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Got a LOT more work done on this rig yesterday. Practically spent the entire day on it. I cut and installed my window and finished sleeving every cable in sight. I also wired up, and installed my two ccfls kits together. After getting it all mounted.
After spending the entire day sleaving and doing everythin it really paid off, big-time. The lighting is practically perfect for the BioHazard theme. Lots of green from the PSU downward, the UV lights make all the little visible wires shine orange (not red as advertised but orange looks better anyways) and the two UV light kits give the top of the computer a slight purple shine that really give it a little extra kick, kinda like icing on the cake.
The last thing I did was glue one of my 92mm BioHazard fan grills to my tornado so that I could still put the hooks of the SP-94 over it (can't put screws in the holes, or else the fan retention hooks of the SP-94 won't work) and take off the little Antec case badge on the front door and placed my little BioHazard case badge on there.
The only thing that I need to do know is cut out the side and top 92mm blow holes to install the other two BioHazard fan grills and finish it all off.
I promise I'll get some good pics up as SOON as possible. I'd take soem more teaser pics with my celphone but the lights really look bad on it :mad: .
Almost forgot I'm gonna try a little phone jack mod for the side panel. What do I mean by this? I'm gonna wire up the side panel's fan so that it gets its power from a little phone jack on the corner of the case. The phone plug itself would be glued to the side panel where the jack would land. That way I can take the panel off without having to disconnect the fan wire and lets me route the cables around to hide them from sight. I know I saw this little tip over at overclockers.com but since I just reformated my machine and lost my favorites (forgot to back those up, always do) I can't find the link to it.
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Wow, that's sounding pretty good! And from what I could make out from the picture...it looks like your sleeving went pretty well! I look forward to picks of the whole thing (high quality too! :)). Are you still planning on doing the motherboard painting (to make it UV reactive)?
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After seeing the lighting finally work out I think making the mobo UV reactive would be overkill. Wait till I get some hi-qual pics up. It looks stunning really. The sleaving went better than I ever expected, especially considering its my first try at it. Good thing I did some research on how to do it properly before starting, that stuff is tricky as hell to work with.
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Stay tuned!!! I got my sister's 4MegaPixel digicam today and I'm gonna be taking a few pics of my case later tonight. I can't way to see your responses.
Oh I'm also now completely done, I cut and installed the side and top blowholes with the BioHazard fan grills yesterday. :D
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Here we go!! First round of final pics. In the end I took some extras of my computer desk's setup, my surround sound and myself just to give the nickname face :)
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2004/06/7.jpg
Lots of sleeving.
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2004/09/43.jpg
Window installed.
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2004/09/41.jpg
MY case's "good side" hehehe.
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2004/09/42.jpg
Drive bay with the Vantec Nexus controller, mistakenly bought the silver one, oh well. BTW look VERY closely and you'll see my two optical drives. They aren't stealthed, just painted flat black like the case itself.
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2004/09/44.jpg
Let the lightshow begin!
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2004/06/8.jpg
Lights out for the rest of the shots.
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https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2004/06/3.jpg
Perspective.
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2004/06/4.jpg
Lets dive in...
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2004/09/45.jpg
A closer look of the Thermalright brothers. :) Notice that I even sleeved the fan cables, EVEN the one from the NB-1 to the mobo, wich I cut to lenght before sleeving it. I did that with almost every fan cable, I cut them to length, hardwired the power cables as to not have loose molex connectors lying aroud, that helped A LOT in keeping the entire look clean.
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2004/06/5.jpg
Shifting our attention to the other side of the case now. Ooooohhh... Pretty... I was gonna make that look a lot cleaner by tie-wraping everything to very strict and clean positions but that sleaved up controled chaos looks too good to really go ahead and make my cables too clean, besides the mesh of sleaved cables looks very chaotic and "Hazardous" so it goes with the BioHazard theme I was trying to pull off.
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2004/09/46.jpg
Closer look at the area behind the PSU.
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2004/06/6.jpg
A look into the top blowhole.
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And finally some misc pics of my desk setup and myself. TADA!!
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2004/10/82.jpg
This is what I would like to call, my All-In-One, personal survival center. If I turn around, right behind me I have a full featured bathroom. All I need to leave my room for is food and work. Sadly I work too much so I don't spend much time in my survival center.
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2004/06/1.jpg
Rear surround speakers.
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2004/06/2.jpg
Yup that monkey is me. Don't feed him... ;)
EDIT: The first picture here was way to dark, reshot it with the flash on.
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well let me be the 1st to say NICE JOB! UV is the best :p
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looks great man! Certainly better than mine. I really love how sleeved power cables look, nice job!:D
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Thanks for the replies. :) Lots of hard work went into all that sleeving. Guess its true what they say, hard work pays off.
I'm not sure I'm done with the whole mod though. I got an itch to give it a paint job. But I won't do that unless I come up with a really good design and enough money to take it to an auto body shop ;)
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It turned out really nice. Are you planning on more Mods? Add some Edging to the cards or do the mobo, it would look sweet.
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Hey! We got the same haircut! Groovy.
/me rocks out hysterically.
The mod turned out great! Sleeving looks professional and I'm digging the window. Sweet job.
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Right now I don't have any more plans for this mod. I might paint it in the far future when I get bored of it. I got a contact with an auto body shop and a paint scheme idea for it, but its expensive and I'll be without a case for a few weeks. And that just wont do since Doom3 came out. ;)
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you need to shave... If you dont want to paint the mobo, you should get orange uv pen,and do the border of of the gfx card, and sound card, and maybe some other things.
