12TH-GEN DELIGHT BUILD

LENGTH OF TIME: 1-2 HOURS

LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: EASY

1 BACK TO BASICS

WE HAVE ANOTHER sweet-looking chassis to play with for this build. Thankfully, it’s a light case with many avenues to thread cables through. We remove both the front and back panels, top mesh filter, front grille, front filter, and case fans. Sounds like a heavy task but most of these are secured with thumbscrews and require a screwdriver at most.

We recommend resting the case down on its back when taking the front glass panel off to avoid dropping it. If we said we haven’t had accidents with glass panels, we’d be lying. Anyway, with just the Corsair’s 275R Airflow’s skeleton on show, we can get started on adding in the goodies.

2 ADDING THE LUNGS

any further, we put in the stock fans. We will always need an exhaust fan, so we added this first. With one of the three stock fans we have on offer, we secured this onto the case, with the face of the fan looking inward. This will pull the warm air from the machine away and out the back. For the other two, we screwed them onto the front of the case using the top two spaces, facing the same direction as the exhaust fan. The fans here will bring cooler air in from outside, creating a nice stream of air that flows through our