Coolermaster CM 690 II Advanced Review

Cases & PSU/Cases by leeghoofd @ 2011-04-18

Time to throw another case into the mix. Today we are introducing an evolution of one of coolermasters biggest sellers of the last years. The Coolermaster CM 690 II Advanced. By listening to the end users input, the CM engineers have refined the 690 series case. Adding a removable HD bay (to support up to 3GPUs easily), a hot swappable HD docking station, baptised X-docking station, are just a few of the new features or updates as you want. The 690 II advanced is available in a window and non windowed version. Let's see what this beauty has got in store for you.

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Cooling features and more

Being equipped with 3 fans out of the box, Madshrimps has high expectations regarding cooling performance. The rear exhaust fan is a 120mm version, 1200rpm at 17 dBa. The top fan is the same version as the front 140mm fan, this one however without the blue LED. All fans can either be directly hooked up to the motherboard 3 pin fan connectors or an optional fan controller. If not available just hook them up straight to the power supply 4 pin molex connectors via the included adapters. And if that cooling performance is not up to your standards you can mount up 6 more to create a tornado flow inside your case...

 

 

 

 

 

Big cutouts for easy cable routing and management. The big motherboard tray cutout facilitates CPU cooler instalation. If needed you can even mount a small 80mm fan to blow some cool air on the rear of the motherboard CPU socket location.

 

 

 

Dust filters on the bottom mesh area (note that the one for the PSU mesh is not installed on the right picture ) Big Rubber feet minimize vibrations and keep ya case rock solid in position.

 

 

 

Four rubber grommets damp your power supply (note again no dust filter in the picture)

 

 

 

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