How to make your case look cool??

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Ok, right now my computer is looking pretty cool, but I want to take it to the next level. Right now externally, everything is black and/or silver. I have a Cornea MP503(bought this cuz it looks slick), a black k-board, and a microsoft intellimouse wireless 3.0a. Inside my case, I've got no fans, a blue 6 inch cold cathode, round IDE cables, that's pretty much it. What I was thinking for mods would be to add tons of light, dual 12 inch cathodes on the top and dual 12 inch cold cathodes on the top. I was also thinking maybe UV would look cool(?). Or my other color scheme would be all blue lighting. I was thinking about the quad blue LED fan's from SVC, in addition to the Vantec Rheobus thing(only because it has blue LEDS). What do you guys think of those power supply mod's they have over at SVC? I was also thinking of some kind of cool fan grille, I don't know which one to choose, the LED ones look really cool, but my question is..how do the wires fit through to the computer if the grille is on the outside? Another idea, was to put EL wire in the front somehow so it looked like it was blue in between the ridges...This thing looks cool to put on my radeon 9700 pro, but I don't know if it will be too loud. Anyone have any other coolness ideas?
BTW:I want to try to make this case as quiet as possible...

 

[HiTek21]

Get some UV Reactive Rounded cables, a UV Cold Cathode light, Wrap up your power supply wires in UV Reactive sleeves, UV Reactive fans. That would look pretty nice.
Or if you want all blue lights, you can modify your CD/DVD ROM LEDs with blue ones, modify your NIC to have external LEDS and mount them in the front of your case, Change out the HDD/Power LEDs with blue LEDs. Install some Blue LED fans.

 

[50]

you can modify your CD/DVD ROM LEDs with blue ones, modify your NIC to have external LEDS and mount them in the front of your case, Change out the HDD/Power LEDs with blue LEDs.

Is it really hard to do these kinds of things? I'm assuming some kind of soldering would have to go on? Does anyone have a link to somewhere that does this?

 

[50]

you can modify your CD/DVD ROM LEDs with blue ones, modify your NIC to have external LEDS and mount them in the front of your case, Change out the HDD/Power LEDs with blue LEDs.

Is it really hard to do these kinds of things? I'm assuming some kind of soldering would have to go on? Does anyone have a link to somewhere that does this?

 

[cheapgoose]

Originally posted by: Cartman2003

you can modify your CD/DVD ROM LEDs with blue ones, modify your NIC to have external LEDS and mount them in the front of your case, Change out the HDD/Power LEDs with blue LEDs.

Is it really hard to do these kinds of things? I'm assuming some kind of soldering would have to go on? Does anyone have a link to somewhere that does this?

easy! took me a good 30 sec.

this might help

 

[Corporate Thug]

to me a cool case would be something simple thats very clean and neat inside

 

[HiTek21]

Originally posted by: Cartman2003

you can modify your CD/DVD ROM LEDs with blue ones, modify your NIC to have external LEDS and mount them in the front of your case, Change out the HDD/Power LEDs with blue LEDs.

Is it really hard to do these kinds of things? I'm assuming some kind of soldering would have to go on? Does anyone have a link to somewhere that does this?

Modifying the LED is easy but risky. Just de-solder the current one, insert your new colored LED, Match the polarity and solder it back. If you solder it backwards it won't light up. Most CDRW drives have Bi-Colored LEDs(Green for read, Orange for Write) so you can't use a standard one.

 

[Bookie]

For your video card, get the Zalman heat pipe. Not only does this look cool but it is as silent as you can possibly get. They have a special edition version of the heat pipe in silver (nickel) that is made for the radeons.

Edit: Not many online stores sell these but you can always find them on ebay. Just search for 'Zalman VGA'. They seem to be going for $23 right now

 

[dakels]

How to make your case look cool??

put some ice cubes on it.


hey how big of a deal is that Zalman VGA cooler? Is it that much better then my stock on the R9800? Any benchmarks/evals?
I'm curious cuz I plan on mildly OCing my R9800.

thanks