The Fastest Gaming PC I've Ever Built is TINY!

**A Blazing Fast System with Decent Thermals: Unboxing and Review of the NR200P Max from Cooler Master**

As I approached the unboxing of the NR200P Max from Cooler Master, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. This new case promises to bring high-performance gaming to the table, with its powerful power supply and pre-installed AIO cooling system. And, as we'll soon see, it delivers.

**Performance: A Blazing Fast System**

The NR200P Max is equipped with an 7950X CPU, which pulls a massive 250 Watts of peak power draw. When paired with the RTX 4090 GPU, the total power draw reaches a staggering 700 Watts. However, this doesn't seem to be a problem for the system, as I've seen temperatures right now on the afterburner HUD that suggests it's handling these high-power components just fine. In fact, the CPU is averaging around 85 degrees Celsius while gaming, with a maximum of 92 degrees Celsius. This is completely normal behavior for the 7950X, and it's reassuring to know that Cooler Master has done its homework in terms of power delivery.

**Temperatures: A Close Look**

To get a better sense of the system's temperature performance, I decided to swap out the vented side panel for the tempered glass one. After letting the CPU and GPU reach their new heat soak level, I took a look at the temperatures using Hardware Monitor. The RTX 4090 was running at a maximum of 77 degrees Celsius, which is impressive considering its high power draw. Meanwhile, the 7950X was still averaging around 92 degrees Celsius, with no change in temperature. This suggests that the tempered glass side panel may not be necessary for this particular system, especially if you're willing to add some aftermarket cooling solutions.

**Conclusion: A Fantastic System with Minimal Compromises**

Overall, I'm extremely impressed with the NR200P Max from Cooler Master. The only real sacrifice is your life savings – building this system will set you back a pretty penny. However, the performance it delivers makes it well worth the investment. With its blazing fast CPU and GPU combo, this case leaves little to be desired apart from perhaps adding some aftermarket cooling solutions for optimal temperatures.

**DLSS: A Game-Changer**

One of the standout features of the NR200P Max is its support for DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling). I decided to turn on DLSS 2 and balance it out, which brought our frame rate up to a blistering 100 FPS. This is absolutely ridiculous for a system that was struggling to hit 50 FPS with the previous generation of gpus. The fact that we can see this kind of performance with relatively modest components makes me wonder what the future holds for DLSS and its ability to unlock performance in older systems.

**A New Era of Gaming: The Future of Gpu-CPU Performance**

As I looked through the specs and features of the NR200P Max, it became clear that this is more than just a case – it's a system that showcases the potential of modern CPU-gpu combos. With the launch of new Ryzen chips alongside the RTX 4090, we're seeing a blurring of lines between traditional PC components. It's no longer a question of whether a particular component will be compatible with another; rather, it's about how well they work together to deliver exceptional performance.

**Conclusion: The NR200P Max is a Masterclass in Design**

In conclusion, the NR200P Max from Cooler Master is an exceptional case that checks all the right boxes. With its powerful power supply, pre-installed AIO cooling system, and blistering fast CPU-gpu combo, this system is a masterclass in design. While it may come with some compromises – mainly your wallet – the performance it delivers makes it well worth the investment. If you're looking for a compact, high-performance gaming PC that leaves little to be desired, look no further than the NR200P Max.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the nr200p max from Cooler Master it has some Nifty Hardware changes from the original nr200p the small form factor case that we all know and love so much but the max version actually includes a pre-installed 280 millimeter liquid area as well as an 850 watt power supply this level of cooling and power delivery should allow us to accommodate something like a ryzen 9 7950x from AMD and an Nvidia RTX 4090 which would essentially make this the fastest gaming PC that money can buy right now at least the time of filming all inside of a case that's roughly the size of a shoe box which is pretty impressive essentially cooler Master's intention with this product is to ensure compatibility with any high-end system a user can dream of and that's taken straight from their website so today we're going to put their money where their mouth is to see if that's in fact the case before we continue special thanks to the tazos ecosystem for sponsoring today's video tazos is a decentralized energy efficient blockchain popular for nfts gaming defy and art tazos has become super popular in the nft space because on tezos you can build play and collect nfts explore new adventures in blockchain development and discover how games are being reimagined with revolutionary experiences if you're new to nfts there's a ton of educational resources on tazos.com that can help you navigate this new world of web 3 with confidence with global Brands such as Red Bull Racing McLaren team vitality and more using tazos it has proven to be one of the most reliable and secure blockchains out there so if you're ready to learn grow and have some fun click on the link in the description to see where tazos takes you all right let's go over some of the intricacies and details of the nr200g Max and how it differs from the original case so for starters like I said it's got that pre-installed liquid Aero 280 millimeter radiator with a gen 3 pump from Cooler Master and the fans on it are 140 millimeter sickle flow pwm fans and they've also included fan grills on the fans