Arctic White HTPC (LOG)

superneat

It won't be ugliness when all my cabling will be white, that's the part you want to see, along with the white RAM and CPU cooler.

Doing the other side is messy unless you are watercooling. With an air cooled GPU, if you put a window there, the graphics card has nowhere to pull cold air in from, unless you put perforations in the glass/plexi. Not an easy option.

As for the SSD bays, I won't be using them, there are places all over the case to mount them, in the drive bay, on all sides of the PSU, the roof, the floor or in the OD bay.

Andy!!

Im planning on mounting mine on the door, then tearing out the ODD, flipping the flexcage up and mounting it in its place and hopefully mounting my HDD there, to improve airflow. Wondering if it would be a good idea to remove the ODD bay cover for extra ventilation and let the meshed cover keep out the dust...

Andy!!

Haha, I just tried that and it doesnt actually work, if you were wondering ;P Sucks that they put the fan so low instead if in the centre; they should have made it mountable in the centre at least!

superneat

Andy!! wrote: »

Haha, I just tried that and it doesnt actually work, if you were wondering ;P Sucks that they put the fan so low instead if in the centre; they should have made it mountable in the centre at least!

Which fan is that? The 120mm front intake? With all the holes in the front you can mount the fan in any position, doesn't need to be screwed in the intended holes, I have my 230mm fan dead center but I could lower or raise it by an inch or so using different holes in the front.

Andy!!

Yeah I ended up raising the front fan. Do HDDs or SSDs get hot at all?

superneat

Andy!! wrote: »

Yeah I ended up raising the front fan. Do HDDs or SSDs get hot at all?

HDD's can get hot if they are constantly in use, the green, low power drives would be cooler than the faster 7,200rpm or higher spinners.

SSD's produce very little heat at all, and if windows is installed on one, it will be doing most of the reads and writes, so then I wouldn't worry about airflow to either drive.

superneat

My order from specialtech arrived this morning, not bad, 5 working days with the cheapest shipping option.



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Not the most dense but I'll be covering the black cables with white tape beforehand to stop any color bleeding through.



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I'll see how I get on with this stuff, hopefully I'll have some time today. I will need more to complete all the cables inside, if it looks a bit off I'll go ahead and get the mdpc-x stuff and redo the lot.

Charlie-Bravo

Excellent thread Superneat. It's great to see what you've gone through to get to here. Looks like you haven't encountered too many headaches - a bit of forward planning goes a long way I see. I'll look to build my own HTPC at some stage. Completely jealous!