How many fans should I get?

Mar 29, 2009
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I have a cooler master 690

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb 3.0GHz (Processor)
Antec EA650 650W Continuous Power (PSU)
ASUS M4A79 Deluxe AM2+/AM3 (motherboard)
XFX HD-489A-ZDFC Radeon HD 4890 1GB (Graphics card)

The case came with 3 fans, how many more fans should I get? I do plan to overclock btw

These are the fans I was thinking of getting
https://secure.newegg.com/Wish...etail.aspx?ID=15190267
 

jandlecack

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The fans that came with the case are utter rubbish and vibrate the hell out of your system, specially the side one, which will make it very noisy at full blast.

Replace all of them with something like suggested above, or some Scythe fans, or the ones I use in my sig. They're thermal controlled if you want that. Personally I prefer direct control.
 

JEFF68005

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My problem with the choices shown is that too many of them are 3 pin fans. How many 3 pin plugs do you have to spare? I would be careful to select fans that use the 4 pin Molex plugs and have both male and female plugs so that you can daisy chain them depending on the number of plugs to spare you have from your PS after everything else is plugged in.

Now for your original question:

I have no clue how many fans your case can handle without a modification.
My cases allow up to 10 fans on 4 of them. My first two from that supplier allows 13 fans.
I'm not really certain of the RPM and CFM of my fans. I do know the best of the 120s consumes up to 0.58A on a Molex plug. The best of the 80s consumes ~0.37A on a Molex plug. None of my case fans use 3 pin motherboard power.

Check out the middle of this thread for a text description of my cases and the positions of the fans.
 

Tullphan

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I had that case & I loaded it up w/Yates fans. IIRC, I had 2 on the side, one in front, one in rear, one on top & I also found an 80x15 that I put behind the motherboard tray. I had these fans hooked into a Sunbeam rheostat...of course, I had to do some pigtailing.
 

jandlecack

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Originally posted by: Scoop
Take one out. I only use one intake and one exhaust with my CM690. It's noisy enough as it is.

1. Replace crappy CM fans with quiet or thermal controlled ones
2. Um...
3. ???
4. Profit.
 

aigomorla

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the top will take 2 140mm natively, so i recomend you goto jab-tech.com and check out the yate 140mm.

Then you got the floor which can also take a 140mm natively, and the rear takes a 120mm natively.

The side panel you DONT want a fan on it, because if you get a tower sink, you'll run into placement issues.

So i recomend a total of 3 x 140mm fans, and 1 120mm fan in the rear.

I recomend the medium to low speed yates jab-tech carries, and they wont break your wallet, while keeping your case very ventilated at the cost of little noise.


Also look at the sunbeam rheobus, tends to help you when you add more fans.
 

RallyMaster

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Originally posted by: Scoop
Take one out. I only use one intake and one exhaust with my CM690. It's noisy enough as it is.

Actually I would have to agree with this. I started out with a CM590 which has a similar cooling configuration to the CM690, found it too noisy and moved to a more enclosed case with no real detriment in temperatures.
 

imported_Scoop

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Originally posted by: jandlecack
Originally posted by: Scoop
Take one out. I only use one intake and one exhaust with my CM690. It's noisy enough as it is.

1. Replace crappy CM fans with quiet or thermal controlled ones
2. Um...
3. ???
4. Profit.

It's really just about the enclosure being full of holes that make it noisy. I only have the front fan running at full speed of 1200 RPM, and while it makes a great deal of noise the system already has four other fans so they tend to add up. I've many times thought of replacing the front fan with a Scythe S-Flex but that just hasn't happened yet.
 

mindless1

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You didn't tell us the ambient environment temps, the parts temps, or whether the fans you have are being throttled back at lower temps. There is no valid answer without more info, except to get no fans until something starts overheating or you wish to reduce the RPM on the existing fans because their noise is too high but then find the reduced airflow is too little so temps rise too much.

What I mean is, you would have to find someone with the exact same parts in the same environment to tell you this but you don't need to find such a person because you have a real-world example right there in front of you.
 

faxon

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when i got my 690 my step dad had 2 low speed nexus fans lying around. i tossed both of them into the top right above where the CPU is. i left the stock fans venting out the back and on the side, and pulling air in in front. i put a 140mm low speed yate loon that i ordered from frozencpu in the bottom. case has space for one more on the side door but my Vendetta2 sort of gets in the way. case hardly whispers with all those fans with the door on and i can literally feel the airflow around it. alternatively, you can just replace all the fans in the case with low speed nexus fans or yate loons. it has so much space for fans that getting highspeed fans just doesnt really make much sense. the airflow with my configuration is incredible though. the Athlon 64 4000+ in that rig runs at only 25c at load lapped, with a lapped vendetta 2. cpu isnt overclocked, but i undervolted the hell out of it. it ran at about 32c load in my old case.

ed: i forgot the top can take 140s natively. i used 120s since i already had them, but what aigo said is probably a really good idea. the 690 is one of the better cases i have worked with in the mid tower size range. i will probably get another at some point and compare having a ton of 140s vs my current configuration

as for the quality of yate loon fans vs nexus fans, i think both are great. i have a whole ton of yate loons in my current case, and i can really tell the difference between the ones that are and the ones that arent. all the yate loons are running in the stock fan brackets for my case (Thermaltake Armor), which arent very great, and running virtually silent (you cant hear them over my nb/sb fans). in comparison, the 92mm AC Ryan fans i got (i wanted the colorful pretty fans) actually vibrate in the brackets when i turn them down to lower speeds on my fan controller, and i will be replacing the brackets with rubber fan grommets as soon as my last order from frozenCPU comes in.
 

Alienwho

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I've been trying to quiet down my CM690 for a while but I can't figure out what's making all the noise.

My CPU fan is quiet and only pulling 800RPM. I can unplug both the stock side fan or rear fan and neither of those quiet it down. I would blame it on my new HD (WDBlue 640) But all the reviews I read said that it's one of the quietest hard drives available. Maybe it's my Power Supply? I forget the brand but it's purple and I think 500 Watts. It's just so hard to narrow where the sound is coming from even when I stick my head in the case. And the fact that the CM690 case is practically a mesh does not quiet the sound down at all. Any tips?
 
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