Joined on 09/06/04
Bought 2... RETURNED 2... Exact same issue on both...
Pros: Too many pro's to list but ruined by poor flimsy design...
Cons: Mother board standoff at the bottom left was about 4 to 6mm from mother board enough that if I had to screw it down the board would have bowed enough to cause damage. Here's the problem with the Design, The power supply separation compartment is also a one peice with the motherboard tray. If you look at it you will see there are curves to it. Not sure if i just got 2 bad one's from a lot of bad one's but I'm severely disappointed. I bought 2 of these, was severely excited to have them. I saw them posted on facebook in a group with dual nvidia gtx 980 hybrids. So I bought this case with an second 980GTX TI. Well sad to say the I had to send both of them back to newegg for a refund and buy corsair's 750d which i'm not happy about. both of these cases had the SAME EXACT issue which tells me something's jacked-up in manufacturing. Just looking down at the mother board tray you could see that there were alignment issues where it is riveted to the chassis frame. I can't tell you how seriously upset and disappointed I am. I purchased about $1500.00 dollars worth of equipment just for this case to have to send them back and now i'm stuck with additional hardware and having to put that hardware in an inferior case. Do I expect Phantek to respond to this post. Most likely not... I doubt they care. Just another customer ya know. They have most likely built enough of a name and some people will have just been super lucky to not get bad cases and will most likely argue I don't know what i'm doing. But I'm an A+ certified technician since 2000 and have been building PC's far long before computers were considered gaming machines. So I know what i'm doing. I saw the twisting and misalignment on both chassis and couldnt' believe it. There is a problem in the manufacturing somewhere. My advice I'd avoid this case until someone else risks buying one who can report on it. Personally this was my first experience with a Phantek product and most likely my last experience. I'll most likely never purchase another product from this company. I wish companies would stop manufacturing in China this is the crud work they do and the terrible quality control that comes from China. You would think they would have a mother board mounting test they could run with a PCB board to lay flat on the standoffs in order to quickly test them. They would have seen and caught this issue. most people out there who have this case are most likely not even using that stand off in order to keep the case. Well with a SLI configuration this was not comfortable for me to do. Not telling what other twisting there is in the chassis that could have damaged my components. I reiterate unless Phantek contacts me and is willing to send me a case out that has been tested and proven to be properly aligned with the chassis frame this is my last product I will purchase from them. This was probably the biggest worst experience in my history of building PC's. I've never in my life had a case that a mother board could not be mounted on. This is horrific.... DO NOT BUY 1.) Bad quality control 2.) Poor design with mother board tray as a 1 piece with the power supply segregation compartment. This twisting of the metal and attachment to the chassis causes the mother board tray to be misaligned and it's SEVERELY FLIMSY. This will cause twisting and torquing of your mother board resulting in potentially bending, breaking and damage to motherboard TRACES the data pathways for all electronic component communication. Beautiful design flawed but poorly thought out. the motherboard tray and power supply compartment should be completely separate as they are attached to the chassis. BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD...
Overall Review: Phantek if you want to save a customer look into this and get me 2 chassis that are not jacked up. If I do not hear from you I'll just assume you do not care in the slightest and I will continue taking my business to your competitors.
Great!!!
Pros: Everything -1 complaint...
Cons: The screws that come with this case are a joke... You would think for a 300 dollar case you could get better hardware... I've never seen such horrible mother board screws in my life... Corsiar at provides washers, screws that are not serrated on the back... This is a horrible horrible joke... I love the case but it only takes 9 screws to ruin the whole experience. Those screws if not careful and over tightended could easily damage a mother board...
Overall Review: VERY DISAPPOINTING COOLER MASTER... do a better job on the hardware screws you provide and be the product you claim to be. I'm very very very disappointed by this. I gave this case 3 eggs although it's worth 5, but because the screws are so bad, so horrible that will be my rating. These screws are of low quality and not taking into account the components they are being attached to. I hope they do not cause any problems with my mother board. I should order some mother board mounting screws from corsair at least they are of good quality and does not make me worry about the damage they can cause because they are not serrated on the back side. Customer dissapointed.
Quality & Manufacturing Issues
Pros: If i could get one that didn't have issues would be nice.
Cons: I have purchased 3 of these for a tri monitor setup for gaming. first one has dead pixels but not enough for exchange or manufacturing replacement. Second one so far seems okay. Third one has been sent back twice now. The assembly has been poor at best on the third one. Both had similar problems. Bezel's are not very well put together the plastic molding process needs to be looked at. Their were a lot of plastic shavings where the bezel meets the LCD panel also assisting in holding the bezel from it's position. sent it back for exchange. The exchange was sent back because the join that swivels etc.. etc.. allows the monitor to be positioned was very loose to the point the monitor would not stay in position very well. At this point out of 5 monitors I might have 1 that does not have issues. Very disappointing samsung. Very disappointing. My future monitor purchases will most likely go to a different brand. This has been a disappointing hassle. I expected better. But NEWEGG on the other hand has been amazing in making sure I have been taken care of as a customer. Thank you NEWEGG!!!...
