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naquaada · 04-25-2009, 06:08 PM

I made some Hi-Res photos of this thing. Here are both sides, front and back. This is with the front with the covers for cardreader and Front-USB opened. I'm using a SATA drive bay in the 2nd slot, normally there's an DVD drive cover like at the top.

This is the case opened, here's a zoomed view. You'll see there's enough space for airflow even with a passive gfx card. In the front there are two 5,25" drive bays which you can't access directly from the front, but you can use them for cables and up to three harddisks using U-shaped mounting things. It's very easy to open the front plate, so you can access these slots. I added a front fan which sucks the heat from the harddisks to the front side. It's easy to mount a 92 mm fan on the disk drive and the upper harddisk using some self-adhesive velcro (crazy word ;-) Here's the typical before/after picture of the side air holes, the inside contains the optional airduct for the cpu fan. The screws of the airduct are only visible in the flashed photograph, normally you don't see them. The LEDs are normally visible, green for power and yellow for drive. I used blue 3mm LEDs which fit directly in the front holes, take a look here. I also made a short video (H.264 format) to show the drive access. I think it looks a bit more Mac-like. I want to remove te old led things, fill the holes with some plastic material, repaint it silver and modify it a bit to match the look of the holes on the front. But I wasn't finding the real things for this yet.

Here are all pics in an FTP directory. The Apple logos I made myself, you can download them as PDF in the link in my signature. Best print them with a high-quality laser printer (f.e. in a Copy-Shop) on self-adhesive matte paper. Laser-printed stuff is more durable than inkjets. If you're using tranparent paper you don't have to cut so exactly as on white paper, and you'll get a slight gradient to the case's color. This looks better than a plain black or gray logo. Best cut them out with a rounded scissor (f.e. for fingernails) and leave a small tab at the bottom. That makes it more easy to seperate the self-adhesive part from the page.