My First Case MOD!!!

[7angofragger]

Hey all!!! I am new to this forum and i cant wait to meet all of you. I have always viewed the mod progress on this website, but i have never really done a mod. I currently have a Raidmax Horizon case for my system. I have always been into cooling my PC. So i decided to find an old case in my garage, and do my first case mod. My plans are the following:

The Primary Side Panel: 4x 120mm green LED case fans as intake.
The Rear Side Panel: 2x 80mm Black case fans an intake on rear side of motherboard to cool the opposite side of the CPU and PCI/PCI Express slots via cutting 80mm hole in motherboard tray.
The Front Panel: 2x 80mm green LED case fans as intake (No cutting required).
The Rear Panel: 1x 80mm green LED case fan as exhaust (No cutting required).
The Top Panel: 2x 80mm green LED case fans as exhaust.
The Bottom: 2x 120mm green LED case fans as intake.

Once all the fan holes are cut, I plan on painting the case black inside and out. I will use all my current hardware, except for an AeroCool Gatewatch 2, which i plan on buying after i get finished. Just to explain the rear side panel fans. I am going to cut two holes to accommodate 2 80mm fans that will be outside of the rear side panel, blowing in air straight on to the back side of the motherboard to cool the component on the other side. I will cut a hole in the motherboard tray also to let the air pass through.

Here are the first pics of the case before i will start:

The front and front side panel of the case:

The inside of the case (if you cant read the text, save the image and zoom in)

A good view of the bottom and top of the case

[7angofragger]

Its getting too dark to cut anymore so i am going to wait till in the morning to cut all the holes...

[7angofragger]

the total price will be just a bit over $100 bucks for all the fans, the AeroCool GatewatchII, and the paint/clearcoat... tomorrow we will cut the holes, and hopefully paint it within the next 2 days

[simon275]

Welcome to the forums. Thats a really neat idea with having a hole behind the mobo to cool down the back of it where the back of the cpu is.

What color are you gonna paint it?

Also be careful cutting metal remember to file down the edges so you don't cut yourself.

+rep

[7angofragger]

thanks man... we are going to paint the case black inside and out, and have either green or blue led fans... the original plan was going to be green, but i found a box full of blue led fans, so i may just use them and save the money... and we couldent help it... it just turned 12am and we decided to pull the eclipse around and use the headlights and start dremeling ...

[7angofragger]

just before we started cutting at 12am

[7angofragger]

cutting about 2 mins later

[rendermandan]

Why are you doing this outside, in the dark with a car for light. You really should wait untill its daylight out or atleast go in your garage and turn the lights on. You need good lighting to see what your doing. Not to mention the safety factor of modding in the dark. Hope you have all your fingers in the morning. Later! Oh and welcome to TBCS.

[7angofragger]

yeah, we brought out the big lights so we got plenty of lights now...

Done with the first 120mm hole in side panel

[7angofragger]

A Perfect Fit!!!