Cooler Master Centurion 590 Case

Cooler Master's name badging is along the top edge of the Centurion just over the front access ports, power and activity indicator and the power button.  What's interesting about the filtered bay covers is that you can see through them.  A rig with lots of CCFLs or otherwise lighted components will make a nice show.  The third pic below is of the Centurion logo on one of the bottom bay covers.

     

Turning the case 90 degrees we find two mounting points for blow holes.  A window is optional in the Centurion but this was not a feature on our review unit.  Check out the fan mounts though; they take 80, 90, 120 or 140mm fans!  And there's two of them here!

  

On the rear of the case we find some things that superficially look out of place.  The most obvious of these is the bottom mounted PSU.  The other item is one many of you will really like, water cooling hose outlets complete with rubber covers.  Don't miss the exhaust fan.  A 120mm unit is included but the mounting will also accept 90 and 80mm fans too.

  

The right side panel has a 80mm vent area immediately behind where the processor socket would be on the motherboard.  There are some point where a fan could possibly be mounted here but when was the last time you saw a 80x80x10mm fan?

The top cover of the Centurion 590 has two more fan mounts accepting 80 ~ 140mm fans. 

Cracking it open we discover a fairly roomy chassis but with no removable mainboard tray.  Given the pricing of this case, I'm not feeling like this is something to ding Cooler Master for.

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