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[paulpicks21]

The Air 540 is certainly an interesting looking case Ryan, I found this review for you, you may have already seen it, but it gives a few good pictures of it.

Corsair Carbide Air 540 Review | bit-tech.net

Yeah it's different enit chap
I had seen that review but thanks for the link anyway

No worries mate, yeah I still find the layout weird as it is very different from the norm.

In the picture below I keep thinking where are the drive bays? then I remember how deep the case is and they are all tucked away behind it all.

Edit: and I don't know why they used an air cooler in it, as it could fit a hell of a water rad up top!

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I personally don't like that case. It wastes a lot of space, has only two 5.25" bays (I'm using three now and wouldn't mind having a fourth one), and those are shifted vertically (I had a computer with the optical drive mounted vertically and what a PITA that was!), no dust filters, and two HDD mounts on one side with the other four on the other side which are also shifted vertically (as big as that case is, they couldn't find room to mount all six together?). The darned thing looks like it was designed by a Government committee on a bender. The only thing I like is large amount of space on top that should be plenty of room for a 360mm radiator with push/pull fans, which is a moot point for me since I don't want to deal with water cooling (more maintenance and a danger of leaks).

 

[paulpicks21]

For fun I thought it would be cool to find my first ever post in the Show us your rig thread, I had to search quite a way back to show us your rig 2, and my first post was dated 29th June 2010.

I had bought a ready made PC and started changing things on it, I added a HD 5850, check out the size of this badboy and I fitted it in a Micro ATX case lol.

Things have come on quite a bit since but this is where my custom builds began.

 

[paulpicks21]

I continued looking and found a shot of the next stage on, looks like the GPU, PSU and cooler survived.

Looked a lot tidier too.

 

[ganjiry]

No worries mate, yeah I still find the layout weird as it is very different from the norm.

In the picture below I keep thinking where are the drive bays? then I remember how deep the case is and they are all tucked away behind it all.

Edit: and I don't know why they used an air cooler in it, as it could fit a hell of a water rad up top!

No i can't see why most of the review's used air cooler's either, they just chucked in some random bits n bob's enit.

For fun I thought it would be cool to find my first ever post in the Show us your rig thread, I had to search quite a way back to show us your rig 2, and my first post was dated 29th June 2010.

I had bought a ready made PC and started changing things on it, I added a HD 5850, check out the size of this badboy and I fitted it in a Micro ATX case lol.

Things have come on quite a bit since but this is where my custom builds began.

I did the same recently,well checked the old pics of my rigs progress and was shocked at the difference's. We had the same cooler which at the time i thought was really good but it didn't cool my 965be very well.

@lady Fitzgerald, You like that case a lot then It does have mounts for 2 x Hdd's and 4 or 5 ssd's plus it's rare that anyone use's optical drive's anymore but i do agree they are place oddly in that case.
One of the main reason's i like it is that the front intake fan's are a lot closer to the gpu's as the Hdd cage has been removed. I need as much air as possible going to my gpu's

 

[paulpicks21]

No worries mate, yeah I still find the layout weird as it is very different from the norm.

In the picture below I keep thinking where are the drive bays? then I remember how deep the case is and they are all tucked away behind it all.

Edit: and I don't know why they used an air cooler in it, as it could fit a hell of a water rad up top!

No i can't see why most of the review's used air cooler's either, they just chucked in some random bits n bob's enit.

For fun I thought it would be cool to find my first ever post in the Show us your rig thread, I had to search quite a way back to show us your rig 2, and my first post was dated 29th June 2010.

I had bought a ready made PC and started changing things on it, I added a HD 5850, check out the size of this badboy and I fitted it in a Micro ATX case lol.

Things have come on quite a bit since but this is where my custom builds began.

I did the same recently,well checked the old pics of my rigs progress and was shocked at the difference's. We had the same cooler which at the time i thought was really good but it didn't cool my 965be very well.

@lady Fitzgerald, You like that case a lot then It does have mounts for 2 x Hdd's and 4 or 5 ssd's plus it's rare that anyone use's optical drive's anymore but i do agree they are place oddly in that case.
One of the main reason's i like it is that the front intake fan's are a lot closer to the gpu's as the Hdd cage has been removed. I need as much air as possible going to my gpu's

There are certain things that I like a lot on the Air 540, the fact that the PSU is behind everything, well cable management will be a breeze and also the heat from the PSU will be kept away from the vital components.

I don't really see an issue with the drive bays, seeing as the PSU is behind, it's not going to be any trouble with cables to them, again if you are using HDD's the heat will be kept away from stuff.

It looks epic for rads, not just the top one, but it looks the same for the bottom, I wish a reviewer would show a decent custom water loop in that case.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

...@lady Fitzgerald, You like that case a lot then It does have mounts for 2 x Hdd's and 4 or 5 ssd's plus it's rare that anyone use's optical drive's anymore but i do agree they are place oddly in that case...

Oh yes, I just adore that case (/sarcasm). All seriousness aside, 5.25" bays get used for more than optical drives. Besides the obvious optical drive, I also have a card reader and 3.5" HDD hot swap bay. Fortunately, my case has a 2.5" hot swap bay built in or I would also need a fourth 5.25" bay. Lots of other things get put in those bays, such as fan controllers, temperature monitors, overclocking monitors, etc. Heck, some people put hidden drawers in them.

