A New Carbon Fiber Psu Shroud And Haf 932 Mod Build Log

[odinlives]

Hey guys I know I originally posted a log of the acrylic PSU shroud but I have since scratched that and in the process of modding my HAF 932 black edition.


I started by actually taking a surveillance camera case that is made out of steel and cut out a 6 3/8" angle that you see here:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/100_3174.jpg


I needed to make sure it wasn't completely covering the PSU because of my non reference GTX 570 2.5 gig GPU's need as much airflow as I can get to them and there isn't much space between the bottom one and the top of the PSU.


Next I used a right small right angle and mounted it to the bottom of the case here(please excuse the dust I am taking everything out of my case so it wont be there anymore):


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/100_3176.jpg


After a mock up mounting I marked the hole to drill in the shroud by coming in through the back side of the case holding a marker with needle nose pliers and here is the finished product wrapped in carbon fiber:


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/100_3184.jpg


I will post more pics after I mount it and start installing more carbon fiber inside the case as well as the GPU's and my V6.

[odinlives]

Ok guys so I finally decided to take my rig down and chop it's head off so to speak. Today I completely took over the room in my house that I am remodeling with the fireplace and setup a work table in there. (hope the missus doesn't get too mad):rofl:


So here is my new make shift work area:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/100_3192.jpg


Starting off by doing a carbon fiber wrap on the 1000watt Ultra Modular PSU. The damn stickers they put on need to be scraped off with a razor blade and then even needed small dabs of glass cleaner to remove the excess glue.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/100_3198.jpg


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/100_3199.jpg


Next I wrapped it in black just like the shroud and went for the offset pattern of what I have on the shroud I made to cover the wires coming out of the PSU.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/100_3206.jpg


Here I am just holding up the GPU windtunnel and the PSU shroud is not actually mounted flush so just making sure the patterns are lining up offset like I want.


Next up is I am going to lay down more black carbon fiber around the motherboard and then I am going to do the back panel in red carbon fiber that way when you look at it you will see the red underlayed through all of the cable management holes on the motherboard tray.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/100_3208.jpg

[gor17981]

Damn man, that is going to look killer when you have it completed, good to see the work in progress too, Thanks :Smile:

[odinlives]

Damn man, that is going to look killer when you have it completed, good to see the work in progress too, Thanks :Smile:

Thank you Squire:)

Ok so I got some more parts in today. All of my UV red connectors so now it's time to start sleeving and sleeving and more sleeving :)


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/100_3210.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/100_3210.jpg)


Now onto taking care of the annoying multicolored power, reset etc wires.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-01_16-24-36_985.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-01_16-24-36_985.jpg)


Had to wrap it with red tape first because I don't feel like running all new solid red wires.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-01_16-30-32_566.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-01_16-30-32_566.jpg)
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-01_16-42-06_23.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-01_16-42-06_23.jpg)


I think I actually might be somewhat satisfied with the red and black.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/100_3219.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/100_3219.jpg)


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/100_3220.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/100_3220.jpg)


Well that's it for now but wanted to give a brief update on my work. Going to be busy for a couple days with sleeving and will post more pics. One thing I didn't like was the larger heat shrink is pink looking lol I ordered some red UV that I will be replacing that with though.

[Mr GRiM]

cool looking build there bud, looks like your having allot of fun with it :smile:

[odinlives]

cool looking build there bud, looks like your having allot of fun with it :smile:

Thank you my friend

[odinlives]

Ok so I am taking a break on the sleeving due to waiting for another UV red 24 Pin for my PSU side of the cabling. Also the pink looking heatshrink just wont do.


First on the agenda is to get rid of the ugly Blue LED's front the front IO shield of my HAF. Of course they don't make it easy for you and I had to desolder the LED housing completely from the PCB in order to swap them out. +1 for Coolermaster since they marked which side was positive and which one was negative.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_15-26-48_95.jpg
And here is the blue ones removed in the housing:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_15-28-31_211.jpg
They basically have this little piece you see here that must be removed and then you bend and slide the LED prongs out and then slide and bend your new shiny red ones in :)
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_15-30-03_851.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_15-44-59_591.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_15-44-34_87.jpg


Now time to solder the LED housing back into the PCB and test it out. The longer prong on the LED is always the positive side.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_17-23-07_17.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_17-23-27_22.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_17-28-37_169.jpg


Kind of a pain to fit it back in to the top panel but with some finesse I got it in there.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_17-45-01_426.jpg


Now going to fire it up with just a 24pin and 8pin plugged into my board on my workbench. I know the HDD light shouldn't come on but if my power light does then I know I am good to go.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_17-36-55_798.jpg
Yay it works.


Here are some really annoying LEDs I am going to have to deal with next:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-02_17-37-16_364.jpg

[gor17981]

WOW man that seems to be coming along great mate, yeah those pink heatshrinks would of stood out i think lol, good job so far mate +Rep for this thread daman

[odinlives]

Thank you mate! Yeah it was weird that the smaller heatshrink wasn't as pink but the 1" and 1/2" was completely pink looking...lol I did order the red UV Heatshrink so it should be here next week. Also I received my 3m D-noc Carbon fiber today so I am super excited.

