Corsair Carbide SPEC-04 Mid-Tower Gaming PC Case Review

The budget package Corsair offers a lot for the price.

A modern and elegant design highlights the Corsair SPEC-04 Carbide. It has everything you expect for a case and it does so at a very affordable price: less than $ 50 USD. It is light, spacious and extremely elegant. It also comes with everything that is needed, including a wide margin of maneuver for four hard and more.

Characteristics

• Dimensions (mm) 201 x 492 x 433 (W x D x H)

• Material Steel, plastic

• Available colors Black / gray, Black / Red, Black / Yellow

• Weight 4.2 kg

• Front Panel Power, Reset, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0

• Cones 3 x 3.5 "/2.5", 2 x 2.5 "

• Form Factor (s) ATX, micro-ATX, mini-ITX

• Front cooling fan brackets 2 x 140mm / 120mm (1 x 120 mm LED fan included), 1 140 mm / 120 mm rear fan bracket, 2 x 120 mm roof fan brackets (fans not included)

• Cooling rate of CPU 150mm

• Maximum length of graphics card 370mm

• Extras Removable dust filters

The housing is also easy to install, it has a side window and good air filtering. It also has room for many things it does not include, as additional fans.

It is true: it is a unique helmet. With the SPEC-04, there is a fan located at the front. While the rear cooling is massively superior and as more fans are ideal for running a high-end machine, it's clearly a stylistic approach: it's the LED's and the lights.

This sounds good, although not as efficient as one would like, working warmer than the ideal for high end equipment.

You can (and should!) Install additional fans and fans are very inexpensive to acquire, so it's not too much sacrifice since the case itself is already very affordable.

The interior is a standard ATX layout with support for micro-ATX and mini-ITX. There is no optical drive bay, but it's also 2017: you probably do not need a DVD or Blu-ray drive and if you insist on getting one, the external versions do the job .

However, one place where it falls inside is the cable management. Inside, there is limited space around the motherboard and the CPU power cable becomes obscured by the motherboard.

This is not extraordinarily compromised, but better design is expected of companies like Corsair despite the affordability of the case.

Yet at the end of the day, this is a case of aggressive style. It is also surprisingly cheap. This is not a high end case for a rich gambler.

It is a budgetary case that offers style to those who would otherwise sacrifice it. You can not always have your cake and eat it too, but with SPEC-04, you can at least have crumbs to enjoy.

The SPEC-04 Carbide is an incredible economic deal for gaming platforms; It is simply not a total flight because its disadvantages are perceptible as much in the quality of the cooling as in the optimization of the cables.

In other words, if you have a budget, it's your savior. If you are building a medium to high-quality gaming platform, access a high-end casing such as Corsair's 270R.