CoolerMaster MasterBox 5 Ultra White Edition Chassis Review
Peter Donnell / 8 years ago
A Closer Look – Interior
With the side panel removed, you can see that we have a lot of room to play around with in here. There are no 5.25″ drive bays on this chassis, which means more room to play around with for fans and/or radiators in the front and just about everything else in there can be moved around to suit your needs.
There’s a simple half-length PSU shroud in the base. It’s only made from plastic, nothing too crazy, but when it comes to achieving a clean-looking build, it’s going to make a huge difference. There’s a small cut-out on it too, which should come in handy for routing motherboard cables.
All 7 expansion slots come with ventilated and reusable metal covers, and there’s a peripheral guard on the bottom one, which is handy for keeping your keyboard and mouse locked into your chassis.
In the top, you’ll find the 120mm fan, although there’s room to remove it and install a good quality 120mm AIO cooler should you need to.
In the front, you’ll find a 2.5″ drive mount, although there are a few locations here you can mount it and that’ll come in handy if you’re trying to fit a larger radiator into your build.
There are two 3.5″ drive trays at the bottom too, and you’ll notice two small holes to the left of the top corner of it, these allow you to unclick the drive bay, and move it to any one of the three available positions; handy for making room for a full-height radiator in the front panel.
The bays are tool-free for 3.5″ drives, although screws are included to help you mount 2.5″ drives here also.
Around the back, you’ll find a generous amount of cable routing space, but with that cavity at the bottom and the PSU shroud, finding room for excess cables really shouldn’t be a problem.
Cable management is helped further by lots of small cable routing cut-outs dotted around the mounting tray, but also a very extensive amount of cable tie loops, as well as a bundle of cable ties in the box, so strapping wires down should be an easy task here.
There are two anti-vibration rubber mounts for the PSU and plenty of ventilation for it too, so it should stay nice and cool.
