I can't find the transparent etched windows appliques material anywhere at HomeDepot so I use the white appliques for car sticky. It works the same I guess.


My cold cathode come tomorrow. Weee! I can't wait.

I heard some bad thing about cold cathode. (ei. its blew out the PSU.) Have anyone got bad experience with it?


Thanks.

wow man -- looks awesome
great job on that, and i love the logo :bigok

Thanks man. Designed my self from scratch.



*a waiting for my cold cathode.

Looks great Zero!

Everyone's Case modding lately, maybe I should do it soon... real soon

What can you say? Its a trend. Everyone after the coolness of casemod. I am just mod so I can show off at the convention LAN party next month. It will be like 4000 to 5000 people there.

never seen people use that stuff before lezend, gives a nice effect, most people use the spray on etching or that stuff you looked for. the white looks great, stands out more, more indiviual too, thats why we do this isnt it?!

like blackwar says.. the logo is cool nice work


**** i hate photoshop... im crap with it

Blue cold cathode Light I use never gave me a promblem, in fact this is the second oen Ive installed in a PC and no problems at all in them.



-Xperties

Thanks guys.

Man your cold cathode is bright. Mine is just dim. I guess I have to wait until tonight.

I got my cold cathode. Then I realize that I have to space to place the cathode. The back got blocked by the fan. The bottom is the PC speaker. Top have no room only 2mm short. So the only place I could place the cold cathode is the front. Oh well, look ok I guess.


What do you guys think?

Thank you all for your inputs.

Your making me dribble... That is SWEET!! Gw mate!! Looks phat, thats it, im gonna rip my comp apart now

Thanks. Just trying my best. First timer.


I can't believe it turn out well... Thanks.

Lezend - looks great, hey you didnt have any space along the bottum side under your window? Thats where i put mine, if you dont know what i mean ill post a picture of how i got mine in there.

-Xperties

nope no space on the bottom. There is a PC speaker there. I can't place it.

take the speaker out. lol

yah really, its just the small anoying MB speaker, unplug it and take it out, Youll never realy use it.or take it out the bottum brackets and place it some where else, trust me the improvment of the lighting will increase.

-Xperties

Lezend- Wow the case is lookin way phat! the design and the light is pure tightness!

-Drew

I can't ... I super glue it to the side

ROFL

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know you didnt say super glue...

well, there is no other glue that make it stick to alluminum without seeing any glue spot. Super glue is clear and it very good... I guess.

eeeeeeeek

dude that looks cool as $%*!

shows your logo off brilliantly!
how about putting a small blacklight, or another blue light (the short 8" ones) on the door panel or in the bottom?
most people use 2 lights for same reasons

yeh that is what I am thinking too but do you guys know if these light suck up that much power and spread much heat into the case?


My ambient temp was always 27C before. Now, normal is 40C.

Not sure really, although I've seen cathode manufacturers who claim their cathodes give of negligible, if any, heat. You might find that the heat could be a mixture of :

a) The cathode itself
b) The extra heat from the drain on the PSU

Just a thought. Are you using a low-fan RPM PSU? If so, try cranking it up a little. Open up your case and feel for the hotspots, you might need to add a fan.

That said, that window would look even more beautiful with a fan in the top or bottom left corner :)

Dam sweet looking case Lezend, like the others guys mentioned your logo is phat!!

Thanks dude. Just chilling man...now that its done there isn't much to do ...

I want to build another computer again but I want to wait until the pentium 5 to come out or something.


The heat is well insolated now... My temp is 33 C max. Even when I am running studio max with 600 000 polygons scene rendering.


Personally, I turn off the cold catholde and only turn on when friends come over or when I bring my sys to Lan party. Other wise, its off.


Thanks.

It looks Sweet!

Dogg, you feel like working on my case?
As a matter of fact, I just bought this gay computer
and need to buy a case and everything.

How about, I give you $200, and you gimme
a black Antec case, premodded, with a window, and
a light, and everything?



-GeForce-5

Lemme guess...with this AWESOME system, you
probably have a T1 line as well...lol...
Rich b0y!!!
Hehe...um...I noticed you have 2 of the WD 8mb Buffer,
120gbs....there nice...I have 1 myself..

who said you have to be rich to have what you want?

I am deffinitely not rich, last time i check, plus, if I am rich these ain't the stuff I am going to buy. Surely I can show you a really expensive high end system (20,000 dollars system). and its not a server just a personal computer.


Secondly, I am like everybody else, who work my butt for the stuff I got. No one give it to me for free or hand to me on a silver plate.

If you want it, you can work and get it. Oh and I don't have T1 line... I do own my own modem cable with a phat pipe though.

Work hard and you will get what you want

@Lezend: You still got those pics anywhere? I'd like to see your PC too

case modding is really nice im gonna mod my case in 2 ways, a tri-triangel design up top, to peer down into it and a big windows for the side, and i believe ill etch a dragon into it , then tint around the dragon with some 20 percent dark limo timt,, then the last thing ill do is put a small cathlode light hidden from the side so when its lite up it makes the dragon stand out so it looks thinker then what it really is and give just the dragon a glowing effect,,, what ya think of the ideal btw ive already done one window mod , by etching a hand with flames on it,, with my tint /light effect..

ill try to snap a pic of it to post it soon

Sounds cool, it will be really hard and fiddley tho won't it?

naa its not that hard but it is time consuming,, the thing that takes the longest is doing a proper etch,,, as for the tinting thats no biggie, just tint from the opposite side that you etched on then, use a good exacto knife to cut around your etch,,, but if you dont want to take the time or chance of tinting around the etch you can always use a dark limo spray tint,, but if your doing it that way, make sure you make no mistakes because its not as forgiving as tint because on paint once its down its down,, but the draw back in using the paint ideal is that it wont give out a nice dark transparent look, like the tint well,,, but all in all this project is not that hard and you can complete it in a few hours if you rush, but id take my time if you try this project....

The case I got right now is all unfed up. Got it off newegg, someone bought it for me, but I find I don't have enough room for all my stuff inside. I will be getting another soon, I hope. Anyone have a good 'how to' site for etching? I'd like to put my nickname at an angledown the side window with lights on it, Specificly small (but brught) LEDs coned so they only light up in 1 direction, not ambiant. I think it will look nice. Also the limo tint is a good idea. Got any websites that show what your talking about? I kinda get the idea, however it would help if I saw it in action.

Re: 'Cathode = heat' I have cold cathode in my system, and I see very little overall rise in temp. Although I do have a high power fan controler, with 4 case fans, including my thermal take turbine fan... That thing sucks out are like crazy. Burns at over 6000 RPM.

P.S. Repost new links to the pics, I'd like to see.

Nice stuff everyone, thought I'd better show my last attempt at modding:

Afraid was a bit of a rushed job to get it done before i16 (UK LAN event) and in my mind unfinshed but I'm doing a new case now so it'll stay like this!

No prizes for guessing the theme or what I was going to play at the LAN!





I had the 'Counter Strike" text made in the CS font, but I think my favourite applique was the logo for Barnsley FC (uk soccer club) for a friend who supported them, had it made from a website which annoyingly I've lost the address for!

Modding can be done quite cheaply and lots of stuff for free! Depends how much time you have.
You don't have to buy mod stuff for computers other things will do too, best place to start is local DIY/hardware store lots of things can be found there. Electronics stores like Maplins or Rapid are also handy, they've now started doing lots of pc mods but you can still do the old favourite fan quitener or LEDs for a few pence compared to predone mods that are about 10x as expensive!


What it used to be: