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gigabytes X $2.99 motherboard lineup features a range of options with support for Intel's Core x-series CPUs boards like the Auris X 299 gaming 7 are packed with useful features and support obtain memory Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 gen2 click the link in the description for more information what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is gonna be about this case right here the cooler master 1/2 h 500 p the half-serious stands for high airflow and cooler master they kind of set the standard for case design back in the 2000s with the half series if you want to know how far back this goes when half first came out like a painted interior on a case was a premium feature it wasn't like every case I painted interior some of the earlier half cases actually didn't that painted interiors but they have a whole lineup of them that they launched and then it sort of petered off for a while but they're bringing it back this is the H 500 P it's got two massive 200 millimeter RGB fans at the front so I'm just gonna build a system in this case today and I'm going to let you guys know how it goes and maybe gives you some feedback towards the end of this video so in order to build the system I should probably have some parts to put inside is gotta have memory let's keep it real with some coolermaster stuff I got the master air ma 610 P air cooler with RGB lights compatible with all of the difference ASIS or asrock RGB LED gigabyte RGB fusion and msi mystic lighting all compatible with that right there coolermaster the standby v6 50 power supply nice all blacks cabling on this one of course their vengeance LED RGB memory a 16 gig 2 by 8 gig set for the cpu gonna go with the intel 8700 k the new cpu that's part of their coffee Lake line up really good overclocker on this one 6 cores and 12 threads and there is some excitement about intel actually bringing higher core counts to their mainstream lineup so might as well drop in the 8700 k for some storage since this already has Windows 10 installed on it I have the Samsung 960 grow nvme SSD pfeffernusse 12 gig which brings me to graphics card and motherboard Asus actually sent me some stuff recently so I was thinking I'm pretty sure I know what's in here let's let's go with this graphics card the Asus Strix Radeon rx Vega Edition so the custom Asus version of the RX Vegas 64 and they said they'd send me a Z 370 motherboard - so this is the ROG Strix Z 370 - I gaming motherboard which I'm sure is a very good motherboard because you know asus rog they do a good good job with it it is mini ITX though okay let's just go for it let's go for it there are my parts let's put this bill together all right so give them the H 500 P out of the box first impressions it's a really really nice looking case you know when it comes to aesthetic things like you know the shape of the mints and everything on the side it can be hit or miss depending on a manufacturer's intents and where they go with it this I don't know I just like it I think it looks pretty clean somewhat industrial kind of futuristic looking I guess but more specific to the specs this is a tempered glass side panel piece right here it's got a single screw in the middle and that you need to position this way to keep it closed then there's a latch and pop that open and then the side panel will just kind of fall open there fall partway open not all the way off and then you can lift it off the hinge works pretty good for IO up on top we have a headphone and microphone jack a couple USB 3.0 and a couple USB 2.0 ports you got a reset button right there hard you have active activity light and then there's these appear to be two lights on either side these aren't buttons so not sure if those just slide up RGB like the rest of the case or what and then of course the power button dead center I'm getting to the point with cases where I'm going to start complaining that there's no USB type-c I'd love to see a USB type-c plug up here and if it connected to a USB 3.1 gen2 port in the back all the better as well now apart from the tempered glass there are two plastic pieces sort of slightly smoky plastic here on the front from top to bottom as well as going across the top there's ventilation along the top up here it's very wide and there's plenty of space between the plastic and the fans as well and of course all the ventilation going in the sides that will provide a little bit of filtration as well as air gets pulled into the case by those two big fans all right so discovered that our vengeance RGB memory is going to conflict with this cooler and the cooler is already installed so the memory is going to be the easiest thing to swap out so Corsair I promise I'll be using your vengeance RGB memory and something nice very soon for the time being we're sticking with the tried and true standard the vengeance lpx low profile which is gonna give us plenty of clearance therefore that cooler and the cooler has RGB LEDs on it and it's got a little league coming off of it with just a little 4 pin plug it may or may not have already shown you guys so there the the CPU cooler has a little 4 pin plug and the motherboard has a single RGB LED header but it's the fancy new one that's digital so the little three pin digital connector which is really cool if you have addressable digital RGB LEDs because there's a lot of fancy effects you can do with those that you can't with normal ones but I cannot just plug that into that will not work so I'm gonna be going with Plan B option and again all of this could be easily like done away with by just going with the full sized ATX motherboard that has more room for the memory and more RGB LED headers on it my asus strix x2 99 board for example has this header as well as the four pin header so that anyway our cooler master master air ma 610 p cooler does come with a little control unit though with just a molex plug so we're gonna plug into that so we can at least have the LEDs going on this unit so here's our half broken down with all the modular parts removed at least as far as I can tell and I wanted to show you a few more of the features right now one is this crazy rail system that they have gone on the top it is centered and actually this piece this entire piece can be removed as well with the screws you can see like here and here so you could remove that to install your radiators if you wanted to before reinstall and that that's a very convenient thing and also as you can probably speak see a crazy amount of support for a hundred and twenty millimeter or 140 millimeter based fans in three are I believe three or four fan configurations depending on which size fan you are using so that's pretty cool there is a similar configuration although you can't remove the piece at the front for the radiator but tons of