Cooler Master MasterCase H500M ARGB Airflow ATX Mid-Tower with Quad Tempered Glass Panels, Dual 200mm Customizable ARGB Lighting Fans, Type-C I/O Panel, and Vertical GPU Slots (MCM-H500M-IHNN-S00)

This case is quite a rabbit hole to be sure, Ill begin with the awful QC for the case RGB. A great deal of time, and in my case, a front fan will have broken RGB which diminishes the perceived value of the case massively (As otherwise it is a very outdated design using tooling from 5+ years ago.) The included case RGB controller was a nice perk and was a major selling point for me as the motherboard I was putting in this did not have a DRGB header but I still wanted to utilize the addressability of an m.2 cooler and the front fans (fan since one is broken.) The case was severely damaged in shipping due to a defect at the factory (Further making me believe this case has no QC checks) as the front panel tabs were outside and not in the slides that hold the front panel on, resulting in one tab being snapped clean off and another being severely warped causing the entire front panel to be warped in transit and snapping one of the tabs that hold the filters in, out, resulting in warping of the filter toward the bottom where the front panel retaining tab was bust off. The front panel easily falls off due to this damage with very little pressure being exerted on it, which isnt acceptable for my client. The case back panel leaves almost no room for cables at all compared to other cases I have worked with in the past 5 years (The Enthoo Pro from 2015 had more space! it was, and still is, cheaper!) and no cable hiders to hold the cables down so they wont be damaged by the incredibly limited clearance. The power supply used in this build has braided cables which massively exacerbated this problem, and the two HDD bays are far too close to the rear panel resulting in smashed seta power and data cables. The carriers themselves you have to warp to the point of breaking them to use the tool-less installation which begs the question : Why would you make a carrier whose intended retaining method requires you to nearly break it just to put in a new HDD? Surely this couldve been done better. The retaining method for SSDs is one of the worst I have ever seen and seems to only have been done as an afterthought and to minimize the resulting cost of re-tooling at the factory level as there are no sleds but instead the SSDs are only held in with rubber and a very minor amount of pressure which I find very easy to wiggle out. This would be a bigger problem if the side panel wasnt smashing all its cables against the motherboard backplate. The cable cutouts for cable management in this case is barely big enough to stick my index finger into, this makes running cables nearly impossible as I have to thread a needle every time I want to add a fan etc, etc. I will be returning this case as I paid $120 which is far and above what I shouldve paid but I was led to believe this case had more modern case features, which it did not, aside airflow which is done by a solid plastic front panel with a double-filtered mesh (SHAME.) This includes a plexiglass front panel which I think is a waste of money on the consumers end as anyone who wants such a thing wouldnt be buying a high air flow case such as this, if you could remove this to take $5 off the cost of this case I would prefer that. In conclusion : The case aside from the front panel being high air flow and the tempered glass side panel continues to feel like a case purchased prior to the year 2015, the clearance at the top between the mobo and the fan mounting position leaves NO ROOM for a fan toward the back as it collides with the CPU EPS conduit, I dont even understand why they have 140mm mounting holes toward the rear exhaust position except if you happen to own expensive slimline case fans. Really this case would be competitive under a $90 price point but as it stands there are far better cases on the market for LESS money, and that is absolutely reprehensible. If you are building in this case yourself I highly advise you to look elsewhere (such as the Lancool II ARGB, or the Lancool 215 if you like the 200MM fans) as building in this case was a NIGHTMARE and resulted in many successive teardowns to get every little thing to work. The included PSU basement is a joke as the hole you route cables through isnt flush against the case and instead is in the middle which begs the question : what is the point of it? if the cables are still showing this totally defeats the purpose of a PSU basement. It is also made of plastic which my $100 enthoo pro from 2015 was steel and had rubber gromets to help hide cables that have to go up and out of it or out the side, (The sides that are needlessly blocked by the HDD bays) can we seriously not afford rubber for the routing hole? This is THE WORST PSU basement I have EVER seen. Cooler Master... you have permanently lost my business due to your awful QC with this product, I have been purchasing your products since I was a tike and I am now 26 years old, and I have seen your company become complacent and refuse to change in any meaningful way except to follow trends and stagnate to the point of lacking all innovation, shame on you.

