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both sides on both the left and right that operate in very much the same way that the H hundred P cases do where there's a single thumb screw that you can turn 90 degrees and that it'll sort of slide or tilt down but it won't actually come all the way off if there's a safety latch that protects it from just falling and shattering on your table or something like that so it's a very smart well thought-out design I'm glad to see it returned for this case and there's also tempered glass on the very top panel that is removable though the whole top panel can be removed with a single thumb screw at the back and then it slides back and pops off very easily but the tempered glass at the top is nice because it allows you to see your fans any case fans that you might have up there radiators and so forth taking a look at the front of our case you can see that the entire front panel is completely mesh however the case includes a second front panel insert in this rectangular shape that's full tempered glass so if you wanted to swap out the mesh rectangular piece right here for glass you could very well do that if that's your aesthetic preference I personally like the mesh here obviously that's gonna be much better for airflow and I think it just it looks perfectly fine especially since you already have these large pieces of mesh on either side of the front panel either way that that really matched well with the the front mesh another thing to point out with the mesh area here actually all the mesh on this case including the top panel as well has this sort of honeycomb shape but then behind that is a much finer mesh that actually serves as as a dust filter essentially so basically the entire front and the entire top panels are doubling as their own dust filters which i think is pretty cool obviously you might have to clean it off a little bit more often if you want to preserve that really clean look because dust will be very visible all over the case however I think it's a very straightforward easy solution that just seems to make sense also the other thing I want to say is even if you were to pop in the tempered glass panel here at the front it still looks like you'd get some pretty decent airflow because the the ventilation the the mesh on the sides of the front panel are fairly large and even more importantly there's a fairly sizable gap between the front installed fans and the front of the panel which means that there should be healthy airflow coming in from at least the sides of the panel of course having the full mesh at the front would open up the case for even more airflow while we're on the topic of fans you get a pre-installed 140 millimeter a fairly standard black case fan at the back and then you get two pre-installed 200 millimeter addressable RGB fans and the lighting there can be controlled with either the included controller or you could even use something like Asus or a sink or msi mystic light I believe the support for gigabyte fusion is still pending however and obviously you have to make sure that whatever motherboard you're using has a addressable RGB header on it now this is already chalking up to be a pretty decent case for air cooling however it doesn't skimp on water cooling support either as you get support for up to a 280 or 360 millimetre radiator at the front or the top of the case and there's even support for a 200 millimetre radiator at the front the only 200 millimeter rad I've seen up until this point has been the one at the cooler master suite at CES earlier this year which I would have to assume they're launching sometime soon maybe at Computex or shortly after just to complement the feature set of this case additionally we have a pretty robust front panel IO here including a power button that's in the shape of a cooler master logo but doesn't have any cooler master branding which I can very much appreciate what looks to be a reset button to the right of that I'm not sure if that's the reset button or controls the RGB lighting will test that out later and then we have audio and mic jacks with four USB 3.0 ports and a USB 3.1 type-c gen 2 port at the front Thank You Coolermaster let's just to give a little little clap the front panel paneling looks very nice it's kind of got this glossy black finish that continues around the rest of the case however it's very prone to dust buildup lint and fingerprints so you'll want to maintain it regularly if you want to keep that clean exterior moving around to the back you get some flexible mounting strips for either that pre-installed 140 millimeter fan or a 120 fan there's also seven expansion slots along with two vertical slots if you wanted to mount a GPU vertically in this case however no riser card is included of course and then there's a very nice power supply bracket with four beefy thumb screws with a removable slide-out dust filter for your power supply at the very bottom that pretty much covers the outside of the case one thing that I forgot to point out is that anything on the outside that's not mesh or glass is probably plastic there's a lot of plastic pieces going on around here very similar to the plastic that was used on the H 500 PE the original case however this case overall feels much sturdier because they've reinforced the top and front panels to not pop off so easily when you're just casually lugging the case around so overall I think it does feel like