Back Side The upper PUSH button can open both side panels. Inner Part Lower left is for Power Supply, front I/O cables and manual. Lower right, the white box, has screws and belts. All different screws have their own packing. Back side has 12cm fan for cooling. CORSAIR 550D is 2 years warranty as high quality of inner fans, front I/O PCB and cables. Personally, I think longer warranty for chassis is also an important factor. Inner Back Nowadays, many Cases use back cabling design to make it be simple and clean. Also SATA HDD/SSD power cables are also from back. CPU bottom has holes to enhance cooling performance. Inner top, it supports two 12cm fans. CORSAIR H100 hydro is even more suitable. This area has two HDD rackets. It is integrated supports 2.5” mounting holes. It supports up to seven 2.5/3.5 HDD or SSD. If you are using extra-long high end VGA, you can remove middle HDD racket to have more space. 5.25” device is screwless design. Bottom left side has a removable filter. Cooling holes are for Power Supply or additional 12cm fan. Right side is fixed screw for low level HDD racket. 4 corners have cushion to enhance design and anti-shock. Only installation can feel the real Case function. I also spend time to install it. Also sharing latest Intel CPU - Core i5-2380P, which is 2550K without GPU. The frequency is 3.1GHz supporting Turbo Boost 2.0 and up to 3.4GHz. It’s physical 4 Cores without Hyper-Threading. It supports 4 threading, called 4C4T. Back Side Core i5-2380P spec is almost same as Core i5-2400. The difference is 2380P doesn’t support HD Graphics 2000. The K Skus price is 8USD different. If the price gap can be over 15USD, 2380P C/P will be higher. |
MB is Intel new Z77 chipset, GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H WiFi Z77 and Z68 main difference is native support USB 3.0. Z77X-UD5H WiFi uses 12 phases PWM for CPU and it has mSATA for SSD. This Z77 is high end position. It bundles with BT4.0/WiFi card and Intel Smart Connect technology. It makes DeskTop PC be capable for wireless data transmission. As Ivy Bridge latest performance, I will share later. Core i5-2380P CPU Performance Hyper PI 32M X 12 => 10m 23.362s CPUMARK 99 => 523 x264 FHD Benchmark => 15.8 Fritz Chess Benchmark => 21.50/10318 CrystalMark 2004R3 => 309300 CINEBENCH R11.5 CPU => 5.42 pts CPU(Single Core) => 1.39 pts FRYRENDER Running Time => 7m 52s 2380P CPU performance is same as Core i5-2400. It’s enough for most applications. If you need higher performance, please go for K series CPU. 3DMark Vantage GPU SCORE => 19859 CPU SCORE => 64255 If using GTX 560Ti 3DMark Vantage as reference, Core i7 CPU is hard to over P25000. 2380P default can reach 24000 is very good already. For installation, Z77X-UD5H WiFi size is 30.5 X 24.4cm. The space is quite spacious. Even though 550D spec is supporting ATX and mATX, E-ATX is also supported. Back cabling and modulized Power Supply make space cleaner. There is only bottom needs cable finishing. Back cabling has more space to avoid interference of side panels. The PC in 550D is no noise as booting. This is what a quiet case should be. Sometimes, I even forgot the system is on. Inner case has many layers foam, the sound-absorbing is very good. |
As Case position, it’s not only spec and performance as other hardware. Case appearance and design are more important. Quality and texture are must. Also Case can use for many years, picking up a good case is worth. This conclusion comes out after I discuss with some friends. CORSAIR 550D is 3rd models of Obsidian series. The design is different with first 2 models. 550D size is smaller than 650D as well. The acoustic and dust-proof are also improved. 550D uses latest and humane design to avoid any interference for installation. Even though the price is lowest in Obsidian series, 550D is still mid to high end product. Comparing to my ex 120USD cases, this is much better. For users who has no budget concern and need good looking, design and quality, CORSAIR 550D is good to pick. :) This review is also in my blog WIND3C. Any comments are welcome. |
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