welcome to my belated unboxing of the half XM case from Cooler Master
featuring apparently with a sticker see
it's a good thing I did this late because otherwise this sticker wouldn't have even been here high-speed USB 3 and
2 and 1/2 in SSD support this is an Enthusiast midtower with easy access
latch design and three-way SLI and Crossfire support the half series is so
popular stands for high air flow which
is good for gaming and generally parts
that need air flow which is computer stuff which goes in there it's computer
case Rich IO with two USB 3.0 ports supports two x dock so those are
external quick easy hot swappy Bays that
are actually work really really well I've seen these before on previous Cooler Master chases uh in terms of
other features they list on the front supports up to eatx and I haven't seen
how many PCI slots are supported but I suspect based on what I know about
previous half cases it it's got more than seven 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 yes so it
supports xlx as well sliding PSU cable
cover for improved Cable Management front 200 mm red LED fan six tool free
hard drive SSD Baye top compartment with rubber pad so you can like throw your
keys in there and not worry about scratching it up supports 2 and2 in SSD
times one behind the motherboard tray smart that's how I mount my ssds on my
case 8 plus1 expansion slots and you know what let's just open this bad boy
up and have a
look case unboxings are fun because
basically ow it shocked me okay that part wasn't fun oh that hurt got me
really good stupid
packaging that's what that's what the problem is it's the styrofoam rubbing
against the cardboard and the plastic doesn't help the problem and this isn't
the kind of Styrofoam I like anyway I like soft foam this is hard foam but
hopefully it'll survive and make it to you anyway our sure did so there's your
Corners your Corners are one of the most important part so as long as you got
lots of padding in the corners it might make it there're okay get rid of that
get rid of that okay anger fading I'm
feeling good now all right so let's start with the outside there's the
manual three 5 and 1/4 in Bays two of
those quick swaps so you can throw a 3 and 1/2 in see from the sides just by
throwing actually here let me go get a hard drive hold on a sec so hard drive installation easy
peasy you just throw it in there and it kind of locks into place it's actually
like the smartest thing ever I love cooler Master's hard drive mounting
thing once it's in there it's not going anywhere very smart and then to install
it you just slide it back into place and
lock it in just like that is also compatible with 2 and2 in dries if I didn't say that before I can't remember
cuz we cut the footage and I don't know what I said anymore so in terms of front
IO there's your two front USB 2 ports front audio two front USB 3 ports there
is your fan control and an indicator LED for it your
power button nice and big in case you have trouble finding that and a reset
button which I'd say is too big because you might accidentally press that
there's that rubber pad thing if you wanted to I don't know store your keys
in the top of your case for whatever reason yes that is a Hello Kitty key and
yes I like it so get over it I've had people question this before and uh I am
I am totally into the Hello Kitty key it's actually a gift from uh from
cameraman we were at the uh slick uh
screwdriver no just throw it oh okay
yeah we're good we're cool everything's fine didn't cut my ARM open too bad okay
let's go ahead and loosen these at the back here actually I'm going to turn
this so that you can get better Lighting on it anyway so we're going to get this
case opened up because I can't quite figure out some of the external features
without having a look at the side so four thumb screws which are just a
little tight from the factory otherwise I would have been able to remove those
just fine so since you won't put them on machine tight uh you won't have to worry
about having to pull out a screwdriver every time you open the case because they are tooless they are thumb screws
so let's go ahead and open up this guy right here I have a feeling this is
going to be something B so ah yes okay
so there are your filtered meshed vented
that's the high air flow style there is your 200 mm Cooling fan that apparently
has room for like another one which is
awesome so you can put up to two 200 mil fans in the top or you can do a triple
120 and it looks like there should be room to actually water cool that that
stuff that's oh that's incredible so yeah look how much room there is I mean
there's all this space here and then you got a little bit of space on the other
side so yeah triple rad triple rad ready with no problems whatsoever let's go
ahead and throw that in there maybe put
that thumb screw back into place I mean you won't access this often so I don't
mind this being based on a thumb screw and not on like some kind of toolless
