R4VANG3Rs Rig - Project Phantom part II

R4VANG3R

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Hey guys!

I've had this case for a while and have done some slight modding on it, I'm kind of new to the whole modding thing though so you have probably seen this a hundred times before, but I still wanted to share my rig with you guys.
The case is obviously a NZXT Phantom (first gen),
and this is what it used to look like some time ago.




So I already did some paint work there, although not everything has been done properly, but that's because I hadn't ever spray-painted anything before.

So.

In the meanwhile I've done quite a bit of modding on the case, didn't photograph everything though.. :(

First of all I wanted to upgrade my rig hardware-wise.

Here's the new specs:
i7 3770K
MSI Z77 MPower
2x4GB Corsair Dominator GT 1866MHz
XFX HD Radeon 7970
Antec H2O 620
Cooler-Master Silent Pro M1000
Samsung 830 Series SSD 128GB
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200RPM HDD

Already making a lot of mess in my room..




I will be doing a full water loop later on when I have the money for it.

So with that in the back of my mind I wanted to remove the huge HDD Cage inside my Phantom as it's a very nice place to put a 240 rad.

But first, cleaning out my case! And we have a very nice tool for that!


Everything clean!


Lets start drilling.



And out you go.


Small HDD Cage in.




With front fan mounted.


Most of the stuff is in, starting to look good.



RAMs in, damn I love how they look.



So.. now some cable management.
Before:

After:


Now with the PSU Guard my Father-in-law made me, it's made of some kind of steel (can't remember the name)



Well that's it for now, I will Watercool it sometime soon when I get the funds together and will start OCing it then aswell!
So when that time has come I will update this post!

Cheers!
R4VANG3R.
 
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yeah nice layout that mesh needs another going over me thinks .. but all in all nice clean internals :)
 
Really need to repaint that mesh dude ;)

yeah nice layout that mesh needs another going over me thinks .. but all in all nice clean internals :)

If you guys are talking about the big red side mesh, then that's a goner!
I made a window there :)
But it was the first time I ever spray painted anything so that's why it's so bad :lol:

And thanks I spent a lot of time on the cable management
 
yea all are nice i do like build to but your temps should be horible because your fans on rad ar both pulling air and both do pressure to eatch other m8 that brings heat so you not cooling you heating everything there =D so everything is great good job just make push pull not pull pull on rad ;) sry after posting i looked last 2 images there problem is solved ;)
 
Digging it!! Cable management win.

Thanks :D

yea all are nice i do like build to but your temps should be horible because your fans on rad ar both pulling air and both do pressure to eatch other m8 that brings heat so you not cooling you heating everything there =D so everything is great good job just make push pull not pull pull on rad ;) sry after posting i looked last 2 images there problem is solved ;)

Haha yea I mounted it the wrong way at first but saw it soon enough so I turned it around before I was finished ;)
 
Sweet rig love the hint of red in there its sets it off nice.
Wheres the pics with the window?
You know you can never post enough pics right? :D
 
Sweet rig love the hint of red in there its sets it off nice.
Wheres the pics with the window?
You know you can never post enough pics right? :D

Thanks! I'll take some more pics with side-panel on etc tomorrow or somewhere this week :cool:

And I've taken off some of the mesh for repainting so it'll look even better soon!
 
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Update!

Sooo.. I promised an update so here it is! ;)

I decided to take out my mesh, going to repaint them soon.


So now for some screenshots of the case itself with it's window.







Maybe an idea for a future mod, placing a small white led in there so it lights up the 5,25" bays when the door is open
 
Omg that window sets that case off but that white fan needs to be hit with the red spray when you redo the mesh then ill have to give it a 9.5/10
 
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