Interior Breakdown
As soon as you take the side panel off its easy to see that Corsair put a considerable amount of thought into every last part on the 800D. They went with a three compartment design, segregating the power supply in the bottom section.
I also love the inclusion of the two water cooling holes with grommets right next to that cooling fan. I was a little puzzled why the holes are there until I realized that there are times when your power supply cables are a little too short to route behind the motherboard tray. Both of the holes could be used to run one or two 6 pin cables if needed. You can also hide your water pump in the PSU compartment for a clean looking water cooling setup.
They used three removable plastic covers to section off both the hot swap hard drives and the bottom mounted hard drives into their own cooling zone. A side-mounted 140mm fan is hidden under one of the covers to push air over the hard drives. The air for this cooling zone is pushed out behind the motherboard tray all the way to the back of the case before exiting. This is a very unique cooling design, I am very curious how well it works.
It’s easy to spot the location of the hot-swap drives from behind because of the plastic coverings covering both the back and side. The rear slides off first and reveals where you hook up your four SATA connections along with one SATA power connection. It’s nice to see the SATA connection being used rather than a Molex, maybe we can finally put together a build without including at least one Molex cable hooked up to the PSU.
The well placed plastic shroud with the Corsair logo on it covers up the cooling for all of the hard drives. A black 140mm fan should be more than enough to keep our hard drives cool.
Above the hard drive hot-swap you have the five 5¼ drive bays. To keep your devices safe and secure there are five tool-less latches, each with a Corsair logo. When you slide one of the latches to the right, everything tightens down and your devices are all secures.
Up top you can see the three 120mm fan locations up are free from any obstacles or anything else that would blow airflow. It’s a little odd that those three fan locations are lacking any fans considering the 800D’s price.
On the back you can see the 140mm fan they included and mounted just above the rear I/O panel.
One of the most notable features of the 800D is its wire management. All the way around the motherboard you have a total of 12 holes for wire management. Of those twelve, eleven of them have grommets installed to give you a super clean look when everything is installed. Corsair left wire management for varies sized motherboards, something you rarely see anyone else include. That means that no matter what setup you go with in the 800D, it’s going to look amazing. As usual it’s always in the details, and I really like the small hole on the top left just for the 8 pin CPU connection. This is normally a wire that ends up stretched across your motherboard; Corsair took notice and included a nice way to hide it.
Along with the wire management holes they also did something different for the access hole for the back of the CPU. Typically you would be lucky to find a large hole cut in the motherboard tray to access the back of the CPU for heatsink installation. Corsair however went above and beyond and even put a door on this hole on the 800D. I suspect this was done to help with controlling the air flow in the case also, but it’s just another example of their attention to detail that goes above and beyond what most manufactures do.
Each of the PCI slot covers are held down by a thumbscrew. No fancy tool-less solutions here, just what works.
Here is a full view of the back of the case with the side panel off. This is where all of your wiring will be hiding. Corsair gave more than enough room to pack all of your wiring between the side panel and the motherboard tray. It’s also a nice touch to see that all of the cabling for the case is black to match the case. Sometimes we see cases that have a bright red SATA cable or blue USB 3.0 cables that just look out of place against the black interior. All of the 800D’s cabling including the fan wires are black and would blend in if you couldn’t hide them (not that they don’t give enough ways to hide them, lol).
