My new Shinobi XL!

Fanaticjam said:
How is this going? :)

Saw your link in sig and I was thinking about getting one of these cases! Looks great!
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Tis finished, hasn't changed since this post apart from I changed the CPU cooler. Looks the same on the outside though. Tried out the white bezel but didn't like it, so it's staying all black on the front. :)
IC3 said:
Good idea with the front. What fans did you put there?
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Changed the rear exhaust for a 140mm spectre, then put the 120mm in the front as an intake above the 230mm. Left both 230mm fans in there stock positions, but mounted them on rubber mounts and braided the cables.
 
Muel said:
Tis finished, hasn't changed since this post apart from I changed the CPU cooler. Looks the same on the outside though. Tried out the white bezel but didn't like it, so it's staying all black on the front. :)


Changed the rear exhaust for a 140mm spectre, then put the 120mm in the front as an intake above the 230mm. Left both 230mm fans in there stock positions, but mounted them on rubber mounts and braided the cables.
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Thanks for the info, the build look original in its own way :cool:
 
acme15 said:
Got here from the link in your sig, what are the specs of that beast..? You said 'old tech' but it doesn't look all that old to me :p
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Well it's old to me, I built the original one 3 years ago now. It's a 965BE, Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H, 8gb of boring RAM and 5830 Crossfire. The only new technology is the Crucial M4 SSD, which isn't exactly cutting edge any more really.

arc@css said:
The thought of a white case didn't appeal to me at all,.....until I saw those pics. :cool:

Very nice. :)
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Glad it appeals to someone, I'm not really "feeling" it any more. Normally with a long-term project build (whether it's a bike, computer etc), I tend to bond with it but I just haven't with this. It's got too many flaws that I'm just not happy about. I may fix them though one day.
 
Appauling. It's worse than the reviews. Even with the vented bezels it's terrible. When you remove the front panel it sounds like the fan runs at least 25% faster, so I run it at the full 12v.

I may modify it in the future to sort out the issues, we'll see.


EDIT: Sorry, that's not fair. The cooling is actually quite good, but the air-flow through the front of the case is appauling. It does need more air flow really, but there's not much more I can do without modding it heavily.
 
Thanks. I ordered a B grade Shinobi, but apparently it was badly damaged, so instead I went for something else. Maybe that was a small blessing in disguise. Shame, because I do like the look of them rather a lot.
 
Airflow of my PC-K62 is great ;)

Though I wish I had bought something different now :p

As much as I generally like Bitfenix cases, the Shinobi doesn't do it for me at all :rolleyes: Looks better in white though.
 
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Muel said:
Appauling. It's worse than the reviews. Even with the vented bezels it's terrible. When you remove the front panel it sounds like the fan runs at least 25% faster, so I run it at the full 12v.
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Well the front panel is 95% (probably more) solid after all :p so it was never going to win any awards for airflow through the front ;)
 
acme15 said:
Well the front panel is 95% (probably more) solid after all :p so it was never going to win any awards for airflow through the front ;)
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The airflow could have been massively improved if they'd made the front panel 10-15mm thicker though. It's the fact that the surface area of the fan compared to the surface area available for air to be drawn in through is so small that is the issue IMO.

Anyway, one day if my ideas become plans, there will no longer be an issue with airflow... :p
 
I guess this is also a problem with the normal Shinobi too... I'm still going to get it though, just love the look!

I guess you could mod the front panel so have some sort of mesh on the front, like most other cases. Or even just neatly drill holes so you still have the same BitFenix soft touch look over the front... it's just holey :p

Anyway, looks good mate. Nice work :)


Cam.
 
RooBoonix said:
I guess this is also a problem with the normal Shinobi too... I'm still going to get it though, just love the look!

I guess you could mod the front panel so have some sort of mesh on the front, like most other cases. Or even just neatly drill holes so you still have the same BitFenix soft touch look over the front... it's just holey :p

Anyway, looks good mate. Nice work :)


Cam.
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I've seen that mod done already, ruins the look though IMO.

JonoB said:
This looks awesome.
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Cheers. :)
 
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