Buyer Beware
Pros: None - Poor Quality Fans, Make grinding noises not vibration. But grinding like they had been used for 5 years without any cleaning. Horrible Horrible FANS!!!...
Cons: Up till now I have been a hard core Corsair supporter until my last purchase. I built a new machine from ground up. And all but 1 of my Corsair branded items were defective in one way or another. I ended up shipping most of it back and getting different branded items. I will List below what I purchased from Corsair and what I ended up replacing it with. In summary Corsiar has lost a customer. I will no longer hold Corsair in high esteem. They must have changed the manufacturing or moved it to a different country or facility but I've lost faith in them and will no longer purchase Corsair products. 1.) Corsair AXI series AX860I Power supply Issue: The 24pin mother board cable would not stay plugged in and would creep out of the power supply itself. Basically the plug itself was poorly manufacturerd. Where the clip clips onto the power supply was straight and not angled so that it could latch on. Replaced with: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 p3 80 plus Platinum 1000w PSU LOVE IT!!!... KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK EVGA!!!... 2.) Corsair Carbide Series Air 540: Video card would not bolt down without pulling the video card out of the slot. Basically the case is built so cheaply that if you looked at the back it bowed outward from the case enough that the components would not bolt in. The case would rock when sitting on a flat surface due to the cheap nature of this case. Additionally the case side panel would not shut flush when reassembled. Replaced with: Cooler Master Cosmos II... LOVE IT!!!... but one major MAJOR complaint on the Cosmos II... THE MOTHER BOARD SCREWS ARE HORRIBLE!!!... 3.) Corsair HYDRO H110 Extreme performance water/liquid CPU cooler. Fans are absolute Junk... This thing does not cool better than my old Corsair hydro 80. The fans make horrible grinding noises which will need to be replaced. I will not PURCHASE fans to fix this problem I WILL EXPECT corsair to send me new fans. I did not replace this item, but I can tell you the quality does not impress me on this either. The heatsink portion of this cooler is not flush flat, it actually has a concave bow to it. Very disappointing. I will most likely continue to keep an eye on my temp's until I can afford to replace it with another brand. 4.) Corsiar Dominator Platinum 8GB (2x4GB) x 2. So far so good... I will not hold my breathe at this point. If they go bad I will make sure that Corsair at least lives up to their warranty and get them replaced if I have any issues.
Overall Review: This has been a fair unbiased review. I have been an A+ certified technician since 2000. I have been building gaming systems for years. Never have I ever had an issue like this where I have had so many bad parts from one vendor in my history of building computers. The MASSIVE inconvenience cost me more money than I wanted to spend because all of these parts have a limited return policy. So I had to out of pocket a lot of money to get this system up and running to make sure all my components were good to stay within my return policy so that if any other parts were bad i could exchange them. Corsair... get your act together. DO NOT be like all these companies who build a name and them try and go cheap based on GREED... we the customers will NOT tolerate this. I will NOT purchase anymore Corsair branded products for years to come. When you failed other brands saved the Day Such as EVGA & Cooler Master. This has been one of the worst building experiences I've yet had. POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS... My view of Corsair as of now is BUYER BEWARE... If any of you have also had the same issues please post them to help other customers avoid the nightmare I went through and tell Corsair we will NOT tolerate poor quailty!!!...
Buyer Beware
Pros: Haven't died yet in comparison to the other parts I purchased from Corsair.
Cons: Up till now I have been a hard core Corsair supporter until my last purchase. I built a new machine from ground up. And all but 1 of my Corsair branded items were defective in one way or another. I ended up shipping most of it back and getting different branded items. I will List below what I purchased from Corsair and what I ended up replacing it with. In summary Corsiar has lost a customer. I will no longer hold Corsair in high esteem. They must have changed the manufacturing or moved it to a different country or facility but I've lost faith in them and will no longer purchase Corsair products. 1.) Corsair AXI series AX860I Power supply Issue: The 24pin mother board cable would not stay plugged in and would creep out of the power supply itself. Basically the plug itself was poorly manufacturerd. Where the clip clips onto the power supply was straight and not angled so that it could latch on. Replaced with: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 p3 80 plus Platinum 1000w PSU LOVE IT!!!... KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK EVGA!!!... 2.) Corsair Carbide Series Air 540: Video card would not bolt down without pulling the video card out of the slot. Basically the case is built so cheaply that if you looked at the back it bowed outward from the case enough that the components would not bolt in. The case would rock when sitting on a flat surface due to the cheap nature of this case. Additionally the case side panel would not shut flush when reassembled. Replaced with: Cooler Master Cosmos II... LOVE IT!!!... but one major MAJOR complaint on the Cosmos II... THE MOTHER BOARD SCREWS ARE HORRIBLE!!!... 3.) Corsair HYDRO H110 Extreme performance water/liquid CPU cooler. Fans are absolute Junk... This thing does not cool better than my old Corsair hydro 80. The fans make horrible grinding noises which will need to be replaced. I will not PURCHASE fans to fix this problem I WILL EXPECT corsair to send me new fans. I did not replace this item, but I can tell you the quality does not impress me on this either. The heatsink portion of this cooler is not flush flat, it actually has a concave bow to it. Very disappointing. I will most likely continue to keep an eye on my temp's until I can afford to replace it with another brand. 4.) Corsiar Dominator Platinum 8GB (2x4GB) x 2. So far so good... I will not hold my breathe at this point. If they go bad I will make sure that Corsair at least lives up to their warranty and get them replaced if I have any issues.
