Cooler Master HAF 922 Front RAD

[Mortenhoe]

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

 

[Mortenhoe]

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

[ImVictor]

Damn!, It's so weird to see the HAF stripped down like that, I have one and have thought on modding it removing the Drive cages, no plans on painting the interior black and giving a basement?

[RollinLower]

Looks really good. Almost as if it was made for a custom loop now  hint hint