White Antec 1200

[NUK]

So i had my motherboard dimms die on me and was RMAing it when i thought of some cool case mods i could do to make it look nicer and easier to build in so yeah here is my build log. hope you enjoy

 

for those of you who don't know what the Antec 1200 looks like here is the original case:

 

 

so firstly i just wanted to paint it white and i did and it turned out looking awesome:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but i wasn't happy with it since the case has some missing functionality that i wished it had and well i got to work on those issues:

 

so the first thing i did was cut a some metal from the top and drilled 4 holes so that i can mount a 240 rad in there

 

 

next issue, since the case had no way for you to mount a power supply with the fan on the bottom i needed to make a cut out for that, to do this i had to remove the rubber power supply standoffs and shift them else where

 

 

 

ok so now that i finished that I moved on to the CPU cut out, since I am using an H100i i wanted a way to mount the CPU block with the motherboard already in the case, while i was already doing that noticed that when i originally built this PC that the cable routing options were minimal and kinda sucked cause they weren't in the right places for my motherboard so i made a cable routing cutout which would allow me to route the cables behind the motherboard, finally i made a small cutout on the hdd rack so that i can mount my ssd there and route cables out of sight

 

 

 

i wanted to go with a white and blue theme with the case and well i thought painting all the case fans white would give the case a nice look

 

 

 

 

ok so i have saved the best mod for last, I dis-liked the side panel window since it showed nothing apart from the side of the motherboard and some of the ram and covered the rest, so yeah i made a bigger much better window with some blue tinted 3mm acrylic 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally got my motherboard back from RMA and was really excited to finish the build

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that the build is done its time for the overclocks and temp tests

 

here's what i got for my I5 3570k

 

 

 

Hope you guys enjoyed this let me know what you think about the build.

 

Also Haven't come up with a name for this build yet let me know what you guys think

[NUK]

sorry if you guys have seen this already but finally posting this in the right sub forum

[Dacho]

nice build

I can just see an array of ssd-s one below the other, below that hyper-x

[NUK]

nice build

I can just see an array of ssd-s one below the other, below that hyper-x

haha that would be wicked but would require A LOT of modding to make it possible might look into getting a second one and running a raid 0 array  not sure where im going to mount it

[Ymac]

I really liked this!

looks like a huge 500R with smoked acrylic window.

and the MPOWER...oh

[NUK]

I really liked this!

looks like a huge 500R with smoked acrylic window.

and the MPOWER...oh

 

Haha It kinda does thats pretty cool.

 

I do like the look of the window as in it hides everything you don't want to look at. but i may get some lights for the case to light up all the cool stuff

[Hipstergram]

I love that case, looks really nice. Good job man.