Dell XPS 700 case - BTX to ATX conversion

bijomaru · 8 Sep 2012 at 13:50

Oh and in the last week I've received few parts for the mod.

Something Else · 8 Sep 2012 at 14:54

is that the Chinese symbol for soup?

bijomaru · 8 Sep 2012 at 14:57

How did you kn... No, no it isn't

Here's how I plan it to look.

Something Else · 8 Sep 2012 at 15:35

looking good

ZZZAC · 10 Sep 2012 at 20:54

this is going to look tidy!
thanks for the back led info man, my mod is coming along ever so slowly, i may log it with my mate when i get some pics, and some read progress on the go

tonschk · 11 Sep 2012 at 00:16

This DELL case is amazing, the lack of side window for me is a plus because I hate PC case with side windows

Jay85 · 11 Sep 2012 at 01:11

I love Mugen power, use to have the Exhaust system on my EK9!

Great idea btw!

Tattysnuc · 11 Sep 2012 at 12:53

That's the best looking Dell case I've seen in a long while. I've got the opposite problem - A dell motherboard which I want to put into an ATX format case.

I've given up on that and just resigned myself to using the Dell case, at least that way all the lights etc work.

ZZZAC · 11 Oct 2012 at 11:52

updates?

rjk · 12 Oct 2012 at 10:02

Jay85 said:
I love Mugen power, use to have the Exhaust system on my EK9!

Great idea btw!

get yourself in the Vtec Thread then... :cool:

i saw your side panel on the pulse modding facebook page.

looking forward to seeing this come together

almighty151986 · 12 Oct 2012 at 10:51

This epic so far, I rememeber when I did a conversion on one of these case, man my dremel hated me!!

foster grant · 12 Oct 2012 at 11:33

I really like those big Dell XPS cases...be nice to know where would be able to get one

Something Else · 13 Oct 2012 at 00:21

any more updates on this?

bijomaru · 6 May 2013 at 20:39

Sorry guys. Took a long time indeed to make any progress. This long weekend though have helped a lot though! The case has been sitting painted in parts for some time. I've finally managed to put it back together. Was not easy due to the way the mobo tray went on. Anyway, progress pics.

The LED board is coming along. I have a plan to put this thing and all the wires into a HDD bay and use IDE cables to connect the LEDs. Delayed due to the bay being delivered as damaged. Getting a new one sent tomorrow.

Now, assembling the case (with getting some help from my cousin - he did the painting

Things still to do:
- Front LEDs (delayed due to hdd tray delivered as damaged, which was to hold the PCB and colour dial)
- Red LED inside
- Front door panel to be painted
- Yellow and red stripes on the sides (possibly vinyl on top of lacquer finish)
- 200mm red LED fan to go to the front of the case

I will probably have a little break now of at least a week as I have some guests next weekend, but after that will be getting the case finished. Will work on the LED tray in the meantime.

bijomaru · 16 May 2013 at 09:42

JoeF1 · 16 May 2013 at 17:00

Man this actually looks really nice.

Only thing for me is the cabling, i dont like the pulled look over the gfx although weirdly it kind of works with the Mugen strips colouring.

Only thing i would do is change the Dell logo too. Maybe you could source a little mugen badge or something? haha.

bijomaru · 17 May 2013 at 14:28

Not much I can do about the cabling although I will have another look at routing them when I rebuild it again hopefully this weekend.

The front has something coming to cover the dell logo, and mugen badges are coming on the sides

Look at the concept here

pryere · 17 May 2013 at 21:01

Result! Very impressed with your 'tronics skills.

russell664 · 17 May 2013 at 21:37

I like it, the Dell XPS cases are quite nice i think. Great work!

bijomaru · 30 May 2013 at 16:48

Slight delay due to guests visiting me for almost 2 weeks. Will get back to work next weekend