Cooler Master COSMOS C700M - ARGB Aluminium Case with Dual Curved Glass Doors, Ultra-Modular Frame and Extreme Hardware Capacity - Full Tower

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Easily Accessible PortsThe advanced I/O panel comes with a 4-Pole headset jack (audio+mic), dedicated mic jack, USB 3.

is a bit louder than the C700P but not significantly so, even though the C700M has an additional fan. A large plastic mesh filter that covers the entire bottom of the chassis is removable from the front. The Cosmos has a completely customizable design (innards can even be inverted) and Cooler Master went for improved looks with tinted curved tempered glass, while on the inside shielding and covering up everything you do not want to see. This allows you to install your system's motherboard upside down or rotated by 90°, which would have your GPUs face upward, for example. All the cables we needed could be neatly bundled to the back of the motherboard tray without bulging the side panel out even slightly, and that’s with room left over inside the cavernous PSU shroud.

The case offers rich connectivity options along with a curved tempered glass side panel to showcase a build that stands out from the rest. In that time, I've reviewed desktops, PC cases, and motherboards as a freelancer, while also producing deals content for the site and its sibling ExtremeTech. In addition to the illuminated power button, there are two audio ports as well as the control elements of the fan and RGB control. I appreciated that; many chassis that support vertical video-card mounting don't include the actual riser hardware, making it an extra-cost option. The boldest aspect of the exterior is the set of four metal rails that protrude from the case's corners, two at top, two at bottom, running from case front to back.

Thanks to its elegant appearance, for example, it also fits into modern office space to serve as a case for workstations or servers. Fans can be set to high, medium, low, or mobo control, but as usual we plugged all fans directly into the motherboard for testing. Cooler Master showcases three primary ones in a pamphlet shipped with the case: conventional, chimney, and inverted. I can't see any reason to remove this panel often, so it would have been better had Cooler Master screwed on this panel instead of connecting it with magnets.It's gigantic, with an edgy design, and when you power it up, vivid RGB LEDs steal the floor from anything in its sight lines. It's dusty in every orifice (and it has loads of those), dirty and scratched, and I'm not happy with the front port layout anymore. drive, you first have to pick where you want to place the unit: behind the motherboard, underneath the 3. Unless you're a lottery winner or are simply seeking the biggest of everything, a bit of pragmatism might steer you downscale.

I opted to keep the layout in the regular orientation, with the motherboard I/O ports exiting the case back.It throttled down to just under 1700MHz to limit thermals, as opposed to about 1780MHz for the standard torture test. Now, as a full-time PCMag analyst, I'm focusing on reviewing processors and graphics cards while dabbling in all other things PC-related.

I had to partially remove the top portion of the case to free up the panel and was able to mount it correctly using a couple of screws from a collection of spares. I like that it's huge, I like the aesthetics of it -- it literally looks like it came out of a Tron movie. Alternately, a connector for a direct motherboard connection allows you to sync these LEDs with your board for software-based control. There’s no internal lighting, but the external lighting bounces off the inside of the top and bottom rails in a way that’s really pretty cool.The case's multiple bays and expansion slots make it suitable for users who require a lot of storage or who plan on expanding their system in the future. One unique aspect of this bracket: You can tilt the card backward from full vertical, if you like (assuming there's clearance behind it), showing it off in a sloped or reclining position. The maximum CPU cooler height of the case is 198 millimeters, and the maximum graphics card length is 490 millimeters.