whatdoineed ? WHATDOINEED ? - Plexi : 100x50x0,5 : 2 boards - Hinges, 2 pcs - 2 x 120 mm fan + 2 grills - 2 x 80 mm fan + 2 grills - 1 fan, 80 or 60mm, but only 15mm thick and silent + grill - 1 x 60 mm fan + 1 grill - IDE + Floppy cables (color ?) - Black spiral wrap - 2 adaptors 5,25 -> 3,5 - Metal primer - Plastic primer - 2 Spray paint cans of bordeaux – red for plexi - 2 Spray paint cans of bordeaux – red (but slightly different from previous) for caseframe, PSU, CDROM and floppy - Vernice / Lacquer - Rubbing compound (wax) - Sanding paper, very fine - Power + reset – buttons - 12V lamp + socket for logo illumination + button - 1 case handle - Lock + key - Fan screws - Plexi screws (iron screws) - Protection pads, transparant - Metal filler (fill up holes) - Plastic flexible “current” strips (protection of plexi + easy of construction) I won’t be needing any special tools. A drill, some saws, hammer, screwdriver, file, … |
Modifications I will put in several fans : Fan 1 : 120 mm Fan 2 : 80 mm in 3.5 inch bay (will be pointed to RAM and CPU) Fan 3 : 80 mm silent fan Fan 4 : 60 or 80 mm silent & thin fan (cooling back of CPU / mobo) Fan 5 : 120 mm Fan 6 : 60 mm silent (draw air away of AGP card) I will remove the housing completely. I’ll only keep the frame, paint it … and use plexi to close it up again. I even have to put plexi to the back to attach the back-fans on. May sound dumb but I’ll paint all but one side of the plexi, … the sides of the Aopen are just too ugly to NOT cover them. Besides, I have to cover all the holes and cables … the backplate will be terrorized heavily as I’ll drill/saw holes to hide USB cables and case connectors, furthermore I’ll cut out a big piece of backplate behind te 3.5 rack to make it easier to hide the IDE – cables. Only annoying thing is the placement of the 5.25 rack, I has to be “pulled back” 26 mm in the direction of the PSU so the CDROM won’ stick out. One side-panel will be transparent and easy to open using hinges and a lock. That way changing a setup will be easy. Over fan 3 I’ll place a handle to make transport easy. I wanted to have all the hardware components in red. I have a red MSI K7T 2 but it’s in my working machine and I don’t want to change it for now. It’s a lousy time to buy something … so I’ll wait for a better moment to complete the case with red components. For now I’ll fill the case with a MSI K7T Turbo-R, XP1700+, Artic Alumina, copper shim, TR AX7, Pabst 8412NG, 256MB Cas 2 SDRAM, GeForce GTS, Seagate Barracuda IV – 40 GB and a 10/100 NIC ... should be enough to be slaughtered with high fps |
looking to be a Noisy case though, too many fans :) you can have a pre-modded HQ45, complete with 2x 90mm papst fans who blow the hair of your head :-) ;) |
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Pabst4412FGL 55CFM 12V 26db (= 120mm) I have several 80mm Pabst casefans lying around that move around 20 to 30 CFM and are under 30db. I will only choose a "louder" 80mm for fan2 (blowing on ram & cpu), .. but as it sits in the 3.5 bay i can easily "muffle" the sound. So i'll have around 80CFM going through the case. Only problem i cannot solve for the moment is fan4 in the backplate, it must be 15mm thin ... and the only fan i can find is a Sunon 60mm with around 5.000 rpm ... and that will be too loud. |
do you really consider it necessary to cool the back of your motherboard? |
Back - cooling works ... according to overclockers.com Had a discussion with Gorgh about that some time ago on shrimpforum. But ... it's very simple, if i can't find a 15mm thick fan then i won't use it |
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nice thread. continue :-) |
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