[8pecxstudios]

Coming Together Very Nice Thanks For Showing The Progress and can't wait to see the finished result bud:money:

[ss4sithlord]

I love all the customization and it`s cool that you`re showing each step of the process, can`t wait to see how it turns out.

[odinlives]

Thank you everyone I really hope this comes out as good as I had hoped now that I have dropped quite a bit of change into all the materials..lol
Wanted to give a quick update....My real 3M Di-Noc came in yesterday so I finally popped it open since still waiting on a few other things I have ordered.


First thing in order is my V6GT going to wrap the top and also do the fan shrouds as well. What a difference having a proper heat gun (i bought a new one) and real 3M. Originally was going to pop out the button that controls the LED's and wrap both sides of the LED strip black but coolermaster has a plastic rivet holding it in so I'm gonna pass. I am just going to wrap some red carbon fiber like the pics below for now.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/2012-03-04_12-50-46_201.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/2012-03-04_12-50-46_201.jpg)


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/2012-03-04_16-22-40_158.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/2012-03-04_16-22-40_158.jpg)


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/2012-03-04_16-23-04_306.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/2012-03-04_16-23-04_306.jpg)
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/2012-03-04_17-07-31_902.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/2012-03-04_17-07-31_902.jpg)
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/2012-03-04_17-11-54_536.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/2012-03-04_17-11-54_536.jpg)

Oops forgot this one had to lay a complete square of Di-Noc over the fan shrouds and carefully cut out the center hole. Pretty pleased with the results.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-04_18-15-59_538.jpg

[Big V]

This is really looking extremely nice. You are gonna have a really nice show piece when you are finished with it

[odinlives]

This is really looking extremely nice. You are gonna have a really nice show piece when you are finished with it
Thank you Big V I am keeping my hopes pretty high as well as my expectations lol


Thank you. I know I might be jumping all over the place do to my adult ADD :) but I am waiting on a new shipment of parts so I decided to go forward on the front IO and get rid of the ugly USB 2.0 cables with the colored wires.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-04_20-10-55_381.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-04_20-10-55_381.jpg)


In case anyone wants to do this it is fairly simple, all you have to do is gently pry back the little plastic clip as seen here:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-06_08-10-55_740.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-06_08-10-55_740.jpg)


Then the wire should very easily slide out and then just do all of them but make sure you know the color pattern :)
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-06_08-11-57_339.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-06_08-11-57_339.jpg)


And here is the finished result.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-06_08-13-15_810.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-06_08-13-15_810.jpg)

Also I went ahead and changed out the Power, Reset Sw, Hdd led heat shrink because for some reason the red was actually really pink.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-04_19-42-41_343-1.jpg (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932 Mod/2012-03-04_19-42-41_343-1.jpg)


Thats all for now gotta go to Orvac and pick up some more sleeving since I used all of it so far.

[odinlives]

Hey guys I know it has been a week since my last post so wanted to give you an update on the build log. For those that know me I had to take a week off due to a pinched disk but I just got a bunch more parts in so I thought I would show you what I have done so far.


Here is the top of the V6gt done:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-13_18-46-24_228.jpg


Here I have all of the UV heatshrink/sleaving and connector pins I was waiting on:


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-13_18-47-28_925.jpg


Also got my UV light (invertless) from http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php
Sad thing is the damn UPS guy freaking broke it upon delivery but all I had to do was take a pic and email them after a 2 minute phone call and they sent me a brand new one so I would highly recommend this company.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-13_18-50-46_770.jpg


Next up I bought a few tools from Orvac in order to crimp all the open barrel power pins etc as well as molex removal tool.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-13_18-48-02_718.jpg


I also bought a couple feet of LED strips that are actually red,green,blue,white,orange,yellow,cyan & purple along with a remote control so I can program the speed and make them fade and different effects. (I will only be using red but figured might as well future proof them)


First up I am doing my 8 pin


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-13_17-53-48_174.jpg


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-13_17-50-04_60.jpg


The proper way to crimp these is a little difficult for most but with a little patience you will get it right with the proper tools.


Anyway you get the idea of what I am going for so tomorrow going to cut some pieces out of the mobo tray and lay down some more 3M di-Noc and finish up the 24 pin and then start on my PCIe cables.

[chevy350]

Looks like it's coming along nicely. :tu: Almost makes me want to tear back into mine......almost lol

[odinlives]

Quick update on the build log for my HAF932:


Next up is removing the annoying tabs on the top of the case that would hold a PSU if you were putting it up top.


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-14_16-06-25_495.jpg


Now to wrap the motherboard tray:


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-16_12-31-28_104.jpg


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-19_08-40-50_361.jpg


Also there is a small rectangle that has hose grommets so I might as well do that while I'm at it:


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-14_17-31-07_170.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-14_17-36-31_532.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-14_17-47-59_382.jpg


Also I finished up the V6gt and am quite pleased with the results:


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-18_16-24-40_282.jpg


Next up is going to do some things to the GPU wind tunnel as well as remove some stickers from my GTX 570 2.5 gig gpus and do some red carbon fiber on those.