More people still use optical drives than you may think. HTPCs depend on them. Not all movies can be downloaded. Not all music is downloadable. A lot of people have huge music and movie collections that need to be ripped. And, even if one uses an optical drive less than a handful of times a year, it's just more convenient to have the built-in drive than to have to horse around with storing and connecting up an external drive.

 

[kbrady1979]

...@lady Fitzgerald, You like that case a lot then It does have mounts for 2 x Hdd's and 4 or 5 ssd's plus it's rare that anyone use's optical drive's anymore but i do agree they are place oddly in that case...

Oh yes, I just adore that case (/sarcasm). All seriousness aside, 5.25" bays get used for more than optical drives. Besides the obvious optical drive, I also have a card reader and 3.5" HDD hot swap bay. Fortunately, my case has a 2.5" hot swap bay built in or I would also need a fourth 5.25" bay. Lots of other things get put in those bays, such as fan controllers, temperature monitors, overclocking monitors, etc. Heck, some people put hidden drawers in them.

More people still use optical drives than you may think. HTPCs depend on them. Not all movies can be downloaded. Not all music is downloadable. A lot of people have huge music and movie collections that need to be ripped. And, even if one uses an optical drive less than a handful of times a year, it's just more convenient to have the built-in drive than to have to horse around with storing and connecting up an external drive.

That is the only reason I still have an optical drive. The 2-3 times a year I use it, I want it to be right here for convenience.

 

[paulpicks21]

...@lady Fitzgerald, You like that case a lot then It does have mounts for 2 x Hdd's and 4 or 5 ssd's plus it's rare that anyone use's optical drive's anymore but i do agree they are place oddly in that case...

Oh yes, I just adore that case (/sarcasm). All seriousness aside, 5.25" bays get used for more than optical drives. Besides the obvious optical drive, I also have a card reader and 3.5" HDD hot swap bay. Fortunately, my case has a 2.5" hot swap bay built in or I would also need a fourth 5.25" bay. Lots of other things get put in those bays, such as fan controllers, temperature monitors, overclocking monitors, etc. Heck, some people put hidden drawers in them.

More people still use optical drives than you may think. HTPCs depend on them. Not all movies can be downloaded. Not all music is downloadable. A lot of people have huge music and movie collections that need to be ripped. And, even if one uses an optical drive less than a handful of times a year, it's just more convenient to have the built-in drive than to have to horse around with storing and connecting up an external drive.

I guess the bottom line Lady F is we all use PC's differently, some need certain things, others don't so you look for a case that suits your needs.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

...I guess the bottom line Lady F is we all use PC's differently, some need certain things, others don't so you look for a case that suits your needs.

Prezactly.

 

[Britton30]

I use the optical drive for the initial motherboard drivers install. I also have a few gigs of backup files on CDs and DVDs.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

With well over 1500 cd's all ripped lossless and more all the time I'd be lost without my opticals.

 

[ganjiry]

Yup we all have different needs from our rig's enit. It would be pretty boring for us enthusiast's if all case's were moulded around the same design.
I too use a bay mounted card reader and an optical drive just for the os install and maybe 4 cd's per year for my mom lol. So i could just plug it in as and when i's needed.

@Paul, Yeah i think they wasted the reviews on that case as all of them just chucked in some generic hardware without experimenting with the options available. There is a build log that has been started on the rog forum's but not finished yet. I'll have to check on it's progress as i've not really mooched in any forums recently. I hae some catching up to do lol.

Edit: It wasn't a build log but someone posted their idea's for a build in it. No doubt someone will post one soon

Have a butcher's at this for unpractical but a good mod all the same http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?33424-Sponsored-Gold-Digger&p=292751#post292751

Edit 2: Here ya go Paul, In this review they test it for the fitting of different radiator's http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/07/07/corsair_carbide_series_air_540_computer_case_review/1

Edit 3 :shock: I found a decent build log with watercooling http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18527343

 

[NoN]

With well over 1500 cd's all ripped lossless and more all the time I'd be lost without my opticals.

If you paid for all of those 1500cd's it must have been profitable to you those optical drives, and the satisfaction that you have done your duty for the artists compensations.

Something to admire?:shock:

 

[linnemeyerhere]

With well over 1500 cd's all ripped lossless and more all the time I'd be lost without my opticals.

If you paid for all of those 1500cd's it must have been profitable to you those optical drives, and the satisfaction that you have done your duty for the artists compensations.

Something to admire?:shock:

Yes I'm kind of nutty that way. My record collection makes my cd collection look tiny and I have a laserdisk and DVD collection of likely 800+ movies and music. I do respect the artist's work and maybe it's left over from the vinyl days but owning the physical media has always felt rewarding to me.........I know big time old school....and don't even get me going on the sound of the various formats ! lol

 

[ToxicXGL]

Just took some picturesof my rig (finally) i have been putting this off for to long here is some eye candy, i love the top shot my self, took all these pics with the nexus 4 and i think it just looks awesome in the dark. Sucks i cant post these images here because they pass the 1 mb limit for jpegs so have a look at ImageShack ImageShack Album - 6 images

 

[Britton30]

try anyway Toxic, the forum usually makes a smaller file size on big jpg's.

 

[Dude]

, yes it will resize them.

 

[DocBrown]

I use PIXresizer (FREEware) to downsize camera images.

 

[ToxicXGL]

I think I got it