COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Computer Case

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In common this case is uncomplicated to operate with and sturdy. The screw-much less PCI clips really feel flimsy and breakable. Following two years and a handful of graphics card swaps, the clip for the express x16 slot is hanging by a thread. This doesn't influence operation (yet) but feels type of shoddy.

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Good, sturdy case! Lots of room inside for any and every single component I threw in my program, came with all the screws and every thing needed. Toolless mounting for HDD and optical is fantastic! Didn't perform so properly for the graphics card, but that's what I get for get a massive graphics card. Power button feels kinda flimsy. LED lights are really bright, so if you program on leaving this on in your bedroom or Tv area, unhook the LED energy or get some electric tape. Good starter case, initial computer system build and it looks fantastic.

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This Cooler Master Case has a incredibly quiet sound, and the space inside has a very good amount of space for expansion. It comes with numerous adjustment screws and points of the sort for distinct size motherboards. Easy to install, and the USB and headphone/mic ports on the front operate extremely properly. The energy and reset buttons are quite good as nicely. There is a number of air ducts about the case: The whole front of the case has room for air to flow, because of the many small holes. Also, there is a tiny fan near the bottom of the front side. On the side, there is a a duct with a hose kind issue top straight to the processor on the motherboard, for additional cooling. Just under that is an additional vent. On the back it has a quite good, quiet fan maintaining almost everything cool. Incredibly great case. The wires/cords on the inside are not labeled incredibly properly, and it often hard to location them in the appropriate spot on the motherboard. It took a couple of hours to get it to work right.The only other difficulty with it is the tiny fan at the bottom of the front is correct where the difficult drive goes. That is a very good factor, but not when it likes to rub and push against the really hard drive, maintaining away from snapping into spot on the braces. Nothing else genuinely.

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Pleasantly shocked with this case, and for the cost, it was a excellent acquire for a low budget create. none

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Excellent airflow, can tuck cables behind mobo, a lot of room for two video cards and a number of hdd's bit bland on the front, but you can spice things up with some glowy fans

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This is such a fantastic case. I'm ultimately retiring it soon after buying mine in 2006. It's been a fantastic 5 years in this case, but following adding my 8TB Raid5, I was forced to upgrade to anything bigger. But only just barely.This case is light, with no becoming flimsy. The screw-much less adapters work nicely, with satisfying clicks and a tight grip on your 3.five" and five.25" drives so you know nothing at all's moving about on you.The air flow is wonderful. The mesh front affords excellent cool air intake and keeps the dust out.I was able to match 3x challenging drives, a card reader, 3x DVD±RWs, and 2x hot-swap three.five" drive bays in this sucker, with a 2x Nvidia GTX-260 SLI setup. Considering all the hardware I was cramming inside a mid-ATX case, I was putting demand on space, and I was able to discover it with no a ton of wiggling. Right after about three years, a single plastic piece got brittle and broke on me. This was the tiny plastic tab that aids hold the mesh in location behind the front cover. I've usually been paranoid about pushing as well tough on plastic Computer pieces (thanks, side-facing SATA connectors on motherboards) so I was bring careful, and it nonetheless snapped. It was just brittle.Now, it produced no distinction, due to the fact the mesh stayed in spot devoid of that piece -anyway- but I truly was sad for about 30 seconds ahead of I realized how superfluous that piece really was. It didn't show, the functionality was questionable, and so I just chucked it. That was two years ago. The mesh has stayed in place over the 80mm intake without any hitches. This review is my salute to a amazing case that went the added mile to LAN parties and several upgrades from AMD AM2 to Q6600 to Core i7, through numerous SLI and Crossfire configurations, and still looks wonderful.I seldom say I'm particularly attached a piece of hardware, but I'm actually hoping a buddy of mine requirements a case. I've had situations from a selection of suppliers ahead of, and generally when I swap away from these other situations, I'm pleased to have been rid of my complaints. But this case, I had no genuine gripe with. I was sad to see it go, and had to spend more than twice the dollar worth to get some thing equivalent.

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Fantastic strong case, fans preserve it cool, uncomplicated access The tool-less latches for the expansion cards didn't wrap about my grapics card, and i had to screw in the card with an extra mount from the motherboard. I also wish the mobo mount holes were far better labeled, but it's straightforward enough to ascertain which ones are required for your motherboard. The location for the motherboard was a bit bigger than it necessary to be, also.

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>Roomy (for the most portion...)>Plenty of drive bays>Room for far more fans>Reset button on the front of the case, very handy>nice straightforward side panel removal (if you like tweaking stuff inside generally, this is excellent for you)>thumb screws work effectively>CRAZY-bright LED energy/HDD light!>effective CPU fan funnel + GPU air vent>Sleek aluminum look>No-tools drive installation works properly, I was kind of skeptical at very first, but they did it. If you adhere to the directions and make sure they're appropriate, there will be no loose drive issues (not from the case's finish anyway) >It has a flimsy power button. (it usually feels loose, but hasn't broken but [it probably won't break] )>front panel has alot of trouble coming on and off with a CD-ROM drive in it>Front 3.5mmәǞ" Audio jacks are quite tight; if headphone cables get stepped on whilst they are plugged in and they can't fall to the floor... the wires WILL snap. Be careful. I only wish:>it was even much more aesthetically pleasing to the eye>it had a transparent side to peer into the pc's inner workings...Current program:-COOLER MASTER Centurion five Black Aluminum Bezel , SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Laptop Case -GIGABYTE AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard -EVGA 512MB GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB 256-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2. x16 (takes up a 3.5" slot O_O)-Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s three.five" Internal Difficult Drive-AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor three.0GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Processor-Patriot Viper 4GB ƒ x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory-RAIDMAX HYBRID 2 630W ATX12V V2.2/ EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Prepared Modular Modular LED Power Provide-Microsoft Windows 7 Property Premium 64-bitEverthing is Nvidia SLI(tm) prepared... except the motherboard.

