Thks guys for the comments - yes that is powdercoat and yes it came out GREAT I am still waiting on the side panels as there was complications with getting their finish to work right but they will be ready tomorrow or friday

I worked on it a lot last night, found out some things that are problems a somethings that are good news

good news:

- the reservoir and lamptron fan controller fit perfectly into the drive bays with not a bit to spare.... this is good because I designed the res arbitrarily at 10" tall without thinking of the room for the fan controller and I am actually just the luckiest mofo in the world in that respect

- the radiator and the pumps and the PSU will all fit in the bottom, I had to take the inside fan near the PSU off so that the rad would push in enough to not hit the side panel. Now there are 5 fans on the rad and the psu to help as a kind-of-sixth fan

- the case went back together completely and without too much issue

bad news:

- I am having to redo the VGA power due to a dffierent routing requiring more length :\ started this last night but I will need to finish it tonight.

- the 24-pin wiring is very very tnagled and I will have to sped a lot of time on this to manag it all behind the motherboard tray, lots of work :\

- the 8-pin cpu power will not reach and I will have to fashion an extender which should be interesting... luckily I just found the necessary female malex plug for that here at work.

- I need to sort out the rad mounting, I have not worked on this at all yet :\


otherwise everything is going good I think this is very finishable before saturday as long as I dont hit any major snags on the paint and I dont die from lack of sleep