Corsair Vengeance C70 Review
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Goldskis45
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Like... but not window... destroys the case and puts it in the "I will never buy this" category... never, ever, ever have fan mounts on a window... it completely defeats the purpose... and adds an ugly factor...
Awesome video review of case, this is the most thorough review of a case I have ever seen.
Usually you read short reviews, and the issues you mention, one doesn't find out about until after buying the case.
One of the unique things you brought up was ventillation of the hard drive cage, I too do not see how that is adequate to pull air across the HD's, or create sufficient vacuum to pull air outside of the case in from the front with the fan placement, looks like whats happening is that the fans on the HD cages are just recirculating case air, not pulling in fresh air from the front panel. This is a design flaw. Anandtech's review said the case ran warm, and i can see from your more thorough review why they came to that conclusion.
The other design flaws are obviously the radiators, how it would be near impossible to put them in the case what with the limited clearances in the HD area, or the bottom due to the cut out for the power supply cables being so far away from it.
While serious design mistakes like the window ventillation holes we can see (that is FUGLY), its the details like HD cage vents, the loose and poorly designed rentention mechanisms for the fan filters, the impossibility of putting in liquid coolers, that make your video more valuable than any others i've seen.
If Corsair can fix some issues it does look like a winner, they have a good concept, just not well executed.
Usually you read short reviews, and the issues you mention, one doesn't find out about until after buying the case.
One of the unique things you brought up was ventillation of the hard drive cage, I too do not see how that is adequate to pull air across the HD's, or create sufficient vacuum to pull air outside of the case in from the front with the fan placement, looks like whats happening is that the fans on the HD cages are just recirculating case air, not pulling in fresh air from the front panel. This is a design flaw. Anandtech's review said the case ran warm, and i can see from your more thorough review why they came to that conclusion.
The other design flaws are obviously the radiators, how it would be near impossible to put them in the case what with the limited clearances in the HD area, or the bottom due to the cut out for the power supply cables being so far away from it.
While serious design mistakes like the window ventillation holes we can see (that is FUGLY), its the details like HD cage vents, the loose and poorly designed rentention mechanisms for the fan filters, the impossibility of putting in liquid coolers, that make your video more valuable than any others i've seen.
If Corsair can fix some issues it does look like a winner, they have a good concept, just not well executed.
caveman59847
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Weigh on on Corsair C70
I have been very impressed with this case so far. I really like the way the Cable management is layed out, It is so easy to hide all of my cables. The Grommets work great and I think it has great support for many differnet fans and their placements. I recently added a Corsair Hydro Series H100i and the Radiator fit was good and the placement works, so far I am getting great cooling. The only think I did not like is the HDD Activity monitor on the front but that was easily fixed by disconnecting the wire and putting a plastic nut to insure it does not come in contact with anything. The Corsair fans push a lot of air but are a little on the noisy side so I put in 7 Noctua 120mm 1200/1500RPM Focused Fans which cool just as well and are super quite.
I have been very impressed with this case so far. I really like the way the Cable management is layed out, It is so easy to hide all of my cables. The Grommets work great and I think it has great support for many differnet fans and their placements. I recently added a Corsair Hydro Series H100i and the Radiator fit was good and the placement works, so far I am getting great cooling. The only think I did not like is the HDD Activity monitor on the front but that was easily fixed by disconnecting the wire and putting a plastic nut to insure it does not come in contact with anything. The Corsair fans push a lot of air but are a little on the noisy side so I put in 7 Noctua 120mm 1200/1500RPM Focused Fans which cool just as well and are super quite.
Awesome
I picked up this case in green for £75 on Amazon as a "nearly new" return. It is awesome. I'd have chosen the black one if it had been available at the same price but I have grown to like the green. A couple of shell casings placed on top would complete the ammo box look
The simple but effective cover latches enable very easy access to be able to swap out high capacity drives used for backups - there's far too much storage to back up to optical media!
