these are some of my previous moddings.....mostly on LEDs, Luxeons, fans, charcter LCD, acrylic and stuff like that.

these are all my mods, so just enjoy !!!


round acrylic reservoir









This post has been edited by AllnGap: Jun 30 2007, 08:05 AM

92mm fan.....got bored with the colour already......

multi-colour LED mod on my enermax

6600GT cooling mod

custom made acrylic ram cooler with SMD LEDs, pushed 19cfm in total

orange nazi fan

PSU multi-colour LED mod

ram cooler UV reactive edition.

character LCD and temperature sensor bracket for CDROM that i built

92mm LED fan for my friend's casing

some mods on Cavilier casing.

green LED fan

6600 GT mods

custom made watercooling sets.

my " testbed " heatpipe cooler that failed

another prototype

another modded 92mm fan

92mm panaflo on FX - 5700 n half cut AMD stock heatsink






This post has been edited by AllnGap: Dec 1 2005, 01:48 AM

my modded fan on LittleLinnet's PC

character LCD mod







character LCD and ram cooler for my other friend

ram cooler metal edition.

ram cooler white LED edition

80mm Delta FF with blue SMD LEDs

Delta 80*80*38 tri-blade



Delta 80*80*38 tri-blade



TT Smart case fan 80mm to UV version



120mm ICUTE

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my first mod....around 2 years ago if not mistaken, mounted with Luxeon LEDs.
one green on the top panel, one blue behind the CDROM area, one red and one blue in the fan duct.
all the pictures differ because this i want to show the combination of the colours













This post has been edited by AllnGap: Dec 1 2005, 02:39 AM

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Dec 1 2005, 02:51 AM

changed the theme a lil bit, got influenced by Sentinels when Matrix was still hot in the market

the two fans will push around 260cfm t the proc area when full speed,
it's so strong that it will push itself away from the Mobo




This post has been edited by AllnGap: Dec 1 2005, 03:10 AM

okay, i've finished uploading.

Ok boss...post deleted as requested.

As a reminder... mod service and price etc --> Use PM ok?

Cheers

anyone can help me with the image hosting website ?


This post has been edited by AllnGap: Dec 5 2005, 11:34 PM

converted a dull nidec 92mm , 130cfm into a bling bling one...

just a normal mod, adding 4pcs of LED at the corners and sprayed the blades evenly









This post has been edited by AllnGap: Dec 24 2005, 08:00 AM

this is a forummer's item as well, he requested for ULTRA - BRIGHT AQUA shine to the NMB for his SI-120.

so i proceeded with 3x SMD LEDs on each corner, total of 12 LEDs.
the LEDs consists of 1 green and 2 blue with the green in the middle in order to get aqua colour as requested
[ blue + green = aqua ]

used acrylic as mounts to put the LEDs in place so that can get maximum lighting effect from any angle

on top of that i also did some frame cutting, what is left is just the structure to hole the motor only and it actually helps to reduce noise level which originally was from the pressure from compression







the 3 LEDs at one corner, the middle is green while the top and bottom is blue








shots taken at nite....hopefully he wont complain about not being able to sleep at nite












this is how bright it is.....




This post has been edited by AllnGap: Dec 24 2005, 01:35 AM

this is another custom ram cooler....
with UV reactive orange frame....pretty nice i'd say







another ram cooler with UV reactive yellow frame, looks prettu cool at nite






AcBel acrylic cover mod

what is so special ?? the cover goes inside the PSU instead of covering outside.
very difficult task, technically speaking, need a lot of trial and error and not giving up easily












This post has been edited by AllnGap: Dec 24 2005, 01:54 AM

hmmm.....good question.
doing the cover means voiding warranty u know, so think about it first.
anyway i need the PSU for the modding, because every PSU case is different.




