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pnuttz

upp there it goes

DavidNJ

I just counted...I have 14 fans in my CM-690:

• 4 140mm: 2 top, 1 side, 1 bottom. I needed to remove one side to clear the HSF.
• 1 130mm in the CM 1000w PSU
• 5 120mm: 1 back, 1 in front of the HDD bay reversed to pull rather than push, two on the HSF, and one on the video card
• 1 80mm on the back of the motherboard
• 3 little ones on the Corsair memory cooler.

To the 140s and the 80mm have blue LEDs. The 80mm's LED is rather bright.

Adding watercooling may add 3 fans (restoring a fifth 140mm to the side panel and going from 2 on the HSF to 4 on the radiator) and changing to a 780i motherboard will add one on the northbridge. That would bring the totoal to 18 fans by the end of the month!

Flower

Loud?

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DavidNJ

Not really. There is a noise, maybe closer to a forced air heating duct in quality and level. Don't have a metter but would estimate low to mid 40s overall based on auto idle sounds.

The 140s are rated to be rather quiet. All four of them a pressurizing the case. the PSU draws its own air underneight the case. Six of the fans only move air within the case. The disk drive fan had 5 disks in front of it (a full bay) restricting flow. The only 'loud' fans are on the CPU, and one of them is on PWM. All the others are individually rated under 30dBa.

The flow is interesting. When I removed the tape over the unused side vent (I taped it over when I removed the fan to clear the HSF), case temps reported by Riva jumped 5C. When I move to an external radiator (I will try 37dBA 110cfm Scythes and 20dBa 55cfm Noctuas).

Flower

Cool. I have a 110CFM Scythe @ 12V and it isn't loud at all (I don't have side panels on either).

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Triplesec

Sounds good to me........SLi FTW!!!

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DavidNJ

However, 6 of them outside the case might be!

weazel

oh finally its here, i have not assembled the rest though, window mod is done


the emptyness....

spikey88

just got my 690 this weekend and have been carrying out the necessary mods to house my watercooling setup. So far ive cut through the top of the steel chassis and fitted the 360 radiator, next thing i need to do is cut through the plastic which goes on top of it, which will include getting rid of all the connections on top - no big deal cause i have all of them already.

here are some piccies: (apologies for the bluriness)