Got a new case

ben_93 · 4 Jun 2010 at 22:32

Antec 902

Much better quality than my old i cute case, what do you think?

Made the cables as neat as possible, without cutting the case, couldn't run the 8pin cpu plug any neater as it is too short..

Any suggestions let me know

Would like to have a full perspex side window but too scared of wrecking my side panel :rolleyes:

PermaBanned · 4 Jun 2010 at 22:34

I'm not a fan of Antec cases personally

ben_93 · 4 Jun 2010 at 22:39

Superewza said:
I'm not a fan of Antec cases personally

Each to their own an all!

first antec case i've had and i'm impressed by the quality, only thing I can complain about is the side window scratches very easy!! :eek:

AiiR · 4 Jun 2010 at 22:59

The lights would get on my **** after a bit, but looks pretty flash.

kalvindeane · 4 Jun 2010 at 23:05

They are nice cases, you planning any modding? Some "cold" cathodes would
look nice; friend of mine has one

Though I prefer the Coolermaster 690 II
myself

thingemajib · 4 Jun 2010 at 23:12

cant help but notice a bit of an XFX theme there

might as well go the whole hog, swap every bit of blue for the equivilent in green

xBLiNG · 4 Jun 2010 at 23:22

Not half bad, just got an Antec 900 build today, for the family. Nice cases but fitting the HDDs drove me nuts. Also not a massive fan of blue, go with the XFX theme and make it all green. Still very good job though. Also if you wanted a little extra wire room you could flip the PSU round, so the wires are closer to the mobo.

ben_93 · 4 Jun 2010 at 23:48

kalvindeane said:
They are nice cases, you planning any modding? Some "cold" cathodes would
look nice; friend of mine has one Though I prefer the Coolermaster 690 II
myself

Yeah was thinking of getting two cold ones as I already have the inverter.. not got no mods planned atm

thingemajib said:
cant help but notice a bit of an XFX theme there

might as well go the whole hog, swap every bit of blue for the equivilent in green

I started to do that on my old case changed all the sleeving to green and didn't have enough money to buy new fans in green..
I would like to do it to this case but it costs too much to buy all new fans in green unless there is a cheaper way?

xBLiNG said:
Not half bad, just got an Antec 900 build today, for the family. Nice cases but fitting the HDDs drove me nuts. Also not a massive fan of blue, go with the XFX theme and make it all green. Still very good job though. Also if you wanted a little extra wire room you could flip the PSU round, so the wires are closer to the mobo.

Would love to go green, maybe when I get a bit of cash to swap all the fans over, but where sells a fan in green the same size at the huge one on the top?
cheers for the suggestion about the psu, will give that a shot, cheers!!

xBLiNG · 4 Jun 2010 at 23:57

Well what I was going to try at some point with my HAF 922 is to buy some little LED lights of the bay and swap then out for the ones on the fan, green should be easy, I wanted to do purple though, much harder, also no purple plexi anywhere

ben_93 · 5 Jun 2010 at 00:10

xBLiNG said:
Well what I was going to try at some point with my HAF 922 is to buy some little LED lights of the bay and swap then out for the ones on the fan, green should be easy, I wanted to do purple though, much harder, also no purple plexi anywhere

Ah right never thought of swapping the leds out of the fans, is this an easy job? or am i likely to mess up my fans doing this LOL

If so I could swap all the leds to green and buy a couple of green cathodes, and job done, don't think id bother sleeving the cables green as I have just done them all black and I think it may break it up a little..
Has anyone done a 902 with green before?

ben_93 · 5 Jun 2010 at 00:12

I was also thinking of binning the stock side panel setup and getting a full perspex side window like tjharlow off you tube, but not sure id have the confidence to do this

xBLiNG · 5 Jun 2010 at 00:18

I thought TJ had the 1200? Either way just depends on how much metal/perspex you would have to cut, sometimes it's as easy as taking one off and taping a new one on, for me the hrdest part is that I have no tools

ben_93 · 5 Jun 2010 at 00:21

xBLiNG said:
I thought TJ had the 1200? Either way just depends on how much metal/perspex you would have to cut, sometimes it's as easy as taking one off and taping a new one on, for me the hrdest part is that I have no tools

Same here, I don't have a jigsaw etc... Although id love to do this mod as the stock side panel sucks, and lets it down a little

Guitarman0 · 5 Jun 2010 at 00:23

I had the same problem with the CPU 8pin being too short in my K62 so I bought this (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-022-AK&groupid=701&catid=48&subcat=153) and it does the job great. It is very cheap too. Nice case though

Kennysevenfold · 5 Jun 2010 at 00:25

Sexy, those lights and fans should get you some more FPS y0.!

xBLiNG · 5 Jun 2010 at 00:28

ben_93 said:
Same here, I don't have a jigsaw etc... Although id love to do this mod as the stock side panel sucks, and lets it down a little

Yea, I can't really warrent the price of it all for a little PC modding. I quite like the side panel, hate big ones that show drivebays ect.

Guitarman0 said:
I had the same problem with the CPU 8pin being too short in my K62 so I bought this (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-022-AK&groupid=701&catid=48&subcat=153) and it does the job great. It is very cheap too. Nice case though

Yea I might need sonething similar for a 4pin, not sure if you can get then though.

AMG · 5 Jun 2010 at 00:29

Nice

Grrrr...... change the damm LED colour looks tooooo common

thingemajib · 5 Jun 2010 at 00:38

ben_93 said:
Would love to go green, maybe when I get a bit of cash to swap all the fans over, but where sells a fan in green the same size at the huge one on the top?
cheers for the suggestion about the psu, will give that a shot, cheers!!

Green LEDs and a soldering iron are your friends

changed all my blue ones to white for a grand total of about 80p

xBLiNG · 5 Jun 2010 at 00:41

thingemajib said:
Green LEDs and a soldering iron are your friends

changed all my blue ones to white for a grand total of about 80p

How long/difficult was it? And can you point me in the way of a good guide or two? Thanks.

thingemajib · 5 Jun 2010 at 01:19

pretty easy. First get hold of some LEDs (i cant say where to get them from as i am not sure if the site counts as a competitor or not...).

for the case, it was a matter of removing the LEDs from the mounts, which are usually clip mounted (although the two on the front plate i found to be sellotaped in...). Then i peeled off the shrink wrap (wire cuters) around the legs, and snipped the wires just behind the LED (after taking note of the polarity). Strip the wires, trim the legs down on the replacement LEDs, solder them back onto the cables, and clip them in. I didnt put any shrink wrap back on because i dont have any, but i made sure the two legs were well apart so they wouldnt short.

for the fans, as above, except the one of the case fans, the LEDs were held in with a force fit. This required a considerable amount of pliering to get them out.

dont really know of any guides, but its pretty simple - remover old led, chop old led, solder on new led, refit led.

basically that lot, plus a (now white) led fan in the back (not shown), and power/hdd behind the front door

to do the whole case (10 or so LEDs) was about 20-25 mins