Cosmos 2 from Cooler Master is here it
was very very difficult for me to get up onto the table because this XL ATX
monstrosity weighs almost 50 lb so it's
very large it's actually probably the biggest case I've yet encountered in
terms of the size of the box so make sure if you're going to take take one of these home you don't happen to have any
other stuff in your car that could interfere with it taking up probably
most of if not the entire trunk of your
vehicle very very big um you know what
why don't we have a brief rundown of the specifications and features on the
outside of the box before we open it up and I'll take a break off camera to get
it out of the box and then we'll have a look at the inside so we've got rich IO
support we'll cover that once it's open supports 200 mm fan * 1 140 mil * 2 and
120 mil * 3 and that is in the top so it's either triple 120s two 140s or a
single 200 removable up upper fan filter actually has removable fan filters in a
couple places 11 tooless hard drive and SSD Baye supports four-way SL Crossfire
yeah with 10 plus one expansion slots it better individual airflow chamber so it
is a compartmentalized style case um
here we go there that's the summary brushed aluminum and steel for strength and elegance stylish and streamline race
car inspired design okay air flow optimized design we'll see about that once we open it up it supports dual
water cooling loops and I'll show you guys that later Advanced system panel
with fan speed and fan LED control and a rich aisle panel with two USB 3 super
speed ports here we've got the general specifications and what I'm going to do
is I'm just going to get my camera to kind of look at this and then you guys
can pause the video If you really want to read it I'm just going to talk about the case I've extracted it from the box
now and you can see that even in the thinnest part s the foam which is not an
a closed cell foam it's a brittle foam so it's not as ideal as as a softer foam
would be but you can see that my case did arrive in one piece which is always
a good sign and at its thinnest points it's about an inch and a half and at the
corners which is where most of the impact is going to happen that's going
to be at least 3 in from the corner to
the corner of the case right there giving it adequate protection in the
event of a fall
oh there's a cat in the
Box he seems to be okay little bit traumatized but otherwise fine
so case is covered in plastic to prevent scratches and then you can see there's a
fair bit of other little miscellaneous bits here so I'm going to remove these
off camera and then we're going to have a closer look at the Cosmos 2 it comes
with a user manual which is in a variety of languages and let's have a look at
the exterior of the Cosmos 2 to start
with so you're going to see right here up at the top we've got these stylish
carrying bars and you will need them you will have to hold on to these when you
are moving this around especially once youve fully loaded the case with all of
your system components we've also
got a sliding cover for the controls at
the front so this is controlling your front top hard drive GPU
and led for your fans so it's controlling your fans as well as the
LEDs you've got a reset switch a power switch a hard drive and a power
indicator LED so that's all covered up here's your front IO which is actually a
little easier to reach when you move that back as well has a very
satisfying Funk to it when you move it back and forth I like that so we've got
a microphone and headphone jack here eSATA two USB 3 super speed and four USB
2 in the front we find
three 5 and 1/4 in bays and two locking 3 and 1/2 in hot swap Bays as well very
cool actually and then here we've got a
cleanable fan filter although I'm not 100% sure how to get it off this is my
first go at this with this case you know what why don't we finish off the
exterior appearance first here so on the side we find a gorgeous brushed aluminum
finish very very uniform very even and
then we have what looks kind of of I mean I guess they're saying racing
inspired but to me it looks more like the claw marks of a beast or something
and that is the side panel ventilation so you can see there is a filter
installed in there uh some kind of mesh so you'd be able to clean it off it's
not just going to take dust directly into your case and once we open it up
we're going to find out what is inside there in terms of cooling potential the
bars on the bottom the bars on the bottom have
rubber feet installed so while you uh can put it down without risking damaging
the surface below it I would still not really drag the cosmos to around because
you could potentially damage the surface that it is sitting on with those bars
it's so heavy my table just uh detached
on the bottom here so hopefully it doesn't collapse while I'm filming on
the back here we've got a 140 or 120 mil fan some water cooling grommets we've
got 10 PCI expansion slots plus one so
you can throw like a a cathode in inverter switch there or something along
those lines we have an adapter piece that comes out with thumb screws and
then a power supply Mount that actually sticks out a little bit from the back
and then finally on the other side we find a slightly different approach to
the animal claw Mark thing that was going on on the other side panel and
these ones have y the same uh filtered ventilation holes and I think we are
ready to open this baby up to open up the side panel all you do is click this
latch right here and it pops off it is on a hinge which is really nice for
working on cases like this one where they're very very heavy so you don't
have to worry about what to do with your side panel the sturdy construction here
is not going to have any problem with the weight of this panel which is very
very heavy and very very thick so okay
this looks like um once I remove these screws I can take this off and that'll
take off these filters there so that's pretty straightforward um what why is this so
thick though I guess because of the layered design we've got a plastic layer
we've got what appears to be some kind of a that looks like some kind of metal
or plastic construction and then we've got the aluminum piece on the outside
which should be great for noise isolation as well you guys so I've