that are pre-installed which I absolutely love so the fan blades don't get snagged on any loose cables but that is the maximum supported radiator at the top of the case for this chassis is 280 millimeters that's actually more than the 240 millimeter rad support that the original nr200p Max had we also have a very nice 850 watt 80 plus gold certified power supply so really good efficiency and this is the bare minimum I would suggest for an RTX 4090 Founders Edition probably not going to cut it for a lot of the board partner cards that have beefed up power deliveries that require more power so make sure if you're going to install an aftermarket 4090 in here that uh that you actually have enough power that 850 is going to be sufficient we do have some really nice pre-installed cables as well well these are pre-routed they are sleeved and a nice black sleeving and they're custom length so everything's going to go to the appropriate spots the appropriate connectors without much cable excess which you don't typically see if you if you were to buy a Bare Bones case like this that small form factor and install an sfx unit aftermarket then you're probably going to be dealing with a lot of excess cabling that you're gonna have to find room for in a very constrained space I also double checked and we do have four six plus two pin pcie connectors for our graphics card so that's going to be plenty for our 4090 you do have options for three and a half inch Drive mounting you can install a three and a half inch hard drive right here on the top of the the power supply the the vented Grille or you can mount it to the bottom of the case towards towards the front side there's also two mounting spots for two and a half inch drives at the front of the case behind the front panel just like we saw with the original and you can also install a 2.5 inch drive onto the power supply as well if you're not installing a hard drive there the bottom of the chassis supports two 120 millimeter fans although they have to be 15mm stick they have to be slim fans whereas you were able to get away with the standard 25 millimeter thick fans in the original mainly because the the motherboard is a little bit lower as well as the um the graphics card the way the graphics card is set up here is slightly different rather than have your option of either mounting it horizontally or vertically you only have vertical GPU mounting in the nr200p max but that's actually going to allow for greater compatibility the reason they're able to do that is because of the new patented GPU bracket the mounting bracket is removable we'll take a look at exactly how that works in just a second it's a very clever design though so stick around for when we actually installed the graphics card in the case another important thing to point out here is that since you only have the option now to do vertical GPU mounting they've actually omitted that 240 millimeter oh no it was a 280 millimeter radiator bracket on the side of the case that was on the original so that's done away with hopefully that won't be an issue there is the tendency to worry about temperatures in the case that only allows for vertical GPU mounting or if you're going to be mounting a GP vertical in general because it puts the fans a lot closer to the side panel but just like the original nr2pmax does come included with two side panels here one that's completely vented with a removable dust filter and a tempered glass side panel which is going to be not as good for thermals but it's going to allow you to see the insides of your case a lot better if that's more important to you and we'll test thermals with both panels later on okay can we get on with the build already please yes we've got the Asus Rog strix x670e that's extreme I gaming Wi-Fi I don't even know thank you Asus for sending me this board because it probably would have cost me like an arm and a leg to buy this myself I think this is probably what a five 600 boy I don't know but it comes it comes with a DAC it comes with a freaking audio deck I've never what kind of board is this this is insane 10 plus two phase power design it supports PCI Gen 5 of course that's both on the by 16 slot as well as for nvme drives I believe one of the slots is Gen 5 rated and the other slot that's on board is a Gen 4 slot we'll be populating one of those today although we only have Gen 4 and vme drives available at the moment we do have support for ddr5 6400 speed of course that would be overclocked but that is phenomenally fast we're going to start with installing our ryzen 9 7950x this is a 16 core 32 thread the fastest gaming CPU on the market currently Intel Raptor lake is right around the corner I'm very curious to see how that Stacks up to this more details on that coming soon now before I actually install the memory which is our Trident Z5 Neo RGB from g-skill I am actually going to install the CLC the the pump block onto the CPU because I don't want these heat spreaders to get in the way they're kind of tall for now we can install our 980 Pro nvme SSD from Samsung one terabyte PCA Gen4 why'd I just throw it away I need to open this I'm actually curious how the SSD mounting works on this board because it's supposed to be vertically stacked it says the the ssds the m.2 drives here are vertically stacked and I need my small screwdriver which follow me over this way we're running over here wait where's my little screwdriver where's my SSD screwdriver Ian this is all your fault I know you hit it from me I didn't touch it liar I I have another one that's just you know tucked away I just have to get it out just lazy I'll just do it remember the hell it went I'll just thank you I fix it so like I said these m.2 drives are allegedly stacked vertically I'm very curious to see how Asus has pulled this off okay so you can kind of take a closer look here there's one slot um that's our Gen 5 slot right there but I think you can actually take off this oh whoa look at that and there's another m.2 slot Gen 4 