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The Offical Coolermaster Centurion 5 Club
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Be sure to post pictures
Will do! I'll put them in this post once I get my rig built. Although, I can't promise anything flashy since I'm not a case modder.
Question for you Centurion 5 owners!
How does this case hold up today? My brother is giving me his S939 rig soon, which is inside a Centurion 5, and I remember that back in those days this was one of the best mid-tower cases you can get.
Is this case still able to hold its own in terms of cooling ability for today's systems? I am planning on building a C2D system this winter (or maybe C2Q), but I am going for a budget bang-for-the-buck build. If I can reuse the Centurion 5 then that would save me about a bill or so.
How does this case hold up today? My brother is giving me his S939 rig soon, which is inside a Centurion 5, and I remember that back in those days this was one of the best mid-tower cases you can get.
Is this case still able to hold its own in terms of cooling ability for today's systems? I am planning on building a C2D system this winter (or maybe C2Q), but I am going for a budget bang-for-the-buck build. If I can reuse the Centurion 5 then that would save me about a bill or so.
It can handle today's technology no problem. If you plan to run crossfire or SLI, i'd look for an alternative. Even a system with a Core 2 Quad, a few hdds, single graphics card, will run just fine in this case.
Very nice computer. Could use some cable management, but overall good!
Welcome to the club!
yeah, i slapped it together in a hurry hoping she wouldn't notice, but when she came home and got on it, she immediately knew a difference (old p4 2.4 before)
Is there stores in the US? Thanks
Well going from a P4 to an Intel E8400 is a pretty noticeable difference.
got her a new q9400, when i installed it, i figure i'll clean out the cables
now:
Planning on a whole system overhaul next week and was planning to move to a RocketFish that I snagged for 50 bucks after tax, but I realized that I've had my Cent 5 forever and never showed her off. It's going to be my sister's new case (replacing her flashy but poor quality red acrylic sunbeam thing). So yeah, here's a parting pic of the 5.
Welcome to the club JinxyBoi! What's that sticker on the side?
Actually t'was my first foire into painting (with brushes).
It's a silhouette of a cartoon girl dressed as a witch playing a guitar.
If you look closely you can almost see my many places where i messed up. I'm half considering ordering another panel and painting something else at the request of my sister.
Bumping this. I need the 590 4-in-3 module as the old Stacker ones do not fit
I have 4 of those Be sure to post pictures
Here they are. Although, I have had my rig built for a couple weeks now. I need to clean up my cables inside, too.
Actually t'was my first foire into painting (with brushes).
It's a silhouette of a cartoon girl dressed as a witch playing a guitar.
If you look closely you can almost see my many places where i messed up. I'm half considering ordering another panel and painting something else at the request of my sister.
yuki nagato!
JustLink Studios
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Finally ive found a group of others who love this case. Ive had it for years, my old college ended up getting about 50 of these cases fitted in. It's where I first seen it and instantly fell in love with its simplistic design. Im about to shut down and fit a new Corsair 1000W PSU and a XFX GTX 285. I will add some before and afters of my rig, id apreciate some feedback!
*Edit*
Right, I installed my new hardware. And had a go with some cable tidying. I aimed for a modular PSU so I could avoid as less clutter as possible. Here are some pictures of the rebuild, I empied the case and refitted everything. Ive had the case for a while now and all the hardware is only a few months old, This is the first rig ive built with ALL parts purchased separately.
Not a very good shot of the rig how it was, Akasa 500W with a 7900GTO.
Here is all my current hardware stripped from the case. Ready for a total rewire.
Power Supply going in.
Out with the old and in with the new. The GTX is truly a beautifull card. I was worried at first that it wouldent fit in my case, due to my hard drives. and i was adament about not getting another case. So I gambled and it fit quite snug.
I reinstalled my CPU cooler, RAM and fitted the hard drives. And broke my fingers trying to plug the SATA's in, my ASUS Maximus bearly fits as you can see. But I got them in a stashed the cables underneath the hard drive bays. While I've got my fan controller wires scattered about waiting to be hidden.
Card in. As you can see the space between the hard disk and card are slim to none. and right now they are causing to card to gather excess heat. Im planning on buying a 1TB disk soon and transfering all my three drives over to that then mounting it above the card so it can take advantage of the lower intake fan. Which is a daunting task to say the least.
Wiring complete. The extra 3 pinners you see are for my door fans. I know the wiring isnt exactally clean but i have absolutely no where else to put them. And i dont have a dremmel to make holes into the back of the case. so it will have to do for now.
Power up. As you can see the only cabling causing a mess are the dual PCI's and the 24 pinner. When i get hold of a dremmel ill stick the 24 behind the mobo, but i dont know what to do with the PCI's seems as though they are positioned on the topside of the card. Any suggestions I would appreciate.