latch mechanism speaking of tooless latch mechanisms on the side you've got
more cooling fan spots you know what I'm just going to have to check what those
are they look like 140 mil just SEC and we figured it out it's dual 140
or single 200 mil which means so far you've got a 200 mil in the front two
200 mil compatibility in the top and 200 mil comp ability on the side giving you
massive well high air flow so there's your
uh handle on the side for opening up the case and there's your more mesh and
whatnot you clean that off if you want to otherwise you can you know just be
gross and not clean it that's fine too bit of a bulge here which gives you more
room for graphics cards or CPU coolers see where that's positioned that are
tall and take up space all right moving inside to the case we're going to oh
actually flip this around first so we can take off the other side panel we can
figure out how to do that there you go so they give you more space for cable
management in much the same way as they do on the other side keeps things
symmetrical and makes it so you're going to be able to do a really nice job of
managing the cables inside this case because there's lots of space here more
space from the side panel which means you run like 24 pin cable you're going
to be able to cross stuff over that no problem lots of room here for all the
cables that are going to come out of your power supply and then a couple of
spots here so there's your eight pin there's your uh your opticals as well as
that front hard drive hot swap there's your VGA cables and this is for your
front panel audio because motherboard manufacturers insist on putting that
connector over there why do they do this I don't know uh this one you can
probably use for your like front panel connectors like your power switch and all that good stuff from the other side
we can also see a few interesting things so there's our six 3 and 1/2 in sliders
which use that same mechanism I showed you in the front where it's really easy
to inst 3 and 1/2 in Drive there's that 200 mm red LED fan in the front it's
going to look pretty sweet in the dark and there's an adapter for a fan which
apparently fell off something okay that
seems like it's not supposed to be there very large CPU cutout so you're going to
be able to install your CPU Cooler even if your motherboard is already installed
in the case and there is that 2 and 1/2 in SSD mounting point on the back here
so that's uh not going to be in anybody's way if you wanted to have a
system where you basically basally couldn't even see any of the drives that
would be the way to do it you wrap your SATA cables right around here and then
they can go right into that drive at the back very very cool stuff all right
terms of accessories let's have a look at what we got
here that's right I can unbox things one-handed and then unbag them and then
pour them out who needs two hands
anyway so there's screws
standoffs cable o lots of cable ties I don't think I've seen anyone include
this many cable ties before very good stuff Cooler Master way to go black
cable ties too that's the best time more
screws speaker okay then moving right along
this guy right here can be repositioned which is nice you just undo these
screws and a one and
two and you can slide it so that it'll allow you to bring up the cables where
you want and hide the cables where you don't want to see them glad to see this
is modular I've seen this kind of stuff attempted in the past but it usually
ends up looking kind of cheesy Cooler Master has the right idea with this one
though you can actually hide the cables if you have a non-m modular power supply
and it'll actually look really really clean love it power supply is mounted on
two rubber standoffs right here as well as with a filtered intake on the bottom
so you're not going to have any dust accumulating in your power supply we've
got those eight PCI slots that I mentioned here as well as that auxiliary
one for things like I don't know an extra fan controller or whatever else you want to mount in there I already
covered all of the uh yes the
rubber Cable Management holes such as this one this one and this one very soft
rubber in here which is really nice means you're not going to accidentally warp them out of place and then have
them stick there like we saw with the original fractal design Define R2 which
had a very hard rubber that was uh not very good and then we've got aha one
power in and two SATA datas for those
front uh slidable Drive mounting cages
there's our tooless 5 and a/4 in base
and I think that pretty much wraps it up
oh hold on there's a screw here oh cool
look at that you can actually remove this top 3 and 1/2 in uh cage so you
could install like video cards that are like 2 and 1/2 ft long if you really
wanted to and of course the included 140
mm fan in the back all the cooling options are included thank you for
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