Cooler Master Masterbox 5t Chassis Review

A Closer Look – Interior

With the side panel removed, we can see that lovely bright red backplate, which matches up well with the trim on the front and top of the chassis. There’s a huge amount of space in here, especially so thanks to the low set HDD bays, which leaves the full length of the chassis for massive graphics cards.

In the top, you’ll find a 120/140mm fan mount, great for moving heat out of the chassis passively or with a fan/AIO cooler.

There are some tool-free HDD trays in the base, which are super easy to use and can even fit 2.5″ drives with the included screws. To add to that, there’s also a single 2.5″ mount on the top of the bays.

Up front, you’ll find plenty of room for fans or radiators, especially so given the length of the chassis, so thicker radiators should fit with ease. Just keep in mind you’ll want to move the HDD bays if you’re rocking up with a 360mm radiator!

Keeping with this year’s trend of putting a PSU shroud in every chassis, I’m very happy to report that the 5t has one. It’s a simple addition to any chassis, but it keeps things looking neat and tidy while giving you excess space to store cables and connectors with ease. There’s even a pass-through hole on it for GPU/motherboard cables.

In the back, seven ventilated and reusable expansion slot covers, as well as one vertical one, giving you lots of options to play around with. The bottom cover is even fitted with a cable guard, so you can lock down your mouse and keyboard to keep them safe.

In the rear of the chassis, a pre-installed 120mm CM fan, nothing too fancy, but it’ll certainly get the job done. Of course, you could easily swap this out with your own fans or put a 120mm AIO CPU cooler here.

Behind the motherboard, you’ll find a huge amount of cable tie loops, giving you everything you need to strap them down and get neat and tidy cable management. Space isn’t plentiful, but since there’s a PSU shroud to store excess cables, we can’t see that being a problem at all. There’s a bundle of all the usual cables here too, as well as a SATA header for the built-in fan controller, as well as a Molex for the front panel lighting, which we’ll see in action shortly.

Tucked behind the front panel, a single 120mm fan the same as the rear fan, giving us two in total. As you can see, plenty of room here to install fans, and a few small routing holes to keep the cables for them in order too.