Internal Blueprint

Unlike the Carbide 600C, there aren't whatever hinged doors with handles on the 400Q. Instead, you must remove the door the old fashioned style, though with simply two thumb screws property each door on, getting inside the 400Q isn't exactly a tricky job.

With the left side door removed we get our first good look inside the Carbide 400Q and what nosotros find are the internals of what looks like a fairly typical mid-tower.

That said, in that location are no obvious storage bays and with the 5.25" drive bays removed there doesn't announced to be much in the Carbide 400Q at all.

In the bottom of the example are two plastic shrouds designed to hide the power supply and all its messy cabling along with the slow old 3.v" hard drives. These shrouds are hands removed for installation of components via a few thumb screws on the rear side of the motherboard tray.

Speaking of the motherboard tray, we found a dainty big cut-out that provides rear access to the backside of a motherboards CPU socket, along with 3 cablevision management holes consummate with rubberized grommets.

Removing the plastic shrouds reveals a minor iii.five" drive muzzle which tin can business firm a pair of drives limiting the 400Q'southward 3.5" bulldoze back up to just two. The iii.5" trophy do come complete with a tool-gratis bulldoze caddy which makes installing the difficult drives quick and easy.

Removing the correct side case door gives united states of america access to the rear side of the motherboard tray and here we find a smart picayune bracket that tin business firm three 2.5" drives. Each bay is completely tool-less and has a leap for easily removing installed drives. The entire ii.5" drive mount tin be removed via merely two thumb screws.

Cooling-wise the Carbide 400Q comes loaded with an AF120L fan pre-installed in the rear for exhaust. There is besides a slightly larger AF140L fan mounted in the front equally an intake. It'southward possible to install some other ii 140mm fans in the front end, while the 400Q will also accept a 360mm radiator or multiple 120mm and or 140mm radiators.

With nothing other than the motherboard tray dominating the top three quarters of the Carbide 400Q, y'all can bet on good airflow. Nosotros should likewise mentioned that information technology's possible to install another two 120mm or 140mm fans in the tiptop of the case, just Corsair doesn't listing this location for the Quiet models, which makes sense.

Information technology'southward also worth mentioning that the 400Q doesn't come up with a fan speed controller, so these pre-installed fans will need to be controlled via the motherboard.

Unfortunately nosotros don't have whatsoever official specifications for the 400Q. Our sample arrived but after Christmas and with our Corsair contacts all on vacation till subsequently the 400Q is released, we weren't able to detect the respond to a few of our questions.

That being said, we have no idea what the official maximum acme specifications are for the power supply, CPU libation and graphics cards, merely we have a record measure of our own so we tin tell you what volition and won't fit.

In that location is 350mm of clearance for GPUs with the front-mounted intake fans installed but if yous install a radiator y'all will accept to deduct its width from that total. After marketplace tower coolers as alpine equally 170mm will fit and that means pretty much any tower style cooler is compatible with the 400Q. Finally, there is a grand full of 210mm for the PSU, though yous must include the cables in that measurement and so we don't recommend going over 160mm for the PSU, 150mm if you lot can aid it.