HELP... new MOD/BUILD need ideas

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

a friend of mine just picked up a Rocketfish case... the Lian Li PC-A71. im gonna do SOMETHING to it to make it nice for him. i need some ideas though.

it's gonna be all air cooled.

im open to mods, painting, etc.

i plan on sleeving everything too.

i've got it stripped down and ready to work on...

sorry for the blur...

this case is HUGE! it's the same size as my TJ07. my other rigs are in my sig.

JrRacinFan · Mar 31, 2008

If it's of any help

Here's what I did without any cutting or modding:

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

Nice! im gonna hide all the cables in this one.

JrRacinFan · Mar 31, 2008

Thanks man!

eidairaman1 · Mar 31, 2008

hows that case on cooling?

JrRacinFan · Mar 31, 2008

All my temps idle inmid 30's on all stock air. CPU on load gets to max 48C, and 40's acrossed the board. GPU loads at around 79C.

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

im thinking about taking the HDD trays out of the bottom as well as the FDD carrier.

JrRacinFan · Mar 31, 2008

take out the hdd bays and use the fdd bay for a hdd. That would be good if going watercooling.

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

there is gonna be 4 hard drives and 1 dvd drive.

JrRacinFan · Mar 31, 2008

Well as you can see the trouble spot with the case is down by the power supply. Very hard to get proper cable management if you have long power cables.

EDIT: And trust me you will need long cables with this case. 4 hdd's, your best off leaving as is tbh best you can get. There is very limited space between the backside panel behind the motherboard and the tray.

eidairaman1 · Mar 31, 2008

http://www.chieftec.com/mesh.html

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

i'll try and run the cables behind the tray and motherboard. i need to get him a different PSU because the cables on the enermax are too short for this case. anyone want to trade?

eidairaman1 · Mar 31, 2008

i think ill grab a lian li or chieftec case

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

eidairaman1 said:
i think ill grab a lian li or chieftec case

cool, cool.

any suggestions on mine though? that's what this thread is for.

eidairaman1 · Mar 31, 2008

if possible add more exhaust fans, and also maybe a window, hows the performance of the fans, because you maybe able to find 120x38 (90 CFM 18dba) fans

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

eidairaman1 said:
if possible add more exhaust fans, and also maybe a window, hows the performance of the fans, because you maybe able to find 120x38 (90 CFM 18dba) fans

i dont want a window or lights in this at all. i may use the silenX 120x38mm fans yes. that was part of my plan.

eidairaman1 · Mar 31, 2008

perhaps change the cpu cooling, unless if that breaks the budget

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

eidairaman1 said:
perhaps change the cpu cooling, unless if that breaks the budget

i havent even told you what's going in the case yet. as far as you know i might be putting a water system in there.

JrRacinFan · Mar 31, 2008

4 hdd's and possible watercool hmmmm ....

Hey do me a favor and try and turn one of the hdd bays 90 degrees clockwise and be able to fasten it down. Because that would be a mod worth working out to see if it works.

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

JrRacinFan said:
4 hdd's and possible watercool hmmmm ....

Hey do me a favor and try and turn one of the hdd bays 90 degrees clockwise and be able to fasten it down. Because that would be a mod worth working out to see if it works.

it would work.... but after looking at it... im thinking to put the other under the 5 1/4" bays without the floppy carrier.

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

any more ideas?

JrRacinFan · Mar 31, 2008

If you feel like taking the holesaw to it, it could use a top 120MM exhaust fan.

Fitseries3 · Mar 31, 2008

Im pretty sure we are gonna do water on this build. im thinking to put a MCR-320-QP up top.

im already finding a few problems. more in a bit.

intel igent · Mar 31, 2008

make holes in mobo tray for W/M, polish interior (nice aluminum

) , remove HDD and floppy drive carriers, use 120mm fans

lots of room for W/C in there! what would be going in it f going W/C?

:toast:

JrRacinFan · Mar 31, 2008

Thats the problem intel, the right side panel is so close to the mobo tray that you cant put any wires back there.

