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Modifications:
Pentacle cut-out in the sidepanel (with plexiglass), prepunched air-holes removed and replaced by chrome-grills (back and front), widened louvers in the front bezel, added blowholes (back, bottom and HDD-cage), "stealth-modded" fans (below the PSU), black almost mirror-finish paintjob (with blue granite-effect lacquer for the ornamental borders and diamond-effect lacquer for reset and power-switch), added casters and handles, self-made Baybus (with four rheostats for the fans, connectors for mike and headphone and switch for the neon), changed HDD and power-LEDs for super-bright red LEDs, added standby-LEDs (switchable from two bright white LEDs at the back to one super-bright LED inside) ...
Why is there a pentacle in that Computer?
The pentacle is an arcane symbol of unbelievable power and serves me as a focus for various unholy rituals and demonic invocations. For this purpose I have to sacrifice blood to the case every new moon, else the unholy consecration is lost. On this way I achieve power over the hardware and get always the highest frame rate and the lowest ping. But every now and then some demons stray into the case (you can notice that on a red glow from the inside, like on the picture), occupy the hard disk and plague me with inexplicable hardware problems and program errors. Alas when I go online at midnight the demons escape through the ISDN-adapter and henceforth terrorize the internet as computer-virus. :-)
Cooling
Following additional fans are mounted in the case: 1x Sunon KD1209PTS1-6 (92 mm) intake in the bottom of the case, 1x Panaflo FBK-09A12H (92 mm) intake behind the front bezel, 2x Sunon KD1208PTS3-6 (80 mm) exhausts in the back of the case below the PSU right beside the CPU and 1x Sunon KD1208PTS3-6 exhaust above the PSU. Both intakes have improvised air filters (pantyhose) and both are controlled by separate rheostats of the baybus. The fans below the PSU are controlled by one rheostat together, the fan above the PSU is wired at 5 Volt. One Papst 8412L (80 mm) at 7 Volt cools the hard disk-cage.
Links
Number 2192 in the old Virtual Hideout Cool Case Gallery.
Number 42 in the new Virtual Hideout Cool Case Gallery.
Matt’s Pentacle
Mathew from Shippensburg (Pennsylvania, USA) obviously liked my cut-out so much that he asked me if I would mind if he tried to recreate it for his pc window (what of course isn't the case). He kindly provided me some pictures of his work, too (the pic doesn't show the final result of course. The cuts will be de-burred and plexiglas and lighting are still missing, too).
