softafterhand: canyon resource

I decided to name her 42. She is the answer to the Universe, Life, and Everything.

I finally have pics. The collection isnapos;t complete yet, since sheapos;s not put together all the way, but by the time she is, Iapos;ll be shocked that she doesnapos;t have legs and canapos;t walk and talk on her own. Iapos;ve spent so long building her that it feels like I could have made an entire robot by now.

Anyway, here you go. I took pics last night when I put in the new UV A.C. Ryan orange fans. So here is the journey of 42, thus far.

For starters, sheapos;s huge. The case is 45lbs when itapos;s empty, and stands over 23 inches tall. Sheapos;s almost 25 inches long, and over 10 inches WIDE Hereapos;s a view from the front:

and the front with the door open:

Here you can see the top exhaust vents on the back of the top panel:

and hereapos;s what the back looks like. Notice the PSU spot on the BOTTOM of the case (ignore all the crap inside, this is before I took it all out). This is the first time Iapos;ve seen one with it on the bottom like that. The two black dots are built in liquid cooling holes.

Here you can see the bolt on side window that the crew at FrozenCPU did. The cut job on the plastic is pretty craptastic, but hey, I didnapos;t have to do it myself, so thatapos;s a plus. The strip going across is the VGA cooling duct that comes with the case normally, but since I have a window, that will be coming off. You can see the rest of the crap sitting inside of it. All of that is going to get pulled out.

Hereapos;s the back showing the back panel taken off. You can see all the spaces and holes made for wire organization. Hopefully they come in handy when I have a ton of wires going everywhere.

Hereapos;s the back from the front side. You can see a bunch of wires coming down from the top panel where all the ports and buttons are.

Now itapos;s time to replace the fans that came with it. The three top exhaust fans:

And this bottom intake fan:

And Iapos;m going to pull out these 3.5" drive bay conversion runners to put a fan here.

Below it is 6 hard drive bays:

This is the intake slot for the PSU. Itapos;s sealed, so that the PSU only pulls in cold air from the room and exhausts warm air away from the case. Itapos;s self contained, meaning it has a cooling system separate from the rest of the case.

This is the side of the 5 inch bays. The buttons make putting in and removing drives easy as cake.

Anyway, here are the fans Iapos;ll be putting in. They are clear-ish orange that is UV reactive, and each has 4 UV LEDs in it to really make it glow.

First, I took the black exhaust fans out. To do the tops ones, I needed to remove the black plastic panel that vents the air:

Here are a couple of pics of the vents without any fans:

I noticed when I was taking the new fans out to mount them, they had a funny looking sticker on them:

Donapos;t trash your fans or throw them away? Ok, will do.

So here they all are inside the case:

In order to really get the full impact, I need to install the UV CCFLs I bought with the case.

Side:

Behold The top:

Now I have some color under those top vents:

And last but not least, the Seagate 1TB Barracuda needs to get put in:

Loaded up, ready to go:

Those are all the pics I have for now. More to come though, I promise. This is just the beginning. Thereapos;s a lot of effort still to go into this big girl. I hope by the end she looks as great as I want her to. It would also be nice if she ran the way I want her to too :P