SI-120's fins are loose, anyway, it's pushing more than 130cfm now

i read somewhere that frame design like Panaflo / TT Silent Cat (copied Panaflo design)
can actually put out more airflow (the comparison is between a solid frame and a frame which has got holes) and reduced the noise.

this is because air is being sucked in from the sides and excessive pressure (if exists) will be able to escape thru the holes on the frame.

but angle direction of the airflow would be bigger, meaning that the fan will blow outwards and as sniper said, pressure drops.

so depending on which type of application to use, frameless design is more suitable towards case fans.
but in this case, i want to reduce the noise.

this is the 120mm NMB fan i modded for low yat 82
he wanted UV sunshine design, so i sprayed according to his request and did some frame trimming as well.

any comments are welcomed








This post has been edited by AllnGap: Feb 5 2006, 02:33 PM

when u install everything, then u show the picture....coz the whole thing is too clear until u see nothing....

Dood, merged all your threads into an easier to managed all in one thread.

thanks man !!!

just completed this mod today, it's a 7 colour LED lighting with CDROM controller !!!!
CCFL dudes will go crazy when they see my mod

it consists of 14 LEDs connected into 1 channel and there are 2 channels.
basically, there are 6 flip switches which 3 flip switches are for 1 channel, which is RED, GREEN and BLUE channel
so one flip switch controls one colour.

it can give these colours :
* red
* green
* blue
* blue + green = aqua
* blue + red = purple
* red + green = yellow
* red + green + blue = white
so total is 7 colours !!!


the colours doe the switches are arranged in
[ red ] - [ blue ] - [ green ] - [ red ] - [ blue ] - [ green ]

just enjoy the pictures !!









nicely positioned switches







this is the LED module, i've put reflectors stickers on the PCB to reflect all the lights outwards









the controller bracket on my crappy casing

the LEDs are installed below the PSU and another channel below the casing.













the LED colours

RED





BLUE





GREEN





BLUE + GREEN = AQUA





BLUE + RED = PURPLE







GREEN + RED = YELLOW





RED + GREEN + BLUE = WHITE

sorry for my lousy casing and cacing goin here and there, coz got no time to make another casing at the moment

ok, there are total of 56 combinations for the lightings, but i'll just show nice colour combinations.

so just enjoy !!!!

continue






this is all for now. thanks !!

this is my latest mod, originally, this is a normal clear case fan,
so i have sprayed the blades into UV yellow, and made 4 holes and inserted 4x blue 5mm LED which i cut the oval surface and diffuse the clear epoxy.

so enjoy the pics ya!!

extreme compact cooling solution, for a forummer here.

wanna look at my solution ??




2x heatsinks sandwiched 3x HDD, i put thermal paste on the sides of the HDD.
and a very low speed 92mm fan blowing in front....

it helps to lower the temperature a lot man...the heatsink is slightly warm only.

naziled shots





modded NMB 92mm low speed.....

modded one XFX - 7600GS 256mb card

it comes stock with passive cooling, just a big area of Alu......user complaint that it will restart when it's running at full load.....so this is my solution !!!

added one 92mm NMB fan (frameless) on it...
reduced around 13°C from full load temperature and the card is running fine at full load






This post has been edited by AllnGap: Aug 17 2006, 09:56 PM

this is the 120mm Naziled fitted into a acrylic faceplate at the size of 3x CDROM bay and it's placed into the front panel

just some forummer's pics using my ram coolers......enjoy !

okay, since i cant afford mini Imac for her, i have to make one casing that looks like mini mac

so this is what i'm going to throw into the mini casing.

- Pentium 4 1.8Ghz
- Matsonic MB
- 512mb value ram
- lousy graphics card
- DVD ROM
- cap A PSU
- 2 x 60mm fan
- 1 x 92mm fan

okay, i'm going budget on this, just nice casing, no window or whatever as long as it looks nice outside. i wouldnt want to invest on the frame, so i used the motherboard as the support for the heavy things like CDROM and HDD



so basically i should stuff all these into a box measuring about 21mm(thick) x 205mm(height) x 317mm(length).






i started off with the motherboard base acrylic, drilled 7 screw holes and put in the motherboard stand.






i used 4x long motherboard stands to support the base for the CDROM and HDD.
those stands are really expensive but they are so useful in building workstation style design.







made another acrylic base for the stands







basically this arrangement is what i have in my mind, but with the PSU running naked
i'm leaving the front panel for the surprise, so i have to push the fans near the heatsink and exhaust at PSU area.







