[Case Mod] Project The White Pirate

Hello ladies and gentlemen,
it's been almost three years now since my last mod project, so I think the time has come for me to get back in the world of modding . I hope it will at least partially turn out the way I imagined and that I will be satisfied with the final result.

So, i'm opening this thread to share this with you... If you have any ideas or suggestions please let me know :thumb:


HARDWARE:

Intel Core i7 2600K
Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB 1600MHz
Corsair H60 (for now)
Gainward Phantom II GTX 660 Ti
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB
Seasonic X-Series 650W
Corsair 600T White Edition
MDPC-X Sleeve - Black, White, Shade 19, B Magic


PLANS

As for cooling i am currently staying at Corsair's H60. I thought immediately go with the water cooling, but considering that over the next month or two I have quite nice amount of other financial expenses water cooling will have to wait until the May. I'll probably go with two 240 radiators, one in the top of the chassis, and the other in the front. This top rad will fit with no problems, so there will be no additional modding in top of the case. For the front i'll have to do some of cutting and drilling to appropriate holes for radiator. For now I'll just throw out the grill in front of 200 mm fan. 200mm fan at the top also stays until the arrival of the water cooling.

These two 200 mm Corsair led fans, i'll paint the them in black and white combination. Leds will stay, so we'll see how that works.

HDD cages will be completely ejected. For SSD, i currently have a few ideas what to do with it, so I do not know what to tell you about that. To hide the hard disk i will use Scythe Himuro. Or I'll throw it out and use it as an external drive... We'll see

5:25 bay cage also stays for now because I do not know yet what reservoir i'm gonna use. But no matter that, 5.25 bay will not remain in its current state, there will be some work on it.

PCI brackets will be painted in white.

Those rubbers on mb tray will be probably thrown away, later i'll see how that looks.

Bottom of the case will be covered with plexi or something similar and painted white

Also i need to make some kind of backplate for graphic card.

Removing all unnecessary labels from components, such like those one on psu, mb, etc.

And finally all cables will be sleeved with mdpc-x sleeve



Think that's about it for now. Pics are coming later today. :thumb:

So, as i promised...

600T taken apart, cleaned up and ready for job to be done





And the hardware i'm gonna use



H60 stock fan was replaced with two Arctic F12 pwm fans, sleeved and ready to go...


Two 200 mm disassembled and painted


PCI brackets also painted white

So guys, me again with some more updates

Today I painted the front grill in white, so we'll see how this will look tomorrow when it dries. If it is ok, then 5.25 bay covers will also be painted white. What do you think?








And some more updates for 5.25 bay.

Anyway, i won't talk to much, you can see everything on these pics...

















So, what do you think about this. Does it look ok so far?

I think is looks good so far. Very interested on how this works out

Roooker said:

I think is looks good so far. Very interested on how this works out

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Thanks, more updates tomorrow :beer:

:beer: indeed, looks great so far. LOVE this case in general, so I love seeing people doing something a bit different with them :beer:

Did you paint the Corsair badge? looks like it.

Nice to see a proper project log dude - kudos

NVM actually looks like you left the protective peel off thing on when painting.

tinytomlogan said:

Nice to see a proper project log dude - kudos

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Glad you like it! :beerchug:

AlienALX said:

NVM actually looks like you left the protective peel off thing on when painting.

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Exactly

I was kind of busy today with some other things, so i couldn't work on case . But, at least here are some pics how it looks now. Think it's quite nice...

Before


...and after...



Comments please

nice job so far

btw why did you sand that bay cover with so aggressive sand-paper?

looking good can't wait for more updates

Ru5ty_t00l said:

nice job so far

btw why did you sand that bay cover with so aggressive sand-paper?

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Thanks

Hehe, only one i had... But i think that won't be a problem, i'm gonna spray it one more time and it will be just fine

And just for you guys little peek for what's comin'




Only EPS is done for now


Oh, i forgot... 200 mm fans are also finished for now. Still need to cover these three holes with some kind of sticker or something like that

I have a general weakness for this case, and seeing someone do something awesome with it always tickles my feathers

Looking forward to the rest of this story.

alpenwasser said:

I have a general weakness for this case, and seeing someone do something awesome with it always tickles my feathers

Looking forward to the rest of this story.

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Also one of mine favorite cases... And i'm glad you like it so far :beerchug:

Anyway my dear comrades, i was working on backplate for gpu. It's measured and cut, but i need little help of yours with mounting. This is actually first time i'm doing backplate so any help would be appreciated

Gpu i'm using is Gainward Phantom II GTX 660Ti





Measured and ready for cutting...



...jigsaw in action...


...cut looks pretty good for jigsaw...


...some work with rasp...


...and it's done.




So, the question is how to mount this piece of crap on pcb



Can i just unscrew these screws on pcb, drill some holes on backplate and just screw them again through backplate? Or there are some other things in need to look for? Hope you do understand what i mean

Seeing as there are stickers on the PCB, isn't it possible to just use clear double sided tape? Watch out with the vents on the back of that plastic bit though

Feronix said:

Seeing as there are stickers on the PCB, isn't it possible to just use clear double sided tape? Watch out with the vents on the back of that plastic bit though

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Hmm, that actually might work . I gonna try that tomorrow and let you know it works. Didn't even think of that :tongue:. Thanks man :beerchug:

What about that fan, do you think backplate would be a problem for airflow or something else...?

using the housing locations for attachment is fine, but the screw is a plastic self-tapping
and will have to be longer to accept material thickness, space/gap, and original
length. TIM pads or a dab of TIM compound for the memory modules would be helpful.

Volume said:

Also one of mine favorite cases... And i'm glad you like it so far :beerchug:

Anyway my dear comrades, i was working on backplate for gpu. It's measured and cut, but i need little help of yours with mounting. This is actually first time i'm doing backplate so any help would be appreciated

Gpu i'm using is Gainward Phantom II GTX 660Ti

So, the question is how to mount this piece of crap

on pcb

Can i just unscrew these screws on pcb, drill some holes on backplate and just screw them again through backplate? Or there are some other things in need to look for? Hope you do understand what i mean

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I would go careful covering the back of the gpu with metal.

You could short the power connections with the metal and also are there RAM chips on the back of that card? might change the heat dissipation of those chips by covering them.

I notice the EVGA GTX 660 Ti backplates have heat pads between the plate and the mem chips.

http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/M021-00-000020.pdf


I think you can get replacement pads so you could try some of those
They probably help stop any possibility of shorts also as they create a gap

Hello people
Just want to let you know, tomorrow i'm going to local store with all my measurements and i'm gonna use plexiglass instead of aluminum

Hi guys, just a small update for now...

Here you can see how the backplate should look. It will be made of black plexiglass. I'm gonna put some white leds below notched inscription The White Pirate, so only that notches will light up white




I decided to completely remove 5.25 bay covers and instead insert panel with The White Pirate signature and Corsair logo. This will also be black with white leds. Think this should look quite nice




Anything I should change?