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I've got a black one beside me at present. Nice case, I had the internals powdercoated matt black, and stuck a windowed sidepanel on it. Decent space for hiding cables, adequate drive bays and good cooling our of the box. Champagne sounds like it should be rather nice - will you be able to...

Thanks, I'll have a look at it over the weekend and see if I can work out what it's using. I don't want to build my own for a couple of reasons - this one looks good, and anything I make won't. Plus I'm already stuck with this one :)

Ok, I'm resurrecting this thread rather than starting a new one as it's along the lines of the problem that I'm having. I have just built a new machine with Yate Loon medium speed fans and a Lian Li TR-30 PWM controller. I've already modified the backlighting to change it from blue to green...

You can find one of them on this worklog - http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1074092&page=3 another here - http://legionenterprises.co.nz/modgallery/v/AdminMods/file_server/ just the outer panels were done on that one. If I get time tonight I'll take a couple of the LanCool since I...

Not so,I just had my LanCool (steel Lian Li) chassis powdercoated. The only prep it got was med stripping it down - removing all the outer panels which were left stock, removing all the plastic clips and stainless drive slides. The motherboard and hdd trays unscrew so they were done seperately...

CPU is currently sitting at 34C with a Celeron 2.8 at stock speeds according to Speedfan. Ambient temp in the room is about 20C. Neither the NB or GPU put out much heat, they could have quite easily been left out of the loop, but I had the blocks there so thought I may as well put them in it...

Yep, everything will line up just fine. You'll have some space left over where there are extra PCI slots etc on the case, but at the other end, they're all the same. ITX, mATX etc are all based on the same design for the basic I/O panel, you just get more extras the bigger you go.

Righto, where am I up to with this worklog? Oh yes, got radiator, got fans, got pump, got cabling. So this is where things are at 240V power for the pump, and above it is the switch for the lights. Must be time to put some tubing in this thing. 3/8" ID Tygon is answer here. Lots of...

You're dead right, it is around the wrong way. ATM, it's only in there for fitment of other parts, and I'll make sure it's correct when I do the final assembly :)

Somewhere along the line I have misplaced some photos - I think they were only of the vinyl dying of the CCFL cables, but I can't be sure. You can see the inverter at the bottom right here, and the dyed cables - which as I suspected might happen, is cracking off - it didn't sink in properly due...

Thanks guys, I appreciate the comments. The colour scheme probably would have been yellow and black as those are her favourite colours except for the fact that I already had the Zalman blocks in blue. Another small update for tonight: It's time to give the pump some attention. A little...

Long overdue for an update here. Life took over, and other more important things stepped in unfortunately. The gf's PC broke down so the Sleeper was rush assembled in order for her to have something to use, and that's the way things stayed for a long time. Recently though I had another machine...

Does anybody know if the vibelights inverters are compatible with the sunbeam and other CC bulbs? I'm contemplating getting some sent out ($15 international freight) and I don't really want to have to make two orders because I find they won't fit the tubes I've already got.

I'd suggest staying away from tape. It has a bad habit of turning sticky and peeling in warm environments. How about some spiral wrap instead? Available in blue and green, really easy to install, and those guys are in aussie for cheap shipping :D

Yep, I can attest to them being handy. I threw one at a Slot 1 system I had laying around. I had a Silent Boost cooler in it, but in order to make it fit, I had to take off both the fan and the metal surround thing. I had an 80mm fan pretty much just sitting on it, and it managed to stay...

As long as you run them in parallel (all the red/black/yellow wires going to the same terminal) you'll get 12v. The best way to do it, if you're even remotely comfortable with soldering, is to take a molex connector adaptor such as this one , snip the wires from the 3 pin connector, cut off...

Hey TN, good to see you're back! Every time someone resurrected this thread they would get my hopes up that you had returned to it. I almost didn't click on it this time as the disappointment was getting to me, but I'm glad I did now! I'm looking forward to seeing what the renewed attention to...

Actually, blind dice is half right. It's a blind nut - acorn shaped though :) Looking good so far, good work with the rad mounts. I'm not do sure I like the extras on the CPU block mounting, a nice piece of chromed/polished pipe would look better to me, but that's just my opinion... Keep...

AC Ryan seems to be going away from the individual ConnectX plugs (or 10 packs of each as they sell them to the retailers). Buying from their distributor in the Netherlands I've found that many things were being sold as end of line a few months ago, I'm guessing because they weren't selling so...

