The best Amazing Cooler Master MasterAir G200P RGB Low-review
The best Amazing Cooler Master MasterAir G200P RGB Low-review
The Master
Air G200P is a 39.4 mm low-profile CPU cooler designed for small form factor cases and compact PC builds. Built with a powerful 92mm squared PWM fan to maximize top-down cooling, the G200P features a wide fan speed range that is fine tuned for maximum airflow, overall cooling performance or silent operation.
The RGB fan is compatible with all RGB-certified motherboards and includes a wired, RGB LED controller, allowing full-color customization.
Features
RGB LED Controller - The wired RGB LED Controller allows for customizable colors and effects with just the touch of a button.
Designed for Small Form Factor Cases - The ultra-low-profile heat sink measures 39.4 mm overall - the ideal size for small form factor PC builds.
Two C-Shaped Heat Pipe Design - Strategically shaped heat pipe design for an ultra-compact cooler that maximizes heat dissipation.
92mm PWM Fan with RGB Lighting - Wide speed range PWM fan that comes with RGB LED lighting
Precise Combination of Air Flow and Heatsink - Stacked fin placement ensures minimal airflow resistance, allowi. ng cooler air flow into the heatsink.
the Kula master master air g 200 p before i go rambling there are time stamps in the review description for you to skip to whichever part of the review you want to see and there's descriptions down there for you to work out what's on offer so there's that one thing I did say in the script of this review later on is as promised so I now have to make a promise now to make that make sense and I don't know why I did that because I wasn't intending to so as I promise I will compare the G 200 P firmly acoustically and price to performance wise with coolers like the l9 I Samuel 17 Alan X 65 d9l size even 5 that so that fulfills that if you want to pick up
either of these coolers the l 9i and the g 200 p are the main ones here if you want to pick either them up there are Amazon affiliate links in the review description I don't sell that too hard but most people don't see to the end so people don't know they're there and it is helpful so it does give a small kickback anyway before I ramble on thanks checking this one out and I will catch you really importantly at the end there's a timestamp for this at the end for the conclusion where we go over price to performance that kind of thing and the real would I recommend or which ones I would recommend that's the most important bit so thanks guys I'll catch you in a
second for the main part of the review it seemed like not so long ago I was comparing to other extremely similar products oh yeah that was last video with the metallic e and neo cube and the lien leo 11 dynamic for many reasons the original 11 dynamic took my vote but we've got a new contender to try and take the low profile cooler throne and that's the G 200 P now I'm not sure if you'll agree with me but if you needed a sub 40 millimeter tool cooler the Noctua l HL 9 i for Intel and l9 AAMD has been the go-to for quite some time so before we focus on the G 200 P less compare to and see how they stack up against each other concentrating on the bodies of the cooler a big visual difference are in the end plates but G 200 P has gone for a matte finished
aluminium which has some flex to it whereas the l9 I has opted very stronger steel which has been nickel-plated I think a detail is preferable in the G 200 P is the fixing style of those M plates unlike the l 9i which has its screw on show once installed the G 200 P screw is hidden underneath the cooler out of sight the thin linking for the l9 I is on the side and base out of sight different to the side and top fin linking on the G 200 P on to the base plates with the sticker removed we can take a look at the machining marks in the right or wrong lights depending on how you look at it both base plates appear to have some deeper grooves looking at them
normally it's not obvious at all they're actually quite reflective like a mirror but I think the G 200 piece plate has the edge here from a distance the L lionized base plate seems substantially larger though and while it is larger it's actually only five millimeters difference two and a half millimeters other side which isn't really as much as I thought both take the same approach to the heat pipe layout but looking back to the side plates you'll notice the G 200 P covers the termination of the heat pipes whereas the airline eye puts them on show how about fins well they're both using aluminium for a start to keep this short our flasher table on the screen now
the basics to take away from this is they're both very similarly sized so the volume of the fin stack shows under a three percent difference but if you take into account the thickness of the thins the story completely changes the L a nice thins are not 0.1 millimeters thicker but that's 33% thicker than the G 200 PS taking the volume of all the fins into account that 33 percent difference maintained itself to the total difference of the material used in making the fins you're getting 33% more material in the fin stack of the l 9i than the g 200 P we'll see how this plays out later but if this was a buffet then you'd be working with a noticeably bigger plate right
