Cooler Master Cosmos SE Mid-Tower Chassis Review

Complete System

Now that we have all our test components in place we can see the Cosmos SE in all its glory and doesn’t it look fantastic in there! While we could have stripped it out and fitted the H100i in the top of the chassis, I thought it would be great to install the shiny TPC-800 Cooler Master CPU cooler, mostly because it’s quite a tall cooler also, but it proved no issue for the wide boy that is the Cosmos SE.

Total build time was 20 minutes, which is very quick indeed. There were no conflicts, no issues with cable routing and certainly no issues with compatibility and all our test components were installed with relative ease.

Airflow is super clear toward the back of the chassis and the top and rear exhaust fans will do a great job of pulling heat from the chassis. There is also more than enough room for a few extra graphics cards and this would be a great case for an SLI / Crossfire setup.

Here we see that there is more than enough room for extra storage, room for an extra 17 drives on top of our single SSD! The GPU is quite close to the HDD bays, but that’s not really an issue and airflow will still be fine given the dual 120mm fans in the front. Of course you could always install extra fans on the left side of the HDD bay, remove the bay all together for extra space, opt for a water cooling system or order the mesh side panel, not the window panel and get extra airflow from there.

One thing I really like about this case is that each of the HDD bays can mount either 2.5″ or 3.5″ drives, but can also support an extra 2.5″ drive on their underside, clever space-saving system and one of the tricks Cooler Master have used to cram 18 hard drive bays into this beast.

The extra cable routing around the motherboard is working great too and should you install a full complement of fans, radiators, fan controllers or other devices in the system, you shouldn’t have any issues keeping the cables neat and tidy.

All that cable management pays off soon enough too, with the side panel in place we get a great view of the chassis components and interior that you just wouldn’t want to spoil with scruffy cable management.

Dim the lights, fire the system up and we are treated to an electric blue LED show on the power and reset buttons on the top panel, while the fans light up in a gorgeous blue behind the mesh, the fan lights can be turned off from the light switch on the top panel.