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Building a PC in the New Cooler Master H500M (vs the H500P)!

2018-05-29
the liqui fusion is the first all-in-one 240 millimeter liquid CPU cooler from enter max with addressable RGB LEDs allowing for unique lighting effects from the two fans and the water block the block also has a clear panel with a flow indicator and there's an inline high efficiency ceramic bearing pump if you're looking for a CPU cooling upgrade click the local infusion sponsor link in the video description hey guys how's it going - welcome to Paul's Hardware today's video is all about how I built this computer is RGB I was a little on the fence about it at first but after I saw the pretty lights and colors I decided wow this is the best system ever and I'm completely happy with my purchase so today's video is just about how once you build a computer like this you're happy with it forever and even though yeah there may be a few things like having digitally addressable front 200 millimeter fans or maybe like the option for a front tempered glass piece might be nice but I'm pretty much satisfied with what I take it all back there is now an H 500 M from cooler masters so the system that we built in the H 500 P sucks and this is much better so let's be honest if you watch show coverage such as the CES 2018 show coverage you may have already known that the H 500 M was on the way because coolermaster showed off an early version of it there speaking of show coverage I'm gonna be a Computex next week in Taipei Taiwan so don't forget to subscribe because I have lots of videos coming out with coverage of that events for today though I have a limited amount of time so what I'm gonna do is take this RGB overkill build that I did earlier this week it's got a team t4c delta r gb SSD in there as well some team memory I'm gonna transplant it into this system and then they'll talk about the differences between H 500 P and H 500 M I have unboxed H 500mm I managed to get all of the plastic off of the tempered glass and plastic pieces although it was kind of sticky didn't want to come off all the way but let's talk first off about differences between the h 500 B and H 500 n first thing you might notice is that there is mesh on the front right now but this is actually a swappable panel and it comes with a tempered glass piece in the box as well so once you remove that front panel and slop this one in looks like it's gonna screw into place I have not some kind of percent determined how to remove this front panel yet so I'll get to that when the time comes up here on the top IO you'll see Coolermaster continuing their attempts to make people forget their names so they this is their logo which is kind of their hex thing and they're not putting the Coolermaster logo on anymore it's a branding thing let me know if you like it or not let Coolermaster know if you like it or not I'm okay with it I think it's alright this will light up with RGB when the system's actually turned on we have 4 USB 3.0 ports up here and a USB 3.1 type C port which I am probably most excited about also worth pointing out that these two fronts 200 millimeter RGB fans are addressable RGB rather than the 4 pin 12 volt they're the 3 pin 5 volt that means you can get multiple colors in them versus the H 500 P where the two fans are gonna be just a single color although it can of course cycle between different colors but it has come only be one color at a time if you were to use that front tempered glass piece then you would have tempered glass on four sides the front the side panel here which I've already removed and it's pretty much the same side panel as H 500 P tempered glass across the top now so that is an upgrade replacing it from the plastic top of the H 500 P and tempered glass on the opposite side here as well internally we have some nice upgrades they have reconfigured this bottom chamber for the power supply the shroud here has a knockout here towards the front so that will allow it to accommodate larger and thicker radiator configurations if you're going to swap that out and there's mounts up here not just for the Toyota millimetre fans but also 420 140 millimeter fan variants so lots of different options up there also they've included this Universal pump bracket here so if you're gonna water cool this system this is better suited for that than H 500 P pump bracket there and then also this vertical rail system so you can mount reservoirs they've also included this little bracket and this is actually a GPU support bracket so that should help I believe you flip it around and then wear your graphics card might be over here you can slide that up or down and just keep your GPU from sagging here's another hex logo without the cooler master words on it and then I initially thought that they had regressed in their mounting for SSDs they got a couple mounts here and a couple mounts on the back and the motherboard tray however these actually mount by mounting four plugs to the bottom of the SSD and then it just sits right there and it's sort of held in place by these little rubber grommets and that's pretty much it for the initial once-over of the feature differences between the H 500 mm and H 500 P of course all the other features of the H 500 P that you maybe have come to know and