Corsair Spec 04, CX750 & H60 – The Perfect System Starter Kit?

A Closer Look

The Spec-o4 is a lovely little chassis for such a small investment. It’s hardly the best Corsair make, but you could certainly do worse for the same money. With a tempered glass window, it’s perfect for showing off your lovely system build too. The red highlights on the front panel are a bit “gamer” for my own taste. However, I can certainly see the appeal. Corsair does an all-black version for something a little more understated too. It’s a bit basic though, with just a single built-in fan, but if you’re adding an AIO, that’s hardly an issue here. It’ll support a radiator in the front or rear, with two 120mm fans in the top also. Of course, that gives you plenty of room to expand a decent gaming PC in the future.

Its stylish front panel looks pretty unique and with most gaming hardware still having a black and red aesthetic, it’ll be easily paired with similar hardware.

Example Hardware

This isn’t a “you should build this PC” feature, you’re expected to have your own system ready to install or be planning your own build in some other way. However, we went with a Ryzen 1700X build using the ASUS Crosshair VI Hero motherboard; one of the better X370 solutions on the market. Pair that with some lovely Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 ram; for no other reason than the red matched the chassis if I’m honest.

Stripping out the side panels for installation, I kept with that subtle red theme using the AMD Radeon Vega 56. Of course, I know it doesn’t install on the top of the chassis like that. Here you can also see that single 120mm fan in the front, it has red LED lighting too, so that should look great powered up.

With the motherboard and CPU installed, I chose to install the radiator up in the top of the chassis. Exhausting heat right out of way, and you could install it in the front or rear if you so desired. It only features a single 120mm fan, however, that’s more than enough for our chosen CPU.

Complete Build

The Spec 04 is very easy to work with. Overall from taking the chassis out of the box to having it boot took me around 25 minutes, although I have some experience in this, and would expect an hour for most users to bolt it all together. Again, kept this simple, nothing too fancy, but I think the end result speaks for its self. We’ve rolled out our Corsair peripherals from our other feature too, showing the whole ecosystem together.

The HS50 headset, still one of my favourite budget headsets. Maybe should have ordered a magnetic headphone stand to clip onto the chassis though, as this isn’t ideal, but it’s just for pictures; smile! Check out our full review of the HS50 here.

Tucked into the front of the chassis, we can see that lovely red LED fan. It’s not very bright, but it’s bright enough to add some flair to the build without overpowering the room with light.

LED Lighting

You can see it shines through the chassis nicely too, lighting up the GPU and motherboard with a warm light.

The H60 doesn’t have LED or RGB fans. However, it does have a light on the block which looks pretty neat and tidy. Corsair does have RGB models if you’re willing to pay a little more though. What I do love about this cooler though is that it’s pretty darn quiet for a cooler of this price. Mike was very happy with its price vs performance when he reviewed it a few months ago. Check out the review here.

Power Supply

The CX750 isn’t a modular PSU, so it does have all the cables hard-wired. However, the Spec-04 offered plenty of room cable stashing excess cables behind the motherboard.

As you can see, the build looks neat and tidy in there. The cable routing isn’t anything fancy, but it did a respectable job and the build looks worthy of showing off through the tempered glass panel.

Finally, we have the lovely K55 keyboard and Harpoon gaming mouse (on the MM330 mouse mat no less). We reviewed these a few weeks ago too, which you can check out here.

So there we have it, the Corsair ecosystem without spending a small fortune. It’s just nice to see some of these products together for a change, rather than in their own reviews weeks, months, even years apart in some cases.

Corsairs designs for their more affordable products stand up well and look oh so much improved next to their Corsair buddies. What do you think, is this the kind of build you would put together?