 For a limited time only, buy an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 CPU and get a free three month subscription to iRacing.com. Available from participating retailers, click the link in the video description for more details. Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the N200. It's about time Micro ATX 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 liquid, cooled, high performance Micro ATX systems. And this is all changing very quickly. So the N200 is Cooler Master's sort of kick at the can here. With support for up to 355mm graphics cards. I think that's the number. Yeah, 355mm or up to 14 inch graphics cards. Dual 120mm radiator in the front, single 120mm 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. Because 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 unusual. 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. OK, 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 glossy plastic. This is an interesting I.O. combination on the front. So you got your reset switch, your power switch, your 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 on the front of my case. In fact, on my own personal system, I have only two USB 3 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. It looks like the front bezel pops off just like this. And you can get some additional ventilation in the front there just like that. Oh, there you go. It came right off. No big deal. OK, so inside here, what do we find? Ventilation. OK, 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 2 by 120 millimeter 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 millimeter 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 five and a quarter and single three and a half inch front bay. You can install them and then you can pop the whole thing back on. But it's it's it's it's kind of obnoxious when they attach all the wires to the front piece and then you pull it off and then it's all 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 millimeter fan that is positioned correctly for your graphics card. If you're using an internal exhaust graphics card, can you hand me one of those? Maybe that XFX one right there 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 then 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. The intake is perfect though for a blower style card, which most reference cards usually are, with the notable exception being AMD's all new 7990, which uses a triple fan cooler. On the top, you find room for either a 120 millimeter or 140 millimeter fan. And they've got a 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. The 120 millimeter fan 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 Masters has 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. On the inside, we find our internal connectors as well as a fairly unique layout. So this is kind of neat. OK, so check this out. We've got where are the included pieces for these? This is interesting. So the three and a half inch drive mounts here, there are two of them, look like they are intended to be removed. So you can go ahead and take these screws out, take out the bottom screws and then it's not riveted in any way. 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 OK. And so you use those and you can actually mount two SSDs here on the back of the motherboard tray. So look, 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. 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 NAS for your mass storage, then this is a perfect, perfect option for the case. Just pull that out, get more cooling. Awesome. OK, 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 outside 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 cables 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 supplies 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 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 three and a half inch bay out, there's no, no, that can't be right. No, no. OK. OK, no, never mind. 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 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. OK, so it looks like that's probably intended for just cable management. So you can check your power supply cables back there. However, I would be likely to sort of hide an SSD back there. But anyway, so there's SSD mounts here, here, here and here. So there's four sort of proper ones that are me sort of ghetto rigging things for expansion slots, which is pretty normal for MATX. Single one hundred and twenty millimeter 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 end two hundred from Cooler Master. It should be noted that the advanced version comes with two USB three point ports and a single USB two point port. 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