right below it that's super trippy oh I see how they did it see there's there's gold contacts right here with a PCB that gets wired to that top Gen 5 slot and that goes right into this connector on the board that is that's wild stuff Asus beat wild all right SSD is there now we can move on to installing the motherboard in the case looks like most of our cables are out of the way we should just be able to lower this in just got a little snagged on the uh the Wi-Fi connectors the back of the board but that sets really nicely all right let's screw this down before it flies away case also includes a PCA Gen 4 Riser cable for your graphics card kind of essential also since you only have the option for vertical GPU mounting in here am5 good on AMD by the way for making the am5 socket backwards compatible with am4 coolers otherwise we would be in trouble so nice that the the tubing for the AIO is just the perfect length the pump block basically just it reaches the CPU perfectly Cooler Master does include some thermal paste we're going to go ahead and apply that oh that came right out a little heavy-handed on the application today but that's okay push this down CPU and cooler are installed our ddr5 in here this is uh 6000 speed we have 32 gigs why is this not going in there okay okay so at this point it seems like all we need to do really is cable management and installing the graphics card and that is one of the benefits of the nr200p max is that half the system is already put together for you so if you're just looking for a streamlined experience something to consider bonus points to Cooler Master if there's a fan Splitter on the radiator fans which does look like they've done yes good job Cooler Master oh uh front panel connectors I forgot to mention we've got two USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports I think I'll correct myself if I'm wrong with The annotation reset button power button and combo audio jack no USBC on this guy that would have been kind of nice cables cables cables cables cables look at that like this is this is the length of the 24 pin cable the custom length cabling is chef's kiss Thank you very much Cooler Master combined combined front panel connectors so that they're all grouped together you don't have to plug them in individually and if I could just find out where front panel header is on the board hold on a gosh darn minute and I can't find the front panel header okay I think this is the first time I've ever had to do this but I'm gonna look up where the front panel header is in the manual oh there's an Rog fps2 card huh that's why I wasn't seeing any SATA ports on the board either they're probably on here we've got two USB type-c ports SATA ports two SATA six gigabit per second ports and then we have our front panel connector two USB 2.0 headers and it looks like a clear CMOS on this switch there's a bios switch oh I see that's what those USBC ports are for and there's two USBC male ports or headers on the board so it just kind of slots in like that straight onto the board damn Asus is getting so fancy these days front panel connectors connected to the fps2 card and fps2 card going in here I was planning to actually install a two and a half inch and a three and a half inch Drive in here but seeing the design of this of this fps2 card on the motherboard it makes the SATA ports really difficult to get to there's only two of them on there and they're directly facing the power supply with not much clearance like you could you could probably get a SATA cable or two in there because they do have right angle say that cables which would be perfect in this case however if the connector on this PCB is not facing the right way up yep why would they do that so come here see look these are the two SATA ports and if they were upside down then I could easily have a right angle SATA connector or cable just like that but the this is not going to cut it and if I used connector like that there's not enough clearance there's just not enough clearance this is like a huge design flaw actually they should have put these SATA connectors side by side and flip them 180 so that users could actually use right angle say the cables with them in a cramped case like this but now we can't even use any satabase drives that's crazy that's okay the board's only like six hundred dollars so oh boy all right well gotta make do okay so I went to go ahead and plug in our HD audio front panel connector and realized that this board does not have an HD audio header on it which is the first time I've ever seen that on any motherboard ever Ian and I have to do so that it's because this board comes included with a DAC so Asus is just kind of forcing users to use this for all of their audio needs which also includes a USBC cable a USBC to type a that goes to the back of the motherboard it plugs in is actually a dedicated USB a port on the back and then from here there's there's audio inputs outputs spdif out you can also flash your bios directly from this there's another USB a type port on here load your bios onto the flash drive stick it in there and I believe if you hold this down you can flash your bios that way that makes sense because there's no bios flashback on the actual rear i o like you usually see on these high-end boards it's all done through here volume knob and and uh PBO Precision boost overdrive I don't think that's what that stands for oh and it's also magnetic so you can stick it to the outside of your case if that's your thing but um we did also actually Ian looked up the manual and found out what that auto switch was on that fps2 card it's actually a switch for you to change the PCI Express version of the by 16 slot from three to four or four to three it's actually super handy because if you have a PCI Gen 4 card but your PCI slot is wired for Gen 3 then sometimes you don't get a post and you're not even able to get into the BIOS to switch it to gen 4. so having that Hardware switch on hand is really nice because not