Looking good mate! I'm wondering if those 2 fans on the bottom of the PC case will have quite restricted airflow with the 2 meshes on there? Will make them noisier too. I could be wrong and perhaps you have already tested it but just a thought.
EDIT: looking at the pictures again I think it will be fine, it's akin to having a dust filter and PC case mesh so I'm sure air will flow ok
Im hoping it will work and ive been unable to test them however the artic f8 fans are surprisingly powerful. Im adding sticky foam strips all over the case to eliminate any air holes in the design, to keep it flowing properly. I did cut the mesh and the black covers are dust filters so i was hoping that would be enough.
Along with a seperate fan mounted near the front panel so when closed it will have its own cooling for the cpu right from the front.
Then the psu will be mounted at the top so hopefully that will draw in the air and exhaust it through the top rear fan.
I think 'hi-fi' may be pushing it a little- if memory serves, the SQ was pretty poor!
The sound was not great but not bad when listening to the radio. They must be 25 years old or sumwhat, but to be fair they did a good job of filling the room with sound. I remember my old one had a dodgy door speaker connection though, which was one of the reasons i got rid of it (if only i knew it was that easy to fix).
They are only cheap speakers, and i dont think the casing could take the rattle of anything bigger. Which is why im fingers crossed when it comes to replacing them with 3 way component speakers, there wont be any rattle or its another £15-20 to sound proof them (if that would do anything at all). The casing is thin.
They were wired strangely though. The speakers are connected then they connect to a point on the hinges, and the same on the other hinge then to the stereo. The sound goes through the hinges and keeps it wire free.
This i cannot replicate because of the power and connector cables so i am having to braid them i reckon and just have them showing through the doors, hopefully it wont effect the opening and closing too much.
Ive just order a kingston 120gb SSD based on your previous advice walderx, its supposedly the v300 model. I had $90 on amazon gift cards to use up somehow so that covered the SSD. Only a month to deliver the darn thing!
I have also bought some EL panels for the build and once cut i will show you all my plans for these. I got a cracking deal but im not sure if i can post the link to the site?
Originally i planned to cover the entire insides (pretty much everywhere im doing carbon fiber wrap now) in a coca cola bubbles pattern. Then i could not find any material/ pattern to match this.
Hence why i chose carbon fiber but admittedly this will look better in CF.
However i have since found a blue window film with raindrops effect from dc fix, this was the perfect pattern! I wanted it in brown but it was not available.
So i have now found some orange vinyl on ebay and once i put these together (i will take some pictures and show you soon) the pattern is now exactly what i was originally after! Brown bubbles.
I have ordered enough to cover the outer casing on the inside so instead of the red background you see in the can this will look like coca cola liquid bubbles! (I reckon with an orange led uplighter it will look like coke).
Ive paid for the new roll of carbon fiber now for the doors, so i doubt i will bother covering the doors in bubbles like i originally wanted but it will look better this way.
I will try and get some pics of this now, if i can find my camera charger!
I like it