CM 690 II side panel mod attempt!

Scon · 26 Mar 2011 at 20:41

I was bored and found the old dremel so though why not have some fun and start my first ever proper mod with a windowed side panel for my new 690 II. ( I never had the balls to cut up the 800D )

My first time using a dremmel not too bad i think, i hope. I'm planning on getting some clear acrylic and sticking it to the inner side, but as you can see it pic no. 3 there is not much space at the top bit to stick it down. Reckon it will be sufficient just using the other 3 sides?

I tried to do some rounded edges, but failed so just ended up "rounding" one of them with a sanding peice thingy. It's not finished and ill post some finished pics tomorrow if i can get a hold of some acrylic tomorrow (doubtfull)

I am also thinking of spraying the front mesh, drive bays, hard drive thingies and possibly the GPU heat shroud thing as i have a spare from the 570 that died. Don't know what it would look like as i have a blue gigabyte motherboard but i cannot stand blue!

Any suggestions?

Some pics,

MouthBoy · 26 Mar 2011 at 23:23

Nice work. You just need some edge trimming now.

Thats my custom CM-690 side panel. I didnt want everything shown, just the main stuffs. PSU and HDDs are hidden.

Scon · 26 Mar 2011 at 23:26

smeaney said:
Nice work. You just need some edge trimming now.

Thats my custom CM-690 side panel. I didnt want everything shown, just the main stuffs. PSU and HDDs are hidden.

Thanks! That looks really neat!

Just oredering some neoprene edging trim and some pre modded cables, should be ok when done. I'm not after something stunning

MouthBoy · 26 Mar 2011 at 23:52

Would you not agree that this case would have been better to come with a window instead of the side cooling fans? Ok then maybe we wouldnt have such individual systems but you know what I mean?

Scon · 26 Mar 2011 at 23:53

smeaney said:
Would you not agree that this case would have been better to come with a window instead of the side cooling fans? Ok then maybe we wouldnt have such individual systems but you know what I mean?

Yup, i just refuse to pay for a pre modded one.

Good fun though modding them

SeeknDestroy · 27 Mar 2011 at 00:24

I think you can just get the side window panel for it

MouthBoy · 27 Mar 2011 at 00:27

SeeknDestroy said:
I think you can just get the side window panel for it

You can, but the window panel from cooler master looks really bad and they whacked a horrible fan hole in it.

Scon · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:59

SeeknDestroy said:
I think you can just get the side window panel for it

Yeah, but that is no fun!

smeaney said:
You can, but the window panel from cooler master looks really bad and they whacked a horrible fan hole in it.

And that.

~REALiTY · 27 Mar 2011 at 10:21

How did you go about sticking the window on?

Scon · 27 Mar 2011 at 10:49

~REALiTY said:
How did you go about sticking the window on?

It's not on yet...

Gonna get it on monday and stick on the back with some double sided tape.

Scon · 27 Mar 2011 at 18:47

Excuse the patches, this is just a test to see what the few colours i had looked like.

I do like the look of that brown!

I'm thinking of doing the GPU shroud, the HDD bay slide out thingies and the front mesh.