I knew that I wanted a watercooled Chieftec case ever since I first became involved in building and modding computers then I decided to undergo the challenge.
Over the past year or so, I’ve found it increasingly harder to order Chieftec cases, then one night last week, while searching on Froogle, I found a fairly cheap stockist, Specialtech. I quickly order it, and it arrived this morning-
The Main Hardware / Water-cooling Parts are all from my Wavemaster Project (with 2 Pumps and an Extra 120mm radiator, but I’ve put that in hold for now. The First few stages are much like Leeum’s Case, removing various parts and fan covers, but eventually, I hope it will look very nice- The main colour schemes are black, very dark grey and bark Blue, and there will be lots of acrylic (Custom Laser Cut with a CAD Machine).
Now…back to the Case...
Nice Box, and the instructions are on the side.
Rather wonky photo of front- Notice small flip up USB cover- to be replaced with small temperature read-out.
Side panel with fan mounts- these will go in due-course and will be replaced with an acrylic window
Suprisingly roomy case for really quite small dimensions.
Yay!!! – 120mm Fan mount- meant to be 2 x 80mm , but a 120 is better!
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Right- Now time to go Downstairs and start with some modding !!!
Good music never hurts…..
First off, Taking out the HDD racks pop-rivets with a 4mm Drill bit-
Nicely done.
Quick blast with some sharp things-
Todays work bench (my Trunk)
After some Dremeling and filing
After yet more filing-
Now, all it needs is some blow-hole trim and a fan / fan guard.
I will try to convert this Mod into PDF format if I have time... and more picceys to come...!
I would LOVE to see more threads like this on AO in the future (even though we aren't a modding forum ). I often find myself at xoxide.com's forums looking at their mods, quite interesting...
Keep us updated!
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I loved xoxide. I used to mod their forums. Here is a project i had back in the day. The LEGO computer. Lego switches and every thing. There was no metal shell. It needed a lot of work to be show quality. But for a cool case it was neat. It feel pray to teenage drinking. Some one feel on it. The components from it now make up my file server. Keep up the good work on the WC project man. I have a water cooled Antech lanboy its a great rig.
...."Cant stop the signal Mel, Every thing goes some where and i go every where."...... "From here to the eyes and the ears of the verse, thats my motto or might be if i start having a motto" - Mr. Universe "Serenity"
Today - Sanding frount bezel.
Marking out Were to make cuts for Rad.
Contacting painters (you cant see photos of that).
Another cut on my bl**dy finger
Right- Photobucket is being gay and has deleted some of my picceys, but im too lazy to re-load them so..here goes
Today, i started with a little sanding and filling on the bezel-
You probably cant see much anyway- then the Painters told me that they would fully sand it all down, so i stopped.
Naked case Porn!!!
Got board an took the bottom off-
I then tried to mount the first fan-
but some bits of the fan guard got in my way so....