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last time we shot on this layout someone counted you copied Linus he has a tool pegboard well yes we're back in this layout in fact Linus did invent these and now we are back to fix the Coolermaster h 500 p this is part 2 in our series fixing the coolermaster h 500 p wherein we attempt to fix the equal to master aged 500 p before we get into that this content is brought to you by the Thermaltake flow RGB closed-loop liquid cooler which is a 360 millimeter radiator plus 3 120 fans that are RGB illuminated the if then we'll take it rain fans at that this is a 4.5 done a stacked pump which is one of the faster pumps you can learn more at the link in the description below this is the case you might observe that it presently has tape all over it that's from part one where we tried two things primarily spacing out the distance from the back of the panel to the front of the case to better allow air flow through the mesh on the side intakes and also fix the problem where it comes off the front because doesn't anymore so we're going to cut this and then my plan is to Mesha fie the CMH 500 p by adding some mesh to it so we've got a couple different options here here's one from the C 700 P which we actually reviewed somewhat positively just want to make sure cooler match remembers that so they don't hate me eternally for this one and we have this match from I think a fractal or a thermal take case and we have this one from the see 700 P so we're gonna try those out okay so step one of this mod is cut open the tape because we no longer need that on there so we're gonna do that and then start digging into the actual get the plastic off the panel and see if we can fix everything alright there's part one back to where we started that would look kind of good it doesn't stretch all the way down to the bottom you can see I'm about one to two inches off right here so I think I can just put some electrical tape down there it's not going to be pretty but it'll be functional and a proof-of-concept that's about the right size but it's got those flanges on the top I could cut them off so then for the top I'm thinking here's our top panel the front door Ian towards you guys I'm thinking we do like knock this glass in and then that's too big but let's let's start with the first one so this point we are entering territory of no return how does this held in so anyone remember this that noise well the reason that creaking noise exists and that cracking noise you just got is because this was secured by glue in fact me picking this thing up did that you see that the gap in here so this this was formed from what I just did picked it up so yeah I mean the good news is that that means it's gonna be easy to split this apart and it might even be able to to be restored after the IRA's originally think you know we could just break it but honestly if it's just glue oh it's not glue it's done it's literally double stick tape oh I see I see okay here you go I forgot about this Patrick did most of work on this case two screws right here so we're gonna remove those two screws and I think that'll let us get access to the part that's holding it down something big one there you go look see you could you could clean the dust out I don't know what everyone's talking about no dust filters that's totally a dust filter and completely reasonable to access for cleaning I just need to turn this kind of oh man if I can get this I probably just leave that tape on there and reuse it oh you know all right when I get the knife out everything starts working oh nice okay well nice and easy didn't even break any of the plastic which is surprising so that folds under there it's got a little foot on it and sets in and a probably not salvageable thinking that comes off in pieces so we may need a new solution for that but let's look at our options here so I could put this like where's the butt okay bombs towards me so this just barely will fit with I'll just put some electrical tape down the sides I think I mean it's gonna be on the inside and because I'm not really touching much of the I'm not even on the tape over here so I think because of that I'm gonna end up doing just electrical tape on the sides that'll hold it against the front and then you know I'd love a longer one of these I could take another one and cut it in pieces and bridge them but it's not gonna look that great not that this looks great anyway don't get me wrong hahaha but I think it'll be fine to just tape that bottom section off it'll choke some cooling granted but it's the you can't make it worse than stock so how does that work so if we wanted to call this mod early I'd say that's done we've done it we fix the air flow problems it can breathe pretty well now wow that would drop temperature to 13 degrees Celsius I'm not kidding you we tested that so that would be the real the real mod but let's say you've got kids or pets or things you don't want exploring the 200 millimeter fans with their peripheral limbs and maybe you want some filter I need something like that that's not bad there it is pretty much finished not bad it looks a lot closer to the half X then the age 500 P does and it looks way closer to high airflow so yeah I mean I'm pretty happy with that we can see how it looks and this is just with a mesh filter from like a fractal case or at one of those there you go that's pretty damn cool and that's like that's exactly what I was imagining when I thought high air flow case from coolermaster with 200 millimeter fans because here's the thing as a general rule of thumb you lose about 30% of pressure for every 90 degree turn you make this being glass you've only got two ways of entrance here and it's on either side of this technically there's a little tiny bit up here there's a little tiny bit down here but ultimately the two sides of the main thing and as we showed in our review those sides are largely covered by these fans and that means that we took these off earlier that means that you're really not getting a lot of airflow in there so and only like this very outer edge of the blade is ever being used anyway because it's clearly got no way to access air from the outside when there's glass in front of it so all this inner part of the blade is just left unused so I think we're gonna fix that and I wouldn't make comments about how this panels a bit fragile now because if you push the middle of it the mesh will cave in but honestly it's not any more fragile than it was originally so yeah we're good with that one that's done I think the next step is to mesh if I the top panel sorry for the creaky noises ah Coolermaster trying to get me back that should work for now you may have heard the phrase to cut away from yourself so I'm doing that I'm cutting away from myself and towards the camera operator for maximum safety all right nice okay so that's how next step Oh not bad you know from the front I think it'll look okay we're gonna want the back towards the wall cuz this is a little like Batmobile like sticking out at the end but um that's fine I'll take it I'll take it we could do another mesh in