This is easily the most well thought out case I've ever had. Loads of thoughtful features and configuration options. You can even take off the door to the back of the motherboard (if you have better cable management skills than me and want to show them off). It comes with a cable shroud if you don't want to use the side fans, and just overall has tonnes of room. And zero complaints on the quality of the construction.
I many got this case for the cable management features and the inclusion of the vertical GPU mount position. Both are great, cables look okay as they can given how much is crammed back there, it still looks like chaos but its at least organised chaos and the door still closes!
My only niggles:
The vertical GPU mount works pretty great but it does leave VERY LITTLE wiggle room with the bottom/side of the card only a few mm from touching the glass. If you have a larger shroud on your card it might not fit at all. But also this has an impact on thermals with my GPU sitting at 77c under 100% load when it was previously 72c when mounted horizontally. The few mm clearance is clearly having an impact on the airflow. This doesn't bother me too much right now but if it becomes a problem I could look to get an adaptor to convert the horizontal expansion slots to vertical ones and mount it there instead, bringing it in from the window. The only way corsair could've solved this is by making the case wider, but it's already a chungus so I'm glad they didn't.
120mm Fans look a bit too small on the front. I'd recommend picking up some 140mm ones if you can as the front panel has room for them, and then move the included ones to the top or sides.
Speaking of the fans, the included corsair ones kind of suck for RGB. They just don't get as bright and vivid as the Antec fans I have and the colours seem off. Corsairs RGB pins are also non-standard and specific to corsair which threw a temporary spanner in the works when I came to plug everything in to my Razer RGB controller. For now I'm using the included ICUE controller AND my Razer controller in tandem, and when I get some 140mm ARGB fans for the front, i'll be ditching the corsair ones altogether along with their controller.
All minor things considering how brilliant the case is overall so I'm not even going to bother deducting a star.
| Brand | Corsair |
|---|---|
| Product Dimensions | 52 x 24.5 x 52.1 cm; 14.1 kg |
| Item model number | CC-9011233-WW |
| Manufacturer | Corsair |
| Series | iCUE 5000X RGB QL Edition |
| Colour | True White - QL Edition |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 1 |
| Voltage | 28 Volts |
| Hardware Platform | Not machine specific |
| Are Batteries Included | No |
| Item Weight | 14.1 kg |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
