I kinda dig it. Love how cool the meshlicious was because of it being surrounded by mesh panels. And i also love a traditional PC layout and not having to use a riser cable.

Revenant from Small Form Factor Network here: Great review. I like that you don't mask the challenges of SFF. A lot of people don't realize that it's not just plug and play with these cases, and that you have research the components that you have to put in them. For something like this, you would probably need to find a right angle adapter or a GPU with a recessed power plug.

Hello, thanks for sharing. I've been using.this case.for a few months now. Even installed a dual 240mm rad custom loop. The build quality is only acceptable. Now Im convinced that they had budet oriented builds in mind. Because you dont need any intake or exhaust fans to keep it cool, because of so much natural airflow. 😊

Thank you for doing a review of this case!

Love your honest review. That's what matters for us viewers :)

At least they didn’t totally rip off and refuse to pay their Meshlicious designer this time

Nick, the SSUPD guy :P . It´s great seeing someone doing reviews and builds off SFF cases.

Banger of a video fams. Case looks great minus some of the hiccups. Keep up the hard work.

why cant anyone in their right mind just take this layout and flip the case 90 degree with io facing downwards and intake from front for gpu and bottom for cpu with a large 140mm exhaust at top with support for matx mobs and atx psus. this is the most win, win and practical space saving vertical case design in my opinion.

Thanks for all the great videos.. 5am here in Kansas. Yes I work nights and will be off shift in 40 minutes. cheers.

Another good air cooler for this case is the Thermalright Silver Soul 135 at 135mm in height. Thank you for showing the build with an air cooler.

If NR200 and AP201 have a child :

Looks awesome

i want this so bad lol great job guys

I think flipping the cpu cooler fan orientation so its pulling cool air in from the rear would give you better temps.

The product was found over on their website over a year ago, so I can't for sure say that it was rushed. Considering it's missing the spine that is found on the meshlicious and meshroom veritical cases I can see it feeling less premium than those cases and it should be cheaper considering a riser card is not required. Still with its flaws I might check it out.

Hope you get the MATX expansion and I’d like to see how it compares to the ASUS MATX case

The only thing this case has going for it is the front panel type C connector....over the NR200P. Maybe a bit better for placing radiators in different spots but if thats important get an NR200P MAX. They tried to do an NR200P and they succeeded...badly. Thanks for the review.

you are a good reviewer, thanks for the feedback. how do you feel this case would do with a custom loop?

I agree with you. I built on it yesterday, and the build quality is nothing like the others... Also when ordering, they dont give you the option to buy the Extender Bracket. I had to go from matx down to mini itx because bracket is not in stock now. I.dont understand whats going on....

patiently waiting for the TD500 v2 build.

the sound of Klaire eating crisps in the b roll is awesome. lol

I wouldn't worry too much about chassis rigidity. I don't plan on dropping my pc. It's not really something I worry about and once it's all together it's rigid enough. I can see the motherboard flexing as a problem as some users could possibly make that mistake. They could place the case on it's side and tighten the motherboard down in a star pattern and it should help installation.

The new proart stuff from asus is so sleek! Absolutely love a nice black and clean design without rgb and bunch of unesseray gamery angles and shapes.

Great vid! Can you review the Jonsbo U4 Mini? Thanks!

You're right. If Gordon watched all the way til the end, he'd be shaking his head 😂

I typically really enjoy your reviews, but not entirely sure what may have caused you to be a bit biased on this one. It could be related to the communication issues with their marketing team and not getting the proper adapters in your hands, which is understandable to a degree. But I think this case is very good for specific purposes, and as with any SFF build, it's about finding the case that best fits your specific hardware and needs. There's no "one shoe fits all" in the SFF world, and I think this model has taken some good parts out of the NR200P and getting it to a similar litter volume to the Terra. I do wish it was slightly wider to fit FE cards properly though, even though it's possible with aftermarket braided cables. I also ordered Corsair's new adapter bridge to try out and see if it sits better than a cable, fingers crossed!

This could be epic for dual rad custom loop. But if the quality is really bad then i don't know man. Atleast thanks for keeping it real. You are very few who actually does negative reviews unlike 99% of youtube.

its a modern NCASE M1 version, I think you can consider reviewing FormD T1 v2.1

White case on a white table ,with a pink background Nick ? My eyes.

You mean to tell me after months of day dreaming about the meshiclouis they release a new version of the mesh room. Now that I come back to this case. This case reminds me of a newer and harder case than the Cougar QBX

I think this is one of the best cases they've ever made. This is aimed at the average consumer that wants a ssf case. No water cooling with massive rads just good ole reliable air cooling and decent specs. All most people need is an i5/i7 and 4060/3070 (around there) and they can play 90% of games with a decent 240hz monitor. That is what 90% of people go for.

