Case Mod Night's Watch - An RV02 project

[KiiYzOo]

Welcome to my new project based on my second favourite case of all time (so far ) the silverstone rv02 (my favourite is the rv01).

The name of the project is Night's Watch, based on the men in black who guard the wall in a song of ice and fire (almost finished the first book, I love it ), they get called crows by the wildlings, the poorer brother of the raven according to the lord commander

The colours for the theme of my project will be black, white and orange (keeping white and orange as subtle as possible)

so, onto some pictures


005 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

Raven logo


015 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

next to my old r3, it's a little taller


020 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

as you can see, I have the older model rv02, with the non air penetrator fans


027 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

close up of the 180mm fans


031 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

naked case (fans and feet still installed)


036 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

Build fully done, I didn't want to take pics during building, as I thought there would be too many


040 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

5870


045 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

my orange painted pci brackets and custom xigmatek xlf/bitfenix spectre hybrid fan


051 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

braided bitfenix extensions


055 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

it all just fits


057 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

front of the case whilst it's on


060 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr

Specs (other than the case) as of 27th of June are:

i5 3570k (not overclocked)
his 5870 1gb
asus p8p67-le
8gb of 1600mhz corsair dominator ram
prolimatech megahalems (run passively)
60gb ocz vertex
120gb corsair force 3
1tb 7200rpm hdd
1Kw Silverstone strider

I intend on doing these things in this project:

replace the power leds with orange ones (light bar on the front)
watercool the whole rig (need to get a different rad and graphics card for this, as my 5870 is too big to fit a rad on top of the fans)(this will require some cutting to fit my intended rad, which is a 3 x 180mm rad)
make custom cables for my silverstone strider and braid them
add some lighting
any other cosmetic touches I decide on along the way

more updates coming soon.......

[krussellusaf]

Can I ask why you went for the HIS 6870 instead of a MSI or the XFX with 2 fans instead of the 1 fan that HIS offers? Was it solely for appearances? I ask because I am planning on buying the same card and can't decide to get one that matches the theme or to get one that (supposedly) runs cooler.

[KiiYzOo]

it's a 5870, and I went with the his just because that's what I got offered, I bought it second hand

oh, and my personal preference would be to go with nvidia (personal preference, there's just something that I found nicer about my old 460)