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we've had a long and interesting history with products branded aged 500 there was the original H 500 P then our mesh mod then the disappointment PC build and the H 500 P mesh and most recently the H 500 M over the last year Coolermaster has completely turned around its age 500 P into an excellent product in the age 500 P mesh and furthered that development with the aged 500 app we're now looking at the opposite end of the price scale with the company's new age 500 no suffix letter on that just straight h 500 priced at $100 and borrowing many of the improvements made on it's more expensive counterparts before that this video is brought to you by Thermal Grizzlies high-end thermal paste and liquid metal thermal Grizzlies cryo knot is an affordable high quality thermal compound that doesn't face some of the aging limitations of other pastes on the market cryo knot has a thermal conductivity of 12.5 watts per meter Kelvin focuses on endurance is easy to spread and isn't electrically conductive making it safe to use on GPU dies thermal grizzly also makes conductor not liquid metal which we've used to drop 20 degrees off some temperatures than our dee-lighted test by a tube at the link in the description below the look of the h 500 family was firmly established by the age 500 p over the past year actually and that followed the same trend of moving to two hundred milliliter fans that we saw an old old cooler master cases like the 912 the half x and so forth where they tried to adopt larger and larger fans which is a fad that sort of died for a while and it came back with the h 500 p and that's where we are today the aged 500 sticks with the two hundred millimeter fans on the front it's got a 120 in the back and in terms of the exterior of the case it's actually a good bit different from the other h 500 series cases so the first thing you'll notice is the front top now has sort of the bump that the old nine 12 the 922 932 that those cases had back then when that was new kohler master had advertised this section of the case as quote a top platform for personal belongings but now they've actually made more use of it so that's it's kind of a funny thing to say I mean you can just make it literally flat if that's what you wanted but for this one they've made it a bit more functional so while it is a top platform for personal belongings you can also use it as a literal handle so it is actually functional it's not the sturdiest handle in the world it's not metal but it doesn't seem like it's going to fall off with a reasonable weight specie inside of it so overall the case is another H 500 series case it takes the same kind of air flow idea and layout of H 500 people match it does ship with an acrylic front power panel as an alternative to this mesh one if you wanted to go back to the oGH 500 P look with an acrylic front panel suffocating the two 200 Miller defense there's still some issues with the fans kind of jutting out kind of far and if you want to pull air in through this side ventilation you're really going to struggle as you'll see in our thermal testing but Coolermaster ships now stock with the mesh installed which is great you'll see that it performs pretty well with mesh actually there's really not much to complain about with it other changes include the power supply shroud so this is pretty interesting the PSU shroud now uses a single thumb screw to hold in and socket so it's it's not difficult to remove and it also doesn't wobble around so if they've done well with that just kind of socket into place with one thumb screw it's only a half shroud now so the half length shroud means that fortunately there are actually some further airflow benefits to the GPU power supply shrouds are actually pretty bad for GPU airflow overall normally you can deal with it with just really directional fans but cutting it in half means that some more of this air gets finds its way up into the video card cooler just from natural pressure of the video card pool cooler pulling air around this axial fans so overall a couple of small design changes versus the existing h 500 series that make a pretty big impact on the cooling and also just on the look externally changes for the panels it's only one tempered glass panel it's $100 case this is the main feature of it is that it's half the price of the H 500 and it's 50 bucks cheaper than H 5 and B mesh but it takes the same basic ideas that the H 500 P mesh has and cuts out a couple of the extra features so some of the extra paneling on the back that we've always complained about so longer there and that's fine because it was just kind of wasted money in a lot of instances anyway we felt like and bringing the price down is more important in this class anyway the panel still has this side panel still has the flathead screws which we've never liked there are way better ways to do this like a thumb screw but they have two of them the house oh not sure that's better or worse however it does hook in at the bottom so the panel when you loosen these remove them it'll just kind of hang they're hooked in that which is great so overall pretty good improvements let me go through Patrick's build notes for this he spent a lot of time assembling disassembling it and then I'll talk through our testing