Does the Coolermaster musketeer fit in a TT Tsunami

[henrik21]

I'm thinking about ordering one of those http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/bus-22.html

Then the question is, does it fit ,inside the door, or are the small knobs to long?
Asking because I can't find it locally (buy and return if it doesn't fit), and then if it doesnt fit it would be waste of money. So can you fellow ATers help a friend in need?

 

[loic2003]

I have a musketeer, the little knobs stick out about 5mm from the front of it when it's mounted flush on the front. Good piece of kit, although it's strictly for looks only! the temp sensor isn't that accurate, the fan control is pretty good but the 'sound pressure' meter isn't too useful at all, but it does wiggle a lot when you have tunes playing, so it looks cool. The right hand knob is used to adjust the sensitivity of the sound pressure meter: you have to alter it each time you change the volume from within windows-or whatever. It also takes up a blanking plate on the back in order to pass the sound through it.

Makes people go 'oooh' though, which is the most important thing I guess

 

[LED]

I haven't installed one in that Case but they fit in Chenmings with the outer door and in the worse scenerio, if it doesn't fit, the Musketeer has an outer shell Case which makes them able to perform and look good out side the Case.

 

[henrik21]

I need a fancontroller, the fans in the Tsunami sound awful, thats the reason (and some stylish to). Then another plus is the looks

 

[LED]

Hope you only need 1 Fan comtroller cause that's all it has

 

[henrik21]

Won't I be able to connect all fans to it?, and control all of them with the same knob?

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: henrik21
Won't I be able to connect all fans to it?, and control all of them with the same knob?

I'm sure you can but it would need an adapter to hookup the additional fans and I wouldn't exceed to many amps or 6wts...nor would I hook up the HS Fan with the others

 

[loic2003]

Depends on how many fans you have, and how big they are. I don't know the maximum current that can go through the rheostat. It's working fine with my chunky 120mm fan no problem, but I dunno how it'd cope with more than one. Also, you'll probably want to control each fan individually, I found there's a certain RPM for each different type/size of fan when it's running fast enough but quietly - a 'sweet spot' if you will. You'll be wanting ot set the fans to this sort of speed. For my setup I use zalman fanmate's for 3 out of 4 of the fans: the CPU (big 120mm over zalman heatsink), graphics card (zalman quiet jobbie) and the exhaust fan (just an 80mm LED fan). These always run at a constant speed at this sweet spot that I mentionned. The musketeer is wired to another 120mm intake fan at the front of the case, normally it's set to minimum RPM and still sucks in a really nice volume of air, but if the computer is getting a little warm (hot day or whatever) I can crank it up and the fan goes a bit crazy and shoves massive amounts of air into the case normally dropping the temperature by about 5 or 10C. I use a lot of passive, silent cooling in my machine so the ambient air temp is usually quite high.

I'm rambling.... Basically, get either small rheostats for the fans that aren't going to be changed or buy a proper fan controller for the front of your case (there's some nice ones with controls for 4 fans in the same aluminium/blue LED fashion as the musketeer). The musketeer is really only for a sinlge fan.