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Nice to see. Great job. I'm from Denmark, and I found a german seller for the front, so I also have that now. This makes this case how it should have been all along

It's not easy to take off the case top - which is why, I suspect, it is not in sales yet. Front cover is snap and go, but top cover is fiddling and screws. Anyways. If you know someone who knows which end of an angle grinder has to go into the metal, get some painters tape and any 420 grill on the market. Remove top. Tape it up with painters tape. Draw the grill with a pencil and then proceed to cut out material with the angle grinder. I painted the metal end with a black sharpie, but you cant really see them because of the grill, so it wasnt really relevant.

Wow, sorry guys. Didnt get any email notifications that this thread had any activity! Yes, this is the 420 fangrill from Watercool. Any 420 grill will do though. I remembered this thread, because I just saw the new 802 case. There are a couple of sellers in germany that has the new front grill - I will definitly be getting that! My top grill mod kinda solved all my troubles so I forgot all about this thread!

So. I bought the Silent Base 801 because it was invertible. I wanted my PC on the left side. This case also looks nice. But it got pretty hot. Especially with a 360 front rad. Just by feeling the top of case by hand, you can tell whats wrong. Lack of airflow in top of case. This case wasnt really made for having fans placed in top plate, so I had to carefully measure fan placement or the side panel releasing mechanics would not work anymore. It turned out to be a very tight fit! Everything touches slightly but side panels can be clicked in. Overall this mod gave me an 10-11C drop on GPU. I came from 71C sometimes even more in GPU heavy games, to a 60C MAX now. (2070 Strix) I could have kept the fans in the original tray and just left the fan grill in top as is, but I decided the extra clearance would make less tug of war with the GPU fans. I hope this can inspire or help people who like this case, but battle with temperatures. The build: The Cutting: The tray I removed: Fans are a pretty tight fit: 3 x 140mm Be Quiet Silent Wings 3 PWM:

Lid from an ABS case Cut the case, put in the ABS sheet, and drilled the holes Fan test. No vibrating or any other nasty stuff. YAY! Should have gotten a 360 AIO, but I didn't know that at the time I'm not an LED guy. That thing really looks sweet. Complete. Fans front. SSD in the bottom. Like a 2019 case. 10 years didn't do much to this old HAF

Cooler Master HAF 922 Front RAD So, this kinda escalated quickly for me. Quick: I had some troubles with BF V, so I bought a cheap used 2070 Strix. Things got worse. Turned out to be a CPU bottleneck. Luckily my Z170 A from Asus supported the 7700K, so I got one of those off ebay. BF V now runs 1080P 130+FPS. But god damn that thing runs hot! I haven't played with custom loops since a decade ago. So I decided on the cheapest AIO that seemed worthy of modding. Corsair H100x is a non bells and whistles version from Coolit. Nice kit. Sucky fans. Threw on some rad killers NF-F12. Placed the RAD in top of my old Cooler Master HAF 922. Nah, bit rattly sound. Not much, but I sensed it. Thought about buying one of those modern front rad cases, but that money could be well spent on many other upgrades to my system, and I already have THE airflow case. So I ended up showing my old 922 some angle grinder TLC. The mod needed to be done in plastic, since I had a hole saw for wood, and I wasn't about to kill that thing drilling 3 127mm holes in aluminum. I had an old ABS case for pictures laying around. So this mod cost me nothing but short of a half day of tinkering. A little side note for the Corsair H100x. It doesn't have fancy brains and such. So I figure it has a 12V pump and a 12V LED. It has a SATA connector and a 3-pin fan header with only RPM. I wanted to lower the pump RPM when the PC is idle, because 4K RPM can be heard! I took a 3-pin fan header, soldered it to an old sata connector and another male 3-pin fan header(for RPM feedback). This made my cheap H100x able to be controlled from my MB pump header. Now it runs at 87% in idle, and is literally silent. LED dims to 50% or so when lowered to 87% voltage. Before the modding. I had previously removed the drivebays in front of the 200mm fans. Stripped down HAF 922