Cooler Master N200 Computer Case Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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click the link in the video description for more details welcome to my unboxing and first
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look at the n200 it's about time microatx started
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really getting the attention it deserves as a performance Computing platform
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because there have been motherboards for a long time but there haven't really
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been any great case options for you know liquid cool high performance microatx
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systems and this is all changing very quickly so the n200 is cooler Master's
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uh sort of kick at the can here with support for up to
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355 mm gra uh graphics cards I think
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that's the number yeah 355 mm or up to 14-in graphics cards dual 120 mm
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Radiator in the front single 120 mil Radiator in the back removable hard
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drive cage mesh front for optimal cooling all that good stuff
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and at a price that I think you folks will find pretty attractive so let's go
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ahead and flip this bad boy over here we go pop these out because
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otherwise they get caught on things and they drive me
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crazy whoops I'm sorry I bumped the mic there my bad my bad guys ow and it
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Zapped me with static see this is why you want to ground yourself before
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actually building a computer in a case so it uses a hard foam but again I did
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an unboxing recently on another case where I kind of gave it a pass anyway
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because these matx cases aren't that heavy even once they're loaded up so
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they don't need as much protection in shipping and Cooler Master has been
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doing this for a while so I'm sure that they've done some kind of a validation
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on the foam before shipping a bunch of
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cases all over the world using it cuz it's really just not worth it to recall
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products it's better to just do the validation in the first place so here my
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friends is the n200 we're going to do something usual we're going to start on
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the bottom here is the removable fan filter for the rear mounted bottom
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mounted power supply it comes off a little something like that and slips
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back in a little something like that it locks into place so you won't
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accidentally pull it out although I don't think that's really an issue there are rubber feet on the bottom on the
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plastic feet that are also on the bottom so it's not going to slip and slide all
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over the place and let's go ahead and flip this bad boy
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over on the front we find some mesh okay
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we also find some glossy plastic so we're going to go ahead and take the
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cover off of that very very shiny if you guys wanted to catch a glimpse of what
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b-roll the intern looks like I'm sure I just caught him there so there you go
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there's some some glossy plastic this is an interesting IO combination on the
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front so you got your reset switch your power switch your uh presumably activity
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LED of some sort oh that's yeah that's activity LED your power LEDs in there
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headphone microphone USB 2 and a single USB 3 Port now I personally
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like still having USB 2 ports in the front of my case in fact on my own
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personal system I have only two usb3 ports in the front and it kind of drives
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me crazy because there's a particular device that I have and every time I plug
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it in it blue screens because USB 3 compatibility isn't always quite to the
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same level as USB 2 and a lot of the time what you want is you just want to
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plug something into the front for convenience not necessarily for maximum
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performance so I do still like to see that uh looks like the front bezel pops
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off just like this and you can get some addition ventilation in the front there
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just like that oh there you go it came right off no big deal okay so inside
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here what do we find um
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ventilation okay there you go that's what it looks like not attached to the
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case we can also see what the front of the case looks like so check this out
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you can do a 2X 120 mm cooler in the
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front regardless of the spacing this is really smart I like this approach where
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what they've done is they've given you slots instead of holes for one of the
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120 mm fans that goes in the front so regardless of how the spacing works you
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can go ahead and mount it in there I also like when the front bezel pops off
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easily it looks like Cooler Master might
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intend for you to install things this way so you can pop out your Bay covers
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so it's got a single 5 and a/4 and single 3 and 1/2 in front Bay you can
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install them and then you can pop the whole thing back on but it's uh it's
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it's it's kind of obnoxious when they uh attach all the wires to the front piece
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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
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we're going to go ahead and put that back on though so we can stop harping on the front bezel and
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move on so on the side we've got a single 120 mm fan that is positioned
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correctly for your graphics card if you're using an internal exhaust
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graphics card slick can you hand me one of those maybe that XFX one right there
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uh rather than a blower style card that sends all of the air out of the back of
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the case I would generally recommend using this as an exhaust so the graphics
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card is going to sit right around here on the inside of the case and you can
