Project: Qube³

[Ging3r]

i think the purple and white looks awesome, although im not too sure i would be brave enough to do it myself.

I think the MM cases are becoming the new TJ07

 

[TopSecret]

I have been busy as hell with work at the moment, so I haven't had the chance to do much work on the project. But I got the fans I ordered the other day. and fitted them to see what they looked like. They look pretty smart I reckon. I also got around to spraying the bezel on one of my DVD drives but had an accident with it. It's from the one without a bezel in the picture. I spent an hour or so prepping the bezel and spraying, then left it on some newspaper to dry on the side in the kitchen. One of the kids came in and put her horse riding magazine on top of it. It took me ages to peel all the magazine off it.I will do it again this weekend probably. The DVD with the bezel is an IDE drive and I won't be using that in the final build.

I was going to try and get your opinion on the grilles. I have a load of purple grilles the same as the white ones. Not sure which to use tbh. I have a picture with a purple one fitted but my camera's batterys are on charge, so I will post back later.

I hooked the fans up with the molex connectors, and they are surprisingly quiet. I will be able to improve on this when I get them hooked up to the fan controller though.

 

[JN]

Loking good matey. The system deffo looks the business with the white grills, but will be interesting to see purple.

Could maybe use the purple ones on the other side of the fans, so they also look awesome inside the case?

What fans did you go with in the end anyway?

 

[TopSecret]

Cheers mate, I will get the pics up of the purple grilles this avo.

 

[moogle]

The white grills but purple fans would look nice I think. Planning on doing a purple CD bezel?

 

[OmegaStalker]

I say you alternate between them so go white then purple then white etc..

 

[DeMoB]

Nice colours

Depending on how much white you are going to put inside your case, I think the white fan grills work great, but if you want to claim back some purple to balance it out then lets see how it looks

Dan

 

[w3bbo]

Looks sweet m8 .

 

[TopSecret]

Here's the grilles in purple and white, I am leaning towards the purple now, but still not sure Scuse the finger marks on the paintwork btw

Here's another view:

Nearly had a friggin heart attack then too, on that last photo, it looks like the paints been scratched on the right hand corner. It must have been a reflection off the flash.. thank ferk!!

 

[monkey7]

Purple. I think the white ones are too hard to see because of the white background.

 

[moogle]

Purple. I think the white ones are too hard to see because of the white background.

Then you should make the fans purple. Alternating colours ftw

 

[AntiHeroUK]

White on white is too overpowering. Purple is the colour of choice here Stuart

 

[TopSecret]

Yeah, the more I look at it, the more I think the purple grilles are the way to go. Cheers fellas

 

[prosser13]

I quite like the white ones TBH

 

[Freak]

Take a look at it when they are spinning up. Will cause the background behind the grill to go white. Would looks better with the purple grills.

Will look something like a bullseye....

 

[TopSecret]

Yeah that's why I decided to go for the purple grilles. You can see the effect when the fans were spinning on one of the photos with the white grilles. The fans are more subtle now with the purple grilles, but still give enough contrast.

A quick update too, I friggin missed the postie yesterday for a delivery, so I have to wait 48 hrs before I can pick it up at the depot. Means the work I had planned for Sunday maybe not happening

 

[TopSecret]

Fan Controller - Makeover

Right , I had to nip to the post office this morning for my missed delivery. Turns out it wasn't what I was expecting and it was the Sunbeam Rheostat fan controller. I am going to be modding the controller, to sort out the overly bright LED's, and to make the front panel tie in with the rest of the case. It's my daughter's 3rd birthday today so I won't get time to get it all done today though, but I have managed to strip the controller down, give the panel a sanding and coat of primer. Here's what I have just done:

Out of the box:

Stripped Down:

Masked Up:

Sanded:

I will post back with more pics of the paint job and LED mods later.

 

[TopSecret]

Well, the kids all went home a couple of hours ago from my Daughter's party, so I got started on a few more jobs. I got the gloss coat down on the fan controller, and am stuck on that now till the paints hardened. So I decided to start on the 9 fans I have that need braiding. I also had to daisy chain them so I could use all the fans on the one controller. I now have a 3 fans daisy chained for the 360mm radiator, 2 fans daisy chained for the 240mm radiator, and another 2 daisy chained for the roof. That leaves 1 fan for above the mobo on the rear panel on it's own.

Here's some pics of one of the x2 daisy chains:

Before, as you can see the cables would look a right mess if left like this.

I cut off the ends, I am only using one of the yellow (sensor) cables as using more than one can make the mobo get false readings on fan speed. The one I wasn't using was just trimmed back:

Soldered the cables from the fan to the extension pieces:

Used some heatshrink to cover the joins:

And voila, braiding done:

Close up of the 3pin with heatshrink:

Finally, how it will look when the fans are fixed in place. It looks a hell of a lot tidier, and it means I can control 9 120mm fans with just the one controller.

 

[tinytomlogan]

MM's look mahoosive, till you try and hide wiring!

Still dont understand why we dont see more of these though.

 

[PeterStoba]

MM's look mahoosive, till you try and hide wiring!

Still dont understand why we dont see more of these though.

Lack of money