Unfortunately we don't have an aircon, and I don't konw someone that do. That's why I thought tonight. Tonight I'll test it in my old case and record the room temp and hardware temps. Tomorrow night at the same time I'll test it in Stardust when the room temp is the same and record those temps. I thought that maybe before I start benching I'll shutdown my pc and put it in front of the fan for about 30minutes in both tests. or something like that.

I've started the final assembly now.

nooooooooooooooooooooo
you are beating me

its coming on nicely man

when it is done throw a sheet over a big box and put the case next to it (like a photo shoot)

YEAAAAH! Finally done! It's looking so beautiful. I'll upload the pics shortly.
I took some pics from all anlges now with the case just on the table. Tomorrow I'll try with the box, because I want to take good photos of it

Update:

I began where I left off. The brackets to which the folding side panels will be fastened. I glued two nuts with pratley.


Screwed shut.


Right here the bolts that fixes the panel to the hinge are reversed, because they are too long and collides with the other bolts at the back preventing the panel from closing. So I had to shorten them. A regular side cutter just won't cut it...


So I got out something a little bigger. A bolt-cutter. Hehe


I screwed every bolt in where they should go and cut them


And afterwards forced the nut out. This repaired the screw path ("die skroef draad" <- sorry, internal brain english dictionary out of date) This is pretty much the last thing I needed to do. Every part is now ready.


I took everything apart to prepare the big panels


After I sanded them and took the plastic cover off, all the parts are good to go.


The plastic covers can now be thrown away!

Finished Product Pictures:

I quickly took some pics, will try to take better ones tomorrow

Looking Sick dude

Well Done

do you have ccfls?

Sweeet.

Dude.Looks frikking awsome!

Thanks guys.

Yip I have one of those. I'm just now figuring out where it will look best.

Looks awesome man! Maybe you can try to fix some of the slightly bent pieces, but overall its very nice

Thanks. Slightly bent pieces? If you mean the top panel, well yes, I already made that less bent than it is now. The problem there is the piece that fixes the mobo backplate to the top panel is a bit too high. When I get the chance I'll see if it works to drill a hole a bit lower.

Tonight when the light is better for photography I'll take some pics of the case with everything installed. I also found a better place for my Cathode light.

Overall I think the temps are good. Even with that Zalman fan at quite mode (5v instead of 12v) the temp inside the case feels good. In my old case the air around the graphics card was noticably hot. Now it's much more like room temprature.

Excellent

i think make it go vertical at the back panel