[Alwaysrun]

I decided to put everything in the case and see what I'm working with. I tossed out the plastic cable barbs that run verticle down the right side of the mobo, I found them cumbersome and my goal is to see as few cables as possible so they had to go. The next thing to get the axe was the Ram cooler Corsair included with the pc2-8500 Dominator kit, with the tall heat spreaders on this ram and the fan attached I found it obstructed airflow to the bottom half of the Vendetta 2 so I nixed it. I highly doubt I'll ever need to OC this ram enough to warrent active cooling and I don't plan on going WC but who knows what the future brings and thats why I went a lil overkill on the 4gigs of 1066.

It's been a long time since I built a computer that I almost forgot how aggrivating the small details can be and I haven't even started modding anything yet. The CM 690 is a real to get the front and top covers off and I thought I'd break the cheap plastic several times but I just took it slow and easy and managed not to tweak anything.

The biggest problem I had was getting the Corsair TX750watt installed. The case has a handy cable hole right beside the cables comming out of the tx750 but because of it's length about 1/3 of this hole is covered by the body of the power supply. Also the PSU mount CM so gratiously padded with 4 rubber stoppers to gently rest the PSU on wasn't really designed for a PSU using a 140mm intake fan as 2 of the rubber mounts rest on the PSU fan grill. Nothing to worry about as the rubber stoppers don't effect the fan and the bulk of the PSU is held in place by the 4 exterior mount skrews. Anyways I crammed 1/2 the power cables through the side and the others I guess I'll have to hide in the drive bays somewhere. The TX750's cables are very stubborn to work with because of their thickness.

I'm loving the 2 Noctua NF-P12s I got. Without a doubt the quietest fans in my case and they really throw the air around, I've got a splitting headache from the Palit 4850s fan, it just won't gear down but I'll fix that lil p.o.s once I'm finished this format and OS install.