Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH

***craig5320*** · Jan 3, 2012, 12:04 AM

Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review

Today Cooler Master return to the Cosmos family with the launch of the Cosmos 2. This ultra tower chassis features aspects which remind us of the original Cosmos from 2007 but Cooler Master have brought it right up to date with more advanced features and an evolved design. We have one on our test bench so let's see what the case has to offer.

mkk · Jan 3, 2012, 12:16 AM

A special case, no doubt. I couldn't see myself building anything else than a server in one though. I wonder if the drive sleds are any good.

OmegaRED · Jan 3, 2012, 05:22 AM

A Canadian review says this case is $350 USD and another says same price in Europe which if true should guarantee a "0" for Value. At that price I would expect far less plastic parts and the cable management to be absolutely neat and tidy but right out of the box it is a total mess. It should also have better airflow than anything else over $200 but I'm skeptical of that with such small fans.

I like a lot of what I saw, the removable drive cage is cool not to mention having 6 drives down by the PSU is great and there is lots of room for cable management and airflow but the price is killing me. It would easily be $400 after shipping that's twice what I paid for this monster FT02 so it would have to be better in every respect for me to upgrade.

***Veridian3*** · Jan 3, 2012, 12:10 PM

Shall let you know as soon as a price drops into my inbox.

zerodamage · Jan 5, 2012, 12:26 PM

I am considering this case as an upgrade to my current case. What my current case has is filters on the fan intakes to significantly reduce the amount of dust that I get in my case. I heard that this case has the same but I am unable to confirm.

Can you confirm this Mr. reviewer?

blibbax · Jan 5, 2012, 01:07 PM

You can retrofit such things if not :P

***Veridian3*** · Jan 5, 2012, 01:49 PM

Yes, the intakes are dust filtered.

zerodamage · Jan 5, 2012, 07:48 PM

Are the filters easily removed and cleaned/vacuumed etc? Just curious. Thanks!

jandarsun8 · Jan 9, 2012, 07:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zerodamage

Are the filters easily removed and cleaned/vacuumed etc? Just curious. Thanks!

If they are anything like the original Cosmos 1000 case, then yes, they are easily removed and cleaned. There are tracks that they just slide out and back in again. I've got the original and I love the thing. My only complaint is that I had to do some tinkering in order to get my SSD drive to fit in there ok but back in 07, the drives weren't anywhere near retail yet so I really can't bitch about it. It fits all my other drives in there just fine and everything runs smooth as silk.

Sic Puppy · Jan 15, 2012, 08:14 PM

Got a price for it in NZ now. NZ$669 (thats's US$529 or GBP346)! Bit pricey!

niceguyrichy · Jan 15, 2012, 08:15 PM

yeah, 350 is what we've been hearing here, not cheap..

OmegaRED · Jan 16, 2012, 01:39 PM

If I ever decide to turn my PC into a Media server with say 5-6 large capacity drives in some sort of RAID configuration I'd probably be interested in this case due to all the drive bays (my case only has 5 3.5HD bays+SSD attachment).

No lie, the shipping on this case is $70 from Newegg Canada which brings it up to about $475 after tax

I paid $200 shipping included for my second hand FT02 which makes me want to hold onto this one even longer (despite it being a cumbersome case).

blibbax · Jan 16, 2012, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sic Puppy

GBP346

I'm... er... not feeling very well...

OmegaRED · Feb 3, 2012, 01:01 PM

Fairly certain I will get this case in the coming months. I was planning on getting a 4 bay NAS after one of my HD's crapped out and I lost tons of movies but it's actually cheaper to get this behemoth and turn my PC into a NAS. That and I can't fit a 3 slot gpu cooler in my case without removing my sound card so the extra space will be appreciated. I'll buy it locally though these things are getting damaged in shipping big time you know it's a bad sign when most of the reviewers even got broken ones.

Takaharu · Feb 3, 2012, 02:47 PM

If you can't fit a 3-slot GPU cooler in your system without removing the soundcard what good is changing the case going to do?

blibbax · Feb 3, 2012, 03:54 PM

It means he can overflow the bottom of the board, putting multiple-slot cards in the bottom slot.

OmegaRED · Feb 3, 2012, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blibbax

It means he can overflow the bottom of the board, putting multiple-slot cards in the bottom slot.

