side panel is installed along with the fan...

this ain't cheapskate
this is plain awesome

VERY GOOD work dude! Hmmm. now I think I wanna pop by my friend's computer shop and raid his store room!! He got SOOO many unused casings and parts there. er.. If you free gimme a buzz I bring you there and perhaps can get ur advise as well on what I need for my casing. Yeah I need a new casing and a modded one at that. But got no time to do one really and lazy also lah lolx.

My casing now haiz.. Open air casing lolx. Already 6 yrs old I think but solild metal sia lolx.

Tenkiu, tenkiu for the compliments.
More updates comin soooooooooooon. Painted it on Feb 8. Another 2 more days b4 I can do the sanding n polishing. MMMmmmmmmmmmm................mirror shine black comin right up. Get ure sunglasses ready coz it's gonna b really bling bling.

wa...need sunglasses somemore ah.....u can it be a daily usage mirror also hehe

bling bling!!! hehehe hmm... maybe put some jewelry there hehehehe

OK. Finally finished my work on Mr Bond's case. 2moro gonna start back on my Ch3@psk8 mods. Watchout for updates soon.

This post has been edited by ianho: Feb 25 2006, 07:20 PM

Great.. need some pictures from you.. ehehe.. Maybe can copy some ideas out of you.. H@H@..

i am waiting

Sry no updates today. Went to buy materials, tadak. Sumhow KL hardware shops all out of stock for 800, 1000 grit sandpaper. Weird. I still haf 1500, 2000 but no more 800 n 1000 n nobody got stock. I went to 5 shops all tadak.

Then also wanted sum shrink tubes for my wires, again tadak. Ace Hardware had sum American made ones but the price is like rm10 for bout 6 inches. Daylight robbery. Hafta go to apek electronics shop to buy.

Will update once I get the materials.

Try find at hardware shop Jalan Pasar. They're got so many grift sand paper. Er, u know here can get sleeving at KL?

This post has been edited by ikan_semilang: Feb 26 2006, 03:04 AM

bro....electronic spare parts like the heatshrinks u can get at ss2.... theres a shop same row as mcdonalds. theres also a hardware store between them

But sleeving very hard to find unless u buy it like Vantec Sleeving Kit only.

Dont worry. I know where to get the sandpaper. Just that today was shopping round my area n din haf oni. Will get it soonz n mirror shine here I comeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...........................



Yeah I know bout that SS2 shop. Been getting my stuff there for many many years d. Unfortunately 2moro Sunday they dont open. Nvm lar since it's Sunday, I oso need a break. Been so bz of late until no time for playtime. Must rest.




I know. I got Vantec sleeves berlambak but prob is always the heatshrink tubes not enuf. Stupid Vantec think we sleeve wat kinda wires. Mebe they think we use dwarf wires that use tiny amounts of heatshrink?

Yup, maybe they want we jimat using the heat shrink. I'm waiting our store member uglyvamp open back selling his sleeving.

This post has been edited by ikan_semilang: Feb 26 2006, 03:37 AM

The Vantec kit is ok lar. 1 pack got more than enuf to sleeve ure whole rig. Always got plenty spare left 1. Just need to haf more h.shrink.

Updates.

Finally got the stuff I need for this update. Managed to get all sizes for the black heatshrink tubes, more black sleeves, black zip ties n 2 X 120mm fans. 1 is a high flow NMB fan for doing a push pull config so I can haf more airflow tru the radiator for cooler CPU n graphics card temps. The other fan is a CM blue LED fan for the rear exhaust to match the intake fan. Currently using the purple UV fan which doesnt match the blue theme at all.





Gonna spend tonight sleeving the remaining wires that r still blue. Then do sumore wire management to really stealth as much as possible. Then gonna change the purple exhaust fan n add the NMB fan to the radiator. Will update again tomorrow.

Here's the blue USB n Firewire wires at the bottom. Don't like it now coz it's blue. I now prefer stealth look with all black wires. In the process of removing the blue sleeves.





Blue sleeves removed.





Here's how everything looks like now with all black wires. Also the CM blue LED fan at the exhaust gifs it a nice blue glow too. Note how the upper hoses glow more now compared to b4.





This is how it looked b4 this update with the blue wires at the bottom.








This is the dual fan, push pull set up for the radiator I just did. The Panaflo I originally had has been moved to the top coz it's a quieter fan. The noisier fan is underneath so that it'll be inside to contain more of the noise it makes. The NMB fan I just bought is a monster fan. I just checked the spec sheet at the NMB website n the fan is specced for 118CFM at 12V! N the noise is just unbearable. Like a jet engine. The original Panaflo is only 68CFM at 12V n is quiet. So what I did was devolt the NMB to 7V. Now the sound is just slightly louder than the Panaflo. It's OK though coz it's inside the case so the overall system noise is just a lil bit louder than b4. The time I spent redoing the dual fan set up, n the slight added noise is worth it though. My load temps haf dropped 4C. NICE. I also wanna say thanks to AllnGap for giving me advice on the fan wiring. The NMB I bought came with bare wires. No plug. I had to get AllnGap's help on which wires to hook up to the molex.



Note the dust on the case in this pic. This is exactly y I needed to mod an intake fan filter. There's a lot of dust coz there's sum construction going on near my hse. Just imagine, without the filter, all that dust wud b inside the case n not outside like now. I also wipe n clean my case like every 2-3 days. Yet it's so dusty. N this is b4 I mirror shine it.

Well, the internals r almost done now. Just a lil bit more wire management needed. I was rushing to finish it last night coz my friend was calling me to join him for sum online gaming. Actually, looking at the b4 n after pix, the difference is only very slight. But it was no joke. That seemingly simple job of resleeving all the remaining blue wires, changing exhaust fan, redoing the dual fan rad set up n rewiring for the 7V devolting took me bout 6 hours. It was all worth it just for that 4C drop in load temps.

Next update will b on the mirror shine. I've got all the sandpaper oredi n will commence soonz.

This post has been edited by ianho: Mar 7 2006, 03:57 PM

another gr8 update!

since u went to DY Signcraft, subang got place to buy 800 and 1000 grit also...

Woon Electrical Hardware Trading... near Darussalam mamak in SS15