My 8year old case in 2015.

Gripen90

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Still loving this old bugger of a case:lol::wub:. Took around 4hrs to get all done. Out with old LED and fans and in with the Akasa White LED 60cm & Akasa Green LED 60cm, 2x Corsair SP120 Green LED, 2x Corsair SP120 White LED, Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB (not visible in pictures). Made the cardboard PSU carbon cover and HDD cage carbon cover. Took a lot more time than I had anticipated but in a small case like this with 3x GFX ,1x DVD, 3x SSD, 2x HDD there's a lot of cable hinding and getting it all to fit snugly so the case side panel can be closed.
Still considering getting a Corsair Graphite 760T when they get down in price sometime:notworthy:.










Specs:
Cooler Master CM690 Nvidia Edition with mods.
Asus P9X79 Pro BIOS 4701
Intel Core i7 4930K 3.4@4.0GHz
Phanteks PH TC-12DX Black CPU cooler
Thermaltake Toughpower 1500w PSU
4x4GB G.Skill RipjawsZ 2133MHz@CL9-11-10-28-2T 1.65v.
3x Gainward GeForce GTX 970 4GB 3-way SLi 1051@1231MHz GPU, 1753@1903MHz VRAM
Intel 330 Series 120GB SSD SATA-III.
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB SATA-III.
Kingston V-series Gen2 64GB SSD SATA-II.
Samsung SpinPoint F1 640GB,16MB cache, 7200rpm, SATA-II.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 750GB, 32MB cache, 7200rpm, SATA-II.
Samsung SH-S203D DVD-Rom/DVD-RW+/-
8x Corsair SP120 120mm og 2x Akasa 80mm for airflow.
Microsoft Sidewinder X6 keyboard
Logitech G9x mouse
Logitech X-530 5.1
Asus PB278Q 27"TFT 2560x1440@60Hz 5ms (G2G)
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

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Nice looking build mate! :)

I had the older CM690 II Advanced USB 3.0 version of that case as my first ever case, lovely case I must admit!

Only thing I got a questionmark on, was to maybe buy something like the Silverstone thin fan filter to put on the SP side panel intake fan.

Other than that, nice looking build! :)
 
Nice looking build mate! :)

I had the older CM690 II Advanced USB 3.0 version of that case as my first ever case, lovely case I must admit!

Only thing I got a questionmark on, was to maybe buy something like the Silverstone thin fan filter to put on the SP side panel intake fan.

Other than that, nice looking build! :)

Thank you :) I actually have such a Silverstone fanfilter I have used before, but it just creates a lot of noise when the air passes through, so I went back to an ordinary grill.
I also have an Akasa grill + foam fanfilter and I may give it a try. If it just will let enough air pass through :p
 
Thank you :) I actually have such a Silverstone fanfilter I have used before, but it just creates a lot of noise when the air passes through, so I went back to an ordinary grill.
I also have an Akasa grill + foam fanfilter and I may give it a try. If it just will let enough air pass through :p

Ohh haha okay :p... I get your idea regarding the grill, I just thought more of dust build up inside the PC without having that side intake filtered. That's all :).
 
Ohh haha okay :p... I get your idea regarding the grill, I just thought more of dust build up inside the PC without having that side intake filtered. That's all :).

Well I have so much "over pressure" in the case when the PC is on that the dust never gets to settle. Last time I cleaned all the fans in the case was March last year and I hadn't cleaned any fans in 5years nor the inside of the case. But it only took 5min to clean all fans with a simple brush since the layer of dust was so miniscule.B)
 
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