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I like the window, inside and the front of it, but I don't dig the back so much. It seems kinda....unecessary.

So much so you said it twice. ;)

Ok so I got sidetracked and forgot to put the pics up. :p

What's funny is, in like, 15 years or so, my kids are gonna be saying stuff like this about me. One of my proudest parental moments will be when I teach my daughter to solder. ;)

I've never had a problem with it. The thing I really like about it is that it's REALLY quiet, I can barely tell it's even on. Of course, that's probably because I haven't modded it yet. :p

I don't have the X on the door anymore, I cut it out and made a new window. :p However I have changed the lighting since then. The one running along the top of the mobo is gone, and I have another 12 inch running vertical alongside the 2 80mm fans in the back. I'll post pics later on...

I have that same Dell, my parents bought it for me like, 4 years ago for college. Now I have Linux running on it and use it as a server. :D

Thanks. :) Yeah, I know, it was my first sleeving attempt, I kinda messed it up a little. I can't decide if I want to order another sleeving kit and try it again, or just say F*ck it and wait until I can get a modular power supply.

My case came with a spot for a blowhole up top, but I never put a fan in there because I didn't think it would do any good, and I thought it would actually divert air that's supposed to be going past the motherboard right out the top. Is that right? Or should I stick a fan up there?

We don't have those around here.

I apoloigize if this has been covered, I did a search but nothing really came up. Basically, what I want to know is, is it safe to take 2 cathode tubes, solder the wires together so they both lead into one connector, and plug that one connector into the inverter? The inverter I had with two...

I was being carefull, I barely put any pressure on the damn thing.

Pssst.... I'm a girl. ;) The tool I got from Radio Shack works great, it's not the one that broke. I got the ATX tools from performance-pcs.com

I've tried pointy tipped tweezers, I've tried a paperclip, I've tried a teeny little eyeglass screwdriver, and I've tried a staple. I couldn't get any of them to work. If it helps, you can get an extraction tool for 6.95 here...

I really wish computer/electronics stores would start carrying cable sleeving supplies. When I get a bug up my butt to sleeve my cables, I want to do it, like, that day. I hate waiting 3-5 days for stuff to get shipped, by then I've totally lost my motivation. :mad:

Actually, I like the other guy's better. I think UV looks better when it's not painted on every possible surface, but that's just me.

I really like what you did with the UV paint, you just gave me a whole bunch of ideas for my own case. :)

I paid 4 dollars for a molex extractor at Radio Shack and it works perfectly. However, I also bought not one, but two ATX extractors for under 10 bucks apiece and both of them broke. I swear to God, there is nothing more irritating than having like, 4 pins to go on your ATX and *SNAP* . :mad:

It's actually an extra piece of plexiglass that I had leftover after I redid my window spraypainted to look like a metal plate.

That was the very first thing I tried. The lighter ended up burning the heatshrink. The heatgun usually works pretty well. I think the problem lies in the fact that I didn't use a long enough piece of it, and the quality maybe wasn't so good.

I did. The hairdryer didn't get hot enough, and the heat gun got too hot.

Yeah, it is a little loose, but I can't get it to shrink any more than it is without melting the sleeving. The sleeving kit I got didn't really come with enough heatshrink, so I had to conserve it more than I would've liked. I'm gonna redo the sleeving when I get some spare cash.

I say almost because we all know when it comes to case modding, you're never really done. :p It's taken me awhile to get this far, I got this case a little over a year ago, but up unil recently I didn't really have the time, money (I still don't have much of that, but I'm makin do), or the...

You've got almost the exact same case I do. Except I got tired of the X pattern across the window...so I cut it off and made it solid.

The only thing that really bothers me are the blue ASUS tags that tell you what cables go to where. If you don't know where the cables go, you shouldn't be modding a case. ;)

To understand where we're going, we must first undersand and appreciate where we've been. That was deep. :cool:

I wonder if my old apple IIc+ is still at my parents' house... That bitch rocked. Carmen Sandiego RULES BABY :D

Ah, ok. I was thinking it was called "High Heat" Engine Enamel. I think we were probably both talking about the same thing. I was talking about the 500 stuff.

I think you have to (or at least should) use the High Heat Engine Enamel. Dupicolor makes one.

Yeah, and if you're gonna call names, at LEAST come up with something better than "jacknuts".

Okie. I use Zaino car polish on my case now, that stuff works WONDERS.

Can you still get a really high gloss finish if you bake parts? Or would I have to do something extra afterwards to get a glossy look?

That's what I was thinking... I did a google search on it, and I got some threads about it on some other forums. Most people tend to agree that its pretty safe, and a lot of people actually think it's a good idea. As far as getting cancer.......that's just silly.

I feel very, very poor. :(

I've used both a hairdryer and a lighter, and they both work, it kinda depends on the quality of the heatshrink. A hairdryer usually takes a little bit longer, but the results are more "even" I guess. A lighter you have to be more carefull with, because if you hold it too close or in one...

You think those are hard? Try hunting down an ATX pin extraction tool without ordering it online. That'll be a hoot.

Dammit, I'm not doing orange! :p I did find a solution to my blue tinted window problem though. I went to Home Depo and bought some plexiglass, I'll just make a brand new window. :D

My lovely desk at home. Just a quick snapshot. And my desk at work.... Note the lovely 21 inch monitor :cool:

Please let me come to your house and fix those wires. I can't take it.

Pink? A really nice gloss or pearl white sounds kinda cool, it'd be a challenge. A really deep navy blue sounds good too. A friend of mine had a trans am that was this gorgeous color blue, it was almost black. I miss that car. :( And dammit, I'm not doing orange. :p