First Time Modding/LED Lighting

DanTheMuffinMan · January 11, 2014

Hello Guys,

I've built 5 computers (including my current rig, specs in sig) and want to start making them look sexy. I've decided to get a AIO water-cooler (Swiftech H320) and replace the included fans and all of my case fans with Cougar Vortex's. I'm going with a black and Orange-Accent colour scheme in the case and was wondering what sort of mods I could do that you guys would recommenced for a noob?

I was thinking of starting with just some case lighting, preferably orange, is this the sort of thing I should be looking at NZXT Sleeved LED? How to they attach to the case btw?

Feel free to recommend anything

chaozbandit · January 11, 2014

The NZXT Kit (I've owned one) attaches to a case via a clip system. In essence, you attach the clips to the case where ever you need them to be (attached via included double sided tape) and then you just route the sleeved cable through the clips. However, my advice is to avoid the sleeved NZXT kit because I always found the light to never be even and always left large gaps between each LED, and this was with a 2m long kit and doubling over in some sections. You'd be better off with just regular LED strips from the likes of Bitfenix, Phobya, Logisys, Bitspower, or similar.. These strips all have double sided take on the back side so you don't need to use clips, however you sacrifice the flexibility. I'll try to find some pictures for you of these two types in my case.

EDIT: These are really old pics, so bear with me here.

NZXT 2M Sleeved LED Kit (White):

Custom medium density LED strips (White); similar to offerings from the above mentioned brands:

GunnAthax · January 11, 2014

Go for Nzxt Hue led's, or as I did cram some IKEA led diodes inside my pc. It looks good if u get it right (easy with a white Phantom 410) but would not be that great in other cases. And it uses a seperate power socket

DanTheMuffinMan · January 12, 2014

Go for Nzxt Hue led's, or as I did cram some IKEA led diodes inside my pc. It looks good if u get it right (easy with a white Phantom 410) but would not be that great in other cases. And it uses a seperate power socket

The Hue controller looks really neat but I think it would hurt the aesthetic of the front of my case, the Cosair 750D has some weird front drive bays.