BioHazard Project

Hey guys. Just to let you guyz know I just placed a pretty hefty order over at FrozenCPU.com with my case window, some extra fans, fan grills, UV lighting, green lighting, UV wire sleeving, wire management, a few other goodies and my Thermalright heatsinks. I should be getting them the 28th after the PayPal payment from the checking account goes through wich normally takes a few business days.

My goal is to make a very clean wiring setup and a cool and original lighting scheme using a mix of UV lighting for my wire sleeving and green ambient lighting. Probably nothing that special for most of the experienced modders out there but this will only be my 2nd mod and I intend to have my wiring as clean as Voodoo PC's, Alienware's and the like. The extra fans I ordered are two 92mm Sunon fans, one for the side window and one for the top blowhole. I ordered 3 92mm lasercut BioHazard grills for my CPU fan and the two extra case fans. I would've like to have BioHazard fan grills on all my fans but my Antec case holds the case fans with some fan brackets instead of screws so I wouldn't be able to add the grills to them.

I'll post some pics of my case in its current status later so you guys can see were my case stands as of right now. And once work begins I'll post some pics of my progress.

Good luck! and btw what case is this?

Its a black Antec SOHO PerfII. The big, heavy ones with the drive door up front.

Woops I think I posted this in the wrong forum... Can a mod move this to the Completely Custom forum please?

Well I got back from father's day partying and I got around to taking some pics of my case in its "Before" state. Sorry for the low quality images, they were taken with the only digital cameray I have, the one on my celphone.

http://www.imagemotel.com/uploaded/4H6l3y0V.jpg

http://www.imagemotel.com/uploaded/ake6VlWc.jpg

http://www.imagemotel.com/uploaded/012b6XcA.jpg

http://www.imagemotel.com/uploaded/o5Kj6K0b.jpg

http://www.imagemotel.com/uploaded/WO3SpV9v.jpg

http://www.imagemotel.com/uploaded/sOCHsnEG.jpg

As you can see my wiring is already nice and neat, all I need to do now is spend an afternoon sleeving every cable. I cut off the AUX and the fan sensor leads from the PSU and covered the stubs with some red electrical tape and a tie wrap around it, that leaves two less uneeded cables out of the case. The stubs aren't noticeable unless you're really snooping around the base of the PSU.

Another thing I did was remove all the messy adapters needed to connect my TT SFII fans to my Vantec Nexus controller. I cut all the wires up and spliced them to custom lengths. Basically the fans are wired up in pairs to a single channel on the Nexus.

Waaa!! Waaa!! No one is posting their comments on my little case moding project. I'm a sad geek :(

J/K

No but honestly, any constructive criticism on my mod plans are welcome. I should have my gear in by next Monday or Tuesday at the latest. :cool:

It seems like a good project, I think you should post a link to it in the completely custom forum since a mod hasnt moved it yet.

All moved. Hey sounds like a good little project. Can you borrow someones camara, need to see some good PICS. Keep us posted on the modding project.

I'll have to play some real life Deadly Shadows and step into Garret's shoes and "borrow" my sisters camera. ;)

Hey Taz... I came accross this little tip at overclockers.com and I'm very interested in trying it out for this little project. Do you think I should take the plunge?

Make your Motherboard glow with UV clear paint

I'm thinking making it glow green. :cool:

I'm still not sure how I'm gonna setup my lighting but I ordered a dual 12" green ccfl kit and a dual 12" uv ccfl kit. I'm trying to see if I can light everithing green and use the uv ccfl lighting to make my wire sleeving glow red over the green ambience.

If you could get that lighting to all work out (which I think it should), that would definitely look cool!

Work has begun. I got all my gear yesterday and so far I'll I've been doing is playing with my new Thermalright heatsinks and my Overclock tweaking. I did get around to sleaving my first to PSU cables before the night was over though, the P4 power cable and the big 20pin ATX power cable. I'll get some pics up when I'm done sleeving the PSU and the loose case wires. But its gonna take me some time as I'm pretty busy lately. I might be done by the end of the weekend if all goes well.

Quote:

---

Originally posted by nttdemented
Hey Taz... I came accross this little tip at overclockers.com and I'm very interested in trying it out for this little project. Do you think I should take the plunge?

Make your Motherboard glow with UV clear paint

I'm thinking making it glow green. :cool:

I'm still not sure how I'm gonna setup my lighting but I ordered a dual 12" green ccfl kit and a dual 12" uv ccfl kit. I'm trying to see if I can light everithing green and use the uv ccfl lighting to make my wire sleeving glow red over the green ambience.

---

Damn, I would be a little scared. If you tape it up real good that would be cool. There is another option. The have PENS/MArkers that you could use to outline your MOBO. Safer and still pretty cool.

https://www.sharkyforums.com/

That looks cool, but the glowing motherboard is just so impressive... :cool:

But anyways, I didn't get any of the clear paint in this order, just some sleeving, fans, fan grills, lights and the window mod. When I'm done with all this I'll see in what other direction I'll want to take this. I know I forgot to order UV reactive IDE and SerialATA cables wich will probably force me to place another order over at FrozenCPU soon. In wich case I might just get the paint and have a swing at it with an old video card first and then go for the mobo. :)

Well I got some work done on this project. Finished sleeving up my PSU. That was some damn hard work, took me like 6 or 7 hours of labor to get it all done but it looks friggin SWEET!!! :D Well here's another low qual picture thanks to my celphone. Its my fully sleaved PSU.

http://www.imagemotel.com/uploaded/150vUcW3.jpg

:o I really gotta get my hands on a good camera for these pics. I was gonna take a pic of it mounted on my case with the UV lights in a ghetto mounted position just to get a preliminary view of the UV effects but the UV lights overshine on the celphones crappy camera. :mad: Rest assured I was playing with my two light kits and I got the whole lighting thing down. Its gonna look sweet! Only thing is that one of the UV lights is going to be visible through the window but the green lighting is so bright that it doesn't cast a purple shine around it so its fine I guess.

Well I'm gonna keep sleaving the rest of my wires tomorrow and try to get my window and top blowhole cut on saturday or sunday to finish it all up.

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.

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)?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

well let me be the 1st to say NICE JOB! UV is the best :p

looks great man! Certainly better than mine. I really love how sleeved power cables look, nice job!:D

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 ;)