actually opened it up backwards so we're going to start on this side so you can
see we've got a huge CPU cutaway we've got huge holes for uh for Mount uh for
mounting for managing cables so up here you can easily fit two 8 Pin EPS
connectors and if you're buying a case like this there's a chance you might be buying a motherboard that has 2 eight
pins no problem they thought of that if it happens to be positioned somewhere
else we've got another cable management hole up here and then we've got all of
the usual ones using I might add a very high quality grommet you can see it
bounces right back into place as soon as I move away even if you take it and
really heave on it it goes right back into place so that's really good to see
as well and we have two full banks of these which will help accommodate a
couple different widths of motherboards depending on where you need to run your
cables we can also see that there is ample space behind the motherboard tray
behind the uh Drive cages for running
any kinds of cables that you could pretty much possibly see fit I mean here
to give you guys some idea here's where your power supply is going to sit on a
nice little foam piece here for noise isolation and you've got a good I mean
that's well over an inch of space next to it to run cables over here to the
drives as well as to uh run cables up
here to the motherboard and the rest of the components I'm just going to tilt
this a little bit there we go to give you guys a better angle and we've got 1
2 3 4 5 six that's okay you can stay back it's okay I'm just counting 1 2 3 4
5 six hard drive cages down here five more here and then we've got those two
hot swapable ones up in the top there's a 200 mil cooling fan comes installed
with a 120 mil but you can put another 200 mil up there and I think oh yeah
here we go here's another filtered fan intake under the power supply where it's
going to be exhausting out the back of the case from there so why don't we turn
it around and have a look at the the business side of the inside of this case
so I was investigating the top and found out how easy it is to remove the top
panel you can see here that it has uh a
fan filter that is built in and the whole thing is held on by only one thumb
screw so what that means I'm holding the thumb screw here yeah so what that means
is that you can gain gain easy access here I'm just going to tip this forward
so the light's better for you anyway so you can gain oh as much as I can there
we go so you can gain easy access to the single 240 mil dual 140 mil or 200 mil
200 mil sorry dual 140 mil or triple 120
mil which is fully water cooling ready and you can see the spacing allows for
some forgivingness on either side which means it should be very compatible with
a variety of different radiators from different manufacturers because of that
leeway that they've left in for you up there which is great there's also very
little restriction on the fans themselves because this is very open and
then other than that there's absolutely nothing in the way uh Cooler Master was
actually a Pioneer in the whole built-in support for water cooling thing until
Cooler Master really started taking it seriously with cases like the cosmos and
the half uh 932 uh water cooling support was usually
some rubber grommets in the back of the case which to me does not mean water
cooling support because maybe one out of every 20 water cooled builds you see
online uses an external radiator and the rest people are trying to do them
internally so Cooler Master really I believe started that Trend in a big way
compared to the other major case guys now speaking of a big way this is a
big lot of internal cables holy cow look
at this okay so here's our front panel cables where we've got our internal USB
3 header good to see that that style being used we have our internal HD audio
USB 2 * 2 so that's total of four ports
and our EA then we've also got aha two
data connections and two power connections for our hot swap Bay which I
showed you from the front these are quite solidly constructed actually right
that was one of the other things I wanted to show you guys about this I wanted to show you how these carrying
handles are connected to the case so you can see actually you will have to come
over up top on this one you can see they're bolted in and they've got some
serious reinforcement going on here even with your system fully loaded up I would
not expect there to be any give in these and you'll be uh very able to move your
system around as long as you have the uh the physical strength for it because it
is quite heavy all right so here we have
uh I'll have to find out what these are looks like some kind of dual 120 mm
thing though yeah we'll figure that out in a bit
H okay we've also got some other included actually oh let's finish with
the cables okay here we go the instructions for this case are actually
surprisingly detailed with really good pictures in spite of how many uh
languages that it's in it's very efficient so I figured out what these
are it actually comes by default with
the ability to remove all these bottom cages and these are the 240 mm radiator
brackets that you will need in order to install a dual 120 rad in the bottom so
here these are for fan LEDs so this is for the LED controller if you have fans
that use these particular cables then you'll need them and if you don't then
you won't be able to have LED control you'll have to take this whole thing and
kind of tuck it away somewhere which is what I would do because none of the fans
that I particularly like use that uh use that system this is something that's
really smart though check this out so we've got our top fan
controller we've got our hard drive fan one we've got our GPU fan one and we've
got our front fan one they've actually
broken it out into how many of that particular fan you might need to control
so rather than locking you down to the configuration the case comes with for
the fan controller which I've seen in the past which is just mindboggling
they've gone and they've included however many you will need to plug it
into each individual fan so that's a really smart thing that Cooler Master
has done on this case to give users the best possible flexib ility for their
configuration here's our hard drive LED power switch and reset switch so looks
