Modding The Black Dragon... almost complete... 56k unfriendly

been workingon this for a while now... heavily modified Antec SX1030B... aka Chieftec Dragon...

Mods to date include:
Vinyl dye front bezel
Blue IDE & power LEDs
Stealthed cd burner (working on getting blanking plates for DVD drive... might just vinyl dye it)
Vinyl dyed floppy drive (and removed flap... annoyed me... stupid little spring)
ATI Radeon with memory heatsinks & Evercool Blorb
Rounded ATA100 & Floppy cables
Mild cable management (will go extreme once I finish... if I finish)
Vinyl dyed the fan mounts
Painted inside & out black
Blue LED treament to keyboard, vinyl dyed, 16x2 || LCD in keyboard
Vinyl dyed mouse
Top removed for top window
Side off for custom side window
Front 4 port USB hub (vinyl dyed)
Got rheobus on its way, and have to make baybus for the 3 blue CCFLs i want to install (2 12", 1 4")

anyway... onto the piccies

you can see digicam USB cord in the front

cd drives out

fans in their mounts with grills on... not wired up

processor pride.... (bit-tech badge was there prior to painting... waiting on one to replace it)

inside.. can see the memory coolers

keyboard with hole in it waiting to have lcd remounted

the radeon...

for other pics.. try http://users.wpi.edu/~cderalow/images/

 

cderalow, that case is sweet. I love the choice of color. You can't go wrong with black. Though you have to paint that CD drive. Nice mods all around!

 

Whew... most definately not 56K friendly at all... But oh well worth the wait!

Now i remember why i set up a caching proxy server, the pics will stay resident for months

 

Oh my god... that is WICKED!!!!!!!!! i bow to your genius

/me bows

 

mmmmmm...........nice case man..........never thought of an lcd in the keyboard.....sounds sweet

 

comes in hand for when i'm playing games... i'm able to read system temps, and what winamp is doing... thanks for all of the positive feedback... makes me want to get my butt in gear and finish it now... (but i lack the spare time )

 

Nice Job Man! I'm in the process of working on the same case, should be completed very soon. I like what you did with everything, looks like you did a nice job painting your cage (I painted mine white). I think after you either stealth or paint that one optical drive, you will be finished. Keep up the good work!

 

its bout time u gave pix...ive bin buggin ya on #bit to send pix but u wouldnt now their finally here
muhauhaha
and i must say its a l337 mofo case
keep up the good work mang

 

Plz Get tell if a sticker says "remove safety tab" aint you surpose to do it

if you have a look at the radeon pic it has a yellow sticker

Overall nice mod

Defintly not 56Ker friendly but worth waiting for

Yammosk

 

dude that is one nice case. You could do what i have done to my silver dragon and get some neon string, take the front bezel off and mount it behind there. It looks really cool in the dark. Are the usb ports in the floppy bay a diy job because i am thinking of doing the same thing. Also how hard was it to change the leds to blue ones.

 

I was just gonna mention that

 

thats a wikked stealthed drive, love the blue heatsinks too

 

Well it was friendly enough for my 56k

A question about the vinyl dye, if you just used it on the front bezel, what pain did use on the sides? I was just going to vinyl dye the whole of my case as the metal side panels seem to have this coating of vinyl/plastic on them, Id like to know whatkind o paint you used as it seems to have a uniform finish with the vinyl dyed bits.

As for the heatsinks, what do you think of mine :dude:

 

Nice Black Dragon! Very Clean.

I wanted to name my project Silver Dragon. Alas I did not buy the Soyo Dragon mobo, rather I bought an Asus A7V333-R. Guess i'll have to come up with a different name.

Black Dragon is fitting though for your rig as it looks mean indeed. I like the black insides.

 

SWEET AS

 

The yellow tab is to be removed for AGP Pro cards only. If you have a regular AGP card you should keep the safety sticker on. Not that I know of an example of an AGP Pro card. I assume its for a workstation card like the quadro or something.

 

one thing to say said I'd get them up when I was done (this is actually early) but thanks

Tab reads: Remove Safety Tab If Installing AGP Pro Card... its not an AGP pro, so I left it... that and its a pain to get out anyway

They're the heatsinks from the TT Memory coolers cut to fit there... in stock form they won't fit because of capacitors, so I just dremeled them to size

Vinyl dye is to be used on plastics, from what I've heard it doesn't work too well on metal regardless of the finish... as far as how I painted the sides & the inside, I bought automotive paint & clearcoat in spray cans from Autozone.... and car parts store should carry the paint, sand it down, apply paint, let dry apply more paint as needed, then clearcoat, sand & clearcoat again... I technically haven't finished painting yet (only one clearcoat on it at the moment... but I needed it running, so I stopped)

 

I've got that beat:

heatsink off an old Pentium
going to be put on the old S3 Trio 32/64's core that acts as my second adapter for dual displays... thing gets warm, its pci, and its attatched to a crappy 15" monitor, but hey, dual display is dual display right?

 

lol, i remember them old green cyrix heatsinks.. think theres still on on my 486..

anyway, nice work.. you dont see too many cases with the insides painted to match the exterior.. kudos on the keyboard lcd, very trick..

-scoob8000

 

I really like your finish and I have exacterly the same case. I thought I couldnt be bothred to paint it untill today when I put a luvly scratch right accros it after I had removed the protective masking tape for screw tightening :cries:

So my questons are :

Where can I get this vinly die from ?

How hard is the paint finish on the metal, will it peal off when I mask it again for more work ?

Thanks