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"Toolless" case. Comes with two thumbscrews for the major side pannel. (regular screws on the other).There ARE screw holes to bolt drives into spot if you don't trust the slide-lock mechanisms. (In the case's bag-o-screws there are slightly longer fine threaded screws that will attain through the slide and into a drive.)Case appears sturdy.Big fan in the rear is quieter than I expected. I'm kinda iffy on the add on card locking clips, but you can nonetheless screw them down if wanted. The locking mechanism for the drives holds remarkably well. I was incredibly surprised. In my previous experiences, issues would nonetheless slide and wiggle, making noise when factors spun up... not right here. It appears like theres small metal bits that lock into the typical screw holes in the drive. I had no difficulties lining them up, but I wouldn't guidance just ramming it house with out looking. Yes they're in the appropriate positions for CD-ROMs to be flush, and challenging drives to be all the way back.Also, the bay covers are not strong, they're metal mesh. All empty bays turn into additional vents.

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Top quality when manufacturing as generally with Cooler Master, a few minor cons I will go over shortly. The case I received had a handful of minor permanent scratches into the aluminum siding/Centurion logo, not impressed with that at all.The power button is slightly off centered, also not impressed with that.Not sure what happened here, normally my Cooler Master items arrive in best condition.

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Cooling isn't poor, stuff fits well, and it was largely intact when I got it. Stuff breaks easily, like the small plastic points to hold the expansion cards in and the tough drive bay sliders, the energy button was not fully set into it's hole, it only comes with two fans, and it's fairly ugly. Going to replace this case with an Antec 3 Hundred Illusion quickly.

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I purchased this case in April of 2006. That makes it just over four years old as I write this. Confident sufficient, the same case is nonetheless obtainable here at new egg. That ought to say some thing. With a clean cloth and a little 409 or, and perhaps a soft brush for the screen, I could probably make it look as new. It's had 2 motherboards and two energy supplies. One particular of the plastic tool absolutely free card-lock factors that lock your add-on cards into place along the back side of the case broke, so I can't seriously lock that card into position. It occurs to be more than my 1st PCI two. x 16 slot, so I have to be cautious when plugging in displays.The front-panel wiring for audio on mine incorporates a couple of connector blocks for audio connections my boards don't assistance. Possibly it comes with diverse ones now, as that's some thing thats likely to transform more than time. The model I got 4 years ago had a plastic cylinder/tube that attaches to the side of the case to direct air right to the top rated of the cpu. If you have a substantial CPU cooler, you'll have to get rid of that. It's no large deal, you'll never know it was there.

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Solid building, well vented and quiet fans incorporated. Clips for PCI card suck but just use screws. Manual sucks so you much better have built a case just before. Screwless mounting for 3.5" HDDs could have been ligned up much better. Front cover wwas a bigger hassle than was necessary hassle to get back on soon after installing my 2 DVD drives and it just pulls off?

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- sturdy case, practically tool-less, looks excellent if you don't want flashy docked two eggs for the following motives:manual/website/customer help have been poor-I looked at all the testimonials here and noone, nor the manual, talked about the the front panel wires.... all of them have been labled correctly except for the green and white (one said ground +, and the other stated ground - ). It took me 3 days to figure out on my personal that (wasn't in the manual or on the webpage) that those wires led to the HDD LED light. They're not the HDD energy wires, just the LED light to show that the comp is reading/writing.Lastly, like a different consumer talked about the front power switch is flimsey. Now that I've figured out this case I would use it again if I were to make for household member. (for me though, I'll stick to my Antec 900).

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Sleek looking, sturdy and uncomplicated to clean. Permits for great air transfer. Not absolutely free.

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This case was was simply excellent. I had no problems with cable routing or mounting of components (except for a modest burr from removing the face blank on a 2.five bay but it was effortless to remediate) the Fans in the case are quite and airflow was good. I utilized this to build a workstation for a client and it has the proper appear to fit in to a company office. For the Cost it was great! None. I'll be working with this for future custom builds when I will need a case that performs effectively but can't appear like a "gamer" box.

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none that i have located. the plastic of this case is incredibly really poor, the mobo mounting screws were all stripped on arrival the power switch mechanism was broken many points are really poor and cheaply developed on this case. I discover it sad this case even caries the cooler Master logo at all. I discover myself constantly seeking at the case and questioning what subsequent will break on it. Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued Customer,We apologize for any inconvenience. If there is something broken or missing, we will replace it under warranty the case has. You can request said parts under warranty by way of the Component Request hyperlink below. Ought to you require to get in touch with us for help, you can do via the Reside Chat link under.Respectfully,CMUSA Customer Assistance.External Link(s): Reside Chat| Component Request|

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Wonderful case for the cash. I've purchased a number of of these instances over the past two years. None at the price tag point.

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Quite sturdy and flexible design None I've owned my case for over five years and it still serves me nicely. I had to upgrade the PSU two years ago, but that wasn't the fault of Coolermaster. I'm glad they're nonetheless supplying this case. I plan on acquiring one more a single.

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- Wonderful Cost- Enough Area for an high priced VGA card- tooless style- CM good quality - somehow the design and style is too uncomplicated If you assume about mid-stream gaming personal computer, I recommand this fantastic case.