Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced Case Review

Inside CM 690 II Advanced Edition (Cont’d)

In Figure 12 you can have another overall look from inside CM 690 II. On this picture you can see the top 140 mm fan, the space for installing a 120- or 140 mm fan on the top panel, the rear 120 mm fan and the expansion slots. Daughter boards are fastened to the chassis using black thumbscrews. The original CM 690 uses individual plastic retention mechanisms for the expansion cards and we liked the improvement – from our experience these plastic mechanisms tend to break rather easily.

According to the manufacturer, if you remove the top fan you can install radiators from certain liquid cooling solutions that use two 140 mm fans.

Figure 12: Overall look.

In Figure 13, you can see the bottom panel. You can install one 120- or 140 mm fan there. If you remove the bottom hard disk cage, you can install another 120 mm fan or a radiator with two 140 mm fans from liquid cooling solutions, as long as you have a power supply that fits together. As we’ve shown in Figure 7, this panel features air filters.

Figure 13: Bottom panel.

The Advanced model comes with a retention mechanism for video cards, supporting up to three video cards, to ensure that heavy video cards will have an additional support.

Figure 14: Support for video cards.