[Letícia®]

I've been following this work / / is all very impressive congratulations:givahand:

[gor17981]

Nicely done mate, That truly is turning into a masterpiece with all the work you are putting into it :)

[Big V]

I'm so jealous man lol

[8pecxstudios]

Wow Bud If I Drool Any More I Will Die From Dehydration lol Nice Work Bud :money:

[bigcyco1]

That is coming along nicely bro.:daman:

[odinlives]

Thank you for the kind words friends.

[thonixsunga]

Great!

[zadar023]

impressive....:amazed:

[odinlives]

I know it has been awhile because I have been so busy with work haven't had time to even put one hour into this project until now so will be keeping up with regular posts of my progress again. Well it's getting closer to the time to start reassembling my rig. Here is what I did today so far.

V6Gt is complete now
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-03-18_16-24-40_282.jpg

Also did the top panel of the 932

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-20_13-18-36_978.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-20_13-19-17_716.jpg

Stripped down both of my GTX 570 2.5 gig cards and slapped some 3M on them.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-19_13-40-46_774.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-19_13-41-16_612.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-19_13-41-49_222.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-19_13-59-34_288.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-19_13-59-21_764.jpg

Now I have to start soldering my LED strips and connect the remote control so I can change the pattern and color accordingly as well as my UV light and hoping to be done by next week sometime.

[bigcyco1]

:??looks kick ass bud :givahand::beautiful:

[8pecxstudios]

Looking Killer Bud Can't Wait For More :tu: :no1:

[odinlives]

Thank you guys. I am now making it a priority to work on it every day until it is done. I love my Asus ROG laptop but I really miss having three monitors it makes life so much easier and photoshop so much better....lol

[chevy350]

This is looking great, can't wait to see the finished product.....oh wait, problem is they're never finished lol. But wow, I don't have the patience to have my toy in parts for any longer than they need to be so my hat's off to you :daman:

[odinlives]

Thank you mate. Yeah the first week was a case of major withdrawal then I guess I got used to it but now I can't wait any longer so put I Put this mod into high gear...lol

[SirSlaughter]

Question good sir, But could you tell me what brand that cable sleeving is? Or do you know where i can get my hands on some of that stuff. I have a sleeving kit, But I don't think the quality looks anywhere close to what you got yourself right there. And Good job, I don't know anyone that can really mod the case in the manner you did. Good job. I really am eager to see the rest of this project come along.

[odinlives]

Question good sir, But could you tell me what brand that cable sleeving is? Or do you know where i can get my hands on some of that stuff. I have a sleeving kit, But I don't think the quality looks anywhere close to what you got yourself right there. And Good job, I don't know anyone that can really mod the case in the manner you did. Good job. I really am eager to see the rest of this project come along.

The sleeving I used was mostly BitsPower Super tight weave sleeving which I purchased from
www.performance-pcs.com They have a higher shipping cost than most places but I buy from them because their customer service is above and beyond anywhere else I have bought from. I got a UV cathode that UPS just threw on my porch and broke it and all I did was call them up and send a picture and they shipped me a new one that day without having to send back the broken one. I also bought all of the UV connectors 24pin, 8pin etc etc from them.

Oh and hello VC I Just wanted to give an update on my HAF 932 Mod...Please excuse the poorer quality pics, only one of them was from my good camera then the battery died and I used my cell phone.

Basically I have everything mocked up and installed on how I want it except for a few black cables behind the motherboard tray that need to be sleeved. Once I am done with that I will have a perfect cable management job done not only in the front but as well as the back.

Here is a shot of the back before I finished, I will post the completed job once I sleeve the other few cables.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-22_13-10-29_220.jpg

This is a shot of the USB headers and the Power/Rst cables that I sleeved from the top panel.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-22_13-15-52_178.jpg

And last but not least here are the shots with the new PSU Shroud installed which covers all of my PSU cables coming out of the PSU. Also note the new 140mm Shark LED Fan (95 CFM) on the exhaust. Picked that up today.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-23_15-16-28_317.jpg


http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-23_16-32-09_201.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/100_3389.jpg

Next up is I am going to be installing these LED Strips, I have a remote control that I can program to fade in or out or turn off them completely.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c124/sober4today/Haf932%20Mod/2012-05-20_22-41-49_230.jpg


After that I will be mounting my UV cathode since all the sleeving and connectors are also Red UV. Also as you can see I only have two GTX 570 2.5gig Gpu's but I will be placing a third one in between so the Triple SLI bridge is there as my incentive to hurry the hell up and buy one to complete my build.

Sorry about the crappy phone pics I was only able to get one good pic with my camera before the batteries died. Also I need ot re carbon the back panel with RED because I used inferior carbon on that portion. Never ever settle for anything less than 3M DiNoc, I used black DiNoc on pretty much everything else and had no issues with it however the cheap shit shows through as you can see on parts of the underlayed portion of the mobo tray.

[Big V]

Damn I am so envious of this build. You are doing a fantastic job dude.

[bigporl]

Looking awsome. Got the Haf X nvidia edition and im looking into braiding my cables UV green as soon as i get the time.