My first window, on a Antec 300

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Hi guys and gals, my name is Jerry. I have been into PCs since the 386SX days and into Overclocking PCs since 486 days. I hadn't gotten into modding cases until last year when I painted an old Inwin S500 case and added some 120mm fans. I recently was researching buying a Antec 300 case when I stumbled across mnpctech.com and noticed that Bill Owen was doing window mods for Antec 300s. Then on his site he was showing tutorials to do one yourself. Well I ordered some windows from him and some u-channel and here is my first window. I haven't done any cable management yet, I'm thinking about drilling a hole in the motherboard tray to get the P4 12v cable behind the motherboard tray as it's too short to go around. If I do drill, then I'll pull the mothrboard back out. That's an old Maxtor 13GB drive that I threw in there to do some OC testing. Still waiting for a good deal on a fast sata drive.

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Looks very nice and clean! good job on the placement too, only showing off the pretty parts. Keep up the good work.
 
Wow, great job man!! Looks terrific! Now just clean up those cables, maybe some lights.. :)

(yes i know its an antec *00, so the wires cant be perfect
 
Very nice. I'm in the process of overhauling my PC's cooling system, and getting an Antec 300 was part of my plan. I just finished carving the holes for the PSU connectors, and I can tell you: its WORTH IT. Now, I'm reversing the rear fans and making ducting so the CPU fan sucks in clean air. I'm also looking for a window kit, but I don't want to sacrifice the 120mm side fan. I want that sucker in the exact place it is now.. which is turning out to be a problem to find.

Anyway, good job. Keep us posted.
 
ordovician said:
Very nice. I'm in the process of overhauling my PC's cooling system, and getting an Antec 300 was part of my plan. I just finished carving the holes for the PSU connectors, and I can tell you: its WORTH IT. Now, I'm reversing the rear fans and making ducting so the CPU fan sucks in clean air. I'm also looking for a window kit, but I don't want to sacrifice the 120mm side fan. I want that sucker in the exact place it is now.. which is turning out to be a problem to find.

Anyway, good job. Keep us posted.
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You could just put the fan hole in the side window. I'm sure someone like Bill Owen at mnpctech would custum cut you a window with a 120mm fan already in there if you are concerned over cutting the 120mm hole yourself.
Jerry
 
I am reluctant about attempting to make a hole in acrylic... I've worked with acrylic before and it doesn't behave.
 
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