Test System

Assembly

Installing a motherboard is done by traditional means, with the pre-installed spacers and supplied screws. There is a little space above the board for cable routing, while the bottom edge sits right on the metal shroud. Thanks to some well-placed openings on this cover, you can easily route cables to this part of the motherboard as well.


Adding an SSD is pretty straightforward. Simply take off the metal tray, screw a drive to it, and put it back into place. Corsair employs the same trays we have seen across the market with a lot of cases, and it is perfectly simple but functional - there is really no need to reinvent the wheel here anyways.


The 3.5" trays, on the other hand, are completely tool-less. Just snap the drive into place and slide the whole contraption back in. Intentional tension at the end of the tray will clip and hold it within the metal HDD cage, and there is plenty of space for cables and connectors.


Installing a PSU was a bit tight, as expected. The unit used in this review is marketed as a 150 mm model and barely slides in because of the default HDD cage placement. This isn't really due to the available depth as there is plenty of space. Instead, the actual frame gets in the way of inserting the PSU. That said, it looks like you can fit 180 mm as advertised as the maximum distance between the back wall and HDD cage is 200 mm, but you will have to take out the cage completely temporarily to get the wiggle room to put it into place.


With everything installed, the Corsair iCUE 220T RGB makes a nice and clean impression, as we would expect from any modern chassis. Thanks to the numerous hooks, the backside of the motherboard actually looks quite organized as well.

Finished Looks

Once powered on, the RGB fans inside the chassis light up the front quite nicely, and you can see there is plenty of room for the units to draw cool air in through the sides and the front of the case. A white LED illuminates the power button to let you know the system is up and running, As the SP RGB PRO fans come with addressable RGBs, you may play around with the colors and effects, directly in the iCUE software in Windows.


When viewed from the windowed side, you can clearly see all the hardware within the chassis thanks to the clear glass panel. In the rear, everything is where you would expect it to be in a modern mid-tower enclosure.