LED strips?

[coolkingler1]

I would like to buy some LED strips to make my case look a bit nicer.


- I live in the Netherlands
- I would like a recommendation for a good brand between these 2: NZXT or Bitfenix
- This is the vendor: http://www.informatique.nl/?M=ART&G=061
- My case is a HAF 212 windowed so it has a 200mm fan with red LED in the front, and in the side I have a Thermaltake blue fan with LED 120mm.
- I don't want it to look too overdone or tacky.

So any ideas how to do it and which color?

http://imgur.com/yq6vmEk

Here is my case.

 

[Smasherbasher]

check out www.icemodz.com 🙂

 

[killaG]

get UV light. It looks very cool when it is turned on and the glowing effect is brutal!

 

[aigomorla]

are you any good with wiring?

Can you splice / light solder / crimp wires?

You can import a lot of automotive LED's , splice a molex head on them, and then plug them in directly to your power supply and expand on options as well as intensity on that bridge.

Example...

You can custom cut those to size, solder wire and a molex head on them, and then connect it directly to the 12V rail on your psu via molex , or pci-e, or whatever free 12V line u have.
The strips will tell you where the first 12v junction starts and ends.
You just need to keep to sections which are tiny.

should give u an idea on a project i once did.

i was positioning the LED's on that acrylic pad b4 i mounted it ontop of a case so the lights would focus on the areas i wanted.
You can see where the lighting effects were focused on.
My friend gamer wanted her PC brighter then everyone's else at her lan partys. <--- SIGH.

I mounted that top acrylic via Velcro believe it or not. 😀
The other side had velcro and the top of the case had the other velcro.. and then just pressed it up there.

 

[tengen]

If you have a little bit of soldering skills, you can buy generic LED strips for very cheap (I got mine from Amazon, 5m for $32), get a DC 5.5/2.5mm coaxial jack, solder some wire onto it, and terminate it with 4 pin molex. My RGBLEDs can change color and intensity and is long enough to cover the whole case and then some.

The prices Bitfenix or NZXT charges for their tiny 6 led or something is outrageous, because the cost of materials are super cheap.

 

[socialdarwinist]

are you any good with wiring?

Can you splice / light solder / crimp wires?

You can import a lot of automotive LED's , splice a molex head on them, and then plug them in directly to your power supply and expand on options as well as intensity on that bridge.

Example...

You can custom cut those to size, solder wire and a molex head on them, and then connect it directly to the 12V rail on your psu via molex , or pci-e, or whatever free 12V line u have.
The strips will tell you where the first 12v junction starts and ends.
You just need to keep to sections which are tiny.

should give u an idea on a project i once did.

i was positioning the LED's on that acrylic pad b4 i mounted it ontop of a case so the lights would focus on the areas i wanted.
You can see where the lighting effects were focused on.
My friend gamer wanted her PC brighter then everyone's else at her lan partys. <--- SIGH.

I mounted that top acrylic via Velcro believe it or not. 😀
The other side had velcro and the top of the case had the other velcro.. and then just pressed it up there.

This is hella awesome. One of those projects that makes me regret living in an apartment in the city. The girlfriend would kill me if I started soldering anything in here.

 

[NickelPlate]

My two favorites are linked below. Both ship worldwide.

http://www.frozencpu.com/

or

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php

 

[aigomorla]

This is hella awesome. One of those projects that makes me regret living in an apartment in the city. The girlfriend would kill me if I started soldering anything in here.

believe it or not..

All that soldering i did was done with:

Trust me... its not messy when ur using cold heat, cuz u dont need to worry about that hot soldering iron sizzling.

Youtube videos of people using cold heat.