Installation
Power Supply
The Corsair Carbide 330R Titanium Edition Quiet Mid-Tower case is designed to mount a standard ATX style power supply at the bottom. As a test, we installed a Corsair CS850M PSU into the 330R chassis. The power supply dropped easily into position and is secured with four screws on the backside panel. Installing a typical (160mm deep) PSU will leave you with 5-3/4” of space between the PSU and HDD cage for cables. The power supply can be mounted either with the fan up to pull air out of the case or with the fan down. The dust filter covered opening on the bottom of the case allows outside air into the PSU when the PSU is mounted with its intake fan down.
Motherboards
The Carbide 330R case is designed to mount a full spectrum of motherboards including E-ATX, ATX, MicroATX and Mini-ITX form factors. We installed both a Mini-ITX and a standard ATX motherboard into the 330R and in both cases everything lined up perfectly. And there is a large cutout behind the CPU socket area to facilitate installing/changing CPU coolers.
(Mini-ITX motherboard)
(Standard ATX motherboard)
VGA Adapters
We also installed several VGA adapters to test the fit and once again everything lined up as expected. The expansion card slots all use thumb screws and the 330R case will support cards up to 450mm (17.7”) long.
External 5.25” Optical Drive
Our 5.25” Blu-ray player slid easily into position and locked in place without tools as advertised. Note: If you plan to install a dual radiator up top it will most likely block the top 5.25” drive bay.
Internal Hard Disc Drives
The internal 3.5” / 2.5” HDD trays are one piece plastic. Each tray comes with four steel pins mounted in silicone vibration isolation washers that are used to mount 3.5” HDDs; just flex the plastic tray and drop in the HDD. No tools required. To mount a 2.5” SSD you just pop out the back corner pin and use the supplied machine screws to attach the 2.5” device to the tray.
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?