alright, here comes the frosted flame design, spent 2 hours with my coping saw to make this.

made a sketch on the acrylic and then start sawing from the side, then proceed to making the flame in the middle.....

unfortunately, there's this minor crack on one of the flame, but overall, it's still nice i think














This post has been edited by AllnGap: Sep 29 2006, 10:59 PM

this is how it's gonna look infront of the casing....
but dont be surprised yet coz i havent added bling bling for the fan and for the grill









This post has been edited by AllnGap: Sep 29 2006, 11:08 PM

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Sep 29 2006, 11:03 PM

it is tinted, i'm not bluffing


thanks dood

thanks dood

thanks dood

custom casing ?
it can be done, just that it involves more planning and material and therefore more $$, but the design can become a very versatile one....

it's just for the display at the moment.....i'm not using this fan also

do you know the tint on the car ?
it's the same, just that it's on acrylic !

fugly ? I'll give it a hyper cosmetic surgery and bring back to life

*speachless*

*take a deep breath*



Cant wait to see wad ur planning to do wif ur side panel next

dude r u going 2 use acrylic to cover up the flame thing u made??
i scared the flame thing later cut ppl lo..

you really have patience in modding,

Allngap!!!

U can't stop from making our saliva come out from our mouth!!!

DAMN!!! THAT'S BEAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG......So Creative

Good Luck Bro

damn man that is one wicked front fan grill

can't wait to see the side panel

haha hoping that you would lazer etch a design on it haha

Lizards gonna die poked by those!
wickedd cutting!

aiya: sweat:
huhuu if only pc fair got competition for modding pc..
sure allngap will win ... huuhuhhh
all hail...

ur acrylic seem like mirror...

tats acrylic?!?!!?
i tot is metal

dun faint ya


it's purely for cosmetic purpose and i definitely wont let it hurt someone

seriously, lots of patience.....i've destroyed a lot of things in my past whenever i screwed up something

thanks bro

thanks bro

side panel got to wait for some time de, new sem starting already

i think it'll be confused when it sees its duplicate

i've been waiting for case mod competition for a very long time de

it's acrylic.....

okay, been really busy these few days with my things.....

my new sem is starting today at 8am and i'm here at 3.40am updating this thread

the rest of the mod i will do it slowly coz my time is quite limited.....


alright, this is my Enermax 460W.

this is what i'm gonna to do to it :

1. make an acrylic for the top cover
2. cut out a window below the PSU's circuitry
3. spray the whole thing to black
4. add blue SMD LEDs to shine the circuitry + good insulation or else it will kaboom
5. add mirror acrylic on the back of the PSU.
6. change the fans (which will be done on the next phase)
7. sleeve + change the connectors. (which will be done on the next phase)



as the picture shows, 460W Enermax




this is how the internal looks like, the heatsinks are in gold colour.......
and the whole bunch of wires will give me a lot of problem when i want to sleeve




the ATX and the 12V cord is insulated making the cord really hard to bend......




after removing the 4x screws that holds the circuit to the case, i'll need to remove the wires from the on/off switch so that i can strip the PSU to a metal casing only....


( warning : it is not as easy as it seen, please dont try this at home !!! )







this is the circuit board of the PSU, notice that there is no difference with the messy soldering regardless of how high end it is.
the only difference is that the components used in high end PSUs have better quality only




Okay, after removing all the parts, i can continue with making a window for my PSU.





This post has been edited by AllnGap: Oct 2 2006, 03:47 AM

this is after i've made the window n the size of the window is within the size of the circuit board and therefore the view will be on the circuit board itself





after spray job......






the circuit board is placed back to its original position.....





this shot is taken from the back of the PSU or the view through the window that was cut just now





for lighting purpose, i've used 16x SMD LEDs again.......clearance space is roughly around 4-5mm and there's no room for short circuit to occur coz anything goes wrong and my whole PSU and my rig will go kaboom man





This post has been edited by AllnGap: Oct 2 2006, 03:54 AM

this is the acrylic cover, there are some white stain on the acrylic......i will buff it later and i've fitted the nice screw nuts...

the whole bunch of cables were too thick and because the acrylic cover was not locked to the metal casing at the side, the cables ply open the side of the acrylic.....
no big deal actually, but i will fix it later.....










after fitting the LED to illuminate the back of the circuit and adding the tinted acrylic to cover the window, this is how it looks like....

DAMN !!!! potong stim man, 4x of the LEDs must have shorted and burned during installatio of the LEDs but nothing happened to my PSU coz i insulated the wirings nicely de......

the acrylic blocked quite significant amount of light from the LEDs and still maintains some reflection....








This post has been edited by AllnGap: Oct 2 2006, 04:01 AM

remember the wicked top panel ?

this is how it will look like when the PSU is installed to the rig........
although i can make it brighter, but i think i want to maintain it this way



This post has been edited by AllnGap: Oct 2 2006, 04:03 AM

old skool rig with old skool GC, FX - 5200......

this GC was tortured quite a number of times de and the capacitor even broke off when i tried to remove the GC

after removing the fugly heatsink that i modded last time, this is how it looks like.....

the blower you're looking at is actually the CoolerMaster Jet7 blower, the 70*70mm version.....
i sprayed the snail casing which was originally blurred, to UV orange and added 4x SMD LEDs into it.......

then i mounted the whole fan onto a new heatsink which i mounted on the GC.

due to the amount of pressure needed on to hold this thing, i was forced to build an acrylic backplate.....it's working so far so good as the backplate maintains the heatsink and the card's rigidity nicely......










This post has been edited by AllnGap: Oct 2 2006, 04:07 AM

cant load all pics xD too many