Hi guys, this is my first worklog, more like an assembling as there are'nt many major mod here, but still hope you all enjoy =) and please don't hesitate to leave comments here

Hardware:
Core i3 540
EVGA P55 SLI
EVGA GTX 560 TI
Corsair Dominator 2x2GB
Corsair Force Series F60 60GB SSD
Silverstone Strider Plus 600W
Samsung Optical Drive
Lian Li A05NB
Tuniq Extreme 120 Rev.B

Additional Hardware:
Carbon fibre stickers
MDPC-X Sleeves
Acrylic
Lian Li- Aluminium Bezel

Here's the pictures of the painted interior of Lian Li A05NB FLAT BLACK~ =)






Time for some Optical drive stealth mod ! !
Primer application !



Painted black and fit into the case.. .








Added Lian Li- aluminium front bezel for stealthy look~





Done =D

This post has been edited by shuhong90: Jul 17 2011, 12:09 AM

have fun with ur a05 bro. Its biggest among small cases. can fit lot of stuffs inside and very customizable chasis...

Plus its the smallest among biggest
Anyway its really nice .. Read your worklog as well and I like it =)

hey bro, u powder coated the casing or paint it by spray painting ur self ?

I painted it... but then the quality are'nt really that good, some part are chipped off quite easily but of course those are unseen parts. maybe because i didnt apply any clear coat. Plus, powder coating in penang is just hard. . . especially on the island, tried finding but no luck =(

+can see ur fingerprint~ ^^

Side panel cutting ^^
first step prototype making:





... and done =D





... Next, for the real thing =]










This post has been edited by shuhong90: Mar 25 2011, 10:09 PM

A parcel from Germany reached a week ago ^^ Guess what's in it =D ( and i think u all would ad know XD)

Took some photos for the sleeve gotten from Nils =D
Hope you all enjoy the photos, though its not really up to the MDPC-X standard =)



...and more photos !~











Ohhh....... got this lovely tool as well... as a little helper =]

UPDATE ! UPDATE ! UPDATE !

still needa improve more hmmm hmmm.......

those "kulit ular" nice,bro

haha no worries, you'll get yours soon =D

bro may i know where u buy this?

This post has been edited by [Krauser]: Mar 29 2011, 03:13 AM

nice sleeve there bro! keep it up!

oh i bought if from this forum garage sales, last one though.~

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Added on March 29, 2011, 9:13 amThanks bro =)

This post has been edited by shuhong90: Mar 29 2011, 09:13 AM

ur my inspiration... keep it up...

lol glad u like it

i tough u already on mobile pc.. aka mbp ....nice worklogs bro.. ...any planning to wc this too...?

yea suppose to switch to apple, bt cant resist man . . pc modding is too fun =) nah not planning to water cooled, this rig rig is made to be small, versatile, easy to maintain. . and hopefully beautiful =) the previous is more powerful, but er, wc hard to maintain, alot of cleaning needa do, and lazy =,= and err to casing is very very big .. besides, my mbp gonna retire soon, 3 years old comin ~ sometimes abit laggy, so... here i am once again =D

nice nice~
keep up the good work~!

Thanks bro =]

hi sifu, i also like to modify my casing, what you use to cut?

Rotary tools, lol preferable with higher power, I used a low power one, ended up with non-smooth cut, which require hell lot of polishing work. Btw not Sifu la bro, newbie nia. Trying to learn Also =]



This post has been edited by shuhong90: Mar 30 2011, 03:11 PM

Experiment time ~ =D
sorry cooler master, you are the guinea pig XD
First, disassembly:









Cleaning & creating template:

Next.............

LOCK & LOAD ! FIRE WITH PRIMER !









Finally make it BLEED ~ ~



... and done...







Hmm.... the red one not really nice, i think i'll stick back to primer coating enough, suit my theme with titanium colour more ~

bro, it is excellent work! Good try. Keep it up.
I also think to cut cut and custom the cpu casing.