Exactly!

**kris23** · Feb 3, 2012, 06:37 PM

the case retails for a hefty $349 at newegg...

was looking at it a few days ago.... rather impressive

Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER COSMOS II RC-1200-KKN1 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Judas · Feb 3, 2012, 06:47 PM

while i like some of the idea...

i wonder and think..... if only they made a version with the motherboard turned 90 degrees and fed all of the components out the top of the case as they have more than enough of a good design to do it.

and happy with the front ports.... but the other issue they still haven't addressed is that due to the sheer height of the case, unless your have the computer sitting on the floor (which i avoid at all costs)..... makes for usb ports pretty much out of reach in some cases or just awkward...

I think they could provide at least 2 usb ports near the bottom too...

OmegaRED · Feb 3, 2012, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kris23

the case retails for a hefty $349 at newegg...

was looking at it a few days ago.... rather impressive

Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER COSMOS II RC-1200-KKN1 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Only 9.99 shipping, when I checked last week it was free shipping. I'm tempted to say how great that is but if the are using cheap shipping no wonder many of them are getting smashed up.

Judas · Feb 3, 2012, 09:37 PM

really people receiving smashed up cases recently?

OmegaRED · Feb 4, 2012, 08:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judas

really people receiving smashed up cases recently?

From what I read in the OCN owners thread Coolermaster is halting all shipping of Cosmos II so they can redo the packaging to survive shipping.

Judas · Feb 4, 2012, 08:58 AM

that's quite interesting.....

niceguyrichy · Feb 4, 2012, 10:24 AM

considering this thing weighs about half of a metric ton, you'd have thought they'd have made sure they had the packaging sorted from the get go tbh

OmegaRED · Feb 14, 2012, 03:46 PM

I already broke the top cover latch on the Cosmos II, I couldn't see any mechanism so I figured you just pulled it off like most cases. Nope apparently there is some tiny thin plastic latch on a thumb screw you rotate to unlock it. I didn't even know it was broken until I saw the thumb screw and wondered what it was doing there. Can't believe how cheap that is of Cooler Master

Anyway, this happened as I was installing a couple of Gentle Typhoon fans and I love them, gonna have to put them all over the case they are soo quiet and move tons of air. Don't even care about damage to case that's how pleased I am with these fans (and the rest of the case which is quite awesome overall).

blibbax · Feb 14, 2012, 04:12 PM

Presumably there'll be a 2nd revision. I am yet again astounded by a company's lack of pre-release testing.

Jan 3, 2012, 12:04 AM	#1
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Jan 3, 2012, 12:16 AM	#2
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,490 Rep Power: 132 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH A special case, no doubt. I couldn't see myself building anything else than a server in one though. I wonder if the drive sleds are any good.

Jan 3, 2012, 05:22 AM	#3
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH A Canadian review says this case is $350 USD and another says same price in Europe which if true should guarantee a "0" for Value. At that price I would expect far less plastic parts and the cable management to be absolutely neat and tidy but right out of the box it is a total mess. It should also have better airflow than anything else over $200 but I'm skeptical of that with such small fans. I like a lot of what I saw, the removable drive cage is cool not to mention having 6 drives down by the PSU is great and there is lots of room for cable management and airflow but the price is killing me. It would easily be $400 after shipping that's twice what I paid for this monster FT02 so it would have to be better in every respect for me to upgrade. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs Last edited by OmegaRED; Jan 3, 2012 at 05:44 AM.

Jan 3, 2012, 12:10 PM	#4
*Veridian3* Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cloaked Posts: 5,028 Rep Power: 181	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH Shall let you know as soon as a price drops into my inbox.

Jan 5, 2012, 12:26 PM	#5
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH I am considering this case as an upgrade to my current case. What my current case has is filters on the fan intakes to significantly reduce the amount of dust that I get in my case. I heard that this case has the same but I am unable to confirm. Can you confirm this Mr. reviewer?

Jan 5, 2012, 01:07 PM	#6
blibbax What does this do? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 4,230 Rep Power: 254 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH You can retrofit such things if not :P __________________ Donate the spare computing power of your PC to help to cure Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and cancer: Fold for HH!

Jan 5, 2012, 01:49 PM	#7
*Veridian3* Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cloaked Posts: 5,028 Rep Power: 181	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH Yes, the intakes are dust filtered.

