the video can be downloaded or not ah?

i meant the technique to make it stealth
stealth drive is so common d le


most important part in any casing is to plan the airflow first........get proper heatsink and reroute the casing's airflow

so sorry bro allngap~

+u+u on ur modding~ i really likes the way u mod ur case~

p/s: still got nice fan available?

finished modding the casing already......got some changes here and there...

stupid photobucket not working again

Bro, use imageshack. I can't wait to see the mod.

Bro... plz use other server for image.... I found that only your posts needs more time to load and sometime it wont load untill i have to refresh so many times or refresh the image manualy.....

ya, i realized the problem as well.....sometimes i couldnt login at all

i'm shifting all my pics to a private server....easier for me....but i afraid i'll exceed the bandwidth only


This post has been edited by AllnGap: May 12 2007, 11:02 AM

this is the acrylic panel that i did to secure the fans to the side panel......unfortunately my original plans did not work out that smoothly because when the acrylic is directly attached to the side panel, it started to make funny wooshing noise (wind noise)

so i had to use the square type of acrylic rods to make some spacing for the acrylic [ ]






the wires on the fans were shorten and re-soldered to make it look clean and neat
wires from the first and third fan were routed to the middle fan









this is how it supposed to look like on the sidepanel, i've adjusted the fans to be directly in the middle of the mesh




this is my first time i really did some serious cable management myself.....

the blue cables are the USB and firewire cables, hard to bent and positioned directly between the HDD cage and the front panel, so have to give them rollercoster type of routing





This post has been edited by AllnGap: May 13 2007, 04:59 AM

next is the cable management for the PSU itself, this is just the initial state where i had to figure out which part of the cables should be accessible and which part should be hidden



as you can see in the picture, the Fortron bluestorm does give a lot of headache to me because not only i have to manage them, but i had to make sure that the molexes which connects to the side panel fans are easy to be removed as well....





after some thinking, i had to house all the blue wormies into the optical bay since it is empty......obviously this helps the looks and also the airflow as well...







next, it is time to wire up all the lightings, fan controllers and fans as well

all the fans except for the CPU and top 80mm fans are routed to the main circuit board....






there are 3 additional flip switches on the pci bracket

the first two are the blue and white led lighting switch while the one on the bottom controls the 5/12V for the rear 40mm fans.

the one with the knob(low to high indicator) is default from the silverstone heatsink




This post has been edited by AllnGap: May 13 2007, 05:10 AM

this is the board which houses 5V, 12V and ground......the main molex wires comes all the way crawling from the optical bay area to the pci area through the main frame bracket.....




this part is still the most interesting part.......the holes i made for the pci bracket were aligned straightly vertically, but when i screwed it on, it looked like this......you can clearly see that even the horizontal spacing between the left and the right of the speed control is not the same

i think it is because of the screw holes were mainly too small because normally smaller diameter screws were used to secure PCI bracket, but this casing uses the casing type of screws to secure the bracket.....







i've even made a cradle to hold the board to prevent it falling off during transport and to protect from short circuit......





this is how it looks when it is finally secured





the white molex header you see here is the one for the board.......

the 80mm silverstone fan is also connected to that board....






as usual, i'll bling up the casing

this time, i used 6pcs of white and 6pcs of blue 5mm leds to a single unit, and there are 2 of these units in total.......

well, these leds are very easy to used, compared to CCFL, have to worry about the heat coming off inverters, ccfl sticks got no where to place or too long to hide





one of the unit will be glued to the top of the bracket lighting up the whole graphics card area



This post has been edited by AllnGap: May 13 2007, 05:25 AM

the other light unit is installed on the front panel area shining towards the cpu area......







sleeved the led cables and used 2pin connectors for easy removal





this is how it looks like when all the cables are connected to the board......controls 2 set of leds, 2x40mm fans, powers up the GC panaflo fan and the HDD cage fans as well






this is yet another very interesting part.........

i've actually made 5 red leds in a row for this purpose, but due to the current limitation on the HDD activity light from the motherboard, i had to reduce it to a single led.....

because the whole base of the casing is really reflective, a single led would be suffice







here's the home for all the blue wormies

the strip which is bended horizontally is the acrylic panel for the 3x 60mm fans....

when i try to install the sidepanel with the fans on it, i found out that i can only close the sidepanel but not open them because there are definitely no space in that area particularly to allow the casing cover to slide in comfortably,

on the other hand, the vibration from the fans will be transferred directly to the cover itself......

hence i had to alter the design......

i've decided to secure the acrylic onto the optical bay area.........

i've purposely screwed in this way because i cannot let the fans get too near to the casing cover and neither can i leave a space too wide to let air leaked to the rear fans directly






i've even used thick black sponge as a spacing material to absorb all the vibration from the fans to the casing........

please note that the vibration is not the vibration that you're thinking of, because when you install more than 1 fan on a single material, it will cause resonance effect with the other fan





the fan also brings in cool air for the rams and CPU fan intake directly




This post has been edited by AllnGap: May 13 2007, 05:39 AM

owh crap.....is that my stomach at the background















this side is the most difficult part to plan and execute, yet the most important of all .....spend the whole day thinking of how to make it work




the fans blowing directly to the ram area.......cool down Mushkin rams







Bling Bling time

test out the lighting effects !!!!


i dint expect 6pcs of 5mm leds will be enough for one corner of the casing....probably because the casing is small in size......

the ATX 24pin cable is blocking most of the light





This post has been edited by AllnGap: May 13 2007, 05:48 AM

over at the other side......heavenly lights shining down out of nowhere








how's it gonna look like in blue ?? let's find out






pretty bright isnt it ??




This post has been edited by AllnGap: May 13 2007, 05:51 AM

the blue light is sort of like capable of illuminating the UV connectors because blue's wavelength is the nearest to UV.....











This post has been edited by AllnGap: May 13 2007, 05:53 AM

btw, the white and blue can be mixed as well......











This post has been edited by AllnGap: May 13 2007, 05:54 AM

after i finished up everything, owner called me up and told me he shipped an E6600 and need me to put in another HDD inside....so these are the final pics....





This post has been edited by AllnGap: May 13 2007, 10:33 AM