The New NR200P MAX Can Handle Anything

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso let's take a look at the cool master nr200p Max now if you're familiar with the original nr200p this should look very very familiar in fact the external is exactly the same same size same volume same physical dimensions but the max variant comes packaged as a kit so it has some pre-installed Hardware so the building process and the part selection on your end is a little bit easier now if you're someone who has been considering downsizing to an ITX build but you don't want to bother with the compatibility of different parts you're worried about the phone anal and you don't want the building experience to be that difficult then this is probably the case for you especially if you're looking to throw in a big Power hungry graphics card the performance here is pretty incredible so just like the NZXT H1 the nr200p max is a kit it will be offered at $350 us and that kit includes an nr200p a 280 mil liquid cooler an 850 W 80 plus gold rated sfx power supply and a pcie Gen 4 Riser cable so with essentially Cooler Master are valuing all of those extra bits and pieces at $250 and to be honest I think that's a pretty good deal especially considering the aiio and power supply are already installed for you for now the nr200p max will be offered in this gray color which I personally think looks really really good especially in person looks way more premium than the black or the white variants which may be offered at a later date but yeah for me this gray model is definitely what I would pick personally uh but one of the reasons that you would choose the max over a standard nr200 or an nr200p is the fact that it does come in a kit and that makes the building process a lot easier so let's take a look at that all right so the N 200p Max is right over here we'll get to that in a second but I guess building in the case the first thing that you want to do is grab this box here which will be inside the case of course uh this will come with your pcie 4.0 Riser cable a few other nice bits and pieces like your screws uh some zip TI but what we really want to start with here is the mounting hardware for the aiio and of course you have different mounting hardware here depending on whether you're building with Intel or AMD uh in our case we're building with Intel so LGA 1200 socket so let's take a look at what that process looks like so we're going to grab the mounting bracket peel these stickers off real quick and then we're just going to line that up with the back of our motherboard making sure that this top bit here lines with those two top screws then you want to press down firmly make sure that adhesive sticks on then we have these little pieces here which will go into the mounting bracket itself and then you have these brackets here which will be mounted directly to the pump block itself which you can find right here pre-installed into the case now these again will be different depending on whether you're going with Intel or AMD these ones here are for the Intel build that we're doing for this build here now one thing about this AIU that I just want to talk about really quick um the tubing is really really long so this looks like a custom made aiio for the nr200p Max so don't really mess around with the tubing or anything like that I would actually just leave it how it is the pump lock itself kind of sits exactly where you want it to be so there's no need to worry about tube routing or anything like that then in terms of installing these brackets they are pretty straightforward the screw positions will be located underneath the pump block and make sure that the fold goes down it is actually possible to install these upside down but you do want to install it exactly like shown so one bracket on the top again fold goes down and then we'll just go ahead and install the second one here all right awesome so our cooler is ready for mounting here we do have this protective film we'll take that off later we're going to put our cooler to the side here and we're going to install our motherboard but before we do that we just need to kind of organize these cables a little bit and one thing I think uh cool master could have done a little bit better here is just pre-routed the cables a little bit better so we do have the CPU cable uh 8 Pin here that is pre- routed already that's really nice but I really would have loved to see uh maybe a situ ation like the NZXT H1 where all of the cables are just sitting right above the plug so this 24 pin here and the GPU cables we do have to kind of deal with those ourself but now that we've made some room here and untied those cables we can drop in the motherboard which should be pretty straightforward now and yep that seems to drop in there quite easily at which point we can completely install it just locate these four screws which will be in the box that we had a look at just earlier all right so motherboard is locked in there before we go into start you know installing the GPU or making our life a little bit harder we need to install these three tricky cables right here so power switch and reset cable we have our HD audio cable and then our front USB cable so front USB first pretty straightforward it's going to be this one right here then we have our front panel power switch reset switch connector which on our motherboard is right here and on most motherboards will be on the right side uh near the 24 pin ours here is a little bit lower though and then finally the HD audio cable which is located over here to the left and to be honest that's probably the hardest part over is just managing