Here's 1 I just did recently. Nothing major, just a screw mounted window. It was mainly for better thermals.

Here we go. The A10 has landed. Fresh from the ATE trade in deal.








Here's how a standard A10 looks like. Sexy but not sexy enuf yet.










A pic of the internals. Notice the fan shroud at the PCI bracket area. That's the standard shroud. It uses a 120m fan that sucks air out of the case. Quite an inefficient method coz the fan is really restricted. Many A10 users will tell u how hot the system gets.









1st thing I did was to take off the standard fan shroud.









Got the other type of Lian Li side fan. This side fan is not meant for this case as it need's a ventilation mesh on teh side panel for air to go tru. Not to worry, we shal take care of that soon enuf. We'll b using it as an intake fan in this mod.

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Added on June 23, 2007, 10:10 pmWokeh, let's get on with making the side window. All masked n marked for cutting.









chop chop chop the alu.









chop chop chop the acrylic.








More pix coming right up. Still uploading to the bucket.



This post has been edited by ianho: Jun 23 2007, 10:10 PM

tempting wish that a10 is mine
btw uncle u dun play2 la.. always teasing like dis

Aiyaaaa. I wish I cud upload everything quick too. The silly internet connection is turnong my hair white man. Waste all my time trying n trying to upload. Finally upload that time take so loooooooooooooooong. Haiz............ Don't worry, if u noticed, everytime I can get in sure I post as many pix as I can b4 the connection goes down again 1. Hafta strike while I haf the connection or else dunno when oni can masuk the bucket again.

Yeah...... this is nice, from before mod for this A10 is look like plain casing...... after give to ianho to get some idea to improve the inside air flow plus do some minor a bit for modding with acrylic windows should be nice looking!!

faster upload ianho! can't wait to see the end result

Bro, i thought you want to change this casing from ATX to BTX meh?
What happen to that plan?

god granted my wish

uncle ianho's BTX (i wish), air-flow improvement would be the best , hey guys, i just got HR-01, installed it, but without any fan - tonite ok la, air-cond... see if tomorrow afternoon, it'll be a hot one...

yah this mod indeed would provide more airflow to the gc zone ...

should cool down the gc by few degree ...

I'm not modding this case to BTX style. I was just studying the structure to c if it can be done. Coz the case was with me for a coupla weeks.





Sry dude, not BTX style on this mod. Perhaps another A10 will b up for sum BTX style lovin later on. Definitely can be done but involves lotsa precision work to align everything back properly n nicely. Y not u try on urs so U can b the 1st BTX style A10 in LYN? GOGOGO.




Definitely gonna be much much cooler coz direct intake of cool outside air.

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Added on June 24, 2007, 2:48 pmWokeh, managed to enter the forbidden bucket. Here we go with the pix pix pix.


After chopping the alu side panel n acrylic piece. All parts r ready for final detailing work to make everything nice n smooth. Then it's on to finall assembly.











Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, deliciously shiny bling bling blingy edges makes my day. Heeehehehe. I just cant resist making these edges. It's just sumthin that makes me feel really good after a whole day of rub a dub dub. It's like an addiction to c it shine.











Voila! The assembly is done n the case is all done. The screw mounting was a last minute decision. It was originally planned as a normal window without screws. I reckon it was a great decision as the screws adds more ooooomph to a rather boring square box design that the A10 is.












This was the most difficult part of the mod. I had to align the hole on acrylic to match exactly where the internal side fan was. Lotsa measurements had to b taken. Remember the rule measure twice cut once? Well, for this 1 it was measure 10 times cut once.





The end. May the gods treat it gently n safely on it's way back home in a Skynet truck n also bless it with lotsa lovely, hot hot hot hardware too.




This post has been edited by ianho: Jun 24 2007, 02:48 PM

nice job, reminds me my black parade window

those metal fan grill --> comes with the case? or what? really nice should i say wish it was available for sale

wow nice A10......... the fan grill looks very nice, fit the case image.....

sniper u mod ur BTX style, i believe it will be very nice.....hehe

as for HR-01, i believe u will be satisfy with it performance... i'm quite satisfy with it passiv performance

BTX style, i'm looking forward to it... but i don't have tools like you do sir...
anyway... i was just looking the case and studied a bit bout the structure, the BTX can be done, but like uncle ianho said, it has to be very careful and precise, we are afraid that slider won't be aligned well - one of A10's feature i like, it's slideable motherboard tray

as for HR-01, i mounted the heatsink horizontally as i wanted to place a Panaflo 120mm on it, to aid cool down the HR-03 below the HR-01 (if you know what i mean - i re-mounted the HR-03 using type 2 mounting, meaning, the cooler is around the card) but i can't place fan on HR-03 because blocked by HR-01, damn i think the board



form the pic, the CPU placement made mounting the HR-01 + HR-03 is a hard one... or any of guys have any idea?

sorry a bit off topic, but i think it's relevant on my case though...

I liked the decision that screws was used instead of the standard screwless window mods. It gives the case a much more metallic look to it. Like a Transformer!

Is that side panel fan from LL?What model is that?Interesting..

that A10's panel, uncle ian already moded it to transparent side-panel, nice workmanship aight...

ian,
i see you did the transparent panel with the visible screws from the outside. is it possible to do it without? but still it's very very nice transparent panel.

I mean the side fan..Is it from LL and how much is that?

The side fan could be removed from the original side patent fan.

Why ? U are interested to get it ?? I have few spare that don't want ..

if u are looking for it can PM me ..

back to topic .. uncle how did u mount the grill to the side panel ???

I have experienced bolt or screw about 1 inch long would disturb the side patent fan itself when closing the side panel...

how much is this casing?
anywhere to get ATE pricelist?

what is the cost for m0dding exactly like this??