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I put the exhaust fans in tonight. I wanted a neat wiring job, so here is how I went about it.

First step, take two 80mm LED fans. They had 3 wire small plugs on them:

I peeled off the stickers, then with the soldering iron out, I removed the yellow wire as I wasn't using the fan speed monitor:

Next I trimmed down the red and black wire and soldered them together, then soldered on a longer set of wires to hook them up to power:

At the other end of the wires I soldered on a molex plug that had the 12v wires sticking out. It's the easiest way to hook it up, but not waste a plug from the PSU:

And here they are installed in the case with a pic with and without the flash:

O,yea.. Now thats one Big Fann. . I'm Jealous.

I suppose that fan came with the Blue LEDs in a circle like that.

Lookin' Good!

Yeah, the fan came with the LEDs in a circle.

I ended up using a different fan without LEDs in it. I also turned it around so it is an exhaust fan too. It should help keep the case cleaner and free of dust as the intake is now all at the front through the filters.

By turning the fan around and taking the sticker off it, there is now another circuit board shown in the window.

Small update. I got my green IDE cable today for the second DVD drive and I got a Samsung 500GB SATA HDD for $185 from my friendly Computer shop.

Now to turn off my machine and install them. *sob* I hate turning off my machine. It's like saying goodbye to a loved one.

Well it's in and now formatting. I was down to only around 30Gb on my 320Gb drive, so this will be a nice addition of space.

Very nice idea going with the green theme, not too sure bout the motherboard though, if the ide/sata/psu cables were tidy or hidden it could look good.

How many layers of primer and colour coat did you use for the inside?

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Surprisingly that big fan is very quiet.

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I wasn't surprised at all. :)
I have been doing a lot of reading up on the larger fans for a custom built rig I am in the planning stages on. (I am looking at using no less than 3 of these 250mm fans.
Why these fans?
At 820rpm they move 105cfm of air and only produce 19dBA. Since dBA is a logarithmic scale, the 3 of them will produce ~ 23 dBA. (or so I was told on another forum by someone in the know. :))

I like the idea of using the old mobo to hide the drive bays BTW. :)

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