those tiny little cables uh but okay now we got those done we can install our liquid cooler so little bit of thermal paste you will actually get a thermal paste tube in that cardboard box that we saw earlier won't be this one but it'll be something very similar and a nice small to medium application something like that should be perfectly fine then you want to grab these screws here which we'll use to secure our pump block and of course one of the biggest mistakes that new Builders made is not peeling this protective film off uh if you leave this on you are going to get very very horrible fmal performance so just put that off to the side and then finally we can go ahead and install it all right cool so our cooler is completely ready to go except for this little three pin header here so no need to worry about sarda power or Molex B connections for our pump blck which is pretty cool just a simple three pin so locate the pump pump header on our motherboard and then just simply plug that in and then the next thing that we need to do is plug in our CPU 8 Pin cable which again is already pre-located at the top here we do want to also plug in our motherboard 24 pin and we also want to plug in these fan cables which look like they're zip tide at the back here we'll deal with those in a second but yeah those are the next three cables that we want to install all right so those cables are installed and yeah they were a little bit tedious a little bit more tedious than I was expecting but you know just approach it with a little bit of patience and you won't get too annoyed one thing that is a little bit annoying though is trying to manage all of these cables here and one cool trick here in The Cooler Master nr200 is that if you flip it on its front here you'll find this little screw right here and this is going to make life a whole lot easier so I think for the next few parts that we're going to be installing we're just going to completely remove this bottom panel especially when it comes to managing the cables it's just going to make your life a whole lot easier so what we're going to do is tip the case on on the top this bottom panel will just completely pop off now which is really nice and look at that now we have access to all of this cable junk right here which we can just manage a whole lot easier so really the only cables that we need from this whole mess here are going to be our pcie cables for our GPU so just kind of free those up here put those to the side but I mean everything else here the AIO tubes the S cables really everything else that you don't really need you can just tightly pack that in and then just use the included velcro tie downs just to manage that a little bit easier next up though we need to install our graphics card which the graphics card installation process is not like any other case that you've probably seen before so we have uh basically this bracket here which is what we're going to install our GPU on and man these screws are really stiff so just keep that in mind uh but basically there's two screws at the back here yep those are locked in pretty well then we have another two screws here one here and one over there so yeah installation process is pretty simple we have uh some expansion slot brackets here which we're just going to remove then we can slide the bracket over just like that and then Mount the bracket to the graphics card now if you're using a graphics card as big as this it's probably a good idea to plug in the connectors before you actually go ahead and install it because if you can imagine something like this and you've got a really tall graphics card you know plugging in these cables is going to be pretty much impossible another thing I'll mention is that yeah the nr200p max can handle a big big graphics card up to 336 m in length and up to 160 m in height including the power connectors so the one that we have here is the Rog strix uh 6700 XT comes in at 320 m in length and about 140 m in height just as a bit of a size reference so yeah definitely a very big card but should fit in here no problem all right so the power connectors are fitted to the massive STS card that we have here but something else that we need to pre-install before we actually put the graphics card in again just just to make our life a little bit easier is this uh pcie Gen 4 Riser cable so we're just going to Simply slot that in here I also just want to give a massive props to Cooler Master 4 including a Gen 4 PCI ER Riser cable and not doing the lazy and maybe easy thing to do which would just be including a cheap gen 3 Riser cable so with the Gen 4 cable that means you're not going to have any compatibility issues with Modern Hardware whereas with a gen 3 cable uh you most likely will run into some problems and yeah Gen 4 cable super super rigid as well so it's a very high quality cable these things are not cheap like if you wanted to buy one of these yourself you'd probably be set back about like $80 you were so I think this is just another highlight of that yeah you are actually getting some really good value here now let's see how hard this thing is to actually install the main problem here our main difficulty I'll say is just these cables at the back but otherwise it seems pretty straightforward seems like the bracket itself is is slotted in nicely so we can go ahead and screw that in then of course installing the Riser cable which we can just flip the case on its head here just make that a little bit easier very nice click there and then finally just these two screws here to complete the graphics card installation and finally let's talk about what your options are for