The Case Review: A Detailed Analysis of the Features and Design

Right out of the box, the case has a clean and minimalist design that immediately grabs your attention. The notches and nubs on either side of the case serve as a reminder that this is a tool-free installation process, making it incredibly easy to set up. The three and a half inch hard drive bay is particularly impressive, with no tools required to install or remove the drive. This feature is especially useful for those who want to upgrade their storage options without having to break out the screwdrivers.

One of the standout features of this case is its cable management system. The large gap at the back of the case provides ample room for running cables, and the indented design ensures that there is no squishing or pinching of any cables. This feature alone makes the case a winner in terms of organization and aesthetics. The designers have clearly put thought into this aspect, as it is one of the deeper cable management wells seen in any case that I've reviewed.

Now that we have a good look at the back of the case, let's take a closer look at the front. One of the things that stands out immediately is how easy it is to access the fans and other components. The mesh design provides excellent airflow, while the removable shrouds make it simple to upgrade or replace any parts that may need it. The fact that there are eight screws on each side of the shroud means that it can be taken apart in a matter of seconds, making it incredibly convenient.

If you're looking for a portable system that you can take to events or LAN parties, this case is probably not the best choice. It's simply too big and bulky for that type of use. However, if you're building a desktop computer for home use or gaming, this case is an excellent option. The large size provides ample room for large graphics cards, dual graphics cards, and vertical mounting options.

In terms of customization, this case is top-notch. The removable shrouds provide easy access to the front and top of the case, allowing you to upgrade or replace any parts as needed. The mesh design also allows for excellent airflow, making it perfect for those who want to overclock their system or run demanding applications. The RGB lighting system is also a nice touch, adding an extra layer of customization and personalization to the overall design.

Overall, this case has some minor drawbacks, such as the fact that the two shrouds have eight screws to take off. However, in hindsight, I realize that once you've taken it apart, it's not that big of a deal. The real winners here are the cable management system and the overall design of the case. If you're looking for a high-quality case with excellent features and design, this is definitely worth considering.

There are also some additional options available for the case, such as the mesh version and an upgraded front panel. The mesh version has a slightly different mounting system, but it still provides excellent airflow and customization options. The upgraded front panel adds an extra layer of protection to the fans and other components, making it perfect for those who want to add an extra level of protection to their build.

In conclusion, this case is a solid choice for anyone looking for a high-quality desktop computer. With its excellent cable management system, customizable design, and robust features, it's sure to please even the most discerning builder. Whether you're building a gaming PC or just looking for a reliable workhorse, this case has everything you need to get started.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome to tech deals cooler masters mastercase h 500 p mid tower RGB case with 200 millimeter fans today I'm gonna take you on a tour of the case take all the panels off show you all the wonderful features the vertical GPU mounting option 360 millimetre liquid cooling mounts and talk to you about an upgrade available a mesh version not only can you buy this in a mesh version but you can upgrade the existing one cooler masters made the new front panel available links to all of that down in the description below now before we get started there's a giveaway running in the month of March 2018 I have partnered with three other channels level one techs Hardware unboxed and tech yes City there'll be a giveaway linked down below we're giving away four amazing prizes including a full risin 7 1700 X gaming PC built in this case a second full gaming PC arisin 5 2400 G APU based system and 2 more awesome prizes go check that out down below now this case has been covered by most tech review channels at this point some of them have given it a better rating some of you have given it a worse rating I am going to talk about the pros and cons in this even though this case was sent to be about Coolermaster and their sponsor in the giveaway I'm still gonna be honest with you about what I think is good and maybe not so good about it let's start with the stuff I don't like first which they probably would rather I not do but I'm just gonna get it out of the way upfront this panel comes off ridiculously easy you cannot pick up the case using the front and back because this will just come straight off now the plus side is it's very easy to remove and it's very easy to get access to the fans to clean them perhaps you mount a radiator in the front it will support a 360 millimeter writer radiator in the front as well as on the top two of them that's pretty cool the other issue is this is very beautiful when the two 200 millimeter RGB fans in the front are turned on notice however this is plastic