Overview

The Carbide Air 740 comes with a rather unusual design, which to us is excentric. Corsair is using parallel plastic ridges at the front and at the top as design elements. The quality of the plastic used is excellent. The front part doesn't feature and slots for optical disc drives and therefore you won't be able to install any 5.25" drives, card readers or fan controllers. There is your standard I/O panel with two USB 3.0 ports, power and reset button as well as the two standard audio jacks. On both the top and the front there are several openings, which allow fans to pull fresh air in. The side panels are rather interesting; like with the Graphite 760T Corsair decided to equip this case with a hinged door that's been equipped with a large plexi window. At the top and at the bottom of the plexi panel there are two metal bars providing enough stability so the side panel feels stiff. The back panel is as simple as it gets. There are eight slot bezels covering the PCI expansion slots, the opening for the motherboard I/O panel, a 120/140mm fan slot and the opening for an ATX power supply. The bottom of the case has been equipped with four plastic feet and there is also an air-inlet for the radiators to breath if the fans are facing downwards.