Cosmos S modding

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Here are some pictures of what I've been working on so far. These pictures show the work I've done over the last 3 weeks or so. I'm hoping to finish this build this week so I'll take more pictures as I finish stuff up. Without any more talking, here's some pictures (sorry for the crappy cell phone pictures):

This is the window I made, I bought a 14"x20" (or something close to that) piece of acrylic at Home Depot and cut it up with a coping saw (a hacksaw would have been a better choice but I didn't have one). Some drilling and filing later and some neoprene washers, and this is what we have.

I used some u-channel molding to dress up the edge of the metal.

Cable management holes cut in the motherboard tray. I sanded and filed the cuts and then covered the edges with the same u-channel molding that I used on the door, it's seriously fantastic stuff.

I cut out the back fan grill and dressed the edge with more u-channel. I mounted a Cooler Master Sickleflow red led fan. Some people complained about the noise of these fans, but it was dead quiet for me mounted where it is.

I wasn't going to use the e-SATA cable or the 1394 connector so I rolled them up and jammed them into the top of the back panel to keep them out of the way.

I cut out the top fan grilles for future watercooling. Again, the edges were finished with u-channel. I slapped in another Sickleflow fan as an exhaust up here. Hopefully he'll have friends and a radiator in the future.

This is the case as it is now. Next up is sound dampening material installation tomorrow or Wednesday. After that everything is getting moved over.

Thanks for looking, feel free to give feedback or ask questions!

 

[Tsumi]

Love the styling of the Cosmos cases, good work so far. I plan to make some cable management holes in my case as well, but never got around to doing it.

 

[Deleted dick member 164665]

As mentioned before, the sound dampening material from frozencpu arrived today and I got to work installing it after the kids went to bed. It seems to be great stuff, was really cheap ($1.99 per unit) and it helps to dress up the inside of my case a bit without me having to powder coat or try to do a rattle can job myself and end up botching it horribly.

I wanted to install a piece over the 5.25" bays, so I measured and saw I needed a bit less than 7" (there is a notch that the material will fit into on the left side of the drive bays). Luckily two of the pieces I got were 7" wide exactly.

So with some scissors, I trimmed a bit off:

And got it fitted into place:

This took a little while since both sides of the area this material was going in had notches that I had to slide it under, so the sticky backing and the cramped spaces made this interesting. Eventually I won.

That victory firmly in hand, I moved on to lining the motherboard tray:

I didn't bother laying material under where the motherboard would go, I didn't see the point.

I got a piece along the bottom of the motherboard tray stuck in place:

Then it was cutting time. I grabbed my trusty Xacto knife and cut holes in the dampening material where the cable routing holes had been cut:

After that I cut a piece to fit on the bottom of the case and stuck it and some odd small gap-filling pieces in place to get to this point:

Then Mass Effect was calling me (I started a new playthrough for the whole trilogy, probably my 10th one), so I called it a night. Here are a couple of pics with the door on so you can get an idea how the case will look from the outside:

Next up will be possibly taking the back door apart and spraypainting the bottom support panel black. If you look in the pictures, you can see it through the cable routing holes and I've never liked its bare aluminum look, so I think it'll need to be black. Anyways, thanks for looking, let me know what you think.

 

[Tsumi]

Makes me want to do that for my case... it'll make it look much nicer. It'll also hide some of the crude cuts I made.

 

[Deleted dick member 164665]

Hey guys, so I have finished the build as it stands now. I made some mistakes, but this being my first major modification (one involving cutting and whatnot), it was expected. In particular, the holes I cut for the 24-pin cable and the SATA cables weren't in the right place, I guess I screwed up measuring, so the cable routing isn't quite as clean as I had hoped, but it's not horrible. Anyway, here are the final results:

The guts and cable management


Slightly more advantageous shot for cable management


Angle shot


Close up of window


Final results


Thanks for looking, as I make eventual updates in the future I'll post more.

 

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I was unhappy with the cable management I had done, specifically the SATA power and data cables. So I redid it, flipping the upside down SATA power connectors that Corsair sent with their PSU and fitting them to exactly the right length I needed. Then I ran the SATA data cables behind the motherboard tray by folding them, it was a little tight but it worked and you can hardly see them now.

I also routed all the power supply cables through the holes in the motherboard tray, trying to hide the cables as much as possible. If I was able to cut a couple more holes I could eliminate them almost completely, but I'm quite happy with how it looks now.

Enough words, pictures!