Cooler Master MasterCase H500M

A spacious case with great airflow and a quite an amount of customisability. It's more effort to work in than most other cases, requiring a flat head screwdriver to open the side panels and a Phillips for everything else as per usual; there are plenty of steel cable covers. The PSU shroud is sort of in four configurable pieces, and there are three back cable covers if you want to hide your cables and only show steel panels through the transparent back side panel; though I didn't use them. Another thing I didn't use is the optional glass front panel, I stayed with the pre-installed mesh front. There's an aRGB controller included, though I didn't end up using that either. While I love the rich feature set, I don't appreciate the extremely sparse instruction manual which forced me to seek out helpful YouTube videos to assist with a couple of ins and outs. Keep in mind that there isn't a lot of motherboard clearance for fans for a top-mounted radiator, I had to mount my Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 AIO's fans on the top side in a pull configuration, but there's plenty of space for them there so it's fine. Don't expect to be able to use a push-pull fan configuration though. I HIGHLY recommend watching some YouTube videos building inside this case beforehand. All-in-all it's a very pretty case with great airflow and I like the customisability aspect, even though it left me with a bunch of extra material, from steel to glass. The case itself is big and heavy, so keep that in mind too. It's still not common to see USB Type-C on the front panel, so I'm happy to have that, alongside not two, but four USB Type-A ports. Another neat accessory is a front panel header-connector that helps with plugging in those small connectors into the motherboard. There's so much to this case that I may be missing some things, so that's a bit of a double-edged blade. You may not want this case if you're looking for something simple and easy to build in, but I really appreciate all it has to offer, even if I didn't end up using it all.

Michael Makarenko | Geschreven op: 31-03-2023