New Case Finished!

Well finally complete my new case. Nothing to fancy, wanted functionality this time.

Anyways my CPU and GPU temps seem to indicate it is working well. My CPU sits at about 41-42° C at idle, and 43-44° C at full load! I was impressed only a 3-4° spread in temp, between idle and full load! GPU went from about 65° C at idle, to 55° C at idle, during 3DMark it stays below 60° C, seems to hover about 58-59° C. Once again, very small spread!

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The pictures don't do the paint job justice, but it is all painted and clear coated, inside and out.

Also notice the screws, in the top? Thats the hard drives, PSU is in the front lower part of the case!

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Good job!

Are you overclocking? That idle temp seems a little too close to load temp. I would expect closer to 10 degrees difference. Try rolling back your clock to see if the idle temp jumps way down...

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Now, maybe if you'd paint your drive faces, you might have something going.

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what kind of paints did you use? I'm about to paint mine and am very curious...

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I have always used just regular automotive paints, as RichPLS mentioned, enamel works fine.

Make sure you use a good clear coat, for a good finish. Don't use a cheaper clear, they normally don't give you as good of a shine.

Also make sure you either, sand off the powder coat, or use some sort of adhesion promoter. (Even if you use the adhesion promoter, you still need to sand the powder coat a little, to get the paint to stick good.) (Also you will need the adhesion promoter for the plastic)

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Still do very, very thin coats at first, to make sure it sticks right. (Painted the inside of my case, without sanding). I have found it works best to sort of mist a thing coat, twice first. Then move to the normal coats. Probably be best to give it at least two layers of color, and at least two layers of clear if you want it to shine (Clear also helps protect the paint, after it fully hardens, I generally do more somewhere between 3-4 good thick layers of clear on my cases, the last case had 8-9 depending on which piece) (The case that had 8-9, the paint was basically nothing but metal flake, and needed many coats of clear to smooth it out.).

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nice
I wish i had those kind of temps
Did you get tired of the clear case?

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Well I was getting tired of the clear case, but really had no choice but to get rid of it, as I kind of messed it up. Was using a hole saw to cut the built in grilles out, and it snapped one of the panels when the bit got stuck in the acrylic.

Plus I always am happier with stuff I "make." Same reason I built my desk from scratch (Other of my furniture, my car, etc, pretty much all hand built by me). Just like knowing I have something different, and I can say I built that.



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almost done with the inside. just waiting to get my new proc. Probably could have done a better job, but it's the inside, and with all the cables and such, I just cared that it was black. I'll post pics next week when it's all done. Anybody have any suggestions for painting on acrylic?

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I already have the special plastic paint. Hell, I've used it on the entire inside already. Good stuff. I have a big-ass acrylic window for the side with a fan near the upper left/back. I wanted a window that had a metal design that somehow surrounded the fan. I don't like the fan on bare acrylic, so I was going to paint a simple design around it and reaching the edges. This helps hide the fan wires going down from it, AND it gets rid of the hokey "floating" fan.

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yeah. I'm thinking about getting that shrink mesh that goes over wiring to keep it neat looking, as well as disassembling my PSU cables/molex connectors and untangle them. WTF was Antec thinking when they put their PSU wiring together? near the opening, it's all out of order. Their newer ones are better, thankfully.

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yeah. those are sooooo nice. The case is finished and everything is installed. Only problem is, I left my camera in OH! I'll either get a friend to take some pics or wait till I get my camera. Let ya guys know when I get pics.

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Yeah, I'm in Jersey now, but I grew up in Medina, OH - about 40 minutes southwest of Cleveland, and 40 minutes due west of Akron. Where you from?

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ah, OK. I might be over that way soon. Ever hear of Urbana?

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lol...If I'm ever in Urbana, I won't have time to LAN, but thanks for the offer . I got my camera, so I'll post some pics soon of the new case.

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Single Stage paint does work very well.

However a thick clear coat gives the paint depth, which I like.

I'm not disagreeing with you, as all my cars get single stage paint jobs, however isn't the purpose of clear coat to help protect the paint from stuff like UV, and chipping?

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