper, but you give up the second system option, and lose out room for one of the 480mms. It also uses the good ol' 5.25" bay conversion approach like the Caselabs case, which I'm not the biggest fan of these days thanks to having the NAS connected to the desktop at 40G...
The choices are really few and far between once you go past 280-420mm rads, and it kinda sucks.