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post #1581 of 1868
7/30/12 at 6:15pm
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New review of a mid tower case I'm starting to like more and more, the HAF XM:

Cooler Master HAF XM @ Madshrimps

How do you guys see this case with two top intake fans? (it lacks of any bottom fan position)

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It's a moderate/high ceiling case, totally you can get four 200mm intake fans and one central internal 150-170mm fan, removing the top hdd (half) cage cool.gif

Another pic of the top position:

http://i.haymarket.net.au/Galleries/20120525034126_IMG_7065.JPG

 

Excellent case. You can get all-intake by removing your rear grill with a nibbler.

Remove the backplane slot covers.

 

For 200mm intake fans? Looks sweet.

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post #1582 of 1868
8/1/12 at 3:10pm
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Excellent case. You can get all-intake by removing your rear grill with a nibbler.

Case manufacturers should make cases with removable rear grills... (well not only Lian Li and Silverstone which are both pricy biggrin.gif).
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post #1583 of 1868
8/2/12 at 7:36am
even a lot of lian li's cases have rear grills, kinda makes me arrrg.
anyways you would think it's cheaper to have no grill than to have one
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8/2/12 at 6:52pm
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It's the aluminum cases that lack rear "grills." Check out some Silverstones, for example.

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post #1585 of 1868
8/11/12 at 3:46pm
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Someone else will have to tell you the answer to your question. I just want to say that IMO this is an excellent example of a good airflow plan.

Well, over a year, and I actually updated my air-flow plan (Finally) from the previous plan I had posted in this thread, page 15.

Here is the old plan:



So here is the new plan I run:


This case is a Cooler Master 690 still, but with modifications done by CyberDruid last year, which was the removal of the 120mm fan grill on the rear side of the case. To follow ehume's guide here.

I forgot what brand the 80mm fan on the right grill, that is behind the CPU side of the motherboard, but it's one of those low-profile and low cfm types with low dB levels.

Here's a shot of the opening where the fan grill used to be:



The rubber grommets are still in place, but I suppose I could benefit in removing those?

Here's the right side panel with the 80mm fan:



Then the left side, I had to mount the 140mm fan on the outside of the case due to clearance issues of my CPU cooler.



I'll get some temperature tests done later. I kinda have to re-overclock my system since I reset the BIOS lately. Then compare it to some older temperature tests from back then I had! thumb.gif

Right now I it's a little noisy, mainly because I haven't turned the majority of the fans down in speed for a quieter operation, but I find it to still be quieter than my old build that had two high CFM 80mm fans, boy did those make some noise...


Thank You ehume for this amazing guide, I actually recommend this guide to anyone I see.
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post #1586 of 1868
8/11/12 at 4:21pm
Remove your D14's third fan (P12), it is useless
And so is the right side 80mm fan, remove this one too and your noise level will decrease a bit more wink.gif
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8/12/12 at 12:14pm
Can't tell from the pic, but make sure that 120mm side fan is an exhaust fan. arrow0309 is correct - no need for 3rd fan on NH-D14 and 80mm side fan.
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8/15/12 at 10:20am
Hey guys, could I get your opinions on how I should set this up?

So I'm rebuilding my desktop as a Mini-ITX Gaming Rig in a week or so and I'm set on the Bitfenix Prodigy but I'm not 100% sure how to setup the cooling.



I'll be using a Corsair H60 cooler and a Gigabyte GTX 670 video card which looks like this.



I'll be removing the main drive cage to fit the card and I can remove the optical drive bay as well.

I'll be tossing a Bitfenix Spectre Pro 230mm fan as front intake but I'm not sure how to configure the rest given this case's layout.

Front 230mm intake, 120mm intakes on the top slots and Corsair H60 on the rear slot exhausting out?

Alternatively, if I went with the intel stock cooler, how would I want to configure my setup?

Any advice would be appreciated.
Edited by Siegfried262 - 8/15/12 at 12:34pm
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8/24/12 at 1:22pm
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Can't tell from the pic, but make sure that 120mm side fan is an exhaust fan. arrow0309 is correct - no need for 3rd fan on NH-D14 and 80mm side fan.

I thought the side 120mm fan was supposed to be intake, from what some of ehume's posts have shown? headscratch.gif
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post #1590 of 1868
8/24/12 at 3:20pm
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Can't tell from the pic, but make sure that 120mm side fan is an exhaust fan. arrow0309 is correct - no need for 3rd fan on NH-D14 and 80mm side fan.

I thought the side 120mm fan was supposed to be intake, from what some of ehume's posts have shown? headscratch.gif


Try intake and exhaust. There are no right answers here. Just ideas, experiments and results.

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Mugen 2 + 2 x San Ace PWM 9S1212P4M011's + PWM ... Win7 64-bit Dell 1905FP Dell PS/2 from 1997 
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Seasonic X-650 fully modular 80+ Gold NZXT Beta Evo, grills gone Logitech Mouseman Wheel (antique from late 1990's) Star Trek NG 
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i7 860 Gigabyte GA P55M UD2 ZOTAC/NVidia GTX 650 Ti 2GB 4x4GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1333 CAS9 
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Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F3 7200.12 Plextor 24x DVD burner Cooler Master Hyper Z600R Win7 64-bit 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
Dell E207WFP 20-inch flat panel Logitech Wireless 510 Seasonic X-650 fully modular 80+ Gold Lian Li PC-7FN 
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Wireless Mouse WACOM Intuos 3 generic 
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i7 875k to 4GHz BCLK=133MHz Vcore = Normal+0.03... Asus P7P55D-E Pro (beware) - multi 9 to 30x Gigabyte/ATI Radeon HD 4670 w/ 1GB DDR3 G.Skill Low Profile 4x2GB 9-9-9-24 @ 1600MHz 
Hard DriveHard DriveHard DriveOptical Drive
Vertex 3 Crucial C300 128GB |  Barracuda 7200.12 Plextor 24x DVD PX-880SA 
CoolingOSMonitorKeyboard
Mugen 2 + 2 x San Ace PWM 9S1212P4M011's + PWM ... Win7 64-bit Dell 1905FP Dell PS/2 from 1997 
PowerCaseMouseMouse Pad
Seasonic X-650 fully modular 80+ Gold NZXT Beta Evo, grills gone Logitech Mouseman Wheel (antique from late 1990's) Star Trek NG 
Audio
really old stuff 
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CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
i7 860 Gigabyte GA P55M UD2 ZOTAC/NVidia GTX 650 Ti 2GB 4x4GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1333 CAS9 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F3 7200.12 Plextor 24x DVD burner Cooler Master Hyper Z600R Win7 64-bit 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
Dell E207WFP 20-inch flat panel Logitech Wireless 510 Seasonic X-650 fully modular 80+ Gold Lian Li PC-7FN 
MouseMouse PadAudio
Wireless Mouse WACOM Intuos 3 generic 
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