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To put this case through its cooling paces we will be using a test system consisting of an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, reference GTX 980 and an SSD. This system allows us to produce a substantial amount of heat and effectively test the Cooler Master MasterCase H500M‘s cooling capabilities.
For stress testing we use AIDA64 to create the maximum amount of load our CPU and GPU are ever likely to see.
Test System:
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi
CPU cooler: AMD Wraith Prism (by Cooler Master)
Memory: 16GB Patriot Viper RGB DDR4-3600MHz
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 980 4GB
Power supply: Seasonic Prime Titanium 600W Fanless
Storage drive: Samsung 960 EVO M.2 SSD
OS: Windows 10
Cooling Performance
Cooling Performance Overview
We tested the H500M using a Cooler Master Wraith Prism air cooler in order that we could pack in even more RGB, with the consequence that CPU temperatures are higher than we would expect to see with a typical 240mm AIO cooler. It is also worth noting that we are using three GTX 1080/1080 Ti graphics cards in the monster Corsair 1000D build so for this review we grabbed a GTX 980 off the shelf.
The upshot is that our test results from the H500M do not directly read across to our other case reviews however the numbers looks perfectly OK. The H500M flows a decent amount of air and has no obvious restrictions or problems and the pair of 200mm fans can breath without difficulty.
Acoustics Performance
We tested the H500M with the default open mesh front panel and it was reasonably quiet. The fans run low and slow so despite the absence of any noise deadening material we were perfectly happy with the result. Balanced against we are clear that if you choose to ramp up fan speeds and to employ a noisy graphics card the result will likely be a noisy PC.
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