Overall Review: This has been a fair unbiased review. I have been an A+ certified technician since 2000. I have been building gaming systems for years. Never have I ever had an issue like this where I have had so many bad parts from one vendor in my history of building computers. The MASSIVE inconvenience cost me more money than I wanted to spend because all of these parts have a limited return policy. So I had to out of pocket a lot of money to get this system up and running to make sure all my components were good to stay within my return policy so that if any other parts were bad i could exchange them. Corsair... get your act together. DO NOT be like all these companies who build a name and them try and go cheap based on GREED... we the customers will NOT tolerate this. I will NOT purchase anymore Corsair branded products for years to come. When you failed other brands saved the Day Such as EVGA & Cooler Master. This has been one of the worst building experiences I've yet had. POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS... My view of Corsair as of now is BUYER BEWARE... If any of you have also had the same issues please post them to help other customers avoid the nightmare I went through and tell Corsair we will NOT tolerate poor quailty!!!...
Buyer Beware
Pros: NONE - Corsair has been a disappointment. My luck cannot be this bad. The only explanation is that the quality of Corsair products has severely dropped.
Cons: Up till now I have been a hard core Corsair supporter until my last purchase. I built a new machine from ground up. And all but 1 of my Corsair branded items were defective in one way or another. I ended up shipping most of it back and getting different branded items. I will List below what I purchased from Corsair and what I ended up replacing it with. In summary Corsiar has lost a customer. I will no longer hold Corsair in high esteem. They must have changed the manufacturing or moved it to a different country or facility but I've lost faith in them and will no longer purchase Corsair products. 1.) Corsair AXI series AX860I Power supply Issue: The 24pin mother board cable would not stay plugged in and would creep out of the power supply itself. Basically the plug itself was poorly manufacturerd. Where the clip clips onto the power supply was straight and not angled so that it could latch on. Replaced with: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 p3 80 plus Platinum 1000w PSU LOVE IT!!!... KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK EVGA!!!... 2.) Corsair Carbide Series Air 540: Video card would not bolt down without pulling the video card out of the slot. Basically the case is built so cheaply that if you looked at the back it bowed outward from the case enough that the components would not bolt in. The case would rock when sitting on a flat surface due to the cheap nature of this case. Additionally the case side panel would not shut flush when reassembled. Replaced with: Cooler Master Cosmos II... LOVE IT!!!... but one major MAJOR complaint on the Cosmos II... THE MOTHER BOARD SCREWS ARE HORRIBLE!!!... 3.) Corsair HYDRO H110 Extreme performance water/liquid CPU cooler. Fans are absolute Junk... This thing does not cool better than my old Corsair hydro 80. The fans make horrible grinding noises which will need to be replaced. I will not PURCHASE fans to fix this problem I WILL EXPECT corsair to send me new fans. I did not replace this item, but I can tell you the quality does not impress me on this either. The heatsink portion of this cooler is not flush flat, it actually has a concave bow to it. Very disappointing. I will most likely continue to keep an eye on my temp's until I can afford to replace it with another brand. 4.) Corsiar Dominator Platinum 8GB (2x4GB) x 2. So far so good... I will not hold my breathe at this point. If they go bad I will make sure that Corsair at least lives up to their warranty and get them replaced if I have any issues.
Overall Review: This has been a fair unbiased review. I have been an A+ certified technician since 2000. I have been building gaming systems for years. Never have I ever had an issue like this where I have had so many bad parts from one vendor in my history of building computers. The MASSIVE inconvenience cost me more money than I wanted to spend because all of these parts have a limited return policy. So I had to out of pocket a lot of money to get this system up and running to make sure all my components were good to stay within my return policy so that if any other parts were bad i could exchange them. Corsair... get your act together. DO NOT be like all these companies who build a name and them try and go cheap based on GREED... we the customers will NOT tolerate this. I will NOT purchase anymore Corsair branded products for years to come. When you failed other brands saved the Day Such as EVGA & Cooler Master. This has been one of the worst building experiences I've yet had. POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS... My view of Corsair as of now is BUYER BEWARE... If any of you have also had the same issues please post them to help other customers avoid the nightmare I went through and tell Corsair we will NOT tolerate poor quality!!!...