a much more premium case at least from the outside but let's take a look at the inside I should grab some some components that are lying around here and we should start building a system inside of this case to get a better feel for the internal layout and how it all works so let's go ahead and do that now so taking a look at the internal layout here a couple things I want to mention first off we have a fairly generous cut out for our CPU cooler that currently has this sort of cover plate on the back behind the motherboard tray which we'll take a closer look at later and then I've actually installed the nine standoffs that we need for our ATX motherboard initially there were only two standoffs that were pre-installed the middle one and the top middle one both of these are ridged or they have a little lip around them so it's easier to mount your motherboard initially but I did have to mount install the other standoffs so with the motherboard installed you get a better idea of how large this internal space is because this is a standard ATX motherboard and the chassis does support up to e ATX however so there's actually a mounting hole here you can see for an e ATX board standoff and if you did install an ATX board you'd probably be covering up a portion maybe about half of these rubber grommets here you get three in total just to the right of the motherboard they're fairly large fairly high quality and they seem snug they seem like they're not going to pop out you know start passing a bunch of cables through them there's also a pair of medium-size cable cutouts just above your motherboard however these are not grommeted that being said if you're installing fans or a radiator and some fans at the top of your case you're probably not gonna be seeing much of those cutouts anyway and at the very foot of your motherboard you'll find a fairly large cutout for routing additional cables this cutout is actually sort of a missing piece of the power supply shroud so it's not very visible which is why it's also not grounded it doesn't really need to be and this is also where you would route a couple cables your SATA cables particularly if you were mounting SSDs to the top of your power supply which we'll take a look at in just a bit over here we have a steel panel that can actually house two two and a half inch drives with these handy little peg screws that they're pretty much like little mini thumb screws you screw them in to your SSD one in each of the holes and then you can pretty much just like pop em in like little pegs boom it's like virtually tooless and very easy to use you could pop it there or right here there's even a cutout here for writing safety cables and there's also enough space here if you wanted to just route save the cables underneath straight from underneath the panel as well you'll also notice that there are some flexible mounting strips for a reservoir if you want to do some custom water cooling in here that is also very much appreciated this little guy is actually really cool it's sort of a crutch for your video card to eliminate GPU sag it's very simple the way it works very straight forward it's just a rubber pad that has two screws that if you loosen them you can sort of move the pad up and down so that it's in the right position for hoisting up your particular model of graphics card will definitely be testing this out later on in the build taking a look at the lower half of the case we get a very nice power supply basement that spans the whole length of the case it's actually a two-piece sort of shroud here the rear area that covers the power supply that actually has this other removable piece it looks like it's a got a cooler master logo here but no actual branding I believe you can pop this out if you want to show off your power supply if you if you have RGB or something like that or you just want to wrap the brand or whatever on top of this part of the power supply shroud we get some more rubber pads for you guests it's two two and a half inch drives if you wanted to mount the pair of SSDs to the top here so that they're visible through your side panel window you could go ahead and do that with the same sort of peg mounting system that we saw with the steel wall earlier works very well very nice and clean looking and here's a nice a nice shot of that large cable cut out that I earlier at the base of your motherboard where you would ideally route all of your SATA cables to either of these drives and then you've also got this front piece that is sort of hiding your hard drive cage underneath removing this as well as the hard drive cage will also open up additional clearance for your radiators and fans at the front of your case should you be installing them on top of the hard drive shroud you'll find a removable bracket for custom water cooling pumps that's held in place by two screws as well as a sort of radiator lid that can be popped off that way you can have additional clearance for a radiator for example at the front of your case without really compromising on the hard drive cage underneath you'll still be able to have that installed I believe by sliding it over as we'll see a little bit later now something to bear in mind at the top your case is that you only have a clearance of 43 millimeters for your radiator and your fans which I am not currently meeting and that's why I'm bumping into my motherboards vrm heat sink and unable to mount this radiator to the