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Drive Cage Colors

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Drachne

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I curently have a Thermaltake Xaser 3 Super Tower case and I hate how the Drive bays look. I have two blue ccfls hooked up inside and I was wondering what colors would work well for the drive cages and motherboard tray. I was thinking about something like a deep purple but I am unsure how it will look with the blue lighting. Also, I just ordered blue sleeving for the PSU so I dont want to paint the inside blue.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
 
My case is a mess right now but I will try and get some pics up tommorrow after school.

I was thinking more along the lines of something a little bit more flashy I guess than black. Something like maybe red or green.
 
How about yellow or orange? Those are good contrasts with blue, and different, too.
 
Orange might work but I had some yellow stuff in my case before and it looks pretty bad under the blue lighting.

My Dad has the Digital Camera so I cant take any pics to show you right now but
this is my case...everything on the inside that is silver will be painted.
 
Must... resist.. the urge.. to comment.... Can't.. restrain.. the jokes... :D

Actually from the pics on TT's site that's far from some of the more... well, 'out-there' cases that TT makes. Maybe green would look ok with the blue lighting? Could also try polishing them instead of painting.
 
I know its a thermaltake but the case was a present from my parents last christmas and I didnt want to make them feel bad by not using it. It looks a little funky with the Thermaltake name plastered everywhere but other than that it isn't a bad case.

I thought about polishing the case before but I figured it might turn out being more work than its worth...also I think it will end up looking better painted.

Does anyone know if it is possible to remove the casing for the PSU..I want to paint it also but not at the risk of damaging it by getting paint on the inside. Because of the grills on it it would be almost impossible to cover the holes and paint all the showing surfaces on it and it wouldn't be worth the trouble.

The PSU is a thermaltake 420W purepower.
 
I am pretty sure I am going to go with an orange. I think it will look good with the light blue wire sleeving.

Also, never by a thermaltake case if you plan on doing what I am. I just learned that only 1 of the 4 drive cages are removable, and its the smallest one. this is gonna be a pain in the ass to paint with most of the drive cages still inside of it. I will probably find out next that thermaltake welded the PSU in place or some crap like that. Damn them. :mad:
 
Removable drive cages aren't standard by any means on high end cases, it really depends... The old crappy space-constrained Dell OEM case I've got back at home for instance can have all drive cages removed ('cept the one for the main HDD, which is a plastic piece of chinese torture located at the bottom right, with no fan nearby).

At the other end of the spectrum, none of the CoolerMaster cases have any sort of removable cage lately as the drive mounting panels are part of the case reinforcement and it's a long structure that goes from top to bottom at the front end of the case. Most cases I've seen lately just use rails for the optical drives, most don't have removable HDD cages either, Antec ones have a nice system but it kinda blocks airflow due to how it's positioned.
 
I guess you are right but I would have thought the cages would be removable since I spent so much money on this case.

I wouldn't buy another thermaltake case anyways just because of how lousy their customer support is. I have sent multiple emails to them over a week ago and still have not gotten any response from them. Not even a verification that they recieved my email.
 
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