Hello Kitty Rock Star - COMPLETE!

[TheGreatSatan]

Hello Kitty:

ROCK STAR

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I'm doing another kid case for eldest daughter who really wants a Hello Kitty theme PC

The victim case is the Diablotek Fly. The only complaint I have is that the case is rediculously light. I'm not sure if it'll make a difference with all the parts inside, but at least it will get heavier

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I love the brushed aluminum interior, except that it's going away

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I took the hard drive cage out. It will retain it's natural color to give the interior a cool contrast

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My daughter gave me little direction or advice. Her only desire, it had to be RED

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The front had two layers of mesh filters. You'd really need a high RPM fan to pull air through all of that

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The front got the same cherry red treatment

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Even with so many years of modding, there will always be new supplies to try out. This time I'll be using some spray on glitter and the matching sealant

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This one shows how well it looks

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I found this round mesh in my piles of PC stuff

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After I repainted it to silver I used hot glue to bond it to the bezel

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I think that silver would be the right color with the whole Rock Star look. Looks cool

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Next, the slot covers and mesh drive bays were painted to match

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While it dries, I cut a 120mm top exhaust

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And reconnect the USB ports

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Once they're all dry I put the slot covers in leaving the second slot open for the video card

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And after the interior dries, I put the drive bay cage back inside

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And the drive bay covers

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The specs? A matching DVD drive

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Intel i3 2100 processor and a Gigabyte motherboard

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Two 4GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance LP

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A 120GB Sandisk SSD

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An Oveclocked GTX 550 (yeah, way over-kill! for a 13 year old Girl)

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And I might as well use this spare 1000 Watt power supply! More of that Over-kill.

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I don't like that the PSU is not modular and I might literally cut off all the wires I'm not using

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[xr4man]

cool.

i keep eying up that diablotek case whenever i am in the mood of looking through cases at newegg.

[TheGreatSatan]

I added 120mm intake and exhaust fans. They're both Masscool brand and not too bad of an off-brand pushing 60CFM's each

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[Fuganater]

Awesome paint color!

[mDust]

I may not have any authority here, but I'm putting my foot down anyway. There are to be NO bieber cases on TBCS. Not even one. /endBadJoke

With that out of the way, nice work as always TGS. I sort of like the sparkles. They turned out better than expected. That and textured paints...it's amazing what they can get to come out of a can these days!

[TheGreatSatan]

I added the top fan as well as some decoration

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Quite frankly, the PSU has far too many cables that I won't be needing. So I had to void the warranty and cut off the excess

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I'm left with SATA, 8-pin CPU, 24 pin, and a 6+2 Pin GPU line

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I used thumb screws to hold it in because I think it looks better

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[TheGreatSatan]

I got this little guitar that's actually for the American Girl doll line

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It looked red online, but it's clearly pink

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Here's where it's going to go

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But first it needs to be red

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This is actually pretty detailed, with strings

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Now for the decal

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And the filters need to go back in

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Now to throw it all together

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I just put the SSD in

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And now I need to start planning the window

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[TheGreatSatan]

I cut out the window

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And the paint job begins

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And at the same time finish the paint on the right side

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[billygoat333]

I like that sparkly paint. Very cool idea. :)

[TheGreatSatan]

Now it's time to add the motherboard

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I really wanted to run an air cooler, but I never found one I like, so I went with the tried and true H60!

I can install this blindfolded!!

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I didn't want water for the kids, but that's cool

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[Fuganater]

I'm suprised that mobo doesn't have a NB heatsink.

[Boddaker]

That right side panel needs a huge Hello Kitty face!

[f8l_0e]

I'm suprised that mobo doesn't have a NB heatsink.

There's a heatsink on the Z77 chip. It's right above the CMOS battery between the two PCIe x16 slots. It's anodized blue with the Gigabyte logo on it.

[TheGreatSatan]

Remember, there no longer is a North Bridge chip!

I added a card reader that already comes with the silver face plate

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Then the LED feet that my daughter wanted on the case

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Time for Windows 7 and about 10 Hello Kitty Wallpapers on rotation

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My daughter really wanted to start using the computer so this is the best pic I could get of the window!

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COMPLETE!!

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