while the hello good people Shh oh look what we have here so this is the new
Corsair low noise case the 678C so you know what guys I am rooting for
silent cases you know I want their population in the market to grow a
little bit and this is exactly what we have here with a 678C a very easy
name to remember but of course minimizing your system
noise is a combination of things like your fan rpm the rest of your hardware
and the case is at play as well and how turbulent the airflow might enter and
might exhaust the case and just how covered up your intakes are but then if
everything is covered up then you have to increase the fan rpm in order to get
some airflow in there so let's see how this $200 case stacks up for cooling and
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you very much all right not to disappoint you this early in the video
but the Carbide 678C feels kind of lazy and uninspired especially for the
price point and this is where this whole pricing conversation comes into the
equation which is so important because the competition at $200 is fierce right
now so I feel like this is just mispriced because maybe it's $120 this
would be like you know a nice general standard enclosure but it's $199
instead and if you do want a low noise case definitely pass this one because
cooling performance is just not on par to other cases that are cheaper and have
better cooling and also about the same in terms of sign
now for $200 were you expecting an aluminum brushed front panel maybe but
this is just plastic perhaps you were expecting some non-generic sound
dampening material nope it's pretty standard here perhaps you were expecting
some tasteful integrated lighting nope everything is bare I do appreciate this
movable tempered glass side panel that you can remove for easier installation
however the front panel can only open on one side and that only 90 degrees and
unlike what's practical design cases where it can actually swap the panel to
open from the other side depending on the orientation of the case here you are
limited to its default orientation and for those who care this is probably one
of the only cases in 2019 to have a five and a quarter inch drive bay at the top
maybe for a blu-ray player or something like that and it is removable if you
need the additional clearance at the top for radiators or fans now the case comes
with three 140mm fans running at 1300 rpm one intake at the front one intake
at the top in the center right beside the CPU cooler and one rear exhaust and
this is probably the first time ever where I see the top fan mounted as
intake well you probably can guess why this whole front element is yeah it's a
choking hazard so there are no ventilation strips on the side of the
front panel and the only sort of gap you have is at the bottom and that's not a
lot of air for the front intake and thus you kind of rely on the top intake
instead to deliver some that fresh air for the CPU cooler with the compromise
that your GPU gets quiet toasty and speaking of the top we have a magnetic
dust filter up here and with plenty of airflow options with up to 360 mm
radiator support for the top and at the front but here's a little feature if you
want to make a toasty oven inside this enclosure you simply close off that top
section with a plate the benefit of course is it will you know lower the
noise level in this configuration as your components die in their own heat
and your ports are fine and dandy with a Type C Gen 2 dual USB threes power reset
and the combo headphone / microphone jack there is a massive dust filter at
the bottom that you remove from the front nice and convenient and as for the
interior is quite roomy and I do appreciate the slightly depressed
motherboard tray so the rubber grommets on the side are slightly angled which
makes cable routing slightly easier I don't like the frame around the PCI
slots where they're not cut out but instead you have to fit your
screwdrivers through the holes which can make for a really inconvenient
installation of your graphics card the power supply shroud is perforated in
multiple sections with a front cut out for the radiator to fit through and for
storage we have these floating drive caddies that will further restrict any
airflow trying to get your main components and they do remind me of
another approach from another company but I'll just be quiet they are secured
with thumb screws at the back and the unfortunate thing is that we only have
two of these covers that go in place of the hard drive cages so for example if
you remove them then those holes will still be in the frame with nothing to
put in that space and of course I had to remove them for better air flow but
there's nothing to cover them so any cables and everything else will be
visible that is behind the frame so that makes things here you're looking kind of
messy and at the back we have this single SSD cage with three slots that
are spring-loaded so a complete the tools design but I sometimes like to
route my cables around like the middle SSD so I like to remove that and put my
cables there but because it's one single piece you cannot do it unless you remove
the whole thing and there's also a fan hub for six fans which is nice it is
SATA powered and you can plug in the pwm cable into your motherboard for all that
RPM control and so having this overview in mind what makes this case so special
for $200 you know you'd think maybe fantastic cooling or perhaps the
quietest operation possible well neither of those is the case and so looking in
the system temperatures were the fans running at a thousand rpm so we can
compare that to the massif is-2 and the Phanteks P600s you can see the
Corsair 678C it doesn't do that great in terms of CPU and GPU
temperatures in comparison to the other two cases and even when I maxed out the
fans to 1300 rpm the GPU is still quite toasty and the CPUs are hotter versus
the massif is two and a fantex cases which are running at slower rpm which
leads us to the noise performance and yes the closed front panel definitely
delivers quieter operation at 1000 RPM simply because there is no air flow
turbulence that you can hear but when the front is open especially at 1300 rpm
that side noise profile has got quiet loud and actually that is because of the
top fan and I'm gonna let you listen to what the top fan sounds like at 1300 rpm
with the dust filter in place and it removed because there's so much
turbulence happening with the dust filter that it's actually generating
some noise that is unpleasant versus when the filter is actually removed
and I'm going to have to reinforce my point again that this is a mispriced
case $200 it does not deliver better cooling it does not deliver quieter
operation versus something that is $50 cheaper and those cases are not even
designed for a silent operation like the you know the massif is do for example
and so in conclusion the carbide 6 7 8 C is uninspiring it's bland its overpriced
kind of disappointed all around but if you've ever built yourself a quiet
system what has your approach been like trying
to brute force air flow into it with increasing rpm because of all these you
know restrictions or go the other route of lowering rpm but in a completely like
open enclosure so there is no you know turbulent noise for the airflow while
still giving you enough cooling but yeah let me know what you think about this
enclosure in the comments let's you know try to be civil while
this thing is quite disappointing I'm a Dmitry thanks so much for watching make
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