The Corsair Carbide 300R was filled with the following components :

• Asus Sabretooth X79 mainboard
• Intel 3960X OC'ed at 4.5Ghz 1.37Vcore
• Corsair Hydro80 cooling
• 16Gb G.Skill RipjawsZ 2133C9 rams
• GTX480 Fermi graphic card
• 1 x Intel 520 240GB SSD
• 2 x Western Digital 1TB Caviar Green Hard Drives
• Corsair TX850 Power Supply.

We still opt  to use the X79 Sabretooth board for it's Thermal Radar software and readout points. Making our life way easier !

Due to the numerous cutouts and more than plenty of room behind the motherboard tray another clean build is a no brainer. Easily spottable is the room for graphics cards and the direct airflow from the 140mm fan.

Our Corsair Hydro 80 had to be used for cooling down the OC'ed 3960X. Screwless design is available for the three 5,25 inch drives. Cable routing is pure childs' play. However no rubber grommets for the cutouts, every penny had to be saved it seems.

So weird to not have compatibility with their own Corsair Hydro 100 cooler. There's just not enough clearance to fit that dual fan radiator in the top.  Official reply from Corsair is the following : who's gonna fit a 100 euro cooling into a 65 euro case ? Well that sole individual on the planet has to be me :P. One centimeter and a half was all that was needed for a tight fit. But at least it was doable, now the H100 fans just touch the motherboards heatsinks.

Looking at the temperature results we can't look around the graphics card results. GPU idle as load results are a few degrees lower than most of our cases reviewed. This case is targeted at gamers and this seems to be a major focus point. As it keeps one of the most vital parts, the GPU pretty well cooled.

The processor temperatures are on par with the cases that we have tested with the Hydro 80 cooler. With a H100 we would have easily nibbled of another 10-15°C of them temps making this 300R a cooling monster.