Performed Mods:
Tons of fans, added some sound dampening material... Thats really about it. Oh and I lapped my Tuniq Tower, started at 200 grit and worked my way up to 400, then 600, and lastly 2500, I ran out of 2500 though so I only have a dull mirror finish but at least its flat now.
Went from an E4300 @ 3.2GHz to this Q6600 @ 3.0GHz and I won't ever look back! I get about 13,330 points on 3DMark06!
10 Comments on CMStacker Intrepid V3
I was originally thinking it was just "good" because I could see huge bundles of wires, but then I read your comment about how many drives you have, and took a closer look at the pictures. I can see now why you have so many wires, and yes, you did a good job under the circumstances. If I remember right, that case has a bulging right side panel behind the mobo tray. If you were to bore some holes in it, and route the cables back there so they aren't so prominant, I will gladly bump you up a couple points. The trend these days is towards few visible wires to earn the higher marks.
I'm probably showing my age, but I can remember when just folded and taped harddrive wires would have been impressive, and my first LED fan was home made from instructions I downloaded on the internet.
I have those same Coolermaster blue fans and they are pretty darn quiet.
I hope the Excellent rating isn't a dissappointment. I just can't in good conscience rate it higher till something clever is done with the cables.
Cheers,
Glendor...
Cable management would be easy if I didn't own a Mushkin PSU, the cables are wrapped in a thick rubber material, you cannot bend them at all and they are too tall to tuck under a mobo.... My fans are pretty much hidden as far as cables go, I've got 11 if you count the CPU and the Antec VCool. All the fans are routed to the front fan controller, 2 per channel except the CPU which has its own.