Case Lights

Pimp Ninja

I'm looking for some Neon Lights or Cold Cathode lights to fit into my new casemod with window

I can only find em on overclockers... anywhere in Ireland stock these?

Apologies if this has been asked before. I havent time to search, in work and access to boards is on a quota.

Mutz

Maplins beside the Jervis/UGC have some LED fans. Do a Search on the Technology and this Forum to search for some of the Posts PPC has put up.

Did ya get a new System Pimp?

Pimp Ninja

Originally posted by Mutz
Did ya get a new System Pimp?

Its on its way in bits n pieces.. I have the Case and sound card.. the rest is either being considered or in the post

PPC

Maplin still have cathodes i believe.
CPC do the inverters here

I got an Antec trilight fan
V. Nice but its not the coolest fan


CPC codes

COLD CATHODE FLUORESCENT BLUE LIGHT
Order Code: DP2724366 Unit Cost: £3.96

COLD CATHODE FLUOR. GREEN LIGHT
Order Code: DP2724466 Unit Cost: £3.96

COLD CATHODE FLUOR. PINK LIGHT
Order Code: DP2724566 Unit Cost: £3.96

COLD CATHODE FLUOR. WHITE LIGHT
Order Code: DP2724666 Unit Cost: £3.96

COLD CATHODE FLUOR. YELLOW LIGHT
Order Code: DP2724766 Unit Cost: £3.96

COLD CATHODE FLUOR. BLACKLIGHT
Order Code: DP2724866 Unit Cost: £3.54

COLD CATHODE FLUOR.LIGHT PSU
Order Code: DP2724966 Unit Cost: £3.34

I dunno if cpc deal with the public tho.

Pimp Ninja

Great PPC thanks man...

I know a man with a dog and a cpc account, so I'll see if i can get it there... Also since he owns a lighting company I might be able to persuade him to stock these items... Anyone interested???

PPC

Yeah i ordered a loada stuff today.
PSU's
more cathodes
Alu project box
spiral wrap.
Pc is going to be worked one
getting a new dragon this week

daveJAM

Damn forgot to order spiral wrap.:mad:

How come its the one thing I always forget?:rolleyes:

Pimp Ninja

whats spiral wrap for?

daveJAM

Keeping wires nice and tidy. You wrap it around the wires and it holds them together.

PPC

Spiral wrap is like a tube cut in a spiral and you wrap it around cables to tidy them up.

po0k

electrical tape tbh tbh.
You modding fanboys seem to love spending euros on stuff you could do yourself for next to nothing.
That was, imho, the ethos of modding I thought?
Getting extra performance for free?

Pimp Ninja

kinda like that heat it an it shrinks stuff.... I just been using some cable ties, with those little stickey feet, to keep them bad boys outta harms way

PPC

Originally posted by SyxPak
electrical tape tbh tbh.

Been there, done that.

The aul electrical tape looks tacky.
I've had spiral wrap before and it looks alot better.

Originally posted by SyxPak
You modding fanboys seem to love spending euros on stuff you could do yourself for next to nothing.

Spiral wrap is quite cheap, less than a fiver for 10m which does nearly a whole pc.

Originally posted by SyxPak
That was, imho, the ethos of modding I thought?

Modding is getting your pc to look like you want.
Ghetto modding is doing it on the sly.

Originally posted by SyxPak
Getting extra performance for free?

Thats overclocking

Originally posted by Pimp Ninja
kinda like that heat it an it shrinks stuff....

Emm heatshrink can be used for that, i use it to join wires mostly

Originally posted by Pimp Ninja
I just been using some cable ties, with those little stickey feet, to keep them bad boys outta harms way

Did that on my last case and it was ok but then i tried tape and then spiral wrap.

Spiral wrap works the best tbh

koneko

Ghetto modding is one thing, but doesn't mean you have to buy everything pre-made instead.

Why not make a LED fan yourself.

It's like buying a PC pre-modded and pre-overclocked. Takes all the fun out of it.

daveJAM

Which do you think is gonna look nicer through a window, bodged electrical tape or nice neat spiral wrap? And I have tried electical tape (its what the spiral wrap is going to replace), it looks poo. I even tried bloo tape. trust me spiral wrap looks sooo much better.

PPC

Originally posted by koneko
Why not make a LED fan yourself.

Done it.

This is a clear fan.