where's the air flow it is air flow limited in the front on the plastic version if you're going for a premium high-end super overclocked system this might be an airflow issue now there are vents on the side but they are partially blocked by the size of the fans unless you move the fans and perhaps put a radiator and fans behind it but if you're going for a supreme top-end system yeah you need airflow but they do have the new mesh version of the case where this is all mesh providing excellent airflow there will be a link down in the description below if you already own one of these cases and you wish you had the mesh version for $20 you can buy that or at the time of filming preorder it from Newegg for $20 and it's a gunmetal it's not the white it's the same color as this and you can replace the front panel with mesh if you want the airflow reattaching the side panel you can see the vent along here now here in the middle and at the bottom there is room for full airflow but right here and here is where the two two hundred millimeter fans are and it does constrict it a bit these vents are on both sides and there's also vents here on the top and bottom and they're not very large but for the risin 7 1700 X that's going in here that doesn't bother me that CPU does not actually run that hot we're putting a very nice Tower 6 heat pipe cooler in here the airflow for the rising 7 does not bother me if you're gonna put an I 970 900 X in here with this case be appropriate without the mesh no I'd want a mesh front if you're putting in that powerful of a system if you're doing SLI or crossfire graphics cards again I'd want the mesh we're putting in a GTX 1060 in here it's fine the next thing I want to talk about is the glass front panel partly to get it off so you're not looking at the reflection of my daughter's artwork there is a single flat head screw right here that you only have to turn 90 degrees we simply put our screw in we turn this 90 degrees and then the panel simply comes forward it rests here it does not fall off and this is a really really nice design it comes up and then it comes back down and there is a lip on the bottom to hold it less expensive cases usually have four thumb screws and then the panel just falls off and you have to catch it this is a much better design in addition there are handles here where you can simply reach in and pull the panel off and take it straight off I have now built with and worked in multiple tempered glass cases not just from Coolermaster but from Corsair as well and I have to say this is the way you should do it even the very nice crystal 570 X which is an expensive hundred eighty dollar case from Corsair very beautiful but it still has thumb screws on the side panels you undo the four thumb screws and the panel just falls off you have to catch it and there's no handle on the glass at all the fact that this has a handle the fact that it has a ridge for support and the fact that it's a single one-quarter twist screw in order to take it off is a much better design if you ever go into and out of your case make changes tweaks upgrades this is definitely a better design than the four thumb screw system on most other cases I have turned the case on its side and remove the front panel to just show you how much access you have to the front panel to the front fans and to the mounts now to 200 millimeter RGB fans come pre mounted but these are easily removable and behind it are mounts for up to a three hundred and sixty millimeter liquid cooler or simply three 120 millimeter fans if you want them turning the case 90 degrees you can now see the top of the case now there is clear Plexiglas here but there are vent holes on both sides in order to allow airflow and they're fairly large they're not quite an inch but they're on both sides there is room for up to a three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator here or three 120 millimeter fans or three 140 millimeter fans there's a lot of fan mount options and it's completely open up here it is also extremely easy to remove this you simply pull on the back right here and it comes straight off you are now looking through the top of the case and you notice that there is nothing impeding anything here you can mount in multiple places there are rails along here to let you choose your mounting location perhaps you don't want three fans up here perhaps you want to 140s and you'd like to position them in the middle rather than being in fixed locations this mounting flexibility is very nice use the inside rails for 120s and the outside rails for 140s you can also mount your fans outside the case this entire top tray is removable there are two screws here and two screws on the other side and this entire top piece comes off the case this is an extremely modular case designed to be very easy to build in this is also offset vertically above where the motherboard mounts so installing a radiator or fans up here will not block where the eight pin CPU power connector has to go in the top of the motherboard because it's lifted above where the motherboard would be now I want to talk about this front panel I really like this front panel you have a nice big easy to use power button right in the middle you can't possibly miss it the reset switch is smaller and recessed you will not hit that accidentally but it's not too hard to it you do have a hard drive activity light most importantly headphone microphone jacks and two USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports I love cases that have four USB ports on the front I personally use a lot of them so it's just