ok guys, bottom line, i sold my car and after paying off the bank i still got 4k left to play with. i want to spend about $1200-$1500 on the computer itself but im doing all of it myself. Basically i wanna put a LOTTA mods in it so if anyone has any ideas or have seen links to any cool mods (im really looking for "How-to guides") can you please post em so i got more to work with also looking to learn about water cooling , why not lol??

so far i have links to:
a cool cd-rom mod,
window making 101
stealth CD drives
replacing LEDs
Painting

looking for more ideas though (heck if you have links to these post em anyways, the site you have in mind may be better tahn the ones i have)