Corsair carbide 175r rgb review in Spanish (full analysis)

Corsair comes with more for chassis enthusiasts, and now it's time for the Corsair Carbide 175R RGB. This chassis offers very good performance for the mid-range ATX format with a customizable RGB fan and a large darkened tempered glass panel on its side. Very good modularity, cabinet for discs and PSU and fully removable front are some of its details. Stay a while longer to see our review, without further ado, let's get started!

But first, we must thank Corsair for the assignment of this beautiful chassis to be able to make our review.

Corsair Carbide 175R RGB technical characteristics

Unboxing and design

We have already had the opportunity to test the new Carbide 678C more oriented to professional use, and now it is the turn for this very versatile and economical chassis with good features and finishes as we will see now.

As always, we will start this review of Corsair Carbide 175R RGB with the Unboxing of the chassis. We already know that they are not too complicated, since we only found a neutral cardboard box with Corsair's own screen printing, consisting of a sketch of the chassis next to the logo, and another sketch with the chassis disassembled in a modular way.

What we will have to do is open the box, and firmly grasp the two expanded polystyrene corks that protect the chassis and remove everything. Then we will remove them, and we will do the same with the plastic bag full of static electricity and the protective plastic for the glass and front.

In addition to the box, we only find the instruction manual and the box of screws and clips. We will not have any kind of extra cable or anything like that, since the RGB cable of the fan is already pre-installed in it.

Well, once all the protection elements have been removed, we already have the Corsair Carbide 175R RGB at its best in front of us. It is clearly a chassis in a medium tower format, or middle tower, which offers us measures of 418 mm long or deep, 450 mm high and 210 mm wide. In addition, it has an unladen weight of 6.1 Kg, so we can say that it is a fairly light chassis for which we are used to.

The materials that have been used begin with a steel chassis that in this case is not too thick, plastic elements for the front casing, and tempered glass for the left side seen from the front. No surprise in this regard we should say.

As usual, let's start on the left side first. In this, Corsair has incorporated a 4mm thick tempered glass panel that completely occupies that area, except the front casing. It offers us a quite forceful darkening, so much so that you hardly see what is inside.

The method of fixing is the traditional one, with those four screws in the corners with manual threaded fixing. At the same time, it is attached to rubber protections to avoid breakage and vibrations.

Corsair Carbide 175R RGB offers us a renewed front and something different from the rest of the Carbide range, traditionally square. In this case, the lateral edges are made up of three planes with the edges finished in a bevel with better aesthetics and finesse. In addition, the finish is PVC plastic with a brushed metal effect in a dark gray, different and very beautiful.

In the lateral and upper area is where the air inlets are located, with separate holes protected by a thick dust filter and which also greatly facilitates the safe removal. Finally, in the central area we have the Corsair logo that will light up thanks to the action of the RGB fan installed here.

The right side is made up of a sheet steel panel approximately one millimeter thick with reinforced edges. It will simply be fastened with two rear thumb screws and the traditional side tabs that fit into the chassis.

Note that on no side of this tower do we have ventilation openings, something that has also changed compared to previous Carbide models.

Well, we continue with the upper part of this Corsair Carbide 175R RGB where we will have somewhat more interesting elements than on the sides. To start, the entire central upper area is provided with an opening with support for 120 and 140 mm fans, in addition to liquid cooling. It also features a flexible, medium-grain magnetic metal filter to curb larger specks of dust.

And in the most advanced area, but always behind the front case we will have the tower I / O panel, which has the following ports and buttons:

• 2x USB 3.1 Gen1 3.5mm Mini Jack port for all-in-one headphone and microphone Power button RESET button

Well, it would be, it is not much, and the truth is that we miss at least two other USB 2.0 ports that complete the connectivity of the chassis. Here we can also better see this front opening for the air passage, with a great design aesthetically speaking, although many lower corners where the dirt will remain.

The back area is as follows, and we have more or less the same as always. The upper area dedicated to the game for the board's port panel next to the hole for a 120mm fan, the central area with 7 expansion slots, and the lower area dedicated to fixing the power supply.

Well, the first thing to keep in mind is that we do not have a rear fan pre-installed, something that almost 90% of current chassis offer, and here it is very necessary to have one. The second issue is that we do not have vertical GPU support, although we see a die-cut area, it only serves for ventilation. And finally we will have to introduce the PSU through the right side, something that is a tradition at Corsair.

