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Ryanzbane

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I'll give details and more pics later. Too tired right now :p
 
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The specs are in my signature. Havn't gotten a chance to OC it yet. That will come soon enough.
 
Great color scheme! Looks pretty good.

Couple things I might suggest.

On hiding the cables:
1. Behind the motherboard
2. Behind the power supply
3. Build a black box into a 5.25 bay and stuff them in there
5. Move the hard drive up with 5.25 to 3.25 standoffs to below the DVD drive and stuff the cables there

I might paint or dress your DVD drive black. Painting is obviously best. But if you don't want to void your warranty, get some black textured paper and double stick tape, and "wrap" the drive.

My obsession with clean cables.

navig
 
I don't want to hide all of the cables (would defeat the purpose of having them sleeved). Having some cables visable adds to the overall appeal, I think. However, I messed up when I purchased a really long IDE cable. Theres only about 6 inches of space from my DVD drive to the IDE connection on the mobo, so I have a big unused portion of IDE cable just laying on top of my HDD, WOOPS. I like the idea of painting the DVD drive. My theme is Red and Black, and having that silver kinda throws things off. Good suggestion! Maybe I'll paint my HDD as well. I also wanted to switch out all my molex connectors with a different color...but man molex's are such a pain in the *** to change.
 
Ah,

What I might do then is bundle the cables neatly, for example in a nice stack just to the right of the motherboard or behind the drive cage, up and down. Or along the top edge of the motherboard. Just fold cables up and down, zip tie, and then maybe use a stick'em hook or double sided tape to stay.

It doesn't matter if its just spare IDE cable, the bundle of sleeved cables will appear neat to the eye.

It may be just be my opinion, but its the solitary cable running thru space that gives it a messy spaghetti look, but to each their own.

Glossy black? 2 tone glossy black/blood red? That could look frikin' hot!

navig
 
5|*42 said:
change the front leds to red ones, the blue looks horribly out of place. other than that it's nice. :)

Yep, I have to do that next. I had no clue this case came with a blue LED. Blue....BLECH.
 
well, since you want to keep your sleeved IDE cables...

why don't you get some Red UV paint, and paint on some some cool looking Red lines or something?

start drawing on a peice of paper or something, and get a general design made.

Like...draw a red dragon tail on the cables. Make it look like a dragon has its tail wrapped around the Cable.

here's my idea. i made this real quick in paint. Also, i'm HORRIBLE at paint...so bear with me and my horrible photoshop skills :D Its just a general idea...
 

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zexmarquies01 said:
well, since you want to keep your sleeved IDE cables...

why don't you get some Red UV paint, and paint on some some cool looking Red lines or something?

start drawing on a peice of paper or something, and get a general design made.

Like...draw a red dragon tail on the cables. Make it look like a dragon has its tail wrapped around the Cable.

here's my idea. i made this real quick in paint. Also, i'm HORRIBLE at paint...so bear with me and my horrible photoshop skills :D Its just a general idea...

The only thing with that is...I'd need a UV cathode in there (which might or might not mess up the overall theme). I was actually thinking about sticking a UV light inside, because the DFI mobo has a bunch of UV reactive pieces to it, but like I said, I dunno if this would mess up the theme. Good idea though!
 
I would never be able to sleep with that running 24/7 in my room LOL!

Nice setup, and I love the red and the dragon theme. :santa:
 
Slayer2003 said:
I would never be able to sleep with that running 24/7 in my room LOL!

Nice setup, and I love the red and the dragon theme. :santa:

Yea, I've got my computer in a seperate room. Works best that way, so my girlfriend can get some sleep on the nights I'm up late on the computer.
 
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