Corsair 275r airflow review in Spanish (complete analysis)

Corsair 275R Airflow is the second model that we are going to test with this Airflow badge, in which Corsair intends to launch models that are optimized for PC Gaming cooling. Basically it is a chassis derived from the Carbide 275R in which an aggressive front has been placed that allows a perfect flow of air into the interior. In addition, a total of 3 basic 120mm Corsair fans have been installed for good cooling right from the factory.

We will see what has changed and what has not regarding its Carbide variant. We will start not without first thanking Corsair for the assignment of this chassis to make our review.

Corsair 275R Airflow technical characteristics

Unboxing

The Corsair 275R Airflow we will find it packed in a neutral cardboard box with a different serigraphy of the brand on the two main faces. Right on the sides we find the list of specifications of this chassis so that you do not even have to look at the instructions.

Everything is quite normal, including the interior, since two expanded polystyrene corks have been placed on both sides of the chassis to protect it from shocks and unforeseen events. As always in Corsair the product comes in perfect condition.

The bundle consists of the following elements:

• Corsair 275R Airflow Chassis Instruction Manual Cable Tie Clips Screws

Exterior design

We start as always with the external analysis of this Corsair 275R Airflow chassis, which as you can all imagine is a twin brother of the Carbide 275R version that came out back in March 2019 and that we also have in Professional Review. Throughout the analysis we will see their similarities and differences. In our case, we will test the white color version, but it will also be available in black, which if you have noticed, Corsair is one of the few manufacturers that has a huge amount of chassis in this striking white color.

The measures of the chassis are somewhat more extensive than those of the Carbide, we are talking about 457 mm deep (compared to 446), 216 mm wide (compared to 211) and 455 mm high (compared to 437), so here we see interesting differences that will affect the ventilation capacity mainly.

Corsair 275R Airflow is made of steel both on the inside and the sheets on the outside. We will only find plastic in the front case and tempered glass on the side. This means that its weight is around 8 and a half kilos in the near future, a fairly affordable figure for which we have become accustomed lately.

We consider this chassis to be a bit more performance oriented with tight budgets, as the manufacturer has not installed any type of lighting inside it. Obviously we have many possibilities, such as fans, interior or front LED strips, etc., but they would have to be purchased independently.

The left side is occupied by a tempered glass panel that completely occupies the area except the front as always. Fortunately, this crystal has no darkening, so we perfectly see the interior and we do not reflect on it (for me, they were all like this). The fact is that the four edges have a black opaque treatment to hide the casings of the chassis and improve aesthetics.

We say the same as for others we have analyzed, we would have liked that, instead of being fixed by the four traditional manual thread screws, a metal frame taken from behind had been placed to further improve the result. In any case we do not complain, since for that we have other superior models.

Perhaps it makes a little ugly the fact of having a front so extremely separated from the chassis, where all the pins and the interior of it are seen.

We go to the opposite side to find a completely white and opaque sheet covering the entire gap for the management of cabins of about 3 cm of space. In this case, the sheet has been fixed to the back, leaving the panel completely clean.

And with this we get to the front area, which, well… there you have it. You may like it a lot or nothing, but we don't think it will leave anyone indifferent. And it is that Corsair has opted in this Airflow range for very aggressive fronts and different from what we are used to seeing. It is completely made of white rigid plastic and is completely removable from the area.

In my opinion, if this front had been gray, the futuristic style would have been reinforced to the maximum , due to those panels with parallel lines arranged in different orientations. I personally do not like it too much, but each will have their own tastes, of course. Of course, a pair of RGB LED strips behind this front would have been fabulous, but it is also true that we already have the Corsair iCUE 22T Airflow chassis on the market that meets this need.

Here we see this completely disassembled front, which we are just afraid to pull towards us from the side edges and it will come out very easily. The truth is that access to work is perfect, very comfortable and here we do see its advantages.

We can also look at the Corsair 275R Airflow dust filter, which is almost the best we've seen. It is built in fine mesh to filter the air to the maximum and in a high quality rigid white plastic frame. Its placement is based on two lower legs and an upper magnetized area. Behind it, we have three 120mm (or 2 for 140mm) fan slots with two included basic fans, in turn installed inside the chassis.

Now we turn to see the upper area, which has a huge hole to install fans that blow air out. In it, we can fit two 120 mm fans or one of 140 mm. You will see in the photo that physically there is a hole for another 140 mm although the holes are not made. But the reason for not putting it is due to having the motherboard installed here, and the fan profile would collide with it.