that's enough about fins let's talk fans spec wise they're very similar the l 9 ice max airflow is around 34 CFM and the G 200 piece is around 36 so a difference of two between the two of them CFM being cubic feet per minute static pressures around 2.1 for the l 9i and 2.4 for the g 200 p that's millimeters h2o and the fan speed is kind of irrelevant for cooling since air flow is what you've really in but for the sake of completeness the LN eyes fan is set to go up to 2500 rpm and the G 200 piece is set to go up to 2600 rpm plus or minus 10% also we'll see how this impacts acoustics later of course there is one major distinction between the two fans and that's
the RGB feature with the G 200 P we'll get onto the RGB controller after but something that's immediately noticeable if you rest this fan on a flat surface are the cables that sort of go all over the place and it's not like pressing them down makes any difference taking a closer look it seems like the additional wise for the LEDs of trying to run alongside the original wires for the motor it looks like there's been no redesigning of the frame to account for these extra wires which results in this mess it's not the end of the world though the fan is raised a few millimeters above the fin stack of the cooler but it just lacks attention to detail with the overview done let's
cover the installation process with the cooler you get a few bags of paths one with all the mounting hardware and the other two to hold the RGB controller kit and the thermal paste with post clips setting up the backplate is similar to many of cooler masters newer coolers it's a plastic backplate with rectangular headed posts that are fixed to the backplate and guided into the various positions you require them to be in based on your socket by the plastic clips sending the backplate around the back of the motherboard they're held in position by a nut for each post the nuts don't tighten down against the board though they're actually tightening up
against the wider part of the shank of the screw a good thing otherwise we'd be looking at some motherboard damage not initial install damage but wear and tear can appear after multiple installs my original hyper 212 Evo took out one of my motherboard so that way then the arms can be added a couple of small screws to each side holds it in place which is a little fiddly the arms would have been much easier to install with a post on the net underneath to hold the arms and then add a small nut on top but I can appreciate clearance is an issue here now the cooler can be added on top I'm doing a test fit with a reasonable amount of thermal paste more than most would put down to see how the cooler deals were spreading it out I can't say I'm a big fan
of these tall milled bolts though the knurling isn't accessible to tighten the bolts by hand so I don't know why it's there and the crosshair drive is not necessarily loose but there's not a lot of the drive available for a Philips 2-bit which causes slipping and a Philips 3 bit is just way too big and trying to install this in a trouble-free manner with a flathead bit risks its slipping and bending the surrounding fins which I did try on a nun filmed shot by accidentally didn't hit the there's a number of ways they could have improved this and redesigning the nut would be in most of them anyway removing the cooler shows us a rather disappointing spread it's mostly
there but not fully I'm sure putting the system under load would help a little the heat would help spread it out but it's not like there was a small dose applied so for the testing I'm applying more now I'll admit this was way more than I intended to add but the cat was out of the bag so I'm just gonna have to deal with cleaning it all up afterwards don't stress yourself about having too much all the excess will be squeezed out onto the sides like toothpaste leaving the a maximum amount the hardware will allow like the l9 I fixing the fan to the cooler requires a set of screws and the jumble of wires beneath don't cause an issue due to the offset mentioned earlier a quick note about the RGB something that I could gloss over since I'm not that
interested in it but I know some are the controller needs a 4-pin molex connector but has a passed through so you don't need to add that daisy chain powers are playing it cable to add to it just the single one if you've got one the other end of the molex connector links to the control box and the RGB cable from the fan does the same doing a system on if all is going well you'll get a static color and you can use the control box to change the style of the light with the top button the colour in the various styles with the central button and the brightness with the lower button but bear in mind anything but full brightness will flicker on camera unless you change the flutter the flutter the shutter speed on the fly also I'm not using two cameras so these two shots
weren't in sync if that was throwing you off so there we have it the G 200 P up and running let's get into testing and see how it performs as promised earlier it's going up against the knocked away NHL 9i but I've got a few other small coolers to compare against too I've also got the modified test bench from the usual and an addition test but that's not a topic for this review however it is worth noting that all of these coolers have been retested for the review so everything is on the same page let's start with the bad and head towards the better first up is the priority 5 and fur mark 10-minute torture test a hundred percent load the fur mark bit is
