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this video is brought to you by mano price offering you high quality cables at everyday low prices all with a lifetime warranty monoprice also has adapters keyboards headphones and even gaming monitors click the link in the description for more information or visit monoprice comm excellent so at Computex this year coolermaster revealed a brand new case they had been working on the master case 5 here it is and just to give you an idea of the entire master case family there's the five which is an ATX mid tower and is available now or very soon and on the roadmap there's also the master case seven which will be a larger ATX full tower and maybe even a master case three for micro ATX or mini ITX builds but those aren't confirmed yet so let's just stick with the five for today it's available in the basic trim as the master case five an upgraded version like the one here called the mastercase pro 5 and also in the future a special master case maker 5 version which will be a cooler master store exclusive cooler masters focused with this new series is to allow you to modify customize upgrade and expand your case to meet your needs while maintaining their standards of excellence in overall cooler mastery trademark so did they succeed i don't know why i'm asking you that question you should just watch the rest of the video to find out ok so this is a mid tower ATX case and a quick unboxing reveals hard foam inserts for packaging not my favorite but it's quite thick and certainly adequate the mastercase 5 and this is a non pro version we're looking at here by the way is only available in black at lunch but Coolermaster will consider other colors probably white would be on the short list based on customer feedback MSRP is $110 us for this version and 140 for the pro 5 speaking of the pro 5 look at all these other boxes these are some sold separately upgrades Coolermaster sent along including a windowed side panel a top reservoir bracket and mesh grille a couple more 2 and 3 slot drive cages and one of the two lists 2.5 inch SSD mounting panels these can all be purchased separately as upgrades for the base mastercase 5 or if you get the pro 5 it'll come with the windowed side panel the radiator bracket and the mesh top cover and look there's even a privacy shield on the bottom of the window panel that you can use to block your power supply if it's not made by Coolermaster I'm going to leave these aside for now and focus on the get but I will come back to them at the end aesthetically the mastercase 5 is a fairly standard ATX tower layout with distinctive angular top and front panels and lots of hex mesh air flow the black painted steel and black plastic are very well matched I like the quality of the paint job it's a matte finish and that's maybe just ever so slightly gray or lighter black and although it can pick up fingerprints they wipe off pretty easily dimensions are 235 millimeters wide 512 millimeters deep and 548 millimeters tall at the top front and center is the i/o panel with a reset button couple USB 3.0 ports power button mic and headphone and this whole panel is removable for potential future upgrades once USB 3.1 is available for example while we're up here the top of the case has two handles reinforced with metal which are sturdy and make it a lot easier to pick up and move the case around there's also a top exhaust panel with a couple hundred and twenty 140 millimeter fan mounts this is filtered but it must be unscrewed in order to clean it also there's no rad support up here by default this is where that radiator bracket upgrade can fit in which I will show you later back to the front there's a couple five and a quarter inch drive bays and below that your front intake with a dust filter that pulls off from the bottom it's not as elegant as some of the magnetic ones but I think I actually prefer it because the plastic catches are wide and sturdy and I've had many of those magnetic ones break because they have flimsier plastic nubs that hold them in place behind it there's a single included 140 millimeter fan with space for a second one I would have liked to have seen one more intake fan included but just bear in mind that you might want to add another one you can do a 240 or 280 millimeter radiator up here but you'll want to keep it slim as there's only 40 millimeters total spaces the rad and fans together there's not a lot to say about the left side panel it's a solid piece of steel which is a fun sort of hanging trick when you try to remove it you can trick your friends with that it's pretty sturdy in the coolermaster fashion and it has captive thumb screws actually almost all the screws in this case are captive I bet that makes Dmitriy happy there is no air intake here on the side panel though and as you also might see here on the bottom of the case there's no intake apart from the power supply as well although the feet are fantastic with wide rubber pads again real metal that feels wonderfully sturdy about that airflow concern though and I'll randomly switch over to accessories here for a moment so I can show you the bracket that's included which lets you install a third 120 140 millimeter intake fan on the front of the case at the top just in front of the five and a quarter inch base and that should be plenty also there's a manual warranty info mounting screws and hardware and a metal nut for tightening motherboard standoffs metal back to the case though the back of the case there's your