Ingenious housing with potential for improvement.

Since I switched for the first time on a SLI system and it was too tight and especially too hot in my old mid-tower, needed a new housing. Browse by something I stumbled across the Corsair Carbide Air 540 and was thrilled from the concept. After the usual rapid delivery of Amazon could go the next day, "the move" immediately. And what should I say? Mir has never been so much fun to build a computer together, but above all it was also never been so fast!

Without weaknesses, the housing is still not sufficient. But first: These weaknesses can resolve any problems when his budget still increased slightly!

Positives:
+ The place offer is overwhelming, and nowhere is it something in the way, neither the work nor the air flow in "main room" of the case. Disturbing drive or HDD cages hike either in the auxiliary chamber, or at least better ideas have been replaced.
+ The cabling is a dream. I intend cable management always a little scared and it has also always tasted most of the time, but when Carbide Air 540 can not help but in an extremely short time to move its cable like a pro. Separate chambers and numerous cable glands goodness!
+ The hot-swap feature for 3.5 inch hard drives is awesome and saves a laying of hard drive cables to the main room completely!
+ Consistently good workmanship and the motherboard is first screwed to work the rest of the assembly without tools.
+ Blatant cooling capacity with pure air cooling. Compared to my previous housing (BitFenix ​​Survivor) prevail in the components up to 10 ° C difference, after a three-hour GTAV game session.

Neutral:
° Only two Montiermöglichkeiten for 3.5 "hard drives. I do not mind, because I no longer have also, for others it could also be a disadvantage. I am against glad that I never have to having trouble with disturbing HDD cage.

Negatives:
- No dust filter, except in the front. If one wants to keep his body as dust-free, you must still filter to buy since the case but has rather generous air intakes, or Meshgitter.
- No fan control: It would be useful if the housing would have its own fan controller. If you do not want the fans run at full throttle, which makes quite a lot of noise, you have the fan either (if possible) rules with the mainboard control, or to buy a fan controller / tinker.

Conclusion:
Five stars! As mentioned negative points are very easy to fix, they justify in my eyes not the point deduction, because the housing works perfectly otherwise (for my needs). All in all, the Corsair Carbide Air 540 a lot of space, allows a very easy and quick installation of the hardware or laying the cable and it looks also very great, with its huge windows! But the main advantage is likely to be the grandiose cooling concept that makes a classic Tower probably look old.