aiyo..nice stuff u got there to mod ur casing..im planning to mod mine but with very...very..limited budget..juz use unbranded fans i took from broken psu..and cut out the fan grills to be the fan grills..hehehe..planning to do that..actually..

Updates...

Finally got a little time for this. Installed the good ol' Thermalright XP90 in place of the stock HSF with a UFO over it:


Replaced the chipset's stock HSF which is, really, a piece of plastic. Earlier Asus A8N mobos used this poor excuse for a HSF (I had the mobo RMA'd because the fan decided to die on me). Even the 2nd batch of A8Ns had the same thing except rotated slightly. Later version saw the heatpipe technology used which was much, much better. The outer layer of the chipset would bubble-up and peel once the HSF was removed. Here's the VC-RE I used as replacement. Hopefully the mobo still works


Next, I went to a car accessory shop to get this made. It's actually black acrylic that's used for car number plates. It'll be the 'divider' plate for the top section of the case:


Side view of the plate:


View from the front:


Angled:


With the PSU installed:


The purpose? I thought of having CCFL on the top section while the lower, main section is UV. Hopefully, the CCFL won't leak too much to the lower sections.

This post has been edited by ZipD: Mar 22 2007, 12:12 PM

i think u should edit your phrase there, it's thermalright xp90, not thermaltake...thermalright can sue u if they found out this...joking..

Oops... thanks for the heads-up. Corrected it to Thermalright.

Oh and another thing, those of you who're thinking of using the VC-RE for the same mobo, note that the retention bracket (metal piece that's placed across the HSF to hold it down) interferes with the fan plug on the mobo. However you could still use the 3pin-to-molex adapter that comes with it to plug the power into a spare molex.

This post has been edited by ZipD: Mar 22 2007, 12:15 PM

LOL! I was just gonna tell u it's Thermalright n not Thermaltake. What's next? ThermalGive?

hm......

wonder where the original asus chapalang chipset HSF go????

^hehe

Anyways don't really have updates as I got stuck. Not enough sleeves to finish sleeving the fans, SATA Y-cables and CCFL/UV wires... only 2 more days, OMG!!

I still remember the first time i sleeved my PSU took me almost 5 hours lol, but the end results was quite satisfying. I noticed that u didn't sleeve the fan cable for the VC-RE

It was sleeved last nite I couldn't stand seeing an unsleeved cable in plain sight.

keep keep up.. u can do it ...

hoping to see more cases ....mod done here...

Zipd...uncle has his KK...where's your dragon?

Hehe, dragon is still in the box. Don't wanna spoil him here. Come to LANparty see him live!

bro..dont bring out the dragon..if not he will be tame..hahaha...

hows everything going on?

The dragon died early this morning. Booting up has no post... there goes 4 weeks of work. Will continue the worklog when I find out what's wrong.

yupe....keep up bro..don make that matter stop u from modding ur pc...
all here will be waiting..

Thanks for the kind words. I found out that the VC-RE chipset HSF was the cause. As I couldn't fit its fan plug onto the mobo, I ghetto sliced off a little of its corner to fit it in. Without realising that the wiring inside the plug was exposed and shorting the metal bracket of the VC-RE itself.

By using a separate extension fan plug, I managed to get the rig to boot again .

Now I can resume the mod without the rush job I did for the LANparty.

good to hear that u didnt fried ur mobo..

so now no need rushing, but i expect a very good job from u..huhu..
now waiting for another pics...

This post has been edited by kalakatu: Mar 25 2007, 10:04 PM

ya...just modding n show ur rigs at other lanparty event....
mayb u can get some paid as Allngap...

This post has been edited by peaceofluck: Mar 26 2007, 11:28 AM

Not really an update, as I'm still working out how to manage the tons of wires in the rig, but this is what I got today to feed the Dragon:







Now, I'll go enjoy this and forget modding for a week

Cheh! Show off! kekekekeke. Happy Birthday old man. Enjoy ure B'day present n take a week off modding to enjoy ure new card.