drive bay mods - recommendations and ideas

hell_on_ice · 28 Dec 2005 at 17:46

drive bay mods - recommendations and ideas ****UPDATED WITH PICS****

i just built my new box after getting a brand new Gigabyte 3D Aurora for christmas, and in my old case i had loads of 80mm silenx's all on a fan bus. Now i have 3 less fans, and all 120mm silenx's, i have no need for my 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch fan mates which controlled the speed of all the fans.

that leaves me with 3 or 4 spare drive bays of which i need to fill with so high tech, flashy lighted gizmos.

i have a lcd screen in there taking up one of the 5 bays, with a dvd writer going in the next one so that leaves 3 bays to fill.

anyone got any ideas? (i also have 2 3 1/2 inch bays if ppl can think of something to fill them that would be cool)

hell_on_ice · 28 Dec 2005 at 19:08

Hamish said:
you could buy a colour 5" LCD screen that acts as an extra monitor to display stats etc for about £70 - thats 2-3 bays

i already have dual screen tft's, so nowhere to plug it in

Maybe a little oven. So when your hungry you can cook some cake.

lol - i think i can go downstairs for that

i have an idea - ill float it out there, see what you think:

i have 3 drive bays - free

im going to mount a sheet of perspex flush with the edge in these 3 bays, with a UV sticker on the back (possibly get it laser etched onto it) of some logo or something.

behind that, there is space for 2 4" UV cathodes, and behind that still, i can mount a grill of some sort so that you cant see all the way into the case.

what you guys reckon?

hell_on_ice · 28 Dec 2005 at 20:12

thats quite cool, but not exactly what im after, it needs to be fresh and unique i think - plus, im sticking with the bl00 theme

i have finalised what im doing

got hold of a friend who has access to a laser cutting machine - and im going to sort out the design for him to cut 1mm into a 3mm sheet of UV blue perspex:

that will be the design im putting in the perspex

hell_on_ice · 4 Jan 2006 at 00:24

V|per said:
Nice idea hell_on_ice, but not original Did this to my case, it works really well

pics?

hell_on_ice · 24 Jan 2006 at 10:38

drive bay mods ****UPDATED WITH PICS****

ok bumping this thread, as its been finished

check this new mod i have just done for my pc - took ages but it looks amazing

hell_on_ice · 24 Jan 2006 at 13:50

thanks mate

i love my modding. hearing that is the best thing when a mod is done

hell_on_ice · 24 Jan 2006 at 16:29

ideas - im game for anything - the chassis is a gigabyte 3d aurora if u think of anything, put it here and ill give it a go

hell_on_ice · 21 Mar 2006 at 10:03

not really anything else done yet, done a bit of work inside the case tidying it up and put a dvd writer in it, still trying to think of what to do.

i want to do something with the side panel. picture of it is here:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/misc/picture/?src=/images/other/gig-3d-aurora/p2.jpg&1=1

i like to be able to see the innards on my pc like my last box and the open vent that is used here lets a lot of dust in / collect on the side panel.

hell_on_ice · 21 Mar 2006 at 17:32

thing is, it would involve a lot of cutting, and my girlfriend bought me the case, so i dont wanna make a hash of it :S

currently, gigabyte dont do a window mod for it at the moment. we can only hope!