rear part of the casing

so i went to remove the PSU cover, chop off the fan, the power cord wires, and just a bare circuit.
as i'm using acrylic as a base, it's not grounded.
hence i did some soldering to connect the 4 points. note that the 4 points are actually the Ground for the power cord





so i'll leave the PSU aside first and finish the casing before coming back to the power cord.
basically this is the 2x 60mm fan holes for the intake for the CPU






the same goes to the other side of the casing, which i made 4 holes with motherboard stand to hold the PSU.
when everything is completed, i sticked them together






i used the triangle lining to hold the sheets 90° to each other tightly.
it's really hard to use those as the adhesive could not sip nicely.
i had to use syringe needle to put the adhesive to get a nice joint.
had one accident there, but nvm, i'll think of a way to cover that






when the top and side panels are completed, it's time to finish the rear panel.
i made several holes using drills, files, and hand saw, how i wished that i have a Dremel on my hand
the round hole is the 92mm fan hole while the other hole on the bottom is for the PSU power cord






so this is how it looks like (partially) when things are being put together

so i removed the motherboard from the base and then joint the whole thing.

this is how it looks without the front panel







then it's spray job time !!!!!
this is just the base layer coz was doing the spray job at 12.30am.
note that the spray job is inside and not outside.







this is the left side of the casing, which is to hold the PSU






this is the rear part of the casing




the right part of the casing, near to the CPU




the top right corner of the PSU which had some accident just now.
i cut out a corner and will put SMD LED below the 2 dots for HDD activity lighting

mounted a 80-92mm fan converter there, actually i thought of mounting a 92mm inside, but i dont have a slow speed one......anyway, the slow speed NMB is good enough to cool this baby down







this is the picture of the fan from inside, and i've used A4 size white stickers to cover all surfaces to prevent any unwanted scratches during installation, and to make the paint look more solid, coz the base paint is just nice, but not solid enough.







this is the front cover, by using L bracket that i fabricated to hold the thing back.
but i've made some changes and i finally changed to row of L bracket instead of pcs coz it's much solid that way






i used the plastic push pins to try the fitting.
the front is the surprise part !!! total clean look for it, and i've changed the original idea to put the CDROM facing the front









i've made an extender for to hold the CDROM and the HDD to be held from the top facing the side.








after i've mounted the CDROM, i made the markings on the position of the hole.

i've made the hole, remove the front plate of the CDROM, hook out the LED and the push button, made an 4.5mm extender so that i can use double sided tape for the new white CDROM panel with the bare CDROM tray.

the four screws are to hold the CDROM and HDD bracket








the surpise part !!! which is the front part.....
took some time to get the right and cute puppies for the pics, and i had real headache arranging them nicely....

this is the completed product, but i'm really sorry coz i dint snapshot in detail the interior and some special features coz she needs her pc urgently.
i will take some pics and update this weekend.

basically, i added leds on the 60mm fans.....i cant escape from bling bling fever
and i added our picture on the top where the CDROM lies because excessive pressure from the CDROM made a slight crack on it, so i had to mark up with another layer and cover the flaw with a design.





( ianho : those are the sexy island key screws i was talking about on the front panel )

i personally feel satisfied with this mod, but i would actually prefer it to be screwless coz it will give the total IMAC type of theme and the sleek look for the lady

but screw it , coz under low budget, low space, low IQ planning style, i had to come out with this design ( microwave shape with a door in front )

but nevertheless, she loves the puppies in front more

this is the back of the casing, with the 2x USB slots on the left side of the casing,
the 4 screws are for the PSU PCB mounts screws.





another rear shot, used 80-92mm converter, 80mm NMB low speed fan as exhaust.






we went to the lifestyle shop and found something nice to cover those rounded allan key screw heads, it's love shape with double sided tape behind.
so she did this mod herself





this shot is taken from the top.
the 4x screws are used to hold the bracket for the CDROM and the HDD......
as i said earlier, due to the weight and the pressure from the screws, the acrylic had a small crack and i had to use this way to cover the damage.
thus i stick on layer on the casing, and then used another layer to cover the pics.....

the corner with the LED and 2x switches is actually the HDD activity light, ON/OFF switch and RESET





this shot is taken from the right of the casing with flash......




this shot is taken from the right of the casing without flash......





basically, this is how it looks like after some " modding " done by my gf......kinda pimpin' now






as u can see the dual 60mm fan setup with LEDs in it and the CDROM bay which i stealthed it with a white acrylic faceplate

this is the pic for the switch on the top right hand corner of the casing which i used to cover another defect as well.



the DVDROM ejected....




this is the extended part of the DVDROM bracket that i've done so that it can shut nicely




shots from the right side of the casing







perspective shots


comments are welcomed
glad i've finally finished everything

this is something which i custom made it for someone.........it's 7 colour lamp to be exact and this is done by using 7pcs of RGB LEDs.....

so enjoy !!!

