First Post - Shinobi XL White Window

Muel

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I've lurked on here every now and again, recently been looking for a new forum/community, I watch a lot of Tom's videos so thought I'd try out this place. Hey. :)

Bought my case after watching his review, very nearly bought it in black, then he got me thinking about white, so I bought that instead, glad I did!

Adatped from another forum, hope you don't mind:

My Shinobi XL arrived today! I am very very happy with it, never done a build log for a desktop before.

Here's my old case, an Antec 300, heavily modified with the HDD bays removed, an old PSU gutted and use to store cables in, lots of cable routing holes, a Lian Li hard drive caddy + fan mount thingy, and far too much hardware really. It was getting way too hot I was tired of the styling:

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So in came the Shinobi XL.

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Here they are together, small difference in volume!

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Started by stripping the case down to the bare chassis.

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The small pile of stuff I removed from the case that won't be going back in.

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So far pics:

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Proud of this. Bought a Bitfenix extender and shortened it so it fed power to my two HDDs and my SSD without having loops of ugly cabling everywhere.

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Apart from a new cooler and maybe a few small mods, it'll be staying mostly like this for a good while now. At some point though I want to change the graphics cards for a single one, and the motherboard, CPU and Ram for good ones, so will decide on a proper colour scheme next time... The blue/red clash doesn't really do it for me...

More to come yet. Hope you like. :)
 
looks really nice, some white or orange leds would make that case pop :p Maybe paint the front grill on the HDD caddy white?
 
I actually don't mind the front panel and think its works pretty well, also a very neat build you have there.
 
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