my-demise

Introduction

Hey all, lately my mind has been running riot with possible ideas for a few mods that I'd be able to carry out on my current case. I've had this case for some time now (almost a year to be exact) which I feel is long enough for me to have fully familiarized myself with it and to know it's limitations and possible areas of the design that need to be worked on. With that being said I shall ask you to read on as there will be a list of idea's i've had for mods that can be carried out.

Things that I plan on doing:

Stage 1:

• Remove harddrive bay completely
• Add Scythe Hard Drive Stabilizer to spare 5.25" bays
• Add Scythe Kama Bay 5.25" System Cooler to cool hard drives
• Replace acrylic side window and add 2 120mm side mounted fans
• Possibly add a fan to the back-side of the motherboard tray
• Cut a few cable management holes into the motherboard tray
• Remove rear exhaust fan grill and replace with a Lian Li-esque chrome fan grill
• Finish the whole lot off with a matt black interior

Stage 2:

• WATERCOOLING!

^^ Will update this portion of the post once I have a better idea of how it will all go together.

Here's a link with pictures of the case with a few shots of the inside to give you all a better idea of what it looks like at stock.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...ackline/2.html

Your thoughts and ideas are more that welcome and I will strive to respond to each on that is left within this thread!

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Kamikaze127

Looks interesting, what the hell, I'll subscribe.

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.kami
Good bye OCN.

my-demise

Thanks! I hope to begin work on this within the next few days.

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High Roller

I have this case, I like your ideas. especially the painting it black inside idea. I was considering shiny sparkle blue, but then came to my senses promptly

Keep posted and good luck dude

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my-demise

Sparkle blue fer the inside would be very very interesting, especially with some nice neon blue LED's or cathode lights illuminating everything. You should give it a try lol

Update 1:
31st October 2008

I've removed the HDD bay and I must say it makes quite a difference not having it there. I think I'll put a pump or rad in it's place once I move onto water cooling. That of course is still a while away though.
But for the time being i'll just install a decent fan to blow cool air directly at the graphics cards.

Moving on the case has been completely disassembled now, I'll start marking out places for cable management and deciding which would be the best way to mount a fan to the back side of the motherboard tray. The main problem is that there's very little room between the back of the tray and the side panel of the case. I am thinking the Scythe Slim 100mmx100mmx12mm fan will do the job (hopefully).

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High Roller

Sounds very nice bud.

Cable management was an issue for myself at first, might have to follow your example

We have a fairly similar setup, i should +rep you for having impeccable taste

Pics would be cool too my friend

As for the sparkle blue: Maybe when i lose some more marbles
Roller

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