strictly for the GPU though but this is more for channel testing consistency rather than strictly testing the CPU cooler I know there's a lot to digest here but I'll point out exactly what I'm talking about as we go through so we're on the same page we'll start with the acoustically normalized run noted by the acoustic bit in the heading of the graph which means all the coolers have had their fan speeds affixed to meet the 36.5 DBA target at forty centimeters you can see how the fan speeds were set by the blue bars on the right graph the G 200 piece found spinning slower than the L line eyes just turns out the l9 eye is a little quieter so it's fan could
spin faster something new to the graphs on this channel is the run completion bar on the Left graph so when the system crashed due to high temperatures on the CPU you can see how far it got in the test before it crashed comparing the Noctua NHL line i and the g 200 p well there's not a lot in it at this load both failed miserably in this full load test but the g 200 p only managed one minute out of the 10 minute test and the l 9i held out just a little longer let's spin the fans up to full speed and see how they did so it's the same setup and test as the last graph but at full fan speed not acoustically limited the fan speed percentage bar on the right has now
been swapped for the sound level so while the G 200 P is higher on the graph it doesn't mean it performed better since the graphs are ordered by CPU temperature all the failed graphs at the bottom are just an indication of how warm the room was more than anything else since we're working with delta T temperatures Delta yes the GTO entropy still crashed first but this time 8% earlier than the l9 I rather than 6% earlier in the acoustic test it's also worth noting the G 200 P was over a decibel louder than the air line I while having a slower fan speed so it looks like an all-round worst performer so far how's about we turn the load down on the CPU and
test these coolers in a less crashy environment a new test of channel is the 3dmark fire strike test but unlike before when we use the test with 3dmark fire strike using the benchmark as a test this test exclusively runs the combined test on a loop for 10 minutes this puts an average load of just over 80% on the cpu and just under 100% on the GPU across the full test with the roughly 20% less load both coolers made it through unscathed on the acoustic run but the air line I still seems to be edging out ahead of the G 200 P by a not insignificant two degrees Celsius again we see despite the Ln eyes smaller size its seemingly quiet a fan or quieter design of the heatsink has allowed the fan to spin a little faster perhaps this is creating the performance
difference we're seeing last but not least we're running the same test but with the fan at full speed funnily enough here the G 200 P edges out ahead of the l9 I by just over 1 degree Celsius not quite a tolerance I don't think perhaps the lower 80% load isn't overwhelming it as much as the full load test from priority 5 heck it's an effort to pick a fight with the 50% taller six heat pipes Samuel 17 although I'd say that's more of a bad look for the Samuel 17 than a feat of excellence on behalf of the G 200 P but keep in mind it's still over a decibel louder than the l 9i so not an outright victory on this one but not bad at all so the question this comes down to is would I recommend the cooler master master air G 200 P over than Ottawa NHL 9 I and that is actually a tricky question first thing before we get into this is I am discussing the the brown
version which this is the brown version but I painted the fan but don't worry the performance difference is negligible I have a video on that you can check that a few fancy but anyway so we're discussing it versus the brown and I will specify when I'm talking about the black chrome X version which has a black base and a black stock black fan manufacturers fan which is very nice but well mention that stuff has again to it so breaking the question down would I recommend either of them is it can be split into three different things one is cost two is a film performance and the third one is acoustic performance so I wasn't gonna do for this review but I did end up doing it anyway and I'll be doing this for the future is getting rough price on visual
rough price and a visual on the price to performance checking out the rough price graph on the left that's just prices rough prices as I found them from PC part Pekka the u.s. in Germany which is representing Europe and the UK the UK part of the site I just checked out what was there I didn't take sales into account if one was super low I didn't take the the lowest one just roughly what was the the most common price on there which generally tends to be your MSRP but I can't say at MSRP because trying to find MSRP for all of these is actually pretty tricky and but yeah if anyone has any suggestions for that then please let me know but I think this is
the easiest way to do it for now going over to the right side of the graph then or the right graph that's the price to performance graph now we need to break down a little bit information about how I came to those numbers first thing the film performance is what we're comparing here that has come from a fire strike acoustic test we did a couple reasons for doing that one it's the fire strike test all the coolers completed it and none of them crash so we haven't got any weird anomalies when it comes to the thermal performance so they all passed nothing crashed all good the second part the acoustic part why did I choose that one well it's because they're all
