Corsair Obsidian Series 1000D vs Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact

I installed an ATX motherboard just to give you a reference point at how big that interior is. We have so much space above and in front of the motherb...

The main attractions to me were it's focus on airflow and the compact size. Despite this rather small footprint, it fits my full atx motherboard like a glove and even my gigantic Noctua NH-D15 cooler with millimeters of space on the tallest fan. The IO is also strong with USB-C 3.2 and two type A 3

Although I can't be certain, it was in the box and Styrofoam was around it when it came, so it leads me to believe that it happened during production, rather than shipping.

they are beautiful, amazing, and high build quality. Corsair Airflow is great as well.

Awesome now that's its done but this was by far the absolute worst building experience ever the commander pro is adhesived in bottom on the case in plain site took quite some sound doing to pry it up and stick in the back where it belongs OUT OF SITE be careful when you're doing that i almost broke the thing are you kidding me corsair why am i spending so much on a gorgeous case so i can have a mess of wires out out on display for everyone to see that aside it there isnt enough room on the back side to hide cables spent over an hour and half trying different routing to get it to all fit and im still not happy with it luckily i cant see it on my desk. Those 2 incredibly poor design problems aside the case is beautiful and feels very premium i love the magnetic doors not having to unscrew something when i need to get inside the case front panel io is great one think is did add anyway would should be there in the first place is and extention to the psu cover so it spans the whole length of case looks way nicer. Apologies for my overly excessive rant above to summarize if you can handle some frustration with routing cables and you can pry up the commander off that tar strip its on then go for it its great when its all done otherwise do yourself a favor and get nzxt or fractal they know what they're doing

Fractal design meshify 2. There's a few models with different sizes. I have the white compact and I love how it looks

But I assume Corsair has done their due diligence with shock, vibe and drop testing. I'll start with my issues, and why 3 stars. Could have easily been 5. It boils down to 2 things: First is a quality control issue with Corsair

Build quality is excellent and it looks great. Very sturdy and well-made. It is also very easy to disassemble which makes it a breeze to work with. I'm very satisfied and I will likely buy only Fractal from now on

It is the biggest and most feature-rich case Corsair has ever made. So you might ask, like, why did you guys build this ridiculously huge PC case? It'...

A few things to note though, if you're coming from the S340 or any other case in general: -There isn't much space behind the motherboard tray. If you have a hard drive and don't remove the hard drive cage under the basement shroud, you won't have much room to work in. There isn't much space in the basement or room between the side panel and motherboard tray. While old, the original S340 still beat this case in that regard