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Sep 13 2006, 01:38 AM

okay, this is a custom HDD cooling fitted with 2 SUNON 40mm fans like the ones that i used for ram cooler.....
It will be fitted in the 5.25" in bay (CDROM bay)....

btw, this is for a forummer here....

so enjoy the pics

okay, basically, i've been working on graphical LCD, with the dimension of 240*128 pixels that is.
this is not mine, but a forummer here, i will COD with him maybe on friday in LYP.

The journey

i spent my sundays and monday to work on the exact one as this.......
the modding of the graphical LCD is the hardest because i have ever attempted it and neither do i have any experience in it. But i still got to make sure that it's really cool and it will be inherit great features as well.

so i started off with how is it going to look at the first place....i got the idea from IMAC, the model which has got a half sphere as the rig and the LCD mounted on top.

the idea was fresh and good, but there are a lot of complications to it like :
- make the wiring doesnt look messy
- mount the graphical LCD nicely without dust getting into the viewing glass
- not making any scratches on the acrylic during modding
- making all edges smoothly and rounded
- and many many more !

when i completed the first one, i was totally devastated to discover that there's problem with the display ......thus i scrapped the whole thing and i was got really upset and discouraged by it.

after i rest for half a day, i began to pick up my spirit to make a new one again......and take note that i spent at least 9 hours to make a new one, and it must be done with full concentration and dedication, or else it's screwed up !

so, after so much struggle, i was able to present to you my idea and my design of the graphical LCD.

Hope that you guys will like it.



basically, this is the graphical LCD.
everything is built on 3mm acrylic and all the edges is rounded and smooth




this is the rear part of the LCD,
as you can see in the picture, the black cable wrap is hiding some of the wires...





there's a small piece of circuit board(in brown) which holds the green SMD LEDs
basically there are 2 switches and 1 knob.
the first flip switch(on the top) is for the 2x green SMD LED while the second one is for the power for the whole LCD

and the knob is something like brightness control




the mounts (the silver colour 'stick' in between the graphical LCD and the rear acrylic is to form a spacing between the two)




this is a side view of the graphical LCD........enjoy the pics !

okay, so many asked what can this display do......
basically, you can display anything with it as long as you know how to program what you want into the software.......
for me, i let it display my HDD space, upload and download speed, CPU speed, time/data, temperatures and so on..

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This post has been edited by ianho: Sep 17 2006, 10:23 PM

okay, this is the external HDD mod which i've done by using the IDE-USB converter....
currently i'm putting an 80Gb Maxtor inside as external HDD....the whole thing is built by using 3mm acrylic and will be black when it's done.....


so, the case will have these feature :

- 2x 40mm SUNON with blue LED running at 6V each ( like the ones in my signature )
- window mod to view the bottom part of the HDD ( so that you can look at the PCB and such )
- 13x white SMD LED shining onto the window part
- the other side which is the top of the HDD will have some UV yellow design lighted by blue SMD LED

overall, i want to have a bling bling external HDD casing




okay, lets start off with the layout.....
basically, this is the design that i've drawn using to precise dimension and i will print this layout onto a sticker and stick it onto the 3mm acrylic sheets.

the first two pieces are the top and bottom plate while the middle 2 pieces are the sides while the last 2 pieces are the front and rear plate of the external HDD...

if you can notice there, i've everything that is needed to be done on the layout itself, this will greatly improve the speed coz you dont need to spend time to measure and draw.....





here's the layout design on the A4 sticker which i'm gonna stick it on the acrylic sheet





because i'm gonna do some etching, i had to get a blade specifically for this purpose.
it's very useful coz it's really small and easier to handle as compared to a normal blade.





