I had my case powder coated. I ended up getting an M3 tap from Amazon.com (no-one sold it local) and a #6-32 tap from Home Depot just to touch up the holes. Even with the holes plugged there will be some minor overflow, it does not hurt to have the taps just to clean out the junk.
My full-tower case was $110 plus shipping. This included striping the paint the prior owner put on and sand blasting off the factory powder coat. The powder I got is one with metal flakes, which costs a fair bit more per pound than standard powder (about two pounds for my case).
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CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb (CACVC AC 0852APCW) |
Motherboard
DFI LANParty DK 790FX-M2RS |
Memory
2x2048 MB G.Skill DDR2-1066 (F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK) |
Graphics Card
Sapphire HD 5970 100280OCSR |
Hard Drive
Hitachi Deskstar 750 GB SATA-II; WD 80 GB SATA-I |
Sound Card
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum w/ Daniel_K |
Power Supply
Silverstone OP1000-E / UPS died on me |
Case
Lightly Modded Thermaltake Armor VA8003BWS |
CPU cooling
Noctua NH-C12P with Scythe Ultra-Kaze 3000 RPM |
GPU cooling
Stock Sapphire |
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 |
Monitor
Dell Ultrasharp 2707WFP |
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Powdercoating questions??
08-26-09
