November 1, 2003

• G33K Post

  
  

  What does a geek do on a Friday night?

  
  

  

  
  

  I ordered some goodies as they arrived on Wednesday, I felt like a little kid again opening up the package.  I wish it was Friday now. 

  
  

  

  
  

  I plugged the Cold Cathode fan in immediately and it lit up like a Christmas tree.  I was jumping with joy (err…no). 

  
  

  

  
  

  I begin to modify my case as soon as I got home from work on Friday.  The hole I had to cut to mount the pretty Cold Cathode fan in. 

  
  

  

  
  

  I did some cable management inside my case to make things less cluttered.  I replace the front intake fan with the high flow Panaflo H1A fan.  For those wondering about the fanbus, it’s a central connection for all the fans that are wired to the switches on the front (above pic) that allows me to turn the fans on and off. 

  
  

  

  
  

  A close up shot of the fan.  The side panel give a nice smoke black semi-transparent look after I ripped the sheet metal off. 

  
  

  

  
  

  I took the On/Off switch off the PCI slot cover and mounted it on the bottom right of the side panel.  I was working with limited tools so the hole doesn’t look very clean cut. 

  
  

  

  
  

  A nice dark shot of the beautiful Cold Cathode fan. 

  
  

  I end up not using the fan adapter because I went with plan B.

  
  

  Total hours spent:  5

  
  

  Result:  Priceless

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