there I guess I don't know would that look better if we did if I found another one of these what do you think oh that's not bad but it is the the half mobile we've got now so there's our top eye from the front it'll be fine I'm gonna sighs it's not bad a little bit of a blemish there but okay so this needs to come up a little bit there we go got it nice old and new if you have it I'm pretty excited to see how the thermals do here we've got it set up in our same original test system so we can actually really easily validate the stock thermals and then rerun for this set up and I think that should that should give us an idea for what this case could have been if Coolermaster properly made it a successor to the high airflow series and honestly it doesn't look half bad I stole that from Paul I'm sorry it doesn't look half bad though it's like seriously considering what it like hack job approach this was and how it took us like half an hour or something it's pretty damn good and I think what happened here is Coolermaster probably fell for the glass trend I think they were like we gotta have glass everywhere on this thing it looks good and it's popular and they're not wrong but when you have two hundred millimeter fans why like this is the whole point of the case is those fans make them breathe so yeah I guess we'll we'll test it see how it does so here it is this is the Mesha fied h 500 p from us yes we're not gonna sell it fractals so no we're not touching your mesh my name I think they have rights to that but that's what it's kind of loosely named that so we've got the the front panel is still the mesh version tested at all and basically fixed of the thermal problems so the thermal issue is that Coolermaster had with the original version of the case have largely been resolved the top panel you'll notice that we actually restored it back to the acrylic panel and there's reason for that we'll show it in the charts it largely has to do a static pressure of those front fans and we've got some noise tests as well quick note the testing here is not comparable to our original review it is comparable to our radiator testing that we just posted at time of this going live yesterday but not to the original review we've changed the way change the software we're using to monitor change the testing method and change the averaging method for the data just specifically for this because some of the numbers were close enough that we needed better test resolution so I went through and fixed some of that stuff to improve it and we've got the numbers for you that we can go through now first a very quick look at noise levels we've got the original H 500 P highlighted and the new Mesha fied GN version of that the original was 38.7 DBA and the test not particularly quiet but not awful either with the mesh front and with the mesh top so not the acrylic top we're at about 40 DBA so we've increased by 1.5 ish decibels not too bad really considering we took out the panel and replace it with mash so that just really speaks to where the noise is escaping on this case our thermal chart is flanked by stock configurations defining our bounding boxes for the mesh mod in the worst case the stock configuration we're at sixty four point five degrees Celsius over ambience for cpu load temperature or fifty three point four C for GPU temperature removing the front panel gets us down to fifty four point three eight degrees Celsius for the CPU and forty eight point five C for the GPU this marks a maximum improvement of about ten degrees on the CPU or about five degrees on the GPU if we can get close to this with our mesh mod we're doing pretty well this is the maximum performance we'd be able to get for the completely mesh divide each 500 P with both the front and top panel converted to mesh we end up at fifty seven point nine degrees on the CPU and forty eight point eight on the GPU this isn't particularly exciting marking only a six point six degree improvement in CPU thermals or four point six on the GPU not bad and certainly better and puts us in the range of higher-end cases but really not that exciting so looking into this problem the panel we had on there originally was this one the mesh one that we replaced it with and the front of it's over here waving a hand over the front of this mesh right around this area you can feel a lot of the cool air escaping the case and that comes down to basically pressure the fans just there they don't spin very fast they don't have very high performance for static pressure and so you end up with a lot of that air just kind of drafting up and out of the mesh when it's on the top so replacing it with the acrylic panel actually kept up most of that air in the case it gets pulled through the CPU cooler a lot better the CPU cooler can leverage its own fan pressure to suck that air in and we can look at those numbers too the result was noteworthy how our CPU is now at fifty six point one degrees for about a two degree reduction the GPU thermals are roughly the same though at forty nine point three versus forty eight point eight this is within our test resolution that makes sense since removing that top panel or changing it anything like that is really going to impact the sea view primarily we are now within a couple degrees of completely removing the front panel at all but have a solution for dust and visuals not a bad trade so that's it for this one Coolermaster did send out one of the reps sent a tweet in response to my teaser of this where they said something along the lines of they're listening to the audience and plan to have things in the future which I basically translated in my head to mean we're gonna be selling mesh panels in the future as DLC so it may be the option that with age 500 P going forward there'll be alternatives out there maybe they'll have a mesh version or maybe they'll just have panels sold separately but for now what I can tell you is you can do this mod yourself for a few bucks like electrical tape on the inside you grab a mesh panel or a dust filter like this one just on new I agree Amazon for 10 bucks and make sure it's the right size throw it on there you'd be good to go now it's probably a little bit more of a hack job than what Coolermaster would do but I mean probably not that much more of a hack job than what they would do because I the bar is pretty low for these panels so I don't know if if they end up selling something that's like a standalone pack of accessories rather than a completely separate mesh case and that pack ends up being like 50 bucks for two panels I'd say just do it yourself for less than definitely less than 20 in the US anyway and call it a day but yeah in the very least this shows the true potential the case when it's not obstructed with acrylic so it looks pretty good in those conditions in terms of both thermals and visuals noise isn't bad and yeah kind of a fun project so as always you can go to patreon.com/scishow gamers an excellent stops out directly or store dot gamers Nexus dotnet to get a shirt like this one or the shirt that was in the first half the video subscribe for more I'll see you all next time