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Review: Corsair 4000D Airflow

by Parm Mann on 15 September 2020, 14:01

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Conclusion

Priced at £80, the mid-tower frame focuses on the essentials and gets most things right.

Corsair's 4000D Airflow is a good example of how a simple chassis can pave the way toward a sleek, powerful and modern build.

Priced at £80, the mid-tower frame focuses on the essentials and gets most things right. The half-a-dozen fan mounts are all easily accessible, geared for airflow and well filtered, the PSU bay is well hidden with a full-length shroud, USB Type-C features as standard, and four storage bays is about right for a chassis of these proportions.

You do lose out on certain niceties - the bundled fans are basic three-pin affairs and there's little in the way of sound dampening - but cable management is good, there's provision for a vertical graphics card mount, and without any additional RGB and the extra cabling that tends to entail, the 4000D is satisfyingly easy to work with.

Bottom line: for a relatively basic enclosure, we've come away pleasantly surprised with Corsair's 4000D. It has the ability to look and feel more expensive than it is, and at £80 it's a fine foundation for a sleek 2020 build.

The Good
 
The Bad
High-airflow frontage
USB Type-C as standard
Sleek design and decent build quality
Top, front and bottom filters easy to get to
Provisions for a vertical GPU
Competitive £80 price tag
 
Bundled fans are basic 120s
Does little to suppress noise
Only one USB Type-A



Corsair 4000D Airflow

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How flow can you blow.
Looks like an updated version of my old Obsidian 450D High Airflow case.
I know you said you were nitpicking, but I find it odd that you'd mention it not having noise dampening features. Is that something we expect (or want) from a case? Those kinds of features often lead to a louder case in the end, especially if you have mid to high end parts, and most of them (other than maybe…. *maybe* actually sound absorbent panels on some of the interior surfaces) are absurd to expect in standard, relatively low cost case. Airflow and choice of parts like fans will have a much greater impact on noise, especially for this crowd.
Think I prefer my 500D, though a touch more front end ventilation wouldn't have been a bad thing.
Only a single front USB-A port on this new one does seem stingy..
3 pin fans included feels more than a niggle, I can't imagine not replacing them with 4 pin ones, which would push up costs considerably