Cooler Master NR200P MAX SFF Small Form Factor Mini-ITX Case, Custom 280mm AIO, 850W SFX Gold PSU, Triple-slot Vertical Mount GPU, PCIe Gen4 Riser, Tempered Glass or Vented Panel (NR200P-MCNN85-SL0)

This case is awesome, well designed, well made. This was my first computer build, and my son, who has some experience, questioned my decision to go with the NR200P given the additional challenge of working in a small space--until he saw it in person. He was so impressed, he wanted one for himself. Here is my build: Intel Core i7-12700K ASUS ROG Strix B660-I (mini-ITX) Nvidia RTX 3070FE GPU Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 16 x 2 RAM (rgb) EVGA Supernova 750W SFX power supply (note small form factor) SK Hynix Platinum P41 2 TB m.2 SSD SK Hynix Platinum P41 1 TB m.2 SSD Thermalright Silver Soul 135 white cooler Arctic P9 PWM PST 92mm fan Arctic BioniX F120 fans x 2 Chassis fan hub CPU Cooling (the really cryptic looking one) Noteworthy: The Thermalright cooler DOES fit, even with the glass side. Actually has some room to spare. The Kingston RAM has only about 2mm clearance from the cooling tower. But 2mm is enough. My fan hub sits behind the front panel, nicely hidden, because its not pretty. I routed several things behind that panel. You can also place SSDs there, but mine are both m.2, directly plugged into the MB, so that front panel was wide open for wires. I added two fans on the bottom and one at the back. Based on my review of the literature (YouTube), the best airflow with a cooling tower is to intake from the bottom and back, and exhaust thru the top. Including the fan in the center of my cooling tower, I have 6 fans in here and no problems with heat. The two stock fans are on top. I did add a magnetic filter on the back to block off the openings back there. My computer sits right next to an air filter which is right next to a chinchilla cage, with hair and dust floating everywhere. ______________________________________ Everyone talks about the challenge of routing the cables in such a small case. For me, this was the fun part and I was very happy with the outcome. Like I said, Im a first time builder, so I have no experience. Which means you can do it too. You can decide based on the pics whether you think I did a decent enough job. Just ordered another NR200P for a surprise system for my dad. Hope it goes as well as the first one, but if it doesnt, the problem wont be the case! LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors, too! I wouldve gone with pink if it hadnt been $50 more at the time of my build. Even thought about getting one now and switching everything out, but decided not to rock the boat.

White NR200P with gen3 riser and glass panel With the mesh panel, the NR200 looks sleek, modern, and clean, perfect for a home office. If you fit the glass panel you can bling out the case with LEDs, logos, and tubing to make it the center of attention, which might be desirable for gamers. The power LED is a pleasant white, not a super bright blue. The method of attachment for the side panels is far superior to thumbscrews; It has easy to use metal pins on the panels that secure them to the case. You have the option of securing the side panels to the case with screws, although if the case is in a private area that is not necessary. Cons: If you use a vertical GPU with a waterblock, the terminals of the waterblock will most likely prevent you from installing at least one of the top fans because the case doesnt have enough vertical space. There isnt much space behind the motherboard tray for routing cables that are not thin. The included 2 120mm fans started to develop a loud rattle and I had to take them out. The product pages for the CM fans never outright say sleeve bearing (they always say sealed long life bearing) but I suspect that they are sleeves and unfortunately their noise made them unbearable. I used them on the top of the case where they laid flat, which sleeve bearing fans always hate. You may be able to get more mileage out of the fans if you mount them to the side panel so that they are standing up.

I left my NZXT H1 case behind and migrated to the NR200, so glad I did. The Achilles heel of any computer build will be the riser cable, so if you plan on doing a vertical mounted GPU please keep that in mind. The build process with this case is extremely similar to Ncase M1. A few things to take note if you decide to go with this case. 1) The cooler clearance stated is 155mm but if you decide to omit the side support bracket you can squeeze in a 159mm CPU cooler. If you go with the tempered glass side panel then 159mm may or may not be too tall and will not close if you have the tempered glass panel. Personally, I used the side support bracket and installed a Noctua C14s. 2) Fans. If you do use a Noctua C14s you will have to use slim fans for the top of the case and a 120mm fan on the Noctua. The 140mm fan that comes with the Noctua will not work with this setup no matter how you try to set it up. Normal 120mm fans fit fine at the bottom of the case under the graphics card. I have a Sapphire 5700XT and was able to fit regular size 120mm fans with no problem. You might have to go with slim fans on the bottom is you get an extra thicc GPU. 3) Power Supply. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND going with an SFX PSU. An SFX-L will work but you will lose clearance at the top and only be able to use one 120mm fan instead of two. Also with an SFX-L PSU will affect the length of GPU you can use because all the wires will get in the way. (Deep Breath) I know it’s lengthy but this is the best advice I can give and I am thoroughly happy with the NR200. I do not regret switching from the NZXT H1 and this case is great on thermals. Before I forget, buy a small 4 pin PWM fan hub, you will need it.

