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Haven't done this in a while.

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This morning I was bored, so I decided to take apart my case and add a manual fan speed controller. The software based stuff just wasn't working for me!

Here's the mess I had to work with. This isn't an easy case to hide wires in because of all the stuff I have crammed in here....
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Now this is what I call a tight fit...That's a Scythe Mugen 2 cooler, talk about CLOSE!!
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After all is said and done:
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And the finished product!
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You might imagine the temps in this thing to be off the charts, but they're really quite good. I've only got my CPU running at 3.2 right now, and my video cards are clocked to 700/1300. Nothing crazy really.

After HOURS of gaming at highest settings in COD4 my CPU is at 48c and my video cards hit about 80c. And that's with the fans at minimum speed. Except the video card fans. Man are they ever loud!
 
Hmm, are those some sorta vents on the side panel closest to the video card? Wouldn't a fan fit in there? That would probably help temps a lot more than those two fans sitting on teh same corner, unless one's an intake and the other's an exhaust... But even then, the video card could be sitting in a dead spot (despite the vent near it), just putting it out there, hard to make sense of the layout w/the angle of those shots, heh (and the little sleep I've caught).
 
Yes, those are vents, and I have a Noctura fan blowing right on the video cards, and two Noctura's exhausting the hot air.

I don't really think the temps are that bad, I've see alot worse (like when I set my fans on my GPUs to manual and they were at 40% and I started gaming...that lasted about 10 minutes before things started going south!!)
 
Matthew Kane said:
Why not just buy a normal pc case? Less effort, runs cooler, and more expansion.
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Because I got to lan parties whenever I can and I'm sick and tired of lugging around a massive case. As for temps, they're well within safe spec.

The only thing I had to do that's a little on the funky side is put a small 40mm (or so) fan blowing on the NB heatsink. Other than that, everything runs nicely.

I also love the idea that I've jammed all this stuff into a case this size! If I could go smaller I would. But there's just no way to fit this into a smaller case.
 
My V2000B Plus II. Specs are in my sig. I am planning to upgrade the video cards this summer. That is why the PCIX power cords are lying there.

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Matthew Kane said:
Yeah....the top drive that died recently (I dropped it on the floor) was a 250GB Western Digital. Well 26GB is plenty for what I do...if you look at the name of the server in my previous post. You would know what I mean, and the files only take a mere few kilobytes.

@ZMTT: Yeah your right, the old days when a 10GB was sufficient enough for a family computer, but I'm planning to get a RAID pata PCI card and install that. Any idea if I can buy 2 PCI cards and RAID em?
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If the card handles the raid, it can only look after the disk pools on the same card. If you did a ZFS raid with Solaris or OpenSolaris (or even FreeBSD / Max OS X now), you can pool disks from different controllers.
 
are noctus fans really that much better than yates? The color scheme really seems distracting, and it seems a lot of people are using them. Is it for the performance, or do you guys actually like the color scheme?
 
I like Noctua for the whole package. I really like the color scheme and I love the features that come with it. Sleeved cable, adapters, rubber grommets, and the quality of the fan itself is very high. I'm sure yates win in terms of bang for the buck, but they aren't exactly the best when it comes to quality, but hey, if it works, it works.

The Noctua's are quiet, but just a tad louder than the S-Flex.

Noctua's warantty is also first class. Even though they are located all the way in austria, you get a new replacement of your fan within 5-10 business days.
 
Pretty sure it's just a fan-duct type of thingy some cases have, Li-Li's in particular. Could be wrong tho...
 
very nice, super clean and with added cooling :p def. a digg


nukeulater, that looks AWESOME. well done
 
do you guys think it's funny how psu makers go through all that trouble to sleeve the lines but leave the most critical portion ugly and unsleeved? The last couple inches by the connectors I mean.

In fact of a lot of hide all but the part they don't cover. kind of silly. (but not as silly as mobo makers color choices)
 
malicious said:
do you guys think it's funny how psu makers go through all that trouble to sleeve the lines but leave the most critical portion ugly and unsleeved? The last couple inches by the connectors I mean.

In fact of a lot of hide all but the part they don't cover. kind of silly. (but not as silly as mobo makers color choices)
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yup that mobo cable from the psu is too short to run at teh back of my case plus how can i hide the USB cables??

any advice on my cable skills?
 
malicious said:
do you guys think it's funny how psu makers go through all that trouble to sleeve the lines but leave the most critical portion ugly and unsleeved? The last couple inches by the connectors I mean.

In fact of a lot of hide all but the part they don't cover. kind of silly. (but not as silly as mobo makers color choices)
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The reason that they leave the last bit un-sleeved is because the sleeving makes the cables very un-flexible, and that is where flexibility is the most important.
 
jonneymendoza said:
yup that mobo cable from the psu is too short to run at teh back of my case plus how can i hide the USB cables??

any advice on my cable skills?
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Cable skills? Looks like you didn't do any cable mgmt AT ALL to me. It's not that difficult.
 
@jonneymendoza: Can't you pin those USB cables between the PSU and the far side of the case (where the mobo sits)? Looks like there's space in between, do you even use 'em tho? Even if you can't hide any of those cables, you could do a MUCH better job of running them from one side of the case to the other and/or tying them into bundles with zip ties, if nothing else so they impede airflow a lil' less. Ditto for a couple of the other cables...

The SATA and front panel cables you should be able to pull and tuck them behind the HD area so all that slack isn't bouncing around with the PSU cables by the mobo area... The 4-pin PSU cable going to the mobo you could run under the video card and/or along the back edge of the case. At some point you're talking about aesthetics more than anything but using some zip ties at the very 'least should improve airflow a lil' bit imo. 'Course if you cut some holes you could do a bang up job w/everything but that's another story... Cases like that one with the PSU at the bottom really benefit from some holes for cable routing though.
 
Modred189 said:
The reason that they leave the last bit un-sleeved is because the sleeving makes the cables very un-flexible, and that is where flexibility is the most important.
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I think the main reason is more cost than anything else. They sleeve up to where they can with a single sleeve. To go past that, you'd need to sleeve the individual wires which takes a lot more time.
 
skyline889 said:
I think the main reason is more cost than anything else. They sleeve up to where they can with a single sleeve. To go past that, you'd need to sleeve the individual wires which takes a lot more time.
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unless of coarse they figure something else out
 
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rofl. this is a teaser of mine. it's twice as bad now. pics tomorrow. sorry in advance in making y'all cry. :D

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