Well now that I have gotten my new case and installed everything in there it is time to rant and rave again.

The Case

The case is a COOLER MASTER Centurion 590 which comes with a drive cage pre-installed and a rear exhaust fan. I installed the drive cage that I had in my previous case, but changed out the fan to one of the four Scythe 120mm "Slipstream" 110cfm case fans that I ordered for the case. Two of the other fans went in the top as exhaust fans and the...

In Part 2 of My Spider Adventure I will be covering some of the changes I have made so far and the good and bad of each.

Cooling:

The main issue I have with my system is cooling. I believe this is more related to the case that anything else. So I decided to add some additional fans.

I first started by ordering the following harddrive cage with a 120mm fan attached:

Cooler Master 4 in 3

I then pulled an old 80mm fan from the stock...

It has been several years since I have built a new pc from scratch. Even then I typically go for the pretty cheap stuff. However this time around I have gone for something a little more....well fun.

The Spider - The Reason

The reason I went with AMD and the Spider platform is because it sounded like it would be something cool to have and it looked like it would preform great. I am not against Intel by no means but after comparing the cost at the time I gathered the parts...