Hey, you didn't miss it... didn't post it here yet. It's a Black Ice Xtreme I. By the way it looks like I'm going to have a problem with my traffic soon.. yesterday I used 444mb of website bandwidth, now I'm up to 1680mb and I have a limit of 10Gb
Another small update. I made a hole in the top panel for the fan and I tapped some holes for the mounting of the Radgrill. The fan will be mounted directly to the Radgrill so when I need to change the fan I can easily take it out from the top along with the Radgrill. I'm going to make a copy of the radgrill from a piece of UV green acrylic. This will go under the radgrill to get the well known glow effect. By the way, ACRyan itself is also going to make these acrylic radgrills.
Another update. I've been working on the acrylic plate underneath the radgrill. I use a figure sawing machine for cutting acrylic and aluminium: All done: And mounted, with a couple of UV CCFLs for added effect The effect will be less in the end because I'm not going to use CCFLs at the grill. I'll mount a green UV LED fan (ACRyan Blackfire4) and see if that gives enough light to light up the edge under the grill, otherwise I'll probably mount some UV LEDs. Should be fine though, I tried it with a blue LED fan and that worked fine
I've drawn the final design for the side panel. The drawing is on the inside of the panel, so what you're seeing is mirrored. Update: All done My figure sawing machine cuts like a hot knife through butter Filing... Pics of the final result will follow asap, I'm currently working on the acryl edge that will go behind the longer hole. BTW I'm aware that I need a shave, I was a little lazy today (weekend right..)
Here are the pictures of the result. There's still a lot to do on the sidepanel though. I'll have to buy lexan for the window and also a bunch of hex bolts to mount it all. I hope to find some time to do some modding the coming week, otherwise you'll have to wait until next weekend.
Those are some nice clean cuts you've got going, from the looks of it. I've always wondered this but why make the second cutout (the vertical one)? I never understood why people wanted to show off their bays. Perhaps you have plans to make them look more appealing?
Indeed the cuts are very nice, probably the best I've ever done. There are two main reasons why I made the vertical cutout. Firstly I didn't want to have an 'unused' spot on my sidepanel. Secondly it will hopefully aid in cooling the harddisk drives as I'm going to use mesh at the vertical cutout. I don't plan on doing anything special to the drivebays themselves, but the vertical cutout will have green acrylic along its edge (as with the radgrill, but inverted) so it's hopefully going to look very nice.
Today it was package day, I received 4 packages Next to the NZXT Zero enclosure of which I'm soon going to write a review (for Casejunkies.com), they were supplies for project Mystique: - 1x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB harddisk (my fourth) - 2 metres of black Tygon 8x1.6 tubing - 10x screw fittings for the Tygon - 3x ACRyan Blackfire4 green UV LED fan - 1x Cooler Master green UV fan
I decided to take a preview-shot for you to enjoy, all fans in place. The Cooler Master fan is now mounted at the top and will be lighted by two 20cm UV CCFLs because there are no LEDs in that fan. The spare ACRyan fan will be placed at the front of the case, above the DVD writer. The DVD writer will go in the lowest of the four 5.25" bays. The blue in the photo comes from the ACRyan fans. The LEDs in them are more blueish than UV.. Yesterday (sat.) I got myself a new toy: a table drill. Also I bought hex bolts, a piece of lexan and some aluminum plates (for covering some ugly parts like the drivetray).
Small update. First off, I've submitted this mod for the Dutch Casemodding Championships Finals are on april 22, but first I'll have to make it through the pre-selection.. Back to the mod, I'm now working on a very simple fan & lightcontroller box. The controller will go inside the two floppybays and is simply a switchbox, to control the fan's voltage level (12v / 7v) and the power to the LEDs and CCFLs (on / off). This is pretty much what the box will look like. It may look a bit long, but I've made it that way so the back is aligned with the end of the drivebays. At the back you see a molex connector for power input and 6 jackplugs for output (4x fan, 1x LEDs, 1x CCFLs).
The home-made VGA waterblock: I'm probably going to countersink the holes for the bolts in the acrylic, so the heads don't rise above the acrylic cover.
