Cooler Master N200 Mini-Tower Case Review

Henry Butt June 6, 2013 Cases, Featured Announcement

For our tests we will be using a Corsair H60 (2013 Edition) to cool the Intel Core i7 3770K CPU in the Cooler Master N200. Our test system also features an AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics card. We overclocked the system to 4.7 GHZ for our tests using a voltage of 1.30V.

Test System:

Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K.
Motherboard: ASRock Z77E-ITX.
Cooler: Corsair H60 (2013 Edition).
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-2.
Memory: 4GB (2x 2GB) Mushkin Blackline 1600 MHz
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7950.
Power Supply: Seasonic Platinum 1000W
System Drive: Corsair Force GT 120 GB
Monitor: Viewsonic VX2260WM.

Software:

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit).
CPUID Hardware Monitor.
Prime95 64-bit.
Furmark V1.10.6

To test the thermal performance of the Cooler Master N200 we loaded our test system for 15 minutes using Prime95 and Furmark and recorded the maximum temperatures reached using CPUID Hardware Monitor. We then restarted the system and left it for 15 minutes before recording idle temperatures.

Room temperature was maintained at 18 degrees C for the duration of our tests.

These temperatures reflect what we would expect from the system as configured.

To conduct our noise level tests, we replaced the graphics card in our system with a AMD Radeon HD 5550 Silence which was passively cooled. We also momentarily disconnected the fans on the CPU cooler so we were only taking into account the noise generated by the fans in the case.

The N200 is a little noisy but not deafeningly so. We would certainly recommend swapping out the included fans if you have room in your budget.

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7 comments

Denna
June 6, 2013 at 9:54 am

Well it has flaws, but for the money its hard to knock. good job – they make good cases. I hate my thermaltake case its falling apart – they use such thin metals on their products. and they need to use better fans too
Yhanas
June 6, 2013 at 9:55 am

I like this, nice price for a budget build. they have tried to cram in as much as possible considering.
Hank
June 6, 2013 at 9:55 am

The side panel is weird looking – im not sure if I like it or not yet.
Street Fighter
June 6, 2013 at 9:58 am

They not sell a windowed panel verson?
syrius
June 7, 2013 at 8:40 am

I got my N200 yesterday in Hungary.
There is a tool to place the motherboard holders in the package!
The side panel maybe looks weird, i considered to wait till the windowed version arive, but i just bought the normal version and i can tell you its not even close as it looks like in the photos!!!

And one more thing. The front mesh is metal, not plastic, the assymetric stripe is plastic, but good one.
hooner
July 2, 2013 at 11:47 am

Great review…thanks!

I have a quick question…is front or rear radiator cooling best? I am presuming the front fans are intakes, rear and top are out.

My thinking is rear takes heat straight out the back from CPU, where as front means air is drawn in, cooled and then blow back through case. Surely venting the heat straight away is better?

I am thinking of the Coolermaster Seidion 120 and 240 models.

Cheers