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here you go honey I thought you could use an upgrade ooh RGV and mechanical switches actually their membrane switches with the tactile click but what she doesn't know won't hurt her honey you must have spent a fortune not even close I'm not even mad at you for forgetting our anniversary yesterday it's true I did forget our anniversary but I more than made up for it last night not even close the master set ms 120 is the latest RGB mem Kanaka keyboard and mouse combo from coolermaster and for you lefties out there you can also snag the MS 121 with an ambidextrous Mouse come October click on the link in the description for more info what's going on guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well today I am building yet another system this time in a brand new case from the folks over at Coolermaster this is the H 500 P and as a lot of you guys already know this is sort of a throwback to the original half series cases from the same brand that were super popular back in the day around the 2010s early 2010's era actually when I first started getting into PC builds back then they were all the rage half is of course standing for high airflow and that's sort of the philosophy behind these cases is pushing and moving a lot of air through the chassis in order to cool the components effectively without necessarily the use of any sort of liquid so that's kind of cool we're gonna be taking a look at this brand new guy today very excited to be testing it out actually we won't be doing any hard testing but I will be doing like i said a physical build inside of it and letting you guys know as i'm building in real time what's working for me and what's not as usual so first off let's talk about the exterior because once I get into the build itself I'm not really gonna be focusing on the outside very much but first off we've got sort of a black and gray color scheme here all of the gray accents that you see here mainly for the top panel on the front panel they're pretty much a plastic construction that goes for the windows as well it might look like tempered glass at first but it is a tinted plastic on the front and top and they do remove quite easily so you want to be sure not to accidentally pop one off when you're trying to carry the case or something like that bad things could happen but there is plenty of ventilation on the top and front as well you can see that there's tons of mesh the mesh is not superfine they also that they act as a dust filter so when it gets clogged up you just take it off and take a can of compressed air and you can dust off the air filtration or the the mesh areas on both sides which seems to work very nicely additionally you've got tons of radio support first off let's talk about those fans I mean they're kind of hard to ignore you get a pair of 200 millimeter RGB fans I believe the case also comes with a splitter so you can connect up to three RGB devices to a single 5050 header on your motherboard so that's kind of really convenient additionally you can fit a 360 radiator at the front or the top you can also fit two hundred and eighty millimeter radiators so any combination of 120 s or 140 s should do just fine so plenty of water cooling support that's really nice to see and we also do have a beautiful tempered glass side panel you might notice that it is also tinted very much like the plastic front and top pieces but we don't have the typical four corner screws like we usually see on most of these cases with tempered glass instead you get a single screw in the middle that is not removable it's actually something that you just sort of twist yourself and well actually this is you know what this is one of the drawbacks to this design the good thing is that you don't have to deal with four screws it's just a single screw the bad thing is that you need a tool to do it's not fully toolless unless you find a way to loosen this maybe from the other side I tried loosening it briefly it didn't really work but I have a coin here and if you turn the screw 90 degrees or so the panel will fall down kinda like a drawbridge but it you can see here it sort of stops right right about there at a pretty steep angle so it doesn't accidentally hit the ground and shatter or something like that so it's kind of latched onto the bottom of the case and kind of adds for a nice little catcher right there and of course you can remove it and you're gonna see me remove it fully shortly but that is something to be aware of and then you just kind of turn it back into place and it pops on perfectly so that's really cool you also get a 140 millimeter included fan at the back of the chassis as well it's not RGB is just a standard black fan very color neutral all around and let's see there's also a dust filter for your power supply removable dust filter it is not magnetic just has that's on rail so you just slide it out like so Pop's in very easily seems high-quality enough it is made of plastic the feets elevation is pretty good too you get probably I'd say an inch and a half an inch and a half of space underneath your case just for fresh air air intake for your power supply specifically so that's also nice to see nothing really on the other side of the case it's just a regular black steel side panel and finally I guess I kind of overlooked it at first but the front I oh we should quickly mention we have a nice big power button and right next to that a much smaller kind of hard to press reset button which is by design I think and works very well I don't like my reset buttons to be easily pressed and we also have a pair of USB 3 and USB 2 ports so you get four in total and your audio and headphone jack at the front so that's all nice and dandy but that's pretty much gonna do it for the front I think it's gonna be polarizing this is the sort of aesthetic where whether or not you like the cosmetic of this case everyone's gonna have their own opinion I think it's very much a love or hate affair I personally am diggin it a lot I really do like the look