I would have bought a clear fan if i could find one but i couldnt.


The only reason im getting a precut window is i want a spare case side incase i screw it up doing a custom one in a few weeks time.

Gerry

Originally posted by SyxPak
electrical tape tbh tbh.
You modding fanboys seem to love spending euros on stuff you could do yourself for next to nothing.
That was, imho, the ethos of modding I thought?
Getting extra performance for free?

agreed syxpak. I think most people have lost sight of this. The original aim of modding is to make the pc faster, without splashing out.

For example, why tidy up your cables?

Many people might say " To make the case look neater, especially when I have my neon light on, and all my lan gg m8's are looking at it".

Well, I think thats pretty sad. The only reason I can think of is to improve airflow. You can do a lot with cable routing before even considering wrapping them anyway, a lot of cases will let you bring cables up between panels, or you could route them between drive cages and the side panels, under the motherboard, the list is endless.

Its about using your head to get a faster ( while hopefully reasonably quiet ) pc while spending very little cash.

Flame all ya want, but I'm just not up for this whole window buzz.

PPC

Originally posted by Gerry
agreed syxpak. I think most people have lost sight of this. The original aim of modding is to make the pc faster, without splashing out.

Agreed it was but its evolved to vanity now.

Originally posted by Gerry
For example, why tidy up your cables?

Many people might say " To make the case look neater, especially when I have my neon light on, and all my lan gg m8's are looking at it".

Yes thats all it is really now, you can still get preformance from vanity sometimes.

Originally posted by Gerry
Well, I think thats pretty sad. The only reason I can think of is to improve airflow. You can do a lot with cable routing before even considering wrapping them anyway, a lot of cases will let you bring cables up between panels, or you could route them between drive cages and the side panels, under the motherboard, the list is endless.

Tried it, its harder with the new case.

Originally posted by Gerry
Its about using your head to get a faster ( while hopefully reasonably quiet ) pc while spending very little cash.

Flame all ya want, but I'm just not up for this whole window buzz.

No point in flaming, its personal preference. But i've tried many ways and this is the best.

Gerry

Your first point says it all really ppc, "its evolved to vanity now". But at least you can admit that. I'll just add that I don't think that messing with how a pc looks really counts as hardware tweaking, since I would associate hw tweaking with making the thing go faster instead of look faster.

PPC

Yes i agree with you again (gawd agreeing with you, what next)
I always thought there should be a modding board but i was told thats what HWTweaking was for.

Gimme a Modding forum and i'll mod it. But I dont think its going to happen as this board is already here.

Should there be a Modding board then?

BabyEater

I couldn't see there being a point to having a modding board as there isn't that much traffic on this board and it deals with HW Tweaking and Modding .Maybe a name change to HW Tweaking/Modding.
A question then, is putting watercooling into your system HW Tweaking or Modding?

PPC

Originally posted by BabyEater
I couldn't see there being a point to having a modding board as there isn't that much traffic on this board and it deals with HW Tweaking and Modding .Maybe a name change to HW Tweaking/Modding.
A question then, is putting watercooling into your system HW Tweaking or Modding?

Thats what i thought.
There isnt enough traffic for a new board thats why it wont happen.

Changing the name then might do it.

Gerry

Babyeater, installing watercooling is done to improve performance of your machine, and enables further tweaking of the hardware, so I'd say it belongs under hw tweaking ok. Modding to improve the look of the machine is usually unrelated to performance. I'd say a name change for the forum would be best, to keep the traffic levels high.

po0k

I've done the electrical tape job on my cases
And tbh, they don't look too shabby, they're nice and stiff now too so routing them is easy.
Spiral wrapping looks completely shíte imho, you can see the grey cable through it.
Pre-made rounded cables look ok, but they're very bulky looking around the connectors.
SerialATA sounds lovely from this point of view
I've modded and tweaked my case a bit, nothing too extreme, currently running my P3 800 at 840 (112 x7.5 seems stable, ram at cas3 i think).
I was considering putting a window in, but unless you plan to put alot of effort into the lighting (so to hide the actual light source) it won't look it's best, and I've got a "all-in-one" steel case cover which puts windows out the..ah...window.
I don't think modding needs its own forum, performance and cosmetics got on well here, and thanks to yellums posts of couches made from macs and such (Closet sMac-head eh? ) it is going great.

