Its modding time... a lot of cases out there are based on “bling” and dragons. In my opinion the over use of chrome/multicolored ccfl and or leds is distracting and distasteful. (no offense to the bling crowd, its just not my thing). That being said the foci of this rig will be

1.Performance – the best within budget (ok, maybe a little over budget)
2.WIRE MANAGEMENT! - im going to do battle with every individual wire, all shall be hidden or perfectly ordered.
3.Clean LC loops. - tubes that look like they really belong
4.Simplicity.- no I do not want a dragon etched on it... or anything else really...

to sum it up further, It will be a clean performing machine. I want it to reflect my design style which is usually very dark, very clean and very simplistic. ANYWAY! On to the specs!
  • Intel Core i7 920 (to be very oc'ed)
  • evga x58 sli
  • 6x1gb G.skill DDR3 1600
  • 2x BFG GTX 280's
  • Corsair 1000HX 1000w modular PS
  • a couple of hard-drives in an undecided raid array (still deciding)
  • Lian li V-2000B+ (I already own it/love it)
  • evga 8600gt for my 3rd monitor (also undecided pending experimentation)


now for the LC loops (parts listed in order of flow in 3/8ID 5/8OD )

Loop 1
  • DDC3.2 with the XSPC res top
  • Swiftech MCR320 120.3 Rad
  • Swiftech Apogee GTZ

Loop 2
  • DDC3.2 with the XSPC res top
  • Swiftech MCR320 120.3 Rad
  • 2x Swiftech MCW60 with full cover sinks


I'll stop boring you with the chat now. Picture time


There's the dustiful beaut magnet. Easily my favorite case I have ever owned. (gets really dusty though...)


120mm blow hole. Only real modification I have done to it in the 18 months i've had it. Tat is soon to change.


All skirted up and ready to paint


BAM done. The gray is a few shades darker in person. It has a nice toned down metallic effect that I like quite a bit, kind of like a dulled black nickel. ( I know, I didnt paint the bottom section... You wont be able to see it and I didnt feel like masking the HDD rails.)


My unfinished weapon against PCI-E power cables.


Front plate will route wires to the 1st gpu. The bottom plate will route sata cables and the top gpus power.


It's not staying bare aluminum though...


Its mounted! cant decide if i want to keep the chrome thumbscrews... might have to get some black aluminum ones

the stuff (but not all of it)





I set up everything to make sure it works before i void any warranties.


running beautifully. windows installer didnt like my raid drivers much. i slipstremed them. it wouldnt let me press f6 to install 3rd party drivers and if i tried to configure a raid array it would throw an error and die.

oh well ill figure that out later.

(stock benchmarks coming soon )