see that the blade is narrow and really ' thin ', thus you can cut curves on the sticker easily..





these are the acrylic plates which i've cut according to the layout.





this plate is the front plate and will fit 40mm SUNON fans.





while this is the rear plate, i've added a lot of holes which i will drill to 4mm each to allow air to pass thru.....i want to get something like the honeycomb design....

it's really challenging to drill all these holes coz i need to drill them accurately or else it will look fugly man





this is the side plate, it will have three 2mm stripes which will not be sprayed afterwards.





this is the top plate, notice that the sides will not be sticked onto this plate, but it will be sticked onto the bottom plate.
i'll add some etching to the the blank area in the middle later





this is the bottom plate which will have a window.

okay, after cutting the stripes on the side plates, i removed the sticker area which will be sprayed later





this is the most difficult part......which i've used a smaller drill bit to lessen the margin of error that might occur......this is just the guidance hole which i've made...

and it's 79 accurate holes !!!

l'll use a 4mm drill bit to make the holes





this is the top plate, which i will etch some design on it before spraying it to black.
i used the blade which i showed before for this task.
the shape is actually a Delta fan blade design which will have a UV yellow background lighted while the " AG DESIGN " will be a solid black. ( if you dont understand, then just fast forward to post #6 to get the real idea )





as you can see in this pics, the area which i want to be in yellow UV will be covered with the sticker, while the rest of the area is exposed so that it can be sprayed to black.

the yellow sticker is actually some buffing to the sticker coz the sticker got torn off a bit.....





these two plates are the ones holding the HDD in place and they will be glued together to the top of the external HDD.







okay, the white stripe on the acrylic sheet is from the layout that i've drawn.
i left it there to compare the accuracy as to reduce error in alignment.
However i will remove it (the white sticker) when i'm gonna stick it





this shot is taken once i've sticked the acrylic plate which sandwich the HDD onto the top plate.





basically, i've made : -
- 12 x 5mm holes
- 8 x 3.5mm holes
- 2 x 38mm holes
- 79 x 4mm holes
- cut the window mod on the bottom plate
- etch the design onto the top plate
- cut the stripes design on the side
- stick the acrylic holding the HDD

okay, this is the back plate which has got the honeycomb design but with round holes.....
altogether 79 holes.....

although some went off a bit, but i think it's still with acceptable range.....it was done with full concentration and focus and it's really stressful to make those holes







okay, this is the moment where all the plates will be joined nicely to make the external enclosure.
i left the external acrylic sticker intact so that the exterior will be in mirror finish when i removed them coz i only wanted the interior to be black.

okay, this is how it looks like when all the stickers have been removed










so i will stick the side to the bottom plate, which is the one with the window mod. (the white sticker is for the window mod.)

okay, so this is quite completed, but without the black background yet.
so these are going for a spray job.






so this is after the spray job.....sorry for the blur pics...









okay, to hold those two things together, i will need something like a stand, hence, 6 acrylic stands were made and they will be screwed from both the top and bottom plate.





as for the screws, i used 4mm stainless steel rounded allankey screws.
so this is the window mod which shows the bottom of the HDD....

i used the same screws for the 40mm fan as well......

the pic shows the top and front panel of the external HDD....
did you notice it's still missing the yellow UV which i mentioned before ?





okay, on the left is the white SMD LED which is going to light up the window side while 1 of the 3 sets of the blue SMD LED will be used to light up the yellow UV acrylic.





The yellow UV acrylic is added on the top panel and it will be lighted by using LEDs...






the LED that i'm holding will be running on 5V line while the blue LED on the 12V line.
it will be connected later





okay, basically, i want to make the UV yellow sheet glow, so how to do it ?

i will add LEDs to shine from the side of the acrylic,

but in order to obtain a uniform colour or brightness distribution, the light source must not be from a focus beam such as LEDs.
thats why you see in laptops, the screen is lighted up using CCFL because the light is more uniformly distributed.

but i just added a set of 4 SMD LEDs into it....dint bother so much.

to prevent light from escaping from the UV yellow acrylic, i used reflective sticker to cover every part of the acrylic, including the side.
The blue SMD LED is also covered in this layer so that all the light will shine outward only.