Project: Old and New.

N00bbuilder79 · 10 Dec 2011 at 05:46

Hyburnate said:
my jaw hit the floor. I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove that case

Many thanks Hyburnate.

Thanks for looking.

ReU_VOoDOo · 10 Dec 2011 at 14:56

Very nice!!! Brought an old case back to life!

Mawat · 10 Dec 2011 at 20:43

Wow, you've tranformed that case. Loving it

flame696 · 10 Dec 2011 at 21:39

looking good! jealous at the new motherboard which i could afford that

ReU_VOoDOo · 10 Dec 2011 at 22:01

Dont worry N00b my IPS shows your case as ROG red! Looks beautiful

N00bbuilder79 · 11 Dec 2011 at 06:38

Thanks for the positive comments, just need to fill it with the hardware now.

redfist · 11 Dec 2011 at 17:12

What a change, looking really good!!

KiiYzOo · 11 Dec 2011 at 17:52

looks amazing

redfist · 14 Dec 2011 at 21:11

Love the case! Did your CPU arrive??

N00bbuilder79 · 15 Dec 2011 at 08:14

redfist said:
Love the case! Did your CPU arrive??

Yeah, I have had the CPU a couple of weeks now, very impressive. The system is currently set up on the mobo box, will hopefully get it in the case this weekend.

Thanks for looking.

Schizo · 15 Dec 2011 at 08:30

N00bbuilder79 said:
Right, so this afternoon I started daisy chaining one set of fans for the rad.

Here is what we started with.

Next, removed the molex/3 pin connectors off the fans and removed the yellow wires from 2 of them.

Next the fans were soldered together and the wires extended.

Finally, braided the wires and added the heatshrink, still another set to do for the other side of the rad.

Thanks for looking.

can i ask a stupid question.

why did you cut the 2 yellow wires on 2 fans and left the thrird ?

im putting 3 triple rads in my build soon and would like to do this to 3 set of 3 fans,looks neat and tidy but my fans have 3 pin connectors on them and not a molex.

lrlcr · 15 Dec 2011 at 11:22

Yellow is the tachometer and you only want one cable hooked up

EDIT: suddenly had a thought that I might not actually have a clue what I'm talking about.

N00bbuilder79 · 15 Dec 2011 at 13:25

schizo said:
can i ask a stupid question.

why did you cut the 2 yellow wires on 2 fans and left the thrird ?

im putting 3 triple rads in my build soon and would like to do this to 3 set of 3 fans,looks neat and tidy but my fans have 3 pin connectors on them and not a molex.

The fans that I am using started off with a molex and a 3 pin on them, the molex connections have been cut off as the fans will be connected to the fan controller via a 3 pin connection.
The reason I removed the yellow wire from two of the fans is because it is just used for RPM data so because the 3 fans are daisy chained together through the same channel receiving the same voltage they will be spinning at the same speed therefore only need the info from one fan to show the RPM on the controller.
Hope that makes sense.

Schizo · 15 Dec 2011 at 18:39

ah,yes that makes sense and sound's like a very good idea.

ive got 9 fans to do and will do it like this to make life easier i think.

thanks for the info and nice build by the way.

Mightycamels · 16 Dec 2011 at 10:37

Is there much difference in the paint finish on the plastic parts to the metal handles?

N00bbuilder79 · 16 Dec 2011 at 12:23

Mightycamels said:
Is there much difference in the paint finish on the plastic parts to the metal handles?

No none at all, as the red is sprayed onto coats of primer it looks identical on both materials.

Staffy50 · 27 Dec 2011 at 14:55

N00bbuilder79 said:
The fans that I am using started off with a molex and a 3 pin on them, the molex connections have been cut off as the fans will be connected to the fan controller via a 3 pin connection.
The reason I removed the yellow wire from two of the fans is because it is just used for RPM data so because the 3 fans are daisy chained together through the same channel receiving the same voltage they will be spinning at the same speed therefore only need the info from one fan to show the RPM on the controller.
Hope that makes sense.

Can i just confirm, you attached the three red together, same with black, then plugged it into ONE fan controller toggle?

N00bbuilder79 · 27 Dec 2011 at 18:51

Staffy50 said:
Can i just confirm, you attached the three red together, same with black, then plugged it into ONE fan controller toggle?

Yes that's correct, just make sure that your fan controller has a high enough rating for 3 fans on one channel.

Thanks for looking.

Staffy50 · 27 Dec 2011 at 18:57

N00bbuilder79 said:
Yes that's correct, just make sure that your fan controller has a high enough rating for 3 fans on one channel.

Thanks for looking.

Cheers mate, you think 45w per channel be good enough? If so im going to copy that on my new build.

The case looks really good, i was going to get one off ebay and do something similar but it went to high..

N00bbuilder79 · 27 Dec 2011 at 19:01

Staffy50 said:
Cheers mate, you think 45w per channel be good enough? If so im going to copy that on my new build.

The case looks really good, i was going to get one off ebay and do something similar but it went to high..

45w per channel will be fine I should think, what fans and controller do you have?

Do you have a build log for your build so I can take a look?

Thanks for looking.