Always a precious moment the first time you put blade to metal, what was your first mod?

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Ill Start-

My first based off of a Nikao case. One of the cooler things I did was put red glow wires inside the white wiring hose which gave a cool effect at night, although you cant see it in the pictures. This is where my obsession began...about the same time I saw Bill's Nemesis 9 case This was about 6 years ago now, damn has it been that long?

THis is also in the water cooled gallery too:
Started as a Yeong Yang YY-0221 cube server case (back before I had a proper camera)



and after a lot of reading tutorials, learning how to use a dremel, sanding, filling, re-painting and a whole bunch of other stuff:

CrashTestPC

Hi this is my first mod its a el cheapo casing that i modded to a crashtestdummy based theme,i had its interior and exterior powder coated,and i cutted the crashtestdummy logo on the left side and have it meshed,,hope you like my first mod guys



oh i just wanna add,, i just won a pc modz contest with this first time mod

CrashTestPC is freakin cool! You should paint your PSU Black. It would complete the color theme nicely.

Yeah ok, revised the rules a little

Cool case nebula!

thanks guys,,regarding the psu I will ugprade to a decent power supply like the corsairHX,,thats why I left the stock psu unpainted,,
btw,,im inspired by the cases iv seen here:::cheers::

Although it STILL needs a nice fancontroller i'm still pretty satisfied with the result!

My AquaLight project (yeah it's first mod )

Before:


After:




And yeah that CrashTestPC is SEXY. Very sharp paintjob

some awesome first mods in here

this was my first mod:







I was scared shitless of cutting my brand new Antec 1080AMG up lol, the case had just come out and wasn't cheap

was pretty cool being one of the only people at a 100+ person lan with a modded case and having people come up to discuss what i had done to it.

I know the mod is pretty generic now, but in my eyes it was something pretty special when i first completed it.

Stepping stones to bigger things

My First was:




Twisted at QuakeCon 2005.

- Removed and enlarged the side window.
- Replaced the stock HDD and Power LED lights with red LEDs.
- Removed front aluminum panels and replaced with back painted lexan, lighted the lexan with 4 red LEDs per panel.
- Replaced the stock Thermaltake LOGO with a Tazz LOGO.
- Modded a Matrix Orbital MX233 in place of the stock Hardcano 9.
- Built a custom fan controller to control the case fans.
- Modded a set of Sunbeamtechs case feet (blue LEDs to red LEDs), powering them from a custom PCI bracket utilizing RCA connections.
- Removed the stock harddrive rack and built two custom hdd racks out of lexan and lighted them with 3 red LEDs each, added in 1 Stock AMD processor fan per hdd cage for cooling, lights and fans run off of a RCA connection that is mounted between the two cages, the fans run at 5 volts to keep the noise level down as much as possible.
- Cut top and bottom windows to match the design of the front panel. Lower window is clear, top window is back painted red and lighted with 2 red LEDs.
- Painted the inside of the case red.
- Painted the exterior of the case gloss black (so that the front panel would match the rest of the case).
- Shortened the X-Connect cables so they were a straight run from the PSU to the device, kept the stock look of the cables.
- Installed rounded IDE cables and some sleeving on what existing cables where left.
- Removed 3.5 Floppy mounting and modified its cage to mount the Vantec water cooling pump, and then mounted the Reservoir to the bottom of the case.
- Have one custom Tazz fan grill on the top of the case (provided by fellow modder Sheldog23).
- The water blocks for the water cooling had to be modified for installation and proper cooling, I took the VGA cooling a step further by keeping the stock fan in place and modifying the stock ram sink to allow for the water blocks clearance. GPU is water cooled while the ram stays Air Cooled.

My first mod:



Damn, I even spelled ugliness wrong back then -_-"

Well, I think mine had a more humble begining and it is certainly not going to win any benchmark contests. However, I like it and it runs linux very well.
This thing started out as something headed for the trash heep. Someone at work said it did not work. When I first saw it I thought, wow, I could do some stuff to that case. When I got it home, I relized that it was a fully functional PC. So I called back the person I got it from and they said keep it.

It is an intel P4 2.6. 1.5 gigs ram and a 20 gig HD. The Vid card is a card that another friend gave me. And I had to cut it down to fit. Cut the back plate for the form factor size. Here is that bit of modding

The DVI plug is on the home made back plate, the other one is one of the blank ones that was with the case but I had to cut the hole in for the VGA.
This was the first case I did a cut on, and the first case to paint the outside. The inside is not painted and I might do it later.

I tried to put some color to the flame cut, it is not bad, but it was a learning experience. The cut for the fan was stright forward and it only a half inch from the CPU. So the fan for the HSF is moved to the hole. It blows over the HSF and the case runs 35C idle, 39 under a load. Not bad for one fan and a PS.
Here is a shot of the front of the case with the MNPCTech carbon fiber film.


The case now has a enlobal berring fan in that hole, the black grill is gone and a simple wire grill is in place of the predator gril.

Um...talk about humble, this was my first crack at a paint job.
I ended up being so disgusted with how it turned out i gave up, and it was the only case i had for the computer I was building, so I ran out of time with it.



...ya, it's pretty embarrasing. But hey, it was my first baby, and
I'm working on plans for endless new projects, so I'm hoping i
learn a lot and improve a hell of a lot.

edit: resized image for kosherness.

Hey - you learn a lot from it going "not how you expect"

Minus the picture being well oversized ( max picture in rules is 800x600 ) i think it looks pretty damn good for a first attempt