The Official Corsair Carbide 540 AIR Owners and Builds Thread

Hello everyone. I just built my first gaming PC last week. I bought one case because it was a cheaper option, and within 3 days of owning it i had issues with the case, and decided to get the Corsair 540. Love the case, it took less than an hour to get all the parts moved out of the old case and into this case. Love the ability to hide the wires in the back compartment.

Anyways, for those that don't want to look at the dropdown menu here are the specs:

I7-4790K

Hyper 212 evo

MSI GTX780 TF OC

MSI Z97-G45

Fury 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz

Kingston 120GB SSD

Seagate 1tb 7200rpm

eVGA 750W

Corsair 540

3x AF140L

3x AF120 Red LED

Bitfenix Alchemy multisleeve cable extensions

 

And here are a couple pictures.

Edited September 25, 2014 by HexesGaming

Now considering making mine totally carbon on the outside.

so even my 540 air rig is a combination of air and water, but I like it very good

 

built-in hardware

Asus Rampage 4 Black Edition

Intel 4820k 4.9 ghz

2x Asus GTX 780 DC2OC with bios mod

32 gb corsair dominator 2133 mhz

Corsair 1200i

 

 

EK Supremacy

2 x EK-FC780 GTX Ti DCII

But Laing DDC pump is also available at EKWB EK-DDC 3.25 (12V DC pump)

EK-DDC X-RES 140 CSQ - Acetal

Mayhems Pastel White

 

 

Edited August 27, 2014 by Crash-Over

Hi at all

 

I bought this case 1 year ago and started last week to "mod" a few things.

 

So here it is :)

 

http://i.imgur.com/Q4r1I6wl.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/cdRzEznl.jpg

Some pics of my 540 :)

 

3x AF140L LED in the front for better looking/airflow

4x SP120 LED in push/pull on a H100i

1x AF140L LED backwards

 

Controlled by a Commander Mini.

How did u fit 3 140mm in front ?

I took two aluminium stripes and drilled the holes for the fans. The top two screws und the lowest two screws connect the fans and the stripes directly.

The eight middle screws are screwed through the case (new wholes have to be drilled) so the stripes are fixed to the case and the fans are fixed to the stripes.

Further i had to cut the mounting points for the 120mm fans and cut out a little bit of the case at the bottom.

 

It's the first time I've attempted to get a reasonably neat build with lighting and coloured cabling etc. The pics aren't fantastic from my phone but they'll do for now.

 

The GPU LED backplates were made for me from this guy. Originally found the backplate on eBay then got this link to his artisan store http://www.overclock.net/t/1501480/gpu-cool-the-artisan-store-new-uni-mount-coming-soon

 

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp252/MadatMe2/My%20PC/Corsair%20Forums%20Pics/178291fd-4089-4ea0-aa7f-46fe793c2877_zps3b872c58.jpghttp://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp252/MadatMe2/My%20PC/Corsair%20Forums%20Pics/IMG_20140902_225234_zps4bdd90ac.jpg

 

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp252/MadatMe2/My%20PC/Corsair%20Forums%20Pics/IMG_20140902_225151_zpsd77cee33.jpghttp://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp252/MadatMe2/My%20PC/Corsair%20Forums%20Pics/IMG_20140806_195719_zpsa2c9c271.jpg

 

And a little closer look at the bottom plate that I created. Need to get an led strip to light up the logo from above or work out a way to light it up from underneath so that it glows.

 

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp252/MadatMe2/My%20PC/Corsair%20Forums%20Pics/11269e9c-29c4-473b-b18a-8862550d2516_zpsca6281b1.jpg

 

 

 

Build:

 

Corsair AIR 540 Black

Corsair AX1200i

Corsair H100i

AMD FX8350 4GHZ 8 core

Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0

AMD Radeon Gamer Series 16GB 2400MHz

Gigabyte AMD HD7970 Windforce 3GB

Gigabyte AMD R9 280X OC Windforce 3GB

2 x GPU-COOL LED backplate

Samsung SSD 840 series 500GB

Hitatchi 2.5" SATA2 160GB

NZXT Hue

NZXT Sentry Mix 2 fan controller

5 x Enermax Cluster Advance 120mm White LED fan

1 x Enermax Cluster 140mm White LED fan

3 x Fractal Design 50mm fan

Samsung External Blu-Ray writer

2 x Samsung SyncMaster 2492HS monitor

Razer Lycosa keyboard

Razer Lachesis mouse

Roccat Kave 5.1 headset

Microsoft XBOX360 gamepad

Logitech Driving Force GT steering wheel and pedals

Edited September 6, 2014 by MadatMe2

Nice and neat very good build

hey guys,

 

would like to present you my air 540 rig, which I had completed yesterday.

