I've been out of the modding scene for about 2 years now, got into alot of problems like girls, divorce, new job... Anyway, Dont need a therapy, so I think that's enough info about me. So, I've been out for 2 years, but my dremel keeped calling me. Was so annoyed of it so I came back.
I started to post on the forum I was used to, but peoples in there lose their interest in modding, so it was not as fun as before. I've tried different forums but did not received the welcome I received in here, Thanks alot for the welcome, I find the people in here really nice, and really passionate, that's what I needed
First, I'm not a gamer, so my mods are a bit differents from others.
I love OC, but for fun not for needs. I'm an editor, so I dont need the last vid card, the last CPU (I want to, but for personnal reasons, I love hardware ) But I move my rig as much as any lan gamer for movie projections. So I want a special look for my comp, as any of us in here. Now I'm more concern about the inside then about the outside of the case. I use to mod alot outside, but maybe... I dont know, I... Finally growing up???
What I want?
1- Not too much lightning, been there, done that... some lights, but not too much.
2- NO WIRES: I hate them. I want to hide almost every cable in there. I saw the mod of markkleb and I must say that this guy is sick. I mean totally insane. I love his work! Two thumbs up. But I cant do that, too much work, and too risky. But I know I can hide most of them without being that freak. (Sorry, no pun intend).
3- Flashy look
4- good airflow, prepare the case for future internal WC.
What I have?
TT Armor
Abit IC7-G
2.6 NOrthwood (3.4 OC, not bad with air cooling)
2G of corsair RAM
6600GT AGP
5500GT PCI (external video monitor tweak for AVID)
6 HDDs
+ the normal stuff...
Enough talking, go to the mod
a) The workstation:
As you can see, I work with the cse I' modding, so update will be slow, cause I need to remove all the stuff and replace it all between updates.
And it's an old pic, I had some upgrades now.
b) The original case
The Almighty ARMOR
BTW, the aerogate have beenpreviously mod, and will be again, I'll show you when we get there
The first thing I did when I received that case was removing the PCI retention bracket, wich suck, and replace it with thumb screw
I place it in the ORIGINAL CASE section cause I dont consider this a mod, it's more tuning, but please dont trow me rocks, I dont want to start a flame war...
And also removed the HDD tray in front of the PSU cause I will need this space in futures plans. And I bought another iCage for the 5.25 slots
I sleeved every wire in the case, including the power connectors and the connectors on top of the case.
So now, let start the mods
c) LET START MODDING
I was really diseappointed by the airflow and the mess in my wires (ok, 6 hdd brings alot of heat and wires, I admit it) It's much more easy to hide the wires when you only have one or two hdds, but how could I hide them?
Why dont reverse them?
First I had to make sure the cages fits. They didnt, so get the drill out and make some holes, 2 minutes and it was done (Sorry no pic about me drilling my cage, think you know how to do this)
Now they do fit
Ok, still alot of wires, but with the bezels on...
and a first look from the inside
So now it gives me 2 120mm blowing directly to the mobo/vid cards.
You probably did not see it, but on the bottom of the case, there is a mirror. In fact it's a mirrored plexi. I'll be using this material almost everywhere inside that case.
So, the HDD are done, the bottom also, now the top.
For the purists, I took some pics
Draw the design on the plexi, cut it, sand it, makes fans and mounting holes...
And finally uncover the plexi
Mount the 120mm fan ( Oh, I almost forgot, I use premod on this part, leds screws)
I'm using the HDD cage location to mount the plexi to the top of the case
Final look at this stage (much more to do)
EDIT: BTW, you can see 800/600 pics by clicking on small ones
Almost forgot: My helper on the mod. He's always on my shoulder, cant get it out of there