love still exist here including the panels for covering your cable management in the back and just the nice clean look overall it does have a bit of an updated look on the front I guess aesthetically as well but it does look like they've put tons of extra ventilation here on the side so if you do go with tempered glass in the front you will get still hopefully a decent amount of airflow I'm not doing scientific tests of airflow today though I'm just going to get this system swapped into this system oh wow Thank You Kat you did that I'm told me that why I think cuz it's funny she doesn't why I'm here point out my failures yeah this is why I'm here guys cuz follow why you'll eat fish what did you do pause never I wouldn't show this but just forcing me big time fail haven't done this in a really long time fortunately we didn't do much stress testing with this cooler but I left the plastic on yeah more plastic to you for your kids well that's kind of good I didn't melt right oh it wouldn't do anything unless I like actually you have to you have to warm the system person I was already sweaty before that happened so as I am swapping out the liquid cooling solution I am realizing well at first I thought that that cooler master had had regrets to get but they did not so this is the top bracket for the H 500 P and it has a bit of height to it so you can put fans mount it up in there whatever it is convenient to mount a radiator and fans to that so that you can then mount that to the case mats with four screws there's a similar tray to that here on H 500 M this tray though is flat versus the sort of raised tray they have there and I actually think there is a little bit more vertical clearance with the H 500 m then the H 500 P goes up a little bit taller not too much I'm but you could still mount fans on top of this which we're gonna need to do so you still get basically the same configuration when it comes to where you have to install up here I just noticed that I wasn't able to do what I originally planned which is to take the whole assembly off of this and swap it over to this one in case you're wondering if they fits probably not it does set right there but there's six screws to mount this one in forward about this one so the screw holes don't line up I found another update for the H 500 M since this opposite side panel also has tempered glass with the M versus the solid side panel to age 500 P they've added one more a little protective piece down here and this is just a cover up where your cables are coming out of your power supply and that tray down there so I'm not sure if I'm gonna get everything wired up underneath these things but just like this panel on the left side there's just a couple screws that hold it in and another discovery mounted to the back of this is a little intelligent control panel so you can connect up your LEDs huh I don't know if this in that it's a feeler that fan do you think no thinking spins all right did you like put that did you did you mount the bracket so where it's holding up the graphics card yeah you have to like slide it up yeah the fan bumps it hmm all right guys this build got a rush towards the end mainly because I am leaving in like 18 hours to fly to Japan so here it is in all of its glory I will say looking at the addressable digital LEDs on the front fans their matches much more appropriately with the rest of the addressable digital RGB LED stuff that's in the case so I think that's definitely a big thumbs up and heck even if you got an H 500 P you could probably swap out for those upgraded a RGB fans that's what they're calling them addressable RGB and get yourself this entire configuration now the cable management on the other side is not done at all I did not put any of those cover panels on that so sorry I'm not going to show you guys the pretty look at that I really just had to get everything in here and up and running and overall I think coolermaster has done a great job sort of refining this case over the past year or so since they first started showing it off I think it looks really nice with all the LEDs and with the black I feel like since I got a lot of black components in there it's it's got a nice balance going on it's not quite as over-the-top I think as the white finish now if I have developed a pet peeve with this case it is absolutely going to be the installation or mounting of the side panel here I just feel like something that doesn't require a tool because you really need a flathead or something to twist that and put it in place it's really the only thing standing out to me right now of course this has really just been my first impressions of the H 500 M but I'm liking what I see so far and I think anyone who gets this case will be happy with it I do want to point out the cost $200 MSRP so it's about 50 bucks more than the HT 500 P for some additional tempered glass as well as some more usability especially if you're considering liquid cooling in the future but guys don't forget to subscribe to my channel because all next week I'm going I'm gonna be bringing you coverage from Computex in Taipei Taiwan so lots of videos lots of new stuff coming out hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video of course and we'll see you guys next time
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