second included hundred forty millimeter fan the rear mount is on slotted rails so you can slide that fan up or down which is great motherboard IO knockout of course more hex grilling seven expansion slots and is that a storm guard it is a storm guard how thoughtful cooler master this is for land parties you basically feed your mouse and keyboard cables through it so they can't be ripped off as easily anyway the bottom mounted power supply also has a bracket panel with thumb screws so you can install it from outside of the case which I have never done personally but I guess it happens and thankfully there's a removable power supply intake dust filter - finally for the exterior is the right side panel which is just like the left side panel except opposite with it removed you can see the cable management space right off the bat there's a lovely channel running down the middle with velcro straps and I can be able to fit all of your cables in here but you will be able to fit a lot of them and there's plenty of space back here otherwise anyway the interior paint job is fantastic there's a large CPU backplate cutout and a couple 2.5 inch SSD mounts you get two trays with this version and there are four mounting locations for the SSDs there's these two and then there's two more right above the power supply it would have been nice to get all four mounts right out of the box but that's just one of the ways coolermaster is segmenting the different versions of this case they are super easy to use though and everything mounts with just a single thumb screw I also want to point out these wonderful cable routing grommets which are very thick they are removable but they're actually going to stay in when they're in there and Coolermaster has also done you the solid of rolling the edges of these pass throughs in order to keep you from cutting yourself even though all PC builds should require a blood sacrifice but I digress it would have been nice to see some of these on the top routing holes to let the at least a little bit less visible here's a look at your front panel cables to all black cabling for the USB 3.0 the front panel connectors even those fan plugs cabling looks great ooh except for that HD audio that's okay though you don't have to plug that one in and in the main chamber we have a traditional ATX vertical motherboard layout and a separated lower quarter of the case for the power supply there's foam strips for padding beneath the PSU and also space for one of those hard drive mounts at the front of this lower area drive mounting is where you have a lot of flexibility with this case so let's take a look at that the housing for the two five and a quarter inch drives at the top can be removed to give you full access to the clip and click panel where a couple rubber pegs at the back and a couple captured thumb screws at the front or all you'll need to hold the drive cage in place and you can also shift the cages up or down in about one inch increments to position them just where you like them this is a drive mounting system that I really have never seen before and I like it the trays themselves are pretty basic wraparound jobs I can each hold a 3.5 inch or a 2.5 inch drive and that's about all there is to show for the master case 5 what about all those extra pieces I will now add them to the master case five to magically turn it into a master case grow vibe that's right and now I've got a windowed side panel to look through a nice mesh vent for the top a 240 or 280 radiator bracket that can be used to mount up the radiator outside the case before installation at least 4 to 40 rads which is super handy and I also added all the drive cages just to give a look see what it would look like so on the plus side the mastercase 5 continues the cooler master tradition of manufacturing solid functional cases with the core feature set that filters look for they've added a lot of flexibility to this with the expandable areas of the mastercase 5 the add-ons i've shown today and the potential parts that they mentioned like replacement front i/o water cooling pump mounts and graphics card supports it's wide enough to support hundred and ninety millimeter tall air coolers and I like the look of the case overall I think Coolermaster did a great job on this one on the minus side I had a few complaints I would have appreciated one more intake fan at the front the drive mounting situation is pretty limited out of the box unless you add more cages or SSD mounts and there seems to be a lack of cable tie-downs behind the motherboard tray apart from that central channel with the velcro ultimately though I think coolermaster has produced an excellent new case in the master case 5 but what do you think the new trend for case manufacturer seems to be to offer slimmed down versions of each case to hit lower price points kind of like whip fractal did with the define s or fantex with the enthu Pro M do you like having the option to pay a lower price upfront even if you might need to buy some add-ons down the line or would you prefer a higher sticker price but all the accessories come with let me know in the comment section down below like and share this video if you enjoyed it subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and check out stored Paul's Hardware net if you wanna support my channel by purchasing super-sexy shirt or a slightly less sexy mug or a pint glass I will be back again very soon with more tech videos and as 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