nice to have them to be able to plug in your things looking at the back of the case there are a number of excellent features back here now the most obvious might be these vertically oriented slots right here this case supports vertical mounting of your graphics card on an extender with a ribbon cable to your motherboard so that you can have the fans in a beautiful RGB of your nice high-end graphics card sticking out rather than point it down which really doesn't make any sense if it's a pretty graphics card it does not come with the mount in the case it's an accessory you have to buy I will link to it down in the description below it's not inexpensive and frankly I don't know that a lot of people will go for it because when you see the price you'll go fifty dollars for a mount and a ribbon cable yeah coolermaster that seems like a lot but okay fair enough but if you do want a pretty graphics card mount there's that or you can of course mount it in the normal slots like you would any other case and motherboard up here we have a 140 millimeter fan pre-installed that is not an RGB fan you could replace it if you want but it isn't 140 it's also adjustable the slides here just like the ones on the top you can loosen the screws and move the fan up or down as you wish but most importantly it is recessed towards you or more importantly the i/o shield is recessed back if you have a nice premium motherboard which you should for a beautiful case like this then you may have a shroud or a heatsink or plastic or something around your i/o shield which sticks up in many cases I have found that the rear mount fan interferes with that not in this case because the actual mounting point here for the i/o shield is recessed in towards the case with the fan pushed out so they're not blocking that is very very good design I mentioned the same thing up top this entire piece which mounts the fans and radiators for whatever you put up here is lifted above the motherboard tray so it's not gonna conflict with cabling on the top of the motherboard now if you see the power supply mounts down here I'll show you more on that when I turn it around and take the shrouds off on the front but it's nice and simple and out of the way at the bottom I have now removed the back panel notice you can't see through it you will in a second there's a piece of plastic there but why don't more case companies do this when you take the panel off the screws stay on the back I am forever miss placing and losing screws when I take apart multiple machines I love the fact that these come on here minor point but it's just a nice attention to detail okay I found the first thing I truly don't like taking the shrouds off of the bottom where the power supply and the drive cages are is not very well designed you have to take off two screws here in the front two screws in the back two screws back here and two screws to remove the cable routing shroud from here that is eight screws total that have to be removed in order to take these off and the shroud is in two pieces now the nice part about the shroud being in two pieces is the fact that you can put half of it back on if you want if you want to leave the drive cages exposed maybe you change out your hard drives a lot or maybe you want to leave room for an upgrade without doing all this you can do that you can just put this part on which covers the power supply and leave this part off which covers did you drive cages which I'll show you in a second that's a bit involved to get access to it so once you put the whole thing together and once you get your power supply in there yeah you're not ever going to change that but in fairness how often do you change your power supply I am struck by the belief that this could have been designed differently with maybe slide-out mounts so there was no screws to remove back here but engineering costs money prototypes cost money and you know if it's perfect I guess it would cost 250 instead of 150 dollars but that's a lot of screws just to remove some shrouds these two panels were on the back that I had to remove earlier this covers the motherboard tray which you can now see open here it's simply plastic and simply pops off this is metal and this is the cable management shroud that basically covers a third of the back of the case here and lets you cleanly run all of the cables back here it actually has really good cable management back here with room to actually put all the thick cables you could possibly run I'll turn it around in a second but cable management in here is very sharp this here is half of the shroud which goes right here over where the power supply is the other half which you can't see at the moment goes over the drive cages right there you can choose to cover both of them or only half of them at your option once you get this whole thing assembled now what's nice is right here on top are two two and a half inch SSD mounting trays they simply have thumb screws they come off the SSDs mount under them not on top because you want clearance for your cards and other items so these actually come off they mount underneath and the cables go in the back there is room here and a cut out in order to actually run all the cables underneath and across and up if you want so that you don't have ugly cables running here where it's nice and visible this really is built as I said with great cable management if you want a good clean RGB look it's definitely worth considering now the two trays down here are three and a half inch drive trays they are toolless you simply clip this and it simply slides right out and no big deal there