Cases these days are too pretty to do this anymore.

[HumblePie]

Back in the day I was a bit more into customizing my cases. As I got older, had kids, and work longer hours that hobby has gone a bit to the way side. Here is an example of a case I free hand painted back then.



These days cases don't look nearly as bad as they used to either for me to feel like I should do things like this anymore. Was a bit more of a hobby to do still like this. Now its all about the aRGB everywhere. Makes me want to find an ugly case again to do stuff like this before.

 

[killster1]

RGB is so annoying for reflections, the trend now is to have a tiny case that you dont even see. i always liked the water cooled art pieces that hang on the wall with out a case.

 

[aigomorla]

That is because we do this now:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=190026905226064

i dont think even ichigo in bankai can match luka doing her dance on top of your gpu with rgb's as backlighting for her performance.

 

[OlyAR15]

Words cannot express how stupid that is.

 

[HumblePie]

Words cannot express how stupid that is.

I hope you are referring to the dancing anime character girl.

I was more or less thinking along the lines of mods like the old halflife case like this. Old antec alienware case turned into something better.

 

[aigomorla]

I was more or less thinking along the lines of mods like the old halflife case like this. Old antec alienware case turned into something better.

That is along the lines of mnpctech.

Words cannot express how stupid that is.

Meh i would still want one.
Its far better then RGB.
But having a 3D dancing anime character, be shown on your tempered glass is quite epic imo.

I found another close up apparently it also has Miku:
I think the modders name is Noguchi... i really am curious how the hell he pulled that off.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I thoroughly appreciate and enjoy visual case-design as art. I had plans once of my own. I had this Compaq ProLiant server case -- bigger than full-tower, three-inch double braked caster wheels. I'd added a Lexan side-window, to which I'd applied mirror-reflective automotive window film -- perfect job, with no bubbles or creases. I was going to study pictures of lightning strikes, to manufacture some Lexan splinters and fit them with LEDs. Then I was planning to attach those to the server LED drive activity lights, all properly connected for my RAID-5. So drive activity would trigger "lightning" in the case window.

I think it would've been a lot of trouble to "get it right". The transmitted light from the LEDs must be strong enough to show through the window film. I'm not sure how many LEDs you can string to the HDD-LED pins on your motherboard.

No -- these days (and I'll post some pictures when I get to it) -- "pretty" plays second-string to "optimal function". The case doesn't have to look ugly, and you can see where I'm coming from here if you read my recent Coolermaster 830/831/832 SE thread. But that also explains what I mean by "optimal function".

Air-cooling notwithstanding, I've got cold-cathode 6" pairs on two different switches, all green at the moment. Trick is to mounting them for maximum case-lighting, an no less for how easily they can be pulled away from their case-mounting and then replaced. I've tried magnetic tape and velcro patches. The glue on both eventually fails. While I'm working on it, my current plan is to try (formerly Pit-Crews Auto-adhesive by Permatex) Loctite Stik'n'Seal, either the indoor or outdoor formula. That is, the magnetic tape or velcro swatches would be mounted on aluminum with the adhesive. That stuff work's pretty good, and no worse than flex-seal products, which is my other idea -- either the tape or the wet glue in a tube.

Not winning any prizes with it, but it looks "pretty" enough. And I can flip on "these lights" or "those lights" or both with two neat little red toggle switches.