Did you by any chance remove any rivets while doing this mod?

No removal of rivets.

Ermm.. Sry to ask, but how did you cut the round hole on top of the casing. I thought after you cut the plastic still got the metal thing inside to cut?

what a nice rig there very good job

wow not bad just mod the side panel and mange the wires inside

if internal case black color will be very nice, (personal comment only)

no matter how i look, the side panel paling cun
jz curious, has anyone tried sleeving the water pipes before?

yea man.. i agree wiv you.
y would some1 want to do tat? water pipes are much more cooler and more bling than sleeves ler

Is the HDD bay there hotter than other area of the case?
Cuz with 2 hdd, n 1 is the raptor, would be hotter rite?

There's no plastic up there. Just aluminum. So I just cut the aluminum n voila a nice round blowhole.




TQ.





It's a full aluminum case including the internals. Full aluminum is totally bling bling enuf. I only paint the internals if it's a steel case with ugly grey internals.






Now, y wud anyone do that? I purposely changed the hoses to UV green hoses to highlight that the rig is watercooled. If u sleeve the hoses it'll just look like a bunch of wires. Also, with watercooling u always need to check on the hoses, joints n blocks every now n then to make sure no leaks r developing. If u cover it then there's no way to check on the watercooling system for leaks.





Not really. Y wud u say that? There's a big 120mm intake fan for the HDD cage n the Raptor actually runs cooler than most HDDs. Ppl think it runs hotter due to the higher speeds n performance. On the contrary, it runs cooler than most HDDs coz the build quality is so much better n the HDD casing is made of really heavy stuff with cooling fins on it too.
Like in my own King Kong rig. The Raptor is about 10C cooler than the Caviar at full load.

Hmm, newbie here...
Blowholes [is it the one on top of the casing ] really improves the cooling performance by a lot? Hmm...

The top blowhole improves case temperatures a whole lot. Hot air is trapped up there in that cavity. The top blowhole blows it all out. U can google it or read sum magazines on case temperatures. In 1 of my Custom PC magazines theres an article on case temps using a heat sensing FIR Camera like what the military uses. U can clearly c in those pics that the top of the case is all bright red with heat compared to the rest of the case.

It is because of the hot air is less dense compared to cold air and that's why it flows upwards?

JAWs just came back for more work. Updates shud be up in a while.

waiting new works....hopefully more extreme..keep up

New sharp teeth for jaws??? my GOD!

ha ha.. even by itself, without mod, this casing is cool enough. i like the side panel design.

Here we go. I'm finally starting on it. I was supposed to finish off another mod called Tribal Dragon but that mod is delayed by a slight problem with 1 of my suppliers so I started on this while waiting to sort out that prob.

Anyway, this is how JAWS came home. Empty case.












N here's the big huge box of hardware that came with it. New owner with new hardware. Check out the HDDs. There's a full 2Tb there!









The work to be done is a full hardware install, sleeving, wire management.

Woah... 2Tb?! Not to mention the number of 5 1/4" devices there! The wire management for this is gonna be interesting.

This post has been edited by tyrion4: Apr 21 2007, 01:31 AM