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Kandalf 2.0 Case Mod

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After deciding to hold onto my gaming pc for another year or so, I decided I would throw a little money at it and mod it.

Its not the fastest pc in the world, but does what I need it to for now.

 

Hardware Specs:

Core i7 870 @ 3.54GHz

ASUS Sabertooth 55i mobo

8GB Corsair XMS 1600 Memory

MSI Geforce GTX 570

Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler

Corsair Force 120GB SSD

WD 500GB Black 3.5" HDD

Antec 1000W PSU

 

Original Case:

Thermaltake Kandalf Full Tower

2x Coolermaster silent 120mm fans (1 front, 1 rear)

1x Coolermaster silent 80mm fan

 

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Reasons for upgrade:

Tired of design. Not fond of the top mounted usb/firewire/audio ports. removed plastic shroud off top long time ago. 

Airflow sucks.

The front door restricts airflow, and makes it a pain in the ass to move the case. Door was getting wobbly.

Window design sucks.

 

Plans/Upgrades:

Black Wrinkle Finish

Front mounted I/O (Silverstone USB/Firewire/Audio 3.5" Front Panel)

4x Corsair AF120 Blue LED Fans (2 front, 1 top, 1 rear) Black wire fan grill on top/front fans.

Noctua NF-F12 fans for CPU Cooler

Individually sleeved cables (Cheated and went with extension cables for 24-pin, 8-pin, 6-pin and SATA)

Custom Sleeved front panel cables

BitFenix Alchemy 20cm Blue LED Strip

 

I already have most of the parts for the upgrade, or have been ordered am waiting for them to come in.

 

Progress so far:

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Temp setup:

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Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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Few more pics of progress:

 

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Cut holes in motherboard tray for cable management

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Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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Sweet!

The first step to insanity is believing in your sanity.

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Im stumped on what to use for feet. I dont want to put the stock ones back on. Can anyone recommend anything?

 

P.S. There was SLi in the system at one point in time. Just got upgraded to a single 570.

Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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nice wrinkle finish. looking good so far!

Case: Phanteks Evolve X with ITX mount  cpu: Ryzen 3900X 4.35ghz all cores Motherboard: MSI X570 Unify gpu: EVGA 1070 SC  psu: Phanteks revolt x 1200W Memory: 64GB Kingston Hyper X oc'd to 3600mhz ssd: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB ITX System CPU: 4670k  Motherboard: some cheap asus h87 Ram: 16gb corsair vengeance 1600mhz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

 

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I always love case mods with these old cases, it always turns out to be great, I'm gonna sub!

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nice to see abit older parts getting some love =)

i7 4790K@4.5GHz-1.15V, BeQuiet! SR2, Asrock z97e-itx/ac, Kingston  Fury 16GB@1866MHz, GTX 670 2GB, 3x ssdNOW300V 300ishGB, Bitfenix Prodigy, OCZ ZT 750W Twittwit@enRodjavel

 

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More progress has been made:

 

I have decided how I am going to mount my hard drives.

The case originally had 5 1/4" bays from bottom to top with adapters for 3.5" drives. I decided I want something different.

I am swapping out my 3.5" WD Black 500GB for a 2.5" WD Black 500GB and will be mounting that with my SSD on the side of the 5 1/4" bays.

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Also, I have gotten more painting done.

Right Side Pannel

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Motherboard Tray

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Drive Cages

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Front Pannel I/0

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I ordered a Mod Smart cable sleeving kit to custom sleeve some of the cables such as power button and LED's for the front panel. I am also going to make custom Molex cables.

 

I also decided which feet I am going with.

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What do you guys think?

Will post again once more progress is made.

Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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Gotta love the old cases that still have firewire... Says the guy who has the Corsair 500R... Haha.

I love the paint finish btw, really looking forward to that build.

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Yeah Firewire is pretty much useless these days.

The front I/O isnt from the case though, its a silverstone 3.5" one.

Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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Update:

 

Front fan mount is installed. 

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Top cover is ready to go, just gotta attach it and cut fan opening:

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Working on side window next.

Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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love the whrinkle paint =d

i7 4790K@4.5GHz-1.15V, BeQuiet! SR2, Asrock z97e-itx/ac, Kingston  Fury 16GB@1866MHz, GTX 670 2GB, 3x ssdNOW300V 300ishGB, Bitfenix Prodigy, OCZ ZT 750W Twittwit@enRodjavel

 

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Have it back together.

Still have a few things to do, I dont have a side panel built yet, and still a little bit of painting to do, but wanted a computer that wasnt in pieces again.

So I put it together and It will probably stay this way until I get my new system together, then I will finish it.

 

Trying to upload pictures but most of them are too big, so will have to try to downside and upload later.

Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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More case mod pics

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Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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Cable Sleeving

 

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Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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Interior Pics 

 

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Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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Exterior Pics

 

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Gaming PC: Core i7 4770k @ 4.5GHz, MSI Z87 XPOWER, 16GB Dominator Platinum, ASUS R9 290 DCU2, Noctua NH-U12S, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 250GB RAID0, WD Black 500GB, eVGA SuperNova 1000G2 PSU, Obsidian 900D

Laptop: ASUS N750JV Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.4GHz, 16GB Kingston, Geforce GT750M, Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, WD Black 500GB, 17" 1080P, Blu-Ray Writer

HTPC: AMD A8, ASUS A75-M Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS, Geforce GT630, SoundBlaster Recon3D, Thermaltake CPU cooler, Scythe 120mm pwm fans, Antec HTPC desktop case, LG Blu-Ray Combo.

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