Here are some updated pics of my CM Stacker 830. Posted in that thread also, but as I'm sure this one gets more traffic thought I'd post here as well. I think I'm finally done hardware-wise for awhile. After much tweaking and many different wiring setups over the past 6 months, I've finally gotten my Stacker 830 just about right where I want it. Switched all my fans to Zalman Green LEDs and rearranged the 5.25" bays, cathodes, and of course the wiring. I'm now running dual EVGA 8800 GT's with Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev. 2's. I also now have 1.4 TB of Hard Drive space... . Everything runs fast and cool and VERY quiet, which is exactly what I was hoping for when I started out on this journey. Specs are in the sig. And now, for the pics:
A couple shots of the exterior here.
Straight on shot of the side mesh "window."
And here is the interior. And one more below. As you can see I used an extra piece of the sound dampening foam to cut out my gamer handle and backlit it with a green cathode behind a sheet of thin white cardboard attached to the foam.
Those Arctic Cooling Accelero's are huge, but boy do they work!
This OCZ SLI Ready edition RAM really finishes off the theme nicely.
Yes I managed to fit the CPU power cable in behind the graphics cards. w00t!
The fan controller doesn't fit perfectly, but it's close and it works great, especially coupled with the Zalman fans and CPU cooler.
Just finished mine up, still have a few things I want to change/swap out but I'm probably 90% done.
Lights on, I decided to go withan LED stirng here, running two sets of 30 white LED's being run off the switches on top.
Side off, lights off; I decided to go with candy apple red metal flake; it's also probably the last time I end up using metal flake paint in a rattle-can; damn thing clogs a lot and I ended up constantly cleaning it.
Here is a shot of the 8800 GT's, both running Accelero's and a pair of Yate Loon 120mm x20mm, keeps the cards nice and frosty, ideling around the mid/upper 30's. If you look at the SLI bridge I was able to, (after a while of gentil persuasion, I was able to remove the fins from the top Accelero and put the bridge between them, then reseat them; this one I'm very happy the way it turned out.
I'm was using the dominator cooling module as an intake to get air to my video cards. It actually works quite well until the module starts taking in air from the videos cards' exhaust. So now I'm not using it.
Just changed my case to the Rocketfish and did some fun modding. Did the side window myself, the top mount for the 320 rad and the loop got redone. I will have it going to my MCR60 when I upgrade.
The UV lights actually work during the daytime with light too, but not enough light and the flash messes it up. Fesser blue UV Die, and it is sure as heck UV reactive.
I finally got the interior lined and I settled on a color. Disregard the hole where the power switch should be, I plan on getting a new one... maybe a Bulgin Vandal. Also disregard the wire that's hanging inside... it belongs to the soon to replaced power switch. I was also thinking of getting some mesh bay covers.
I made a minor change. I had an idea an I wanted to try it out to see what it would look like. I bought some charcoal fiberglass screen and lined it on the inside of the panel behind the window... I love the results. I tried to capture this in the pictures as best I could, but the pictures don't do it justice... it looks so kickass in person. Just thought I'd share.
I played around with some of the settings on the XTi and came up with a couple of shots that show the fiberglass screen better... gotta love the manual mode
Here's a couple more shots I consider to be decent... for all you V series lovers out there