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If you look hard enough on ebay, you might be able to find a kraken g10 or similar bracket and a cheap 120 AIO for under $80, that would give killer performance and he could bring it to his next card for cheap if he buys a new bracket.

A 1700 would be a sidegrade from a 5820K. I say XPOWER Titanium x370 and 1800x. He's upgrading because he can.

OP said he was willing to change RAM, could go for a 4x16GB kit on an x370 board

For high end CAD applications, it might actually be underpowered.

If your budget is that high, I would recommend filling the space in the case and getting a full ATX motherboard.

Hey, I'm a high end systems builder from MD, and if you wanted to do a watercooled system, I could design and build it. Send me a message or reply here if you want.

I've run out of things to do to my own rig, as its built into a bookshelf, so I'm looking for new clients. If anyone needs any work done, go ahead and message me, or if anyone has any idea where to find clients, drop a reply here.

MSI kombustor has a CPU test, but that's beside the point. Try lowering the voltage of the CPU in the BIOS, and reinstalling the CPU cooler.

You could pull a 5V lead and a ground from one of the USB ports and use a MOSFET and a 12V power supply with enough wattage to power the fans. Connect the ground from the power supply to the USB ground, and to the ground on the fans. Then, connect the 5V lead to the Gate pin on the MOSFET, and the 12V from the fans to the drain pin. Finally, connect the 12V from the power supply to the source pin on the MOSFET. This can all be done very cheaply with a solderless breadboard. MOSFETs are super cheap on eBay, and a 12V 1A power supply should be able to drive about up to 5 fans.

By far. Blue, black, and white, is about the best thing I could have done given my materials.

Haha, I plan to dilute the blue a bit by masking on some black accents and decals. The side panel window will take away from the blue a bit, but in the end, it'll still be quite a blue build.

I recently bought a huge lot of computer parts on Craigslist, some of which were for a client build. Not mentioned in the ad, however, was an poor old abused Cooler Master Elite 110. It had dried superglue all over it, random holes drilled in it, at least three coats of different colored paint all over it, and a few missing parts. This is going to be the thread where I document my adventures resurrecting, modding, and building with this case, all with a budget of zero. Everything I put into this case is going to be scrap, and hopefully it turns out usable. The first two pictures are some pictures of the damage the case had, while the third is what the orbital sander revealed about its thoroughly painted history. I started the mod by sanding the outer panel of the case. This took a good half hour with the orbital sander, and left my hand unusable afterwards. It revealed that the seemingly black case had underneath it: Black, White, Red, Black, and then the metal of the case. I sanded the entire thing smooth, and applied a few coats of spray primer (Pic. 4). Next came the front panel. One of the previous owners had taken to it harshly with a drill bit (Pic. 5), and it had the same paint disaster, but with another layer of white on top. I decided I was going to create an acrylic front for the front panel, gluing it to the tapered edge. This means I only have to worry about the appearance of the edges of the front panel. As far as front I/O, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. It got the same sand, primer, and wait treatment as the main panel. I went to my spray paint shelf to find that I have the colors black, white, red, blue, gray primer, and gold. I didn't want to do black or white, to avoid the colors that the case originally comes in. I decided against red, as that doesn't match my room. I decided for blue, as Gold is too tacky, and the gray primer is too matte. For the front panel, I chose a white enamel, and it turned out quite glossy and nice looking. Once assembled with the rest of the case, it looks good. My next mods are going to be a custom acrylic piece to cover the carnage of the front panel, a side panel window, white internal lighting, and a few internal mods I haven't quite figured out so I won't mention here just in case. That's all there is for now, I'll post updates as they happen.