Hello everyone, I'm Brother Jian. The Q500L and Q300L of Cooler Master should be familiar to everyone before, and the square shape is also a feature,
Two or three hundred ** is not expensive, because it is an acrylic penetration, and it is also our ** store, a common case for some users who don't like tempered glass side panels. The cool fang master's recent new cool square 500 continues this square shape to a certain extent in appearance, but unlike the regular internal structure of Q500L, the cool square 500 provides a lot of additional installation and color matching, and the same** has also been greatly improved, coming to five or six hundred, which is indeed a bit expensive. It's a case that needs to be assembled by yourself, and it's kind of fun, so let's play around and see how it goes.
Kufang 500 This chassis can not be used out of the box, it is the state of loose parts taken out of the box, and every side of the chassis needs to be assembled by itself, and the installation starts from the installation of the chassis.
The Cool Fang 500 is available in three colors, black, white, and macaron
The macaron color scheme has a white frame and offers 6 replaceable colored perforated panels and additional handles
It costs 100 yuan and the box is thicker. It is true that this kind of bulk packaging can greatly reduce the volume of the chassis packaging and reduce the cost of transportation and storage, but after the machine is installed, the outer packaging can no longer be used to wrap, and if you want to mail the whole machine, you also need to find additional packaging.
After all the plates of the chassis are assembled, the overall strength is acceptable, and the use of 1The 1mm thickness steel is still quite strong
Remember to follow the instructions to align the screws.
The length, width and height of the assembled chassis without counting the "outside the case" parts such as the foot pads and handles are 380*231*381mm, and the length and height of the handles and feet are 406 and 415mm, as an ATX case, the volume of the Kufang 500 is not large, and the main part is basically the same as that of Q500L.
I just said,Cool Fang500There are several ways to install this case,Mainly in the structure,The more basic way is the combination of the motherboard tray and the backplane,After moving the foot pad and the front I O interface and installing it, it is an open platform,
Of course, if you want the simplest state, just a motherboard tray, and nothing else can be installed.
After installing the rest of the panels in place, it becomes the appearance of the chassis,The foot pad can be installed between different panels,The foot pad is installed on the side of the magnetic dust net,The other two sides are installed with a hole dustproof panel,So that the motherboard I O interface and side penetration can have different orientations,Even horizontal installation,But what is more torturous is,In addition to formal wear,The other two vertical postures will put the front I o The interface is moved to an awkward position between the chassis and the desktop,At this time, it will be more uncomfortable to insert a USB disk or something like that,It's too big to plug in,And the feel of this boot button is hard to describe,Especially the black one in our hands,It can be said that it is very jerky,There is basically no feedback,Such as pressing。
The specific front I O interface configuration is very mainstream,Two USB-A、One USB-C and headset two-in-one,There is no restart button,The color of the cable sheath and the chassis is the same,And it is an integrated jumper praise,The front C port is advertised to support 20Gbps,The actual measurement can indeed reach this speed。
The original comes with a 120mm fan, the macaron version is a white ARGB fan, and the regular black and white version does not have RGB.
After looking at the external configuration of the case, let's look at the internal compatibility. Motherboard support up to "eatx" When the power supply is installed on the side, the maximum compatible width of the motherboard is 280mm, and the power supply can even be stuffed into the SSI-EEB motherboard after moving it to the bottom, but it is not recommended to do this, on the one hand, there is no screw hole on the right side to support, on the other hand, there will be other problems with the power supply at the bottom, which will be mentioned later, it can only be said that it provides a certain amount of living space, but it is best to install it as the compatibility of a regular ATX motherboard.
The power supply is fixed on the chassis through the power bracket, the bracket provides two sets of screw holes for ATX and SFX, which is very convenient, the power supply has three mounting positions, one is the right side of the conventional motherboard, and the other two are the bottom plate or top plate, the manual only says that it can be installed on the bottom plate, but in fact, the top plate and the bottom plate are the same structure, so it can also be installed on the top, but if you install the ATX power supply in this way, it will seriously affect the space of the motherboard, and it is not firmly fixed, and the installation of SFX power supply is OK.
There is a serious blocking problem with the ATX power supply installed on the bottom board, and the fourth PCIe slot at the bottom can't be used, and the header will be pushed up if the header is too high, which may be able to overcome it, but the graphics card will be heavy at this time, leaving only three slots of space, considering the size of the current high-end graphics card, even if it can be installed, it will be blocked by the power supply A considerable air intake area, a small graphics card may be okay.
Installing the SFX power supply will block the bottom three slots, so it will not block the MATX motherboard, and the compatibility is much better.
It can be seen that the power supply will have a greater impact on the motherboard whether it is installed on the top plate or the bottom plate, and it is best to hang it on the right. Between the radiator and the length limit of the graphics card, if the top water pipe is installed to the left240 water cooling, or only the fan is installed, the power bracket can be hung in the highest gear, at this time, if you want not to affect the length of the graphics card, the power supply can not be too long, the main PCIe slot of the mainstream ATX motherboard on the market is generally designed in the second slot, according to this position to calculate the power supply can reach up to 160mm, at this time the power supply is already very difficult.
