Here is the raised platform that the power supply will rest upon. What is
odd is the fact that the Mushkin power supply we used required us to point
the fan upward.
All of the PCI covers have easy to remove thumb-screws on them making them a snap to change in the event you wish to swap out a video card or install a new wireless NIC card.
Located at the top of the Cosmos 1000 as we had mentioned earlier you will find a pair of 120mm fans each of which is fitted with a Molex power connector sans rpm wire.. Looking at the drill pattern used it appears that you could actually fit a pair of 140mm fans to the top of the chassis if you could get your hands on them.
Here you can see the two slots that have been cut into the motherboard tray allowing you the opportunity to practice some excellent cable management skills.
With the Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 assembled it was time to see just how well it would our cool older Pentium 4 - 530. I have been running this CPU at 3.4 GHz for ages. The motherboard is an ECS NForce 570 Split-A, the heatsink is Thermaltake's new V1, and the hard drive is 500 GB Hitachi SATA 2, the Video card for right now is the PowerColor X800 GTO.
We are going to run a couple of different tests to see just how well the Cosmos 1000 cools things off. To start off with we are going to let the system idle with power on for 1-hours with none of the fans in the system plugged in.
We will them begin to run our stress-tests using variuos fan configurations as shown on our graph.
As the temperature graph displays the Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 is truly a master when it comes to squashing high temperature systems, that is one of the benefits of having a 120mm fan every direction that your turn and sometimes you look and there are two there.
The one thing I almost forgot to mention is the fact that each side-panel has its own egg-crate noise-deadening material stuck to it with double sided tape. The side panel fit perfectly and the latching mechanism works so well that there is none of the vibration one would expect.
Overall I can find just one thing I disliked about the Cosmos 1000 and that would be the weight of the enclosure. I would have loved to have seen Cooler Master make this case out of 100% aluminum rather than out of steel. Now don't get me wrong the case is not so heavy that you won't be able to lift it up into place, it's just heavier than we are used to.
Now lets talk about the good things such as the insolated side-panels which are as easy to get on and off as any case I have ever reviewed. Bravo Cooler Master for getting it right! Another round of applause is due Cooler Master for the remarkable cooling system they have designed and implemented it this new breed of enclosure.
Personally if I was in need of another, which I am not and if Cooler Master hadn't of been so nice as to provide me with this one I can honestly say that this is a case I would purchase and as a matter of fact when they become available I will more than likely invest in a second one to use for new Intel machine I am building.
If you get the chance pick one up you will not regret the decision. For those of you wanting to get you hands on one of these wonderful cases you will have to wait until 1 September 2007, but if care to learn more about it you can use this the following link Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 Micro Site.