results for thermals and noise if you're curious about how this one performed so speaking again to that optional acrylic panel let's say you did want to install it for some reason the stock case is fitted with a big rectangle of mesh similar to the one we praised in the H 500 P mesh which can be swapped out by removing eight screws no adhesive this time so that's good we don't recommend it removing it and putting the acrylic panel in but having choice comes out as a net positive this is finally a way for Coolermaster to have their cake and eat it too and also push their modularity focus that they've tried with other cases and this is also without releasing two different products cues or selling alternate front panels separately taking the front panel off to clean it and swap the filter out of the mesh isn't too easy like the original h 5e or too hard like practically every other case there are four plastic tabs holding it on nothing fancy and it's tight enough that it won't fall off when picked up like one of the other cases the top panel isn't removable at all because it's part of the chassis and there are no fan cages at this time around but since the fan screws are directly accessible from the outside of the case it's unnecessary it's invisible when the case is assembled but other H 500x cases have a little mesh apron covering and that's at the bottom under the intake for the front panel it's fragile it makes them sort of painful to pick up if you grab them in the wrong place and I always felt like a design afterthought and the H 500 the mesh is built into the front panel instead and this is an extremely minor feature but it's an indication that cooler masters engineers are really working on small improvements even ones that aren't externally visible is a vertical GPU mount and we normally test this and write a short segment in the thermal section about how mounting air-cooled GPUs flush with the side panel is a bad idea coolermaster saved us time by making the vertical mount single slot so liquid cooled cards are practically the only thing that will even fit like the interchangeable front panel that's a clever move it adds value to the case and we can't complain about how bad it is for air-cooled cards because they don't fit so the solution it seems is to force people to use open-loop cooling and that's fine the launch of the H 500 P had a finicky shroud that needed to be removed in order to install the power supply and that's been improved in subsequent revisions base 500 is one of the best so far and it's probably the cheapest as well it's made of a plastic rather than steel only covers half of the bottom the case which is great heat isn't trapped from the hard drive cage and air from the intake fans isn't stolen by the shroud but it's still long enough to hide power supply cables and not difficult to get in and out although you do need to remove it to get the power supply in the whole thing slides out with removal of a single thumb screw and then it's just socketed in cable management clearance is good behind the motherboard and it needs to be because the limited room and the half shroud there art I points and cutouts absolutely everywhere and the kale management bar is as good as it has been on the other models coolermaster has omitted the plastic cover for the CPU socket and the steel cable cover saying this time around as well and that's another good call especially if it's helped lower costs side-by-side comparison reveals various other tweaks that make it seem like Coolermaster took a step back consider what was really necessary and then stripped the rest out we approve of this broach the tempered glass side panel has a big metal lip at the bottom that helps it from falling out and we like the use of screws instead of a latch that the other H 500x cases although we still don't like the sort of coin size or flathead sized driver end that they require thermal testing is pretty simple this time around so as always full article in the description below if you want to read it instead but we have our test methodology in there I'll leave it to the article click on that if you want to learn more thermal testing so we kind of limited what we're doing here we've tested so many aged 500 case spine not just from cooler mastery there are other companies have their own age five hundreds like NZXT so we have at least eight videos and articles if not more now about thermals of H 500x insert suffix case and if you want a whole lot of detail go check those out but we're just gonna go through the most important stuff for the new age 500 rather than focus like 20 minutes of discussion on it because it's been done before a whole lot and although there are changes here we can go over them pretty quickly so let's do that this first CB a torture chart just shows a couple of previous Coolermaster H 500 series cases will expand in a moment for the new H 500 CPU DT was forty nine point nine degrees over ambient during the torture test which jumped up to fifty six point nine degrees Celsius DT with the acrylic panel instead we've driven this point into the ground over the past reviews but the unventilated front panel force is 200 millimeter fans to draw air in at a 90 degree angle from the sides which reduces pressure as the air makes a 90-degree turn or multiple of them large