Corsair 2500D Airflow Small-Tower mATX PC Case

It’s a breeze to build in. I’m water cooling a GPU so the included 120mm area is a great place for the radiator. All in all a win for Corsair. My son has a Corsair mid ATX airflow case and I was shocked at how quiet it was. So I thought I’d give Corsair another shot. I used a Corsair 540 for years. Switched to Lian Li for a few years and now I’m right back to where I started. Not disappointed at all.

I’ve messed around with this case using a Project Zero b650. (I would not recommend this case for a normal matx or itx board). Works fine, but has some very strange design flaws. For one, I have a thick gpu (Sapphire Nitro +) and if I added bottom fans to the case, they are closer than what I would like (that doesnt even include a gpu bracket).

The front does 140mm fans, BUT only 25mm thick!!! I could not fit Lian Li 140’s in the front at all. If you want thicker fans, you have to mount 120s in front. You’ll also notice the ugly metal plate for the front fans. Its boxy looking and hides a good part of the case fan. Why they didnt just use side rails or something is beyond me. I hate the way it looks personally.

In fact I bought the glass front instead, which does look so much better. Cuts down on air coming into the case though, if you cant fit bottom fans. The back side is perfect for a 240 aio (I even mounted the Hyte thicc Y60 there and it fit). If you use it just for fans, there’s a lot of room in that area, since it sits far back into the case.

One good thing about this case though, is a lot of options for hiding chained fan cables. That did work out really well.

The vertical mount is a joke (dont bother). They send you a new backplate and riser cable that sits on 2 extended poles only. You cannot have bottom fans and the vertical mount. Also, the floor of the case is insanely flimsy and thin. So when you do mount a heavy gpu vertically, the bottom sags and so does your card. Also you have to look at an ugly space below the gpu with just 2 black rods.

The other weird thing, is the placement of the openings for gpu and psu cables. Mine was fine because of the back connect mobo. If you have a regular mobo, the cables are going to extend pretty far and it will look odd (esp itx).

The psu placement is goofy. It sits low, so it blocks the bottom ports on the project zero board. All they had to do was raise it, so it sat in the middle between the top and bottom ports. I have a new Thermaltake dual chamber case, that seats the psu perfectly! But, they have a drive cage there. It serves no purpose as you cant use it with a back connect mobo anyways. They should have left that out completely so they could seat the psu better.

Then there’s the expensive decorative panels. I tried the aluminum one, and they are very flimsy and not worth the money. They also dont mount well on top and you can see them lift up a bit when using the usb ports. I just sent them back and vinyl wrapped the steel ones instead. (the top usb ports are garbage too, they are very tight or crooked and it takes some force to insert ore remove any usb).

I was excited for this case, but it’s badly thought out (and unnecessarily heavy too). I’ve already swapped it for a Thermaltake View 380 TG. Definitely NOT worth the price Corsair is asking. Thermaltakes was almost half the price and does everything so much better! Of course now a month later, Amazon has dropped the price big time. What I get for buying one at launch.