it's something fresh and different but still pays homage did the original half series cases again my one critique or my few critiques of the outside so far it's just how easily these panels come off with almost no resistance at all and the fact that they are fully plastic not that I'm gonna knock plastic 100% but I would have liked to see for the MSRP of a hundred and forty nine ninety nine us maybe some aluminum integration or some metallic materials being used instead of fully plastic would have been the cherry on top IMO but without further ado guys let's go ahead and jump into the interior of the case and start with our assembly of a full I think we're doing a rising bill we're doing a risin and GeForce GTX 1080 ti system for today so let's get building and see what this case has to offer alright so I've got the case on its side here we're gonna go ahead and pop off the side panel again using a coin so that comes off quite easily give this a nice first look at the internal layout here so a couple things to note again we've got the included 140 millimeter fan up to three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator support at the top and the front and if you do mount at the front you actually have to remove or slide over this bottom hard drive basement so there's a hard dry basement cover and the power supply basement cover they are completely separate they are modular as well um so that's kind of nice it gives you the option if you want to remove these completely you could maybe potentially open up the system for more airflow that's kind of nice but yeah if you if you put a 360 rat up here it's gonna go down to the bottom of the case and it's gonna force you to slide over this cover as well as the hard drive cage that's underneath it can support up to two three and a half inch mechanical drives that whole drive cage can be slided over or can slide over to make room for front mounted radiators we also get to SSD mounts on top of the power supply basement it's kind of nice we'll be using those shortly and we'll show you how the power supply mounting works as well momentarily additionally we've got this really nice cable management cover which can be removed as well but it sort of has the same basic style as the outside of the case kind of this industrial crossbar design so it's going to cover up a lot of the cabling also you've got this these three rubber grommets for cable routing in their appropriate places they're very large wide open feel relatively high quality through the only grommets in the case though you don't get any at the top or the bottom however there are two small cutouts at the bottom of your case for routing smaller front panel connectors and things like that which is nice you get two pre-installed standoffs I would have liked to see you know the full gamut of pre-installed standoffs just to make the installation process a bit quicker but you do get two they both have little lips on them so it makes it easier to mount the motherboard get it situated but we are gonna have to mount the rest in just a second here from the looks of it you might also be able to buy like an optical drive cage if you wanted to mount it here because it looks like there's perfectly just enough room for two optical drives at the front five and a quarter inch base probably could be mounted here again along this rail system that we have here of course there are plenty of accessories that are optional that you can buy into from coolermaster themselves to sort of customize and make the case your own as they like to say so that's pretty cool of course you would have to that would require you removing this at least this top 200 millimeter fan in order to do that additionally they've included this bracket this is a bracket if you wanted to install say a 120 or 140 millimeter fan at the top of the case in place of that 200 millimeter unit you can we'll do so with this bracket that they've included with everything else so that's cool I think on that note we're gonna go ahead and quickly install the standoffs they do give you a standoff screwing tool with a Philips head adapter that's handy okay so I've got the motherboard standoffs installed went in pretty easily there's something interesting here though so we're installing an e ATX motherboard by the way this case supports up to e-atx mobos which is super fantastic however the motherboard that I'm using which is the crosshair sticks from Asus it's an AM four board has a hole for mounting right here and it's it's marked II am which means it's four e-atx ATX or micro ATX and there should be a standoff right here but instead it looks like there's a screw coming in from the opposite side of the motherboard tray so I'm not exactly sure that must be holding in the CPU cover bait plate that's on the back that we'll take a look at later but it looks like we won't be able to actually install a standoff where that is until further investigations that's a little odd but we're gonna go ahead and mount the board in here because we've still got eight stand-ups to work with that should be plenty to hold this guy in place in case you guys are curious we're using a risin 7 1700 cpu along with 16 gigs of corsair dominator platinum ddr4 3200 megahertz and that cooler is the is the cooler master master air ma 610 p quite a mouthful so the motherboard is now installed you'll notice that with EA TX motherboards they actually cover up half of the the rubber grommets so only about 50% of these grommets are showing now you could still probably try to scrape by and get the cables in there I don't know about the 24 pin ATX it's kind of thick for how much clearance is left here but at the very least we should be able to route them behind the cable routing wall that's right here and it should still mask the excess cabling pretty well but we'll see alright so I've got the case back right side up at this point we can go ahead and start installing our one SSD we've got a 960 gig HyperX savage I'm good old Kingston so we're gonna use I think I think I want to use one of these