Gtx 1070 Mini PC Corsair Air 240

Gtx 1070 Mini PC Corsair Air 240

INTEL CORE-I7-6700K PROCESSOR

ASUS MOTHERBOARD MAXIMUS VIII GENE

RAM DDR4 16GB 2400 CORSAIR / GIEL / GSKILL / KINGSTON HYPEREX

SEAGATE HDD 2TB SATA 7200RPM

SSD 250GB SATA III 2.5 INCH DESKTOP

DVD R/W 24X SATA

VGA CARD GTX 1070 8GB DDR5 VGA CARD

CPU COOLER H55 CORSAIR OR SEIDON 120M COOLER MASTER

CASE CORSAIR AIR 240

WINDOWS 10 OPERATING SYSTEM

Overview

The Carbide Series Air 240 is about the same size as the Graphite Series 380T I reviewed earlier this year, with one major difference: it’s a box, or rectangular cuboid, if you prefer. If Corsair carved the 380T’s curvaceous shape out of a block of clay, like a 1950s concept car, one could be forgiven for thinking that the Air 240’s conception stopped with the block.

The boxy design has its advantages, though. The Air 240 has room for both Mini-ITX and microATX motherboards, while the 380T is limited to Mini-ITX motherboards only. Corsair also had enough room to divide the interior of the Air 240 into two separate chambers: one for the motherboard, CPU, and graphics cards, and the other for SSDs, 3.5″ mechanical drives, and the power supply. Corsair claims this design allows for unobstructed airflow to the hottest components of the PC inside.

The left panel is windowed to show off those hot components. The left chamber is wrapped with vents at the top, side, and bottom. These vents are covered in metal mesh, and all of them are filtered. The filters are a welcome touch, but washing dust and dander from them will be difficult, since they’re semi-permanently attached to their respective panels with screws and metal tabs.

The front panel has all of the requisite port, jacks, and buttons we’ve come to expect: a pair of USB 3.0 ports, a mic jack, a headphone jack, and power and reset buttons. Like every other small-form-factor case that’s passed through my labs, the Air 240 lacks a 5.25″ expansion bay. For builders who don’t want to rely on an external optical drive, Corsair offers the larger Carbide Series Air 540, which has a similar dual-chamber design but also makes room for two 5.25″ bays.

The right chamber has a full-length vent for the power supply and storage bays. This vent is covered by one of Corsair’s signature magnetic dust filters, which should be far easier to work with than the semi-permanently-attached ones elsewhere on the case.

The Air 240 can sit either horizontally or vertically, although the benefits of the horizontal (or “desktop”) orientation seem dubious to me. The case occupies more square footage in this mode, and the windowed side panel means you probably don’t want to put anything on top of the case to save desk space. A neat touch: you can remove and rotate the Corsair emblem to match the orientation of the case. It’s held in by magnets.

The exterior of the Air 240 is mostly finished in a matte black plastic—save for the metal side panels and frame, which are covered in standard black crinkle paint. As with most of the matte plastic finishes I’ve encountered, the Air 240’s attracts fingerprints like a magnet. Be careful with your Air 240 if you want it to remain pristine.

Here’s a spec table for the Air 240, for easy comparison with our other case reviews:

	Corsair Carbide Series Air 240
Dimensions (H x W x D)	15.6″ x 10.2″ x 12.6″ (397 x 260 x 320 mm )
Supported motherboards	microATX, Mini-ITX
Expansion slots	4
3.5″/2.5″ drive bays	3
2.5″ drive bays	3
Fan mounts	2x 120 mm (front) 2x 120 mm (bottom) 2x 120 mm (top) 1x 120 mm (right side panel) 2x 80 mm (rear)
Radiator mounts	1x 240 mm (front) 1x 240 mm (bottom, Mini-ITX motherboards only)
Included fans	2x Corsair 120 mm (front) 1x Corsair 120 mm (top)
Front panel I/O	2x USB 3.0 Headphone Microphone
Max. graphics card length	11.4″ (290 mm)
Max. CPU cooler height	4.7″ (120 mm)
Max. power supply unit length	11.4″ (290 mm)
MSRP	$89.99 (black or white)

Now that we’ve looked over the outside of the Air 240, let’s open up each chamber and see what lies inside.

http://techreport.com/review/27336/corsair-carbide-series-air-240-reviewed

 

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