Umbrella Corporation meets Cooler Master and mATX: MasterCase TD300 Mesh Review including a case mod

1 - Einführung, Lieferumfang und technische Daten 2 - Unboxing und Gehäuse-Features (1) 3 - Unboxing und Gehäuse-Features (2) 4 - Modding-Projekt und Einbaubericht (1) 5 - Modding-Projekt und Einbaubericht (2) 6 - Lautstärke, Temperaturen und Fazit

Unboxing and case features in detail

Now, as always, let’s get to some numbers. The dimensions of the TD 300 Mesh including the front are 433 x 210 x 420.5 mm (LxWxH), the pure body, i.e. everything without the front and other external tooling, has the dimensions of 366.5 x 210 x 410 mm (LxWxH). From the dimensions we can also already see that it is a classic mATX case, but with a very spacious interior. As we all know, it’s the inner values that count. Especially when it comes to the graphics card length, even quite long graphics cards with a length of 344 mm fit in here without any problems.

Once we have memorized the numbers well, we start our little tour on the left side. Here we find a side panel made of tempered glass with a slight tint that allows us to curiously look inside – even without possibly using the RGB ballast.

Let’s take a look behind the glass. First of all, we see four elevations on the underside. Here we can mount two SSDs with the accessories I just mentioned. Further forward, we see a recess that allows us to install radiators with a maximum size of 280 x 45 mm. So there should be no problems here, at least not with the common 280 AIOs. 

That’s the information Cooler Master gives us regarding the radiator support.  However, we will see that this is not entirely true. What exactly I mean by that you will see in the course of the review.

There are four slots in the rear of the case, but only two of them are held by a bezel and a screw as usual. The other two are broken out, but this also means that once the aperture is broken out, the hole remains in there. Unfortunately, Cooler Master does not include covers for closing and screws. So you should pay close attention to which aperture you open so that you don’t get annoyed at the end.

Of course, this is not a disaster, since Cooler Master at least thought of two threads and you could buy such bezels later. But it is still not beautiful. Another 120 mm fan can be mounted above the slot bezels.

Let’s move on to the case lid. Either 2x 140 mm or 120 mm fans can be installed here, or an AIO up to a maximum of 280mm. However, you should also make sure that the AIO with fans is not too thick, otherwise you will unintentionally collide with the voltage converter cooling blocks on some motherboards or with the RRAM coolers if the RAM is too high.

With the lid, however, I would like to address a small feature that is to please. This lid is fixed by 2 screws and once these two screws are removed, the lid can simply be removed from the top, which allows us to mount the fan or AIO more easily from the top. This also makes all other work in the case much easier, since we no longer have to install our hardware in a small space. Cooler Master also includes a magnetic, light gray dust filter with the lid. There is nothing more to see here.

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