OK So my brother asked me to build him a new PC. As many of you will know from my recent posts in other OCC forums... I've not have much luck with it. Luckily enough, I'vemanaged to get the RMA on my CPU, and once everything'sworking, I will formally start modding the case.

Here is a pic of it. It's a Coolermaster Centurian 2 case;
AMD 3000+ (w/ Tt Volcano 9) - I'm not gonna overclock, you see. So I figured this would be sufficient.
512Mb Crosshair XMS PC3200
Samsung 160Gb SATA SpinPoint 80 HDD
COLORSit 400w PSU
ASUS Radeon 9600XT
ASUS A7V600 mobo

Gonna put an 80mm intake fan in the top and upgrade the standerd intake at the front of the case to 120mm the PSU has a 120mm fan directly above the CPU so an exhaust fan won't be necessary... I hope.

The photo shows the case without the CPU (since it's packed up ready to go back to Dabs) but I figured I'd post and ask your advice about other mods and my wiring. I'm gonna fold the IDE cables neater and then loom them and the dangly floppy connector will be removed altogether.

nah, you need a rear exhaust mate... looks fairly neat in there.. could do with rounded ide cables (you can do this yourself to the ribbon cables for next to nothing if yer a bit skint) up the top their, so the top fan isn't blocked by ribbons... since yer gonna be cutting top n side fans, cut out a 120mm hole at the back and a 80mm hole directly in line with the cpu fan would be a good idea for fresh air direct to your cpu hs/f...

I would agree that you definitely need a rear exhaust in that case, I used to have the same case (earlier revision) and it pretty much sucked for airflow. It would only run cool with the side panel off, which was a shame. I didn't do much to mine though.. just cut out the fan grills front and back and stuck with 80mm fans. You won't be able to cut a hole for an 120mm at the back, its just a bit too tight.
I hope you manage to get it cooling alright.. I just went and bought a new case, as I couldn't be bothered to spend much time with it. My new case cost less, is much easier to work in and cools a whole lot better too.
Good luck with it.

May as well make it 92 mills then eh...

thats even pushin it for this case just cut out the grills, side and mod a 120mm side panel fan ; why the via chipset though?(hates via)

To be honest... It was the best looking ASUS mobo I could find I only ever use ASUS, and I've never had a problem with them, I've heard horror stories about other mobo manufacturers and I've simply stuck with ASUS... Furthermore, I hated the original nForce motherboard I had, so there was very little choice left

okay I have never really had a good experince VIA is why I say that. My best experinces have been with SIS chipsets and then Nforce2 sets not orginal nForce but NF2