Corsair launches 3 New Carbide Series Cases- Meet the Spec Gaming Series

[WYP]

Corsair, designer and supplier of many performance PC components on the market, has today announced their Carbide SPEC series of gaming cases.

The Spec Series will be Corsair's Entry level Gaming Cases and will be available in 3 models, the SPEC-01, SPEC-02, and SPEC-03, and will cost between $50 and $60. As Corsair say themselves the SPEC range will offer "everything gamers need from a case and nothing they don't", so we should expect great airflow, build quality and the ability to use a long graphics card, but do not expect anything too fancy, this is a budget case after all.

All these cases from Corsair are ATX mid-Tower cases offer tool free assembly, filtered intakes, a side panel window and and a two year warranty. The SPEC-01 (above left) is the lowest end offering, costing $49.99 it offers the bare minimum required for a gaming system today, 4 3.5"/2.5" drive bays for storage, 2 5.25" drive bays for anyone still using optical media and a Clear Acrylic window so the user can see his or her components.

For an extra $10 the SPEC-02 (above middle) and SPEC-03 (above right) offer a little more for your money, apart from generally more pleasing aesthetics, it provides you an additional front USB 3.0 port (two total), separate 3.5" and 2.5" storage, a tinted window, additional fan/fans and fan colour options. The Spec-02 and the SPEC-03 only differ in their available fans and front panel shapes. Full specs can be seen below.

The Carbide SPEC series, while they do not have the same "premium features" that many of us have came to expect from corsair, they bring a great value to their current range of cases. This range of Cases will become available at some point in April.

What do you guys think of Corsair's budget offering? Is there anything that you guys would change? Please comment below.

Source - Corsair

 

[remember300]

thats awesome having great cases at a good price

i dunno why but even though its the cheapest i like the look of the left one most

 

[chrismjurd]

might just be me but the front panel(s) are really not nice, dont like it at all.

 

[maniac]

the first looks good, the second gets a 'meh' award from me, the third looks way too much like the HAF series for my tastes...

 

[SieB]

Not to keen on these, the front panels look like Bane's mask from Batman.

 

[Edge]

I'm not convinced on the front panels, but nice to see some new contenders for entry-level systems. I'd consider one of these to replace my CM Elite 330 if they fixed those hideous grills!

 

[notcool]

Atleast they don't have side-fan mounts. Most of the more budget "gaming" cases have them and it's tacky, these don't look too bad for the price.

 

[barnsley]

The Silverstone RL04B is still the main budget case to go for in my opinion as this is too much for what I'd call a restricted budget build.

Still looks kinda cool, its probably designed to go against cases like the Zalman Z11 judging by price.

 

[Conchubair]

when i saw that video earlier there was so much hate against it... i think those people just dont understand that theyre not cases aimed at the enthusiast market, but rather at the people who buy the cheaper zalman cases (i know some of those). The suggestions that i saw saying it would "ruin" Corsair are gas to be honest.

personally i like the SPEC02. the SPEC01's front panel is a bit silly with the curved bit and the SPEC03 has too much going on. nice to see more competition in the budget end of the case market, now we just need NXZT to bring some out!

 

[SeanAngelo]

im eyeballing the spec 02, looks simple

 

[SeekaX]

those are very ugly. urgh. that's worse than coolermaster.

 

[Wraith]

The Spec-2 is about the only one I'd look at but it needs Spec-1s side panel and it's the wrong colour.

I need it to look like this.

 

[Ciric]

Damm Corsair, stop hurting my eyes.

You make such good looking cases, and then you make this crap.
Entry-level doesn't have to equal tacky and ugly!

 

[tinytomlogan]

We have a spec1 and 3 review done but technically not allowed to show them till stock lands.

Front may be marmite but for the price.......

The Spec-2 is about the only one I'd look at but it needs Spec-1s side panel and it's the wrong colour.

I need it to look like this.

may add that to the video

 

[Wraith]

We have a spec1 and 3 review done but technically not allowed to show them till stock lands.

Front may be marmite but for the price.......

I'd really need to see the interior fully before I made a decision the video shows little on cable management, all I know is that it'll need a PSU shroud to fit out the whole base including hiding the HDDs, loose the optical bay, some clever cable work and lastly spray the case white.

Yes it's a budget block but it could be modded to be much more.

 

[iiBetrayforAR]

Wow, a departure from the usual boring Corsair look, but it looks bad IMHO lol.

 

[remember300]

people who say they hate it, don't buy it simples, i dont like alot of the zalman cases but i like these its nice to break away from the norm, what's wrong with getting a new fan base and allowing people with a smaller case budget to get some corsair quality?

Yes i admit they could do a few variants but im glad to not have side fan mounts ... if anything in my opinion mess with the thermo air properties by creating vortices, around the cards inside trapping heat if used as an intake and when used to pull out they take some of the cool air away from the rising system leaving hot air nearer the top ... im sure people would disagree with me but anyways.

the only gripe i have is the top fan mounts are a little far back and i wonder if putting a h100 or something in there if they would catch on the exhaust?

Anyways i like them and thank corsair for more range which is never a bad thing

 

[SeekaX]

people who say they hate it, don't buy it simples, i dont like alot of the zalman cases but i like these its nice to break away from the norm, what's wrong with getting a new fan base and allowing people with a smaller case budget to get some corsair quality?

Yes i admit they could do a few variants but im glad to not have side fan mounts ... if anything in my opinion mess with the thermo air properties by creating vortices, around the cards inside trapping heat if used as an intake and when used to pull out they take some of the cool air away from the rising system leaving hot air nearer the top ... im sure people would disagree with me but anyways.

the only gripe i have is the top fan mounts are a little far back and i wonder if putting a h100 or something in there if they would catch on the exhaust?

Anyways i like them and thank corsair for more range which is never a bad thing

the cases aren't bad, they just look hideous.

 

[remember300]

haha fair enough, i don't mind them tbh still love my C70 tho which some may people also not like.

 

[SeekaX]

haha fair enough, i don't mind them tbh still love my C70 tho which some may people also not like.

i like the looks of the c70, but these cases just look like they are supposed to be filled with a lot of LED fans and then sold to 12 year olds who love anything that lights up like a christmas tree.