If you install this VK's C280W liquid cooling on the top, the power supply should be moved down to the bottom gear, even if you use a 140mm Haiyun Focus GX-1000 White ATX 3The 0 power supply is also a bit crowded. We have installed a Boneng RTX 4090 here, with a length of 325mm, which can be used for your reference. If you want to install 280 water cooling on the top, either the power supply is controlled within 140mm, or the graphics card is controlled within 280mm.
In fact, there is a fixed gear in the middle of the power bracket, if the mains input interface of the power supply is relatively close to the fan surface, you can avoid the radiator and hang it in the middle gear, which will further reduce the conflict with the graphics card, but unfortunately the power supply in our hands does not have such a design.
If your motherboard's main PCIe slot is in the first slot, the above data will have to be subtracted by 20mm, and the ATX power supply may only be 122mm of Xianma's XM series power supply, which can achieve 280 water cooling and graphics card rollover.
SFX power supply can also avoid this trouble, such as the Xingu Kunlun KL-M750G iceberg version we use, at this time even the water pipe can be facing to the right, but the SFX power supply comes with a module line is generally relatively short, whether it is installed in that position, the length of the back line is not enough, and it may be indispensable to add some money to purchase additional custom cables.
The height limit of the air-cooled radiator is 164-172mm, depending on whether the radiator brackets on the side are installed or not.
The tail fan position supports120Radiator,Top、Bottom and front panel support240and280Radiator,One of the panels will definitely be occupied by the power supply,The remaining space can be installed a120mm or 140mm fan,For example, we installed three Yajun's new night fans on the front panel and bottom panel,Only twenty or thirty yuan a hand**You can experience the effect of the infinite mirror,It's quite cost-effective。
The side bracket can also be installed with a 240 or 280 radiator, which will occupy a part of the motherboard or graphics card height limit, but it can liberate the direct conflict between the power supply and the top plate, so that the power supply is hung at the highest position, but if you want to use this area for heat dissipation, you need to replace the glass side plate with a hole side plate, because this side plate does not see that the Cooler Master is sold separately, you can only change the position of the two boards, at this time it will be a test of cable management, and it will be seen at a glance.
When not considering the interference of other accessories, the graphics card supports up to 365mm, and the front installation fan will squeeze this part of the space, and if it is interfered by the right power supply, it will be limited to 280mm.
Height is basically no problem, unless the side radiator is hung low, which will affect the height of the graphics card, but the water pipe will have a greater impact.
Kufang500Comes with a simple graphics card vertical conversion baffle,Only one PCIe extension cable is needed to install the graphics card vertically,But it will sacrifice the fan position of the bottom plate,And this does not improve the compatibility of the graphics card and the power supply,Unless it is for appearance considerations,Otherwise, it is not recommended to install vertically。
By the way, the original PCIe bezel only gave five pieces, and Cooler predicted that you would definitely install the graphics card, so I didn't give those two.
The hard drive bay is more embarrassing, 3There are four 5-inch bays, one each for the top, bottom plate and side brackets, which will occupy the fan position, and the position on the back of the motherboard bracket and two 25-inch bays are shared, while 2There are three 5-inch pallets.
Viewers who have installed the Cooler Master chassis should be familiar with this hard drive fixing method, you need to screw the black screws on the hard disk first, and then insert it into the rubber pad, which is a non-fixed connection, 2The 5-inch SSD is not a big problem to install in this way and is acceptable, while the 3 is installed on the top plate in this wayThe 5-inch disk is relatively easy to fall off, the bottom plate is slightly better, it's okay if it's not upset, the side plate hard disk bracket can be fixed by screws, but it's a bit ugly, the best installation location is the back of the motherboard tray, the ordinary thickness of the hard disk will be pressed by the side plate when installed here, not easy to fall off, of course, the thin disk is not easy to say, the best solution is to buy such a long coarse screw and screw it on.
Kufang500In addition to designing these fixed positions for conventional accessories,It also designed two water pump holes,One of which will generally be covered by the power supply,Considering that this chassis has so many cold rows,It also has a large space to play when it is used to install split water,It's still quite intimate。
It's also interesting to note that the holes on each panel of the Cool Fang 500 look like hole-in-the-hole panels that can be used for additional uses, with two hooks and a rubber trunking.
The macaron version additionally provides a carrying handle that can be mounted on both sides, which will be easier to carry, but in the case of formal installation, it will be a bit of a front I O port.
In fact, Cooler also updated their Q300L model at the same time, called Q300L V2, the internal structure is the same as Q300L, but the front I O interface like the cool Fang 500 has been updated, and the surface has also been replaced with a similar hole plate, which should also be compatible with these small accessories.
Kufang 500 has achieved high playability in a not particularly large volume, but some solutions may not be so perfect, it depends on the accessories and actual trade-offs used by each person's own installation, at least Cooler gives you room to choose.
There is indeed a big difference between the 600 or so ** compared with Q500L, it is no longer a product with the same positioning, it is a high-end updated version of Q500L, but it is still very different from Q300L, so it is not a combined high-configuration version of Q300L + Q500L. Considering that the case is packaged in loose pieces and needs to be assembled by yourself, this case may be more suitable for PC DIY players who like to disassemble and toss or split water cooling. It can only be said that Cooler Master thinks very coolly, and they are also practicing their "make it yours" concept and dare to innovate, but whether this product is suitable for novice players, I'm afraid the market has to answer for it.