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UPDATE 1 So i ordered up my H440 and this is what arrived. Its the orange special edition. Why would i buy a special edition color? Simple it was £10 cheaper than the rest, one thing i will say is the orange color is much more vibrant than it looks in the photos! its actually really nice, but i didn't care. Disassembly One thing i will say is these things really do come apart as easy as everyone says, 4 screws along the side then a couple of tabs to bend, the grills are just held in with either 3 or 2 screws. The NZXT panel on the PSU shroud i almost snapped trying to get it off, its held on with three screws and 2 very tight push fit pins, make sure you push them flush before trying to yank it off. The Paint. With the money i saved buying the orange h440 i invested in some really nice gloss white spray paint. The only problem i had with the paint was the initial plastic surface wasn't too great, i don't know if it was just mine but they had really bad casting lines across the plastic parts (where the two half's of the mold have closed when it was made i assume.) they where really hard to see on camera but it took me a while to sand them flush. the plan was to paint 2 coats of primer to help cover the casting lines and then 3/4 coats of paint with a wet sand between coats, i figured this would give me a nice glossy finish. This is after the second coat of paint, getting into all the edges where the grills are was a pain but i could already tell it was going to be worth it the finish was coming along nicely. another 2 coats of paint later and this is my end result, the wet sanding took me a while but the finish you get is fantastic. (higher res images) then came the job of putting all the parts back together, i haven't finished the NZXT badge yet so it will come when i finish putting my system inside the case. Make sure you paint around the usb ports because you do see that through. and one last image just to show you the kind of finish i got with my paint so sorry for the weird back door thing going on, it was so i could catch the light. (not the casting line i was talking about, i diddnt see this one till after the second coat of paint so i just had to smooth it out the best i could) So thats all i have the now, over the weekend i will be finishing the nzxt badge and putting the system together so i hope you will come back to see the finished rig, and some proper high res photos (not taken with my nexus) thanks.

Time is money, there's nothing worse that getting to the end of a project and messing up your paint! You would have the other case to sell remember.

If I was going to do all black I would simply buy 2 h440s. A white one with the black accents and a black one with like the green or blue accents. Then simply take them both apart, swap the panels and you will be left with an all black one, And a white one with green accents or whatever. Then simply sell the white and green one on. Its not really in the spirit of modding but you haven't had to paint anything.

I did think someone might think that! Thats way more work than I'm prepared to do.

Hi all! just thought i would share with you my rig rebuild and give a few tips to those thinking of picking up the NZXT H440. this is my first build log so lets hope it goes okay The OLD So this is a rebuild of my rid that i put together about less than 18 months ago pretty average nothing at at all special. The specs are; CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£228.90 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Z77 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£127.99 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Sandisk Solid State Drive 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£46.00 @ Aria PC) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£49.98 @ Aria PC) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card - Getting replaced soon with R9 290X Power Supply: Corsair 860W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£132.44 @ More Computers) my cpu was cooled by a, wait for it.... thats right, stock intel cooler!!! i originally bought a h100i AIO but it bricked after a firmware update and i never bought another one. The case i had was the CM Storm Stryker which is a really nice case with a lot of potential for mods however just to big for what i wanted and i just stopped liking the white. This means here i am 18 months later and its time for a refresh. The NEW The components in my rebuild are going to remain pretty much the same, ive picked up a new Corsair H110 for cooling and in the next month or so will be picking up a new gpu. but i wanted to do a little something with the case. not too over the top. The Design I fell in love with the white H440 as soon as i saw it but having learnt my lesson from my stryker, i was reluctant to get another white case. there's something i like about a back and white themed pc so the solution was my "inverted" H440. the plan was to take a black one and paint all the plastic accents white, drop in some nice braided cables and im hoping it looks good... above is a cheap and dirty Photoshop to give me a rough idea of how it would look. so thats that, lets get started, the following is my short build guide and il give a few tips along the way too. UPDATE 1