Frozen

[Panda4915]

I was tired of my old cooler master cosmos case and its boring grey aesthetics so I decided I wanted to give it some life. Here's what it started out as:

 

After 8 years of dust, no matter how hard I tried, there was not enough canned air to blow out all the dust... so I did what every logical person would do... I gave it a shower!

 

Now onto the paint. I used Velspar spray paint with primer from lowes. No issues besides it scratches very easily, which I expected (I did use about 4 coats of clear coat which helps with scratching significantly)

 

PCI brackets and drive bays - I painted these a lighter blue to add contrast

 

Here is the front panels showing the contrasting colors. The light blue is almost a robin egg blue, but the camera doesn't capture it very well.

 

The PCI brackets contrasting with the dark blue case

 

I also very reluctantly decided to paint the NB and SB heat sinks... I only did one very light coat which is all they needed to look good enough

 

Finally. Almost. I Bought a 5m white led light strip from amazon and mounted them rather than going with a pre-made solution. Turned out to be cheaper and easy. The led strip runs on 12v so I did a little soldiering and used the 12v leads from my spare molex adapters coming from my psu to power the strip. Works perfectly and more importantly to me, it turns on and off with my pc. These things are soooo bright. I'm tempted to put them on the 5v leads to dim them seeing as they literally illuminate my entire room. 

 

The only thing I have left to do is finish the side panel. Currently it doesn't have a window in the side panel but it will. I actually got about half way through cutting the side panel when my dremel went up in smoke so until I get a new one it's gunna go sidepanelless. Not ideal for dust but oh well. 

 

 

So there we go. This case has horrible cable management as well, less than 1 inch behind the mobo tray and a vertical support beam that you cant cross cables over and get the side panel shut so Cable management kinda looks like crap. It's on my list of things to do. 

 

My Components:

Xeon E3-1230V2

Asrock Pro3 z75

EVGA Superclocked gtx 780

2x 4gb Crucial Ballistix 1600mhz ram

2x 500gb mechanical hdd - still only 30 sec to desktop under win8 so I see no point in upgrading to ssd for now.

Thermaltake tr2 rx-850 850 watt PSU <--- 9 years old and still running like a champ

 

Overall Cost so far = 100 dollars. The majority of that is the custom sleeved psu extension cables (50 dollars) (i went with extension cables because I suck at sleeving, and the stock cables weren't long enough to manage in this huge case.)

[Shd0w2]

At first I thought this was about the movie frozzen

[atomicmonkey101]

the disappointment is real...

 

jk, but seriously, great build and nice paint.

[Osmium]

Looks good although the title was indeed deceptive

[Lays]

lol in the shower 

[CyberBro]

I really like that colour shceme and i think i might to give my case a shower soon also lol