operating at the same noise level so everything's more normalized and we haven't got weird things where one is doing much better because the fan was running much faster and it was much louder we haven't got any of those weird anomalies it's more true and it's more comparable as far as I'm concerned it's all normalized to a specific performance criteria which is good and so yeah acoustics all the same thermals very that's what we go for something quickly to add on is how I came to that result price is divided by the inverse of the performance because normally the higher the performance is better but actually here the lower the performance is better so we need to invert it and I divided the whole thing by a thousand just so we could actually look at numbers that have reasonable not you know you know two thousand
two hundred and something it's just to point to result an example of the side view can five let's say so with all that said checking out the results of the nautical NHL line I am the cooler master master air G 200 P depending on where you buy it it depends on what I'd recommend if you're purely looking thermal performance being the key criteria at a reasonable noise level having them all normalized so if we check it out from the UK you could buy either and it really doesn't make much of a difference and if you check in from America or Europe the price is not not the same comparative with the currency anyway compare currency to the coolest cooler with the same currency not currencies don't do that but yeah it looks like buying enough to a NHL mine
is the one to go for but if you don't like brown that's a problem because remember that prices of the brown one the price of the black one is actually fair much higher but I can't do them all to price performance with that because I haven't tested it and it is a blackbody fan cooler so I can't actually I don't have a thermal result for that it will be different so anyway if you're looking at that then you could say throw on top and then it looks like they'd be more comparable over in the US and so yeah that's pretty much that you could buy either of them if in the US or Europe if you're talking about the black version of the Noctua and the G 200 P being standard one thing I would say is that's not all to compare
acoustics are a big thing for a lot of people so if you looking at acoustics strictly then any version of the online I will be important will be the one you probably want to go for because it is when everything kicks up into the high fan speed is the one to go for it's quieter but yeah a couple of extra things to add the the mounting of the notto NHL I know it's easier there's four bolts here and I mean people might be a little bit concerned with only putting four bolts and four pressure points and flexing I get that I know having a back plate means it spreads it more evenly and stops up being so much of an issue which is true but you know I don't think it's too much of a big issue the the cool master master air G 200 PS mounting although it has a wide
back plate which can spread the surface air over although it's probably likely only pressing on four pads on the corners it is more fiddly to installed you've got tiny screws and if you have a lousy magnetic screwdriver then they might slip and fall out if you're looking at an awkward position that sort of thing it could be a pain if you have it lying down it's not easier of course but also those tall those tall milled bolts or screws either no point in going with the knurling because you can't access them with your hands so you can't get you know any grip on them it's it's flush with the cooler at that point already so you may as well go with hex so you could have the option of using the hex or the Philips to drive a bit also the the hole in the centre it tapers
out so it means that there's really not a lot of grip for the edge of the drive and not a lot of Drive therefore the bit to grip onto which if there's just no point in having it in that that's kind of style so that needs a little bit of work as far as I'm concerned again a flat spade bit or you know your flat fits I know I'm saying there a flat Drive a bit it just can slip and then you end up causing a little bits of bending and stuff on fins if you slip which it can happen so there's that last point then is I'd say build quality is with the a line I it just feels lots more solid with these steel side panels it just feels better than the more flimsy aluminium ones so maybe a point for you to think about there but that's pretty much it I don't want to drag on any longer obviously
a lot of explaining of the graph says drag this conclusion out longer than it should have and hopefully I won't have to explain that too much in the future but yeah I will at some point do a methodology video of how I do everything here and if people want to know stuff I can say go there but for now I haven't done that yet and I'm just still making sure everything's nailed down before I do something like that and then have to recreate it because it'll probably take a good amount of effort to make something like that so now comes a tricky part it's trying to find the line between begging and being reasonable there are Amazon affiliate links in the review
description if you check those out you can see what the prices are of these places in your region through Amazon if the price is good please consider picking one of these up it will give a small kickback to the channel which is helpful if you want to check out more reviews sort of like this one I've updated some things and we're getting better and better every time but you can always check out other reviews .