mounting fans and stuff at the bottom here so uh what you could do before in the nr200p or the nr200 was mount a bottom AIO so you had about 55 60 Ms of clear clearance to play with but now since you know all of that clearance is at the top the motherboard and graphics card mounting has been shifted down below which means that you now have less clearance at the bottom so even now with just a pair of 25 mm thick fans hopefully you guys can see it is a little bit hard due to the lighting setup here but I mean yeah basically this fan is hitting this Riser cable and so 25 mic fans here are a noo just swapping these out quickly for some slim noctor fans and really the installation process could not be easier the bottom panel just goes straight on and then you can secure it with the screw at the back there's no clashing here now with the pcie Riser cable which is really good to see and now there's a little bit more Breathing Room between uh the cables and just everything that's positioned here at the bottom and I really do think this is the way to go you know having two slim fans at the bottom here rather than just leaving this completely open at least here now you do have a little bit of assisted airflow overall though that is the entire build here done in the nr200p Max and the completed build looks pretty sick if I say so myself there's just something about those gray panels that just bring the entire build together and makes it look really clean but for now let's talk about the performance most importantly which of the two side panel options should you use the tempered glass panel which will show off your Hardware better or go for the performance approach with the vented panel well we will take a look at performance but just keep in mind that for the tempered glass setup I've positioned the slim fans of the bottom as intake whereas for the vented panel setup they're positioned as exhaust so with the built-in AIO fans and the bottom fans running at just 1100 RPM Performance is good overall when we take a look at the CPU temps there's no massive difference between running the tempered glass setup versus the vented panel setup since the built-in CPU Cooler is positioned as top exhaust effectively cooling the radiator with the warm air within the case CPU thermals aren't as good as what you can achieve with a side mounted Radiator in the original nr200 having said that the performance here is still more than acceptable for our overclock 10900k and I will mention that the NR 200p Max especially in the vented setup is pretty quiet overall where the nr200p max really exceeds though is when it comes to GPU performance with graphics cards just getting bigger hotter louder it's important that ITX cases can not only fit those powerful cards but cool them effectively as well now we're only testing with a 2070 super here nothing crazy but the performance here is really impressive the performance actually beats the fantex p500a mid Tower by a couple of degrees while also being a little bit quieter again the setup here has the vertical GPU pulling air in through the side panels and that heat is exhausted both at the top and bottom and Incredibly effective the tempered glass setup is surprisingly okay too but runs our 270 super about 5° warmer so what happens then when you install an RTX 3090 fers Edition 350 wats in a massive three slot form factor the fastest GPU that you can buy today well surprisingly installation and fitment is pretty straightforward the nr200 P Max is big enough to fit this card no problem just make sure that the flow through fan isn't jammed up with any cables but something really cool here is that even with a three slot card there is a bit of a gap here between the card and the side panel which means that even when you're running the tempered glass panel performance is okay the RTX 3090 was sitting at 70° C boosting to 1890 MHz and running at a pretty typical fan speed of about 54% with the vented panel setup though we can run things a little bit quieter and cooler shaving off 4° see from our GPU temp about 10% off of the fan speed along with a slightly higher boost clock so no doubt vented is the way to go for performance but tampered glass is viable even with a giant graphics card and I will admit it does look pretty good so performance- wise the nr200p max really can't be faulted and I think moving forward with graphics cards just getting bigger and louder and hotter I think this is probably like a top three ITX case moving forward uh you know it is a bit on the bigger side but the reason I say that is because you know if you are considering these massive gpus you know these ITX cases they are getting harder and harder to fit them but not only fit them but cool them effectively as well uh you know even with a big STS card like this fitment is absolutely no problem and cooling is just not something that you have to even think about vertical GPU performance surprisingly is even better than the vertical GPU setup in the original nr200p and that is surprising to me but that mostly seems due to the graphics card being shifted closer to the middle of the case there there's more of a gap between the side panel and the top and bottom fans can work more efficiently around the graphics card cooler design I also do think that as a kit this is pretty future proof I mean the 850 W power supply will handle any single GPU setup for the for seable future and the 280 mil AIO has no problems keeping the 10900 K under control even with an overclock in heavy workloads like blender if you are interested in picking it up I will leave it link Down Below in the description as always a huge thanks for