Its a small case with a fairly traditional layout thats fairly easy to build in, even for a complete beginner. Its got space for at least two 3.5 mechanical drives, three if you get creative with mounting, for people moving over from a mid or full tower, and plenty of ventilation for air cooling. itll fit fairly large GPUs (380mm+) but trades off the bottom fan slots if you need more than 2.5 PCIe slot width. The front panel can be removed and has space for a few 2.5 drives or fan controllers under it, but no official mounting solutions are provided. Looks are classy and discrete, very nice.

Review is for Black, standard version of the NR200 SFF (no riser cable, no windowed side panel) I was looking for a compact case with room to run a long 3 fan 2070 card. This case worked nicely, was easy to build in, and had some decent cable management options built in (like little tie tabs along the framework of the case to tie off to, and velcro straps under the PSU). Other thoughtful features are there are two positions for the PSU bracket, if you are using a standard SFX, or an SFX-L. The side and front covers come off without tools, but theyre nice and tight until youre ready to pop them off. The top and bottom covers come off easily as well, but are secured with one screw each. The only conflict I ran into with this case is I used an NZXT Kraken X63 280mm AIO cooler -(RL-KRX63-01) and the radiator doesnt actually fit inside the side mounted radiator bracket. The bracket bolt pattern allows for 280MM radiators, but the top and bottom edges of the bracket are bent at 90 degree angles and the resulting opening is slightly smaller than the Kracken 280 radiators top to bottom dimension. I had to spread the brackets folded sheetmetal edges back a bit on the top and bottom to squeeze the cooler in place, the solution was not elegant, but it allowed the cooler to fit. This 280 cooler also barely fit with-wise within the opening of the cases frame, but it worked so long as the cooling lines were positioned to be on the hing side of the bracket (and not the side that the bracket bolts to the case-frame). Biggest negative for me was the thinner sheetmetal where the motherboard actually bolts into, the tray has a nice big cutout on the back to access cooler backplates, but the but the thinness of the metal, plus the big opening makes the motherboard tray flex more than any other case I can remember building in. Not a deal breaker, and shouldnt make a difference once the machine is assembled, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Also, the case is pretty heavy for its size. I was planning to buy one of the windowed versions of this case as well, but they sold out early. My build (general purpose & moderate gaming): Asrock Z390M-ITX/ac motherboard Intel i5-9600K CPU Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM Mushkin Pilot – 2TB PCIe NVMe EVGA Supernova PSU 123-GM-0650-Y1 NZXT Kraken X63 280mm - RL-KRX63-01 Zotac RTX 2070 AMP ZT-T20700B-10P Im running 2 thin 120mm x 15mm bottom fans blowing up/in, and one thick 120mm fan in the top cover blowing up/out CPU is overclocked to 4.8GHZ, GPU is overclocked slightly (MSI Afterburners Curve maxes out around 2280 core speed), The case has good airflow, so far thermals when gaming have been: CPU Max 72 degrees (@125w draw) GPU Max 64 degrees (GPU @99%)

The quality of the case is top notch; airflow in this case is awesome; looks like something Apple would make. This is my first ground up computer build and this case has made it very simple. I have 5 case fans running in my build. To me this is the perfect size. its larger than the typical ITX case but smaller than a typical mATX case; basically right in the middle. seems to be standard for an ITX motherboard to have 2 NVME slots so the need for an SSD is more for if you want just extra storage. This case allows for 2 SSD mounted just behind the face plate and one 3.5 HDD which can be mounted on the PSU support. because of this cases size, I can mount a normal size (not a slim) optical drive on the bottom cover plate where a 120 mm fan would go. So on the bottom plate I have a single 120 mm fan vs 2, and I have a full sized internal optical drive. now the case is not designed to have an optical drive in it and that is ok. if you want access to the drive just pop off the front face plate, and you will have the full access. the lower opening in the in the front support bracket will allow for the DVD drive door to open without issue. I suspect that Cooler Master will come out with an optical drive version of this case soon as the opening I mentioned if it were only 2 mm wider would allow the optical drive body fit thru it. over all I would recommend this case. you could fit like I have 2 slim 120 mm fans at the top, 2 - 140 mm fans on the side bracket (one is mounted on the CPUs air cooler; NH-C14s), a single 120 mm fan on the bottom plate, a full sized internal optical drive on the bottom plate, a 92 mm fan on the back, on of those half sized graphics cards. even with all this still have room to fit a 3.5 HDD on the PSU support.

