Khumail Thakur | 4 Nov 2025 02:36 PM
Building a top-tier PC these days feels less like a hobby and more like managing a tiny, inefficient power plant. Your graphics card and processor are basically two tiny suns trapped in a metal box, furiously fighting over the same stale, warm air. Corsair’s Air 5400 has decided the solution is simple: give your components some personal space.
The AIR 5400 is a mid-tower case with a triple-chamber layout. It’s designed to isolate the hottest parts from each other to boost performance and, hopefully, quieten things down. So, why three rooms? The real genius is the new, third chamber dedicated entirely to your CPU's liquid cooler (AIO).
Most cases force you to mount your AIO in the roof, where it’s forced to inhale all the hot air your GPU has just spat out. This is, to use a technical term, a bit rubbish for efficiency. The AIR 5400 scraps that by putting a dedicated AIO chamber at the front. This spot, designed for a 360mm radiator, pulls in fresh, cool air from outside the case, chills your processor, and then immediately exhausts the resulting warm air through a side vent. This means your CPU cooling is totally independent of your GPU, which should deliver far superior performance.
Your beefy graphics card isn't left out. It gets its own isolated chamber with a cavernous 430mm of clearance, so even the biggest cards have room to breathe. To feed it, three pre-installed reverse-rotor fans are mounted at the bottom, firing a direct jet of cold air straight into the GPU's intakes.
The third chamber is the 'utility cupboard', tucked neatly behind the motherboard. This is where you stash your power supply, storage drives, and all the cable spaghetti. It features Corsair’s 'RapidRoute 2.0' pegboard system to make cable management easy, and even has full support for those new reverse-connector motherboards for a ridiculously clean build.
It looks the part, too. The case comes in black or white and features wraparound glass panels that swing open, giving you a panoramic view of your handiwork. You can get it with standard ARGB fans or a swankier iCUE LINK version that comes with smart, single-cable-managed fans and a System Hub. The Corsair Air 5400 is available now in India for ₹18,999 and comes with a two-year warranty.