mkosem

And by mod I mean removal:



Dropped my full load temps from 63C to 60C with all else held constant. I need to straighten out some of the areas where the rivets were a little more hesitant to come out, but it was a relatively straight-forward job. I only like to have one or two hard drives anyways. Should I change my mind I'll go NAS. Makes a nice spot for a radiator too!

--Matt

repo_man

Now if you can just clean up the wiring some, it will be awesome!

Looks good though, how long did it take you?

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mkosem

It took me about an hour and a half with simple hand tools(pliers, side-cutters, and an awl specifically). If I had to do it again, I'd definitely buy a drill. Snipping the butts off of the rivets proved to be a little tough in some areas. I'm going to clean up the wiring when I install the TPower i45 that's coming on Wednesday. I figure I'll trim a hole above and a hole beneath the mobo, to feed the cables begind. No water cooling right now, since I'll be sticking a lapped TRUE on the CPU when I install the new mobo. I was going to install a WC system instead of the TRUE, but I want to wait until there are a. 4870X2s on the market, b. blocks for the 4870x2, and c. potentially the new intel cpus

--Matt

mkosem

Ended up changhing things a bit since, and ended up returning the i45, but I cleaned up the cabling a bit. Shimming the front fans and cleaning up cables dropped my case temp another degree.



--Matt

Sonic

I should consider this, I have my HD mounted in the 5.25" bays.

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mkosem

That would probably help even more in the 690. I bet that sideways hard drive bay area slows air flow down quite a bit!

--Mstt

onlycodered

I was actually thinking of getting a 300 and moving the hdd bays apart by only a small amount so I could add rubber grommets in the holes to dampen hdd noise.

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mkosem

There might be room to move the inner side of the hdd bay in a bit. You'd need to drill new holes for the rivets in that location, but it would probably fit.

--Matt

mkosem

Eventually stuck a WC in it. This is the most recent rev:

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