The CM NR200p max is a good system. I’ve been looking to build a SFF system for over a year now. I finally decided to build one since I’ve been using the MSI TridentX2 (beast of a gaming PC). For anyone thinking twice about this PC, you should get it. I will say that if you never built a PC or don’t like tweaking things multipolar times, you may find building a PC like this stressful. But I can say it really isn’t stressful at all. The AIO in this system is top notch, the PSU is good even enough for the 40 series and we’ll constructed SFF. My specs I have a MSI Z790i edge Wi-Fi motherboard 6000 TridentZ ram 32gb Two CoolerMaster Halo2 gen 2 140mm fans( replaced radiator 140mm) Intel i7-13700k Two Noctua 120mm 15s for bottom intake fans When I first built the PC the temps were my biggest concerns especially for a SFF like this. However after tweaking and watching a few YouTube videos, I was able to get the i7-13700k under good temps. When I first stated I was getting 70-80c when gaming but nothing over 80c. You definitely need to undervolt the i7 it runs hot. To do this, you can simply go into your bios and if your motherboard supports it, use CPU lite load. It’s one of the easiest ways to undervolt. I think everyone starts at default(mode 9). The pc will most likely throttle when running stress test. I switched mine to mode 2(CPU lite load) and one other thing, you must use an aggressive fan tuning. If you have good fans, you won’t hear much when the fans are ramped up a bit.I have attached a photo of my fan curves. Also I can use the mesh or tempered glass with this unit. TG gives me 1-2c temps more but due to my bottom 2 noctua fans and my fan curves I get great temps while gaming. Also when doing regular computer task. Keep in mind, it all depends on what you’re trying to accomplish with your PC build. But if you plan on gaming, web browsing, school work, YouTube or nothing like streaming or 4k editing you should be just find. I did not test the system for 4k editing or streaming but I’m sure the PC would run hotter as those events add more stress to the PC. Just YouTube and you will find how to fine tune your build based on your needs and you should be just fine. For me, this is a great little PC with good cooking exactly what I needed for my needs.

This case is so easy to work in for its size. I have the mesh panel with a noctua U12-A fitting just fine, I do not think it would fit with the glass panel. I like that it has dust filters all over, it is certainly catching a lot of dust in my city apartment. The case comes apart with a tool less design so easy to clean out when I need to do so. I have an aggressively quiet fan curve for my 3700x, so its pretty much silent during any desktop activity. Only in games do I hear it a bit (the case is right behind my monitor), the airflow is fantastic. I have the cpu heatsink with two fans (airflow to the rear, so functioning as exhaust), no dedicated exhaust at the back as it wont fit with such a larger cooler. Then two exhaust at the top (noctua nf-p12) tied to cpu temps instead of system temps. Other small cases I dont think it would be as silent. You can fit pretty a large graphics cards with no issues. I think Ill be using this case for many years to come unless something changes drastically in terms of motherboard formats. I came from the NZXT H200 and my temps improved a lot with all the extra airflow so my system runs more silently due to fan rpms being lower.

4 stars only because there is no way to screw in the side panels, and they like to fall off when the case is tilted sideways. The positives: Was able to fit an Asus Prime B250M-A mATX motherboard in here (10.24 x 2.03 x 10.63 inches). Had to forego the I/O shield as well as relocate the external power plug so that the motherboard could slide up to the top of the inside of the case. Was able to fit a full size tower cooler with not a single millimeter to spare. Also managed to squeeze in a full ATX power supply but there was nowhere to mount it. Literally everything other than the fans and CPU cooler are zip tied. No screws were harmed (or used) in the making of this PC. Overall this is a great little chassis. No annoying/ugly branding, very svelte and nice looking. Cozy inside. High quality construction overall.

The ITX space is growing but still has limited options. This case checks most of the boxes for ITX build but my only concern is the custom AIO in the case. Just know that if you ever have an issue with your AIO you can not buy another brand or even a CoolerMaster off the shelf. This is a custom built AIO for the case so if it goes bye bye then you have to work directly with CM to get another. In my case I purchased 2 of these. The first one was fine but there must of been air bubbles caught in the pump because it would constantly crackle in that area. I disconnected all the fans and even the gpu and ensured the sound was from the pump. I purchased another and it seemed fine but once again after a day of use I started hearing the crackle. I contacted CM and they were great but they were going to have me send it in. I didnt want to deal with this down the road. There are many ITX cases that you can build with off the shelf parts so if something dies or goes wrong you can quickly get a replacement. Case is awesome but I wish the AIO wasnt custom. If they could design it where you could use any 280mm AIO that would be a 10/10.