A Tight Budget Storm Trooper Build.

JoeF1 · 29 Jun 2012 at 08:30

Hey guys. Thought i'd share the build of my CM Storm Trooper case which arrived yesterday.

I am on a tight budget so i have to get whats free and make do, whilst saving for the better things.

The Case arrived yesterday. Shes huge and so booootiful.

Next to my old, very old case:

Inside view:

Moved the fans to the front:

Problem is my PSU wires are not long enough, and cannot find anywhere with the extensions without ordering online:

Specs so far:

Case - CM Storm Trooper
MoBo- MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3
Processor - Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket
8GB Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US)
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB
Generic hand-me-down 550w psu
9800gt nVidia GPU.

jeff6475 · 29 Jun 2012 at 09:28

i should have this case next week to play with so keep them pics coming

panyan · 29 Jun 2012 at 09:31

im glad the psu doesnt have long enough cables - i would certainly buy a better psu considering your putting in some pretty good hardware!

JoeF1 · 29 Jun 2012 at 10:53

jeff6475 said:
i should have this case next week to play with so keep them pics coming

Tonight when its abit brighter will take a lot more mate. The case is fantastic. Heavy though.

panyan said:
im glad the psu doesnt have long enough cables - i would certainly buy a better psu considering your putting in some pretty good hardware!

Thanks mate, im thinking of buying this Cosair one. With it on a deal. This will run fine wont it?

jeff6475 · 29 Jun 2012 at 11:41

popped a couple of choices in your other thread about the PSU

JoeF1 · 29 Jun 2012 at 12:26

jeff6475 said:
popped a couple of choices in your other thread about the PSU

Legend mate!! Took your advice.

JoeF1 · 3 Jul 2012 at 08:17

A little update:

Thank you OCUK for the quickest Delivery known to mankind

Old One & New One - Not much of a difference

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PSU all in:

Having trouble trying to tie up the bottom USB and Speaker cables, any ideas?

Top Fan's a right beast:

GFX Card, what a beast!! (9800GT)

Finished for this month pictures:

Top:

Funky little draw, so handy:

Lights on:

To do list:
(1)Braid all the cable - Still to pick the colour scene yet.
(2)Buy another 8GB of Ram
(3)New GFX Card - Still chosing for best choice to run on my iMac. Thinking the Radeon.
(4)Water Cooling.

Thanks for looking.

Oh and sorry for the quality of pictures. Taking from my phone which looks like our lass is afraid of bright light bulbs! haha.

jeff6475 · 3 Jul 2012 at 08:28

looking good

ordering mine in the morning and planning on modding a window,gotta wait until december to get the rest of the build and cba swapping cases so ill have it looking @ me till then

JoeF1 · 3 Jul 2012 at 08:29

Ill be getting the window too. Its only £15.00. Just leaving it mesh until i finish the guts

jeff6475 · 3 Jul 2012 at 08:37

yea was gonna get the window side panel but thought i could have a play with doing 1 and if it goes belly up just buy the ready made 1

JoeF1 · 3 Jul 2012 at 11:09

jeff6475 said:
yea was gonna get the window side panel but thought i could have a play with doing 1 and if it goes belly up just buy the ready made 1

You will have to let me have a look, sounds quite intriguing. :cool:

jeff6475 · 3 Jul 2012 at 15:31

yea will post up a log when i do it