K*'s QPAK - ICEBOX

[KodiakStar]

Ok. Well after a crappy day, no money in general to upgrade anything, and watching
everyone else's case mods... I decided to update mine a bit. Sometime in the future
I will be doing some serious upgrades, but for now, I have to keep making myself happy
with what I have on hand... What I do have is some extra primer and blue paint. The
blue paint was just used for decal work on a case I made for my girlfriend.. and thought
well.... my box can use some loving...

The next post will show what I'm working on now, here are some "before" pictures of my
light mods to it earlier. I'm not going to be cutting anything apart or doing anything fun
like that, but, for now, this will do It satisfies the itch to mod something as well...

 

[KodiakStar]

Sanding time..

This case alum is so damn thin... but I managed to get it done pretty well...

Some frosted plexi to make it look better...

 

[M4rk]

Having fun, are we? I've seen this in the gallery already, are you taking it to the next level?

 

[KodiakStar]

A little bit, last week I did some case cleanup to make it run cooler too, switched out the PSU to an Antec one I had (full sized 2x fans) dropped my CPU temp from 56'C at full load down to 41-42'C full load.

(its always on full load doing F@H or UD for the [H]orde)

 

[Borgschulze]

That frosted plexi is kind of what I want for a mouse pad, like the IceMat, except not glass...

 

[TehRoflcopter]

Good start, I liked your last mod and so far I am liking this one.

 

[unhappy_mage]

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[KodiakStar]

Well have a few coats of blue on here... The flash really washes it out though,
and without the flash it gets a bit too blurry, hard to capture the blue color, but
I think its just right...

The back corner is the closest to the actual color in r/l

Here it is with the plexi back in. The black holders aren't that sexy but they will work for now.

 

[Hito Bahadur]

Liking it so far k*.


Nice use of case badges.....

You have that system folding nekkid or *gasp* has it stopped working during the case mod?

 

[Prim3]

What case is that?

 

[KodiakStar]

Nope, it hasn't stopped folding, everything is still inside the case.

The first post was months ago the og work I did to it, the blue/frosted look is the new look.
I will have to take it down for a little while to tear off the front bez, but not for long.

The case is the Aspire x-qpak case

 

[Mohonri]

Do you mean to tell me that you stopped folding with that machine so you could mod the case?! You better have that box running naked...

j/k. Looking nice so far!

 

[KodiakStar]

Nope, it hasn't stopped folding, everything is still inside the case.

...

 

[unhappy_mage]

That is a cool color. I wasn't sure with the washed-out pic, but it really looks good in the last one there.

 

[codegrinder]

i think the black plexi holders look great