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It’s important to have a clean looking case. You don’t want to look at messy cables when you open the side panel and you don’t want to obstruct the airflow from the fans. The Coolermaster CM690 has a bunch of holes on the back of the motherboard to guide the wires from the power supply towards the hard drives, but it’s fair to say that even though there are some ways to route your wires, it’s still a tight fit to get everything into place. Especially if you are running a dual video card setup, with a bunch of 5 1/4 drives and 4 hard drives in place

Final Words

- I like both drive bay retention mechanisms.
- Sufficient cooling and lots of room for expansion
- Ready for water-cooling
- Quiet Fans
- Overall looks is quite stylish with the mesh
- Great price/quality ratio
- Comes with additional connection ports on the top of the chassis

- Found some sharp edges
- Removing the front panel is fairly complex
- Not a lot of room, thus very cramped
- Sidepanel fan might interfere with bigger coolers on videocards.