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post #3701 of 7741
8/9/12 at 2:42pm
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Had my R3 for about a year. Yesterday I moved my fan controller to the front of the case,and got jealous of the new R4's so I drilled out my rivets and took out my drive cage tongue.gif I also took the opportunity to flip my PSU fan-side up and clean up cable management a bit...
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Fan controller knob is barely visible on top
I put the SSD in my empty drive bay under my optical disk, and laid the HDD down on the bottom of the case and ontop of foam I had laying around from some packaging to maybe absorb the vibrations and noise from it. The stuff is pretty stiff and seems sort of plastic-y so it might be amplifying more than its helping :S
All in all I'd say it was a successful day of cost-free ghetto modding (I'm broke atm if you can't tell! tongue.gif)
Thinking about adding some fan ducts on the case fans next? Maybe direct some of that flow better...
Hmm not bad, I dont see a Massive improvement but i can see you have taken out the HDD bays To get better airflow thumb.gifWarning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
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new rig coming up..
crappy pic from my lumia 800 phone...
Still alot of work that needs to be done, this is just a test fitting..
- gpu block
- sleeve cables from pump, fan controller and 5mm led.
- drill out hole for plexiglass / acrylic
- 4 x 45 degfree rotaries
-1x 30 degree rotary and a bitspower drain valve smile.gif
and cable management tongue.gif
Not bad Looks like so far.
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post #3702 of 7741
8/9/12 at 2:51pm
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Hmm not bad, I dont see a Massive improvement but i can see you have taken out the HDD bays To get better airflow thumb.gifWarning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Not bad Looks like so far.

thanks smile.gif

As said , just a test fitting, been without a computer for 3 weeks now so...needed one tongue.gif

Will be doing it proper when I get the other parts smile.gif
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post #3703 of 7741
8/9/12 at 3:11pm
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Originally Posted by robollama View Post

Had my R3 for about a year. Yesterday I moved my fan controller to the front of the case,and got jealous of the new R4's so I drilled out my rivets and took out my drive cage tongue.gif I also took the opportunity to flip my PSU fan-side up and clean up cable management a bit...
Before: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
7BYYBl.jpg
After: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Lzhns.jpg
Fan controller knob is barely visible on top
I put the SSD in my empty drive bay under my optical disk, and laid the HDD down on the bottom of the case and ontop of foam I had laying around from some packaging to maybe absorb the vibrations and noise from it. The stuff is pretty stiff and seems sort of plastic-y so it might be amplifying more than its helping :S
All in all I'd say it was a successful day of cost-free ghetto modding (I'm broke atm if you can't tell! tongue.gif)
Thinking about adding some fan ducts on the case fans next? Maybe direct some of that flow better...

great forward thinking. you'd benefit in a better sense to mount the 3.5 in the opti bay, mount SSD (velcro) on
motherboard tray, get some better intake fans. the R3 was not a air-flow conscience case... it needs help.
remove the exhaust fan to the intake position till you can get a better fan setup for the intake.
is the front intake fan setup as exhaust? it looks turned around as exhaust?

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post #3704 of 7741
8/9/12 at 4:23pm
Finally, after three weeks waiting, I got the PSU. Ordered it together with the Arc Midi, but the damn thing was out of stock.
Will move all my stuff from the old case to the Arc this weekend. Cooling will be OK, with five 140 mm case fans. All intake, I remove the back exhaust fan and place it in the top front fan position. Also will remove the expansion brackets in the back of the case, so the air can exhaust freely. And with two 120 mm heat sink fans, and one 135 mm fan on the PSU to finish it all of.
Edited by Flanders finest - 8/9/12 at 4:29pm
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post #3705 of 7741
8/9/12 at 5:05pm
I have all my parts and currently working on my build. I was wondering how i would be able to put both my HDD and SSD in the 5,25 inch bays. And how do i remove the lower HDD tray? Build is going slowly but surely, watching youtube videos since it is my first build.
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post #3706 of 7741
8/9/12 at 6:06pm
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...and one 135 mm fan on the PSU to finish it all of.

i wouldn't count on the PSU fan for a whole lot of anything... most of the PSU (and lately all) won't ramp the
fan up until 60-80% load.some are completely passive till then. fan up for looks only.

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I have all my parts and currently working on my build. I was wondering how i would be able to put both my HDD and SSD in the 5,25 inch bays. And how do i remove the lower HDD tray? Build is going slowly but surely, watching youtube videos since it is my first build.

there are several companies that make a dual HDD/SSD bracket for the 3.5/5.25 bays. holds one 3.5 and one
2.5 or 2 2.5 drives. or use your bay adapter for the 3.5 and velco the SSD to the motherboard tray (front or back)
or ontop of the HDD...
you'll ahve to drill the 4 rivets on the bottom of the case and the three on the front chassis to remove the lower
portion of the HDD cages.



leave the upper in and secured. drill the front panel rivet first, support the HDD cage when drilling or the brace will
bend. flip case onto the top and drill the lower four in the front rivets. remove top cage, remove lower cage and last
remove the upper guide (4-phillips screws) bolt it all back together and store for later.


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post #3707 of 7741
8/10/12 at 1:38am
Finally finished my build. Will post pics soon. Not very happy with these CPU Temps (I have a Havik 140). Now I'm wondering if i applied thermal grease wrong.


Edited by ahsjose - 8/10/12 at 2:57am
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post #3708 of 7741
8/10/12 at 6:18am
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Finally finished my build. Will post pics soon. Not very happy with these CPU Temps (I have a Havik 140). Now I'm wondering if i applied thermal grease wrong. Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

I would re apply it if I had such differences between the cores. It's quite warm today in Uk and my Q6600 3.2 1.4v idling at 40c.

Give Core Temp a try, I prefer it to realtemp.
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post #3709 of 7741
8/10/12 at 9:03am
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I would re apply it if I had such differences between the cores. It's quite warm today in Uk and my Q6600 3.2 1.4v idling at 40c.
Give Core Temp a try, I prefer it to realtemp.

Yea, I will do it tomorrow morning. Hopefully I do it right this time. What method is preferred? Spreading it or just putting some in the middle and letting gravity do the rest.

This is my setup right now.

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post #3710 of 7741
8/10/12 at 11:36am
I like the grain of rice/small pea method. Heat sink will spread the paste for you optimally. smile.gif

Set up looking sweet btw! Jealous. biggrin.gif
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