Cooler Master Centurion 5 II Case Review

Inside the Cooler Master Centurion 5 II

Both panels are attached to the chassis using black thumbscrews, which is excellent to see on a case from this price range. The motherboard tray has a huge hole for you to access the backplate of the CPU cooler without having to remove the motherboard from the case, two holes for you to route cables behind it, and several metallic clips for you to fasten cables behind the motherboard tray using cable ties. The motherboard tray doesn’t go all the way to the front panel, leaving you enough space behind the disk drive bays for you to route cables.

Figure 11: Overall look

Figure 12: A view behind the motherboard tray

In Figure 13, you have another overall look inside the case. Expansion cards are fastened individual tool-less plastic retention mechanisms. The Centurion 5 II supports video cards up to 9.8” (250 mm) long.

Figure 13: Overall look

Note that the power supply can be installed with either its bottom fan facing up or facing down, so you can decide if you want the fan of your power supply pulling air from inside the case or from outside of it. The available mesh doesn’t come with an air filter installed, but this filter comes with the case, as shown before in Figure 4.

Figure 14: Power supply compartment