when I'm looking at a value product it's easy to find things to criticize and
it's easy to say no way man it's totally worth the extra 20 bucks to get that
other one but some people will have $75
shipped in their budget for a case period and they want to know about
products that cost that amount does it have competitive features how well
constructed is it is it packaged well enough to survive a trip across the
state or country or whatever by Courier and is it simple to build in but also
with room to expand so it's with those things in mind that I'll be reviewing
the cooler Master N600 kw1 version an
Enthusiast friendly case that can be obtained for as little as 75 bucks
including shipping after a mail and
rebate the Jazz mini phone and tablet stand from Cooler Master is now
available in a variety of cool colors from these great retailers click now to
learn more packaging wise I'd prefer to see as much of the budget as possible
allocated to foam rather than a full color box but in this case the middle-
of the road stuff that they're using here is probably fine even with a system
integrated into it so it's not a huge issue the front of the chassis holds
three 5 and 1/4 in drives and is probably best described as unoffensive
it won't turn any heads with its practical mostly mesh with a faux brush
metal stripe front bezel thing but I still think performance minded customers
will be happy because the Dual 120 mm
fan mounts behind it will have basically unimpeded access to Fresh Air front IO
is pretty comprehensive with reset power front audio USB 2 and USB 3 ports as
well as an LED switch for the included illuminated front fan then moving on to
the right hand side we find more Enthusiast friendly intake vents this
one has a 120 mm bracket behind it that can actually be used to mount a single
cooling fan for the drive cages or a dual 120 mm radiator giving this case a
total of three radiator mounts that can be used at the same time while still
retaining full usability of one SSD mount on the back of the motherboard
tray and the three 3 and2 in Drive mounts in the Front Bottom but not the
adaptable 2 and 1/2 or 3 and 1/2 in Drive Bays above those ones speaking of
Drive cages the one on the back of the motherboard tray is a bit tricky to
screw in but doesn't put unnecessary strain on the connectors the resizable
and removable ones in the front are super handy but perhaps a little bit
unsightly with the extra mounting points just kind of hanging there
but these on the bottom permanent ones are extremely solid better than cases
I've seen that cost twice as much it's just too bad I can't say the same about
the toolless plastic Drive sleds some of which arrived bent just from being tied
together with a rubber band the good news is that they work great if you
screw them in the rest of the outside of this case is pretty straightforward the
left side panel has a mediumsized window that shows off mostly just the good
parts of the hardware but also the SATA cables coming out of the back of your
hard drive although the pragmatic part of me acknowledges that there's a nearby
Cable Management hole and appreciates the extra radiator Mount that this cable
visibility enables the bottom has plastic feed and a removable fan filter
that covers the power supply intake as well as an optional 120 mm fan Mount the
top has a filter for its dual 120 or 140 mm fan mounts and finally at the back
we've got seven PCI slots a final prepopulated 120 mm fan Mount and an
integrated fan controller with two simple settings low and high it plugs in
Via Molex and handles up to two fans without Splitters nothing special but
still a nice to have around the back let's see what else we've got there
isn't a lot of space between the motherboard tray and the side panel so
unless you're going to obsessive compulsively manage your cables you
might end up doing the old push down and
slide technique to close up the panel but the good news is that there is a
little cubby in the bottom left there for stashing extras if you're not using
a rad there and there are lots of zip tie Loops so if you really want to do a
good job at least Cooler Master provides the right tools speaking of cable
management the front I/O cables are all black or sleeved and they're all
adequately or even amusingly long this
usb3 cable for example looks like it's designed to plug into the system next to
yours rather than inside your own system still I'd rather they're too long than
Too Short the last note back here is that the CPU cutout is only average size
but we'll work with almost any motherboard and the motherboard tray due
to its anchor points on all sides is surprisingly strong this is a sure sign
that a case designer has done this kind of work before the motherboard tray is
actually quite important back around to the front the windowed side the cable
management grommets are made of the most unexceptional rubber ever but I was
impressed to see them included at all in a case of this price the extra auxiliary
PCI slot is a nice touch and I think everything else here I've sort of
accidentally covered as I made my way through the rest of the case so the
conclusion for this case actually surprised me there's some stupid obvious
cost-saving measure stuff like the non-resalable bag for the included
screws and the fact that not all the motherboard standoffs were pre-installed
but all in all it's actually a bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing aside from the
side panel window an optional feature and the obviously Enthusiast oriented
ventilation holes on the top of the case from the outside the N600 looks like it
belongs sitting next to Joe and accounting but based on the kind of
Hardware you can cram inside such a small enclosure albe it at the expensive
some cable management convenience and other Creature Comforts like noise isolating hard drive mounts Joe from
accounting could just as easily be a hardcore Enthusiast gamer freak I mean
you could easily pull out the top removable Drive Baye Chuck a pump in a
Reservoir in that space fill up the radiator spots and with all the filtered
intakes on this bad boy you could easily tame even a liquid cooled CPU and dual
high-end graphics card setup in here so the only thing left to say then is this
Cooler Master please stop putting glossy plastic on things it's not a good accent
strategy sure it looks nice in photos and for 3 seconds when I take it out of
the box but other than that it sucks but the good news is that other than that
obviously very Petty complaint I don't think there are many criticisms I can
come up with for this case at full price it's got some pretty stiff competition
but when it's on promo it's actually
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