Modding the Cooler Master Cavalier 3

[gvblake22]

Now on to installing the rest of the cooling and components:




The wiring took WAAAYYY longer than I thougt (about 3 hours!):

[gvblake22]

And now for the glory shots!
One of the wires on one of the fan frames with the blue LED's ended up falling off so I had to kindof tape it back on and it didn't want to work right after that so this is with only one frame of LED's (3 total).

[gvblake22]

Ok, well, I decided to put my HUGE piece of black foam core board to good use :


I just did a little measuring and cut out three separate little rectangles and placed them inside the case around the motherboard to cover up most of the ugly gray interior and also spruced up the wire management a little bit while I was at it:



I think I like it. :D

[gvblake22]

Well, FINALLY got my Jab-Tech order:


...and they work!!! :clap:


Here are some other goodies I'll be putting to good use later:

Catch ya on the flip side 8)

[gvblake22]

I did A LOT of work on the lighting/color situation and here's what I ended up with...
First task was to use up all that wonderful UV Blue sleaving; pffft, who needs heat shrink?!
Chipset fan:

SATA cable:

Case Front I/O cables:

Temperature Probe:

Heatsink Fan:

Internal USB Headers:

and the cables for the UV CCFL's:

[gvblake22]

After the sleaving was nocked out, I busted out the UV reactive paint!!! :)
An ordinary NV Silencer?:

...only to the untrained eye!!!:


Next up I decided I was gonna modify the look of the top intake a little bit because I made one edge of the hole a little too large and it stuck out the side of that square metal dust guard I had before. This way it looks the way it should; round:

So I just put the dust filter on the inside instead:

[gvblake22]

Now to put it all together!!!
Again, the wiring took waaay too long:

...the rats nest:

as the spectator sees it:

[gvblake22]

And now for the better night shots I promised you all!!! :clap:





I am still contemplating painting up the wire grill on the heatsink fan with the blue UV reactive paint to help tie it all together. I'll probably also add the other 12" UV CCFL along the top of the case.
Overall, I'm pretty tired, but pretty happy with the results. Hopefully you guys like it too; but if not, then just go . . . . . . . .

[gvblake22]

I finally got the second UV CCFL installed:


As well as painting the fan grill with the UV reactive paint:


I also threw up a couple stickers I had lying around just for kicks:


I really like how the lighting turned out. Don't know if I'll have anymore updates though...
MAYBE another window on the other side panel if I get ambitious or even possible an etch of some kind, but I dunno.

G'night All :mrgreen:

[One4yu2c]

That looks fantastic - I envy your patience!