everyone has you know a gen 3 card you would basically have to have a gen 3 card to slot it in just to change that bio setting to get your Gen 4 card working so really handy there honestly there's there's good things about this board that I really like some Innovative things and just some really weird awful things like those data ports just not being able to be used in a case like this and it's really not even an uncommon scenario that you would find yourself in because most people who are using an ITX board like this one are probably going to be building inside of a smaller compact case like this one where you're not just going to have a whole lot of clearance for for things like that so at this point we're ready for graphics card installation oh actually sorry let me install our Riser card wait so there are one two three four screws that you have to remove in order to remove the GPU bracket and then it just pops out like so and then you mount the GPU to the plate where's our big boy okay like so what Cooler Master has basically done here is they've applied the same sort of concept of a removable radiator bracket or a removable power supply bracket to a graphics card which I think is a really smart move and not only does that make the process of installation a lot easier like I said earlier it also allows for greater compatibility because when you just have to try wedging a graphics card into a case like this the usual way you just can't get the right angle on it but with this the angle is completely free you can just slide it in directly from the back there we go perfect super easy and we still even have like about an inch of clearance if not an inch and a half in front of the GPU I probably should have plugged this adapter in first maybe I can fit it in here I think I got it I will say it'd be really nice to eventually get an ATX 3.0 power supply that's sfx with a single 12 volt high power cable going straight to this GPU rather than having to use this bulky adapter but as you can see we actually still have plenty of room for all this it's just a little less graceful last step here is to just plug in the Riser cable or plug in the GPU to the Riser cable just like that the world's fastest gaming PC inside of a shoebox is complete it's fired up all right we're trolling around in cyberpunk 2077 at the moment and we're using the vented side panel on our system we'll switch to the tempered glass panel in just a moment we're giving it 4K with Ray tracing set to ultra and at the moment dlss is disabled it is not on right now I'm going to show you guys what the performance uplift looks like when it is enabled however we don't currently have DLS S3 available just yet for cyberpunk that's not going to come out until I think a week from now with the next update so at least I can show you guys the before and after of dlss off versus dlss2 you can see right now our frame rates are not that impressive we're getting well under 60 FPS pretty typical of what we've been seeing in this game even on the highest end cards available but right now our temperatures are actually looking pretty good anywhere between 70 and 73c on the RTX 4090 that's actually the hottest it's gotten so far in the 30 minutes I've been testing I've been playing the game is 73 degrees Celsius which is not too bad at all especially when you consider the size of the case and the fact that we're not using those bottom fan mounts for additional airflow you can see that we're hovering around 2715 megahertz on the GPU core clock at the moment near 100 utilization and it's pulling around 400 watts from the wall at the moment that's just the GPU and we've seen the RTX 4090 Peak up to about around 450 Watts power draw and if you combine that with the 7950x at around 250 Watts Peak that's 700 Watts total so clearly the 850 watt unit that's in here the power supply is has plenty of Headroom on the CPU side we can actually see the temperatures right now on the afterburner HUD because I don't think afterburner has uh proper reporting yet for the 7950x I think it's just too new of a CPU but right here you can see we're averaging around 85c when we're in game with a maximum so far of 92 degrees Celsius that's totally normal the 7950x operating at 95c under load is perfectly normal behavior we've heard this countless times from AMD nothing to be alarmed of there and it really just seems that the the cooling and the power delivery of the nr200p max with its pre-installed AIO and power supply seem to be handling the very high-end components we have in this chassis just fine before I eat my words though let's swap out the vented side panel for the tempered glass one and see what happens all right so I've been gaming for another 15 minutes or so just to let the CPU and GPU get to its new heat soak level and right now the GPU I just looked at hardware monitor is at 77c Max that's on the RTX 4090 there's been no change on the CPU Max temp it's still at around 92 C so all together if you were going to build this exact system and you were wanting to use the tempered glass side panel but concerned about The Thermals I would say go for it if you're really that concerned and want to bring the temps back down to what we were seeing with the with the vented side panel then slap in a couple 120 millimeter 15 millimeter thick slim fans at the bottom of the case and that should help you get back down to those levels all together this is a fantastic system it's just performing so well in every area well I guess except for frame rates right so why don't we go ahead and turn dlss on this is going to be dlss2 let's do balanced see what that brings us to over 100 FPS we were just we were struggling to hit 50 FPS we literally just doubled our frame rate this is what dlss2 guys once DLS S3 comes out for this game it's gonna be ridiculous I mean 100 FPS is ridiculous already as is when you consider that uh we just were so far from hitting this with the last generation of gpus and I even saw that article about the redditor