Just got my HAF932 and V8. But not yet fixing anything yet. Thinking of powder-coating the interior, waiting for supplier's quotation. If too expensive doing in JB, may bring to overseas to do (Singapore lah )

Please add me to the owners' list, thanks.

EDIT: Actually I got another Elite 334 housing my good old Pentium 4 for BT 24/7,

This post has been edited by Cynox: Nov 6 2009, 08:27 PM

that's why i am thinking spray paint or powder coating the interior (the unpainted parts) when it is new.

Time to do some mod to your casing. Sand off the rust and get the interior painted.

as requested by yuktsi14, here is "bare naked metal edition" of my HAF932. Sending it for powder coating tomorrow, so need to strip off all the non-metal parts. I have cut out the side panel mesh with cutter - took damn long time to do. No dremel, so no choice. Thus, it leaves a jagged edge but I kinda like it as it has its own style (actually lazy to file it).



Close-up of the cut side panel. I left 4 mesh holes at the 4 corners to tighten acrylic on to it later with nice bolts and nuts.

My HAF932 just come back from powder coating. Just to share some pictures:

BEFORE:



AFTER:

S$50, excluding my petrol sending it "overseas". Can't find supplier to powder coat it in Johor Bahru/Kulai area. Send the casing to one of the local workshop for quotation but they are quite reluctant to accept the job. So took it back and send to Singapore to do instead. The Singapore workshop has done powder coating for many computer casings - Silverstone, Lian-Li, HAFs, etc. and receive many good comments. So although it is quite troublesome to send it to Spore (need to go thru 2 custom checkpoints) and need to go twice - 1 to send it there and the second trip to collect it back 2 days later, but I am really glad I did it.

Other than the great looking black finish, the main reason for the powder coating is actually to prevent rust. My 6 years old Raidmax steel casing has some rust at the bottom and the fan grill area. Since the HAF932 is not cheap, invest in powder coating should prolong the useful life of it.

Please refer here at VRZ Spore.

haha.. thanks for the deal. More mod coming soon.

but the dilemma is to get a new i5 system to put inside or use back my oldy AMD S939 X2 setup. There is tempation to upgrade but the current system still can play most games like COD:MW2, Borderlands, Battlefield 2, NFS Shift, etc. at maximum or near maximum setting.

Update some final photo shots. Need to find some nice bolt and nuts to put on the side panel. At the moment, this is it. Put on self modded new shiny smoke colour acrylic.

haha.. it will not be lost. I will engrave it on the side panel later, not the entire lower side panel though. I will do a small logo at the lower right corner.

err... i think i need to keep you waiting for some time. haven't decided what to put inside the casing yet. Most likely need to wait until around next Chinese New Year only will buy new toys to play. At the moment, still thinking of adding some other mod into it before I put any things inside.

wow.. you can read my mind. haha.. seriously I am thinking of customised an black colour acrylic panel with filter to put on the top and make the top fans blow in instead of blow out of the case. Front panel filter is kinda easy to add though.

This post has been edited by Cynox: Nov 24 2009, 03:48 PM

i dun think the side panel fan is that much important to my setup cooling as I will be pulling in cool air from the top.

wow... zhafri, you have a very nice interior and good cable management... salute!!

p.s. that is paint or powder coat?

wow.. your house must be big, can hide such a big monster lying around.

I think 2 or 3 sellers here at LYN has dropped the price to RM229.

EDIT: I mean megahalem. Megashadow is more expensive a bit which I think is not worth other than the look.

This post has been edited by Cynox: Dec 2 2009, 03:30 PM

which parts of your computer overheating? CPU? Graphic card? The overheating forces auto shut down of your computer?

It might not be ventilation problem, i.e. graphic card fan stop spinning, CPU heatsink not sit properly, etc.

This post has been edited by Cynox: Jan 1 2010, 10:34 AM

I did that to my HAF932 too but I use the heatshrink alone to shrink-wrap the wires. Can't stand the look of "naked" wires.

Not really. Use a hairdryer with max heat level and full blast does the job in 5 minutes. But making the wires thru that shrink wrap is more time consuming coz it is not flexible like sleeve.

This post has been edited by Cynox: Jan 1 2010, 10:51 AM

Finally build my new comp with P55. Some pictures:

The ingredients:



Side view:



Side view with smoke colour acrylic:



Front View: Nothing much



Noctua NH-D14 in action:



EVGA slow pulse lighted logo: The digit display is the CPU temp.

It is smoke colour acrylic, I got it from a trophy shop.

I think Noctua and Ram cannot be found in Msia officially.

I bought it from Spore - Noctua is via an MO - S$120 (RM294). Ram you can bought it at many Sim Lim Square (similar to Lowyat Plaza) shops - S$179 (RM439).

Ram specs - PC3 12800 DDR3 LV 1600 MHz CL7


I order them according to my HAF932 windows but I need to drill the holes for screws and file the corner to be rounded.

This post has been edited by Cynox: Feb 3 2010, 10:36 AM