At least you got the cable management more organize

I'm so glad they did not just copy the NR200P! Because in my NR200P I have problems fitting 2x 280 Rads, in the Meshroom D it should work. My NR200P is absolutely crammed with a 280 on the side and a 140 at the bottom, with only millimeters of gap between GPU Waterblock and Slim Fan! I could just copy/paste my components into the Meshroom D and it would leave much more of a gap AND allow for a 280 in the bottom as well. It's the perfect evolution of the NR200P for everyone using full custom loop and dual Rads! ...at least in my humble and not to relevant opinion... 😉 I'm gonna get one!

Like the case and purchased one, I Air cool, running 5700G, 42c normal operations and 62c gaming

Its missing around 2,5 cm in width for GPU support and CPU cooler support.

I heard the same thing about their other cases having poor qa, shame cause I really like this case and the S cause the green looks so good

could you just mount an mATX motherboard without the extending bracket? there's four holes for the standoffs that already line up with the motherboard. is that not enough support?

honestly, this case does caught my eye at the first just by seeing it on the picture of thumbnail... but, after finishing the video, it disappointed me a lot... I mean, just look at the design...they have the good start but.... ended up with this... why...just why...they almost done this right... overall, looks like a "from perfect to screw up" case for me... and also, the price... oh no no no~

could the case be oriented upsidedown, moving the feet to the top? move the front IO from bottom to top (if the case is oriented upside down, then it will be at the bottom again, near the PSU). with this orientation, dual radiator water cool air flow would be so much better, and could this use the iceman external watercool reservoir pump that is used in meshlicious? the configuration would have been so sick..

does Nick have a parts list for the build? Would love to know which fans he used, especially at the rear of the case.

As someone looking for a small form factor mesh case in a squared design (imo the curves and really overall design of nr200p is hideous) that can utilize an air cooler like the nh-d12l, this case checks off all my boxes! Hope the quality issues don’t persist though…

Do you plan on reviewing the Meshroom D with the extender bracket?

I have a question that decides If I buy and try this Case. Does the glas panel fit with this cooler? I have a liquid cooled Meshroom S with a RTX 3070 Noctua and I'm not sure if I should change to an air cooled Meshroom D with glas side panel.

Good content

Can you guys do an mATX build in this thing? I was thinking of downsizing my pc before I go abroad for Uni. Thanks!

I got an idea for the CPU cooling, you can add another 12 cm fan in the back of the cooler to replace the small rear fan, should have better performance and less noise.

Could motherboard standoffs be lowered a little so that NH-D12L could fit perfectly without touching the side panel?

This case is great advertising for the NR200

Too bad the sample didn't seem to be up to snuff. Did they shrink the Meshlicious and just put it on its side?

As I was thinking of Asus ap201 matx build , this came in 😊 Thanks bro 👍

where on earth can u get founders cards in Australia?

Will a Rtx 3090 fits in it ? I’m concerned about the connector placement

Nice looking case, I'm just not a fan of having to give my PC a reach around to the back of the case to access the power button. I made the mistake of buying a Sapphire Nitro+ 7900 XTX for the Meshlicius and it was a little too chunky to fit in the chassis.

WASSUPD Nick and Klaire?

The panel rigidity is what might rule this case out for me. I like my cases to feel very solid. Micro ATX option does intrigue me, though. 🤔And yes, you are channelling Gordon very well there 15:55 😁

will it fit a 240 cooler ?

Great breakdown, but i dont think side panels flex is ever a consideration to consumers. Maybe it will become one when the space is completely saturated in both designs and price, but thats too far from the current state.

Kinda love/hate the lack of front panel audio. A bit annoying if you have wired headphones to have to use the back jack on the motherboard. However, that is less annoying than trying to route a cable from the front through the entire case and plug it in on the farthest possible point on the motherboard when you are dealing with limited spaces.

Only if it came with the extender bracket. It doesn't make competition just being the ITX variant.

Nooooo! I really wanted to love this case. Looking for an “ITX” case to transplant my m-Atx gear out of my unicorn vomit case into something more small and sleek without cooking it.

The original designer of the Meshlicious left after he completed that. The Meshroom S and D are from different people and I think it's the reason for the degrade in quality.

This looked like a great mini ITX or air cooling, but the fact that the height is so limited just ruins air cooling since pretty much all good coolers are taller than that. 15 extra millimiters and it would have been excellent, no idea why they limited it to 142.

Now working at a sheet metal factory has opened my eyes to how quality can slip through the cracks. F

So... no SSUPD / NR200P for an ASUS 4090... can you please recommend me an mini-ITX case that works with this GPU ?

If you would READ THE MANUAL, the GPU would fit... I clearly shows you how to temporarly remove the corner post. ALSO, it shows which standoff to use so the motherboard will not flex. The "D" is for duh...

It's a pity that it doesn't properly support matx standard motherboards.

Them bottom fans should be exhaust innit

Ah making my Windows 98 builds look great!

Just got one of these, unopened, from an auction for $16 😂 I don’t even have components for it.

you should do this review again with a retail version. Ive never understood why people review prerelease units like this. this video and the title made me think this case sucks, but every other reviewer online raves about it.