who got dlss3 working on his RTX 2070 in this particular title and was also able to double his frame rates um which kind of makes you go wow that's that's super cool but also screw Nvidia for locking that feature to the rtx40 series because it would just breathe new life into so many gamers uh older gpus and for what just just for a money grab when it's so easily implemented it's just a software lock that Nvidia put on those older cards but anyway getting off topic here this is just phenomenal performance across the board and it's really cool that the new ryzen Chips launched alongside side the RTX 4090 usually you get a new GPU or a new CPU that comes out and you have to kind of wait for the next generation of that other component to come out to really see what the generational uplift is between both parts but here we have new CPU and GPU working together and it's so much faster than what we were seeing just a couple weeks ago with the previous fastest gaming PC in the world which would have been an RTX 3090 TI and ryzen 7 5800 X 3D as for the nr200p Max from Cooler Master it's really hard to find much fault in it especially when the original nr200p was so damn good it's still a great case but this just improves upon it in nearly every way I think and also comes included with you know the AIO and power supply to just make the build process that much more simple at the end of the day what we have here is a blazing fast system with decent thermals inside of a compact small footprint I mean what are we compromising where's the sacrifice apart from your life savings that it would take to build this thing this is an amazing machine that seems to do it all and leaves very little to be desired but that's going to do it for this one guys that's all I got for now thank you so much for tuning in be sure to toss like on the video If you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more Tech content on the way till next time I will see y'all in the next videothis is the nr200p max from Cooler Master it has some Nifty Hardware changes from the original nr200p the small form factor case that we all know and love so much but the max version actually includes a pre-installed 280 millimeter liquid area as well as an 850 watt power supply this level of cooling and power delivery should allow us to accommodate something like a ryzen 9 7950x from AMD and an Nvidia RTX 4090 which would essentially make this the fastest gaming PC that money can buy right now at least the time of filming all inside of a case that's roughly the size of a shoe box which is pretty impressive essentially cooler Master's intention with this product is to ensure compatibility with any high-end system a user can dream of and that's taken straight from their website so today we're going to put their money where their mouth is to see if that's in fact the case before we continue special thanks to the tazos ecosystem for sponsoring today's video tazos is a decentralized energy efficient blockchain popular for nfts gaming defy and art tazos has become super popular in the nft space because on tezos you can build play and collect nfts explore new adventures in blockchain development and discover how games are being reimagined with revolutionary experiences if you're new to nfts there's a ton of educational resources on tazos.com that can help you navigate this new world of web 3 with confidence with global Brands such as Red Bull Racing McLaren team vitality and more using tazos it has proven to be one of the most reliable and secure blockchains out there so if you're ready to learn grow and have some fun click on the link in the description to see where tazos takes you all right let's go over some of the intricacies and details of the nr200g Max and how it differs from the original case so for starters like I said it's got that pre-installed liquid Aero 280 millimeter radiator with a gen 3 pump from Cooler Master and the fans on it are 140 millimeter sickle flow pwm fans and they've also included fan grills on the fans that are pre-installed which I absolutely love so the fan blades don't get snagged on any loose cables but that is the maximum supported radiator at the top of the case for this chassis is 280 millimeters that's actually more than the 240 millimeter rad support that the original nr200p Max had we also have a very nice 850 watt 80 plus gold certified power supply so really good efficiency and this is the bare minimum I would suggest for an RTX 4090 Founders Edition probably not going to cut it for a lot of the board partner cards that have beefed up power deliveries that require more power so make sure if you're going to install an aftermarket 4090 in here that uh that you actually have enough power that 850 is going to be sufficient we do have some really nice pre-installed cables as well well these are pre-routed they are sleeved and a nice black sleeving and they're custom length so everything's going to go to the appropriate spots the appropriate connectors without much cable excess which you don't typically see if you if you were to buy a Bare Bones case like this that small form factor and install an sfx unit aftermarket then you're probably going to be dealing with a lot of excess cabling that you're gonna have to find room for in a very constrained space I also double checked and we do have four six plus two pin pcie connectors for our graphics card so that's going to be plenty for our 4090 you do have options for three and a half inch Drive mounting you can install a three and a half inch hard drive right here on the top of the the power supply the the vented Grille or you can mount it to the bottom of the case towards towards the front side there's also two mounting spots for two and a half inch drives at the front of the case behind the front panel just like we saw with the original and you can also install a 2.5 inch drive onto the power supply as well if you're not installing a hard drive there the bottom of the chassis supports two 120 millimeter