To finish the external description, we go to the lower area, where we have the four legs in the first instance, protected with not too large rubber heels. A fine dust filter has been installed in the rear center part in the air suction opening of the power supply. In addition, it is an integral frame that we can remove just by pulling back. Excellent design and ease of handling.

We continue, because if we look at the central-left part, we see four screws that correspond to the fastening of the internal hard drive cabinet. The positive aspect is that we can move it about two cm forward easily. Finally we have a hole exactly like the upper one in the front of the chassis, of course to put your hand in and pull it out.

Interior and assembly

Now it's time to take a closer look at the interior of this Corsair Carbide 175R RGB to see what it is capable of giving us, and see in detail the process and curiosities. Let's see what hardware we have mounted inside:

• AMD Ryzen 2700X with Stock heatsink RTX 2060 Ventus16GB DDR4PSU Corsair AX860i

What has been a medium-high range gaming equipment, although without a hard disk, since it does not have much use to mount it either.

Let's remember that it is an ATX chassis and we will have enough space to enter practically what we want. In this case we have the power supply compartment located in the lower area, and with an upper opening in case we want to turn it inside out, or have the fan inverted.

In addition, the space is quite aesthetically careful, something that is not usual in this type of mid-range chassis, a symbol that the competition is getting tougher and manufacturers have to offer an extra. And this extra comes in the form of cable slots protected with black rubber, opening for on-site heatsink installation, bolted expansion plates, and free recess for introducing large cooling.

In fact, this Corsair Carbide 175R RGB supports Mini ITX, Micro-ATX and ATX size motherboards. We then lose the ability to install E-ATX. Similarly, it supports graphics cards up to 330mm, CPU coolers up to 160mm, and power supplies up to 180mm. And the truth is that 180 mm is little space for PSU, but the trick is to remove the disk cabinet, if we do we will have everything we want.

Space for ventilation and cooling

Let us now go to know the details and benefits in terms of ventilation. And we are going to take advantage to fully open the front.

Well, the only fan that we will have pre-installed in this chassis is the one on the front, specifically it is a configuration in 120 mm and with addressable RGB lighting thanks to the compatibility it offers with the chassis, through an RGB header 4-pin.

The positive aspect of being able to completely remove the front, is that we can work very well in the entire area, in order to install more ventilation elements. And another good thing is also the possibility of doing it between the casing and the cassis, instead of the inner zone. Also, we think the upper and lower openings are acceptable for introducing enough fresh air, but a denser filter would have been better for insulation.

We start with the chassis fan capacity:

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

What do we miss? Well obviously a fan in the back, we did not ask for anything special, just a basic 120 mm, as it will certainly be needed. Also keep in mind that the fans that you install in isolation must be plugged into the board itself, unless they have a MOLEX or SATA connector, since we do not have a microcontroller or hub included.

And the capacity for liquid cooling will be as follows:

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

Well, we will practically have compatibility with all Liquid AIOs available on the market, since it is not common to find greater than 360 mm. In addition, we see it very successful to place this hole in the front that allows us this wide compatibility.

Some things to keep in mind about the cooling on this Corsair Carbide 175R RGB, is that we have liquid support on top. You will know that hot air weighs less than cold, so it always has to come out through the highest part naturally. Therefore, we recommend placing a possible liquid cooling in the front area, capturing less hot air to take it outside, and letting the upper area do the work by itself, whether it is suction or exhaust.

On the other hand, since it does not have a rear fan, this part does not have forced air flow. It is important to have one either to put in or take out, for the simple fact that natural convection is not enough for example in gaming. Buy one, or get it from your old chassis. Another thing that you will have noticed is that, in the upper area, with the board in place, a 140 or 240 mm AIO system will be compromised by space, due to the available gap between the board and the top.

And the truth is that we do not see too much use for the PSU sharing grid. What do we get by putting a fan in there? Well, possibly get hot air from hard drives and a source, so better forget about it.

Storage space

Precisely speaking of the previous grid, it would have been interesting to place here a bracket to install a 2.5-inch SSD hard drive, and thus decorate this empty space. In any case, Corsair Carbide 175R RGB offers us a good disk capacity for almost all users. All of them must be accessed from the right side of the chassis.