watching and I'll see you will in the next oneso let's take a look at the cool master nr200p Max now if you're familiar with the original nr200p this should look very very familiar in fact the external is exactly the same same size same volume same physical dimensions but the max variant comes packaged as a kit so it has some pre-installed Hardware so the building process and the part selection on your end is a little bit easier now if you're someone who has been considering downsizing to an ITX build but you don't want to bother with the compatibility of different parts you're worried about the phone anal and you don't want the building experience to be that difficult then this is probably the case for you especially if you're looking to throw in a big Power hungry graphics card the performance here is pretty incredible so just like the NZXT H1 the nr200p max is a kit it will be offered at $350 us and that kit includes an nr200p a 280 mil liquid cooler an 850 W 80 plus gold rated sfx power supply and a pcie Gen 4 Riser cable so with essentially Cooler Master are valuing all of those extra bits and pieces at $250 and to be honest I think that's a pretty good deal especially considering the aiio and power supply are already installed for you for now the nr200p max will be offered in this gray color which I personally think looks really really good especially in person looks way more premium than the black or the white variants which may be offered at a later date but yeah for me this gray model is definitely what I would pick personally uh but one of the reasons that you would choose the max over a standard nr200 or an nr200p is the fact that it does come in a kit and that makes the building process a lot easier so let's take a look at that all right so the N 200p Max is right over here we'll get to that in a second but I guess building in the case the first thing that you want to do is grab this box here which will be inside the case of course uh this will come with your pcie 4.0 Riser cable a few other nice bits and pieces like your screws uh some zip TI but what we really want to start with here is the mounting hardware for the aiio and of course you have different mounting hardware here depending on whether you're building with Intel or AMD uh in our case we're building with Intel so LGA 1200 socket so let's take a look at what that process looks like so we're going to grab the mounting bracket peel these stickers off real quick and then we're just going to line that up with the back of our motherboard making sure that this top bit here lines with those two top screws then you want to press down firmly make sure that adhesive sticks on then we have these little pieces here which will go into the mounting bracket itself and then you have these brackets here which will be mounted directly to the pump block itself which you can find right here pre-installed into the case now these again will be different depending on whether you're going with Intel or AMD these ones here are for the Intel build that we're doing for this build here now one thing about this AIU that I just want to talk about really quick um the tubing is really really long so this looks like a custom made aiio for the nr200p Max so don't really mess around with the tubing or anything like that I would actually just leave it how it is the pump lock itself kind of sits exactly where you want it to be so there's no need to worry about tube routing or anything like that then in terms of installing these brackets they are pretty straightforward the screw positions will be located underneath the pump block and make sure that the fold goes down it is actually possible to install these upside down but you do want to install it exactly like shown so one bracket on the top again fold goes down and then we'll just go ahead and install the second one here all right awesome so our cooler is ready for mounting here we do have this protective film we'll take that off later we're going to put our cooler to the side here and we're going to install our motherboard but before we do that we just need to kind of organize these cables a little bit and one thing I think uh cool master could have done a little bit better here is just pre-routed the cables a little bit better so we do have the CPU cable uh 8 Pin here that is pre- routed already that's really nice but I really would have loved to see uh maybe a situ ation like the NZXT H1 where all of the cables are just sitting right above the plug so this 24 pin here and the GPU cables we do have to kind of deal with those ourself but now that we've made some room here and untied those cables we can drop in the motherboard which should be pretty straightforward now and yep that seems to drop in there quite easily at which point we can completely install it just locate these four screws which will be in the box that we had a look at just earlier all right so motherboard is locked in there before we go into start you know installing the GPU or making our life a little bit harder we need to install these three tricky cables right here so power switch and reset cable we have our HD audio cable and then our front USB cable so front USB first pretty straightforward it's going to be this one right here then we have our front panel power switch reset switch connector which on our motherboard is right here and on most motherboards will be on the right side uh near the 24 pin ours here is a little bit lower though and then finally the HD audio cable which is located over here to the left and to be honest that's probably the hardest part over is just managing those tiny little cables uh but okay now we got