guys we're gonna use one of the SSD trays that's on top of the power supply shroud so it removes very easily with just a single thumb screw it is a textured thumb screw makes it very easy to twist however straight from the factory right out of the box you're going to need a Philips head screwdriver to help you with that they are pretty tight when you first get the case and the way this sort of works is you just slot the SSD in like so and it's kind of a an incognito mounting solution because you can't really see the SSD once it's installed which is either gonna be loved or hated by fans everywhere by builders everywhere because some people really want to show off their SSDs that's part of the fun other people you know buy really ugly SSDs and want to hide it for all intents and purposes I think it's good I think it's a good thing that they're they're kind of blacking it out and that it's more covert I actually kind of like that blacked out theme so we're gonna just screw this SSD in with four screws alright so we've got the SSD installed into the little tray here say the ports are facing towards the motherboard towards the back of the case we have a very large cutout on the power supply basement it seems to reroute any SATA power and data cables to your drives just pretty sweet and then let's go ahead and plug that guy right back in and just screw in the thumb screw voila SSD installation complete apart from the two cables that we need to connect to it still okay so if you want to install our power supply now we obviously have to remove the power supply shroud that's right here because there's just not enough clearance behind the motherboard tray to get the power supply in that way nor is there any option of you inserting it from behind the case so in order to remove this power supply shroud however you first have to remove the hard drive shroud that's towards the front of the case that's because the hard drive shroud is slightly overlapping and kind of see it's sort of overlapping the power supply shroud which which is an interesting move because now we have to remove this guy but it gets even better before we can remove the hard drive shroud we now we have to remove the cable management cover that's behind the tray behind the motherboard tray so we actually have to remove this guy to even access or to remove the the hard drive tray so not the most convenient kind of an interesting design choice especially because there's no tempered glass on this side panel guys remember it's just a regular piece of sheet metal so when all is said and done and you're done with your build you can't even see this side of the case anyway all your cables are masked in the very end so I'm not exactly sure why you need a cover underneath another cover especially if that is gonna make the power supply installation more difficult seems a bit counterintuitive to me but I don't know maybe you guys have some some of your own opinions that you can formulate in the comments below about this interesting add on to the back side of the case so we've got these two screws that hold the cable management cover in place it kind of swings out like this it's just on some hinges just removes like so steel construction very sturdy it'll be good for at least a you know sturdy when clamping down your cables you can see some front panel connectors here and that'll give us access to not that screw this screw right here is one screw at the back this is one of the screws one of the two screws that's holding in that hard drive cover that hard drive basement cover if I flip the case around boom we can now draw our attention to the bottom of the case here there's a screw there's that second screw holding in the hard drive cage a hard drive cover I should say and that screw is not magnetic so it does not come along with me but that pops out just like so and here you can sort of see what I was talking about earlier we've got the hard drive cage that has two trays for mechanical drives I believe you can also mount SSD said that so that's nice you can also remove this hard drive cage and slide it over to the left towards the back of the case to make more room for front mounted radiators so that seems to be working pretty pretty nicely but moving on to our power supply we've got two screws at the bottom here we've also got two screws in the back I actually removed one of them already so I only have one more to do here but that's two four six eight we had we had to remove eight screws just to start mounting our power supply so I don't know that's not gonna bother some of you I think it's it's a little much for me a little much for my taste oh let's make that nine screws because there's also one screw behind the motherboard tray one last screw holding in that power supply shroud now we should be able to remove the shroud without issue there we go all right now we've got a nice open area to install our power supply so give me one moment I will BRB all right power supply is going in we've got a 650 watt g2 from good ol EVGA slot that in like so also gonna take all the cables with me and pull them through the back of the case and at this point this is more or less a standard mounting procedure for power supplies we've got our four screws in the back that need to go in should also mention that there are rubber pads at the bottom of the case so it will help reduce noise and vibration for your power supply so this point we can just start popping on our covers again alright so back on with the power supply shroud it's very well machined at the very least I can definitely say that the holes line up when you're trying to screw things in you don't have to sort of force adjust any of the pieces to get this screws threaded also another bonus all the screws that you're seeing me use right now are the same so you don't have to dig through to find out which screws go where they're all identical okay and we're gonna leave this cover off for now since we still have to do a bunch of cable management back here so on that note I think the only components help