 

Some facts:

 

Intel Xeon E3-1231v3@

Corsair H100i w/ AF120 Silent Fans

Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 16GB

Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5

2x Asus R9 280 DC2T CF

Corsair AX860i

LG Bluray, 2,5" and 3,5" Docking Bay for HDDs

1x 250GB Velociraptor, 1x 3TB Black WD, 1x SSD 250GB Samsung EVO

modded with LED Flex Stripes by Revoltec

 

 

 

 

 

I know, my Camera is really crap, but i cannot grab my digicam for some reasons (nah.. forgotten at a party at my best friends house^^).

 

But I hope you like it!

 

Greetings from Hamburg, Ger

Edited October 14, 2014 by Yellowbeard

Thanks for posting but please resize your pictures before posting them.

 

Work in progress but here's my 540.

Edited November 17, 2014 by itchix
add picture

Work in progress but here's my 540.

 

nice WIP build

here's mine having installed the leds finally

 

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e152/wytnyt123/IMG_3395_zps3d2cf80f.jpg

Edited November 17, 2014 by wytnyt

Upgraded from my MSI GTX780 to the MSI GTX980 Gaming 4G and from 8gb HyperX to Corsair Vengeance 16gb 1600MHz.

Also have a Corsair K70 meyboard and Corsair M65 mouse on a MM200 XL mousepad.

 

Edited November 18, 2014 by Yellowbeard
Added pic to body of post.

Excellent! I added your pic to the body of the post.

I added a Hyper 212 evo with a spare SP120 I had laying around and some sleeved cables (that I need to manage better but still).

 

 

The more I work inside of this case the more and more I love how much space it has.

 

 

Added backplate to my graphics card.

 

 

 

Edited November 20, 2014 by itchix
Adding pictures

Thanks Yellowbeard

http://i.imgur.com/gc3989Zl.jpg?1

 

http://i.imgur.com/kO3dZCAl.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/bJpt6LNl.jpg

naaPaalm, super clean build, very nice. ::pirate::

Hey guy's. I'm new to this forum, I've been building for quite some time. Since I did this one out of a Corsair case I figured I'd share it with the Corsair community. I hope you like it.

 

Case: Corsair

CPU: i7 4930

MB: EVGA X79 Dark

GPU: GTX 690

Ram: 16GB G.Skilll Trident

SSD 1: OCZ 512gb Vertex 4

SSD2: OCZ 120gb Vertex 4

PSU: Corsair AX1200 w/custom blue sleeving

Tubing: Monsoon Hardline

Fittings: Monsoon Chaingun

Res: XSPC 140 W/D5 pump

Rads: 2x XSPC 280's

Fans: 5x Corsair 140mm

Fluid: Feaser 1 UV Blue

http://i.imgur.com/dSbA63S.png

http://i.imgur.com/U1SDAjK.png

http://i.imgur.com/wPRX5xn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/O6TRmZR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ZHBB0CP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/OgfUaR8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/q7BXpIZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/aM8G6Ca.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/M8cTekV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ng3FTrd.jpg

Edited December 5, 2014 by GFDuke

Sorry for the crappy photos.

Hi. New user here.

 

I'm a 540 owner since october,

and I really like it.

I removed the front 3.5" hd bays,

but needed to place them on the back.

I found this solution, which also lets me

install 2 fan controllers in the front.

 

Just remove the plastic lockers on the hd bay

and do some holes for screws:

 

http://i.imgur.com/9cetRMc.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/3nLg0XI.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/swWbVhn.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/SujtPKe.jpg

TheBear, have you had a chance to monitor HDD temps in your configuration? Just curious how they are doing. Slick and clean idea, though.