Corsair Vengeance Series C70 Military Green Steel

[caveman59847]

This is my new rig I recently upgraded and decided to go with a military theme so stealthed all of the DVD Drives and used Noctua fans so it has a kinda Desert Storm look to it.

Corsair Vengeance Series C70 Military Green Steel Case

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition 3.3 GHz


aSuS M4A79 Deluxe Motherboard

Corsair Hydro Series H100i Water Cooler

H.I.S IcQ Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256 Bit GDDR5

XFS Pro XXX Edition Semi Modular 80 + Silver 750 Watt PSU

7 Noctua (NF-F12 PWM) 120MM Two Speed Focused Flow Fans

2 Transcend 4GB DDR2 1066 AxeRam

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[| raVen |]

Looks good mate, but you have to work on your cable management...
Also I can't see the point for the side panel fans... Get rid of them, swap your rear fan as an intake and fans on h100i as exhaust.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Sorry dude but that looks terrible. Also the ram goes in the same coloured slot NOT right next door to each other. Those fans on the side should be blowing in not blowing out but they look wrong anyways, get them removed and add a plain window. The fan cables for the front fans should be on the back side where you cant see the cables too.

My advise would be take it all out and start again. This time think about what youre doing, if you can do it better, then change it.

 

[caveman59847]

I have the Rear Fan pulling air out and the Radiator exhaust is in a push pull config with the two front fans pushing air over the 3 HDD's. The H.I.S is also expelling air out from the rear. I sit at a nice cool temp and the airflow moves in a nice orderly fashion. The only reason the one cable wraps around the HDD is because with the side case on no ever sees it. I appreciate the constructive criticism because I do hope that is what it is.

 

[| raVen |]

Your rad fans are intakes mate, unless I'm blind!
Really it doesn't matter if nobody can see it with side panel on, it can be done much better, and there is no excuse for you not to.

 

[tinytomlogan]

I have the Rear Fan pulling air out and the Radiator exhaust is in a push pull config with the two front fans pushing air over the 3 HDD's. The H.I.S is also expelling air out from the rear. I sit at a nice cool temp and the airflow moves in a nice orderly fashion. The only reason the one cable wraps around the HDD is because with the side case on no ever sees it. I appreciate the constructive criticism because I do hope that is what it is.

the air is coming in the top and front then out the side and rear. For your rig thats backwards. Also the GPU just dumps the heat inside the case.

You should listen to what we are saying we know what we are talking about.

Also your rig is a mess mate and shows you didnt really know what you were doing. It may work but its lazy and just ugh :headscratch:

 

[| raVen |]

I will also suggest to keep the bottom hard drive cage instead of top one, as this will open up the front intake fan that could feed more air into your GPU.

 

[theDTP]

Yeah those 2 fans on the rad need to exhaust, personally I'd have them pulling air through so I'd turn them over to exhaust and swap places with the rad but exhaust is exhaust, it will be more effective either way as long as you turn them over. And cable management dude, makes a hell of a difference to air flow

Cable management like this B)

 

[CSheldon]

I can see where all the guys are coming from..just put some TLC in it, and it could be such a nice looking rig. Moving the HDD cage down..will open air up to the GPU alot more!

Secondly remove the two noctua fans on the side pannel, it just makes it look tacky and horrible.

Thirdly, i'd personally change the fans around to pushing air out the case on your Push/Pull config on your H100i

Put the Ram Sticks in the same corresponding DIMM slots, you will notice a little perfomance increase, as mobo's like dual channel or quad for that reason.

And put some time into cable managing it, and if you don't use the CD drives, just get rid of them. Simple as.

 

[tonschk]

I think the idea to show-off the ugly spaghetti/nest of cables/wires (like the photo above) is not the original idea of "cable management". The original idea of cable management was intended to cover-up and hide as much as possible the cables/wires, and not to "show off" one by one each of the cables

 

[caveman59847]

Well I thought about it my Rig and Yes I wasn't really happy with the Cable Management situation so I sat down and thought about it for awhile. I haven't had a lot of time to work on it but I did get to some of the cleanup and this is where I am at so far. I don;t think I am going to change the fans around as the cooling in this beast is awesome but Cable management did need some revamping.

 

[leathart123]

I really hate the colour of the noctua fans i have never seen i build i like them with sorry. I do know that they are probs the best performing consumer fans in the world but i would prefer that other fans that almost perform as well

 

[tonschk]

I really hate the colour of the noctua fans i have never seen i build i like them with sorry. I do know that they are probs the best performing consumer fans in the world but i would prefer that other fans that almost perform as well

Noctua plan very soon to release Black fans

 

[Feronix]

Noctua plan very soon to release Black fans

Not for the regular consumer, they won't. Only industrial business

On-topic: Cable management looks better now, though I personally hate those red sata cables. Oh, and I'd recommend using the bottom hard drive. Now you're basically blocking the direct airflow to your GPU, but you have a straight airflow path in the bottom that's not going anywhere.

 

[tonschk]

Not for the regular consumer, they won't. Only industrial business

I contacted Noctua a few days ago, they send me this message

thanks for contacting Noctua and for your interest in our latest prototypes.

I guess the industrial fans should become available in stores as well but they won't be mainstream products and thus probably not as widely available as our standard products. After all, the reseller decides which items he stocks.

 

[Roooker]

Yeah ofc you can buy them. It is just a normal piece of hardware. But they are gonna be more expensive and with over 2000 RPM pretty noisy.

 

[AverageNinja]

^^ and dangerous I think. I wouldn't stick my finger in an industrial grade 2000+ rpm fan tbh :/

 

[frufsa]

^^ and dangerous I think. I wouldn't stick my finger in an industrial grade 2000+ rpm fan tbh :/

yeah, my finger hurts just thinking back on my delta fan... damn that thing hurts at 12v!!
i hope that noctua makes so that it doesnt make anny mecanical noice, all that you can hear from a delta fan is a masive amout of air beeing pushed, not to say that is quiet, it's loud as hell, thoug not irritating sound like the corsair SP120 makes, god those fans make a lot of noice...(yes, i know tom is going to kill med for that )
But i think that you could tune the noctua fans down to much lover speeds, and therefore less noice.

 

[iiBetrayforAR]

Noctua plan very soon to release Black fans

*squirts*

How soon? In a month or two soon?

Industrial only! Oh well lol.