I have the ASUS Z9PA-D8 dual 2011 socket Xeon motherboard with 2 x E5-2620v2 6-core processors and the case window would allow me to read the status codes on the 2-digit numeric display if it were not perforated by the ugly and pointless vent holes and mounts.
Rather than going for the water-cooled option, I have gone for the silent air cooled approach, using Noctua tower coolers and no fewer than 4 additional Noctua fans, all of which run silently in the 400 to 450 RPM range - by far the quietest computer I have ever had! I use the rear and 2 top vent positions for exhaust (since hot air rises anyway) and the central bottom position for inlet, since the case has dust filters in the bottom. I found the standard Corsair fans too noisy and the drive bay positioning ineffective - they could only recirculate air. They are not needed there anyway as the wattage of modern drives is very low. The fans on the tower coolers and the third on the rear line up nicely to eject the warmed air from the processors.
I have 2 Icy Dock 6-disk hot swap drive bays in 2 of the optical bays which add to the industrial feel. The 12 drives are connected to a pair of LSI MegaRaid cards and the case is just the right size for the 30cm fanout SAS to SATA cables to sit nicely. These cards have loads of status LEDs so if you want a light show as the system actually does work, you get it through the window from these cards :biggrin1:
The down side was that the bottom mounted power supply and the top positioned power connectors on the motherboard (an extra 8-way connector per processor on this server grade board) were too far apart and I needed to buy extension cables, which delayed my build. However, the cable management keeps it all tidy and I have used cable ties to ensure that the joined cables can't come adrift.
I'm running ESXi 5.5 as the base OS on this system - it's an all-in-one video-editing workstation, file server, web server and sandbox for playing. I'm still working on it and improving it - and there's pain and testing along the way - but this is a very capable computer - much more than a PC - and frankly the robust and spacious case is a very important part of it.
I picked up this case in green for £75 on Amazon as a "nearly new" return. It is awesome. I'd have chosen the black one if it had been available at the same price but I have grown to like the green. A couple of shell casings placed on top would complete the ammo box look
The simple but effective cover latches enable very easy access to be able to swap out high capacity drives used for backups - there's far too much storage to back up to optical media!
I have the ASUS Z9PA-D8 dual 2011 socket Xeon motherboard with 2 x E5-2620v2 6-core processors and the case window would allow me to read the status codes on the 2-digit numeric display if it were not perforated by the ugly and pointless vent holes and mounts.
Rather than going for the water-cooled option, I have gone for the silent air cooled approach, using Noctua tower coolers and no fewer than 4 additional Noctua fans, all of which run silently in the 400 to 450 RPM range - by far the quietest computer I have ever had! I use the rear and 2 top vent positions for exhaust (since hot air rises anyway) and the central bottom position for inlet, since the case has dust filters in the bottom. I found the standard Corsair fans too noisy and the drive bay positioning ineffective - they could only recirculate air. They are not needed there anyway as the wattage of modern drives is very low. The fans on the tower coolers and the third on the rear line up nicely to eject the warmed air from the processors.
I have 2 Icy Dock 6-disk hot swap drive bays in 2 of the optical bays which add to the industrial feel. The 12 drives are connected to a pair of LSI MegaRaid cards and the case is just the right size for the 30cm fanout SAS to SATA cables to sit nicely. These cards have loads of status LEDs so if you want a light show as the system actually does work, you get it through the window from these cards :biggrin1:
The down side was that the bottom mounted power supply and the top positioned power connectors on the motherboard (an extra 8-way connector per processor on this server grade board) were too far apart and I needed to buy extension cables, which delayed my build. However, the cable management keeps it all tidy and I have used cable ties to ensure that the joined cables can't come adrift.
I'm running ESXi 5.5 as the base OS on this system - it's an all-in-one video-editing workstation, file server, web server and sandbox for playing. I'm still working on it and improving it - and there's pain and testing along the way - but this is a very capable computer - much more than a PC - and frankly the robust and spacious case is a very important part of it.