I wasnt originally that into lighting my Rig I always thought of it as a little excessive. But i bought two Enermax Everest fans to lower noise levels. And to my surprise they where illuminated and theyve totally swayed me, ive orderd a whole bunch more to replace my exhaust and lower intake!
350 pounds worth of card is quite daunting to fit if its your first high end card. I mean...just the outter shell looks expensive!
Fully reassembled and up and running. I was over the moon with the FPS i was getting in crysis. Anyway. I loved building it and I hope you enjoyed the read. Any comments negative or positive, please do share, id love some feedback.
Can I have a place in the club!
And by chance my new fans have just arrived as i was about to post, one 120mm and two 80mm. Im replacing the front intake and the exhaust and also adding a second fan to the side panel. Ill update with the results.
*Edit*
Ive got all my fans fitted now, all enermax thermal fans. 15DBA at the most, my rig would be absolutely silent if it wasnt for the whisper of my PSU.
Above and below, New rear exhaust and lower intake. It was rather difficult to get the front intake in, especially when trying to fit it with isolator mounts.
Here I fitted two enermax's on my side panel, the lower one is intake, to provide my card with cool air, it runs very hot. And the top one is exhaust, it sucks air from my CPU cooler and causes a lot more updraft in my case. The only downside to these enermax's is their thermal sensor. They determine the speed, but they are so short they are almost useless. Your componets could be over 60C and they would just still run slow due to the sensors not being able to detect the heat. But I found a solution. I pushed them into my water block sockets (the one with fusion printed onto it). So now they are constantly hot, and I can vary the speed with my controller. But a word of warning to anyone buying the Akasa fan controller on my rig. When you link it up to extrememly low running fans such as the enermax's I am using, if the speed drops below 390RPM the fan controller thinks that the fan has failed. And sounds its alarm, you must keep your fans settings at quarter turn to avoid this. When booting up the alarm also sounds because the fans are 'booting up'. I just added a little bluetac to the speaker to make it much quieter. I suppose the lesson here is dont buy thermal fans unless your wiring them upto your motherboard.
Here is the rig. Extremely pretty in the dark. I love how illuminated it is, im really proud to have built it. And a added 'bonus', the LED's on the fans increase and decrease in brightness when I lower and raise the speed on the fan controller, which just looks awesome. Anyway, thats me done for now! ill update with any changes and look forward to seeing what others achieve with this beautifull case.
*Edit*
Right, I installed my new hardware. And had a go with some cable tidying. I aimed for a modular PSU so I could avoid as less clutter as possible. Here are some pictures of the rebuild, I empied the case and refitted everything. Ive had the case for a while now and all the hardware is only a few months old, This is the first rig ive built with ALL parts purchased separately.
Not a very good shot of the rig how it was, Akasa 500W with a 7900GTO.
Here is all my current hardware stripped from the case. Ready for a total rewire.
Power Supply going in.
Out with the old and in with the new. The GTX is truly a beautifull card. I was worried at first that it wouldent fit in my case, due to my hard drives. and i was adament about not getting another case. So I gambled and it fit quite snug.
I reinstalled my CPU cooler, RAM and fitted the hard drives. And broke my fingers trying to plug the SATA's in, my ASUS Maximus bearly fits as you can see. But I got them in a stashed the cables underneath the hard drive bays. While I've got my fan controller wires scattered about waiting to be hidden.
Card in. As you can see the space between the hard disk and card are slim to none. and right now they are causing to card to gather excess heat. Im planning on buying a 1TB disk soon and transfering all my three drives over to that then mounting it above the card so it can take advantage of the lower intake fan. Which is a daunting task to say the least.
Wiring complete. The extra 3 pinners you see are for my door fans. I know the wiring isnt exactally clean but i have absolutely no where else to put them. And i dont have a dremmel to make holes into the back of the case. so it will have to do for now.
Power up. As you can see the only cabling causing a mess are the dual PCI's and the 24 pinner. When i get hold of a dremmel ill stick the 24 behind the mobo, but i dont know what to do with the PCI's seems as though they are positioned on the topside of the card. Any suggestions I would appreciate.
I wasnt originally that into lighting my Rig I always thought of it as a little excessive. But i bought two Enermax Everest fans to lower noise levels. And to my surprise they where illuminated and theyve totally swayed me, ive orderd a whole bunch more to replace my exhaust and lower intake!
350 pounds worth of card is quite daunting to fit if its your first high end card. I mean...just the outter shell looks expensive!
Fully reassembled and up and running. I was over the moon with the FPS i was getting in crysis. Anyway. I loved building it and I hope you enjoyed the read. Any comments negative or positive, please do share, id love some feedback.
Can I have a place in the club!
And by chance my new fans have just arrived as i was about to post, one 120mm and two 80mm. Im replacing the front intake and the exhaust and also adding a second fan to the side panel. Ill update with the results.