top what I'm gonna have to do is pop these fans off and place them on top of the frame on the opposite side of the frame here so that they're just sitting right underneath that glass top panel and that way everything will fit properly so let me go ahead and swap that now radiator and fans are installed properly now and you can see I routed all the cable fans through this opening this little cutout here at the top of the case all the cables routed through just fine there's also another cut out towards the back I guess I could have used that one too because it eventually got pretty tight especially since these are RGB fans that have two cables coming off of each fan but everything threaded through just fine let's go ahead and pop that top panel on really quick and just see how everything fits yeah oh yeah that went on no problem and it looks like there's still about maybe an inch maybe an inch or so of space between the fan blades and the top glass piece so there's plenty of room for for healthy exhaust going on at the top of the case here in this current configuration so no red flags here alright we've already got our power supply bracket installed to the unit and we can pretty much just load it from the back of the case but I'm gonna pop off this cover here this is actually like a power supply cover that I don't believe was on the original H 500 P or the H 500 P mesh if I remember correctly I could be wrong but I don't remember it really um so it pops up oh and hey look we've got a sort of a troller here for our RGB stuff addressable RGB connectors that is SATA powered and it looks like there's also micro USB for potentially firmware updates if you wanted to send them straight to the board here and this is what I was talking about earlier they've actually plugged in your reset switch front panel connector into this two pin header on this board so that you can actually use that button for controlling your RGB function and different modes and stuff or you could just plug this into your standard front panel connectors on your motherboard if you still wanted to use your button for resetting the system so let's go ahead and leave this off for now and install our power supply looks like you get 2 additional covers behind the motherboard tray here as well including the CPU cooler cutout which we sort of saw the other side of earlier and then this very large one that probably covers most of where your cables might go let me go ahead and unscrew these there's two Phillips head screws for this larger panel looks like it's on a hinge so doesn't quite oh yeah you can take it off that's nice that comes off no problem and then it looks like we have no screws for this I believe it's two lists yeah you just pop off very easily I'm just gonna start routing some stuff while we're back here oh wow this power supply cable hardly fits through this fricking cutout you're gonna make me you're gonna make me take them apart you're gonna make me split them just to get them through there alright I have it your way I don't care now let's take a look at this hard drive cage which is hiding underneath this panel as I mentioned before there are actually three screws that you need to undo in order to remove this front section of the hard drive shroud so I've already removed the the screws there's two of them down here and one behind the motherboard tray and you pops out like Sol ok and if you take a look at the hard drive cage you can house two three and a half inch or two two and a half inch drives so that's nice but the other thing that I want to point out here is that you access the hard drives from this side of the case not from the backside behind the motherboard tray which means if you ever need to service your hard drives or swap them out should one die god forbid you actually have to remove this entire portion of the power supply shroud and if you're in the middle of you know using a custom water-cooled PC that you've built in this chassis and you've got you know your pump and your reservoir and stuff you're kind of disrupting a lot in your system just to access your hard drives which I don't think a lot of people are gonna be a huge fan of that personal opinion but you guys let me know what you think the cages are plastic and they're very bendy super bendy actually that way you can sort of mount the hard drives to lessly because there are those pins that you kind of just slot it in it goes in the the four holes of your hard drive and you slide it back in obviously the SSDs are gonna need to get four screws from the bottom so to unmount this part of the shroud you actually need to remove one two three four five screws because there are two additional screws at the very back of the case helping hold it in place and then it should pop off like so now we're moving both pieces of your power supply shroud allows you to move the hard drive cage in one of two locations the first position being right here up at the front of the case so that you have additional room for your power supply maybe some excess cabling or you can slide it over a couple inches to the left that way you open up the front of the case for perhaps a water cooling radiator or some fans taking a closer look behind the motherboard tray we get two more mounting points for SSDs so we have the same peg mounting solution for two and a half inch drives that works oh so beautifully and you can route your cables straight from the bottom here because