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 i used to build a workstation strictly for work. The primary thing the case needed to accommodate was radiators and you guessed it more radiators. This case delivered on that as well as a digital display smack dab in the front so your hardware monitoring can be done with ease. The biggest surprise of all had to be the master plus software that controls the lighting and iris display (which I personally use to monitor hardware temps). This is the only lighting software that Ive come across that doesnt tax your CPU. Hats off to cooler master for this. Honestly all the other companies should come to them in this arena because it is damn near perfect software as far as I am concerned. The build quality and materials used to manufacture this case you will find are very high quality and justify its top tier pricing. There is not one area I can pick out and call flimsy or cheap. Now for the one major con I found with this case. There are absolutely zero knockouts for fill ports or drain ports. I dont know anyone who spends this much money on a case and doesnt plan on a water-cooled build. And I found even after stuffing 3-360mm radiators and 1-280mm radiator in this beast there was plenty of room at both ends of the case to implement this feature. So unfortunately for that reason I cant say this case is perfect. But if you dont mind drilling into a 650-dollar case then more power to you. But all in all, for throwing some scrap pumps I had laying around as well as some scrap pipe I am very happy with its ability to keep everything frosty and for that this case got 5 stars. if I could though I would have given it 4.5 due to the lack of knockouts for draining and filling ports.

Case is awesome to build in. Has a ton of features that are insanely cool, but everything is, of course, quality of life stuff that the non-enthusiast doesnt need. The glass on the front sparkles from top to bottom, creating a rainbow of customizable colors and it looks absolutely breathtaking. Cooler Masters RGB software actually isnt bad, either. The case itself is made from mostly high quality steel/metal and there is very little plastic built into it; the only plastic I can really tell is the removable and easy-to-clean filters and the grip portion/sides of the front panel. The feet are also plastic, and I do have to say, that gripping them in certain spots does feel like the plastic is a bit unstable for the weight attached to this thing. The main feet are solid, its mostly the connecting plastic that gives way. Almost everything is toolless, which is awesome as well. Highly suggest this case for the RGB/case enthusiast that has some bank to break in. My one big critique(besides the price) is the riser cable thats included. Its much too short and actually pushes the bracket away from the inside at an angle, which is not ideal. Dont expect to use the riser cable that comes with it, you may have to purchase a longer one, which is probably what Ill be doing. Not really a fault of the case, since Cooler Master includes their basic riser and not a customized one for the case. I did reach out to Cooler Master and they said they dont sell longer riser cables anymore, which is weird.

This is a great case. Simple but has lots of features. Something I didn’t like was the fact that Cooler Masters own RGB lights I purchased separately do not work with the fan controller board attached to the back of the MB plate. It’s a great idea: have a hub that you can connect all of your fans to instead of trying to find and run wires to each MB fan post. However, the hub doesn’t let you control the fan speeds. And their own fan packs they sell need a separate controller box to change the lighting. Wha??? That means with those fans you can only do a limited amount of customization. Very limited. Like 6, one of which is ‘off’. Still, I am keeping this case as it’s really nice and looks great and great price once you add more colored lights.

Bought this to house an i7-9700k @ 5.1 GHz and a 3080 Ti - needed really good air throughput and this case is excellent for the job. Found this after Gamers Nexus reviewed it and gave it positive marks. The gigantic fans in the front provide a lot of air movement at a much lower noise level than a set of smaller fans. Me personally I turned the RGB of the fans off because I dont like flashing RGB on fans so I was more interested in the functionality of the air flow. Though the case comes with many different types of screws - you just need to figure out which screws you need and which ones you dont need. They make it pretty clear with a detailed manual that comes with the case. The two front fans are daisy chained via a y-splitter cable and both plug into a single fan header, while the rear exhaust fan goes into a separate chassis fan header. There is perfect room for a 240 mm AIO at the top, provided you have low profile RAM, and me personally I dont use HDDs so I entirely removed the HDD cages from the bottom to provide more air space. TLDR; this is a real nice case and can provide adequate cooling for even relatively extreme overclocking conditions and high power consumption gpus.