Good job on the paint job. glad to see more and more a05n owners...

reading all these ao5n worklogs are making me wanting to buy one

Thanks bro =]

a05n is really great for those who are space limited, won't be too bulky
Go get one =D I m pretty sure u ll be satisfied, made of full aluminum, nice for molding, price wise moderate, quite nice

titanium huh...
i think red wouldn't suit ur theme there..
greyish whitish should be the right choice

yeap, like i said, i ll stick to primer coating enough, looks nicer ^^

nice mod , when will be the next update?

I'd be glad to take that TJ-11 from you

haha probably soon, hopefully this week can update bout some hardware photos ^^

Big boss using TJ-11 ~ ! ! damn tempting man hopefully i can get one in future, wonder how much is it !?

LOL, I'm not using it but Mr. Afiq is using. I heard RM1.6K?

wow ! big case with big price ! but i kinda like to c fractal design arc midi ^^ really nice~ anyway bro, that hdd cooler u told me a few days ago, u got stock ?

I just order it from lowyat here. Will get it on tomorrow.

Now thinking how to modify it with what rotary tools...hmm..
Anyone has idea?

You mean A05N ? if it is, u can find hell lots of build through googling. well, try looking for 'Laine's simplicity' and 'xien16's mdpc build' these 2 are the most good looking build to me =)

or maybe u can try red lines
when it spins, it'll look nice i guess~
well..depends on how often u'll see ur fan hahaa..
if rear fan then i think not necessary guar

Thks guy, your infos r helpful to me!!!!

no prob ^^

wow... i used to have the same case like yours

really love ur mods.

lol ~ changed to TJ 11 =D anyway thanks bro, glad u love it

Hardwares ~ ~ ~ ~











Plus, I've sleeve some of my fans and sata cables ~ wil upload pic later....

awesome

Poisoning myself to upgrade my rig for my new casing

u mount your ssd like tat?? i was thinking the same too, just to show off to frens wen they drop by.. lol..
btw, just bought a a05nb too.. nice case.. like it so much.. nice mod too, subscribed...

here's a cool mod to see as well..
http://www.million-dollar-pc.com/systems-2...-xien16/033.htm

yea saw this long time ago, in fact there are a lots of mod for this case which is quite nice to see ~ =D
and I didn't mount it lidat ^^ put it dat way just for a photography session =D. mounting lidat, imho, abit messy to me (no offence bro)

its ok.. i will mount it neatly tat way once i get my ssd..

btw, hows ur tempt. in this case?? will the gc heating up like wat others said?? i hvt move my system to my new case yet.. so, unsure yet..

haha as u can see ~ i m still on the process of building =D

I　got the casing on saturday morning and my board being moved to new home casing. : )

But i found that airflow of back fan is flow in cpu instead of flow the hot air out.
Anyone realize it?

lol, this case original design was back intake and front exhaust

Ya man, i just realize it...Tq.

I found the front is hot, any idea can make it cooler?

Put up some carbon fibre stickers on the graphic cards:

you can cut a top blowhole, this solve the front panel heating issue.

I mod my front panel with a blow hole with grills and reverse the original a05n air flow and isolate the PSU from the intake. This makes no more stealthy looks , but i get better temperature.

If you want keep the front stealthy looks, you can just cut a top blowhole, this will address the heating issue. Try take off the front panel, you will notice significant drop in temps.

This case has just too many ways to mod depends on ur likings.

looks a bit weird with carbon fibre sticker

I'm still thinking whether or not to include this on gpu, as i put some on the fans ~ and maybe some on the 'light box' thingy ~ still thinking though. if all these combine tgt, it wouldnt seem random, and i guess shud be better.

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Added on April 4, 2011, 5:35 pmbtw guys, anyone know where to get sandblasted acrylic ? been searching but no luck. anyone ?

This post has been edited by shuhong90: Apr 4 2011, 05:35 PM

How about this?
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1821286

no, not this one boss, the other one, its err only 2 pieces of metal with fins, which u sent to me through msn some time ago when i was asking u bout scythe himuro.

