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What do you mean? Other than to drill holes to hide the cabeling? Thats really about it dude, maybe change fans. You could also put handles, feet, maybe even a case skin on the metal side. Lots of options but modding is tough in a premodded case. Its a nice case for sure just, in my opinion, not much you can do.
 
You could replace the the window on the side with just acrylic and add a graphic to it. Ok you will lose the side fan option but the case pumps a serious amount of air through with out it.
 
Pretty hardware, ugly case:
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Athlon X2 3600+ @ 2.4 GHz (Scythe Katana 2 HSF)
2GB DDR2-800
HiPer 580W modular PSU
MSI GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
(I've since added a TV Wonder 650 Pro, but it kinda gets lost in underneath the GTS, so I decided not to update the picture)

I affectionately call it the "Fallout" case, as I think it would look more at home in Vault 13 than a LAN party :)
 
Front view, case lighting on:

The gray tube on the left is part of the desk, and the gray/black box on its edge is an external hard-drive case.

Front view, case lighting off:


Side view showing the dragon-shaped window (should've cleaned off the fingerprints first, oh well):


Interior:


Pentium 4 530 (3.0GHz), Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard, 1GB GeIL DDR2, GeForce 8800GTX, 957GB in four hard drives, Silverstone Strider 600W, Swiftech watercooling, Lian-Li PC-6085B with powdercoating.

Yes, that is an 80-to-120mm fan adapter hanging off the back. The 80mm Swiftech radiator handled the "Prescott" Pentium 4 and a GeForce 6600GT fine with a 32CFM 80mm fan, but when I put in the BFG 8800GTX Water-Cooled Edition it was a bit overloaded. (It was not a well-planned upgrade.) So now there is a 120x38mm 90CFM fan pulling air through the radiator, and temps are better. I added the front intake fan recently, and temps are a little better yet. Still not "good", but better than they were. My next step is to take the CPU out of the watercooling loop and see how the 80mm rad fares with only the 8800GTX. Which will be a nontrivial undertaking, so I have been putting it off...
 
I shall post mine as soon as I can de-dustify it, find a camera, and tidy up my cables. Speaking of cables... How do you guys get all those sweet-wicked-awesome cables with all the crazy lighted colours and designs? Makes me jealous...
 



http://www.frozencpu.com/
http://www.xoxide.com/
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=index

Just a few sites I already have bookmarked. They all have modding stuff but I think FrozenCPU is the best. Anyone else know of any others? I need to get motivated one of these days and clean mine so I can get updated pics to post here.
 
There are some nice looking rigs here. I guess I'll resurrect this thread and put a few of mine up. It isn't nothing particularly special, but I did some updating and stuff so I figured why not. Although there is still plenty of upgrading still to be done.

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Aerocool AeroEngine II PC Case (140mm/3 120mm)
E4400@3ghz (Tuniq Cooler) CPU-Z Validation
MSI P6N Platinum
2gb A-Data Extreme CL4
320gb SATA2 Seagate Barracuda
LG DVD-R
8800GTS 320mb KO (588/920)
Zalman 6 fan Controller (4 adjustable, 2 toggle 12v/off/5v)
Adaptek 2940 WU (for SCSI Mustek Flatbed Scanner MFS-12000)
Aerocool Zerodba 620W PSU
Logitech G11 KB / MX518 Mouse
 
Heh.. tanks. I pretty much fell in love with the desk when I saw it at a furniture store for $200. I like how wide the keyboard slide table is. Plenty of room for my mouse and keyboard. Then brought a side shelf to house my UPS / scanner / printer / monitor / stereo. 😀
 
And this is mine come to post. Try to resurrect this thread again...
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Intel C2D E6750 w/ Scythe Mine
Gigabyte 965P-S3 w/ Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II
Corsair Twin2X 2048 PC6400C4
Western Digital Caviar SE 160 Gb WD1600AAJS
XFX 8800GT Extreme 512 Mb w/ Thermaltake DuOrb
SilverStone Element 500Watt ST50EF-Plus
Antec 900
ViewSonic VG2030wm 20"wide
Altec Lansing CS21
Logitech G3 Laser Mouse
 
Here is my computer.
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I'll get some pictures of it's guts

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD 64 X2 4200+
EVGA 7900GTOC
2GB Corsair XMS
Creative Soundblaster Audigy SE
Antec truepower 2 Blue 480watt
maxtor 250GB SATA150 HD
 


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