Awesome, thanks.

What do you mean about my 3500+? lol

Finally got access to a digital camera that doesn't suck (i.e., it isn't MINE...)
Some case picks (please don't laugh, it's all on a budget.)

um....I dont think you should have your dryer vent into your PC. But i've been wrong once already today....so um.....you should stop reading this post.....right ........about.....NOW!

Friend of mine suggested I get a lint-trap for it...

I used to use a duct before I got water cooling. Its actually pretty effective, but I would suggest that you try to see if there is a way to route it to the front of the case or better yet the floor. I noticed some pretty significant drops with the duct sucking in air from the front as opposed to the top (some sort of thermodynamic thing I assume).

Also another thing that helped me out was that I put a 92mm fan on both ends of the duct feeding into my stock fan. I know it sounds silly but I was noticing that the stock fan wasn't pulling hard enough to get the air to the CPU from the other end of the duck quickly. Just my 2 cents.

I would just route it straight across to the sidepanel, no bends and the shorter distance would improve airflow. The second fan would definitely help.

What is that thing on your video card? Looks like a CD-ROM chassis.

I find the top ducting works just great. The processor idles at about room temperature, and maxes out about 10~15C hotter, depending on what room temperature is. I'm not too keen on routing it to the front, I'd have to do some serious cutting. And I never liked the side-routing, I'm in and out of the case too much for that. Besides, the side fan help cool the RAM.

The CD-ROM chassis on the video card is an Arctic Cooling AVC something or the other that I just bought. Works well, and much quieter than the stock fan.

poop@ Pabst!!!...GROSSSS!!!!!

Forgot we had a case thread =D

Took that today when I moved case

Ahh, the new Silverstone, very nice indeed

Thanks! Finally found a UK retailer with the window'd version, been waiting ages, was *this* close to importing it heh.

My Rig. It suits my needs for web browsing and digital photography. I no longer have time for gaming :tooth:

Modified Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000 (frnt/rear factory perf grills removed)
Antec Neopower 480W PSU w/ 120mm cooling fan and Thermalright XP-120 HSF with Panaflo L1A
Mnpctech 120mm Blow Hole Kit (on cpu fan)
AMD 64 3200 (@ 2.20 GHz)
Asus K8V SE Deluxe
2.0 GB Crucial PC2700 RAM
2, Maxtor Diamond Max 40GB 7200 HDs
Ultra 6800 card
2, 120 Evercool alum fans
Fans @ 8.5v per channel w/ Mitron 3.5 fan controller

I love that grill!

Oh, I just remembered that I haven't updated since I got my second monitor. I realized that Hyundai wasn't selling my L90D+ anymore so I begrudgingly took a chance on a Hanns-G 5ms 19" on newegg. Its actually noticeably more vivid than my Hyundai. The only bummer is that the height isn't adjustible which is why its sitting on the book. I know, so elegant!

That wallpaper is <3333

Where'd you get that? Who is she? :dog: :tooth:

That's Kelly Brook, shes an English model (pretty famous apparently). I believe I got the original photo off of superiorpics.com and then cropped it to my resolution. That entire photoshoot that I got it from is freakin' mindblowing. If you happen to use 2560x1024 resolution, let me know and I can send you the wallpaper

I only have one monitor but if that's not a pay site I think I should be able to find it and probably more. Thanks

Just a pic of my case, (sorry OsamaBinAthlon). I painted the case myself using the prismatic paint thats really popular right now. Look good inthe sun, lol. Can you tell i thougth that one through?

I think what we all should realize is there are two threads. One for your pc case and one for your computing area. Search angry lab.

That is one SICK setup bro, love the case. I was actually thinking about purchasing one but money is tight man.

That is one clever idea! I've seen something like that before but it was from the AC to the cpu across the room in some dudes dorm. So why laugh at that....

I'm not sure where you got that picture from but that girl looks exactly like the one that i've known for the past 5 years. I'm not #$%^ing you not, exact for the boobs, she's smaller, but what if thats her lost sister out there.

Post a pic .. maybe we will believe you then ...

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT !!

Yea, we're going to have to call you on that one... Atleast until you upload some... high res photos... of her draped on your computer desk... in the same outfit and pose as the desk top girl in "?"... :nod:

Well, heres what i game and interwebz on. Not much to look at. Most all of this hardware will change between now and New Years.

Very clean nice job.

Lawlz thanks. I believe in clean cable management for top notch airflow.

Inside. Still not happy with the cable management, but when you look from the front of the case, everthing is clearly off to one side. Damn power leads for the 7900's were too short to route behind the mobo tray and up the crossflow opening.

But is it so much better than it has been in the past.


Front view-
[img]http://www.pr0kforums.com/forum/get_attachment.php/70ce38a990154fcc3d1b0527e0e99dc4/casefront.jpeg?webtag=PR0K[/img]
heh, I still have an Asus sticker on there from my last build. maybe I should take that off.

Oops.

