Corsair Carbide Air 540 Builds

I was being partially sarcastic, but no, a NAS is Network Attached Storage, primarily there for bulk storage somewhere else, such as media etc.

I'd personally say go for a couple of big SSD's, I plan to when I have the budget, but at the moment I just have my old 3.5" drive in the front hotswap bay, it doesn't look that bad in my opinion!
 
abbotsmike said:
I was being partially sarcastic, but no, a NAS is Network Attached Storage, primarily there for bulk storage somewhere else, such as media etc.

I'd personally say go for a couple of big SSD's, I plan to when I have the budget, but at the moment I just have my old 3.5" drive in the front hotswap bay, it doesn't look that bad in my opinion!
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Ok lol
I have quite big selection of games/music and movies so SSDs alone are not enough.
My reason for moving the drives at the back was to give the bottom gpu space for air. With the drive they was neck and neck.
 
Yeah I noticed that when I had a GPU in the lowest slot. I only have one drive in the front caddy though, and my GPU's are only 270's, so it doesn't actually obstruct airflow! Only had 2 in there briefly as well, one lives in a seperate machine normally.
 
Here's mine...
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Fully air cooled, this currently comprises a 4770K (4.5GHz), Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H (F7 BIOS), 8GB G-Skill RipjawsX 1600, Samsung 128GB Evo SSD, 2x1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDDs, Sapphire 7950 Vapor-X (1080/1300 iirc).
Cooling: 3x120mm Xigmatek Blackline- front
2x stock Corsair 140mm in the top
Last stock Corsair as rear outlet.
Finally, two Bitfenix SpectrePRO 140 PWMs on a Prolimatech Black Genesis cooler.
Lamptron FC6 fan controller- only four-port so need to upgrade or change to PWM all round. Hmm.
Next upgrade (once Percy Plastic has recovered a little) is better RAM and SpectrePROs throughout.
I'll follow with some internal shots later- my phone camera is pathetic with the flash!
 
roosta said:
If you have positive pressure in the case you won't need to use any filters at all (except on the fan intakes) as air will be moving out of the case. Dust will never be a problem if you follow this golden rule.
I know it's obvious but I'll say it anyway, positive pressure is achieved by having more fans blowing into the case than out.
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I do have positive pressure, or close to it. Maybe my two graphics cards (blowers) end up giving me negative pressure though. Not sure there is much i can do about that.

Intake
3x120MM GT's 1850 (front)
1x140MM AF 140 (Rear)

Exhaust
2x120MM GT's 1850 (top)


Danny75 said:
Hi Matt,

The 540 Air Demciflex filter for the bottom is 148 x 313mm.

So this "should" work:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Silverstone SST-FF142B Magnetic Fan Filter - 320x155mm £5.99
Total : £8.96 (includes shipping : £2.48).

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Legend. Many thanks.

Th0nt said:
I think Matt knows that tbh.

Have you modded the bottom Matt? I created a ghetto solution that I have yet to fit yet, must stop playing BF4 and browsing here! :)
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I'm using sellotaped paper atm lol. Looks crap but does keep the dust out for now.
 
Thought id let you guys know. ColdZero finally make a lightbox for the 540!
Purchased mine, so I can upload pictures for you all if you want.
 
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