slow-moving fans also tend to have low static pressure putting mash rather than acrylic in front of the fans allows them to reach mostly their full potential we have other H five hundreds on here all isolated for easy comparison so for example we can see that forty nine point nine CDT is a bit warmer than its fellow H 500m at forty five point six or H five hundred B mesh at forty eight point two but still among the top performers on our next chart moving on it's a comparative data with other cases stock temperatures are certainly cooler than the original H 500 P but the acrylic panel made at fifty six point nine degrees over ambient the case is performing reasonably well overall for CPU thermals and is comparable to other top quarter performers in our testing given the reduced price point of one hundred dollars the nearby performance the H hundred B mesh which we recommended this is all appreciated GPU DT averaged forty eight point five degrees Celsius during torture testing this increased even more than CPU DT did with the acrylic panel up to fifty seven point nine degrees with less air coming in the front air flow could be biased towards the exhaust fan behind the CPU leaving a dead zone at the bottom of the case forty eight point five C for the H 500 is the best GPU temperature for an H 500 x case so far probably because of the half shroud even though there's an HDD cage directly in front of the bottom intake it's still less of an obstruction than a full power supply shroud which blocks or steals a significant portion of the incoming air at the bottom of the case that puts the H 500 GPU cooling on the same level as some of our top performing cases we've tested like the PMO one and our vo2 obviously using the acrylic panel ruins that putting it closer to the 805 infinity the 3dmark fire strike extreme test resulted in an average gbzt of forty nine point three degrees Celsius lower than anything else on the chart except for the half X which had a side intake fan pointed directly at the GPU GPU temperatures are the main performance advantage that h 500 hazard with h 585 would be mash which are fairly similar except with a power slide shroud moving on to blender rendering on the CPU put the average CPU dt at thirty five point seven degrees celsius or ambient cooler than most of the other cases on the charge and just about equal to the h 500 b mesh and the open air to reconquer GPU rendering only raised GPU DTS a twenty four point three degrees Celsius also one of the lowest temperatures on the chart and again similar to the Cooper Concord it beats the age 500 m and H 500 P mesh here with and without mash the H 500 for noise falls exactly where it should on the chart forty point nine DBA with the mesh front is on par with the H 585 dirty mesh while 39.3 DBA is right between the H 500 P and H 500 M with a glass front panel all the H 500x cases we've tested fall in a fairly narrow DBA range towards the upper end of our scale we poked some fun at it a little earlier but naming the case the H 500 will actually prove smart further down the line we made such a fuss over the H 500 P largely because coolermaster compared it to the half the review documents literally said guaranteed high volume airflow or something like that but the brandy now calling this new case H 500 without a suffix implies that this is the base mop and that the H 500 is closer in looks and cost to a classic mid-range half case as you can see here then the H private P or H 500 e mesh or H 5 or damn have been so MSRP for the age of 500 at a hundred bucks $50 less than the mesh version stripping out a bunch of stuff that we never particularly found useful or desirable it's a good price point thermals are good price is good colormaster includes two options for the front panel if you really want them that we like to stock one it's hard to imagine being too dissatisfied with this case unless you take issue with the appearance which is fair that's subjective if you don't like how it looks plenty of other cases out there like the H 500 if you're stuck to that name from NZXT so you can even have a case with the same name if you wanted it with different looks but the point is we don't have any issues with this one in fact if you're if you've been looking at the H 5 would be mesh and you really like to be just couldn't imagine stretching to a 150 bucks for a case then this is a pretty damn good alternative at 50 dollars cheaper it's a bit smaller in some ways there's less plastic which actually I prefer personally fewer metal parts and sort of the back end of the case also something we prefer so really other than the color difference and some looks differences there's not a lot that you could dislike about the H 500 Blanc no no suffix on it feels weird to say that so that's it for this one pretty straightforward we don't have a ton of problems with it so a great job Coolermaster in team a good price point on this one this is why product segmentation works out sometimes because by being able to use some of the same tooling or at least some of the same branding or naming or whatever companies can reduce overhead overall make a cheaper product you end up with something like this so better than the original H 500 P and comparable to the H 5 and P match which we 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