There’s nothing I like higher than a clear PC construct, and that’s what the brand new Corsair 2500X enclosure is all about. It’s a part of the new generation of back-connection cases, which permit for motherboards with most of their energy and information connections on the again to permit that rat’s nest of cables to be hidden away. Adam Patrick Murray and Will Smith are within the PCWorld studio to take a look at the case and provides it a full construct in our newest YouTube video.

The 2500X is, in technical phrases, a giant chunky boi. That’s as a result of along with the brand new again connections it’s a dual-chamber design, with the facility provide and storage drives fully hidden straight behind the motherboard, all the higher to indicate off the high-end parts. it additionally makes routing all these cables tremendous simple, barely an inconvenience. The 2500X is the extra showy model, with tempered glass on the entrance and aspect coming to a nook. The 2500D makes use of a mesh entrance panel for extra performance-oriented airflow setups.

On the entrance I/O panel operating alongside the highest edge you get HD audio, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 type-A, one other 3.2 Gen 2 type-C, and devoted energy and reset buttons. There’s additionally a very cool adapter within the equipment field that permits you to select between an all-in-one header connection or break it out into separate pins, very helpful! Will is a giant fan of the captive screws, which handily keep within the entry panels.

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As is turning into fashionable, this case mounts the entrance followers and/or radiator to the again of the case, parallel with the motherboard tray, which implies the first air consumption comes from the correct aspect. To assist shield each chambers there’s each a inflexible and versatile mesh all alongside that proper panel, the latter of which might be eliminated. It’s additionally potential so as to add on a vertical GPU mounting bracket, and swap out the steel a part of the entrance panel with some trendy wooden end choices.

But one of many greatest attracts is compatibility with these not-quite-standard again connector requirements from Asus (BTF) and MSI (Project Zero). (Notably, it isn’t appropriate with comparable choices from MainGear or Gigabyte.) Speaking of which, there’s considered one of them hanging across the workplace — an MSI B650M Project Zero. So it’s time to see if the brand new hotness in PC constructing lives as much as the hype. For extra on the most recent in PC {hardware}, make sure you subscribe to PCWorld on YouTube!