this this cable cover for your power supply actually has a cutout you can see cables are able to actually route right there and up to your drives very nice and then we've also got a bunch of tie-down points all around the motherboard tray and very smart easy to reach locations the one thing that I'm conflicted about with this case at least for the cable management side of things are these large covers I don't know how to feel about these on one hand they look really nice when they're put into place because obviously you have a tempered glass side panel window on this side of the case you can see everything it does make everything look clean when they're installed at the same time I feel like it creates more work for the end user because look I can't even really mount this cover here without rearranging this cable and sort of redoing my cable management on that end I don't know I I'm so on the fence here I need your guys's opinion let me know in the comments do you find these things valuable is this a value add to you or is this sort of gimmicky kind of a waste of your time and money I don't know let me know in the comments because I don't know how to feel right now all right step one pop in the GPU screw or Diane and I intentionally pick the card that I know has a little bit of GPU sag let's see if our little friend here can help us out I've loosened the screws already that's how I'm able to slide it up and down that looks pretty good so tighten it down right there and voila like zero absolutely zero GPU sack it wasn't really that bad to begin with maybe you know like a couple degrees of a bend but but now there's absolutely nothing it's perfectly straight completely parallel with the with with the desk and stuff so beautiful this this thing works it actually works and it's very easy to use so yay alright so the system is complete and I've already got it up and running looking good so far I've kind of got my own little stress test going on here with Unigine Heaven 4.0 running in the background at 2560 by 1440 to really put a load on our GT X 1080 which is running it stock settings and we also have a risin 7 1800 X sorry all my second gen rising chips are in use at the moment but this is also running its stock settings at around 3.7 gigahertz and you can see right here we've actually got the system stability test for a 264 running as well this is running concurrently with Unigine Heaven 4.0 so that we're taxing both our CPU and our GPU fairly heavily all cores are running at 100% utilization as is the GPU are actually GPU load yeah GPU loads is anywhere from 75 to a hundred percent but more or less it's it's close to the 90 to 100% range and you can see right here our package temp for the CPU is 62 degrees Celsius at the moment very respectable no red flags there and our GPU is hovering right around 71 72 degrees Celsius I believe the hottest it's gotten so far in the 15 or 20 minutes of Unigine heaven is about 74 degrees Celsius so altogether not too shabby as far as acoustics go I'm sitting about a foot and a half to 2 feet away from the case and it's actually fairly quiet it's definitely audible but it's sort of a low hum it's kind of a calming white noise I think that's partially due to the the large 200 millimeter fans they're not quite as high pitched or whiny as smaller fans are and overall you know if you're listening to some in-game sound you're not gonna be able to hear the system in its current state much at all so altogether I'm pretty happy with how this turned out let's go ahead and wrap this video up so overall I'm pretty impressed with this case I think $200 is a lot too and on the case these days especially when there were so many great options way cheaper than that but at the same time this thing brings a lot of features to the table and that's not to say that there aren't other 200 other cases on the market that have just as many features but those features are inherently different than the one that this case offers so I think at the end of the day if you have 200 dollars to spend on a case you have to ask yourself and what are you looking for do you really value the amount of custom water-cooling support this has you know a dedicated pump bracket and reservoir mount do you absolutely love the design language and aesthetic of this case that you really can't find elsewhere are you a huge fan of the 200 millimeter addressable RGB fans that again is a very unique selling point to this particular chassis if you're answering yes to all of these then this is definitely a case worth checking out and again the one the only one big problem that I have with this case is the hard drive cage I was nitpicking at everything else but the hard drive cage I just wish it was flipped so you could access the drives from behind the motherboard tray you didn't have to remove the power supply shroud yada yada yada but for the most part a fantastic case good job Coolermaster for making a lot of right decisions this time around and thank you to all of you for watching this video go ahead and toss a like on it if you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more tech stuff coming at you really soon you can also check me out on floatplane if you want to watch my videos a week early without ads for 3 bucks a month I'll put a link for that in the video description until next time guys thank you so much for tuning in have yourselves a good one and I'll see you all in the next day