no i cant, thats where the cutting comes in. First you have to cut off all the plastic grills inside, then cut off the mesh grills to bend it to shape and allow the fans to be placed. Its just nice, =)

woah.. i love the lumina, slr was pretty good too...

@Ryo
If you'd look at my tubes properly, i think its not hard to figure out that tube is it

Indeed its the gas tubes, economical and it does the job =)

@bryanyeo
ahaha, the poison is too sweet to "not" swallow lolx
still waiting for the rest of my stuff.. damm, "fat mou" liao.

btw, i need to do some minor cutting oso la, i think the rad is gonna be placed on top, which means switched with the fans in my current setup, fan on top not very effective la , need to remove the grill as well... affecting the airflow quite badly. Ill need your help again bryan in some cutting

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Well.. thats the problem actually, for 3/8 size, most hardware shop sells them beautifully transparent. As for 1/2", its hard to find any transparent ones.. the only ones which are 1/2" are most likely these gas tubes.

Its a neat trick which i did years ago to hide my cacings, looks pretty cool as well

What case are ya using right now?

I find that cable management on CM690 is rather easy compared to other CM ranges. There are so many holes here n there that you could dig around.

a lil update on my CM690. With dual rad mounted on top.

Unfortunately, im very very short of tools and ill just make do with some china made RM5 soldering tool and melt down the plastic top panel. Got a dremel tool from moderno.. but malfunctioned = =

The cutting on the metal top part of my cm690 isnt well done due to not having proper tools... though it cant be seen when the top panel is covered so it isnt really an issue for now.


The whole top is fully solder/cut


Fits perfectly!!! what a relief after some rough measurement is done.


GPU waterblock is fitted and little heatsinks(mixed of zalmans/CM). Ready go to !!


Completed Internals
Yup... you didnt see wrong, the GPU short tubes are the gas tubes. DIdnt have enough clearflex for it, though i think the extra hard gas tubes actually serves its purpose well there.


Uv-fied/Bling-fied


Everything up and running ~


Overall Workstation view.

Expect some updates soon to fully touch up all the bad parts after my new hardwares arrives

hmm... is it just me or is there anyone else that think that the front panel on CM690 is super fugly?

Id rather sacrifice the front I/O than using it... really destroyed the look

yea, that is one of the CM690 downside, the sidepanel are PITA, but once you get used to it or once seasoned.. it slides in well =)

haha... thats actually where most cables are hidden in any cable management. Its possible to bend the sata cable and slip it under ur mobo tray as well. As for the PSU cable, route it to the back of the 5.25" bays then route them to appear on the bottom. If you really have the patient, you can remove the molex, slip the cable in through the HDD bays then put back the molex so that they can be well hidden there

you dont have to, the front panel are all using meshed fibres. The whole front panel is actually a filter already lol.

here ya go
a little change in hardware, and no more watercooling for now
Btw, do trust me...cable management 4 HDD aint easy to handle

yes, got it from my shop
too bad i dont like the blue LEDS and i ripped them off, prefer it to be without LEDS

yes.. ive thought of that before, even on my current cf, i cannot use the stock bridge due to the gap between the 2 slot. Need to use the special bridge provided with my motherboard for it.

yup, but the card distance is nothing to do with the casing, its the mobo
which explains why they provided the bridges.

Ive tested all possible combo at the moment, fan on the top/btm, push/pull and this is the current best position.. im starting to miss my WC kit now
Then again, the back of the GFX isnt very hot, even the stock cooler does its job pretty well @ 65%, anything more than 65 i can start hearing it already... So.. im just bearing with it at the moment till S1/HR-03GT is here, which IS already here today

Yes thats right, but not for long, new S retention kit is already available starting today
will grab 1 within this week and cant mount it the other way round.

ahh... i like the second one. CF bridge goes right through ~!
im actually imagining it now.. lol its pretty cool

hmm.. theres no LED in my case, i never like LEDs... the green/white LED is from the mobo itself. Oh.. if you were referring to the Orange coloured glow, its the start/reset switch on the board, they react to the UV.

As for the crossfire, it definately improve on high reso, something very weird that i notice is, on 3dmark06 CF, my scores are terribly low, approx 12k++

surprised by that.. then,... i tried to crank up the 3dm06 reso to the max (1920x1200) and crack up the AA/AF too. And guess what... the score reduced only to approx 10-11k !!!

Thats bloody awesome if you ask me, 11k 3dmark with 1920x1200 reso also with AA/AF.

1 tips , noticed the 2 fan controllers on my case there? its controlling a total of 7 fans, but.. where are the cables?

This is the trick, its a little troublesome, but end result are satisfying, first, you have to remove your cable/fan's molex, put it through the hole on the side of the 5.25" bay, then reconnect the molex from inside.