Typical for Corsair, the 5000 series is shipped in a plain brown outer box. The front, side, top and bottom air intakes for the power supply are equipped with removable dust filters. The construction is mostly steel, either black or white powder-coated, occasionally matt plastic and, depending on the model, more or less tempered glass on the outer surfaces. The top model iCUE 5000X RGB stands out from its brothers 5000D and 5000D Airflow mainly because of the use of tempered glass on 4 sides, the included RGB fans including controller and the higher price of just under 190 Euros compared to just under 155 Euros MSRP.Īll models are supposed to house a maximum of two 360 mm radiators at the same time, in the top and in the front or side, if you remove the “RapidRoute” cable cover to the motherboard tray. But even so, there is much to discover, some of it unexpected.įirst, let’s take another look at the specifications and what Corsair promises the case is capable of. Since I don’t own the equipment needed for this, but I also don’t want to present abbreviated or even possibly wrong results, today’s test is focussed mainly on usability and my experiences while using the case. We’ll take a look at whether Corsair has succeeded in this in today’s review of the top model iCUE 5000X RGB.Īs our friend “Aris” from HWbusters explained in detail in his article last year, testing the cooling performance and noise emission of a case is much more complex than you might think at first. Corsair has unveiled the new 5000D, 5000D Airflow and iCUE 5000 RXG case models at CES 2021, with a design language and naming scheme that aims to tie in with the 4000 series product portfolio.
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