[Intermediate] UFO case - Overclock.net

caraboose · 03-06-09

First off, I'd like to give a shout out to Quantum Reality for providing the red motherboard for me to tincker with

as with out it this case really wouldn't have gotten past the octagon phase.

With that out of the way, let the modding begin!

I'm thinking of making a different mod because the one I did I forgot to make a worklog, so I talked to a mod, and he said I could do this.

To start off lets have a 3d model, the pictures explain it all.

*CASE IS SUBJECT TO DESIGN CHANGE*

DAY: March 28th 2009

Alright today, I manned up and cut my aluminum.
I think I may have to change the design of the case again a bit but not that much, may have to revert to the 3d design instead of my wanted design. Time will tell in this case.

Todays work:

caraboose · 05-23-09

Here's what I have sofar, I'm going back to my original design of having a sorta octagonal stop sign thing that flys, but never really flys.

Todays work:
Laying out the parts to make sure it'll all fit:

Top and bottom screw together:

Just for an idea of the shear size of this beast (that's 2 feet wide!) :

Oh look, it can roll...

caraboose · 05-24-09

Todays work involved going down to pick up three packs of stand offs and putting them into the case, after I drilled the holes and threaded the wholes I proceeded to put the stand offs in. And put the DVD drive in the top of the case.

Then I failed at taking a picture...

caraboose · 06-02-09

So today I got in my watercooling stuff so I could finish off the case, today and tomorrow I'll be busting my ass on it to get it done

Hard drive mounting area (total of 8 drives possible)

Wheels, because this case will be damn heavy:

Ground clearance:

Part of the psu holding system:

caraboose · 06-06-09

So for the last 3 days I've been cutting my acrylic and getting my radiators in and such, so here we are. Tomorrow I hope to get the motherboard thing that I'm making, I have no clue what it is called though.

Hmm, perhaps I should have had them flipped over so you could see that I cut the acrylic...

caraboose · 06-08-09

So today I finished off the major part of the case, and I must say I'm quite happy about how it turned out

I'm not done it yet, but I'll be done it soon

And as in the last post I mentioned the strange motherboard thing, here is what I was talking about:

caraboose · 06-18-09

Awesome, today I got the waterblock for my gtx280 from xlastshotx and I got my fan grills from NCIX, I'm so stoked about this case and how it's going to look.

Here's some pictures so far:
Oh yeah and my room is messy as hell, as soon as I'm done this case I'll show you how clean I made it, and now I'll show you how dirty I made it these last few months.

Mmmm dirty room:

caraboose · 06-24-09

I'm proud to say, 110 day's later it's all done, just need's to be filled up, will update the post later today with pictures.

caraboose · 06-26-09

Just bleeding the air out of the system:

And the power button

Please don't mind the crappy phone pictures.

caraboose · 06-29-09

All done, here's the video:

YouTube - caraboose - OCN 2009 Case Mod Competition

YouTube - Overclock.net Case Mod Competition 2009 video 2

The UV cathodes in the videos appear to be blue, but they are not blue, I assure you.

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[Intermediate] UFO case

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