Project Cosmo: A Cosmos 1000 Mod

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Hello and welcome to the Worklog for my Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 mod project!
Roaming around in the forums here I saw a bunch of Cosmos II mods which have re-lit the flame and reminded me of some ideas that I had to mod my case. I have always been a fan of the looks and styling of the Cosmos series by Cooler Master and have owned my Cosmos 1000 for quite some time but could never take the plunge of the dremel, until now.
I just found someone with a Cosmos 1000 that they were selling so between the two cases (my original and the one I just bought) I plan to make my mod dreams a reality.

Here are some pics of my current set-up without any mods.

Need to do some work for better cable management to clean this up

This is the real problem area that makes me sad to look at



Here are a few pics of the Donor case as well

 

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Made a little progress this weekend on the case. Disassembled the case as far as I needed to in order to make my modifications but still in the process of making changes.

Drilling out the rivets to remove the inside bits of the case

Increased the opening size of this hole to fit the 8-pin CPU line behind the motherboard tray
Filed the edges down nice and smooth but may still look into something to cover the metal

The whole team out of the case relaxing before I stuff them back in

Using another portion of the case as a template for drilling some ventilation holes for adding in another fan for the HDDs

I have half of the drilling done and MAN it looks like crap but it lets air through and you wont be able to see it anyways
That's what I get for drilling without a drill press I suppose