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Review on Cooler Master NR200 SFF Mini-ITX Case with Vented Panel and 360 Degree Accessibility - Affordable Small Form Factor Case for Triple-slot GPU by Michael Vargas

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Nice well thought out case.

Overview of the standard black version of the NR200 SFF (no adapter cable and window side panel). , was easy to install, and had some decent cable management options (like little tabs on the frame of the case for tethering and velcro straps under the PSU). PSU bracket if using a standard SFX or SFX-L. The side and front covers come off without tools, but they fit snugly and snugly until you're ready to take them off. The included top and bottom covers are also easily removed, but are each held in place with a single screw. The only conflict I encountered in this case is that I was using an NZXT Kraken X63 280mm AIO cooler (RL-KRX63-01) and the heatsink doesn't really fit in the side heatsink bracket. The location of the bracket screws allows for 280mm radiators, but the top and bottom edges of the bracket are bent 90 degrees and the resulting hole is slightly smaller than the distance between the top and bottom of the Kracken 280 radiator cooler. On site, the solution was not elegant, but allowed the installation of a cooler. This 280 cooler also barely fit in the case frame hole, but it worked as long as the cooling lines were on the hinge side of the bracket (not the side where the bracket bolts to the case). framework). The main downside for me was the thinner sheet of metal that the motherboard actually mounts in, the tray has a nice big cutout on the back for access to the back panels of the cooler, but the thinness of the metal as well as the large opening make the motherboard tray Flex more than any other case I can think of. Not critical and shouldn't matter once the machine is built, but I thought it was worth mentioning. The case is also quite heavy for its size. planned to buy one of the window versions of this case, but they sold out early. My build (general purpose and moderate gaming): Asrock Z390M-ITX/ac motherboard Intel i5-9600K CPU Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 3200MHz DDR4 RAMMushkin Pilot – 2TB PCIe NVMeEVGA Supernova PSU 12 3-GM-0650-Y1NZXT Kraken X63 280mm - RL- KRX63 -01Zotac RTX 2070 AMP ZT-T20700B-10PI I have 2 thin 120mm x 15mm bottom fans blowing in/out and a thick 120mm fan in the top cover blowing in/out CPU on 4, 8 GHz overclocked, GPU slightly overclocked (max MSI Afterburner "Curve" is around 2280), case has good airflow, so far the thermals have been during gaming: CPU Max 72 degrees (at 125W) GPU Max. 64 degrees (GPU @99% )

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  • Expensive