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)

Built like a tank, spacious, premium. However, there are small things that add up to a disappointing experience. Normally, I wouldnt be so picky about such minor things. But I also dont normally spend $650 on a case. The fit for the seem on the glass panel near the top where the two metal plates meet at the front of the case form an S bend and dont join neatly together, causing them to overlap. This has an effect of making it look cheap and poorly manufactured. The grommets inside the case have a tendency to bunch up toward the center of the opening. Instead of them being firmly against the opening, they slide off. Everything in this case is tool-less. Except the main retention screw that you need to remove in order to take off the top panel. The top panel is the lynch pin, permitting access to the the rest of the case by allowing you to remove the side panels. Youd think it would be a retention screw on something this expensive. Not so. Hopefully you dont lose this one important screw thats effectively holding together your entire case. The glass inserts on the front panel of the case are exceptionally dirty, requiring me to use some window cleaner and microfiber cloth to get them to a satisfactory appearance. This is despite the many plastic peel films on each side of the glass inserts. In fact, it made the effect stand out more. Dirty and clean glass clashed, making the foggy glass apparent even from 5ft away, especially when lit. Even though this case is large enough to house an enitre smaller computer within its cavernous interior, it lacked enough width to let me use my noctua NH-D15 with both fans (one raised up due to ram) on the cpu cooler. I was honestly shocked since this case is all about airflow. How could you not let the premier air cooler fit in what is intended to be THE airflow case? All in all, Im satisfied with my purchase. Sadly, Cooler Master decided to forgo the final 10% of effort required to polish this case to a masterful product and at this price point, it hurts a lot more. Ive seen more attention to detail in cases 1/3rd the price. If it werent the fact I had already purchased the case now armed with this knowledge, I would have likely gone with the lian li o11 dynamic and saved myself $400.

I purchased the H500 for a high-end, air-cooled AMD 5950X + Nvidia 3090 build. The case is just about the right size and offers plenty of options to mount components. The two giant 200mm in-take fans offer a unique look and a lot of airflow. All the mesh components have a magnetic mesh filter that can be easily removed and cleaned. The power supply shroud nicely hides the mess of wires. There are also plenty of tie downs to neatly route wires around the case. Since it is a mesh case, it can get noisy given all the openings for airflow. However, this should be expected as the alternative would be to do a liquid cool system that would not rely on so many fans. When using the Noctua NH-D15 cooler, the case doesnt have enough width to fit the second 140mm cooler fan over the RAM modules. I resorted to using a 120mm fan instead which will offer enough clearance. (So if you are looking at the Noctua NH-D15, get the NH-D15S instead which only comes with 1 fan and you can purchase a 120mm fan separately). I purchased the case during a rebate promotion. The instructions were confusing since it asked for a physical UPC which my box did not have. This was remedied through customer service although I have yet to receive the rebate.

I did a lot of research for this build and I wasnt disappointed with this case. Easy unboxing, simple directions, lots of room for tall brick coolers like the Nactua or Be Quiet Dark Rock (dry fit pic for brick cooler. 6 mm to spare before glass ). So many options for fan sizes, liquid coolers and locations. Did I say this thing looks great?! This was more like a gift from the hearts of the Cooler Master designers than a purchase. It breathes big and thats why I went with it. If youre thinking of over clocking, please Youtube for the stats and reviews. youll see very good numbers just with the stock fan set up. There are so many features to talk about that are great and you really should check out the reviews but, I do have one issue. This cant be blamed on Cooler Master, after all, the price is so well worth it. The fans are RGB but they arent PWM 4pin, meaning, they do not regulate speed like the CPU coolers do. Your mother board more than likely supports PWM fan regulation so, maybe that is something you would think about as an upgrade. 200 mm RGB PWM 4pin fans are more expensive and wouldnt easily pushed the price up for this case. Regardless, its still pretty quite as it is. Im so pleased with this choice and already thinking of a new build around another one of these cases. Do your research, find out for yourself and enjoy.

One of the best cases I’ve ever used.

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!!!

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 replaced my 8 year old Nzxt Phantom case with this fantastic piece of equipment, and what suprized me the most has got to be those 200mm fans and how effortlessly they push air through the case at such low rpms. Half of me was honestly expecting them to be very gimmicky and mediocre, boy was I suprized and at full rpm they push some serious air.

Best case I have ever built in. The weight is a little on the heavy side so lift with legs. Overall mine was real good quality. Would recommend buying this case for anyone.

Got my case after waiting almost a week and got it all put together. First the good. The case seems to be well built and much sturdier than my old Corsair 100r. This case does help keep things cool. A 31 degree difference on my rig. Cable management is not bad. Compared to a 100R, its superbly fantastic! Plenty of room to build in. Now the bad. Less than 24 hours after getting everything put together, the rgb on the front fans quit. Well 1 blue light on the top fan works but wont change in any way. The fans do still run but 1 had a wobble in it from the get go. Contacted Cooler Master and they say that Im trying to run too many fans. Im running the 2 front fans the case came with as well as the rear exhaust fan the case came with. Too many, I think not! They say they are sorry for any problems that I may be experiencing with their product. No offer to send me two more fans, which I sent pictures showing the issue, the dont seems to care and have stopped responding to me. With that kind of customer service they should be run out of business. A shame really. I like the case, but will be sending it back and looking into another manufacturer who has a better customer service. Secondly, for reasons I can explain I have had 3 blue screens and 2 random restarts after using this case. Ive checked for something shorting out, standoff in the wrong place, anything that could be causing this. Nothing. Even reseated the ram and cpu. No improvement. Put everything back in my 100R and it works flawlessly. Runs hotter but works perfect. Dont know if something in the front ports are wacky or what. I think the thing is cursed. Bye Bye Cooler Master and Thanks for nothing!!!

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.