No idea

[Bucko]

Ahhhhhh!
Now I see.

Thief! Thief!

Other jobs to be done are buy green LED's and replace the blue ones in the bloody big fan.
I might add a green cold cathode tube too, depending on my mood.

[NocturnaL]

Wow nice mod so far, you need to put a propellor cone on the middle of the fan and your case might fly away! lol keep it up

[Bucko]

Finally some progress on this mod!

No Idea will not become a games machine afterall. The Ratputer will take that role.
I have transferred the guts of Project: Bruised into it and No Idea will be a Media Centre. I'll keep the TV tuner card and all my music and TV shows on it.

Here is the first step, the new guts:

Looks rather neat while the PSU cables aren't hooked up, doesn't it?

Once they went on it looked like this:

So I have some tidying up to do there. I want to keep as many cables hidden and neat as possible.

[Bucko]

I started doing the cable management today.

I basically rerouted the cables forward to the spare drive bays and used some zip ties to hold the wires in place.

Starting out:

I ran the motherboard power cord behind the PSU and brought it out under it so it has a neat run to the plug:

The HDD I turned around so the plugs were at the front of the case. Makes the insides look a lot neater:

And here is how the inside is now:

I still have to install the exhaust fans at the back of the case and run the power to them. I was having issues with the computer seeing the DVD drives with the other cable. It works fine with that blue one, but I'll go out during the week and get two green cables and use both IDE plugs in the MoBo seeing as the HDD is SATA. I'll also be installing a second SATA HDD when I have a few spare bucks.

[Bucko]

And a pic with the side on:

I'll either change the blue LED's in the fan for green ones, or remove them altogether. Surprisingly that big fan is very quiet.

[MaxOC]

yeah the bigger the fan is the quieter it is, like i have a 200 sitting on top of my antec 900 and its max setting is like 105 cfm, INAUDIBLE i can put my ear up to it and barely hear it, same with my psu fans but theyre just a 120 and 80 going at low rpm

edit: btw thats how my case is too, nice and neat until the psu is in then all hell breaks loose lol. hopefully it wont be long till they get from 5v to 12v wireless electricity

[a.Bird]

"5v to 12v wireless electricity"

[MaxOC]

well its true lol, they developed a way to use really low radio frequencies to give out wireless electricity to like phones and stuff if its sitting within like 2 feet, so your lamp could be your charging station, but its only like 3-5 volts right now

[.Maleficus.]

Took the words (well, face, actually) right out of my keyboard.

Nice job on the mod Bucko, it's coming along real nicely!

[progbuddy]

well its true lol, they developed a way to use really low radio frequencies to give out wireless electricity to like phones and stuff if its sitting within like 2 feet, so your lamp could be your charging station, but its only like 3-5 volts right now

This is true. My dad's sonicare toothbrush charges wirelessly :p