This Triple-Chamber Case from Corsair Is Brilliant – Computex 2025

I just built in the Corsair Frame 4000D. Nice case, but it looks like I should have waited for one of these, if they ever come to market. The aesthetics are nice and Corsair is upping their game, but I can't get too excited because the rest of the parts are just meh. CPUs, GPUs, Mobos, etc. are just not as exciting as they once were. Maybe the Threadripper 99XX series will introduce some excitement again and make me want to build a full on workstation with custom loop.

classic corsair: overly complicated, expensive, for no performance or cooling benefit

About time manufacturers start designing good ducted airflow systems, I've been doing this for some time now via 3D printing, really nice to see them separate heat exchanges and direct airflow properly.

Why is nobody making GPU shrouds that take GPU exhaust hot air and funnel it outside the case by the side case panel.

I love the 3 chamber case but i have a 420 AIO and from what i have read it only supports upto 360 :(

Basically what I'm doing with my Lian Li Air Mini... but even better !

i still have the Corsair VS450 😂

That piece of plastic at the bottom may block a thick rad for custom loops

acrilic got one huge problem - it scratches even when looking at it :P

HELL YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very nice except iCue breaks something every restart, feels like will it work this time gacha

The Air 5400 is definitely a very interesting design, and I actually wonder about doing a custom loop in one, but I'm also unsure about the acrylic air ducts. Not because I don't think they won't work, but acrylic is just such a pain to keep clean and not scratch up.

Also, are you going to make a video on Thermal Grizzly's stuff? I'm very interested in the custom loop products, and I'd love some official confirmation on what GPU models you're going to release blocks for, so I can stop worrying about whether I need to try to get an Astral specifically.

Nice coverage, interesting stuff for sure!

Thanks for this English content Mr. Farmer.

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What isn't addressed wuth that design is memory. I get that no one really overclocks or touches timings ever but ddr5 looks to be the most temp sensitive to me. Not the hottest necessary but it benefits a lot from lower temps and struggles a lot with high temps when OC'ed. For that reason I love designes like Dan A4 where GPU has its own chamber. I also like that AIO in them helps to get cold air to RAM and GPU and helps exhaust hot air from them. Yes, CPU temperatures struggle because of that but in my experience, last 100-150MHz on the CPU make it way hotter for close to no real benefit so sticking to 5.4GHz instead of 5.55GHz doesn't really impact performance but does make it a lot easier to cool

Wouldn't this triple chamber design cook RAM and VRMs?

Looking forward to seeing a case with a completely separate chamber for motherboard + RAM + NVMe, separate chamber for the GPU and 2 vertical 360mm mounts in the front so you can have 2 radiators for CPU and GPU that get air from outside and throw it out without interfering with each other

I'll be honest about that Astral water block: it gives me intestine-to-colon vibes 💩. Not a huge fan of the looks of those chambers. I've seen others that give more of a skeletal vibe that look MUCH better.

I would take the top and bottom channels out. They are ugly

I feel like a bottom up flow with a top mounted rad on a water cooled gpu is the optimum config for this as it would give maximum cooling to the motherboard as well as the gpu, cpu and psu.

I want the triple chamber case meow

25 years of PCs and we're back to just making air ducts for fans

PSU Fan Knob, the feature a person asked for.

I really like the FRAME 4000D RS. I hope the integrated front sound card will be available for it as well.
My favorite case ever is the Cooler Master HAF XB EVO. Corsair use to have a similar case called the Air 540. It was less industrial and more refined in appearance than the HAF XB EVO, but the airflow (ironically) was terrible. I hope Corsair will consider making another "test bench orientation" , classy case once more, for us aging nerds. Combined with a cable free rear connector motherboard and a glass 'Lid' . . (like an audiophiles turntable for vinyl records), would be a great starting point for an elegant show piece build. Just letting Corsair know that that is something I would definitely buy. And please continue to place the front I/O along the bottom front or side. That's the first thing I look at in a new case, where is the front I/O located, and second is how well rounded and appointed the connectivity is (USB-C 2x2 or USB4, please). The sound card in front is brilliant. Make sure whoever came up with that gets an extra chicken wing at lunch.

