 Graphite. It's not quite as strong as obsidian, but it's still pretty cool because you can actually put it in pencils and write with it. And apparently you can also brand a Corsair case with graphite. So this is the Graphite Series 600T from Corsair. I've received, yes I know you know what I'm about to say, but I'm going to say it anyway, I have received endless requests to unbox and do a first look video of this case. I actually should have had one sooner, but it looks like it got lost in the mail or something terrible happened. And I didn't have one until now, but I finally do and we are going to run it through the paces. So I'm doing the unboxing portion of the video now, where I unbox, and then we will proceed in just a moment with looking at the case and doing the first look part of the video. Now I've actually seen one in person already, so I cheated a little bit. So it will not quite be my first look, but it might be your first look and it will certainly be my first hands on. So first let's have a look at the box itself. You can see that Corsair actually conveniently labels all of the features that they want to talk about on this case here. So you've got dual 200mm fans provided, that is one on the top and one in the front by the look of things. We've got easily accessible dust filters and oh they make maintenance simple and hassle free. Okay that's terrific. We've got actually here cameraman if you want to look at the picture and then I'll kind of read them out. We've got quick release side panels just like the 800D although it looks like a different mechanism. We have an integrated fan controller that allows you to adjust for either performance or silence. Four tool free optical bays and up to six SSD ready hard drive trays. CPU back plate cutout allows you to take out your CPU cooler or install a new one without actually removing the motherboard which is brilliant. As well as the brilliant cable routing system which just like the 800D is really almost the most critical part of case design after aesthetics in my opinion. Because it's such an important part of aesthetics. Adjustable drive cages, room for long power supplies and eight expansion slots. Giving you room even for those new XL ATX motherboards from the likes of Gigabyte. Cameraman is giving me a hard time about how long we've been doing an unboxing without finishing up opening the box. As you can see it comes in wow this is like two inch thick foam all around the entire case. So this thing will make it to you and it will not be destroyed on its way. I have failed at unboxing. It is upside down. That's okay I can flip it over. It's okay. So I'm just gonna do that. There we are. Here it is in all of its glory the Corsair Graphite 600T. So let's do our exterior impressions first. So cameraman if you want to come in and have a look at the front. You can see the entire front of the case is a dust filtered meshed finish. So that means that you're gonna have excellent airflow coming from the front of the case. You've got your four optical bays here in the top. And then down here you can clearly see there is a cooling fan installed behind this mesh. And we'll have a closer look at that once we open it up. On the top of the case we've got four USB 2.0 ports. As well as that fan controller knob that they were talking about on the outside of the box. A headphone port, microphone port, USB 3.0 super speed port as well as firewire. And then finally a hard drive LED. There's a power switch here. A reset switch here. They both have satisfying clicks to them. And then we've got, yes, more cooling, more mesh. Corsair is serious about the cooling. It's a gaming oriented company. So it makes sense that this case is going to be geared towards gamers. We'll move around to the back of the case. You can see the side panels are quite clear. This is not a windowed case. Although, as we're about to find out, just because there's no window doesn't mean you can't have a nice in. We've got a 120mm cooling fan which would be perfect for an H50 or an H70. We've got room for our I.O. shield. Then we have eight PCI expansion slots. Two little water cooling grommets. As well as room to install a standard ATX power supply. On the other side of the case we will find nothing out of the ordinary. And I guess we might as well have a quick look at the bottom. You see I'm having trouble twisting it around. It's because it has these great rubber feet on the bottom. That are going to keep it from sliding off your desk or having any other kinds of difficulties with the case. See? They're very good. I can put all my weight on it. Not that I weigh a lot. Although we did just have Thanksgiving up here so I had a lot of turkey. Side panel. You can see right here there's not a whole lot of flex to it. You expect a little bit. But Corsair really doesn't skimp on the materials. And you can see the way that their latch works is quite robust. A lot of the time you look at these tool free mechanisms and you just go, yep, that's going to break. This does not look like that is going to be the case. So we'll take off that side panel. Take off the other side panel so we can get a really clear look at what we're dealing with here. And let's have a look at the inside. So we find zip tied to the inside or rather twist tied to the inside. An instruction manual. As well as some accessories. So cameraman can sort of take you on a silent video tour of the inside of the case