Plans for the summer is complete dissasembly, painting of the interior to white, exterior to british racing green, replacment of interior fans with white and/or green, pondering a way to remove all the seperate mesh bezels with a one piece mesh bezel, stealth the DVD-RW, replace the front panel with nifty power switch and reset switch, add at least 3 120mm fans for summer cooling (gets warm in my house on occassion, no A/C) and remount the 2 HDD's to alow room for the fans, and add a side window with a fan over the craphics cards. I also want to upgrade the stock cooling on those eVGAs, but I don't like the choices I have in that department right now. i will have to cram everything in my old Antec Lanboy probably while I work on that project. That should be fun.

How do you get those things off anyway?

White and green, eh? Is that a homage to AMD?

I figure that if I can put it on, I can take it off. it is all a matter of how much elbow grease I am willing to expend.

Sort of. I figure that that while will reflect color nicely, and the fan that came on the Zalman cooler I have is green, so no more blue for me. It implies Intel. Intel is EVIL! And I also always have loved British Racing green. Damn sexy color.

Hey freebo, with such a hot machine you might want to work on getting some decent cooling in it. Your video card looks like an X1900XTX though, so massive lol.

I concur, put some 80's on that back.

so I got me a new Venus board and decided it was time to change my circuit,.. I added a fill/drain port to my loop and a couple of valves to ease the block changes. yea and wheels for when i'm racing

wheels attached


open case


fill port showing


drain port showing



valves, now instead of wasting tubing I just use up 10inches of tubing when i change waterblocks. water flow seems to be fine with these little valves.






that's my baby. 3140MHz prime stable 3-3-2-6

sah-weet!!

Well this is the first time I've shown my rig on a forum so be honest. Sorry if the pics are kinda crappy.
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My desk with my new Samsung 225bw.

Top window/blowhole

Bezel mod

The Hardware

My "Cable Managment"
[img]http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8485/backii2.th.jpg[/img]
So tell me what you think. BTW this is my very updated first build. The only things originial in my pc is my hard drive and my dvd drive, everything else got upgraded over the course of a year and a half.

Where's the computer? All I see is a girl.

You see a lot more than I do, General ...

Nice window mod up top, how about wrapping that optical drive with some Brushed chrome film from mnpctech, it would match the Tsunami.

Good idea reelfiles i cant believe i didnt think about that. Is ther anything else i could do to make it better(besides keep the walpaper general) I was thinking about cutting the stock rear fan guard and also cutting a few holes in the mobo tray for wm, besides that i got nuthin.

I have the same case. I used the carbon fiber film which looked ok, but not as nice as the brushed chrome or the machine turned film would have been.

Here's the drive cage after I applied the film.

Yea i would think the carbon fiber and a silver case would kind of look wierd. I think the brushed chrome would look the best out of the other films. Yea I'm definitly gonna do that.

I think it would look good if you had a black case and you did all the drive cages. I bet it was a pain to apply that stuff, you know with the bubbles and making it conform to that indentation in the middle. Is that film easy to take off without any residue?

You're right, it did look weird;



Haven't tried taking it off, but it applies fairly easy. It stretches a little, so you can just contour it to any bumps and indents. Bubbles can form if you aren't careful but you just poke them with a needle and push the air out of the hole.

I watched these videos first, they are supposed to be for the case skins, but it's the same principle.

http://www.polygfx.com/video.php

Here's a few pics of my elcheapo HTPC that I used the carbon fiber film on as well;










Sorry about the small pics, but photobucket sucks, there's no custom resize feature and I can't be bothered to re-upload them, right now I gotta go to work in 4 hours. Gotta get to bed soon.

Just realized that I haven't posted any pics since I got this WaveMaster. The only thing I modified so far is the front PSU bracket since it was in the way of my Strider's modular connectors.






crappy night shot, the UV reactive slots don't even show.

Nice, I like the blue window on your wavemaster, it looks really good bolted on the outside like that. and the tsunami doesn't look that bad(good decision on gettin the non window version, while I'm stuck with a window with a giant thermaltake logo) What case do you like more the wavemaster or the tsunami?

The side panel for the WaveMaster I bought, I didn't mod it myself, I like it a lot too. I didn't think the window on the Tsunami was bad at all, nice and strong, and I like the shape of it. The Tsunami is laid out better and has good airflow but the WaveMaster is built stronger with crap airflow, it needs room for some 120's. I was actually pleasantly surprised that the WaveMaster has a removable mobo tray, that was one of the things I really didn't like about the Tsunami.

Hey ReelFiles,

nice rig! Do you really use the monitor in picture for gaming? Thats like 17" or something or is it just the picture that makes it look so small? If yes you are due for an updrade!!! He He!

Hey whats wrong with still using a 17" CRT? I have one......

Considering I'm using a Tagen PSU (Huge amount of cables), Im really please how tidy i've managed to get my case...



Tidy the case up a bit. Fitted an Accelero + Geil 'one' Ram