Carbide 500D ATX Case Detailed Features

A straight shot of the interior of the case shows a fairly conventional design, including modern conceits like a massive cutout to ease installing cooler backplates, and a covered power supply. But where are the drive brackets?

They’re all on the back of the motherboard tray. At the front of the case are two tool-less 3.5″ drive trays, and under the motherboard cutout are three removable 2.5″ drive sleds.

The front of the power supply cover is blocked, the first time I’ve seen this on any case. Corsair does not want you to have any ugly cables in view in the case interior! If you’re into bespoke water cooling, Corsair’s provided several mounting points for pumps and reservoirs in the bottom of the case in front of the power supply cover

The case is a seven-slot design; with NVIDIA no longer supporting SLI with more than two cards, this is fine. You’ll notice two extra slots above the main seven; at CES 2018, Corsair showed this case with a vertically-mounted graphics card attached to the top of the power supply housing, with its back plate secured in those two slots. However, our review unit came with none of this hardware and it’s not mentioned in the very brief manual.

Although the case is filtered, the fact that the side panels, when closed, leave substantial gaps at their top and bottom edges mean that dust will make it into your case anyway.

Accessories comprised the aforementioned very brief manual and a bag of screws, cable ties, and other bits. One thing I really liked is that Corsair includes in this bag both 8 long screws for fan/radiator mounting, and extra rubber bumpers for where the glass door meets the front of the case.

OK, it’s time to build a system in The Carbide 500D…