support up here for radiators as well and two fan configurations you might notice the drive cage down at the bottom so if you do have 3.5 inch drives you can't pop them in there it is on this rail system that allows you to slide the drives out however and do note that the drives are sliding up forward here I'd be interested if you could flip that around possible you'll be able to slide them out the back because these pieces are the modular pieces that came off this one here was on the left side and it's got a couple 2.5 inch drive mounts on top and then this one here was on the right side there's also these metal panels right here and those are basically cable protection routing panels so there's one that goes right here that prevents you from seeing any other stuff back there if you're running cables from the front and then this wider panel also goes on the back behind it to hide the cable management area from the back or keep those in a little bit tight here now those are very convenient and nice to have for sure but I do want to point out this large pile of screws right here these are all the screws that I had to remove in order to get all of these panels off not a huge or insanely crazy amount but do bear in mind for example that there really is no way to mount the power supply through the back of the case or mount the power supply even from this side of the case it's pretty much closed in so you need to pop that panel off in order to get your power supply there is a dust filter behind that so that is good to have but just something to keep in mind if you ever have the I mean people don't swap their power supply is very often so it's probably not going to be a huge issue but I have had power supplies fail and that would mean that you probably would have to you can potentially even remove your entire motherboard into a full system to tear down in order to replace set but that's a little bit of speculation there anyway the upshot of course is that you get a crazy amount of modularity so you can use these panels and not use them depending on whether you like to look at them or not probably you will end up using them to hide a lot of those cables and then these it's nice to have them in two separate pieces so you could for instance leave the front one off if you wanted more easy access to those drive cages and the this one you'll probably keep on most of the time because most people like to have that nice clean power supply basement looking area so they'll put together wool weird cuz mini ITX and the power supply cable length was just barely enough to get some of these locations but overall internally the build quality is fantastic I like the layout there's so much room to work with we were not taking an advantage of it at all because we were shoving everything up into a mini ITX formdecor don't put a mini ITX motherboard in this case the only reason I did it was because I only had to Z 370 motherboards and I already used the gigabyte one so I wanted to use the Asus one anyway let's fire her up for the first time hopefully I did things right hey I think that's good as long as it's got enough juice to turn those turn or millimeter fans at the front it does just barely so guys here is the completed build at least for now two hundred millimeter fans in the front Joe and I have both noticed these are very quiet one of the great advantages of turn ability of fans one of the great reasons why I have been a fan of big fans haha in the past so glad that they're there and actually look really clean sooo you can cycle through a bunch of different RGB effects and I am happy to say that wearing these front fans as well as the fans on my cooler together has allowed me to sync them all together a very in mind that the motherboard the accent lights on the edge of the motherboard as well as the graphics card are not synced up right now because we haven't loaded up into or a sink and you would if you use maybe a larger size motherboard that had the RGB out on it of course be able to connect all of these RGB LEDs together with the motherboard and sync everything up together as it is I've just been controlling it manually with that little units that's included and I will say it's nice to have that because it means that if you don't necessarily have the RGB capabilities on the motherboard you can at least set everything up and get it looking pretty and color matching and everything right now I have everything just going red because that's what the graphics card was defaulting to so it matched a little bit better but as you can see with the side panel on you get a really nice view of everything inside very unobstructed and very much an indicator that again mini ITX in this case makes no sense there's so much more room for other activities and that kind of thing in there as well now I can't make any comments as far as actual thermal performance of this case because I'm not doing anything that I would call scientific testing today I think most of my dilemmas with this build were just the fact that it was a mini ATX board so most of the cable management routing holes that are over on the right here I wasn't able to access for the bottom stuff down here I have a bunch of stuff routed between the graphics card and the motherboard coming over it here and that's not ideal either but I was able to get everything in there and functional and up and running there's also the ability to cycle through some different effects so you can pop in there take that's what I did there so there's flashing there is sort of a fade that will fade a single color you can also have it fade between different colors this was what they had going on when they were demoing this at Computex which looks pretty cool also these these LEDs do a very nice sort of pinkish purple which i think was pretty cool there as well and then of course you can just flash between colors I really like the flashing effects I think they're too abrupt and not very pleasant and then you have this one which also appears to be a fading between different colors but just a little bit faster and then that's back to solid and then the other button will just let you cycle through colors so you get blue yellow a lighter blue kind of turquoise ish a sort of pinkish purple white red green and back to blue so there are the options there's my first impression first look first ever build in the cooler master H 500 P the new launch of the half series I hope you guys have enjoyed this video if you did a person thumbs up button and let me know if you'd like to see a another build in this may be one that I'm not just sort of thrown together with parts I have but one that's actually purpose-built with a bit more thought behind what's going inside thank you guys so much for watching this video though of course if you enjoyed it hit the thumbs up button and we'll see you next time