As a HAF person for the last 15 years, follows the family, its big and heavy. Other then needing a handcart to move it OMG, this case is amazing. I was posting dozens of pics to discord as i built my machine. I will add going back to the big, i put a atx board in it, and could still park my pup inside, but beware cable length. its also what id call a case and a half wide, so while its great for adding your things.. its a big un. 10/10 super happy with this case

I, like many others, am on the search for a case that is both functional and has the right amount of RGB. I have gone through all the phases with my PC - mini itx cases (Coolermaster NR200P, Jonsbo D31 mesh, Lian Li Q58), Mid Towers (Corsair 4000D, NXZT H510), Open Air Cases (Thermaltake P1 & P3). Recently, I have decided to go down the route of a full tower PC case that can house all of my fans, hubs, and RGB accessories with ease. This case caught my eye as its sister case 700 EVO is out of my price range. This case was designed for one thing, airflow. There is no shortage of fan configurations in this case. I currently have 2 (200mm front fans), 3 (140mm Noctua bottom fans), 3 (140 Noctua side fans), 2 (120mm back fan), 1 (200mm top fan) & 3 (120mm LLs top). Needless to say, my PC stays cool under any load placed upon it. My CPU ( Ryzen 9 5900x) @ idle stays around 35C-40C. Under load, it stays below 60C, which is impressive for that specific CPU as it runs hot. My GPU (EVGA 3090 FTW) @ idle stays around 35C. Under load, it doesnt go past 72C. I do not have any overclocking/underclocking enabled. All stock. The case is massive, compared to what I am used to. However, this is by design. The building was seamless. For the most part, this is a toolless case. I liked the locking mechanism that Coolermaster has designed to be used for most of the pieces. Specifically, the back panel is used to hide or rather, keep all the cables/hubs in one place without having them protrude and prevent the back cover from being snapped on. This stood out as I have 4 hubs (2x corsair Commander XT, 1 Commander core & 1 Node lighting). The front mesh panel of the case allows for adequate airflow. If fans are set at an appropriate fan curve, the case is silent. Coolermaster included two fan hubs. One that allows for the RGB/fan speed and another to accommodate additional fans for the case. All of these will be controlled via the motherboard, but a nice must-have. The RGB is standard if thats your thing. The Coolermaster software is bland compared to icue (corsairs version). For my case, I have cables that convert basically any manufacturer 3-pin RGB to be compatible with icue (thank you PirateDog.com). Overall, I am satisfied with this case and if the full tower setup is what youre looking for, include this case as one of your options. Keep in mind that its LARGE. So, if you are limited in space, this may not be the right choice. Happy building!

Im NOT a fan-boy or a paid shill. Im just a guy that likes to build computers. I was searching for an extremely large case for a water cooling build with a full size E-ATX (12x13) server motherboard (SSI-EEB) I had already purchased 2 large format cases and returned them both due to poor engineering and design. (TT Tower 500 and a Cougar) After 2 failures in a row, I bought this CoolerMaster 700 HAF with a good bit of anxiety. Im absolutely amazed. The first thing that stood out was they actually put thought into removing this behemoth from the packaging box. Its big, bulky, and very heavy. You cant simply slice open the top of the box and yank it out of there. Its a beast. CoolerMaster (CM) designed the box with 4 little squeeze tabs at the base. You slice the top tape and then pinch to remove each of the 4 little squeeze tabs around the base of the box. Then you simply slide the box up and away from your new case. Talk about EASY!! The next thing that shocked me was how easy it was to remove both side panels. There is a single thumb screw in the back of the case, at the top. You remove that with your fingers, and then slide the top part back about 1 inch. The side doors pop off with a gentle tug and the entire top comes off if you slide it all the way back and lift up. At that point, the case is wide open for your build. No tools!! The top part is held in with the thumb screw and the doors snap into place with metal clips in the case. The side doors go back on just as easily. As I said earlier, Im building a massive server board with a bunch of water cooling. Ill have (5) radiators in this thing and it will hold them ALL. It has room for dual 480mm rads on the top and a 360 rad in the front as well as the bottom. It also has clear room for a 240mm in the back and I think I could stuff a couple tall skinny rads here and there. It has room for at least 3 good size pump/res combos or plenty of room if you wanted to separate those parts out and hang your reservoirs up high with pumps spread across the floor. You could get 4 pumps on the floor easily..... and thats just the front side. It has brackets for mounting your pumps and reservoirs too. They remove with a simple twist of the thumb lock. No tools. Its a massive case and built for anything you can throw at it. As such, it comes with a giant rack for your HDD. Im not using those at all so I dont need this rack. Im using dual NVME on the MB for my OS, and quad 2.5 SSD for storage. I wanted the HDD space to mount a pump/res combo. It comes completely out with a simple thumb press on a metal tab!! 2 seconds and its out. No tools! Giant hole for almost any other type of hardware you can imagine. Awesome. CM includes a single 360mm radiator bracket. Its in the bottom of the case but removes with a simple twist of a thumb tab. Again, tool-less removal and installation. I got to looking around inside the case and discovered that if you dont want that 360mm radiator on the floor of the case, you can flip it over and mount it into the top or the left side!! (maybe you want pumps and reservoirs down there?) How cool is that?!?! They made the case with the right slots and tabs so that you could move the 360mm radiator bracket into any of 3 different positions inside the case. It does come with 5 fans. There are (3) 120mm fans (back and rad bracket) and (2) of their 200mm fans in the front. It does come with 2 different RGB/PWM control boards. Im not sure how that will work with my SSI-EEB server MB since I dont have RGB headers. I do want to try and work with it, but Im prepared to rip it all out and replace with a Razer system. Ill have to wait and see what happens when I get that far into the build. It DOES have the stuff in there if your MB is compatible. It also comes with a plastic case for the included hardware, and theres a LOT of it. Im just super impressed. Its clear to me that CoolerMaster actually put thought into the design. Its all modular. It all makes sense. Stuff lines up and is put together in a logical manner. 5 stars across the board. Way to go CoolerMaster!!!