are notches and nubs on either side so you just take a three and a half inch hard drive drop it in put the plastic out of it no tools required very very easy there are also four mounting screws hold area if you want to put an SSD here not wouldn't be toolless you need to skip the drive screws but you can also put an SSD or any two and a half inch drive as well as I said before that can be left exposed for easy access or covered with the other half of the shroud if you simply want no obstructions other than the beautiful motherboard and RGB lights turning the case around you can see all of the cable management now all this back here will be open with the shrouds installed so you can run your cables there is a large gap here this is actually indented a bit to give you room to run your cable there tiger you untie them and basically manage them there but there is maybe a good half inch depth difference between where the back of the case would be and then this piece of metal over here so that you not squishing all of the cables together this really is meant to put every single cable back there your 24 pin ATX cable your 8 pin CPU connector cables to the top or the front all of your drive cables for anything your SSDs down here in the bottom and whatnot so this depth the well that exists right here is absolutely enough for all of your cables and it's one of the deeper cable management well frankly seen in any case that I've reviewed I've now turned the case around and I'm gonna zoom in here just a bit because I want you to see how easy the access is in the front now many people who buy this case are just gonna leave to two hundred millimeter fans in the front and you can do that you might also possibly consider putting a radiator or a different fan mount or something else up front and I wanted you to see how clean the mountain look is you can see the fans very very clearly because there aren't a bunch of crossbars or obstructions or fixed mounting points that will limit what you can do with the front of this for expansion upgradability for customization of this case the fact that it could be so completely disassembled the good cable management the good lighting the two three hundred sixty millimeter mater radiator mounting locations it's really really nice the deficiencies of this case I would have to say it's a minor one the the two shrouds having eight screws to take off is annoying but honestly now that I think about it more from having done that you're gonna do that what once probably that might be minor now some people aren't happy about how easy the front of the case and the top of the case are to take off fair enough if that bothers you well there's the mesh version which those are mounted a bit differently but consider this is a fairly big case once you build it are you going to move it I tend to build cases in mid Tower and full tower cases the computer under my desk is in a big full tower case once I built my skylight next system which is under my desk it got put there and has not moved since so the fact that these are easy to remove really means nothing because it's gonna sit there for a long the next time I move it will be to upgrade or replace it if you're looking for a portable system that you can take to events or land parties well this is too big anyway you need a smaller system for that quite frankly it's a personal choice if you want more airflow get the mesh version or the upgraded front panel it's really pretty and it's nice and open and the open space inside to install large graphics cards dual graphics cards the vertical mount which cost a little bit much $50 for that but if you want it don't care maybe you have a very beautiful RGB 1080 TI in that case it's not that expensive you could certainly do that there overall considering the price this is currently on sale on Amazon and Newegg for less than MSRP links to that down in the description below I will link to the mesh version I will link to the upgrade front panel giveaway as I mentioned before is linked down there now if you're watching this video not in March to giveaway doesn't count that's March 2018 only it's a nice case it has some compromises and it's not perfect but I'm actually looking forward to building in this like this video if you liked it share it with your friends if you loved it remember to subscribe to my channel with that big huge red button directly below questions and comments in the comment section and as always links to the video description to giveaway in March and to all the stuff at Amazon and Newegg thank you so much for watching I will see you in my next videohello and welcome to tech deals cooler masters mastercase h 500 p mid tower RGB case with 200 millimeter fans today I'm gonna take you on a tour of the case take all the panels off show you all the wonderful features the vertical GPU mounting option 360 millimetre liquid cooling mounts and talk to you about an upgrade available a mesh version not only can you buy this in a mesh version but you can upgrade the existing one cooler masters made the new front panel available links to all of that down in the description below now before we get started there's a giveaway running in the month of March 2018 I have partnered with three other channels level one techs Hardware unboxed and tech yes City there'll be a giveaway linked down below we're giving away four amazing prizes including a full risin 7 1700 X gaming PC built in this case a second full gaming PC arisin 5 2400 G APU based system and 2 more awesome prizes go check that out down below now this case has been covered by most tech review