Case Mod - Complete Order 66 Mod - Thermaltake Invitational Balkan 2025

Hi everyone! My name is Gorast Paloski, I am a CS student and modder from Ohrid, Macedonia. This will my third mod in my portfolio, but first ever case mod so it will be a new and awesome experience for me. I would like to thank Thermaltake and our other sponsors, AMD, ASUS and Samsung for organizing this event and also for the opportunity to be a part of such an event.

Here I will post updates and progress of my case mod for this competition and will keep you guys up with my work. More photos and information are on the way so stay tuned!



PS. A big amount of the work is already done, so I will post everything until now. More updates coming soon.

 

Hi everyone!

A small update to keep you up. In the photos I'm showing the rough positioning of the hardware. Although it might look as it is the same as planned in the case, if you take a closer look you'll see that the motherboard is 10ish centimeters closer to the front than normal.





The plan is to move the motherboard tray upfront so I get a larger "chamber" in the back of the case. In the back partition I will place the PSU and the radiator and I will add a window to the back panel which will provide a nice showcase for the parts in the back. Also for this to be possible the GPU will be mounted with an extender and not directly in the MB. The GPU has to be mounted to the farthest slots to fit everything. Also on the left panel I will make a window that will give a nice display to the GPU.

For now I'm mostly working on the CAD's for the custom parts and panels so I don't really have a lot of things to show apart from these photos, but more are coming very soon!

 

Alright so, until now I had not revealed the theme of the build. The whole thing will be made in a Star Wars Stormtrooper theme, and will contain Imperial empire inspired elements from Star Wars movies. Here are the cad drawings of all the custom parts / panels. All of these will be made from steel sheets.



So there will be custom MB tray and another tray which will hold the PSU and reservoir, one cover which will be in the inside, covering the bottom part of the MB and covers on the side panels and back panel. On the first picture everything is as it will be in the end and bottom picture is with every part separated.

 

Another update, lots of cutting and sanding today!

I removed the MB tray and cut a big piece of it. The frame that I am left with will go back in the case, for it adds a structural integrity to the case and also it will help a lot for the cable management.



The edges on the cut part look very rough and badly cut and that's due to it was my first time using a grinder and a front grinder (Dremel), but they are not as bad as it looks, it looks rough mostly because I took some paint off while sanding it but I will be painting it so it will look and be a lot better.

One more thing for today, the LCS kit I got is one from before AM5 I suppose, so I don't have the AM5 mounting brackets. So I had to improvise on that part. I cut the hooks from the stock motherboard cooler mounting and used the black plastic parts as spacers and screwed the waterblock in with the stock MB screws.

 

In the past couple days all the custom parts were cut out and painted. There were some problems and mistakes from my side so the painting process took 4 days.





But all is done now and the inside of the case is now built. The tubing is yet to be done and for me it is the hardest part for it is something I have never done before.





Also the GPU got a new look to match with the build.




So in the coming days the tubing will be done and the exterior of the case is the last part.

 

The tubing is done and the pc is running!

Doing the tubes was maybe the most challenging thing from the whole build. Since it was my first time doing a custom loop it took me the whole day of working and bending. The results are not perfect, but the imperfections were in the parts of the tubing that will not be visible in the final build so overall I am pleased with what I have done.

Here are some pictures of the work.






Leak testing went well, no leaking anywhere.
And a appreciation of this kit which made the work a lot easier.



Some more photos of the running pc

 

The back and side panels are done. Some minor changes will be done to them but this is mostly the look.





Some more changes will be done and some details added, but more soon!

 

I've made the 3d models for the exterior additions.

First are these tube holders that will go on the top of the case. For the red tubes I will use the LC tubes which I'll paint red.







These will be black and the panel on top will also be painted black.



Then I decided to use the front panel with the cutout for the TT display and there I'll insert this other part. The text here says "Order 66" which will also be the name of the project.





The parts will be printed this week and everything will be done by next week.

 

A little update, these are the prints that will go on the cable cover pieces (left and right) on the back of the case.



The text is in Aurebesh (the star wars alphabet) saying "THERMALTAKE CASEMOD" on the left and "BALKAN INVITATIONAL" on the right.

 

The 3D print and print on the panels are done. Also added the IO panel cover so the inside looks cleaner and made these tubes behind the stormtrooper logo from the LC tubes.
Final photos and video will be posted in the coming days.

 

Final video and photos

Project: Order 66 - Thermaltake Casemod Invitational Balkan 2025