firstly here is my ati 4870x2 dual 92mm fan mod
keeps it much quieter the air flows straight on to the stock heatsinks and has taken a good 50c off the temps
the alluminium grill mesh has made it a tiny bit more audiable but it will help keep dust out and they remove easily for cleaning.
before the grills and braiding
on to my latest case
this is basically a worklog from half way through, next case will be fully worklogged.
i made a 2 level case, bottom for power, storage and dvd, top area to be able to hold a true heatsink and still have 35mm above it and so it will hold a 4870x2 with an inch to spare
Google Sketchup front
Google Sketchup side
Front
Rear
Right slide on panel which can sit on the mid panel and at the bottom some accoustic foam where the psu lies on its side taking air from the fan in front of the hdd's then straight out the back.
Left side with full mesh panel which also was able to sit on the mid panel for dvd access.
nice and big rubber vibration killing feet.
2x 4 hdd cages with a strip of accoustic foam in between the base
and here just before i got everything installed
here it is up and running for the first time.
here with a mesh and ccfl lights inside
and here with a grill i demelled into the top of the case for a 220mm akasa fan for exhaust.
I finally got fed up with having to lift the side panel every time i wanted to change a dvd so...
i designed an extension for the front in sketchup, then made a card version of it and thought not bad.
and here it is frashly made
here it is attatched to the front
and here is my 1st attempt at using body filler and priming and painting
Terrible eh lol
here is a design for the side panel ready to be dremelled
done and almost cut a piece in the wrong place nearly wrecking it
close up after body filler sanding, priming and painting, added some holographic black metal flake and added a few coats of clear.
note to self, only use metal flakes once i have proper spray gun hehe.
back to the finnish, i sanded it back down ready for painting again
but still did not look good enough
this is more like it
the top panel
angle shot
and finally up and running
fans used
200mm 3 speed antec fan set on medium from my old antec 900 i masked and painted it
220mm akasa fan with leds removed
SilenX Fan Ixtrema Pro 14dBA 72CFM Blue LED at rear and in front of hdd's
thinking of making a version 2 of this case, but i might do something different, still undecided.
