Cooler Master reveals Cosmos II case at CES

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Cooler Master at CES are Cosmos II case demonstrated. The colossal housing is a bigtower with more than enough space for an eatx motherboard and video cards in sli or crossfire setup.

The Cosmos II is a whopping 704 millimetres high and 664 millimeters deep. Also the width may, with 344 millimetres. The empty weight is 22 kilograms, but with all the new hardware that fits, that will still mount up. In addition to the eatx or xlatx motherboard in the casing, there may also be another three optical drives, thirteen hard drives or eleven 2,5″-drives. Six of these are in a separate compartment in the power supply in two removable drivecages be built, the other will be in drivecages above to be found.

The solid side panels with a latch held in place and clapping their hands to the front open on a hinge. In the left panel is a dust filter and space for fans, just like in the front, top and back. The large space not only makes installation much hardware as possible, but also simple. Cable management must be thanks to the large space between motherboard and side panel is also neatly realisren, it was noticed that the rubbers for cable holes to seal very tightly in the holes. Often it happens that during the passage of a cable release.

The finish of the enclosure, which in principle is constructed out of steel, consists of aluminum, more steel, plastic, and air vents. Behind a slide at the top of the frontpanel-connectors are concealed; there are also fancontrollers for cpu, gpu and the system. With a also there placed button can also the lighting has to be switched. The Cosmos II offers a lot of features and space and the price tag is there: in the Netherlands, the suggested retail price of 350 euros.

Next to the Cosmos II showed Cooler Master new HAF enclosure, the XM. This keeps the size of the middle between the 932 and 922, but is well suited for large eatx motherboards. The enclosure has three drive bays for optical drives and eight 3.5-inch drives, two of which hotswapbays. The cooling has, depending on the configuration, up to eight cooling fans: Cooler Master delivers three. A 200mm fan in the front and top and a 140mm-exhaust in the back. The HAF XM should be $ 140 cost.