System Name	Dual Build Streamer
Processor	Ryzen 7900x3d : Ryzen 4600G
Motherboard	AsRock B650E Steel Legend : Giga B450i Aorus
Cooling	Custom Water 1x420 : Stock
Memory	32GB T-Force Deltas : 16GB Dominator Platinums
Video Card(s)	PowerColor 7900 XTX Liquid Devil: iGPU
Storage	20+ TB
Display(s)	Sammy 49" 5k Ultrawide
Case	Custom White Painted Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2
Audio Device(s)	Onboard : Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1200W P2
Mouse	Corsair M65 RGB Elite White
Keyboard	Hyperx Origins 65
Software	Windows 10

System Name	Dual Build Streamer
Processor	Ryzen 7900x3d : Ryzen 4600G
Motherboard	AsRock B650E Steel Legend : Giga B450i Aorus
Cooling	Custom Water 1x420 : Stock
Memory	32GB T-Force Deltas : 16GB Dominator Platinums
Video Card(s)	PowerColor 7900 XTX Liquid Devil: iGPU
Storage	20+ TB
Display(s)	Sammy 49" 5k Ultrawide
Case	Custom White Painted Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2
Audio Device(s)	Onboard : Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1200W P2
Mouse	Corsair M65 RGB Elite White
Keyboard	Hyperx Origins 65
Software	Windows 10

System Name	PCGOD
Processor	AMD FX 8350@ 5.0GHz
Motherboard	Asus TUF 990FX Sabertooth R2 2901 Bios
Cooling	Scythe Ashura, 2×BitFenix 230mm Spectre Pro LED (Blue,Green), 2x BitFenix 140mm Spectre Pro LED
Memory	16 GB Gskill Ripjaws X 2133 (2400 OC, 10-10-12-20-20, 1T, 1.65V)
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon 290 Sapphire Vapor-X
Storage	Samsung 840 Pro 256GB, WD Velociraptor 1TB
Display(s)	NEC Multisync LCD 1700V (Display Port Adapter)
Case	AeroCool Xpredator Evil Blue Edition
Audio Device(s)	Creative Labs Sound Blaster ZxR
Power Supply	Seasonic 1250 XM2 Series (XP3)
Mouse	Roccat Kone XTD
Keyboard	Roccat Ryos MK Pro
Software	Windows 7 Pro 64

System Name	Dual Build Streamer
Processor	Ryzen 7900x3d : Ryzen 4600G
Motherboard	AsRock B650E Steel Legend : Giga B450i Aorus
Cooling	Custom Water 1x420 : Stock
Memory	32GB T-Force Deltas : 16GB Dominator Platinums
Video Card(s)	PowerColor 7900 XTX Liquid Devil: iGPU
Storage	20+ TB
Display(s)	Sammy 49" 5k Ultrawide
Case	Custom White Painted Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2
Audio Device(s)	Onboard : Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1200W P2
Mouse	Corsair M65 RGB Elite White
Keyboard	Hyperx Origins 65
Software	Windows 10

System Name	Dual Build Streamer
Processor	Ryzen 7900x3d : Ryzen 4600G
Motherboard	AsRock B650E Steel Legend : Giga B450i Aorus
Cooling	Custom Water 1x420 : Stock
Memory	32GB T-Force Deltas : 16GB Dominator Platinums
Video Card(s)	PowerColor 7900 XTX Liquid Devil: iGPU
Storage	20+ TB
Display(s)	Sammy 49" 5k Ultrawide
Case	Custom White Painted Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2
Audio Device(s)	Onboard : Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1200W P2
Mouse	Corsair M65 RGB Elite White
Keyboard	Hyperx Origins 65
Software	Windows 10

System Name	old school / new school
Processor	3.0e C0 @ 3.6 / e5200
Motherboard	p4p800e-dlx / p5q-DLX
Cooling	custom water see sig / air
Memory	2x1g oczPC4000EbPl / 2x2g ocz2rpr1066
Video Card(s)	3850AGP / 4890vaporX
Storage	36g raptor+120g wd / wd 1001fals 1tb
Display(s)	BenQ / sharpAQUOS LC-37D64U
Case	modded antec plusview / generic
Audio Device(s)	audigy 2zs / ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3
Power Supply	fan/cable modded powerstream 520 / OCZ 700mxsp
Software	Xp pro SP2 / VISTA ultimate OEM

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