Power supply for 25.00. Sketchy, much?

[Shura]

Thanks ^^ Next time I open it up I'll have a look at your areas of suggestions. I do know there was no other way I could see to deal with the CPU fan cable as Dhalmel had mentioned.

Think he was referring to the same cable i was in my diagram, the one with the red lines and not the fan cable coming from the CPU cooler. I referred to it as the 8pin cable, since most new boards use 8pin but just noticed on yours its only using 4pins so that maybe where the confusion happened.

In the meantime, my temps are still minimum of 10c cooler than before these changes. By changing the top fans to exhaust, I've just temporarly lost the "10 to 15+c" part. The active fluctuating temps during benchmark are still 15c improvement over the dell situation, they were close to 20c before I flipped the fans. Once I get two fans blowing in from the side, there will be more improvement.

Indeed, this case will probably last you for 2 more builds unless you decide to go full tower or with a E-ATX board in the future. Other things you can upgrade in the future is the CPU cooler(something like the H60 or H90) and the stock fans that came with your case(2 front and 1 rear) These are not really that important at the moment though, probably best to change them when you upgrade the entire system.

I will say one negative thing about the case, and I may even write my first review at Newegg about it.... the power button cable very easily comes unplugged at the top of the case, and it's extremely annoying and difficult to get to to plug it back in. I installed my 2 CD/DVD drives in the lower 2 bays (leaving the top two open) just because of this ~ so hands can fit in there to access that plug area when/if it comes out. It happens just about every time you get back in the case to do something. This definitely counts for at least an egg!

Again thanks guys! And please feel free to post any additional advice that may come from this post!

You can play around with different routing methods till you find one that works, switches don't have a ground so + and - don't matter, you can flip it around if it helps. Since cases and motherboard come in different designs there tends to be hiccups like these.

This is a personal request but if its not to much trouble, would love to see pics of the inside and outside of your build once your done.