NOICE finally saw someone posting it

This is very similar in size and layout to the Dan C4-SFX. About 90% of the builds I have seen in the C4 are all using 4080/4090 FE, the fact that you can't fit the 4080/4090 FE in this case is going to be a huge mistake I think. Well the FE does technically fit but you can't plug in a power connector and have the side panel on. Shame that their quality is being sacrificed for price.

A shame to hear of the quality issues. I really wish new ITX cases were being made large enough, if even slightly, to fit 40 series GPU's (other than just FE's and Pro Art's).

Disappointing about the build quality. It does look like a much more compact case compared to the NR200. My guess is $199AUD! even at $170 it would be hard to choose is over the the NR200 for $109AUD. I do like it but if I were to change cases from the NR200 I would choose the Meshroom S over this. You can't compete with the NR200, unless you make a cheaper one.

I'm interested in it. I'm guessing it's just a bad sample.

Good review, I wonder if the rest will be honest. I really liked my Meshlicious but I went to an NR200P air cooled when my (month old) AIO spun a bearing and I'm way happier. I love how this case looks, if I was reshelling I'd consider it but it looks like my GPU won't fit haha. I agree that some of the design decisions seem odd. This feels like it's for people who want to air cool, otherwise you'd go one of their sandwich layout cases, right? So that PSU extender placement, why is it there? It's a routing nightmare in the making, it looks like they've comprimised that for the external watercooling bits provision which only 1% of users will use. Same goes for the ATX PSU support which i don't really understand; make compromises for an ATX PSU which no one will use, when a PSU is the cheapest component in your build - just make it SFX only and you can buy one that fits?! The CPU cooler height is too short, it pretty much restricts you to a D12L, it was hard enough getting a large air cooler in an NR200 at ~155mm clearance - I'm running a Thermaltake PA120 SE with the glass panel on mine which is bang on 155mm. The bottom fans should be on the top and used to exhaust, let the GPU fans go up against the bottom mesh and pull in clean air themselves. It would have been nice to see a front fan but with that mesh you could mod one in pretty easily, I think that'd be worth doing. Maybe a custom blowhole fan if you're lucky too. I saw on their site they have that add-on which adds more front IO and a power button - that looks almost essential to get some extra clearance down the bottom for GPU/full sized fans - is this what adds the mATX compatibility? The window panel is definitely worth IMO. Perhaps a lot of of these compromises in dimension were for panel compatability between the Meshroom S and D? Probably saves them a bunch on manufacturering.

With the NR200 already dominating the mainstream ITX chassis market, they should have gone with the extender bracket included by default and marketed this as an mATX case. The AP201 is selling like hotcakes and there is definitely a growing market for compact mATX cases.

I really dont get why people are not liking this because the button is on the back. Once you turn your pc on its on.

My only issue with SSDUPD is the limited availability of the Meshroom S and Meshilicious. I can ONLY find the D rn. Between that and the sloppy execution critiqued here, I'm wondering if the company is in dire straits. 🤦🏿‍♂️

Thanks for the video! Well, it seems you are absolutly right: If you do a NR200-"clone", you have to do it better. I am not a great fan of the NR200, but it is very good for its price. I thing SSUPD could have made a very much better way to the design ideas. Maybe they will explain why they did it that way...

why cant they keep the sandwich layout :/

I use a Hyte Revolt 3 and love the tower form factor for space saving. This thing looks like an NR200 with more holes. About as exciting as a glass of room temp water lol

Wish they had flipped it so video card faces up. Bearings just work batter that way. I don't get why the fans on video cards have the bearings set up the way they do.

"Part pickle list." I hope you did that to mess with people, and I'm not just hearing things.

I feel like this Ncase design is really at the end of its life here, the gpu sitting this close to the desk is not really a good idea for these big and powerful card we have these days, the C4sfx with the reverse setup that puts the gpu on the top it’s the way to go in the future.

Meshlicious still the best one they did

I really dont like where they put the power plug and the power button the power plug couldve easily been moved to the bottom corner instead of overtop the gpu, and the power button couldve been on the front with the other io

Get the NR200P it'd better.

GPU compatibility is so limitied, good for 3000s series and 4070 Ti and below, rarely any 4080/4090 will fit in this, maybe only the FE version and MSI Ventus 4080/4090 would fit

Case manufacturers, combine the SGPC K39 Pro internal design with meshlicious like mesh panels. There, you're welcome

looks like a blatant copy of the nr200. I hope they can improve upon this!

Tell "I want a meshroom D" to anybody not knowing about hardware and you get punched in the face or laughed at.

Thanks for review. This shit does not have to worth even 30$. Jonsbo vr3 is the best among mesh cases

I feel like this is what happens when a company tries to push a design language without involving the original designer. The internals look like a less compatible NR200.

i like it but it like the Meshlicious better

If they just made it one inch longer and deeper, it would have fit all 4090. But nope..

Looks smaller NR200 case. I will probably get this case. I have seing empty space in the case and this one does not have it.

It's a Disappointment because it's the only one not for sale in Europe.

Its only an ITX case. You're not getting a 3.5 inch card in there with an mATX mobo.