I think that what Mysterae is trying to say is that people don't want to put you off with their criticisms, so instead are sitting back and watching what you make of it. Any modder has to start somewhere, some people have the advantage of working in a trade or having parents who help that lets...

Have you tried re-seating the CPU heatsink onto the CPU? If not, it would be worth trying. I would definitely recommend having a fan of some sort blowing over the PSU if it's possible, it will work for a while, even if it doesn't go into thermal shutdown, but it will severely shorten it's...

I've used the AC Ryan Mesh-X, and found the easiest method by far to be a jigsaw! What I do is clamp a gate on the mesh (measure from the blade to the edge of the foot of the jigsaw and clamp a straight piece of wood that distance from your line) and cut along that. When cut I just run a...

The meteor ones are a rod filled with LEDs. It does not have an inverter, just a controller. The meteor would be ideal for a ready made, safe source of lighting. LEDs also have a very long life span!

Those grills over the expansion cards really piss me off to. There is one on the Tt Mambo that I have my server in and all it did was let dust in. I had filters over the front intake and the CPU duct, and with that grill open (and the PSU/rear fans extracting) the XP120 clogged up in no time...

I would like to say soon, but I really doubt that I'm going to get much of a chance until Christmas :( A new contract I picked up means that I'm spending a lot of time out of town atm, and then I'm flat out trying to catch up on other things when I get back. Not to mention that I've been...

The SilenX fans are very quiet, though far from their stated specs if compared to a Nexus. SilenX do state on their website how they measure dB levels (which is more than a lot of others do), but it needs to be taken with a grain of salt as it's not the same as any other brand. I did a...

As long as you aren't overloading the PSU as a whole you should be fine. For the most part, all of the molex chains will be soldered onto the same part of the circuit board, so the only other danger is overloading the wires themselves with too many amps (which causes the wires to heat up and...

It is the enthusiasts that are driving the aftermarket case scene - they're the ones that are building their own PCs. Yes, there are a lot of PCs being built in the lower end cases by companies for onselling, however the majority of mid and high end cases are being bought by private individuals...

Thanks guys, updates are going to be pretty slow atm, I've just started doing some work for a company that reads power meters via a cell phone unit. New Zealands D-AMPS mobile phone service is being shut off in a few months, and all the units reading meters are on that service, so they need to...

Well folks, things have moved very slowly over the past few weeks, and they probably will for a few more. The weather has been pretty rubbishy, either raining, too cold, or too windy to spray paint outdoors. I've managed to get a lot of parts painted, but the side and top panels still need...

thanks a bunch! YHPM OkumaCaptain :)

If i understand this correctly you're planning to anodize the aluminium parts? If the anodizing is also done on the inside of the finned tubes it will pretty much eliminate any galvanic corrosion (The same reason why Zalman anodize their water cooling blocks)?

Actually they aren't specifically for 'molex' plugs, I've found the same plugs in quite a few varying plugs in different things. In fact, if the truth be known, the plugs probably aren't even correctly termed 'molex' as molex is the company that probably started making those plugs. Much like...

Hiya peeps, Can anyone tell me the proper names for the male and female molex pins, and the pins used in the 24pin atx plugs? Also somewhere to get a lot of them (cheap) that ships worldwide would be good. Cheers

Mod it! A 3.5" hdd isn't going to become valuable. A full height 5.25" drive might be one day....

What you will find with UV lighting though is this: If you can't see the CCFL tubes themselves, you won't see a whole lot of the purplish light, you just see the effects it has on anything UV reactive.

Not a post, just an apology I'm afraid. I've been out of town on a business trip the last few days, and other than that the weather has been absolutely rubbish. I need to get the chassis painted before I can do any more on this project - unfortunately that requires time during the day when...

Flame polishing will make some improvement, but it will be far from clear. It will also leave it uneven and distorted. To work well flame polishing still requires the surface to be sanded very close to being smooth, any deep scratches from the 120 grit will most definately still be there.

Sand it with increasingly fine sandpaper (use a sanding block!) up to around 2000 grit, and then polish with 3M or Novus polishing compound. I can't remember the exact name of the polishing stuff, but I'm sure someone will. Have you thought about just replacing the plexi? It might be a lot...

Not really. I got the case primed and started on the colour coat. I was hoping to get the colour coats finished today, but it's been raining and is too cold. The girlfriend is away atm, and took the camera with her so no pix sorry.