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Old Mar 25, 2009, 10:43 PM   #1251
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Slick stuff peet! Too bad that cooler clearance is so tight... Though a Shuriken would fit fine I guess.
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Old Mar 25, 2009, 10:47 PM   #1252
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Does the HDD fit under the DVD drive? Does it fit with enough space? Looks like a tight fit for the DVD drive and HDD, almost if they touch the motherboard.

Slim case and design, nice look.
I used alot of older parts that were sitting around, but this might give you a bit more insight. I hadnt mounted the HDD yet to be sure my old IDE parts would fit ok, and they do.

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How are the temps in that box sneekypeet?
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How are the temps in that box sneekypeet?
Well I ran an E6600 in there and temps were 3*C different at idle compared to that same chip in open air. Also note I had to use the short stack stock cooler for it, so that could explain a bit of the heat. IMHO still acceptable, plus the board will handle 45nm Quads so if it was to get too hot this summer, I could always try something new
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sneeky thats awesome bro, that cooler is a tight fit in there bro
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sneeky thats awesome bro, that cooler is a tight fit in there bro
Yeah I do think tho that an Atom or low voltage AMD the coolers may have a bit more room.
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Old Mar 25, 2009, 11:54 PM   #1257
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miloshs, nice rig and paintjob. I suppose you have your HSF blowing up because it leads to the top fans? I figure it might get a bit of heat from the GPU, plus I don't have any fans in the top of my 690 right now, so I have the HSF aimed @ the rear. I still bet your temps are pretty good though, so don't worry about it.
Partly, YES, but the other part of my equation is that hot air tend to go upwards and not sideways . Anyhow i doubt either would be bad considering the "pull power" of those 3 fans at the top...

Heres my case fan placement:

I did some testing, a few days ago. Everything was left as i it is, except for the yellowed out fan. At first i tried placing my last 120mm fan at the bottom (placement no.1) did my testing, left my PC too cooldown for 10 minutes, and then moved my fan from no.1 to no.2 position and did my test.
Test consisted of running Orthos (blend test) and FurMark (stability test, 640x480,fullscreen off) for 6 minutes and then took the screenshot. Heres what i got.



BTW my CPU runs at 3.62Ghz@1.36V, and VGA is slightly OC'd to 675Mhz (still didn't do a voltmod) and my CPU fan ran at 800rpm...
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Old Mar 25, 2009, 11:56 PM   #1258
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thanks for the testing miloshs. Yeah I notice that fans on the bottom really dont do much, but fans up front help in keeping things cool a lot!
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Old Mar 26, 2009, 12:38 AM   #1259
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When put up aginst CM690 case bottom fan is rubbish ,no need in having one at all. It just messes up the airflow coming from lower-front fan...
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Old Mar 26, 2009, 01:07 AM   #1260
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With hard drives installed, the front fan of the CM RC-690, does absolutely nothing for case intake and airflow.. It's blocked by the hard drive cage and drives..
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Old Mar 26, 2009, 01:29 AM   #1261
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I you have 3-4 hard drives, yes! But otherwise, no!
The bottom fan absolutely hasn't got enough clearance from the ground to make it effective enough. My opinion, anyhow...

I have all the cages installed (altho not populated by drives) and its still making a difference. I agree that adding 2 more drives would reduce its effectivness... but it should still do well with two HDD's is there.

Anyhow... im off to bed.. GN all
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Old Mar 26, 2009, 02:31 AM   #1262
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I don't see how a steel wall is penetrable by air.. I had an RC-690 :\
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Old Mar 26, 2009, 02:33 AM   #1263
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Old Mar 26, 2009, 02:36 AM   #1264
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Old Mar 26, 2009, 02:44 AM   #1265
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With hard drives installed, the front fan of the CM RC-690, does absolutely nothing for case intake and airflow.. It's blocked by the hard drive cage and drives..
Sure it does, there are small slits in the HDD cage that allow the air flow to cool the HDD's. Now it's not an effective vga cooler to pull air in the case and on the cards, unless you add a second 120mm inside the cage like I did

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super clean room there cddude
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you could just about grow mushrooms in that room cddude :P
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you can gorw just about anything in that room man!
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Good testing miloshs, mobo temp went down 4°C, not bad @ all. I run 1 fan in rear, 1 on bottom, 2 in the 5.25" area(upper case 1/2 is a wind tunnel ). Also a 120mm fan in the PSU and on CPU.
I took out the HDD cage and my current single HDD is above the DVD Burner.
Honestly, w/ how much air our fans push, we could flip our case to another end and I bet get temps within 3°C of normal. My bottom fan is week, maybe because of the bearing, and/or that's the one grill I didn't cut out.
I might secure the bottom fan standing up vertically, either way it still helps GPU temps.
Sometime I'm going to buy the 4-in-3 fan module, a different 3.5-5.25" adapter, and/or fab my own HDD-fan module.
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Here's mine finished water cooling. Wires could be better but good enough for me
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Good testing miloshs, mobo temp went down 4°C, not bad @ all. I run 1 fan in rear, 1 on bottom, 2 in the 5.25" area(upper case 1/2 is a wind tunnel ). Also a 120mm fan in the PSU and on CPU.
I took out the HDD cage and my current single HDD is above the DVD Burner.
Honestly, w/ how much air our fans push, we could flip our case to another end and I bet get temps within 3°C of normal. My bottom fan is week, maybe because of the bearing, and/or that's the one grill I didn't cut out.
I might secure the bottom fan standing up vertically, either way it still helps GPU temps.
Sometime I'm going to buy the 4-in-3 fan module, a different 3.5-5.25" adapter, and/or fab my own HDD-fan module.
Im also thinking of removing my HDD bay, but im afraid it will damage the integrity/sturdiness of the case... I will do it eventually since its all chopped out anyway. But i lack the tools at the moment...

How would one remove the HDD bay from their case?
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Just dremel it, or if it's riveted on, just drill out the rivets.
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I think i will... i guess i dont have to take out my mobo for that?
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I think i will... i guess i dont have to take out my mobo for that?
Unless you want tiny pieces of metal potentially shortcutting stuff, I'd take the mobo out.
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