fans although they have to be 15mm stick they have to be slim fans whereas you were able to get away with the standard 25 millimeter thick fans in the original mainly because the the motherboard is a little bit lower as well as the um the graphics card the way the graphics card is set up here is slightly different rather than have your option of either mounting it horizontally or vertically you only have vertical GPU mounting in the nr200p max but that's actually going to allow for greater compatibility the reason they're able to do that is because of the new patented GPU bracket the mounting bracket is removable we'll take a look at exactly how that works in just a second it's a very clever design though so stick around for when we actually installed the graphics card in the case another important thing to point out here is that since you only have the option now to do vertical GPU mounting they've actually omitted that 240 millimeter oh no it was a 280 millimeter radiator bracket on the side of the case that was on the original so that's done away with hopefully that won't be an issue there is the tendency to worry about temperatures in the case that only allows for vertical GPU mounting or if you're going to be mounting a GP vertical in general because it puts the fans a lot closer to the side panel but just like the original nr2pmax does come included with two side panels here one that's completely vented with a removable dust filter and a tempered glass side panel which is going to be not as good for thermals but it's going to allow you to see the insides of your case a lot better if that's more important to you and we'll test thermals with both panels later on okay can we get on with the build already please yes we've got the Asus Rog strix x670e that's extreme I gaming Wi-Fi I don't even know thank you Asus for sending me this board because it probably would have cost me like an arm and a leg to buy this myself I think this is probably what a five 600 boy I don't know but it comes it comes with a DAC it comes with a freaking audio deck I've never what kind of board is this this is insane 10 plus two phase power design it supports PCI Gen 5 of course that's both on the by 16 slot as well as for nvme drives I believe one of the slots is Gen 5 rated and the other slot that's on board is a Gen 4 slot we'll be populating one of those today although we only have Gen 4 and vme drives available at the moment we do have support for ddr5 6400 speed of course that would be overclocked but that is phenomenally fast we're going to start with installing our ryzen 9 7950x this is a 16 core 32 thread the fastest gaming CPU on the market currently Intel Raptor lake is right around the corner I'm very curious to see how that Stacks up to this more details on that coming soon now before I actually install the memory which is our Trident Z5 Neo RGB from g-skill I am actually going to install the CLC the the pump block onto the CPU because I don't want these heat spreaders to get in the way they're kind of tall for now we can install our 980 Pro nvme SSD from Samsung one terabyte PCA Gen4 why'd I just throw it away I need to open this I'm actually curious how the SSD mounting works on this board because it's supposed to be vertically stacked it says the the ssds the m.2 drives here are vertically stacked and I need my small screwdriver which follow me over this way we're running over here wait where's my little screwdriver where's my SSD screwdriver Ian this is all your fault I know you hit it from me I didn't touch it liar I I have another one that's just you know tucked away I just have to get it out just lazy I'll just do it remember the hell it went I'll just thank you I fix it so like I said these m.2 drives are allegedly stacked vertically I'm very curious to see how Asus has pulled this off okay so you can kind of take a closer look here there's one slot um that's our Gen 5 slot right there but I think you can actually take off this oh whoa look at that and there's another m.2 slot Gen 4 right below it that's super trippy oh I see how they did it see there's there's gold contacts right here with a PCB that gets wired to that top Gen 5 slot and that goes right into this connector on the board that is that's wild stuff Asus beat wild all right SSD is there now we can move on to installing the motherboard in the case looks like most of our cables are out of the way we should just be able to lower this in just got a little snagged on the uh the Wi-Fi connectors the back of the board but that sets really nicely all right let's screw this down before it flies away case also includes a PCA Gen 4 Riser cable for your graphics card kind of essential also since you only have the option for vertical GPU mounting in here am5 good on AMD by the way for making the am5 socket backwards compatible with am4 coolers otherwise we would be in trouble so nice that the the tubing for the AIO is just the perfect length the pump block basically just it reaches the CPU perfectly Cooler Master does include some thermal paste we're going to go ahead and apply that oh that came right out a little heavy-handed on the application today but that's okay push this down CPU and cooler are installed our ddr5 in here this is uh 6000 speed we have 32 gigs why is this not going in there okay okay so at this point it seems like all we need to do really is cable management and installing the graphics card and that is one of the benefits of the nr200p max is that half the system is already put together for you so if you're just looking for a streamlined experience something to consider bonus points to Cooler Master if there's a fan Splitter on the radiator fans which does look like they've done yes good job Cooler Master oh uh front panel connectors I forgot to mention we've got two USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports I think I'll correct myself if I'm wrong with The annotation reset button power button and combo audio jack no USBC on this guy that would have