I purchased this almost 2 years ago and would still give a 5* rating. Good - Assembly went well and was relatively easy. Cable management was also easy - Cooling is great through the mesh covers - Its relatively easy to clean the dust out of said mesh covers. Remember the one under the power supply too - No malfunctions in the fans, LED lights, or with the front USB panels. Neutral - I filled all the drive bays and wanted to add another 2.5 SSD. It was easy enough to use Velcro strips to securely hide it behind the bracket that runs down the case, next to the motherboard. Only do this for SSD drives, not standard spinning hard drives. Bad - One of the screws for the tempered glass side panel wont screw in all the way. Its been an while, so I forget if it was the screw or the threading on the hole for it, and it holds well enough, its just not pretty. - This one isnt CoolerMasters fault, but the RGB standard they use is different from the one my Asus motherboard uses. The included controller works fine - with some cable management work, I got mine to sit mostly hidden beside the motherboard, where I can slide the top magnetic filter mesh aside and poke the controllers button from above.

USB Ports were good the first year and a half, ever since then I’ve been dealing with on and off ports that would heat up for some random reason and then on top of that would cause the PC to freeze for a second everytime I had my controller plugged in and was playing a fast paced game. It wouldn’t really happen playing casual games or casually playing. I play Bluetooth now, but even then, the Bluetooth devices are faulty now too, and I feel like it’s also due to the ports maybe causing the Bluetooth drives to overheat and probably malfunction. Now my controller won’t stay connected to the computer even if it’s fully charged. It will connect for a few seconds and then disconnect immediately.

Picked this up to compile a second build out of spare parts from other former builds. The TG side panel isnt as heavy as other TG cases Ive worked with so thats a plus. Its also a fit seal TG side panel (no gap). I switched the front panel from the mesh to the solid plastic cover for my build because it doesnt get hot enough to need the extra airflow from a fully mesh front panel like some other builds might. I fully recommend to anyone that is going to build a beast in this thing to use the mesh front panel for better thermals in that situation. Other stuff. Its light even with the one TG side panel, so easy to move around. PB placement is nice and up front on the top part of the front panel along with 4 USB ports and the 3.5mm jacks. For a smaller build, its an aesthetically pleasing case to look at no matter where it is on your desktop or other places.

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.

First, and most importantly, about two hours after getting and turning on the case and new computer, the back fan started getting... loud. It is now the loudest thing until I turn on a proper 3d game and my graphics card really has to crank up a bit. Something in the internals so I cant just fix it myself easily. Its been a few weeks but no responses from the customer support at all, I know they are busy, but having no reply to your ticket after over half a month is not good. Issues with the broken case fan aside, the two big front fans also dont have the requires screws/nuts to let you mount one of them in the top of the case sadly, as those use a different mounting method than the front. And all issues specific to my product aside, the case just creaks a lot from thermal expansion and contraction. You can easily hear it through headphones sitting next to it when it start, the glass, and the metal both seem to have this issue. At night when I go to bed and turn it off, I often get brought out of my sleep mode by sudden loud creaks from it as it cools. For the record, the setup only has one big graphics card, and Im not overclocking the CPU yet, so the CPU stays around 40C and the graphics card around 70C tops when playing final fantasy 15 on all top settings. So since it creaks just cooling down from normal browsing the internet with a browser temperatures, I think that should highlight that this thing creaks a lot, especially when cooling down from heavy game or going into it. On the upside, the case is pretty solid, it is pretty big so you can fit a lot in it, and its got plenty of vents for good thermals (important when you live in what is practically a desert). It is also worth saying the case should probably not be placed next to a monitor on a desk like mine, the monitor reflects in it and really shows up on the glass side. Its nice to see inside the computer case to spot for smoke or dust levels, but it is kind of distracting when working having a mirror reflection and all that. For instructions, its the standard approach of many cases and products these days of using pictures so they can avoid languages, so one manual fits all countries. But with the cables for the front and other parts, this is not the best. No link to go online for a nice video or multi language instructions either sadly. So for some this can be a bit of a pain depending on your cooling/lighting setup.

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.