In any case, a thick and magnetic mesh metallic dust filter has been placed to be perfectly fixed to the area.

The Corsair 275R Airflow I / O panel has the following controls and ports:

• 2x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A 3.5mm Audio Combo Jack + Microphone Power Button RESET Button

To finish the external aspect we will take care of studying the back and the lower area. Starting at the rear, we see interesting details such as the ability to install vertical GPUs with a maximum thickness of 2 slots, and the corresponding 7 horizontal expansion slots for ATX boards. The upper part will be occupied by a basic 120mm fan that comes pre-installed in air exhaust mode as always.

We go to see the bottom of the chassis, which has another excellent fine mesh filter installed on a plastic frame and fixed by side rails to the area. If we go further to the right, then we will see four screws that hold the internal hard drive cabinet to the chassis. This time it is not allowed to slide to expand the PSU area, so if we have a greater than 180 mm, we will have to remove it.

The legs on the other hand are covered with rubber on the support part and with a chrome-plated plastic on its circumference, which gives the chassis a very elegant appearance. This detail is exactly the same as that of the Carbide 275R.

Interior and assembly

Let's just go inside the Corsair 275R Airflow where we see an identical structure again to the Carbide model, what 's more, the space available inside it is exactly the same in terms of hardware. As in the exterior, the entire interior is painted in pure white, really elegant and very well designed.

In the wiring holes, of which we find three, we have soft rubber protections, although this time they are black to contrast with the rest of the cabin. Likewise, the fans and the slot plates are also black. We also do not forget to see the small gap that has been left to put the CPU cables through the upper left corner.

Let's see more details such as the large hole that allows us to work on heatsinks without removing the motherboard. Or a huge hole to be able to mount thick profile radiators in the front area, of these that are available in the Corsair Hydro X, although later we will see that this chassis will not be the most suitable for this type of system.

This gap will allow us to install motherboards of ATX, Micro ATX and Mini ITX formats, so no trace of the E-ATX as expected due to the dimensions. Similarly, we can install CPU heatsinks of 170 mm as maximum height, graphics cards up to 370 mm and ATX power supplies up to 180mm. Then we will see that the entrance hole of the sources is completely free and with a loose size, which we greatly appreciate.

Storage capacity

Without much more to comment on the general characteristics of the main space of the Corsair 275R Airflow, let's see the details about the storage, where we will not find surprises either.

In the first instance, the traditional metal cabinet with two bays has been installed in the CPU compartment. In it, we can fit two 3.5 ” HDD drives or two 2.5” HDD or SSD drives. This is thanks to incorporating two perfectly removable plastic trays that will allow us to install the units without removing the cabinet. Let us take into account again that, if we want to install a larger PSU, we will have to uninstall this cabinet, since it does not allow to change its position or place.

We now move to the right area just behind the plate, where we have two brackets installed in the form of black plates. These can be removed by loosening a thumb screw to install up to two 2.5 ”SSD or HDD drives.

Now we make an excursion to the most front part of the chassis, where we have two other lateral openings enabled to install two 2.5-inch SSD or HDD units. The total count, therefore, will be a maximum of 6 storage units, of which 6 may be 2.5 "or 2 3.5" and 4 2.5 ". It is nothing but not bad, although there would still be a hole on the top of the PSU to place even more discs.

Refrigeration

We turn to look below at the cooling capacity of the Corsair 275R Airflow chassis, which is supposed to be optimized to generate superior airflow.

Let's start by citing the space available for fans:

• Front: 3x 120mm / 2x 140mm Top: 2x 120mm / 1x 140mm Rear: 1x 120mm

In the front area something curious happens that is worth mentioning. And it is that the front supports fans of both sizes, but if you look, we can see that the circle is adjusted to the diameter of 120 mm. So if we put 140mm fans, part of the blades will be covered by the sheet metal and will not improve the flow.

In the upper area, as we already mentioned, physically there is space for two 140 mm fans, what happens? Well, the chassis is narrow and the location of the opening causes the profile of the second fan to hit the motherboard, whatever for design reasons.

In general lines we can conclude that this chassis is not the most suitable for installing 140 mm fans unless we have some left over there for the upper area. We recommend, for example, put one more in the front or even buy a triple RGB fan kit with an iCUE controller included as the one that comes with it, although for that we go directly to the Corsair iCUE 220T that comes out for a much better price.

