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[mpcrsc562]

i'm not a know-it-all, but i did know that one... i just thought it looked cooler.

lol, I hope you don't think I am I've just read that it may actually hurt performance having both bridges attached. It does look the business though

how do you have the fan in the 5.25 drive bay mounted?

The fan in the bay is a real "hi-tech solution" - Blue tack on the bottom and a satay stick on the top. No vibration and it's secure :D

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is that fan for show or does it help with air flow? i got a couple of non-l.e.d. fans laying around...

 

[smarteyeball]

It's partly show, partly helpful. How helpful? I can't really give a definitive answer....

It does blow cool air straight onto the ram and one side of the CPU heatsink. It also helps push a little cool air behind the mobo too.

Basically it helps control the side fan flow a little while giving a few potential benefits.

If you've got a spare, give it a go and see if you feel it makes a difference. Just don't place the fan close to the front grill as the noise increases dramatically.

 

[mpcrsc562]

will do. thanks for the tip on placement.

 

[smarteyeball]

I made a few minor changes:

I had a 120mm fan on the bottom solely to exhaust cool air out the bottom of the case for the PSU to intake. I replaced the 120 with an old AMD CPU cooler fan and moved the 120mm fan to help augment the front 230mm.



By moving the 120mm, It actually knocked a few degrees off the HDD temps as well as providing a little extra cool air for the video cards to intake.



I said my cable management was getting lazier (it was neat once upon a time )

 

[roy69]

Patrick, all your cables are behind the mobo. That is about as tidy as you can get.
If it does not effect the airflow and can not be seen, then dont worry about it.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Ya know, the more pics I see of that ugly HAF, the more I like it.

 

[smarteyeball]

Patrick, all your cables are behind the mobo. That is about as tidy as you can get.
If it does not effect the airflow and can not be seen, then dont worry about it.

That's pretty much my school of thinking too mate. I was just a little surprised at how 'wild' I let that side get as I kept adding more devices and cables. All the airflow is working where it counts and as long as I can put the side on, it's all good

Ya know, the more pics I see of that ugly HAF, the more I like it.

 

[ShArKy]

hey well at least one side is ok..lol...i think the only way to build a really clean system, is to have everything custom made and slave over it like i did..lol

i put my system up on page 157

 

[EwanG]

Given the discussion on how to minimize cabling, it seems like one idea would be to have a case with the common cables "built in" so that you just have a little bit sticking out to plug into the drive or the motherboard or the power supply. That might be a bit spendy since there would probably need to be different versions of the case for each of the major motherboard manufacturers... unless folks were willing to adopt a standard.

Still, that would certainly be a cool looking (and probably easier to cool) box.

 

[smarteyeball]

hey well at least one side is ok..lol...i think the only way to build a really clean system, is to have everything custom made and slave over it like i did..lol

i put my system up on page 157

Lol, yeah. You spend so much time making sure one little wire is neat from one angle, only to forgot about the other 5 loose cables... then you say "bugger it" and then shove the rest in

Nice rig BTW

Given the discussion on how to minimize cabling, it seems like one idea would be to have a case with the common cables "built in" so that you just have a little bit sticking out to plug into the drive or the motherboard or the power supply. That might be a bit spendy since there would probably need to be different versions of the case for each of the major motherboard manufacturers... unless folks were willing to adopt a standard.

Still, that would certainly be a cool looking (and probably easier to cool) box.

It's nice to dream *sigh*

 

[mpcrsc562]

Quote Smarteyeball: "I said my cable management was getting lazier (it was neat once upon a time )"



i think mine is worse (just don't have the pics to prove it). along with of the other wiring, all of my psu cables are routed behind the motherboard too (i was surprised and happy that the cpu power was long enough to connect without using the extension). anyway, when i finished routing all of my cables, i almost could not get the panel back on the case!

 

[smarteyeball]

anyway, when i finished routing all of my cables, i almost could not get the panel back on the case!

There were a couple of times I couldn't Luckily the sides on this case have some bulges

 

[Everlong]

anyway, when i finished routing all of my cables, i almost could not get the panel back on the case!

There were a couple of times I couldn't Luckily the sides on this case have some bulges

I had to more or less sit on my case to get the back to stay on while i put the screws back on!

 

[roy69]

anyway, when i finished routing all of my cables, i almost could not get the panel back on the case!

There were a couple of times I couldn't Luckily the sides on this case have some bulges

I had to more or less sit on my case to get the back to stay on while i put the screws back on!

I use an old antec 900 case that I may be getting a drill and some plastic sleeving to make holes so I can put the cables away.

 

[smarteyeball]

We should start a new thread dedicated to rear cable management shots.

We could call it "show us your rear"

 

[thepizzaman]

We should start a new thread dedicated to rear cable management shots.

We could call it "show us your rear"

i'd go for that haha

 

[EmulatorX]

hey there , i havent been on here in a bit, was on vaca, but some nice looking rigs guys, keep em comin

 

[ShArKy]

hrm...i'm gonna be building a new tower in a few days..i'll throw up some pics or update my set on page 157 here..nice to see everyone's creations :D

 

[Dick Jagger]

This was the cheapest laptop (notebook) you could buy in the US in January '09 and it is pretty fantastic for the price. I actually used an additional $100 coupon for Best Buy which brought it down to $299! No one could come close to the specs of this for anywhere near the price...

Acer Aspire 4730Z
Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz, 2166 Mhz, 2 Cores, 2 Logical Processors
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Service Pack 2 Build 6002

Logitech S150 Digital USB Speaker System http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/p...ators/products/speakers/devices/3757&cl=gb,en simply the best sounding cheap ($14 USD) usb speakers out there...

and the Seagate Expansion 1TB External Drive now available for $109 USD.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/expansion/expansion_desktop

and an older Seagate 300GB internal harddrive in a very nice (and cheap) Acomdata Samba Hard Drive Enclosure. http://www.acomdata.com/701.asp

 

[LordJohnx3]

Here's mine, the Sony Vaio VGN-FW351J/H, pretty good notebook, cost me 800 dollars:
Specs:
Vista Home Premium x64, SP2
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6400 @ 2.00 GHz
4GB
Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Blu-ray combo drive
And my mouse is a: V220 Cordless Optical Mouse for Notebooks

A bit messy, sorry, haven't cleaned up my desk in a while

UPDATED: BETTER QUALITY PICTURE:D