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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 Jose Haskin

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Nice well thought out case.

Review for Black, NR200 SFF standard version (no vertical cable, no window side panel) I was looking for a compact case that would fit a long 2070 card with 3 fans. is easy to install and has some decent built-in cable management options (like little tabs along the chassis frame for tethering and velcro straps under the PSU). Other well thought-out features: There are two positions for the power supply bracket. if you use 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 top and bottom covers also come off easily, but are each secured with a 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-mount heatsink bracket. The screw pattern on the bracket allows for 280mm radiators, but the top and bottom edges of the bracket are bent 90 degrees and the resulting hole is slightly smaller from top to bottom than the Kracken 280 radiator. The solution was not elegant, but allowed the cooler to be installed. 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 out/in and a thick 120mm fan in the top cover blowing out/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% )

Pros
  • 360 Degree Access: Each panel and part of the frame can be removed to allow for advanced disassembly and 360 degree access for working on components.
Cons
  • Issues