The cooling capacity will also be quite good:

• Front: 120/140/240/280 / 360mm Top: 120/140 / 240mm Rear: 120mm

Regarding the cooling capacity, it is just what a space of these characteristics supports, being again limited in the formats that use a width of 140 mm. For this reason, we recommend opting for the 240 or 360 mm all-in-one configurations, for example, the Corsair H100i Platinum SE that would be fabulous in this white chassis.

Luckily the space to install front radiators is quite wide, even supporting thick profile radiators for custom systems. What's more, we see it as an attempt to create a tank in the lateral area, but the space will be automatically eliminated if we install a radiator with fans here. In short, we also do not recommend this chassis for custom cooling systems like Hydro X, for this there are many better options.

Installation and assembly

Now we are going straight to the assembly of our example bench in Corsair iCUE 220T RGB Airflow, which consists of the following elements:

• Asus Crosshair VII X470 ATX motherboard and 16GB RAMAMD Ryzen 2700X memory with RGB stock heatsink AMD Radeon RX 5700PSU Corsair AX860i graphics card

A configuration as we see high-end with a fairly large graphics card and that gets considerably hot.

With an eye toward the completed assembly, we recommend always starting with the power supply. In this chassis even more, because the hole to pull the CPU cables to the board is tiny, and with it on we will complicate the matter. This 150mm PSU we have had no problem getting into the box, the space is more than enough and the HDD cabinet does not hinder anything.

It is also important to comment that the fans do not have any type of multiplier included, so all of them must be directly connected to the board. Unless, of course, we buy one on our own. For this reason, I consider this small detail a drawback, since, if we want to complete the space with the 6 admissible fans, we are going to have a mess of cables on the important board.

The rear space is about 3 cm thick for cables through the widest area. It is acceptable, and we have good space to fix the cables with clips. However, we are missing as always a somewhat more sophisticated routing system, for example, a few velcro strips for the central trunk.

Finally we will install the front panel connectors, which in this case we have the RESET and POWER connectors for the F_Panel, the USB 3.1 Gen1 connector, the front Audio header and the three separate fan headers.

Final score

Mounting on the Corsair 275R Airflow is complete, and we have had no problems with the chosen parts. More than enough space for GPU and PSU and enough holes to pull cables. Only a little lighting is missing, but the vision of the glass inwards is perfect.

Final words and conclusion about Corsair 275R Airflow

The Corsair Airflow range seems to be here to stay, and we will surely see more of these chassis launch on the market. It is a wise bet by the manufacturer, in order to increase the options that provide a higher air flow than previous models, for example, the Carbide 275R on which this chassis is based.

The overall design is elegant and restrained, except for that aggressive and futuristic fully removable front and very open to give way to the air. One of the extra benefits is that we have 3 pre-installed 120mm fans, generating a very good factory airflow for hardware prone to heat. Dust filters are also a delight, in construction and dirt insulation.

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It is a compact chassis and does not support E-ATX board or cooling tanks, although it offers perfect capacity for high-end sources, GPUs and heatsinks. It also has space for 6 very well located hard drives, although the 3.5 ”cabinet is in a fixed position.

We can consider as a disadvantage not having a multiplier for fans, forcing us to connect them to the base bale. A microcontroller in this type of chassis for fan control would be a great option and one that would enhance that “Airflow” distinction.

We still do not have reliable news about the price of this Corsair 275R Airflow, but we hope that it will be around 80 euros at most. It would be a great option for users who want to prioritize ventilation in a compact and elegant chassis, although if they want lighting, they should opt for the iCUE 220T Airflow.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ 3 FANS INCLUDED	- MULTIPLIER IS NOT INCLUDED TO CONNECT FANS
+ EXCELLENT DUST AND AIRFLOW FILTERS	- THE FRONT MAY LIKE A LOT OR NOTHING
+ DESIGN IN WHITE OR BLACK WITH FULLY TRANSPARENT GLASS	- DOES NOT HAVE ANY KIND OF LIGHTING
+ CAPACITY FOR ENOUGH AMOUNT OF HARDWARE
+ EXCELLENT CONSTRUCTION

The Professional Review team awards him the gold medal:

Corsair 275R Airflow

DESIGN - 83%

MATERIALS - 86%

WIRING MANAGEMENT - 82%

PRICE - 85%

84%