*Edit*
Ive got all my fans fitted now, all enermax thermal fans. 15DBA at the most, my rig would be absolutely silent if it wasnt for the whisper of my PSU.
Above and below, New rear exhaust and lower intake. It was rather difficult to get the front intake in, especially when trying to fit it with isolator mounts.
Here I fitted two enermax's on my side panel, the lower one is intake, to provide my card with cool air, it runs very hot. And the top one is exhaust, it sucks air from my CPU cooler and causes a lot more updraft in my case. The only downside to these enermax's is their thermal sensor. They determine the speed, but they are so short they are almost useless. Your componets could be over 60C and they would just still run slow due to the sensors not being able to detect the heat. But I found a solution. I pushed them into my water block sockets (the one with fusion printed onto it). So now they are constantly hot, and I can vary the speed with my controller. But a word of warning to anyone buying the Akasa fan controller on my rig. When you link it up to extrememly low running fans such as the enermax's I am using, if the speed drops below 390RPM the fan controller thinks that the fan has failed. And sounds its alarm, you must keep your fans settings at quarter turn to avoid this. When booting up the alarm also sounds because the fans are 'booting up'. I just added a little bluetac to the speaker to make it much quieter. I suppose the lesson here is dont buy thermal fans unless your wiring them upto your motherboard.
Here is the rig. Extremely pretty in the dark. I love how illuminated it is, im really proud to have built it. And a added 'bonus', the LED's on the fans increase and decrease in brightness when I lower and raise the speed on the fan controller, which just looks awesome. Anyway, thats me done for now! ill update with any changes and look forward to seeing what others achieve with this beautifull case.
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JustLink Studios
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Could someone tell me how to remove the hard drive bay for the centurion 5. Im not sure if i need to chisel the rivets off or if theres an easier way?
You need to take the rivets off. That is what I did with my wife's CM C5 for painting the bays different from the rest of the interior. You can re-rivet it back on or use 4-40 machine screws.
@Justlinkstudios. Nice rig! Love the components. How do you like the Akasa fan controller? I just ordered the same controller for my wife's CM C5 as well.
@Justlinkstudios. Nice rig! Love the components. How do you like the Akasa fan controller? I just ordered the same controller for my wife's CM C5 as well.
Hi guys i also modded some things with my centurion 5
this is how it was:
my cable management
this is how it is now
What i did:
- put a 120mm blue led fan in front in the 5.25" drivebay
- Changed the standard 80mm fan in front to a blue led fan
- Did some cable management in how far possible without cutting out holes
- Added 2 CCFL's one on top and one on bottom
- Changed rear fan for a Zalman quiet 120mm fan ( didn't go for a led one cause normal ones blow more and i need that in the back to compensate with my 2 front ones.
- Changed my sidepanel to a Windowed side panel
- Switched from an intel boxed cooler to a Coolermaster Hyper TX2
the front
inside with windowed panel
another one
my cable management now
I know the cable management can even be better, but since i use my PC daily i cba to get out all my stuff and cut some holes out hope u guys like it
this is how it was:
my cable management
this is how it is now
What i did:
- put a 120mm blue led fan in front in the 5.25" drivebay
- Changed the standard 80mm fan in front to a blue led fan
- Did some cable management in how far possible without cutting out holes
- Added 2 CCFL's one on top and one on bottom
- Changed rear fan for a Zalman quiet 120mm fan ( didn't go for a led one cause normal ones blow more and i need that in the back to compensate with my 2 front ones.
- Changed my sidepanel to a Windowed side panel
- Switched from an intel boxed cooler to a Coolermaster Hyper TX2
the front
inside with windowed panel
another one
my cable management now
I know the cable management can even be better, but since i use my PC daily i cba to get out all my stuff and cut some holes out
hope u guys like it JustLink Studios
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The Akasa fan controller is spot on Zenshi. I bought it when it first came out, so ive had it for quite some time, and its still one of the best of the market. Lots of extras in the box too so you can match it with what ever colour your rig is. So its a good buy man.
btw does anyone have any idea how to get the intel/asus/ati stickers of a sidepanel? i put them on it a while back, but since i have a new side panel now ( with a window ) i would like to get them off my old one so i can use them again and put them on the front of my case.
PS: sorry for the bad quality of the above pictures, its made with my samsung E900, i will make some better ones soon with a real camera.
if anyone has some further suggestions and idea's they are always welcome
PS: sorry for the bad quality of the above pictures, its made with my samsung E900, i will make some better ones soon with a real camera.
if anyone has some further suggestions and idea's they are always welcome
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hey sten. Those side panel stickers are usually quite sturdy so if you can get hold of an extremely thin blade such as a stanley knife or a scalpel you should be able to slip it underneath the stickers and get just enough leverage under them they will 'pop' off.
