DaMiEn
07-07-2004, 05:24 AM
ok ok i admit it, i willingly bought a thermaltake case with skulls on it...it was ugly, really ugly, and some of the 'features' supposed to help it with things like cooling actually made it look and perform worse.
if anyone else has one of these cases here are a few things you can do to improve the look and performance without spending much if any money.
1: rip out the swinging arm that holds the agp intake fan and make holes to screw the fan to the side panel.
2: take out the window by removing the little 'pins' that hold it in, and put the window on the inside of the panel. (this will mean painting the edges of the side panel under where the window used to be.
3: take the box that holds the exhaust fans off and smash it with a large, heavy object :twisted: , cut out the fan grilles and screw the exhaust fans onto the back. when i did this my cpu temps decreased by almost 10 degrees!!!
4: if your mobo power connector is on the right hand side of the mobo (towards the drive bays) run the psu motherboard connector behind the detatchable motherboard tray and through the hole then to the connector.
5: rip out that ugly el skull logo on the front, replace it with something tastefull.
6: remove the "skull" writing from the aluminium panel on the front. note: BE CAREFULL Ive heard that some solvents can affect anodized aluminium badly. I used Selleys kwik strip and that didn't affect the colouring but took the paint off quite nicely.
if anyone else has one of these cases here are a few things you can do to improve the look and performance without spending much if any money.
1: rip out the swinging arm that holds the agp intake fan and make holes to screw the fan to the side panel.
2: take out the window by removing the little 'pins' that hold it in, and put the window on the inside of the panel. (this will mean painting the edges of the side panel under where the window used to be.
3: take the box that holds the exhaust fans off and smash it with a large, heavy object :twisted: , cut out the fan grilles and screw the exhaust fans onto the back. when i did this my cpu temps decreased by almost 10 degrees!!!
4: if your mobo power connector is on the right hand side of the mobo (towards the drive bays) run the psu motherboard connector behind the detatchable motherboard tray and through the hole then to the connector.
5: rip out that ugly el skull logo on the front, replace it with something tastefull.
6: remove the "skull" writing from the aluminium panel on the front. note: BE CAREFULL Ive heard that some solvents can affect anodized aluminium badly. I used Selleys kwik strip and that didn't affect the colouring but took the paint off quite nicely.