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there were a lot of challenges going into this build a lack of magnetism a lack of lighting on the show floor of a convention center and some surprises in between Coolermaster allowed us to build in the brand new cosmos see 700p case a modular chassis with an invertible or rotatable motherboard tray live at PAX West after being faced with some challenges along the way we recruited cooler masters way to turn it into a collaborative a-team build and honestly it was one of the most fun builds I've done in a while and the pressure of time meant that we were both taking turns dropping screws and reworking our aspects of the build to get it together the quickest and the cleanest this was a real PC build there were unplanned changes parts that I wasn't familiar with and sacrifices made along the way before I get into that this is coverage is brought to you by our patreon backers at patreon.com slash gamers Nexus if you'd like to help us directly with this type of reporting you can get involved there you can even join us on discord to talk with the GN members and other members of the community alternatively check out gamers access Squarespace comm to pick up a shirt all said and done the enclosure is exceptionally easy to work with in every single panel can be removed with relative ease so we were able to strip down the case to bare-bones to the build our biggest time sink was asking to invert the motherboard tray to face the other side since we thought that adds some flair to the build this process isn't intrinsically difficult it's not like it's challenging mentally but it does require removal of a lot of screws after all the entire case can be flipped and there are a lot of structural elements there the motherboard tray detached is by removing four to six screws on the backside followed by six screws in the rear of the case followed by a few more screws around the shrouds we got some help for this process as the case is one of the first working samples of the C 700p there's not yet a manual for which screws have to be removed or in what order once the trade pulls out the back adventurous users could pre install the motherboard tray before reinserting it though we did the old fashioned way and built in the case after all it's large enough that you're not going to be constrained for space here's the next bit the entire drive shroud the power supply shroud the drive rails even can flip to face the other side this allows the two nearly perfectly a mirror its stock configuration or left side window the big downside here is that it does take time even with help inverting the enclosure took about 45 minutes it'll be faster and in environments when you have some time to read the process and you've got more light than a camera light but ultimately the bottleneck will be finding and removing all those screws you're only building on a PC once generally so this downside can be at least somewhat reconciled by the fact that you're only going to have to do it one time it's just worth noting that it's easy but it's not fast we ultimately left the power supply shroud out of the case it would have made kale management a hell of a lot cleaner but Coolermaster let us use their mij 1200 watt power supply which if you look it up on Amazon there's a $1,000 80 plus titanium power supply being that this is definitively the best power supply we've ever laid hands on it seemed wrong to hide it so this psu shroud was left off power supply would be powering the thread Ripper build that clear master in handy provided jointly it's a 1950 X build there is a Zenith asu's motherboard in it that we've recently praised highly to our x5 ease which admittedly don't quite fit with that power supply but it's an AMD and threader for styled build and once completed looked decent for a showroom floor we would have liked to run two standalone PCIe connectors to the 580 is just as a side note but neither is going to be drawing enough power under stock configuration to cause problems on a single connector that's daisy-chained for a show system we cared more about the cable cleanliness and about what was technically the better option for routing the cables we had to fight some tube length issues given the sheer size of the C 700 P you'll want something with longer tubes normally but the upshot is that we did get to try both the top and front mounting orientations for the top cooler master uses a removable cage for mounting fans and radiators which we ultimately used for a 3-1 40 millimeter fans this cage mounts by just two screws in the top of the case and then it hinges outward for removal and is situated underneath the dust filter directly which can also be pulled by hand to remove and the fact that it's so easily accessible means that the cage actually serves its purpose of making the process faster and ultimately cleaner to execute my teammate mounted the radiator front side while I handled the fans and video cards front side the front panel and dust filtration panel are both removed by late pol and grant immediate access to the radiator mounting cage in the front as for video cards those were oriented with the shroud upward part of our decision to invert the layout the downside is that the layout was an upside down CLC logo but upward facing GPUs gave us something different to look at so it's a fair trade we've worked with inverted cases in the Raven 0/2 from Silverstone and Corsair 600c in the past and both of those cases have one thing critically in common that is that they both received high acclaim on gamers Nexus and in our reviews as we got further into this build if we decided that it was worth inverting the tray after all it looked interesting and unique and should perform interesting from a thermal perspective but we'll get into that more when we have the case review ultimately having fought with a third of her socket that didn't quite want to thread to blank that was nearly too short but did ultimately make it and cable link that was potentially a challenge for a show build where we were trying to manage things cleanly but quickly we realized that we now had a mess of cables that we had to try and conceal this was the nature of a time-pressured build where we were cutting corners and trying to get done in time for our shadow of war meeting side note sorry we didn't make it fortunately cable management was easy we salvaged velcro ties from the $1,000 power supply and tidied it all up and then way came in and stuck the cable shroud on the shroud meant that the backside was nearly spotless of cables as you can see in our completed mural footage the power supply shroud definitely could have helped on the front of the case and we did have five RGB fan headers going into the board so if that doesn't really help either but again it's a pretty unique power supply we wanted to show it off so for such a quick build and for how large the case is which means more direct and visible cable runs the result really wasn't too bad case managers cables easily the cable management bar in the rear is particularly useful and as where we bound the cable bundles before hiding them with the shroud as for the challenges well most of them it revolved around the environment the case specific challenges though included short cable runs with the rear panel RGB hub they didn't quite reach where we wanted them when inverting the motherboard tray we probably could have made it work eventually given enough time and finagling but we'd like to see coolermaster add another engine to that cable run we aren't sure if Coolermaster is planning to do this already but it might also be wise to include a couple of eight pin eps 12-volt extenders ideally two given thread Ripper and X to 99 for normal orientations the cable length will be longer for those normal orientations on my converted NZXT to this previously with their phantom 820 which was one of the last major huge cases that we reviewed and we've since been fans of the idea for full towers the last major challenge was just the motherboard inversion process it's a good chunk of time to get it right and there's some effort that'll happen along the way but the result is worth it just budget an extra 30 to 40 minutes to get it perfect tube length should be a consideration for closed loop coolers this isn't a fault of the case inherently it's just the reality of a full tower the aware of tube length check the specs before you order and you should be fine we'll try to measure out small lengths once we have one in for review and can actually take the time to measure it all out the case came together nicely and being primarily full tower users @dn looking forward to reviewing it properly thermals will be particularly interesting the front intake is technically largely blocked off but the case is also massive and there's plenty of breathing room in the bottom the sheer size of the case will also benefit thermals just by way of getting thermal mass farther away from components and having options to draft the air in through the bottom of the case so we'll check all that out in the full review but for now this was your first look of the case we're more or less at review status already just missing on the thermals and the noise element noise should be pretty low it's large pieces of metal and glass and there's help eliminate issues with high frequency wavelengths and the front even has some damping material in it so we'll check all that out once we have it as always you can help us out directly at patreon.com slash gamers Nexus or subscribe for more and we'll see you all next time