NZXT Phantom Gold Digger (June M.O.T.M. Nominee)

This is what I get reminded of, when I see my build!


MOTM Nominee for June 2012- Link below..

http://www.overclock.net/t/1265831/june-2012-mod-of-the-month-poll-goes-up-the-25th
Edited by SoundWorks3D - 6/25/12 at 1:43pm

Photo Index For better viewing!

1. Introduction & parts going in the build and painting front and top plastic panels.

2. Painting of Screw-less plastic pieces and 200mm top fans.

3. Changing the LED's on Cooler Master 120mm fans.

4. Guide on adding LED's to 200mm NZXT fan & picture of NZXT 24 pin motherboard extension.

5. Video of LED's after modification of NZXT 200mm fans and Cooler Master 120mm fans and fan controller.

6. Package received courtesy of NZXT.

7. Guide and Video of benefit's of using adhesion promoter.

8. Making of PSU cover out of old side panel mesh.

9. Asus P5N-T Deluxe Testing.

10. Guide on painting original NZXT thumb screw's.

11. Information about painting with spray cans.

12. Video & Picture's on painting mesh.

13. Painting back plate of Video Card's

14. Final result of GPU back plate.

15. Video & Picture's of Test on water drop effect.

16. Design of right side panel.

17. Painting the right side panel design.

18. Final results of the panel painted with NZXT logo.

19. Case put back together for a photo shot.

20. Original setup before mod.

21. More picture's of exterior of phantom.

22. Asus mobo back from RMA and night shot of lighting inside phantom.

23. Picture's of mother board and processor.

24.Phantom back on the desk and operational for now.

25.Inside look at phantom and lighting.
Edited by SoundWorks3D - 6/14/12 at 1:55pm

This are the parts that are going to be used in the build!

This is the main inspiration for the black and gold theme. Very good reviews and in addition it brings a Game Blaster that's using the Creative's Sound Core 3D quad core audio processor.


This is the processor that's going to be used I know it not the top high end thing. But I have done my research and it turns out to be a very good processor better than i7 2600K and 2700K so I'm good.


This is the ram that's going into my build, This ram is 16gb kit running @ 2133Mhz with timings of 9-11-10-27 Quad Channel memory and I'm installing 32Gb of ram.


This is going to be my graphic power for my build. There going to be in a SLI configuration.


Well here it goes. Decide and was requested to do a build log, So I can show my progress with my modification to my Phantom case. Loved it since the first time a laid eye's on it. My wife gave it to me as a X-mas present a year ago.

When I saw the sheer size of it love it, The space and looks just was something out of the ordinary.

I decided to make some changes to my Phantom to make it look more sexy more eye catching .

The Hardware to be used is:

Intel Sandy Brigde -E 3820 quad core

Asrock X79 Extreme6/GB

Gskill Ripjaws Z @ 2133Mhz 32Gb

BFG 1000w PSU

Western Digital 1Tb hard drive

Corsair H80 Hydro cooler



I'll start off with this picture showing how i had my PC before deciding to mod it.



As you can see, Even tho the Phantom has cable management I sucked at it.









Preparing the phantom for it's face lift.



White fans have to go !!





My dog Pnut waiting for his PC to be build.























Now on to the lighting!

Helping hands, never owned one tell now that I have started modding.











He got tired of waiting, so he went to sleep.



Next up is the NZXT 200mm Fan that came in the case, This fan has 4 LED's. But noticed that there is 4 additional holes for lights so I'm going to put those to use.









Back to picture index
Edited by SoundWorks3D - 4/29/12 at 4:20pm

Forgive my noob-ness in the forums. but what does subbed mean ?

AHH nice!! Thank you guys for subscribing

yeah I was trying to keep the design of the Phantom. I like modding but I want to keep the features implemented when they created it. I want to elevate and show the fine details already givin by NZXT.

And like the saying goes Sometimes less is more !