Cooler Master MasterBox Q500L review - Product showcase – interior

Product showcase – interior

Both side panels are relatively easy to open: you just have to remove four thumbscrews on each side. Let’s see what’s waiting for us inside.

The first thing in the main chamber that will catch your attention would be the PSU bracket on the top-right side.

You can also choose to install your SSDs/HDDs only in the rear part of the chassis.

There are two SSD/HDD bays under and on the backplate cut-out. You can fit one HDD/two SSDs per bay.

Although it’s a small-sized case, it’s relatively easy to access all of the motherboard ports, and you can fit very big components here. The case supports graphics cards up to 360mm in length, and we have yet to see anything even close to these limits in real life (even the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z edition is “only” 340mm long), but this can shrink to 270 mm (still quite a lot for this size of chassis) if your PSU is over 160 mm long. Max CPU cooler height is 160mm (which should be enough to fit most products on the market). The maximum PSU length is 180mm, but it’s better to have 160mm or a shorter one.