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see that it's going to be bringing in air here and and blowing it out the top
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of the card a lot so in order to not fight with that natural process you're
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going to want to go ahead and use that as an exhaust intake is perfect though
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for a blower style card which most reference cards usually are with the
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notable exception being AMD's all new $79.90 which uses a triple fan cooler on
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the top you find room for either a 120
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mm or 140 mm fan and they've got a little uh little rubber pieces here that
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have a little fan filter attached to them so that's sort of unique I haven't
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seen that before um the 120 mm Fen is
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offset that's going to give you better compatibility with motherboards that
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have beefy cooling components up at the top of them this side has a little bit
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of extra space punched out for cable management we've seen this before and I
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actually don't mind that approach because it keeps the overall case nice
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and slim but gives you enough room for the cable management that you need in
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the back this is a fairly value conscious case so I'm not expecting
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anything exceptional in terms of like huge you know thick steel side panels
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but it's solid enough I mean it's the same thing I said before cooler Master's
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been doing this a while so it's not like they don't know how to make a side panel
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and a case not fall apart when you're trying to build your computer in it um
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on the inside we find our internal connectors as well as a fairly unique
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layout so this is kind of this is kind of neat okay so check this out we've got
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where are the included pieces for these oh this is interesting so the 3 and 1/2
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in Drive mounts here there are two of them look like they are in intended to
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be removed so you can go ahead and take these screws out take out the bottom
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screws and they're it's not riveted in in anyway you can go ahead it's nice and
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solid though so you can take that out and that gives you more flexibility in
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terms of cooling options up here and it also allows you to utilize the rear
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mounted SSD mounts so here you go they include little grommets which are in
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here look a little something like that there's your grommets don't worry too
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much about it b-roll it's okay and so you use those and you can actually Mount
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two ssds here on the back of the motherboard tracet can I get an SSD
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preferably a non- Cooler Master conflicting brand one that one's fine
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top of the pile bam thank you sir all right so here's a Samsung 830 so you'd
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go ahead and pop that on there with the screws um I personally love ssds I think
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everyone should love ssds the same amount that I do and I like having more
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options for mounting them on the back of things as opposed to on the front of
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things so if you're not using hard drives in your system and you're using a
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mass for your mass storage then this is a perfect perfect option for the case
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just pull that out get more cooling awesome okay huge CPU cutout is right
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here not that much Flex to the motherboard tray considering again the
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enormous CPU cutout and the fact that once you put a motherboard on it it won't be that bad and cable routing
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options so this is where that popped out side comes in because if it wasn't for
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that you can see where it lines up right here is right where this is in order to
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get any sort of uh C from the power supply up here you're
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going to want to be utilizing that however it should be noted guys you will
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not be routing your 24 pin connector
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behind the motherboard tray in this case that is not going to be happening your
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power suppli is going to go right here and you're going to mount
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that or you're going to take that right directly up to the 24 pin connector on
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the motherboard which is probably going to be right around here there's more SSD
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mounting options as far as I can tell they're just kind of all over the the
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place this is kind of neat so it looks like there's another one here yeah so
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you pop that in there and go like that so there's another one there it looks
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like if you pull really it looks like if
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you pull this 3 and 1/2 in Bay out there's a no no that can't be right no
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no okay okay no never mind uh but it looks like there's another one here on
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the back could it be I don't know maybe it's
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not intended as a mount but you could SE certainly Chuck one there without much
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difficulty so you can kind of put SSD sort of anywhere you want I wonder what
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that's for I'm going to find out what that's
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for okay so it looks like that's probably intended for just Cable
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Management so you can check your power supply cables back there however I'm I
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would be likely to sort of hide an SSD back there but anyway so there there's
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SSD mounts here here here and here so
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there's four sort of proper ones that aren't me sort of ghetto rigging things
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um four expansion slots which is pretty
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normal for matx single 120 mm cooling fan in the back but you
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could put in an 80 or a 92 if you so desired and I think that pretty much
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covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the n200 from
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