Corsair Air 5400
Corsair will launch its Air 5400, which is an airflow-targeted case. On the again facet of the case is a huge gap, which {couples} with a front-mounted radiator that may permit the case to shove air straight out of it. This design permits it to focus air circulation for the GPU completely from its personal set of followers on the backside of the case.
That is most likely probably the most attention-grabbing case from Corsair we noticed at Computex this yr. It must be round $220, although that’s depending on the everchanging tariff state of affairs.
Internally, the Air 5400 has a duct on the backside the place the case has 3x120mm followers (the whole case is definitely set as much as help all 120mm followers, which simplifies issues). The duct is there to information air into the GPU. Corsair claims that the case is getting a couple of 1-2 diploma enchancment with the duct in a like-for-like check.
Should you do find yourself with a entrance radiator, then a possible space that will get deserted by way of airflow is likely to be across the VRM space and a few of the board elements like system reminiscence.
There are mounts for followers up on high of the case together with a further duct.
Trying in the back of the case, there are 2 holes on the again, which is shocking for a 120mm fan. The spacing doesn’t appear like it will match a 120mm fan, however Corsair’s plan is to incorporate a bracket that will adapt a 120mm fan right here and would truly reduce out into the glass space on the again, which might make you lose about 40% of the fan. This could assist however raises some questions on whether or not it might trigger acoustic points if you partially blast air right into a glass wall.
Talking of glass, the Air 5400’s glass is laminated. A pair corporations are doing this now. Corsair says this helps the glass keep extra put collectively to forestall shattering.
Trying on the again facet panel, there’s an enormous acrylic sheet coupled with an space the place air can escape.
Opening up the again panel, there’s an enormous quantity of cable-management depth. You can too see that the motherboard tray is punctured all the method by. This causes issues round structural rigidity, however Corsair is utilizing a .8mm thick metal, which helps a little bit bit right here. The corporate has additionally strengthened the case’s high panel in comparison with Corsair’s 4000D case, which acquired damaging suggestions in that space.
The Air 5400 is ready to be priced at $220 with 3x120mm followers included.
i600
Corsair is updating its i500 pre-built PC, which we hated, with its upcoming i600, and the corporate has improved it so much.
The i500’s GPU cooling answer had mainly no contact with any of the ability elements. The i600, then again, has large overhauls right here. The case itself has solely barely modified, however the adjustments made accommodate bigger radiators. The block for the video card, together with the ability elements, is completely completely different in a method that appears promising.
The stuff that jumped out to us straight away in regards to the i600 is the fin stacks for the VRM, which is linked to a shared copper nickel-plated base plate for the GPU and reminiscence. Every thing is linked to the identical base plate, which is linked to the liquid cooler. This implies all the warmth will get dumped into the liquid cooler. There’s professionals and cons to this design. The professional is that all the different elements get cooled higher. The draw back is that the GPU itself is sharing the warmth dissipation capability with all the different elements within the cooler. This implies you usually see some enhance within the GPU temperature because of this. There’s ups and downs to this method. It doesn’t essentially imply one answer is best than the opposite so long as it’s all cooled.
The i600 has copper bars, which contact the MOSFETs. In any other case, it’s similar to the i500.
Corsair has additionally modified its CPU cooler radiator, the place the corporate has moved its tanks off to the facet. The tubes are additionally working in a unique route. Corsair can also be shifting to 25mm thick followers, the place beforehand that they had the slimmer 15mm followers. That further 10mm will assist with stress and efficiency so much.
We plan on doing a overview of the PC as quickly as we purchase one.
Corsair Body 4000D
We noticed a prototype of Corsair’s Body 4000D, the place the corporate modified just a few issues. Corsair partnered with Singularity for its powerboard. It’s considerably just like Elmore’s BENCHLAB, excluding it not logging energy. With the case, you mainly run all the energy cables into the ability board after which route them to their ultimate places. We depend 10 fan headers right here together with a bunch of RGB headers. There’s lots of potentialities with this. At present, it’s principally getting used as a cable-management instrument, however you could possibly, in idea, develop this to incorporate extra switches, like fan-control switches. We would love to see present monitoring. It could make it dearer however that could possibly be a probably helpful route to go in the place you could possibly monitor on the 12VHPWR, as an illustration, which might change into an awesome advertising and marketing level for Corsair and could be very helpful for finish customers.
The entrance panel can also be completely different because it has a die-cut edge now.
The facility provide setup can also be completely different right here with Corsair doing an acrylic wall for the PSU as a substitute of metal. The problem right here is that plastic is an extremely good insulator. This might increase some ESD (electrostatic discharge) issues and should trigger the PSU to lose a few of the shielding that metal supplies.
As part of this design, Corsair has personalized the caps and PCBs in order that they get good shade matching. It seems fairly good.
3D Printing
Corsair was telling us how for its upcoming 4000D and its Body collection circumstances, it was entering into 3D printable panels and items.
They confirmed us how one Corsair worker 3D printed a shroud-like duct, which takes air in by the underside and shoves it up into the place the pump and reservoir are within the picture above. These 3D print information can be found on Corsair’s account on Printables.
Corsair 5000D
We didn’t care an excessive amount of about it however Corsair additionally confirmed off its new 5000D that has a display screen on it, which is a factor corporations are doing now.
Additionally they had a 5000D case with out the display screen, which is a bigger variant of the Body 4000D case. Corsair says that it must be priced round $180, however that’s in flux with the tariffs state of affairs.
Corsair Open Idea
Corsair’s open idea at Computex is utilizing a few of the identical Body elements, the place the corporate is making an attempt to make the Body collection modular and represents an open body.
There’s additionally an possibility for fan mounts as nicely. The corporate confirmed a big radiator tower on the present, which is fairly cool to see.