this thing I swear just look at look at how easy it pops off why why does it do that alright so the last component we have to install is the graphics card but before we do that I'm gonna do some some wiring here do some cable management just get our our main essentials connected let's see with an e ATX motherboard can we it through the grommet it does fit through the grommet even 24-pin seems to fit but is it comfortable that is the other question is if any comfortable you know what it's not it's a little it's a little too tight for my liking so I'm gonna actually just route it through from underneath the roof the grommets also seem to pop out quite easily so be aware of that I'll see you can I kick you connect it from the side of the motherboard alright that's a connection beautiful and it looks pretty clean I mean from what I can tell you can't really see too much of that 24 pin it's almost like you don't want extensions really or extensions wouldn't be very valuable in the case like this where at least if you're using the e ATX motherboard where you're really only seeing maybe half an inch of the cable at least for your 24 pin now you can see my fingers poking out here we've got two entryways at the top of the motherboard for routing more cables such as your CPU your eight pin DPS in most cases cable that's solid so this is interesting as I'm trying to route the SATA power cable to our SSD up here at first I was like oh use one of the small openings that's at the bottom of the motherboard but apparently with an e ATX motherboard or perhaps this is the case with any ATX motherboard as well it kind of covers up those holes so fortunately there's still one giant cutout on the power supply basement itself to put the power supply shroud so we can actually let's see if we can get it up through there oh it looks like looks like you can this would have been much easier had I plugged it in before mounting it to the basement but that's that would have been too easy so that looks good let me get a say the cable BRB come on yep come on you oh jeez the right angle say the plugs are not doing well and it looks like well the SSD is actually upside down when you mount it to these trays so you'll have to also bear in mind to plug in the cables upside down as well I'm gonna undo this really briefly just to get it plugged in like so okay SSD is now fully installed all right GPU installation you get a couple options here in the H 500 P the first of which is just a regular orientation slot straight on to the motherboard in its horizontal positioning or you can do a vertical GPU mount you can see that we actually have a two slot option here so dual slot cards are supported if you wanted to mount the GPU somewhat like so with the fans facing the side panel window of course that might mitigate some of the airflow that is that the cards receiving of course will have to do some AV comparison testing to validate that however the PCI riser card that's required to actually utilize this function is not included with the case which i think is kind of a kind of a bummer especially if you're paying $150 for the case like throw in the riser card I feel like this is like DLC for a case it doesn't rub me the right way entirely but that option is available to you if you want to add a little bit of extra cost to the overall case purchase for now since we don't have that accessory we're gonna be mounting it the old pleb way going tradition now so pretty basic here we do get some some screws they are not thumb screws for some odd reason I don't understand why perhaps it's to not cause interference with the GPU the vertical GPU mounts but I still think they could have I still would work I think that's necessarily the issue again there's some some things about this case than like hmm I don't know considering the price point that's a thing like you can charge more for a case but people will expect more for that price as well and it looks like we should just be able to slot it in here like so uh-huh as you can see I've also routed my eye PCIe cables through the one of the grommets there towards the bottom we only have a six pin in an eight pin we actually need two eight pin plugs for a gtx 980ti here it's an EVGA ACX for the win three a very high-end card but we are short one VGA cable so excuse me one moment GPU installed so at this point I say we dive into some cable management I've already started a little bit at the back you can see it's not a complete disaster but we've got plenty of options here there's lots of tie-down points you can see that we've got several at the top going down on the right side of the grommet there's even the couple in between and definitely some above the power supply as well there's also this this cover here this cover for your CPU plate so if you just want to mask off the the backplate of your motherboard and your CPU cooler you can do so of course this is removable so if you don't like it here if you want additional room for cable management not that much cabling happens in this area behind the motherboard tray anyway but if you did you could remove it and leave it removed for your build it's totally up to you additionally I just learned that I made a mistake earlier I mentioned that these two holes right here were cable routing holes when in fact they are not they're actually grooves so that if you wanted to reposition one of the SSD trays to the back of your case behind the motherboard tray you could do so and that's why we have these two threaded holes here is that you can actually mount those two SSDs behind your motherboard if you so choose so forgive me Coolermaster and viewers these are not it's not the fact that your cable your motherboard is covering up these holes for cable routing they are in fact meant for the SSDs so that's been cleared up that's good let's proceed to tying these guys down of course we have the power supply basement and hard drive basement to help us stash any excess cabling down below out of sight and out of mind so I've got our RGB fans at the front of the case