Cooler MasterN200 - Mini Tower Computer Case with Fully Meshed Front Panel and mATX/Mini-ITX Support

The Cooler Master N200 is easily one of the best micro-ATX cases I’ve worked with, especially for the price.✅ Incredible airflow thanks to the fully meshed front panel✅ Compact but very easy to build in✅ Room for fans, radiators, SSDs, and even a 240mm AIO✅ Clean, minimal design with solid constructionIt’s a great choice for budget builds, home servers, or general-purpose PCs. Cooler Master did an amazing job overall.However, there is one issue I ran into:The motherboard standoffs. When you install your motherboard, things seem fine — but when you try to remove it later, the screws can get so tightly stuck in the standoffs that the whole standoff unscrews from the case with the screw still attached. Once that happens, getting the screw out of the standoff is nearly impossible. I tried everything, but they were just locked together. And unfortunately, the standoff doesn’t go back in securely either.It’s a small issue, but definitely frustrating if you do upgrades or maintenance often.That said, I still really love this case. If Cooler Master fixes the standoff issue in a future revision, it’ll be near perfect. Just handle the motherboard screws gently and be prepared in case you need pliers. Otherwise — this is a fantastic case with unbeatable value.

At the price point, if you need an optical bay (or 3.5" for that matter) this is an unbeatable value. This was fairly easy to build in, but better than anticipated at the price point. I transplanted one of our machines to this case so I could include an optical player/burner to work with archives and old CD and DVD-Rs that are aging.I suggest the following steps:1. find the screw holes in your motherboard and match and install offsets to them.2. install everything you can to the motherboard outside the case, and carefully prepare your I/O cables in advance to avoid pain and suffering working in the limited space.3. look at what cables will be hard to put in place and make sure those are either in or go in as you install the motherboard.4. cable mange as you go-- but don't get too greedy on hiding everything -- its a good case but not 'luxe with extra panels and hidden areas.5. Put in any non motherboard based storage at the very last, and put your optical drive (if you are using one) in as the last or second-to-last item. I also took out the drive cage and put it in after the optical drive, and this worked very well.This case is sturdy and not flashy, but that's exactly what we had in mind, and it delivered.

This is a great computer case for a budget build. It is a well constructed steel chassis that is great for a mATX motherboard build. I liked the front ports and the ability to add a DVD/Bluray drive. I had no issues adding my components to the case either.There is one issue to consider though, and the reason why I dropped this down to 4 stars. The fan on the front has a bit more RPM than most fans I've worked with and for some reason it sounds very noisy and annoying with how it lays against the front grill. When taking it out, the noise was almost a non-issue, but when it was inside against the case, it was an issue. My theory is that the airflow going through the grill created the sound problem.I had a solution to fixing this issue. I took two steps: the first was to replace the fan with a better fan that didn't spin as fast. This fan still created the sound, but it was less noticeable. The second and more important change was that I went to a hardware store and bought a few small rubber washers that I added as padding between the fan and the case, which allowed the fan to sit back maybe a quarter inch or so which helped prevent the airflow from creating the noise against the fan. Now it's a 5 star case!

I have built a number of computers utilizing this case and it is one of my all-time favorites.The GoodSupports more 3.5” hard drives than anyone should ever need in the modern era of SSDs and M-2s. If you don’t need it the hard drive cage at the bottom of the case can be removed.Supports multiple SSDs, but the one at the top of the case is usually the only one I need. The ease of removing and installing that one is appreciated.The case comes with a bottom mounted power supply with a removable dust filter.The location of the hard drive cage and the other drive mounts leaves lots of room in the middle of the case to install large video cards.Never have had any issues using air cooling with this case, but it will also support 240mm liquid cooling solutions if you are a gamer.For those who want a neat build there is some room for cable management between the side panel and the internals.I never feel cramped for space when building with this case.Other StuffI would rather have two USB 3 connections on the front panel. But for me, not a deal breaker, since I can always add a couple of USB 3 connections with a 3.5” adapter on the front panel and a USB 3 card on the motherboard.I like this case best without an optical drive since it looks better without breaking the flow of the front panel. That is becoming less of a problem these days since CD’s & DVD’s have gone the way of the cassette in this era of streaming everything.If you move your case around a lot you may end up scratching the front panel plastic. If you don’t move it around it shouldn’t be a problem.Although the current price seems a little high, I still highly recommend this case for anyone building an mATX based computer that will include multiple drives and a high-end graphics card.