like no um hm no power LED
fascinating guess it's got it figured out some other way so that's it for the
front cable so that brings us to some of the other internal features so one of
them is the tooless 5 and 1/4 in Bay here so we've got three of them then we
have those hot swaps we've also got ah these so these are really easy to use
cooler Master's design is actually excellent you can see there's a lot of flex to it but as soon as you put a
drive in there it just gets totally
rigid and works incredibly well for keeping your hard drive installed you
don't even need tools because you got these little uh these little Nubs right
here so you just bend it out put the drive in clip it
in slide it in and then lock it into
place so that's how you install a drive in this particular case and then the way
to get access to those bottom ones is you just go ahead and let's see there we
go no this piece yep so there's your two
120 mil fans and there's your six additional 3 and 1/2 in or 2.5 in
remember these are all compatible with 2 and 1/2 in ssds should you see fit to
load the case up with a whole ton of ssds so modifications you can make you
can actually just by removing these two screws and removing all these cages you
can remove this entire hard drive cage here if there's something you want to
install there if you want to make some kind of modifications to the case you
can completely remove uh this whole bottom cage M here as well in order to
install this radiator brackets in order to put a 240 mil radiator down in the
bottom which would allow you to do two separate Loops you'd have all the room
in the world for a couple reservoirs and pumps 360 rout in the top 240 rad in the
bottom speaking of which that is another smart thing cooler Master's done with
this case is they've actually built in Cable Management grommets between the
bottom chamber and the bottom chamber and the top chamber so you can keep your
segmented separated airflow thing going
but you can actually run things from the bottom up to the top which is something
that I've run into with a couple cases in the past that have used this
compartmentalized design and not given adequate space to run things like water
cooling tubing from one place to another just allows you to be a little bit
tidier with something like that so I mentioned before XL ATX it's also
compatible with eatx so that's why we have cable grommet or cable management
grommets out here as well as ones over here uh Cooler Master mentions that it's
four-way SLI and four-way Crossfire compatible and it better be cuz if you
take two usually xlx motherboard start here so you got 2 4 6 8 yes it is fully
capable of doing that I mean I think we're at the Practical limits of how
many video cards people would want to install in a system so cooler Masters
pretty much got the bases covered there um I couldn't figure out immediately how
to get the door off the side of the case but it turns out it's really easy you
just take it and lift it off and it's just got
these four little metal pieces right here that slip into place and are held
up by the hinge design right here sorry
I'm just going to put that on for the sake of demonstrating to you guys how
easy it is to put back on
oops huh that was faster the first time this is only my second time putting it
back on though so there we go yeah back
in place and not going anywhere anymore
which is very cool uh let me just see if there's anything that I've missed inside
here so basically in a nutshell you can
install as much Hardware as you want three 5 and 1/4 in devices along with 13
3 and 1/2 or 2 and 1/2 in devices you can install up to a triple Radiator in
the top and a dual in the bottom and then I oh man I'd imagine if you get a
little bit more creative you could probably do a couple du in the bottom
you could do a larger radiator like a 140 here in the front you could do
another 120 or 140 here in the back and
uh yeah you could have all the water cooling this that you could possibly fit
um although it might not be very portable at that point by the time you
put all those radiators inside you can install pretty much whatever motherboard
you want uh as many video cards as you want and as long a power supply as you
want ultimately this is an ultimate
style case it is not for the faint of heart it is not for installing your your
sort of daily driver machine this is for a gaming system and I think that pretty
much covers everything I'll show you some of the accessories here we've got our speaker we've got our mounting
screws and grommets and standoffs and all that good stuff couple included
Cable Management pieces these are so handy thank you Cooler Master for
including these check this out so you just do that pull them tight and you can
use these to mount cables wherever you want they've just got double-sided foamy
tape on the back so we got four of those five of those they also include a whole
bunch of black cable ties so you pretty much won't need anything with this case
other than what's included Cooler Master already knows that you might not be able
to reach with your eight pin connector so they've included one that is going to
be long enough to get
you darn near halfway from the top of the case down to your power supply so
pretty much no matter what kind of power supply you have you'll be able to get
your system going right away although personally I'd replace this with
something sleeved because if you're going to have a case that looks really
nice like this on the inside you're probably going to want it to stay looking nice and not be covered in this
speaking of which there is no windowed side panel on this case for now but
there could potentially be a windowed side panel available for purchase in the
future as an add-on to to this case and
ah yes fan fan placement so I mentioned
the triple 120s in the top the 140 in the back you got your power supply fan
you've got your dual 120s here which are totally removable you can just take them
off very easily here you can also mount an additional 120 mm fan here for to
pull more air through these hard drives to help out the 200 mil that's here in
the front you can do two 120s here on
the side and I think that pretty much
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