while I look at the accessories. And decide which ones are noteworthy enough to talk about. Alright, I'm done. Cameraman come back. Okay, we have keys. So this is to lock the side panel of the case so that thieves cannot steal your stuff. Excellent. At least I think so. Then we have some black zip ties for managing your cables. They include probably about enough to do a typical build. Then we have motherboard screws as well as other screws that you will need. Fan screws and then some rubber grommets. Okay, let's have a look at the interior. So here we go. This has become sort of Corsair's trademark thing. These silicone rubbery grommety things. So you install your power supply here. And then basically these allow you to route cables wherever you could possibly want them to go. So you take them right out here or through this cut out here. You bring out your 24 pin here. You bring out your 8 pin up here. You bring out your optical drive connectors way up here. So it means that you never have to see cables running anywhere. All you see is that the cable goes in this and then it comes out exactly where it needs to be. And they've included ample space on the back of the motherboard tray. And this one drives me nuts when manufacturers do this. When they create cable routing options and then there isn't actually really enough space on the back to route the cable. Like you look, there's quite a bit of space there. So if you're running a 24 pin cable, you're actually going to be able to close your panel. I've seen cases that have room to route a 24 pin cable on the back. And you can't close the panel once you've actually got it back here. They've also got a couple little loops where you can install zip ties here, here and here. So you can use those to make sure that the cables stay down flat when you're running them up the back of the case. Here are the connectors for all of your internal, so all of your front panel connectors. You can see they're all sleeved in black. And there's a lot of them. I already covered what's up there, so I don't really need to tell you too much more about that. The front panel fan controller is here. And we're about to find out, because I have no idea to be perfectly honest with you, how many fans it can control. And the answer is four. So there's two included fans here, another one here, and then it looks like you can...oh, and another one here. So by default...no, that's power. So by default you can control the three included fans and then one additional one with the fan controller knob. And then this looks like power for the fan controller knob itself. Okay, so here we have six 3.5 inch hard drive installation trays. I'm going to go ahead and pull one of those out from the other side. And I think I'm actually going to turn the case around, because we've seen everything that we need to see from that side. And by turn the case around, I mean turn the camera man around, because that's sort of more effective. Now you can see these have a bit of a flimsy look to them, but I've seen these before. As soon as you install a hard drive in them, they firm right up. You slide them in. Boom, your hard drive's installed. It's completely tool-less. And you see how they jiggle now? Once a hard drive's in there, they will not move. They're actually a very ingenious design, and I really, really like them. Here at the front we have that one 200 millimeter fan, and then up in the top we have an...oh, I'm sorry, hold on. Then we have another 200 millimeter fan up in the top. You can see it has a good number of blades on it. And it is quite nice looking, although you do not have to use those fans. It looks like we've got mounting holes for potentially a variety of other sizes of fans for the top, so that's pretty cool too. There's the 120 millimeter fan that I showed you from the back, and here's the little design by Corsair logo. So you can actually see that is right below the...camera man...that is right below the CPU cutout. So that's quite a large CPU cutout. No matter where your socket is located, you will be able to remove the backplate and remove the CPU cooler without any hassle. Here is our tool-free 5.25 inch bay device installation and removal gadgets. There, that's, I think what they're called on the Corsair sheet, although probably not. So you pull that out, you pull your drive out, you push that in after you put it in, and that installs your drive. It's that simple. And you can actually put in a screw from the other side if that's not quite secure enough, or if you're going to ship the system, or anything like that. I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the 600T. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look, and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips. Camera man and I found a few more things off camera. First of all, this is removable, so you can reach the fan in the front. You can clean the dust filter, which is part of this little panel with the Corsair branding on it. There's also a removable dust filter in the bottom, which I showed you before, but didn't really talk about. So you can take that out, just like the 800D. You can remove that, clean it, all that good stuff. And then this whole panel is actually removable as well. You just click down on it, and then you can use the key that I talked about, but I couldn't find the keyhole for, to lock the side panel or to unlock it. So that is all I wanted to say about the 600T.