Well you were right JustLink Studios, the Akasa fan controller is very nice. Didn't realize it comes with 4 thermometers, and since its not pwm, its ideal for my wife's led fans...and it looks really nice.
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/akakfancopro.html
Anyway, recent few upgrades on my wife's Tropic Blue CM C5. Changed her Noctua U9 to a Zalman 9500 CNPS AM2. Though the U9 and 9500 cool equally well, since her rig is skt939, the old Noctua doesn't point to the back but up into her psu. The Zalman fixed that and looks pretty nice to boot. Also got 2Gb of GSkill RAM.
Replaced the center blue mesh with the blue faced Akasa controller. Set the display to hot pink. Put it back on her workstation. Though the last photo is hard to see, the blue green interior is starting to look like the Tropic Blue theme.
That's it for now.
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/akakfancopro.html
Anyway, recent few upgrades on my wife's Tropic Blue CM C5. Changed her Noctua U9 to a Zalman 9500 CNPS AM2. Though the U9 and 9500 cool equally well, since her rig is skt939, the old Noctua doesn't point to the back but up into her psu. The Zalman fixed that and looks pretty nice to boot. Also got 2Gb of GSkill RAM.
Replaced the center blue mesh with the blue faced Akasa controller. Set the display to hot pink. Put it back on her workstation. Though the last photo is hard to see, the blue green interior is starting to look like the Tropic Blue theme.
That's it for now.
Thanks, i will try later on
Hey guys, I'm jealous of everyone's case. I built my first computer last year but haven't
modded it yet. I'm trying to add two 80mm fans to the side panel but I'm having a few problems.
1) which ways should my fans be? Both intake or one intake+one exhaust?
2) If I use my fans as intake fans, they make an annoying buzzing noise. I've read it's
because of the way air passes through the grill holes. How do you guys deal with this?
My fans are running at 100% speed (26-28k rpm) because I don't have a fan controller to
lower the speed of my fans. I can get a controller if it will fix my problem.
Thanks, will post a pic of my computer later
modded it yet. I'm trying to add two 80mm fans to the side panel but I'm having a few problems.
1) which ways should my fans be? Both intake or one intake+one exhaust?
2) If I use my fans as intake fans, they make an annoying buzzing noise. I've read it's
because of the way air passes through the grill holes. How do you guys deal with this?
My fans are running at 100% speed (26-28k rpm) because I don't have a fan controller to
lower the speed of my fans. I can get a controller if it will fix my problem.
Thanks, will post a pic of my computer later
Use them as intake, since heat will move up, the rear 12cm fan and PSU fan will help exhaust outwards.
For the fans, look into a controller, also could look into some rubber grommets/spacers so the grill not right in front of them.
Real nice setup guys, been awhile since I visited this thread.
Thanks for the tips. The buzzing got so annoying that I decided to cut out the bottom side panel grill. The fan is currently exposed but I ordered a custom grill to fix it. I also placed an order for a Sunbeam fan controller. I'll pick up some rubber washers at the local store soon. I never realized how much work this turned out to be. It's worth it though since my GPU and ambient temps have dropped 10C.
Edit: added some pics, still waiting for fan controller + grill
^After joining this website and seeing some of the neat computers here, I tried to do a bit of cable management. Before this pic I had my power supply cables tucked under my dvd drive forming a nest type thing.
^I saw how people cut holes in order to improve cable management so I decided to do it too. Definitely made things cleaner.
^The right side of my computer. As you can tell, my power supply has A LOT of cables. It was not easy getting my side panel back on.
EDIT: added another HDD and fan controller
^Adding that side grill raises my temps 2C than without it but at least my toes are safe.
Edit: added some pics, still waiting for fan controller + grill
^After joining this website and seeing some of the neat computers here, I tried to do a bit of cable management. Before this pic I had my power supply cables tucked under my dvd drive forming a nest type thing.
^I saw how people cut holes in order to improve cable management so I decided to do it too. Definitely made things cleaner.
^The right side of my computer. As you can tell, my power supply has A LOT of cables. It was not easy getting my side panel back on.
EDIT: added another HDD and fan controller
^Adding that side grill raises my temps 2C than without it but at least my toes are safe.
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Well you were right JustLink Studios, the Akasa fan controller is very nice. Didn't realize it comes with 4 thermometers, and since its not pwm, its ideal for my wife's led fans...and it looks really nice.
Well like i said, its still one of the top sellers and best rated. Simplicity always looks best.
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nice job everybody
JustLink Studios
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It should fit just fine Pixel
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Spy troop, Those pictures are a bit hard to see my friend, too big, could you resize them?
If you're using Firefox, you can right click on the pictures and select "View Image." Then you can zoom in and out by holding down control and using the mouse wheel.