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CoolerMaster CM690 Case Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

CoolerMaster has always been one of the leaders in case design and each year they seem to push themselves to come up with even better designs than before.  The CM690 is a perfect example of this.  The elegant lines and clean design are very pleasing to the eye and black mesh does an excellent job of enhancing the look and satisfying a functional purpose of free airflow.  External connectivity is handled by the top mounted ports and cover all of the major options including USB, FireWire, eSATA, and the standard headphone and microphone jacks.

Cooling has also been taken care of with options for 8 cooling fans. 4 will accept 140mm fans while the remaining varies between 120 and 80mm units. The case comes with 3 120mm fans pre-installed which are more than enough for any enthusiast. The numerous fan placements also mean that watercooling is an easy next step without having to do a bunch of modifications.

Combine those things with quality construction and you have a case anybody can be proud of.

Now for the ever popular list of Good things and Bad things.

Clean lines
Elegant style
Metal cooling mesh
Low resistance stamped fan grills (mounts)
Badass Black case color
Tool less design
No Window

Tool less design
Plastic HDD "trays"

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