JEB'S CM690 Mod 2011

ZZZAC · 26 Aug 2011 at 16:14

jameseboy said:
ahhh, the bottom mounted I have means i can direct the hot air from inside the psu straight out the base of the case whereas the top mounted ones blast it into the case. good thing is the current fan in it is mounted to the 5v rail =] so you can just switch it out

i havent opened myne up yet, i shall have a look when i have enough dough to get a new fan, i just reckon ill end up hammering in a delta and ussing it as a exhaust

jameseboy · 26 Aug 2011 at 16:57

I had to, i took the screws out of the Grill and the fan fell inside (DOH!) also was helpful whilst desticering it all to have the cover off.

jameseboy · 16 Sep 2011 at 13:03

Been a while since my last update, but hey, got to make money to spend money.

So my new hardware arrived last night.
I5 2500K
Asus p8Z68
8GB (2x4GB) cal9 1600mhz corsair vengance

So heres an old pic of the system/

New hardware

New Ram

empty case (almost)

Motherboard in

Hit a slight snag with my cpu cooler. Due to my ram having large heatsinks on it, the front fan wouldnt fit on =/ :bang head:bang head:bang head

System built

Quick test to check all is good.

and my faithful companion who stayed with me all evening :L

Going to be looking into an SSD and new graphics card(s) soon. My 460 will do me for now though. Next step.Liquid cooling me thinks.
Also should be getting a new monitor in a week or 2, finnaly moving onto widescreen.

not behind the tiemes at all.
:thup:

Gee · 17 Sep 2011 at 14:38

Sad dog is sad

shamzzz · 17 Sep 2011 at 15:12

yeah ive come across that problem a couple of times with the vengeance memory, but swapping the fan to the other side is fine if you've got top exhaust fans.

jameseboy · 17 Sep 2011 at 19:12

my dog always looks sad =[ its rather upsetting tbh. And yeah, Im gonna be liquid cooling it soon so its no big deal. also have a fan mounted in the 5.25 bay which kinda works as a push fan for the heatsink.

Lunawolfy · 20 Sep 2011 at 19:37

When you come to liquid cool we should get together and log it all

Would be epic, two 1155 systems, almost identical cases. And lots of nerve-racking moments!

I think you know who I am

Subbed.

jameseboy · 20 Sep 2011 at 22:44

I was going to suggest that

and indeed we should. Then we can find out whos chip is better

i bet mines :L haha XD

Lunawolfy · 21 Sep 2011 at 08:16

Pfft!

At least we know whos getting a better score in furmark

jameseboy · 16 Oct 2011 at 22:21

Just a quick update. My new monitor arrived 2 weeks ago, so finaly got everything up and running.

jameseboy · 16 Oct 2011 at 22:32

Slight few updates here. None really on my case, more to do with my setup.

Also, as ive found a recent love for trackmania, i dragged an old xbox360 controller out of the garage. It was a bit erm..... of a mess. so i repainted it with a bmw metalic black. (to match my case.)

and the underside