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)

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.

The NR200P Max is an outstanding design and a great successor to the NR200P. The back panel of the chassis has been completely redesigned and the case is entirely intended to be used with the included 280mm AIO Liquid Cooler and a vertically mounted GPU. Let me start by saying that it is nice to have an all inclusive purchase option from a reputable company like Cooler Master. They include a solid 280mm AIO (with fan grilles) and an 850W SFX power supply with custom length cabling. They also included a short PCIe 4.0 riser cable. Skipping the parts research step for an ITX build and some of the assembly is really nice for a lot of buyers. All you have to do is pick your CPU, board, RAM, storage, and GPU. Heres where it goes wrong. The current price is a full $130 higher than MSRP at launch. $459 seems to be the going rate right now on almost every store that sells this build kit. Even at retail prices for each item included, this is a poor value. To make matters worse, the case currently only comes in gray, and my example came straight out of the box with the paint worn off along the top front edge of the plastic top panel. The side panels are all metal and seem to be durably painted or powdercoated. I have no doubt Cooler Master will eventually sell this setup in other colors, and hopefully back the price down, as PC components are steadily decreasing in cost at the time of this review. The measurements of the side and front panels are the same as the NR200/NR200P, which gave me an idea. I bought a black base model NR200 and swapped out all of the black exterior parts onto my gray NR200P MAX. I reassembled the gray parts onto the base model NR200 chassis and threw that case up for sale, second hand. With the $459 price tag, I couldnt stick with the gray and be satisfied. The case itself is excellent. The near tool-less design is outstanding, and this case is easy to work inside compared to many other small form factor designs from their competitors. Cooler Master has a solid win here, QC and pricing notwithstanding. Having dabbled a little in SFF builds in the past several years, I want to express the lack of real benefit to most buyers for this style case, beyond operating temperatures. Most people would still be better off with a compact ATX or MATX case, either of which can certainly be built for less money. Tower style SFF cases, such as the NZXT H1 make a lot more sense for small form factor, if desk space savings is your aim. The footprint of the CM NR200 series still takes up a fair amount of room comparitively. Still, as mentioned, the thermals will be noticeably better here than with other designs. The NR200 would also make a great HTPC if you can manage its size, namely the height. Lets also talk about what this case is not. It is not an ultra-portable gaming machine. The included AIO and rock-solid chassis construction make this a little on the heavy side. This case is just too big to be ultra-portable. It probably isnt going in a backpack. Still, if moving a PC around is something you have to do, its still a much better option than any mATX or ATX case, especially if you ditch the included glass side panel. You can save some weight by shopping smart on your GPU (plastic shrouds win here), as well as going M.2 NVMe for storage. If you want a lighter build, you might also opt for the original NR200 paired with an air cooler. If youre looking for a portable gamer, look at the KXRORS S300 case, or anything from Velkase, if you dont mind paying a little more money. This system supposedly only supports 2.5 drives. At least thats what the listing led me to believe. However, upon unpacking my NR200 cases, I noticed some holes in the bottom panel that seemed very familiar. It turns out you can install a 3.5 hard drive on the bottom panel using the included grommets and studs. Youll lose a fan space by doing this, but it should be fine if youre not using the tempered glass side panel. As for M.2 vs SATA, I dont even see a reason to buy 2.5 drives because M.2 NVMe SSDs are currently so close in price. You will greatly eliminate unnecessary wiring by going with M.2 NVMe for storage. The included glass panel is worthless for a lot of builds, outside of low to mid-power setups where the CPU/GPU combo arent making a lot of heat anyway. Higher-end setups are going to turn the glass panel case setup into a toaster. Most folks opt to stay with the mesh side panel. If youre using RGB, take your time with the wiring, so you can avoid obstructing your fans. Remember that the vertically-mounted GPU obscures most of the fans and AIO pump from view. I considered using an LED strip to provide some RGB, beyond just the RAM and GPU accents, but the case interior leaves no real room for a strip, especially since all of the panels are snapped together to the chassis. In short, you might decide to save the coin and buy non-RGB components. Additionally youll need to use some thinner case fans on the bottom. If you dont already have fans to use, you might go to something low profile to avoid contact between the GPU riser cable and the fan housing. If vertical GPU orientation and liquid cooling arent important, or if you want a lightweight ITX build, stick with the base model NR200 and provide your own 850W SFX PSU. Youll certainly come out cheaper. If you want the NR200 with a relatively easy build experience and an AIO, this might be good option for you. In conclusion, Cooler Master has an outstanding formula here. They just need to come back down to Earth and give their customers what they want, at a more reasonable price, while making sure it goes out the door in new condition. This case has all of the other ingredients to be a 5-star Hall of Fame ITX case.