already connected to this three device splitter and we actually have room for a third one if we wanted to connect one but we actually don't we're actually good with just the two so I'm gonna connect the end of that to a 50/50 header on our motherboard and we've just got a ton of cables here that we can start a zip tying I should also mention you get a ton of cable management specifically in this region right behind the the cable cover here you get probably about an inch to an inch and a half of cable routing space definitely an inch and a half there's a lot of space back here very generous now I'm curious there's gonna be any cable interference here it looks like there's just barely enough space between the motherboard tray and this cable cover for small like fan sized cables to fit through so they don't all have to be routed 100% above or below the cable routing tray and I do now see some benefit to this cable cover and it's mainly so that you have an easier time replacing your side panel after all your cable management's done because it does help clamp all of it down and flatten it go alright you know that sweet and then I don't know where this guy should go oh he fits perfectly right there maybe in the future because this is looking really nice I mean there's hardly any cables visible once you put on this huge cover which looks fantastic it's just kind of a shame that you can't see it you can't see how invisible the cables are once the side panels on maybe a tempered glass dual tempered glass on a future revision might be something to consider Coolermaster I'd get behind that so I mean voila I mean holy crap that's that's cable management in the H 500 P it has a very high what I like to call a git factor but that's what I caught they said this case has a very high factor where you literally don't have to worry too much about where the cables are going especially without a tempered glass side panel on this side of the case and these cable covers plenty of tie down points and a cable management basement or a power supply basement I should say all those things add up to be a to make a very easy cable management experience that most people whether you're a novice or an advanced PC builder are going to enjoy and appreciate so let's so let's turn this guy around so we can get a fuller shot all right build complete looking pretty good I might add really 11 those two 100 and I'm sorry two hundred millimeter fans at the front they look absolutely fantastic especially with the RGB I actually hook it up to the little controller that came with this CPU cooler since we don't have an OS or any software installed yet but just so you guys can take a look okay look guys watch whoo they're different colors taste the rainbow and all that jazz ain't that fancy let's let's do uh let's do some feeling some blue sounds no let's do some purple is that purple or pink that's purple all right purple looks good but yes every everything went pretty smoothly in here some things that I really like about the case are the SSD mounts I think the versatility there is fantastic being able to mount them behind the motherboard tray I also forgot to mention you can mount one of these directly on top of the hard drive cage for even more versatility I also like the fact that the power supply shroud is a separate piece from the front hard drive shroud and how you can remove each of those individually however I think that also does limits the ease of use for your power supply installation it makes that process a little bit more time-consuming having to remove so many screws including that cable management cover that's the back of the case which I'm still sort of on the fence about I don't think it's a hundred percent necessary although some of you guys might might absolutely love it I'm actually gonna be leaving it out of the system overall I just don't think I need it very much and then additionally cable management in here apart from that weird cover is fantastic I mean you really have to worry about it whether you're advanced or an intermediate or a novice builder you should have no problem tucking away any excess cabling you've got a lot going for you all those tied on points the covers the basement covers and that's or thing additionally I think the the top panel specifically and also the front panel but mostly the top panel are just way too loose and just the fact that you can easily pop it off makes it seem a little bit cheaper than it really is it's not low quality or anything but the fact that it's so loose makes you think that so they might want to fix that on a future revision I do like the fact that there's so much water cooling support in here makes me really wish that I had an AO to actually test out the mounts although it's pretty straightforward you get plenty of flexible mounting strips at the top and the front so tons of water cooling support there the option to have a vertical amount of GPU is fan is great and I appreciate that however the fact that it doesn't include a PCI riser card to do so out of the box is kind of a disappointment for the 150 dollar price tag and since the original half series of cases came out back in the day $100.00 cases have come a long way and for a hundred bucks you can get pretty much 80 to 85% of the features that you're getting with the H 500 P so whether or not that additional $50 is worth that 15% of added features is 100% up to you you're gonna at the end of the day you have to determine whether or not it is worth the added cost but overall I like the case I think it's a great Buy I also really enjoy the way it looks that's gonna be a huge subjective thing if you don't like the way it looks and that's a pretty easy decision for you guys there but overall let me know what you think in the comments below and that's pretty much gonna do it for now thank you so much for watching be sure to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it and be sure to subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon as always I'm Cal abit wit and I will see you guys in the next video