The best Amazing Cooler Master MasterAir G200P RGB Low-review
cooler from cool master, the gt200p low profile there's cooler in Germany and before all things interesting for people build a small form factor system want, maybe the ITX or still smaller then the cooler could be something for you and let’s take a closer look at it the cooler is delivered in this small cardboard boxes were included here of course a small accessory package first of all you can cool down mount all mainstream sockets currently count is the intel LGA1151 v2 and at amd is that the AM4 base the cooler takes care of it all larger high end sockets there unfortunately for your mounting accessories here dispense. otherwise included in delivery master gel per syringe, that is interesting for of course if he
doesn't have more thermal paste at home should and of course you see too the fan already has rgb that is also called a corresponding rgb button if your mainboard is not there yet rgb has so you can also then lighting as required naturally contribute still included in the scope of delivery of course the mounting system for the called base as then a small adapter to finally screw the cooler on properly The actual cooler itself is then as he can easily see, really kept very compact, is almost done not higher than the RAM. depending on which memory is naturally installed. the cooler measures in the height with the fan installed then the standard cool master fan the that's
39.4 millimeters should be more in most housings than be enough space. is cooler otherwise also of the dimensions really very compact. towered over to the most of the smaller ones mainboards no heatsink pci slots or also have memory slots there So you have a clear path accordingly exceptions then of course confirm here again the rule. a 92 is installed millimeter fan with one Speed range from 800 to 2600 from revolutions. connected by course so you have pwm plugs too according to the possibility for you to set a desired speed or optionally also a speed profile. What not nowadays Illumination is clearly missing In this case, the fan here is a 4PIN RGB connection, which you can then accordingly with asus or msi mystiqu Light and the other two mainboard-maker to control accordingly. you have no no mainboard at home with an rgb
connection, then there is one addressed again push buttons. optionally if you don't would like to have said RGB lighting I don't care, you can just leave it out accordingly the fan will otherwise on actual heat sink from above with four screws fixed the width of the frame 92 mm fans are 15.4 mm you can of course air accordingly replace another model also has this wide frame adjust the accordingly then screw in and he has it for the heat sink you use one here massive copper base plate the natural has been integrated into the body there is and two c-shaped heat pipes the waste heat then the aluminum fins hand in and the whole part is here not really that much high quality and completely successful there is absolutely nothing processed about it
exposing and I would say let’s look at each other how to put the good piece on then the low profile is installed on an itx system, for example cooler with us on a small in ITX system mounted with an amd apu on it current system so the update from What do you have to consider now? and first of all attention module disassemble you no longer need multiplex stood with the corresponding threaded rods populate both various mounting brackets assembled around land the cpu base and at the end cooler put on it what you pay attention to the cooler needs the fan dismantled it for final assembly just doesn't get to the top of them mother screw connections then fan plug it back in and then you can it actually go off already needs the
