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look at the n200 it's about time microatx started
really getting the attention it deserves as a performance Computing platform
because there have been motherboards for a long time but there haven't really
been any great case options for you know liquid cool high performance microatx
systems and this is all changing very quickly so the n200 is cooler Master's
uh sort of kick at the can here with support for up to
355 mm gra uh graphics cards I think
that's the number yeah 355 mm or up to 14-in graphics cards dual 120 mm
Radiator in the front single 120 mil Radiator in the back removable hard
drive cage mesh front for optimal cooling all that good stuff
and at a price that I think you folks will find pretty attractive so let's go
ahead and flip this bad boy over here we go pop these out because
otherwise they get caught on things and they drive me
crazy whoops I'm sorry I bumped the mic there my bad my bad guys ow and it
Zapped me with static see this is why you want to ground yourself before
actually building a computer in a case so it uses a hard foam but again I did
an unboxing recently on another case where I kind of gave it a pass anyway
because these matx cases aren't that heavy even once they're loaded up so
they don't need as much protection in shipping and Cooler Master has been
doing this for a while so I'm sure that they've done some kind of a validation
on the foam before shipping a bunch of
cases all over the world using it cuz it's really just not worth it to recall
products it's better to just do the validation in the first place so here my
friends is the n200 we're going to do something usual we're going to start on
the bottom here is the removable fan filter for the rear mounted bottom
mounted power supply it comes off a little something like that and slips
back in a little something like that it locks into place so you won't
accidentally pull it out although I don't think that's really an issue there are rubber feet on the bottom on the
plastic feet that are also on the bottom so it's not going to slip and slide all
over the place and let's go ahead and flip this bad boy
over on the front we find some mesh okay
we also find some glossy plastic so we're going to go ahead and take the
cover off of that very very shiny if you guys wanted to catch a glimpse of what
b-roll the intern looks like I'm sure I just caught him there so there you go
there's some some glossy plastic this is an interesting IO combination on the
front so you got your reset switch your power switch your uh presumably activity
LED of some sort oh that's yeah that's activity LED your power LEDs in there
headphone microphone USB 2 and a single USB 3 Port now I personally
like still having USB 2 ports in the front of my case in fact on my own
personal system I have only two usb3 ports in the front and it kind of drives
me crazy because there's a particular device that I have and every time I plug
it in it blue screens because USB 3 compatibility isn't always quite to the
same level as USB 2 and a lot of the time what you want is you just want to
plug something into the front for convenience not necessarily for maximum
performance so I do still like to see that uh looks like the front bezel pops
off just like this and you can get some addition ventilation in the front there
just like that oh there you go it came right off no big deal okay so inside
here what do we find um
ventilation okay there you go that's what it looks like not attached to the
case we can also see what the front of the case looks like so check this out
you can do a 2X 120 mm cooler in the
front regardless of the spacing this is really smart I like this approach where
what they've done is they've given you slots instead of holes for one of the
120 mm fans that goes in the front so regardless of how the spacing works you
can go ahead and mount it in there I also like when the front bezel pops off
easily it looks like Cooler Master might
intend for you to install things this way so you can pop out your Bay covers
so it's got a single 5 and a/4 and single 3 and 1/2 in front Bay you can
install them and then you can pop the whole thing back on but it's uh it's
it's it's kind of obnoxious when they uh attach all the wires to the front piece
and then you pull it off and then it's all like attached with wires and stuff so I like it when it comes off cleanly
we're going to go ahead and put that back on though so we can stop harping on the front bezel and
move on so on the side we've got a single 120 mm fan that is positioned
correctly for your graphics card if you're using an internal exhaust
graphics card slick can you hand me one of those maybe that XFX one right there
uh rather than a blower style card that sends all of the air out of the back of
the case I would generally recommend using this as an exhaust so the graphics
card is going to sit right around here on the inside of the case and you can
see that it's going to be bringing in air here and and blowing it out the top
of the card a lot so in order to not fight with that natural process you're
going to want to go ahead and use that as an exhaust intake is perfect though
for a blower style card which most reference cards usually are with the
notable exception being AMD's all new $79.90 which uses a triple fan cooler on
the top you find room for either a 120
mm or 140 mm fan and they've got a little uh little rubber pieces here that
have a little fan filter attached to them so that's sort of unique I haven't
seen that before um the 120 mm Fen is
offset that's going to give you better compatibility with motherboards that
have beefy cooling components up at the top of them this side has a little bit
of extra space punched out for cable management we've seen this before and I
actually don't mind that approach because it keeps the overall case nice
and slim but gives you enough room for the cable management that you need in
the back this is a fairly value conscious case so I'm not expecting
anything exceptional in terms of like huge you know thick steel side panels
but it's solid enough I mean it's the same thing I said before cooler Master's
been doing this a while so it's not like they don't know how to make a side panel
and a case not fall apart when you're trying to build your computer in it um
on the inside we find our internal connectors as well as a fairly unique
layout so this is kind of this is kind of neat okay so check this out we've got
where are the included pieces for these oh this is interesting so the 3 and 1/2
in Drive mounts here there are two of them look like they are in intended to
be removed so you can go ahead and take these screws out take out the bottom
screws and they're it's not riveted in in anyway you can go ahead it's nice and
solid though so you can take that out and that gives you more flexibility in
terms of cooling options up here and it also allows you to utilize the rear
mounted SSD mounts so here you go they include little grommets which are in
here look a little something like that there's your grommets don't worry too
much about it b-roll it's okay and so you use those and you can actually Mount
two ssds here on the back of the motherboard tracet can I get an SSD
preferably a non- Cooler Master conflicting brand one that one's fine
top of the pile bam thank you sir all right so here's a Samsung 830 so you'd
go ahead and pop that on there with the screws um I personally love ssds I think
everyone should love ssds the same amount that I do and I like having more
options for mounting them on the back of things as opposed to on the front of
things so if you're not using hard drives in your system and you're using a
mass for your mass storage then this is a perfect perfect option for the case
just pull that out get more cooling awesome okay huge CPU cutout is right
here not that much Flex to the motherboard tray considering again the
enormous CPU cutout and the fact that once you put a motherboard on it it won't be that bad and cable routing
options so this is where that popped out side comes in because if it wasn't for
that you can see where it lines up right here is right where this is in order to
get any sort of uh C from the power supply up here you're
going to want to be utilizing that however it should be noted guys you will
not be routing your 24 pin connector
behind the motherboard tray in this case that is not going to be happening your
power suppli is going to go right here and you're going to mount
that or you're going to take that right directly up to the 24 pin connector on
the motherboard which is probably going to be right around here there's more SSD
mounting options as far as I can tell they're just kind of all over the the
place this is kind of neat so it looks like there's another one here yeah so
you pop that in there and go like that so there's another one there it looks
like if you pull really it looks like if
you pull this 3 and 1/2 in Bay out there's a no no that can't be right no
no okay okay no never mind uh but it looks like there's another one here on
the back could it be I don't know maybe it's
not intended as a mount but you could SE certainly Chuck one there without much
difficulty so you can kind of put SSD sort of anywhere you want I wonder what
that's for I'm going to find out what that's
for okay so it looks like that's probably intended for just Cable
Management so you can check your power supply cables back there however I'm I
would be likely to sort of hide an SSD back there but anyway so there there's
SSD mounts here here here and here so
there's four sort of proper ones that aren't me sort of ghetto rigging things
um four expansion slots which is pretty
normal for matx single 120 mm cooling fan in the back but you
could put in an 80 or a 92 if you so desired and I think that pretty much
covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the n200 from
Cooler Master it should be noted that the advanced version comes with two USB
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