My post earlier may have had a lick of fire trailing it, but it wasn't intentional
I just don't like seeing rounded cables and stuff being flogged for 2-4times their real worth, especially on sites that portray themselves as overclocking sites.
I say leave the speed-striped thumbscrews (OMFG! 13% reduction in 5V latency!) to the americans who've got more money then sense.

spooky donkey

ive seen those round ide cables in maplins and the look ok, they have them in green and yellow.
They also have cathode`s as well, well at least the blanch branch had them!

BabyEater

your links not worken for me SyxPak . I wanna see what it looks like as i was thinking of doing the same as me case is an absolute mess with all the tubes etc.

PPC

Originally posted by Gerry
I'd say a name change for the forum would be best, to keep the traffic levels high.

Agree'd again (something defo wrong here).

Yeah name change maybe.
Jazz it up a bit, maybe some blackjack and hookers.

po0k

link's fixed.

daveJAM

I'd have to agree with pretty much everything said so far. Case modding is all about personal preference. If i can do something for a just a few quid extra but really like how it looks then why shouldnt I? (Rhetorical question so dont flame me)

Name change sounds like an excellent idea. I think this thread has gone a bit off topic as it is so maybe discuss it properly somewhere else?

P.S. Nice paint job.

koneko

Rename the board, don't add a modding board, there's no demand for it.

As far as case modding goes, I'm all for it. As long as it's original and interesting. I'm sick of these dime-a-dozen window and cold cathode looks. Sure fair enough do it, but don't post links all over the place like the people on PimpRig do, when your rig is nothing special.

Do it yourself is what I say, don't buy pre-made stuff.

I'm doing some extreme-esque mods to my extra case, but they're more of an arty/aesthetic piece of work than to improve performance. My main rig won't be modded, due to the extreme cooling in it atm (phase change), so it doesn't need any airflow work.

po0k

So quiet you could hear a dustmite breaking wind?

Vexorg

Name of forum has been changed....

The drop down menu will be updated automatically with 24 hours or less, before anyone points it out....


As they say, my wish is your command.


Vex..


Ps just spotted this on Komplett, expensive... but nice looking.

Nice "off the shelf" modded case

Altheus

Buying off the shelf fans, with LEDs, pre-painted cases, etc etc just ruins the whole modding community if you ask me. Modding is changing the case, cooling, keyboard, monitor, mouse, to make it different from what it was, as opposed to overclocking, which is performance boosting.

As for rounded IDE cable, and that cable wrap stuff, why not do it yourself! split the ide strands individually and then use cable ties, and spray, or cover in electrical tape, (which if done correctly can look sweet).

as for this

Agreed it was but its evolved to vanity now.p

Frankly it always was, well, it always has and always will. It's the guy who who says "LOOK MINES BETTER THAN YOURS!". Unfortunately, the lack of originality and talent has led thousands of people to go out and spend €25 on colored LED Fans, "which look cool", instead, spending that €25 more wisely, on the best performing fan, and then modding it to cater his/her tastes..

PPC

Originally posted by Altheus
As for rounded IDE cable, and that cable wrap stuff, why not do it yourself! split the ide strands individually and then use cable ties, and spray, or cover in electrical tape, (which if done correctly can look sweet).

Done it, looked crap, got spiral wrap and it looked better.

The only difference is the spiral wrap, Electrical tape is ok but spiral wrap looks a hell of a lot better tbh.
I still split the ide cable, still use the cable ties but all i do is use spiral wrap instead of electrical tape.

I would of made a fan with leds if i could get a clear fan in ireland but there was none so a pre modded one was bought.

I bought a premodded window just incase my original case side gets destroyed while doing my new window. (its extremely complex)

read this post.
It needs to be updated but that was what i had done so far on my old case. As you can see i've done the fan mods, ive done the rounding, and the fan mod was a modified version of someone from OcUK's fan mod.

I soon hope to get my watercooling kit and install it into my case.

I still have many more things planned for this case.

"which look cool", instead, spending that €25 more wisely, on the best performing fan, and then modding it to cater his/her tastes..

I've UV painted my 80mm Deltas, but they dont like leds too much.

I should have more done to the case next week one my cpc order comes in.

banbutcher

i dunno if you've seen this but this guy seems to be the king of modding!!!! check it out here

Wossack

OMG :eek:
I want