channels at this point some of them have given it a better rating some of you have given it a worse rating I am going to talk about the pros and cons in this even though this case was sent to be about Coolermaster and their sponsor in the giveaway I'm still gonna be honest with you about what I think is good and maybe not so good about it let's start with the stuff I don't like first which they probably would rather I not do but I'm just gonna get it out of the way upfront this panel comes off ridiculously easy you cannot pick up the case using the front and back because this will just come straight off now the plus side is it's very easy to remove and it's very easy to get access to the fans to clean them perhaps you mount a radiator in the front it will support a 360 millimeter writer radiator in the front as well as on the top two of them that's pretty cool the other issue is this is very beautiful when the two 200 millimeter RGB fans in the front are turned on notice however this is plastic where's the air flow it is air flow limited in the front on the plastic version if you're going for a premium high-end super overclocked system this might be an airflow issue now there are vents on the side but they are partially blocked by the size of the fans unless you move the fans and perhaps put a radiator and fans behind it but if you're going for a supreme top-end system yeah you need airflow but they do have the new mesh version of the case where this is all mesh providing excellent airflow there will be a link down in the description below if you already own one of these cases and you wish you had the mesh version for $20 you can buy that or at the time of filming preorder it from Newegg for $20 and it's a gunmetal it's not the white it's the same color as this and you can replace the front panel with mesh if you want the airflow reattaching the side panel you can see the vent along here now here in the middle and at the bottom there is room for full airflow but right here and here is where the two two hundred millimeter fans are and it does constrict it a bit these vents are on both sides and there's also vents here on the top and bottom and they're not very large but for the risin 7 1700 X that's going in here that doesn't bother me that CPU does not actually run that hot we're putting a very nice Tower 6 heat pipe cooler in here the airflow for the rising 7 does not bother me if you're gonna put an I 970 900 X in here with this case be appropriate without the mesh no I'd want a mesh front if you're putting in that powerful of a system if you're doing SLI or crossfire graphics cards again I'd want the mesh we're putting in a GTX 1060 in here it's fine the next thing I want to talk about is the glass front panel partly to get it off so you're not looking at the reflection of my daughter's artwork there is a single flat head screw right here that you only have to turn 90 degrees we simply put our screw in we turn this 90 degrees and then the panel simply comes forward it rests here it does not fall off and this is a really really nice design it comes up and then it comes back down and there is a lip on the bottom to hold it less expensive cases usually have four thumb screws and then the panel just falls off and you have to catch it this is a much better design in addition there are handles here where you can simply reach in and pull the panel off and take it straight off I have now built with and worked in multiple tempered glass cases not just from Coolermaster but from Corsair as well and I have to say this is the way you should do it even the very nice crystal 570 X which is an expensive hundred eighty dollar case from Corsair very beautiful but it still has thumb screws on the side panels you undo the four thumb screws and the panel just falls off you have to catch it and there's no handle on the glass at all the fact that this has a handle the fact that it has a ridge for support and the fact that it's a single one-quarter twist screw in order to take it off is a much better design if you ever go into and out of your case make changes tweaks upgrades this is definitely a better design than the four thumb screw system on most other cases I have turned the case on its side and remove the front panel to just show you how much access you have to the front panel to the front fans and to the mounts now to 200 millimeter RGB fans come pre mounted but these are easily removable and behind it are mounts for up to a three hundred and sixty millimeter liquid cooler or simply three 120 millimeter fans if you want them turning the case 90 degrees you can now see the top of the case now there is clear Plexiglas here but there are vent holes on both sides in order to allow airflow and they're fairly large they're not quite an inch but they're on both sides there is room for up to a three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator here or three 120 millimeter fans or three 140 millimeter fans there's a lot of fan mount options and it's completely open up here it is also extremely easy to remove this you simply pull on the back right here and it comes straight off you are now looking through the top of the case and you notice that there is nothing impeding anything here you can mount in multiple places there are rails along here to let you choose your mounting location perhaps you don't want three fans up here perhaps you want to 140s and you'd like to position them in the middle rather than being in fixed locations this mounting flexibility is very nice use the inside rails for 120s and the outside rails for 140s you can also mount your fans