addressed one for this screwdriver and so five to ten minutes time and your small system ready for use again I've had it before addressed but here again the info your memory slots remain with the cooler completely free so you can maybe you higher ones too easily install memory if it then allows the housing what does the little master rg200p do now in our test positive that compared to other low profile cool in the middle respectively slightly in the back of the test field and the temperature values are where we are you due to the size as well then would have expected ventilation properties volume always special an interesting one for smaller fans topic at g200p leaves with maximum number of revolutions then one audible impression with us is so
out the system was clear to take. at maximum speed. if you like that speed according to how we do it now made here on 1400 revolutions per minute will then decrease the cooler running smoothly and you depending on what you hear, of course a case or how sensitive your ears are there is only a light and subtle hum. yes how does it cut cool master master RG200P at us actually in the test from now on first of all, a fancy little one and high quality processed low profile the whole part can then be cooler even children can easily assemble it memory slots free and available then also about a nice one small accessory package especially the rgb tax per
buttons and molex adapters the whole thing interesting for people who maybe don't have any trouble at home yet can the lighting then accordingly nevertheless use the You don't want lighting at all unplug them more easily, of course in terms of cooling capacity, the master RG200p a solid impression he places himself where you based on the size there would be big nothing more to say. volume technically with maximum You can hear the speed clearly from the system out if he has one accordingly He gets a little hand-made but also this cooler accordingly quieter. the cooling capacity then of course decreases accordingly Remain slots from memory
otherwise free and otherwise it is an all-round nice package as I said plus - let's see where the cooler it ultimately leveled off. Could be one take a look at it that would be it but we are interested in us now of course, as your opinion the small body from home cool master is more for you the lighting says cool meanwhile too much RGB lighting write us in the comments.
Learn more about the Cooler Master MAP-G2PN-126PC-R1
ModelBrandCOOLER MASTERSeriesMasterAirModelMAP-G2PN-126PC-R1
DetailsTypeFan & HeatsinksFan Size92mmCPU Socket Compatibility• Intel LGA 1156 / 1155 / 1151 / 1150 • AMD Socket AM4 / AM3+ / AM3 / AM2+ / AM2 / FM2+ / FM2 / FM1RPM800 - 2,600 RPM (PWM) +/- 10%Air Flow35.5 CFM (Max)Noise Level6 - 28 dBAPower Connector4 PinColorSilverLEDRGBHeatsink Material2 Heat Pipes, Aluminum Fins, Copper Plate
Dimensions & WeightMax CPU Cooler Height39.4 mmFan Dimensions92 x 92 x 15.4 mm (3.6 x 3.6 x 0.6 inch)Heatsink Dimensions95 x 92 x 24 mm (3.7 x 3.6 x 1.0 inch)Weight281g / 0.62 lb
FeaturesFeatures• Designed For Small Form Factor Cases - The ultra-low-profile heat sink measures 39.4mm (1.55"in.) overall - the ideal size for small form factor PC builds. • Two C-shaped Heat Pipe Design - Strategically shaped heat pipe design for an ultra-compact cooler that maximizes heat dissipation. • Precise Combination Of Air Flow And Heatsink - Stacked fin placement ensures minimal airflow resistance, allowing cooler air flow into the heat sink. • 92MM PWM FAN WITH RGB LIGHTING - Wide speed range PWM fan that comes with RGB LED lighting. • RGB Led Controller - The wired RGB LED controller allows for customizable colors and effects with just the touch of a button. • Universal Mounting - Versatile all-in-one mounting solution for Intel LGA 115x and AMD platforms
Package ContentsPackage Contents• 1 x CPU Cooler Unit • 1 x RGB Controller • 1 x Mounting Pack • 1 x MasterGel Pro Thermal Paste (0.5g Syringe) • 1 x User Manual
GroupModel2 Heat PipesOption2 Heat Pipes
DetailsCompatibility• Intel LGA 1156 / 1155 / 1151 / 1150 • AMD Socket AM4 / AM3+ / AM3 / AM2+ / AM2 / FM2+ / FM2 / FM1.
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