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 is a really cool and unique design for a PC case with the 2 200mm fans in the very front. It is extremely easy to build in and has a very large amount of room for cable management in the back. The design of the glass side panel is also very well thought out with the 2 large screws that can be twisted by hand and the ledge that holds the glass in place to prevent you from dropping it before you can get a good trip when removing it. The 2 included fans are very quiet and functional, and do have RGB. However, the RGB only has a couple of settings and is overall a bit bland. Youll want to buy your own 200mm fans if you want them to sync up well with the rest of your RGB. My particular case came with a very small chip in the black paint (upper right hand corner next to the glass panel) that has gotten slightly larger over time. I suspect this would be fairly easy to cover up. Overall, if you like the design of the case its definitely worth the money. Build quality is great and it seems to be well thought out. Its a beautiful center piece for any gaming center in your house.

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.

My core reason for purchasing the H500M was to improve my airflow situation. I was previously using a Deep Silence 3, a case that was focused more on reducing noise than cooling. I didnt add any additional fans or coolers to the H500M Happy to report that it was a success. My 3800x idle temp went from 45°C - 60°C down to 35°C to 45°C. Gaming temp dropped from 75°C - 85°C down to 55°C to 65°C. Thats just using the stock Wraith for cooling in both setups. I also saw a 7°C drop on my Sabrent NVMe drive when idle & a 10°C drop when gaming. The only thing that didnt change much was my 970 GPU. it does have a 5°C lower idle, likely due to lower overall case temps. At full load, its still hitting 75°C to 80°C, same as before. But the good news is that temps of the other parts are staying low when the GPU is at full load.. Overall, the build was pretty simple. The entire swap took about 45 minutes, much of which was cable management. I may end up adding an AIO or more fans at the top of the case, but Im pretty happy with the results thus far.

I could see where others have a problem setting up the RGB, Luckily my x570 has connections for it. Its quite large so space may be an issue for some. I originally had a Cooler Master H500 with a ml240r AIO (3700X). I swapped to the H500M with a ML360 AIO. Didnt see a drastic temp change at idle, but under load it dropped around 8-10C. The biggest difference was the GPU temp. Id average 75C playing BFV on ultra. (Red Devil 5700XT) After the case and AIO swap, Im seeing 65C max. Junction temp stays around 80C. I didnt change any fan settings, but I do have it set to 100% when it hits 55C. Cable management is easy enough. Not near as many tie down points as the H500, but there are 3 large covers on the backside. There are 0 cables exposed on the backside of my case. TLDR CPU and GPU temps dropped a lot. Easy cable management. Lot of screws to remove to fully disassemble. Overall, 10/10 would recommend.

Pros: - the glass sides allow for a great view inside the PC - I like that it comes with both mesh and acrylic screens for the front of the case - comes with 2 200mm aRGB fans and a 150mm exhaust fan - lots of holes and ports for routing cables - there are “shields” that cover the PSU and HDD/SSD store for a cleaner look - there’s also shields to cover the cables on the backside - no SSD mount needed as there are tons of places to simply screw them in all over the case. - aRGB chip for front fans already installed, in case you don’t have a controller. Haven’t figured out how (or if) you can control it. - there’s a little arm to support the GPU and prevent sag. Cool idea. Cons: - the mobo mounts don’t totally fit into the case? I had issues with the holes for the mounts being too small to screw them in. I’d get them to stick the best I could, but several times they just fell out while I was trying to get the motherboard in. Right now, my motherboard isn’t supported everywhere it should be. - the cable shields on the reverse side of the case are a little small. It’s really difficult to jam all of the cables in there, though it is doable.

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!!!

This case is the best out of the CoolerMaster 500 series but I found airflow works best with the 200mm fans on top and DO NOT hook 200 mm fans up to the same hub as all the other fans otherwise all fans will have max speed at 800 RPM. I have 200mm fans into a 2-1 splitter right to mobo. GPU fan is pointless if you have a large video card like RTX 30 series. If you get the case you will be better running fans in the position like I have. The 200mm intake fans are shrouded so 120 or 140 fans work best in front

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.

This is ‘The Chasis’ of all chasis. There is possibly one other that compares, but not nearly in quality. This is the second largest chasis I have ever installed anything into and there is still plenty of room for more. My last Cooler Master case lasted me 10 years. (It’s still in use, but I sold my entire system). I can’t imagine how this won’t last longer. Typically a tower case will cost maybe $300-350USD; after carefully studying this case compared to one other of my last two choices ; I actually paid a bit over $550USD extra to have it shipped to my location. Most expensive case I’ll have ever bought; but well worth every penny. Arrived very quickly considering my location.

My latest build I wanted to go completely air cooled and when I saw the Cooler Master H500, I knew that I needed it. Putting all my components in and routing the cabling was so much easier than my Corsair case as there is a decent amount of room inside due to the lack of 5.25 inch drive bays. Cable management was great as well and the shroud that goes over the power supply helps hide excess cabling and there are plenty of tie down points. Those big 200mm fans move quite a bit of air and are very quiet. I havent had a chance yet to test the temperature differences but Id venture a guess that its better with the increased airflow. I sit right next to the case and its hard to notice them, the CPU cooler (stock AMD for now, new cooler coming) is noisier than they are. The RGB is pretty bright as well, so if thats your thing, youre covered. Works with Aura Sync, probably would work with others as well. A word of caution: the case is fairly tall, especially in the front where the handle and front I/O is. If youre trying to stuff this monster into a small area.... she wont fit. This case is good looking enough to not want to hide it away. Set that beast on the desk and admire your handywork thru its real glass panel. For the $120 you pay, the case is worth it!