Does anyone know where to plug the thermaltake armors alarm wire for the side door into the board or does this board support it?

Never did figure out what to do with that on my son's system when I built it. Just coiled it up and tucked it away.

kinda what i did for now but i would like to use it ...i have a brother whom likes to tinker

Shit, you bought that monster of a case... WOW

Umm, I tinkered so much Dad won't fix our home pcs...

yea and my gfx card still barely fits i needed it but i coulda delt without the hernia its gonna give me. Very sturdy tho i love it ...just wish i coulda got the kandalf...

@uplink ... hows the OCZ powerstream fits inside ur case ? Im planning to get another rig for my gf using about the same config as mine but with ocz powerstream instead. If u noticed .... the power supplies slides sideways inside armor .. does it block any of the air intake or the fans from the ocz powerstream ?

As I recall, it took me a little bit of effort to fit an OCZ Powerstream 520 in it. Does fit fine though and there are no problems with the fans moving air.

it was a nightmare to fit in thier lol but it does fit you havta take the top pannel USBs out then its alot easyer, also you cant use the top mount fan in my case its to big some might be able to if the 550w version is shorter, as for blocking the fans no the airflow is just fine

My case side window is on and off so often that I never bothered looking for it!

I HATE WINDOW ON CASES ANNOYING 2 CLEAN,FIX,etc...


Coolermaster Wave Master

The Lanparty series does not support the Chassis Intrusion Detection device.

Now .. that answers it ... i have absolutely no idea about this at all.

lame :-(

hey uplink, i have that case as well, spent about 10 minutes looking for the same thing.....

nice case though, i love it.. :nod:

yea i love the case as well just hard to figure where to hide all the wires

I was looking for it aswell. Hell of a nice case tho, air cooling inside is excellent, just a bit noisy though.

you think you have noise ...dont get the vantec tornado it thats to noisey for you ...my pc vs a jump jet....my pc wins lol ima buy about 100 feet of 18gage uv wire make some power adaptors so that might help imma put all my wires behind the mobo carrage

At the moment, my main focus is to get my ballistix 2gb and a good fan controller. 5 Odd fans right next to my bed it just a bit noisey, even tho i can sleep fine.

EWW Stock Heatsink...

I was wondering where to plug the alarm cord into and then I started to wonder why it is even there. You can lock the door or put the thumb screws in.
And for the stock heatsink, this case has so much air flow, I have no reason to up grade mine yet.
This case is twice as quiet as my last solid case. I thought about a fan controller, but then again I don't sleep with mine. :nod:

i have the kandalf..also has that alarm button..could probably get it working if add some power and a speaker to it if ur good at electronics and stuff..might not need the mb connection as said about the lanparty dont support it aw well..

As ExRoadie already stated, there isn't a place on the mobo to put it.

You can easily unclip it from the side of the case if you tinker with it for a few seconds. You can do the same for the speaker cable that's under the hdd bay as well.

I also had to remove the top panel USB cluster and top mount fan in order to get my PSU in. I was able to put the USB cluster back where it belongs but I wish I could say the same about the fan. Oh well.

As for hiding wires, I'd suggest taking the other side of your case off (the side w/o a window) and routing as many wires behind that as you can.





Yea, yea, yea...I'm using the stock cpu heatsink. From what I've read, that thing actually performs just as well as several well made aftermarket heatsinks. Plus I have no need to waste the money on another one until I OC it.

It's definately a sweet case

I just cut the alarm wire. You could use the lock I guess? Also I ran my wires down the left and right side of the bay housing. Installed a 120mm side fan, reduced temps 4c on cpu, chipset, PWMIC, but a little bit noiser.

I am using a modified armor, and with the DFI motherboard, i just removed that alarm. My previous gigabyte nforce3 board had a connection for it but no luck on the dfi, just one less group of cables for me to worry about hiding. I also removed the speaker and def agree about running everything you can behind the motherboard tray or so. I am not quite to the point of modding my psu wires, but they are going behind as well. Definitely a great case for room, and for airflo. Has anyone seen the optional side panel with built in 25cm fan? If so, do you know where you can get it?

I had to cut out a strip of metal on my armor and I cut a hole in the side ( plexi ) and put a 120 mm there. I bought the hdd expansion bay the matches the two colored fans the switched the back with the side. It looks nice. ;P try it.

no it's the pain in the ass to put the OCZ Powerstream 600 watt in there i have the same case black model with side window

the only wway to install it is remove the USB/ audio on it

The side panal w/fan is not on the street yet (I e-mailed them, 2-3 weeks and they will ship them out.) You can also get another HDD bay w/fan from xoxide.com( or you could mount two 120mm fans together with 4x6" copper tubing and slide it into the 3 bottom bay ( not counting the tray ) that will blow right at the chipset and v-card.

I have a Kandalf with my Intel rig in it. The larger PSU's are a bitt of a struggle, but will fit. As stated above, you may have to sacrifice the top 92mm fan. Currently running a Sintek 500W, and the voltage controlknobs interfered with the top fan. I just removed the switch and wire for the intrusion alarm, since I wouldn't use it even if my mobo supported it. Great case!

Do you see that 3" wide space between the mobo and drive bays, and do you see the extra threaded holes for the mobo mounts? just screw on some mobo stand-offs in the extra holes, then screw cable clamps on top of that. Now you will be able to run/clamp your wires along the 3" space.

Heh well I had to do my first mod to fit my new 7900gtx I had to pull that purple and green PCI holders out it wouldent fit any other ways.

can you give us a pic of the subject in question? note: some one may have this same issue in the future if they buy the same card/case. also you have perked my intrest in the card.

NO I HAVE SAME CASE ALUM SILVER

NO I HAVE SAME CASE ALUM SILVER

Some pictures of my rig:

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*EDIT Sorry about the lousy quality on some of the pictures, had to do them all in a rush.

I just cut some small holes behind the MOB for the IDE/Sata and small misc. wires.

Nice! I'll problably do something like that now! Thanks for the inspiration!

Uplink: The videocard is a tad wider, I can see why you took off the retaining bracket.

So a Black Ice Xtreme II fits in the 5"25 bays? And what do you use to secure it, I really wanna know since that is the perfect place to put it, even better if you can the make the airflow go "backwards" from the back to the front.

yea thier was no real way to fit it in and i didnt really wanna push my luck trying to force it in so yea....To the guy that cut the holes behind the mobo try what tool did you use and also how long is your IDE cables i might try that myself.

Anone else thinking about putting caster wheels o this monster almost gave me a hernia its so heavy.

I made some Aluminum angle brackets and slotted them so i could move the rad around some. It seem to be the quickest and easy way to do it.


Uplink: I just used a Dremel Tool with a small cutting wheel. I am using the 24" IDE cables. Caster wheels was the first thing I did to my armor. I didnt think that it would be that heavy either but boy was I wrong.

Same as me, i could do 2.5ghz at 36 idle, 40 load. Just lapped that sucker and got -4c ^^

Anyway it was just for testing...i dont do OC

You have any pics of the caster wheels or the instalation OutlawFX .

i have the same case and ocz powerstream 520, you have to take the top fan mount off and you might have to wrestle with this one... it took me awhile to get my psu. but you can do it.

This is the best pic I have of the wheels.

This is where i got them at
http://store.yahoo.com/directron/wheelb.html

Check this out, finally some better cooling for this case coming soon Armor side window

I really don't like side intake fans as they seemed to interfere with airflow and create alot of dust build up on components. But that side window does look good i give it that.

Yo OutlawFX, Sweet Job on the Casters Did they just replace the stock feet? if so how hard where they to take off.