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Case modded by Jim Hanson

Final price: $713.

(before I hear whining about someone else modding it for me, take this into account:

case: 400 bucks

20 fans at about 11 a piece $220

Grills for all fans at 1 a piece $25 (some have them on both sides)

FILTERS for 7 fans: 2 a piece $15

Hole saws for 120, 92, 80, 60: $20 a piece= $80

Shipping on all items $100(roughly)

Total price: roughly $70+ labor and fear of screwing something up.

 

Jim had never modded an Ultra before, so this was a new mod design.

 

 

 

BEFORE:

 

 

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AFTER:

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(next to an Enlight 7237 for comparison)

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....speechless....

 

That is quite possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen. Granted the case is cumbersome/expensive and all the fans must make nice amount of noise.......but....I am in awe and i am also quite jealous.

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You don't have any kind of switching system to control the fans? So, they just run all the time? Seems kinda loud, but I applaud the expenditure. I just spent $600 (clearance price, due to one of their showrooms closing down) on this chair. I got it in red, and it has the headrest. I had planned on getting the Aeron chair from Herman Miller, but I liked having the headrest and overall comfort of the Freedom Chair a bit more.

 

BTW, I thought you were getting an all-aluminum WTX case that would be polished or anodized. Did you just change your mind, or were they taking too long to make it into production?

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Yeah, Stiltner was taking too long on his Coldforge, so I said screw it and moved on to bigger and better(?) things.

 

 

I don't have the switches set up yet.

 

 

On my list of mods to do are:

 

Change out LEDs(White for PSU1 & 2, and Blue for each of the HDDS---all of them the brightest I can get(I want to light up my room if I can!).

 

Set up Baybuses to control fans. They're mostly L series Panaflos..so they ARE quiet....but the 2 53 decibel Delta EHE 80mm/80CFM fans need something.

 

I'm looking at the switches in the back and an LCD up front, otherwise the 3.5" bay cover will be my new baybus.

 

 

 

I need 2 92mm grills(then every exposed fan(except the hdd ones in the back) will have grills on both sides--but I'll get those on Monday or so.)

 

 

After that, there's not much modding to do.

 

PSU1 will power the mobo & fans

 

PSU2 will power the hard drives & top 4 5.25" drives

 

PSU3(whenever I determine I have need for it) will power all 5.25" bay drives. PSU2 will take over all 3.5" drives. PSU3 will also power my watercooling equipment, since the 5.25" bays won't use the power all the time(unless I get SCA equipment, which I doubt)

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Change out LEDs(White for PSU1 & 2, and Blue for each of the HDDS---all of them the brightest I can get(I want to light up my room if I can!).



Where can I get this blue LED's. I could bug the lab tech at school...but...I'd rather not.

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Man, I'd love to see those pix, but all I'm getting is "Hosting for hardforum only" WTF? Maybe it's just me...I hope.

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