Nicely pimp up graphic card there
How hard is it to make something like that?

bro, painting the fan's blades will slow down the spinning speed rite? as it is heavier.

may i know where to get primer coating paint?
what is the price?
u spray or paint the primer?

got white colour primer?

i don't think it will affect much though. i got it from ACE hardware, i jz spray the primer, cz it looks nicer ^^.

so meaning to say u din notice any slow spinning speed after the spray?

I guess no, i didnt really spray it like 7, 8 layers, i jz make it around 3-4 layers which is enough to cover the ori black colour. imho, i dont think minor painting will cause any obvious slow down in fans speed. the system is not complete yet though, so i cant say it for sure.

i see

coz last time my mother did try to spray home ceiling fan.
then the spinning speed is noticeably slowed down.

perhaps the paint was too "heavy" in mass. using normal paint spray can

ceiling fan o.o
what colour did ur mom use??

Yes bro, thinking to mod it.. i think the top mod is the best to flow out the processor heat.

Between, i think the bottom of front case is a plastic with screw, maybe i try take off the bottom part, let the airflow bottom out.

Thank you for suggestion!

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Added on April 5, 2011, 10:55 amYou go buy racing car mod sticker, make it airflow faster


This post has been edited by PrinceMickey: Apr 5 2011, 10:55 AM

u cant remove the piece of plastic, it got the clip to fatsern the front panel with casing.

does it matter?

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Added on April 5, 2011, 9:32 pmwhat is that?

This post has been edited by cougar richard: Apr 5 2011, 09:32 PM

Cut some carbon stickers for my fans ! fan mod done =D







and oh yea, cut the stickers for battery too =P

Actually, for car racing, they stick the racing sticker, which is help on reduce air resistance, speed faster.

LOL..WTF are you going on about
The sticker is just for decoration purpose
As for race car,they use real carbon fiber for their body panel and such as carbon fiber is lighter/stronger then a lot of material

My fren told me it does help ler... hmm..
Let me check with him again... im noob on racing

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Added on April 6, 2011, 2:17 amOC4/3 take it easy.. i just kidding with richard... hehe..

This post has been edited by PrinceMickey: Apr 6 2011, 02:17 AM

maybe, but i think applying car wax is much more practical in reducing resistance in race car.

Damn, your sleeving skills kinda good~
I always wanted to do it on my PSU, but thinking of the time consume, I just forget it. Need to run my PC everyday, else I fall sick

Keep the good jobs there..

ask ask only

haha thanks =D Glad you like it ^^ u can always sleeve when u decided to upgrade ur psu ^^ keep the old one running and sleeve the new one =)

nice mode you done there planning to mod my case with all carbon sticker but lazy = =

haha thanks bro =D Glad you like it ~

nice nice~
keep up the good work~!

waiting process commencing =)

This post has been edited by shuhong90: Apr 27 2011, 11:34 PM

Folks, something came ~ ~ =D

Cut out a sandblasted acrylic and put on carbon sticker



Mount it inside plus all others ! ! whohoo







Put NZXT LED STRIP under the plate... too bad not bright enough. no knowledge on led strips haizzz anyone care to teach =D ?

perhaps more of those lines like TRON~

haha i would wish too, but not enough led ! and i m sucks at electronics lolz . . .duno hw to connect strip led to pc... still looking a way . . .

use led strip?

haha duno hw to connect ~still finding a way lol =(

good job on your lighting mod. need more lines.. and show us how you setup the led strip underneath the acrylic. maybe we can suggest something.

well, nothing much, i'm actually using NZXT LED kit, which i mount it arround the line on the plate (plates where it didnt covered by carbon fibre sticker). too bad, number of LED jz too few to light it ONE line up properly, thats y i put oni 1 line lol

wow nice built

Thanks =D

bro i tot nils selling the mdpc-x sleeve right...??

yea, bought it directly from him

ic.. i have a question.. how did u make the payment..? bank tranfers of paypal..? and how long does it take to get your item to reach u..??

Hi, I used paypal. Took around 2 weeks

i am not so sure about paypal laa bro. can u tell me what cc u used to verify..?? and do u need to top up your paypal account to make payment..?