Stefan Mileschin

Cooler Master recently announced a partnership with ASUS to produce a new line of TUF Gaming-branded products in collaboration with ASUS’ TUF Gaming initiatives. TUF Gaming is a product series from ASUS that is focused on durable and reliable gaming products. ASUS’ TUF Gaming Alliance, in turn, is a joint effort between Cooler Master, ASUS, and others in order to create a line of products for ‘an aesthetically cohesive gaming PC’.

Cooler Master’s role in this collaboration is to provide select chassis, cooling, and power supply options with three main design concepts: functionality, reliability, and visual consistency. In essence, we are looking at multiple partners rebranding products under a common aesthetic umbrella in order for a PC builder to more easily find and build a themed PC with quality products.

As far as which Cooler Master products will get the new digs, users will see the Masterbox MG500 mid-tower case, the MasterAir MA620P and MA410M heatsinks, and the MasterWatt power supply range in 450W, 550W, 650W, and 750W capacities. These specific components, Cooler Master says, were ‘specifically chosen because of their ability to run your games smoothly and reliably’.

The Masterbox MB500 incorporates the TUF Gaming camouflage/military styling with greyscale camouflage on the top, front, and on the edge-to-edge tempered glass side panel. The other difference is on the inside where the PSU shroud is cut out in order to display the PSU underneath (no doubt a MasterWatt TUF is what they are thinking). Otherwise, the case itself is the same allowing up to an ATX sized motherboard, 160mm clearance for CPU heatsinks, 400mm for video cards, and a maximum PSU length of 180mm. The MB500 case is able to house up to 3 120mm fans (2x 140mm), or up to a 360mm radiator in the front panel, 120mm radiator or fan in the back, and two 120mm fans up top.

The MasterWatt series of power supplies available for this endeavor comes in four wattage choices - 450W, 550W, 650W, and 750W models all receiving the same TUF Gaming treatment with the digital camouflage. We can see the same design on all sides except for where the specifications table is printed. The MasterWatt lineup is 80 Plus Bronze rated and offers users semi-fanless operation, modular cabling (outside of ATX/EPS cables) that is said to be thicker than standard market cables at 16AWG, and a 5-year warranty.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12770...ance-with-asus