those done we can install our liquid cooler so little bit of thermal paste you will actually get a thermal paste tube in that cardboard box that we saw earlier won't be this one but it'll be something very similar and a nice small to medium application something like that should be perfectly fine then you want to grab these screws here which we'll use to secure our pump block and of course one of the biggest mistakes that new Builders made is not peeling this protective film off uh if you leave this on you are going to get very very horrible fmal performance so just put that off to the side and then finally we can go ahead and install it all right cool so our cooler is completely ready to go except for this little three pin header here so no need to worry about sarda power or Molex B connections for our pump blck which is pretty cool just a simple three pin so locate the pump pump header on our motherboard and then just simply plug that in and then the next thing that we need to do is plug in our CPU 8 Pin cable which again is already pre-located at the top here we do want to also plug in our motherboard 24 pin and we also want to plug in these fan cables which look like they're zip tide at the back here we'll deal with those in a second but yeah those are the next three cables that we want to install all right so those cables are installed and yeah they were a little bit tedious a little bit more tedious than I was expecting but you know just approach it with a little bit of patience and you won't get too annoyed one thing that is a little bit annoying though is trying to manage all of these cables here and one cool trick here in The Cooler Master nr200 is that if you flip it on its front here you'll find this little screw right here and this is going to make life a whole lot easier so I think for the next few parts that we're going to be installing we're just going to completely remove this bottom panel especially when it comes to managing the cables it's just going to make your life a whole lot easier so what we're going to do is tip the case on on the top this bottom panel will just completely pop off now which is really nice and look at that now we have access to all of this cable junk right here which we can just manage a whole lot easier so really the only cables that we need from this whole mess here are going to be our pcie cables for our GPU so just kind of free those up here put those to the side but I mean everything else here the AIO tubes the S cables really everything else that you don't really need you can just tightly pack that in and then just use the included velcro tie downs just to manage that a little bit easier next up though we need to install our graphics card which the graphics card installation process is not like any other case that you've probably seen before so we have uh basically this bracket here which is what we're going to install our GPU on and man these screws are really stiff so just keep that in mind uh but basically there's two screws at the back here yep those are locked in pretty well then we have another two screws here one here and one over there so yeah installation process is pretty simple we have uh some expansion slot brackets here which we're just going to remove then we can slide the bracket over just like that and then Mount the bracket to the graphics card now if you're using a graphics card as big as this it's probably a good idea to plug in the connectors before you actually go ahead and install it because if you can imagine something like this and you've got a really tall graphics card you know plugging in these cables is going to be pretty much impossible another thing I'll mention is that yeah the nr200p max can handle a big big graphics card up to 336 m in length and up to 160 m in height including the power connectors so the one that we have here is the Rog strix uh 6700 XT comes in at 320 m in length and about 140 m in height just as a bit of a size reference so yeah definitely a very big card but should fit in here no problem all right so the power connectors are fitted to the massive STS card that we have here but something else that we need to pre-install before we actually put the graphics card in again just just to make our life a little bit easier is this uh pcie Gen 4 Riser cable so we're just going to Simply slot that in here I also just want to give a massive props to Cooler Master 4 including a Gen 4 PCI ER Riser cable and not doing the lazy and maybe easy thing to do which would just be including a cheap gen 3 Riser cable so with the Gen 4 cable that means you're not going to have any compatibility issues with Modern Hardware whereas with a gen 3 cable uh you most likely will run into some problems and yeah Gen 4 cable super super rigid as well so it's a very high quality cable these things are not cheap like if you wanted to buy one of these yourself you'd probably be set back about like $80 you were so I think this is just another highlight of that yeah you are actually getting some really good value here now let's see how hard this thing is to actually install the main problem here our main difficulty I'll say is just these cables at the back but otherwise it seems pretty straightforward seems like the bracket itself is is slotted in nicely so we can go ahead and screw that in then of course installing the Riser cable which we can just flip the case on its head here just make that a little bit easier very nice click there and then finally just these two screws here to complete the graphics card installation and finally let's talk about what your options are for mounting fans and stuff at the bottom here so uh