alright, this is the casing that i had around 2 years ago......
eventually i abandoned it coz i got really bored with it already...

so i'm gonna transform this Icutie into something flaming hot and i'm gonna put in everything that i know into it .....

i'm going to post stage to stage mod and it's gonna take up a lot of space coz i'm gonna mod the whole casing and almost every part of it.

So stay tuned !


this is the original look



This post has been edited by AllnGap: Jun 30 2007, 09:05 AM

first of all, i dont have got a set of dremel like uncle Ianho has, so i got to go low tech a bit la....

this is called coping saw alright.
and i used around 5 intense hours to cut the design out. ( have to focus on my hand movement )

It isnt that easy as it seems to be, i replaced around 15pieces of the blade to cut this design alone




basically, i've stripped down all the paint on the casing and torn the casing apart.
i know it's fugly, but I have not reached the paint job stage yet.....






okay, first of all, i started drawing some amoeba ( <= correct spelling or not ) like design with pencil. Then i made a point of entry for the blade which is a hole for each of the " tentacles ", and i cut out everything from there.

as you can see in the pics, the edges arent sharp yet coz i have not made them yet.







after 1 hour of making the sharp edges, filing it to smoothen the curves, this is what i've got.

it's a lot of hardwork working on this piece of crap, but i hope that i can turn this crap into a rolls royce




This post has been edited by AllnGap: Sep 23 2006, 11:31 AM

this is from front to back when it's finally installed back to the casing






This post has been edited by AllnGap: Sep 23 2006, 11:26 AM

you got dremel but no skill also useless........i certainly wont go simply whack casing until it's out of shape


thanks bro....

the difference is just time and effort, result will be the same also

i see luck as proper planning....so i'll need proper planning

This is the strip down casing, when everything is ready, i'll repaint the whole thing.










I've removed the whole CDROM bay, floopy and the HDD bay holder by removing all the rivets and will replace it with acrylic bracket to make all the bays look ' floating '








a 120mm fan can be fitted infornt, but i think i'll just need a 92mm in order to make my design fit nicely, so i've made a 120mm to 92mm converter to fit 92mm right in the middle of the metal casing and the plastic moulding face plate.

i'll add some surprise element to the fan later







This is the shot taken from the top.
I'll make windows on my PSU as well as my CDRW and put some bling blings in there.






After stripping off the metal mount for the drives, i've rebuild them using acrylic and it will be fitted with 2x HDD in front of the 92mm which will blow right pass it.

it's called a hole cutter.....not jigsaw.....

WTH

thanks man

this is the front panel, the acrylic will be sprayed with flat black after i've configured all the knob and switches positions.

i've yet to install a frosted flame design in front.....




this is what i've done for my top panel.....sprayed a layer of base black at the moment....havent sand it for second layer yet

i used tint and apply on the acrylic, it's a black and silver tint.
you'll only be able to see inside the casing when there's light but it will remain reflective all the time....

there's also a 92mm fan installed on top as intake.....

this is the blunder...when i drilled the hole, the tint layer was separated from the acrylic....looks like i've got to find a way to patch this flaw

so enjoy the pics !!!









This post has been edited by AllnGap: Sep 29 2006, 01:41 PM

it's tint you know......

the latest update is a 92mm frosted flame fan grill on the 3.

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Sep 29 2006, 10:54 PM

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

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

heatsink for electronic cooling

cute ?

hmm....actually i could come out with better effect if i had some of the things in your store


just start modding today, then one day you'll realise that its actually easy