outside the case this entire top tray is removable there are two screws here and two screws on the other side and this entire top piece comes off the case this is an extremely modular case designed to be very easy to build in this is also offset vertically above where the motherboard mounts so installing a radiator or fans up here will not block where the eight pin CPU power connector has to go in the top of the motherboard because it's lifted above where the motherboard would be now I want to talk about this front panel I really like this front panel you have a nice big easy to use power button right in the middle you can't possibly miss it the reset switch is smaller and recessed you will not hit that accidentally but it's not too hard to it you do have a hard drive activity light most importantly headphone microphone jacks and two USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports I love cases that have four USB ports on the front I personally use a lot of them so it's just nice to have them to be able to plug in your things looking at the back of the case there are a number of excellent features back here now the most obvious might be these vertically oriented slots right here this case supports vertical mounting of your graphics card on an extender with a ribbon cable to your motherboard so that you can have the fans in a beautiful RGB of your nice high-end graphics card sticking out rather than point it down which really doesn't make any sense if it's a pretty graphics card it does not come with the mount in the case it's an accessory you have to buy I will link to it down in the description below it's not inexpensive and frankly I don't know that a lot of people will go for it because when you see the price you'll go fifty dollars for a mount and a ribbon cable yeah coolermaster that seems like a lot but okay fair enough but if you do want a pretty graphics card mount there's that or you can of course mount it in the normal slots like you would any other case and motherboard up here we have a 140 millimeter fan pre-installed that is not an RGB fan you could replace it if you want but it isn't 140 it's also adjustable the slides here just like the ones on the top you can loosen the screws and move the fan up or down as you wish but most importantly it is recessed towards you or more importantly the i/o shield is recessed back if you have a nice premium motherboard which you should for a beautiful case like this then you may have a shroud or a heatsink or plastic or something around your i/o shield which sticks up in many cases I have found that the rear mount fan interferes with that not in this case because the actual mounting point here for the i/o shield is recessed in towards the case with the fan pushed out so they're not blocking that is very very good design I mentioned the same thing up top this entire piece which mounts the fans and radiators for whatever you put up here is lifted above the motherboard tray so it's not gonna conflict with cabling on the top of the motherboard now if you see the power supply mounts down here I'll show you more on that when I turn it around and take the shrouds off on the front but it's nice and simple and out of the way at the bottom I have now removed the back panel notice you can't see through it you will in a second there's a piece of plastic there but why don't more case companies do this when you take the panel off the screws stay on the back I am forever miss placing and losing screws when I take apart multiple machines I love the fact that these come on here minor point but it's just a nice attention to detail okay I found the first thing I truly don't like taking the shrouds off of the bottom where the power supply and the drive cages are is not very well designed you have to take off two screws here in the front two screws in the back two screws back here and two screws to remove the cable routing shroud from here that is eight screws total that have to be removed in order to take these off and the shroud is in two pieces now the nice part about the shroud being in two pieces is the fact that you can put half of it back on if you want if you want to leave the drive cages exposed maybe you change out your hard drives a lot or maybe you want to leave room for an upgrade without doing all this you can do that you can just put this part on which covers the power supply and leave this part off which covers did you drive cages which I'll show you in a second that's a bit involved to get access to it so once you put the whole thing together and once you get your power supply in there yeah you're not ever going to change that but in fairness how often do you change your power supply I am struck by the belief that this could have been designed differently with maybe slide-out mounts so there was no screws to remove back here but engineering costs money prototypes cost money and you know if it's perfect I guess it would cost 250 instead of 150 dollars but that's a lot of screws just to remove some shrouds these two panels were on the back that I had to remove earlier this covers the motherboard tray which you can now see open here it's simply plastic and simply pops off this is metal and this is the cable management shroud that basically covers a third of the back of the case here and lets you cleanly run all of the cables back here it actually has really good cable management back here with room to actually put all the thick cables you could possibly run I'll turn it around in a second but cable management in here is very sharp this here is half of the shroud which goes right here over