Coolermaster Cosmos 1000

Josh Collins gets a handle on the latest case offering from Coolermaster.

If calling this case the Cosmos wasn’t already enough to give it a sense of grandeur, then slapping the number 1000 on the end should surely do the job – right?

Naming schemes aside, from the very first moment we took the Cosmos out of the box it had a luxury liner-like feel and presence. The case is bold and forthright, but still elegantly streamlined. You can imagine the Cosmos gliding along effortlessly through the highest seas, while knowing there is a significant mass behind it.

You might want to avoid icebergs, though.

The fascia of the case is classy. The door covering the front drive bays is constructed of silver toned brushed aluminium. It offers an almost perfect balance between the solidity of a bank vault, but maintains the light feel of a dojo’s rice-paper door.

Inset down the middle of this door, and taking up the majority of the front panel, is a strip of mirror finished black perspex. This sets off the black stripe that runs down the middle of the case. The side panels are lightweight, with sound dampening foam stuck to both the left and right panels.

The interior is neatly compartmentalised; the 5.25in drive bays boast completely tool-less design in the conventional upper front placing; the 3.25in bays for HDDs are placed in a compartment in the lower front of the case. These bays are set in two sets of three and slide out in individual trays, with silicon mounts to assure vibration dampening.

The Cosmos can also blow a truly meteorological amount of air through the interior. The case includes a total of four 120mm fans, with one acting as an intake on the bottom-front of the case. The second is in the traditional rear exhaust position, and the last two are placed as exhaust fans in the top of the case.

And for those looking to get their water cooling on (and really, why wouldn’t you?), the case includes two rubber grommets in the rear, just above the 120mm exhaust fan, for one inlet and one outlet tube.

At the end of the day this is a structurally sound offering with a finish to ensure even the most delicate of geekish hands don’t get cut while tooling up their new case.