The left panel is windowed to show off those hot components. Corsair claims this design allows for unobstructed airflow to the hottest components of the PC inside. Corsair also had enough room to divide the interior of the Air 240 into two separate chambers: one for the motherboard, CPU, and graphics cards, and the other for SSDs, 3.5″ mechanical drives, and the power supply. The Air 240 has room for both Mini-ITX and microATX motherboards, while the 380T is limited to Mini-ITX motherboards only. The boxy design has its advantages, though. If Corsair carved the 380T’s curvaceous shape out of a block of clay, like a 1950s concept car, one could be forgiven for thinking that the Air 240’s conception stopped with the block. The Carbide Series Air 240 is about the same size as the Graphite Series 380T I reviewed earlier this year, with one major difference: it’s a box, or rectangular cuboid, if you prefer. Let’s take a look at what the Air 240 has to offer. Point is, none of this makes for good marketing copy, so I’ll let Corsair’s fast-and-loose definition of a cube slide. At best, it appears to be a rectangular cuboid, just like many other cases on the market. I jumped down this rabbit hole because Corsair calls its Carbide Series Air 240 a “cube case.” Even after I shattered my understanding of cubes by reading the page above, I feel fairly confident in saying that the Air 240 isn’t a cube. The Wikipedia article on cubes begins with a fairly intuitive definition, but it quickly branches into levels of complexity that my feeble brain isn’t quite built to navigate. What is a cube? The answer to this question is surprisingly complicated.
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