I purchased this case and coolermaster psu + Corsair water cooler. I wish I purchased the nr200 max. I failed to notice that this case doesn’t allow top mounting of the radiator. But I don’t want to return everything. I lay the pc on its side to have the radiator above the pump. And getting custom length cables from pslate customs. I’m sure I could have avoided this by getting the Nr200 max. Edit: ended up returning this and got the nr200 max. Couldn’t be happier. Only down side is that the pump is making a small noises unlike the Corsair aio

Super cool little case, had a lot of fun building in it and the thermals are pretty solid but I run the mesh panel instead of the glass. I managed to fit a 4090 in it so it’s definitely got potential for whatever you wanna throw in it

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 picked this case up on Amazon Prime day for $33 after a huge discount down to something around $77, and with a $50 amazon gift card. I have very little to say about this case, but all of it is positive 1.) I was expecting cable management to be much more difficult than it was. If you have zip ties, it should be a breeze, but time consuming 2.) Build quality is fantastic. the entire case is so solid that I feel like I could slam it against my desk only to break the desk before I dent the case. The front panel is also very very thick, moreso than any other part of the case. The entire thing with the exception of some trim seems to be made of aluminum. 3.) This thing will fit just about any hardware you could want in it. I recommend using a 2 slot graphics card if you want to fit intake fans at the bottom,as with a 3 slot card you need thin intake fans. and I also recommend not using more than 2 radiators for a custom loop system, and just using more fans. 4.) Cooling performance is fantastic. Temps are in the 40s for my 5600x using an NZXT 280mm AIO, and temps in the 70s for my 3 slot 980ti.

I chose this case for my new mini-ITX build. I didnt want to skimp on performance and jammed an NVIDIA 3080ti, 12700F CPU, and 32GB DDR5 ram into this thing. I am using an AIO cooler to cool the CPU and installed two extra fans on the top to vent the hot air. Temps are the same as one would expect in a larger case, which is excellent. The components are packed in pretty tight, with the 3080ti barely fitting with maybe an inch to spare, and that extra inch is where I routed the PCIe power cables. There is a cutout hole in the front for this cable routing, so a longer GPU may be able to fit. The only problem I have with this case is that it doesnt have a disk activity LED.

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%)

First off, its a really good quality small and beautiful case! So happy with the design and size and like 4-5 vents. I liked that i can carry it without strain. (Im 52 and no muscle) Second off, I didnt build it or get the parts so Im not familiar. My cousin did 99% of the work with whats inside ... (I just gave him my cc and cash). He managed to fit a MATX (231*185mm) into it and around 3 or 4 fans? (the fan(s) that the case came with and 2 of the brown fans that everyone uses) I was told he barely, very carefully fitted the graphics card into it. He had to sell the original power supply he got cause it was too big, and got a new, smaller one. I was told since the case is so small and it wasnt suppose to be for matx, the wiring is a mess. It really helped that the case can be taken apart from many sides. I really wanted a sff case but the parts that my cousin gotten for me were for a mid matx case. He managed to fit everything and the fans (except the big power supply). Im sure if youre familiar with building computers and know what parts fits and didnt have someone with so many demands but not familiar with computers, itll come out great. XD He stressed test my computer and said what I want to do is fine, it wont get too hot. (Ill be using it for heavy photoshop/art media/photo editing/light gaming/web browsing/ watching videos) Im very satisfied with my new computer case ^^. Im also very happy that I got it during pre-order! I wouldnt know when Id get it if I didnt.

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.