what you could do before in the nr200p or the nr200 was mount a bottom AIO so you had about 55 60 Ms of clear clearance to play with but now since you know all of that clearance is at the top the motherboard and graphics card mounting has been shifted down below which means that you now have less clearance at the bottom so even now with just a pair of 25 mm thick fans hopefully you guys can see it is a little bit hard due to the lighting setup here but I mean yeah basically this fan is hitting this Riser cable and so 25 mic fans here are a noo just swapping these out quickly for some slim noctor fans and really the installation process could not be easier the bottom panel just goes straight on and then you can secure it with the screw at the back there's no clashing here now with the pcie Riser cable which is really good to see and now there's a little bit more Breathing Room between uh the cables and just everything that's positioned here at the bottom and I really do think this is the way to go you know having two slim fans at the bottom here rather than just leaving this completely open at least here now you do have a little bit of assisted airflow overall though that is the entire build here done in the nr200p Max and the completed build looks pretty sick if I say so myself there's just something about those gray panels that just bring the entire build together and makes it look really clean but for now let's talk about the performance most importantly which of the two side panel options should you use the tempered glass panel which will show off your Hardware better or go for the performance approach with the vented panel well we will take a look at performance but just keep in mind that for the tempered glass setup I've positioned the slim fans of the bottom as intake whereas for the vented panel setup they're positioned as exhaust so with the built-in AIO fans and the bottom fans running at just 1100 RPM Performance is good overall when we take a look at the CPU temps there's no massive difference between running the tempered glass setup versus the vented panel setup since the built-in CPU Cooler is positioned as top exhaust effectively cooling the radiator with the warm air within the case CPU thermals aren't as good as what you can achieve with a side mounted Radiator in the original nr200 having said that the performance here is still more than acceptable for our overclock 10900k and I will mention that the NR 200p Max especially in the vented setup is pretty quiet overall where the nr200p max really exceeds though is when it comes to GPU performance with graphics cards just getting bigger hotter louder it's important that ITX cases can not only fit those powerful cards but cool them effectively as well now we're only testing with a 2070 super here nothing crazy but the performance here is really impressive the performance actually beats the fantex p500a mid Tower by a couple of degrees while also being a little bit quieter again the setup here has the vertical GPU pulling air in through the side panels and that heat is exhausted both at the top and bottom and Incredibly effective the tempered glass setup is surprisingly okay too but runs our 270 super about 5° warmer so what happens then when you install an RTX 3090 fers Edition 350 wats in a massive three slot form factor the fastest GPU that you can buy today well surprisingly installation and fitment is pretty straightforward the nr200 P Max is big enough to fit this card no problem just make sure that the flow through fan isn't jammed up with any cables but something really cool here is that even with a three slot card there is a bit of a gap here between the card and the side panel which means that even when you're running the tempered glass panel performance is okay the RTX 3090 was sitting at 70° C boosting to 1890 MHz and running at a pretty typical fan speed of about 54% with the vented panel setup though we can run things a little bit quieter and cooler shaving off 4° see from our GPU temp about 10% off of the fan speed along with a slightly higher boost clock so no doubt vented is the way to go for performance but tampered glass is viable even with a giant graphics card and I will admit it does look pretty good so performance- wise the nr200p max really can't be faulted and I think moving forward with graphics cards just getting bigger and louder and hotter I think this is probably like a top three ITX case moving forward uh you know it is a bit on the bigger side but the reason I say that is because you know if you are considering these massive gpus you know these ITX cases they are getting harder and harder to fit them but not only fit them but cool them effectively as well uh you know even with a big STS card like this fitment is absolutely no problem and cooling is just not something that you have to even think about vertical GPU performance surprisingly is even better than the vertical GPU setup in the original nr200p and that is surprising to me but that mostly seems due to the graphics card being shifted closer to the middle of the case there there's more of a gap between the side panel and the top and bottom fans can work more efficiently around the graphics card cooler design I also do think that as a kit this is pretty future proof I mean the 850 W power supply will handle any single GPU setup for the for seable future and the 280 mil AIO has no problems keeping the 10900 K under control even with an overclock in heavy workloads like blender if you are interested in picking it up I will leave it link Down Below in the description as always a huge thanks for watching and I'll see you will in the next one\n"