Cooler Master NR200P SFF Mini-ITX Case
$89.99
$129.99
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Condition: New
Color: Black
Top positive review
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ROCKS!
By Indydi on Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2022
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 it's 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, and [update alert] a year later, they're still working flawlessly. I did add a magnetic filter on the back to block off the openings back there since I'm intaking air thru all those openings at the back. Technically, it's not held there by magnets. The tab from the case top holds it in place perfectly. My computer sits right next to an air filter which sits 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, I'm 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. I put together a second NR200P system to surprise my dad. He didn't need a dedicated GPU, or rgb RAM, but otherwise the builds were pretty similar, and it went equally well. LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors, too! I would've gone with pink if it hadn't been $50 more at the time of my build. Still kinda wish I had, because pink is my color. But the white looks really nice too. Two great experiences with this case! Highly recommended.
Top critical review
Easy to build in but a few quality control issues with riser cable and top cap
By 417Cineworks on Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2022
Love the case. Big fan of the NR200 line and not the first one I've built in. The case does not feel cheap in any way and I had plenty of cooling space to fit an 12900k with a kraken x52 with 6 fans, 2 NVMe drives and 2 SSDs along with an EVGA RTX 3070 XC. I docked 1 star because the issue that almost had me return the case was the riser cable. When I plugged my GPU through the riser cable, my computer system would slow down after a few minutes to the point of stutter when the doing simple web browsing. When lauching a video game the render latency was extremly high and would only run at 15-20 FPS. Event viewer would show error Component: PCI Express Root Port, Error Source: Advanced Error Reporting (PCI Express). Eventualy the PC would crash and restart. I had to remove the riser cable from the equation in order for this issue to be resolved so now I have a usless part I paid for laying around (the cable isn't even straight and it puts your GPU in an uneven position) It felt like it was putting unecessary stress on the Mobo's and GPUs PCIe connectors. The PCIe gen 3 fix in bios did not fix this issue. Because of this I had to completly re orient my cooling setup to what you see in the second picture. I docked another star because now I can't use the glass panel with the AIO radiator mounted on the side. The other issue I have is with the buttons on the front. The top panel sits flush with the case but the power button has to be pressed extremely hard for them to click the buttons in the circuit board below. The same goes for the reset button. It looks like the front circuit board is mounted a little too low for the buttons to travel down properly to make conact. Not a deal breaker but still irksome. All in all I love the first NR200 I bought in white but that one didn't come with a riser cable or the nuisance that comes with it. This one is still a good value if you're willing to overlook those issues. My advice would be to just get the base model and avoid the issues the come with the riser cable. Edit: Reached out directly to Coolermaster and they were kind enough to send me a replacement riser cable. The one that came in the box had a purple ribbon on it. The replacement was all black, not sure if thats a different Gen but I tried the cable and the frame rate issue/crashes persisted
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