been kind of nice cables cables cables cables cables look at that like this is this is the length of the 24 pin cable the custom length cabling is chef's kiss Thank you very much Cooler Master combined combined front panel connectors so that they're all grouped together you don't have to plug them in individually and if I could just find out where front panel header is on the board hold on a gosh darn minute and I can't find the front panel header okay I think this is the first time I've ever had to do this but I'm gonna look up where the front panel header is in the manual oh there's an Rog fps2 card huh that's why I wasn't seeing any SATA ports on the board either they're probably on here we've got two USB type-c ports SATA ports two SATA six gigabit per second ports and then we have our front panel connector two USB 2.0 headers and it looks like a clear CMOS on this switch there's a bios switch oh I see that's what those USBC ports are for and there's two USBC male ports or headers on the board so it just kind of slots in like that straight onto the board damn Asus is getting so fancy these days front panel connectors connected to the fps2 card and fps2 card going in here I was planning to actually install a two and a half inch and a three and a half inch Drive in here but seeing the design of this of this fps2 card on the motherboard it makes the SATA ports really difficult to get to there's only two of them on there and they're directly facing the power supply with not much clearance like you could you could probably get a SATA cable or two in there because they do have right angle say that cables which would be perfect in this case however if the connector on this PCB is not facing the right way up yep why would they do that so come here see look these are the two SATA ports and if they were upside down then I could easily have a right angle SATA connector or cable just like that but the this is not going to cut it and if I used connector like that there's not enough clearance there's just not enough clearance this is like a huge design flaw actually they should have put these SATA connectors side by side and flip them 180 so that users could actually use right angle say the cables with them in a cramped case like this but now we can't even use any satabase drives that's crazy that's okay the board's only like six hundred dollars so oh boy all right well gotta make do okay so I went to go ahead and plug in our HD audio front panel connector and realized that this board does not have an HD audio header on it which is the first time I've ever seen that on any motherboard ever Ian and I have to do so that it's because this board comes included with a DAC so Asus is just kind of forcing users to use this for all of their audio needs which also includes a USBC cable a USBC to type a that goes to the back of the motherboard it plugs in is actually a dedicated USB a port on the back and then from here there's there's audio inputs outputs spdif out you can also flash your bios directly from this there's another USB a type port on here load your bios onto the flash drive stick it in there and I believe if you hold this down you can flash your bios that way that makes sense because there's no bios flashback on the actual rear i o like you usually see on these high-end boards it's all done through here volume knob and and uh PBO Precision boost overdrive I don't think that's what that stands for oh and it's also magnetic so you can stick it to the outside of your case if that's your thing but um we did also actually Ian looked up the manual and found out what that auto switch was on that fps2 card it's actually a switch for you to change the PCI Express version of the by 16 slot from three to four or four to three it's actually super handy because if you have a PCI Gen 4 card but your PCI slot is wired for Gen 3 then sometimes you don't get a post and you're not even able to get into the BIOS to switch it to gen 4. so having that Hardware switch on hand is really nice because not everyone has you know a gen 3 card you would basically have to have a gen 3 card to slot it in just to change that bio setting to get your Gen 4 card working so really handy there honestly there's there's good things about this board that I really like some Innovative things and just some really weird awful things like those data ports just not being able to be used in a case like this and it's really not even an uncommon scenario that you would find yourself in because most people who are using an ITX board like this one are probably going to be building inside of a smaller compact case like this one where you're not just going to have a whole lot of clearance for for things like that so at this point we're ready for graphics card installation oh actually sorry let me install our Riser card wait so there are one two three four screws that you have to remove in order to remove the GPU bracket and then it just pops out like so and then you mount the GPU to the plate where's our big boy okay like so what Cooler Master has basically done here is they've applied the same sort of concept of a removable radiator bracket or a removable power supply bracket to a graphics card which I think is a really smart move and not only does that make the process of installation a lot easier like I said earlier it also allows for greater compatibility because when you just have to try wedging a graphics card into a case like this the usual way you just can't get the right angle on it but with this the angle is completely free you can just slide it in directly from the back there we go perfect super easy and we still even have like about an inch of clearance if not an inch and a half in front of the GPU I probably should have plugged this adapter in first maybe I can fit it in here I think I got it I will say it'd be really nice to eventually get an ATX 3.0 power supply that's sfx with a single 12 volt high power cable going straight to this GPU rather than having to use this bulky