where the power supply is the other half which you can't see at the moment goes over the drive cages right there you can choose to cover both of them or only half of them at your option once you get this whole thing assembled now what's nice is right here on top are two two and a half inch SSD mounting trays they simply have thumb screws they come off the SSDs mount under them not on top because you want clearance for your cards and other items so these actually come off they mount underneath and the cables go in the back there is room here and a cut out in order to actually run all the cables underneath and across and up if you want so that you don't have ugly cables running here where it's nice and visible this really is built as I said with great cable management if you want a good clean RGB look it's definitely worth considering now the two trays down here are three and a half inch drive trays they are toolless you simply clip this and it simply slides right out and no big deal there are notches and nubs on either side so you just take a three and a half inch hard drive drop it in put the plastic out of it no tools required very very easy there are also four mounting screws hold area if you want to put an SSD here not wouldn't be toolless you need to skip the drive screws but you can also put an SSD or any two and a half inch drive as well as I said before that can be left exposed for easy access or covered with the other half of the shroud if you simply want no obstructions other than the beautiful motherboard and RGB lights turning the case around you can see all of the cable management now all this back here will be open with the shrouds installed so you can run your cables there is a large gap here this is actually indented a bit to give you room to run your cable there tiger you untie them and basically manage them there but there is maybe a good half inch depth difference between where the back of the case would be and then this piece of metal over here so that you not squishing all of the cables together this really is meant to put every single cable back there your 24 pin ATX cable your 8 pin CPU connector cables to the top or the front all of your drive cables for anything your SSDs down here in the bottom and whatnot so this depth the well that exists right here is absolutely enough for all of your cables and it's one of the deeper cable management well frankly seen in any case that I've reviewed I've now turned the case around and I'm gonna zoom in here just a bit because I want you to see how easy the access is in the front now many people who buy this case are just gonna leave to two hundred millimeter fans in the front and you can do that you might also possibly consider putting a radiator or a different fan mount or something else up front and I wanted you to see how clean the mountain look is you can see the fans very very clearly because there aren't a bunch of crossbars or obstructions or fixed mounting points that will limit what you can do with the front of this for expansion upgradability for customization of this case the fact that it could be so completely disassembled the good cable management the good lighting the two three hundred sixty millimeter mater radiator mounting locations it's really really nice the deficiencies of this case I would have to say it's a minor one the the two shrouds having eight screws to take off is annoying but honestly now that I think about it more from having done that you're gonna do that what once probably that might be minor now some people aren't happy about how easy the front of the case and the top of the case are to take off fair enough if that bothers you well there's the mesh version which those are mounted a bit differently but consider this is a fairly big case once you build it are you going to move it I tend to build cases in mid Tower and full tower cases the computer under my desk is in a big full tower case once I built my skylight next system which is under my desk it got put there and has not moved since so the fact that these are easy to remove really means nothing because it's gonna sit there for a long the next time I move it will be to upgrade or replace it if you're looking for a portable system that you can take to events or land parties well this is too big anyway you need a smaller system for that quite frankly it's a personal choice if you want more airflow get the mesh version or the upgraded front panel it's really pretty and it's nice and open and the open space inside to install large graphics cards dual graphics cards the vertical mount which cost a little bit much $50 for that but if you want it don't care maybe you have a very beautiful RGB 1080 TI in that case it's not that expensive you could certainly do that there overall considering the price this is currently on sale on Amazon and Newegg for less than MSRP links to that down in the description below I will link to the mesh version I will link to the upgrade front panel giveaway as I mentioned before is linked down there now if you're watching this video not in March to giveaway doesn't count that's March 2018 only it's a nice case it has some compromises and it's not perfect but I'm actually looking forward to building in this like this video if you liked it share it with your friends if you loved it remember to subscribe to my channel with that big huge red button directly below questions and comments in the comment section and as always links to the video description to giveaway in March and to all the stuff at Amazon and Newegg thank you so much for watching I will see you in my next video\n"