[Official] Phantom 410 Mid-Tower Owner's Club - Page 132

Originally Posted by Swuell 

Hey were you able to get all the 4 holes aligned properly to fit the screws?? If so how?? I could only fit 3... with the bottom most right still slightly aligned to the upper right.

Originally Posted by chino1974 

Thank You w-moffatt. It's not done yet either still have a few more things planned for her. As for the heat you asked about. It's not bad at all. What I did was since the second card I got was a non-reference card I put that one in the bottom slot. Like that since it's shorter than the reference card it doesn't block the blower fan on the top card. And the top reference card also blows the hot air out the back of the case so there's not much heat build up coming off the cards. To be honest the non-reference card actually runs alil cooler than the reference one. Not sure if it's because the blower fan is sucking in some of the heat coming off the bottom card? But last night I added a 140mm NZXT fan inside the case between the gpus and front 120 radiator. So it'll be pulling the intake air that's coming through the front rad and blowing it onto the gpus. Hopefully it'll help alil. Either way I'll let you know how it works out later today after I get a chance to run a session of BF3 or Crysis 2 to get it running full throttle. And as for them making sleeved power cables for the gpu's. The black power cables on my top gpu are Mod Right branded pre sleeved extensions. I bought them cause I thought it was going to be to hard to sleeve them myself. But now that I see I can do them myself like I said I'm going to be making my own sleeved wire from now on for my rigs. Honestly for being a store bought product I didn't like how much shrink they used on the sleeve ends. The 24 pin extension I got was the same brand and as you see the didn't use any at all as far as I can see. And the red gpu power cables I sleeved I didn't use shrink wrap on the and they look way better. When I have a chance I'm going to be sleeving all the wiring in my case myself. Like that I can cut everything to custom lengths. That way it'll be alot cleaner in the cable management dept. and look alot better when you take of the right side panel. Why you don't like the sleeving I did? Is there somrthing I could've done to make them look better? I just have the idea that when it comes to modding pc's just like cars the more you do yourself the more of an extension of you and your personality the build becomes. I like trying to do as much as possible myself. Don't get me wrong there a few guys on OCN that are unreal at what they do but if I can I'd rather learn how to do things myself. Just like the backplates for the GPU's I bought one from DWOOD and I love it. But for the second card I'm going to make one myself out of acrylic to see how it comes out.