[jesmen]

Project: Ultimate Dark Dragon

Hi to all, I am hereby to submit my very first project log. I had been doing case mod for many years, 6 years at least, haha. But I not as pro as others here but I believe I will love what I have design and built. Project title was taken from various product names example: CoolerMaster UCP 900W "Ultimate", Team Xtreem "Dark" & Chieftec "Dragon". I believe my setup here wasn’t as impressive as others here especially my casing. Aluminum Chieftec Dragon was a good casing in its time, old timer will know. Lets get things started.


Picture of the setup before I took everything out and tear the casing apart.





The project: Ultimate Dark Dragon beings on 24/04/09.

Gaming Rig

CPU: Intel E6750
HSF: XIGMATEK Dark Knight
Motherboard: DFI BloodIron P45
Ram: Team Xtreem Dark 4 x 2 GB
VGA: Powercolor HD4830 x 2 X-Fire Mode
PSU: CoolerMaster UCP 900W Ultimate
Rom: Lite ON LH-20A1S 20x DVDRW
Hard disk: Western Digital 160 GB Sata
Soundcard: Razer Barracuda AC-1 Gaming Audio
Fans: 3 x 80mm & 1 x 120mm PWM Gelid Silent Fan
Casing: Aluminum Chieftec Dragon

Items listed below are what I have now.
















Things I wish to do in this project
Phase 1: Preparation & tearing my casing apart.
Phase 2: Spray the whole case Matt Black.
Phase 3: Installing parts and cable management.
Phase 4: Install Window Vista Home Premium 64bit.
Phase 5: Upgrading phase
Phase 6: Final Outlook

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Phase 1: Preparation & tearing my casing apart.

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Phase 2: Spray the whole case Matt Black.

Fan mount holder & Rom Brezel.


Hard disk mounting rack.


Casing support feet.


Card slot plate.


Front panel



Side Window


Side panel


Full Casing: Front, back, internal & internal back. (I wash it and its not dry so there is water mark)





Phase 2 has complete. Its not perfect but i am very happy with the result. I used up 6 cans of spray, OMG... Alot of work on this matt black finsh: Sanding, Washing, Waiting for it to dry, Spray, Waiting for it to dry Again. Took me 2 days to finish.

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Phase 3: Installing parts and cable management.

Added some new items to the installation.

Black thumscrews


Black 80mm fan grill


Green Gelid Wing 80mm fan


Lets start doing up the rig

Mount the motherboard in


Follow by the Power switch, Led, USB cables

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Finish installation!

Cable management for my 3 case fans, hard disk, DVD Rom, other equipments.









Final done up...

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Phase 4: Install Window Vista Home Premium 64bit.

First boot up



Let see the Leds effect...





Just finish installing Windows Vista Home Premium 64bits



Windows 64bits drivers




Installing VGA & Sound drivers







Finding good benchmark software, any to recommand???

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Phase 5: Upgrading phase

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Phase 6: Final Outlook

[alpha1ma]

sweet project outline..

loving it..pleasure to view..

do update in time..=)

[GegeV2]

Hmm...no worries.

Hahas...

Hope to see ur finished product

[pgross]

my old fav case...nice\
want to see more

[Nashaz]

Looking good bro! Good job with the paintjob.

[Entropy]

Very nice, especially the speed involved. This is what I call speed modding

[jesmen]

Phase 1 completed... Yes!!!
Phase 2 completed.... Yes!!!
Phase 3 completed.... Yes!!!
Phase 4 completed.... Yes!!!

Thank you everyone for their support. If there is any comments please list it out. I am most willing to listen. Thanks again.

[Kozato]

You can try 3dmark vantage and the last remnant benchmark.

[pgross]

nice