@ Dschijin, As expected it does not fit, with a bit of cutting and adapting I can sure make it work but its not worth the hassle. Ill keep the panel as one day in the medium/long term when its time to overhaul my system, I may consider other options. At the moment im stoked how quiet the system with this cooler and do not want to sacrifice that for other pump/air systems.
@BQ Chris, thanks very much! I took a bit of a gamble on the BeQueit company because A) its a newer company and B) Im in Australia and as your well aware, getting anything from BQ outside of USA or Europe is a nightmare. I suggest you guys expand out here. I took a risk and hoped I would not have hardware issues as I ordered my products from NCIX in Canada and sent here (at a substantial shipping cost!). Quietness of my system was my number 1 priority. If you have any questions shoot me a email at
[email protected]
Take a look at my link below on my system post for any more details. Products from BQ :
750W Dark Power Pro (hidden under the acrylic cover on the floor of G5)
3X 140mm Silent Wings 2 ( 2x at the front and 1 sitting just above the GPU where I created a cutout in the top shelf to blow air straight onto the GPU
1X 120mm Silent Wings 2 exit rear case fan
Dark Rock Pro 2
For your curiosity, I ended up plugging all fans except the CPU Cooler fans straight into the power supply. Unsure what RPM it spins, it seems slow enough to not create sound. The largest sound is the GPU fans which annoys me (even if its pretty quiet as is), want to create a GPU 3rd party kit??
Sorry for the bad photos, DSLR shots will be up in about 2 weeks.
On a unrelated note, I didn't want to wait for my fan filters to arrive (they can go into another system) so I decided to create my own which gives it a more professional look.
After much measuring and scoring the acrylic, I created the frame and then attached 2 layers of aluminium fly screen mesh. One layer was vertical, the other at 45 degrees to create a finer dust filter.
Put it into the computer and there we go.
The mesh is actually dark black but the photo with the flash really brightened it up, it isnt what its normally like though.