Project MicroSuperFly by E.E.L. Ambiense

The MicroSuperFly case started life as an Ultra Micro Fly M-ATX case. I had snagged one a while back for next to nothing, and quickly lost interest in it, because they're kind of chintsey, lol. It sat in a dark room occasionally getting kicked whenever I'd go in the room (not on purpose though!). I decided I'd modify what I didn't care for on it, which meant removing the whole front fascia and rebuilding the case. New paint, new acrylic, etc. I recently co-started a graphic design & screen printing company, and I needed a personal rig to be used for the business, so this is it.

Stock, it had a single 80MM fan up front and a single 120MM in back; removable mobo tray, etc. I decided I wanted to open it up a bit to get rid of the deadspots in the cooling, so I cut out the bottom-half of the case's aluminum up front, and replaced it with a new piece of aluminum. I sketched out and digitally designed a new front for the case, as well as incorporating 4 USB 2.0 ports, HD audio ports, and a firewire port all using a 3.5" Silverstone add-on. I measured and designed the front, laying out where the three Sunbeam LED 80mm fans were going to go, as well as the aforementioned external ports. Also decided to use an unused lighted Bulgin switch for the power switch.

Stock case had a slide-in HDD rack on the right side of the IDE bays when looking at the front of the case. In it's stock form, there was no airflow at all to the HDD, relying on the bare-metal aluminum contact and using the chassis as a sort of heatsink for the HDD's. Using a Raptor, this just wasn't going to work for me (I like my HDD's cool as hell...which is an oxymoron...but I digress). So I tossed the stock acrylic windows and designed new ones, and the side that the HDD is on also got a low-profile 80mm intake fan right over the HDD. Decided to coat it a different color, because the stock black paint sucked.

Sorry for the long-winded rambling!

System specs:
Elitegroup AMD690GM mATX mobo
AMD AM2 4000+ CPU
Cooler Master Vortex 752 CPU cooler
2GB Corsair DDR2-800 RAM
WD Raptor 74GB SATA HDD
Corsair 620HX modular PSU
BFG 7800GT GPU
Stealthed/modded Sunbeam Rheobus
Stealthed Samsung SATA DVD-RW Drive
Sunbeam LED 80mm fans (intakes)
Cooler Master LED 120mm fan (exhaust)
Hiper UV blue thin 80mm side HDD fan

Results:
Case is very quiet; almost no noise at all. HDD runs at 28 degrees under load. CPU, 35. board, 35. Overall, I'm satisifed!

Stock (not my photo)...



Modded...









Thank you kindly for time!

Hehe funny....mini case moding ^^
Small but Oho!
Isn't that think some bit loud with this small coolers? chause i just know this small coolers as really loud!
but nice...first i saw a really modded small lan/sff case

Thanks, KissOfDeath!

Nah, not loud at all. In fact, it's quieter by far than it was stock. Not to mention cooler.

E.E.L. Ambiense said:

Thanks, KissOfDeath!

Nah, not loud at all. In fact, it's quieter by far than it was stock. Not to mention cooler.

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ahh ok because i just know small coolers as loud coolers

Good job. Very nice.

Awesome job, I especially like the 3 front intakes. Whats the total work time from start to finish?

BrotherLen said:

Good job. Very nice.

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Thanks, man!

Vincenz said:

Awesome job, I especially like the 3 front intakes. Whats the total work time from start to finish?

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Appreciate the kind words. Total time, from concept design, modding work, and finishing I'd say a total of maybe 10 hours of work? I'm guessing also, so don't quote me on that!

In testing out my new camera, I had taken some test-shots of the ole MicroSuperFly before she left my hands forever. I figured I'd go ahead and upload them for others to see & for posterity's sake. Enjoy!