Jan 5, 2012, 07:48 PM	#8
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH Are the filters easily removed and cleaned/vacuumed etc? Just curious. Thanks!

Jan 15, 2012, 08:14 PM	#10
Sic Puppy Le' me Merc It! Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Wanganui, New Zealand Posts: 832 Rep Power: 84 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH Got a price for it in NZ now. NZ$669 (thats's US$529 or GBP346)! Bit pricey! __________________ PC:- Intel i5 760 with CM 212 Hyper HS&F - Asus P7P55D-E Pro - 8GB G.Skill 1600 Sniper CL9 & 4GB G.Skill 1600 Ripjaws CL9 - Gigabyte GV-R585OC-1GB ATI 5850 - CoolerMaster CM690II Advanced - Crucial M4 SSD 128GB - Seagate 7200.11 500GB - Seagate 7200.12 1TB - Sidewinder X8 - Logitech G510 - LG Flatron W2353V 23" & Dell 17" LCD - Razer Goliathus Alpha - Logitech Z4

Jan 16, 2012, 01:39 PM	#12
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH If I ever decide to turn my PC into a Media server with say 5-6 large capacity drives in some sort of RAID configuration I'd probably be interested in this case due to all the drive bays (my case only has 5 3.5HD bays+SSD attachment). No lie, the shipping on this case is $70 from Newegg Canada which brings it up to about $475 after tax I paid $200 shipping included for my second hand FT02 which makes me want to hold onto this one even longer (despite it being a cumbersome case). __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Feb 3, 2012, 01:01 PM	#14
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH Fairly certain I will get this case in the coming months. I was planning on getting a 4 bay NAS after one of my HD's crapped out and I lost tons of movies but it's actually cheaper to get this behemoth and turn my PC into a NAS. That and I can't fit a 3 slot gpu cooler in my case without removing my sound card so the extra space will be appreciated. I'll buy it locally though these things are getting damaged in shipping big time you know it's a bad sign when most of the reviewers even got broken ones. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Feb 3, 2012, 02:47 PM	#15
Takaharu I can fart in 7 languages Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: England, UK Posts: 1,847 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH If you can't fit a 3-slot GPU cooler in your system without removing the soundcard what good is changing the case going to do? __________________ I don't get paid to know the answer, therefore I'm far more likely to give you a straight and honest answer. Mods Rig, Box Mods Rig, Folding details

Feb 3, 2012, 03:54 PM	#16
blibbax What does this do? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 4,230 Rep Power: 254 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH It means he can overflow the bottom of the board, putting multiple-slot cards in the bottom slot. __________________ Donate the spare computing power of your PC to help to cure Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and cancer: Fold for HH!

Feb 3, 2012, 06:37 PM	#18
kris23 Going Insane..... Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,018 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH the case retails for a hefty $349 at newegg... was looking at it a few days ago.... rather impressive Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER COSMOS II RC-1200-KKN1 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case __________________ Hardwareheaven Super-Moderator Building a new computer system and not sure where to start? Click Here! last updated (5/18/11) Rosewill FUTURE case replaces CM 690 II with its greater interior length. Building a PC: Step by Step Guide Written by Kristopher Pedemonte and Nathan Marks-Forder Edited by Allan Campbell Questions or Comments? feel free to post them in the forums!

Feb 14, 2012, 03:46 PM	#25
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH I already broke the top cover latch on the Cosmos II, I couldn't see any mechanism so I figured you just pulled it off like most cases. Nope apparently there is some tiny thin plastic latch on a thumb screw you rotate to unlock it. I didn't even know it was broken until I saw the thumb screw and wondered what it was doing there. Can't believe how cheap that is of Cooler Master Anyway, this happened as I was installing a couple of Gentle Typhoon fans and I love them, gonna have to put them all over the case they are soo quiet and move tons of air. Don't even care about damage to case that's how pleased I am with these fans (and the rest of the case which is quite awesome overall). __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Feb 14, 2012, 04:12 PM	#26
blibbax What does this do? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 4,230 Rep Power: 254 System Specs	Re: Cooler Master Cosmos II Case Review @ HH Presumably there'll be a 2nd revision. I am yet again astounded by a company's lack of pre-release testing. __________________ Donate the spare computing power of your PC to help to cure Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and cancer: Fold for HH!