I no joke was thinking about learning a cad software and designing a case that is similar in concept to the aio system on the open frame build!!!!

Now make an itx version 😬

Noctua thermosyphon looks so cool

Corsair remembered how to make multichamber cases. They started the concept with the original 540 Air and finally a worthy successor.

I do not know about PSUs that are that powerful needing it - but on the cheaper ones where the PSU could be an integral part of the case exhaust, it's nice to be able to say 'no, you will not go below 50% fan speed'.

Yet another modular computer case, where the manufacturer says "we have this, and this, and this, and this and.... module. Customize it how you wish!!!" Then they either only make a handful of modules, or they stop making them after a short production run. I can think of 2 or 3 other case makers that have done the same thing, and after a few years (if that in some instances), you literally can't find a module. A simple example would be a new front-panel IO to add USB-C. It of course is a great concept, but like so many things out of Computex/CES, they barely, if at all, come to fruition.

As to that triple-chamber case, I'd rather they didn't have those air-ducts in the main portion of the case. It seems like it will create some turbulence as the air gets caught in the corners above that top duct output. To say nothing of how bad those acrylic pieces will latch on to every single piece of dust and hair within 20 feet of your computer.

Somehow I think Origin PC will still manage to mess up their thermals using this case. 🤣

Man I don't know why this man doesn't have millions of subscribers by now. Him and Steve from Gamers Nexus are the top voices in the industry as far as I'm concerned.

I had a clear rgb psu back in the day in my acrylic case XD and when I say rgb I mean it had red leds, green leds and blue leds XD had matching fans too till I got some magnetic floating 80mm fans (well before maglev)

wait XD air 5400? damn and im sitting here using an air 540...

im sure there is a compact version of a triple chamber design with a pcie riser cable and a tower cooler surely

Having recently bought an HX1500i I'm not wishing I had waited. I had hoped when I bought mine that there would have been a Shift version available. I am contemplating picking up an Asus X870e crosshair Extreme to replace my x670e extreme board so I may snag a new PSU and throw my old 9900x and x670e extreme board in another case and run that as a guest computer with my old evga 3080. I am interested in seeing if Corsair's new pump is any better than the standard D5 pumps that have been used for a while. Corsair needs a major redesign on their CPU blocks though. I'm still not a fan of the aesthetic and the fact it isn't ICUE link compatible with their major push to their own proprietary design is still weird to say the least.

I don't like this trend of putting a load of fans below the graphics card. That doesn't make any sense to me. Those fans won't be blowing directly at the graphics card, but rather at whatever PCIe card you have in the lowest slot. The primary graphics card usually goes in the topmost slot, so there will be other cards blocking the airflow. All the examples I've seen, like yours, show it with the graphics card as the only PCIe card, but that isn't representative of all builds, especially for ATX.

People really like to tune knobs. Specifially men.

how about use better mic, with some noise canceling?

yeah, all is fine but how big rads can fit under those top/bottom shrouds?

Corsairs who*eis talking

love the open frame one

I hope Corsair's next move will be to support air-cooling in a similar manner. GPUs should be able to exhaust their hot air out of the side of the case. There should be perforation in the side panel to let the air escape. That wouldn't help with Nvidia's "blow the hot air upwards, so that an air cooler will suck it in"-approach, but for many GPUs, it should help (avoiding recirculation by the GPU and avoiding to heat up other components, including air coolers). I wish more cases provided a metal option to replace the glass side panel. In that case, even if the panel isn't already perforated in the right area, one could add the perforation (or a completely free duct) oneself.

Just waiting for those acrylic pieces to turn yellow in a year both due to age and heat
lol

Havn bf 360 looks promising.

Corsair software is a disaster and only works in Winblows.

I like Corsair, but their pricing is like nvidia (ssds, ram, cases). More expensive and same reliability and performance as other competition.

i like to use oversized power supplies to keep fan noise down and life cycle up.