Let's look at the 3.5-inch disk capacity first. We have a small metal cabinet next to the PSU that offers us a mounting system using removable trays. Well here we will have enough space for two 3.5-inch drives (HDD).

But, in addition, in these trays we can install 2.5-inch drives, either SSD or HDD, with the four holes we see located there. If we prefer, we can also install a maximum of two 2.5-inch SSD units in the plate on the back of the plate, where we have an anchor element for a disk of this type. Although it may not seem like it, next to it there is another space available, but in the purchase bundle, a second anchor element is not included.

Installation and assembly

Well, the first thing we recommend mounting is always the power supply, since it is better to throw the necessary cables through the holes that we see best under our taste. Since with the introduced hardware it will be somewhat more complicated to do it. In these 210 mm width of the Corsair Carbide 175R RGB, we will have a lateral space for cable management of approximately 25 or 30 mm thick.

The good thing is that, with so many holes available in the chassis, we will not have too many problems even putting the hardware before. In the lateral area we can count a total of 6 holes, three in the upper area without protection and another three in the vertical area. To this we add another one about the PSU.

We also have quite a few small openings that we can use to fix the cables using clips to the sheet metal. In this case we do not have any advanced cable routing system, so we will have to take advantage of the available gaps and our ingenuity. Something we should note is that to introduce a normal-size PSU, we must move the disk bays to one side, otherwise it will not fit.

Otherwise, we have had no problems in the installation process. As you can see, it is quite clean and with good finishes due to the protection of the gaps and also well distributed for the main connectors such as ATX and EPS.

Now we have few elements, but if we add fans and hard drives, things will get complicated, but we can already see that there is plenty of space for cables throughout this part. By the way, let's not forget to connect the front fan to the motherboard, both the RGB header (if your board supports RGB), and the three-pin header for motor rotation.

Final score

Tell us what you think about the end result of this chassis mounted and with the lighting activated. For us, we see a clear improvement in terms of the appearance of other Carbides, but this is a matter of taste, with less accentuated front edges and a rather elegant design.

Final words and conclusion about Corsair Carbide 175R RGB

We come to the end of this review of the Corsair Carbide 175R RGB chassis, where we see a good update on the family design and the introduction of more details such as the protective rubbers, a larger and darkened glass or a fully removable front with a Great finish imitating brushed aluminum on this front.

Wiring and routing management is virtually unchanged from models in the same range, with gaps to spare on the entire side, as well as a configuration divided into separate modules. If we miss a better management of the gap of the PSU, since, 180 mm seems to us quite little, and we even have problems to put normal sources, having to move other elements.

Another important aspect is that of ventilation, the truth is that we have full support for 120 and 140 mm fans and cooling of up to 360 mm in front. We also have a 120mm fan included and with compatible RGB lighting thanks to a 4-pin header. But we are missing more, at least one in the back, and why not, two in the front.

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Supports up to four 2.5-inch drives or two 3.5 + 2 2.5-inch drives. It is exactly what we should ask for, and also the situation of these is correct. But a 2.5 ”bay above the PSU compartment wouldn't have hurt, or included the second adapter for rear SSD installation. Also the I / O panel would have been more interesting with two other USB 2.0 ports.

Finally, we will find Corsair Carbide 175R RGB in the Corsair online store for a price of 64.90 euros. We consider it to be an interesting option for mid-range gaming assemblies, due to its design, lightness and good hardware capacity. It is also a fairly tight price and, in addition to the inclusion of some elements that we have raised, we can not ask for more.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ SOBER AND ELEGANT DESIGN	- ONLY ONE PRE-INSTALLED FAN
+ GOOD PRICE FOR WHAT IT OFFERS	- FRONT PANEL SOME LOW CONNECTIVITY
+ GOOD COOLING CAPACITY	- LITTLE SPACE FOR THE PSU
+ INDEPENDENT REMOVABLE FRONT
+ IDEAL FOR MEDIUM RANGE GAMING CONFIGURATION

The Professional Review team awarded him the silver medal

Corsair Carbide 175R RGB

DESIGN - 82%

MATERIALS - 78%

WIRING MANAGEMENT - 77%

PRICE - 79%

79%