A Detailed Look – At the Inside
The Corsair Carbide 330R Titanium case offers a lot of usable space inside for a mid-tower enclosure. Looking into the case from the left side reveals a typical ATX mid-tower case layout with the power supply located at the bottom instead of up top.
The top section inside the enclosure is dominated by the motherboard area, which features a large cutout opening behind the CPU area for easy access to mount CPU coolers. The 330R is designed to mount a full spectrum of motherboards including E-ATX, ATX, MicroATX and Mini-ITX form factors. There are several openings around the motherboard area to assist in neatly routing cables and wires.
In the upper right are three external 5.25” drive bays, which include easy to use, tool-less drive locking mechanisms. Looking down towards the bottom of the 330R Titanium case reveals a single HDD cage towards the front and the power supply mounting area towards the back.
The HDD cage contains four slide-out HDD trays. Each tray can mount either a 3.5” or 2.5” HDD / SSD.
Removing the left side panel provides access to the areas behind the motherboard and drive cages, which offers a lot of room to neatly route and conceal cables.
Very conflicting case,
Very conflicting case, Corsair filler?
Not at all. It serves its
Not at all. It serves its intended purpose very well.
You can quite easily have a virtually silent office PC during the day and turn it into a killer gaming rig at night.
I love my 650D except for the
I love my 650D except for the HD trays. PITA to get out. Unless something has changed in the design, looks like not much changed there.
Very similar to the Antec
Very similar to the Antec P100 except for video card length and the reversible door.
I bought this case during the
I bought this case during the Black Friday sale, although the black edition. I am most pleased with it except for two things. The first is space. I had to saw off a portion of the HDD cage to fit both my R9-290s, which is about the same length as a 970 Strix from Asus.
The second is that the dust filter on the underside is laughable and falls off right away. You can use screwdrivers to put it in place, which I did, but the default magnetic solution is terrible.
However, on temperatures and acoustics, it’s an amazing case. It’s also quite light, which is a bonus if you have to move it somewhere, such as like a LAN.
All and all a good review. It
All and all a good review. It would be nice to see more emphasis placed on the cases ability to house an SLI/Crossfire config (two card) and resultant temps. Thanks for taking the time to perform this review.
I own the original 330R.
I own the original 330R.
With 2 140mm intake fans, 120mm exhaust fan and an AIO CPU cooler, two GTX 780 Classifieds work… but temps are really high in SLI. Worst case scenario you are thermal throttling.
Overclocking the Classies with the side on is almost out of the question. Not enough airflow. The second card gets the brunt of it, as is usually the case. No pun intended.
Perhaps a couple of 970’s or 980’s wouldn’t be so bad, overclocked they probably would be close.
I think the best possibility for stable, lower temp SLI or Crossfire in a 330R would be reference cards with blower fans which exhaust the heat outside the case, rather than custom cooling that dumps the heat into the case.
For overclocked SLI I would look at water blocks and a custom loop. But if you’re going to do that why buy a 330R?