For 100 dollars, this case really is one of the best out there. You get a full fan layout (2 front fans, 1 rear fan). It comes with a PSU shroud as well. The tempered glass is very high quality. There is plenty of room in the back for cable management, and the back panel has a great mounting mechanism with two thumbscrews. This case also comes with some accessories like an RGB controller and zip-ties for cable managing. When it comes to airflow this case might be the best performing. The two massive 200mm fans on the front pull a tremendous amount of air through the case, while still being quiet. The design is quite nice as well, with a handle for moving it around. There are two dust filters, one for the PSU and one for any top mounted rads/fans. Overall very, very nice and worth every penny. The only con I can think of is how the tempered glass panel is held on by slotted screws instead of philips. Still pretty easy to tighten though, can be done by hand. But I think the fact that the panel has a resting ledge so it does not fall off when you unscrew it makes up for the odd screw type. 10/10 would buy again, and probably will for future builds.

I love it. I was skeptical that it would be too tight. I had a phantek p400 few years back and the MOBO was super tight, couldn’t plug in In peripherals straight. This one is much better. And the fans in the front are absolutely gigantic and quiet. LOTS OF AIR FLOW IN My specs: I7 Cooler master 240mm AIO RTX 2070 32gb vulkan ram Z590-PLUS ASUS MOBO I Recommend this case It has a lot of rgb connectors but just follow the manual and you should be set. It came in already connected w/ great cable management.

My old case had temp problems (nczt500), this one has great air flow and looks great. Wish I bought this one 1st

And the plastic is great quality anyway. I especially appreciate the more stealthy matte look so smudges and dust arent as noticeable. Id been wanting to replace the cheap AIO cooler in my pre-built for a while. I decided to go with a high end Noctua (NH-D15S), and since it wouldnt fit in the Cyberpower case, it was the perfect excuse to move into a new one. The cheaper ones I was looking at, like the Fractal Design Meshify C, seemed great but would need some additions to get the best performance. The nicer ones I liked such as Phanteks were usually in the $130+ range, and I didnt really want to go over $100. I decided that the H500 would be best for my first build, with more room to work in than the Meshify C and better out of the box performance comparable to more expensive cases thanks to those huge fans that also add some color. Dont really care if its not all metal, Im not sticking a bunch of magnets to it. Its easy to work with and does its job well. My cat even chewed up the extension cord for the fans and they still work fine, although I should probably replace that. The only problem Ive had is that the PSU shroud wont seem to get back in place to line up with the screw hole on the back. Its still clicked in and not going anywhere, its just not secured by the screw. I think it might be my fault due to some poor cable management, but either way its really a non-issue.

I bought this for usage as a case for my gaming hardware, and while it works well for air flow its space constraints are on the tighter side. I expected this when purchasing a case smaller than my previous one, but the reason I knock it down a star is because its tight due to poor wire management. The channels that you are intended to run your wires through dont fit some of the larger cables that your computer uses, such as the motherboards power and GPU power. It came with an additional front plate made of clear plastic incase the mesh grille one thats default isnt to your liking. After setting up this case (and installing an additional 200mm fan on the top) my hardware is kept at a steady 50 C under maximum load off of air cooling alone. The default fans in the front are quality built, and most importantly quiet. They are barely audible at idle; I have to have zero sound playing and be within 3 feet of the case to even begin to notice the sound. The default LEDs are bright and easy to configure with my boards BIOS.

Had a cooler master case before but it was a mini case that looked more like a guitar amp than a tower. It had poor airflow so I upgraded to this and my average gaming temps (cpu) went from 85-87 degrees Celsius to 68-70 degrees. The two 200mm fans on the front are extremely quiet to be so large. I replaced the rear case fan with a Corsair, but the cooler master fans it comes with work great and are quiet as well. The case is pretty heavy but it’s also very sturdy and well put together. My favorite part by far is the trays that store the ssd’s/HDD’s. They just slide in and out and the wires go straight to the back side where they’re hidden. No complaints about this case at all.