Last week the case for the build arrived. I went with a pretty unique cube design. For a while I considered fab’ing my own case out of acrylic, but I really wanted an Aluminum frame with acrylic panels. Knowing that decent metal work is a little beyond my facilities, I went with a semi-custom case from Mountains Mods. They are a small shop in Oregon who makes Aluminum cases that are both well designed and well made. You can start with their stock designs and add custom powder coat paint and choose specifics like rivets and thumbscrews, or they can even take your custom designs and make aluminum panels and laser etch acrylic.
My case is a pretty standard “Twice7″ model except with three 120mm fan holes up front – that’s in addition to the single 120mm and two 80mm fans in back. It’s basically split into two cooling zones, the motherboard/expansion card area on the left and the PSU and drives on the right. It measures 14” in each dimension and weighs about 10 pounds empty, a bunch lighter than other cases. I went with a glossy, deep coat of red paint which will tie in fantastically with the other components. More build pics coming soon.
Tags: Comp hardware / mods
