Yes I'm back and with a new project, ok it's not a great name I'll admit it, this is a bit of a long story.
Iit all started a few years back when I was doing my first major mod, turning an old server case into my main rig, one of the key things was getting the noise down a load so 120mm fans where my main aim.
http://forums.hexus.net/chassis-syst...e-project.html
It was afterward that I realised that my efforts had been defeated as my other's pc is also in the same room and her cheap case had lots of winey 80mm fan in it.
So I was being drowned out but her pc.
While I didn't want to go through all the hassle of a 2nd mod at that time, so I looked round for a better but still cheap case for her, I found this one.
Ok it's cheap (£20 at the time), thin steel and such, however I do still like the look of it, it's actually quite spacious for an el-cheapo case, a full 200mm wide.
I've seen, and used, nastier el-cheapo cases.
The mesh used in the door+front+side panel do actually do a reasonable job of dust filtering.
The side panel less so, but the multi layers of fine mesh in the door+front do a good job, I often had to wipe off to clean them.
What has this got to do with modding?
Well I was planning on modding it and had been for a while, however the otherhalf hates me going anyware near her pc, she doesn't care as long as it works.
Then a month back now something went "BANG" or at least "Phut" and it stoped working, after digging about and testing, I'm 90% sure it was the southbridge on the motherboard.
So I pulled the hard drives, swaped them into my "old" pc and set it up so she could get back online, in my p180 case.
I'm still debateing if I want that case back or not, so it's left me with the opitunity to finally mod her caseI can shift all the hardware over when I've finished.
She likes steampunk so this is a rough theme for the build and slience and general improvement is my goal for it
more to come, however this build has been going in fits and starts, so no regular updates atm and I really must update my system details.![]()


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. . . I was planning to start of the painting seeing as I've borrowed my mini-compressor and air brush from work (I use it for projector maintenance, aka blowing out all the dust) however it was raining all day an annoying fine rain with just enough wind to blow it into the balcony, so I did other stuff instead.

I should and do know better.








