Project: Need your thoughts/ideas

mishima

mishima

mishima

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Hi there,

I was originally going to just sell on this old case of mine but now that I have all the components out of it I've had the urge to do a project on it. It currently only has two rear 80mm fan mounts. There are also quite a few holes around the PCI section and of course the front of it has missing bay panels.

So what do you think? Should I paint it black? Any ideas for the holes that need patching? Any thoughts and ideas here would be much appreciated.

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Good idea, I could cover up two of the holes with DVDRW and Fan controller but that would leave another 3 spaces left to cover. I could make a sheet of metal to fit in there perhaps to cover up the existing space.

Not too keen on the green idea!! lol
 
Drill out the fan slots to make them 120mm. Then cut away the whole front of the case and remake it out of a solid slab of alu or UV perspex. And paint the inside black, and polish up the outside to a chrome. :)
 
Sounds very nice!! :) Removing the front though and replacing it might be tricky? My dad is great at this sort of stuff and has tools but I would have to ask for his assistance. Would love to do a complete mod of this case, would be great. Should I convert the panel to a window or not?
 
Id say just keep the panel as it is. Is it just a plain flat panel? I recon it would look nice all chromed up. The fron panel should be too hard really if you have the tools. Edit; and the best way to learn is to dive in at the deep end. :)
 
So you think a silver colour would look nice? Most of the components I have/will be using are black you see. Very nice ideas so far :)
 
I had a server case recently and had decided to go for a gloss white finish externally with a green led/cathode theme inside. Unfortunately i got 2 Zalman fatal1ty coolers for my GX2 and as they were red i went red for everything and ended up painting the case gloss black.

I think blatant green lighting inside and a clean white case with subtle external green cues - hdd and power led's and possibly a green led fan controller too!

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Populate the drive bays with hot-swapable mini-itx pcs and turn it into a cluster.
I think black and red would be a good colour scheme.
 
Black and white on the outside(Glossy) also add some chrome if possible, then! perspex window and light the inside up green :cool:
 
DeeJay-Mo said:
Populate the drive bays with hot-swapable mini-itx pcs and turn it into a cluster.
I think black and red would be a good colour scheme.
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What are they?? I'm currently looking into getting a caddy and moving HDD to the optical drive bay take up some space and make space below!

I like the perspex idea, my dad has on quite a few occasions offered to do something with the panel to creat something similar. I might though just paint panels and see how it looks and sort out the perspex if/when the project is near the end etc.
 
What shall I do with the input/output plate on the back of the case? Just checked and I can't fit a 120mm fan around there so I'm going to be stuck with using either one or two 80mm fans, as you can see from the image temporarly I had bored some holes in there to fit another fan but it needs tidying up. Would you replace that plate?

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mishima said:
What are they??
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Small form factor PCs you can get ones that fit in a 5.25" bay. There is a popular website with loads of information on this form factor plus info on many projects including clusters that others have made. I don't think I'm allowed to link to the site, but you can find it easy if you google mini-itx. I think it's the first one that comes up.
 
I have been thinking seriously about the project and drawn up some very rough plans for the front of the case which I will be implementing very soon. So here is an update:

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