adapter but as you can see we actually still have plenty of room for all this it's just a little less graceful last step here is to just plug in the Riser cable or plug in the GPU to the Riser cable just like that the world's fastest gaming PC inside of a shoebox is complete it's fired up all right we're trolling around in cyberpunk 2077 at the moment and we're using the vented side panel on our system we'll switch to the tempered glass panel in just a moment we're giving it 4K with Ray tracing set to ultra and at the moment dlss is disabled it is not on right now I'm going to show you guys what the performance uplift looks like when it is enabled however we don't currently have DLS S3 available just yet for cyberpunk that's not going to come out until I think a week from now with the next update so at least I can show you guys the before and after of dlss off versus dlss2 you can see right now our frame rates are not that impressive we're getting well under 60 FPS pretty typical of what we've been seeing in this game even on the highest end cards available but right now our temperatures are actually looking pretty good anywhere between 70 and 73c on the RTX 4090 that's actually the hottest it's gotten so far in the 30 minutes I've been testing I've been playing the game is 73 degrees Celsius which is not too bad at all especially when you consider the size of the case and the fact that we're not using those bottom fan mounts for additional airflow you can see that we're hovering around 2715 megahertz on the GPU core clock at the moment near 100 utilization and it's pulling around 400 watts from the wall at the moment that's just the GPU and we've seen the RTX 4090 Peak up to about around 450 Watts power draw and if you combine that with the 7950x at around 250 Watts Peak that's 700 Watts total so clearly the 850 watt unit that's in here the power supply is has plenty of Headroom on the CPU side we can actually see the temperatures right now on the afterburner HUD because I don't think afterburner has uh proper reporting yet for the 7950x I think it's just too new of a CPU but right here you can see we're averaging around 85c when we're in game with a maximum so far of 92 degrees Celsius that's totally normal the 7950x operating at 95c under load is perfectly normal behavior we've heard this countless times from AMD nothing to be alarmed of there and it really just seems that the the cooling and the power delivery of the nr200p max with its pre-installed AIO and power supply seem to be handling the very high-end components we have in this chassis just fine before I eat my words though let's swap out the vented side panel for the tempered glass one and see what happens all right so I've been gaming for another 15 minutes or so just to let the CPU and GPU get to its new heat soak level and right now the GPU I just looked at hardware monitor is at 77c Max that's on the RTX 4090 there's been no change on the CPU Max temp it's still at around 92 C so all together if you were going to build this exact system and you were wanting to use the tempered glass side panel but concerned about The Thermals I would say go for it if you're really that concerned and want to bring the temps back down to what we were seeing with the with the vented side panel then slap in a couple 120 millimeter 15 millimeter thick slim fans at the bottom of the case and that should help you get back down to those levels all together this is a fantastic system it's just performing so well in every area well I guess except for frame rates right so why don't we go ahead and turn dlss on this is going to be dlss2 let's do balanced see what that brings us to over 100 FPS we were just we were struggling to hit 50 FPS we literally just doubled our frame rate this is what dlss2 guys once DLS S3 comes out for this game it's gonna be ridiculous I mean 100 FPS is ridiculous already as is when you consider that uh we just were so far from hitting this with the last generation of gpus and I even saw that article about the redditor who got dlss3 working on his RTX 2070 in this particular title and was also able to double his frame rates um which kind of makes you go wow that's that's super cool but also screw Nvidia for locking that feature to the rtx40 series because it would just breathe new life into so many gamers uh older gpus and for what just just for a money grab when it's so easily implemented it's just a software lock that Nvidia put on those older cards but anyway getting off topic here this is just phenomenal performance across the board and it's really cool that the new ryzen Chips launched alongside side the RTX 4090 usually you get a new GPU or a new CPU that comes out and you have to kind of wait for the next generation of that other component to come out to really see what the generational uplift is between both parts but here we have new CPU and GPU working together and it's so much faster than what we were seeing just a couple weeks ago with the previous fastest gaming PC in the world which would have been an RTX 3090 TI and ryzen 7 5800 X 3D as for the nr200p Max from Cooler Master it's really hard to find much fault in it especially when the original nr200p was so damn good it's still a great case but this just improves upon it in nearly every way I think and also comes included with you know the AIO and power supply to just make the build process that much more simple at the end of the day what we have here is a blazing fast system with decent thermals inside of a compact small footprint I mean what are we compromising where's the sacrifice apart from your life savings that it would take to build this thing this is an amazing machine that seems to do it all and leaves very little to be desired but that's going to do it for this one guys that's all I got for now thank you so much for tuning in be sure to toss like on the video If you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more Tech content on the way till next time I will see y'all in the next video\n"