Cooler Master NCORE 100 MAX Mini-ITX Case Review

Lighting & Performance

There is really no lighting on the case besides some white illumination around the power button.

Cooler Master NCORE 100 MAX Mini-ITX Case

Since we do have ventilation on both sides of the case you’ll see the white illumination of the AiO block on one side of the case. If you have RGB memory or your motherboard has RGB you should be able to see it through the ventilation as well. On the opposite side you’ll see any RGB lighting on your graphics card.

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Here is a breakdown of the hardware in our mini-ITX build.

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550i AORUS PRO AX
Graphics Card: GALAX RTX 4070 Ti EX Gamer
Memory: G.SKILL Trident Z Royal DDR4-3200 16GB
Storage: Samsung 870 EVO Solid State Drive

We will be using AIDA64 for temperature readings and a RisePro Sound Level Meter to record sound levels. Sound levels are taken 5 inches from each side of the case.

Idle readings are taken on the Windows 10 desktop after the system has been on for 1 hour. Load readings are taken using AIDA64’s system stability test with both the CPU and GPU selected.

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