Preceding the Lian-Li...

I bought this clear case right before my buddies and I drove the 23 hours down to Mesquite Texas for Quakecon 2001....How we ever made that journey in my mom's minivan and returned on 0 sleep for 3 days I will never know.  This case was purchased and then I slightly modified it by adding EL wire accents, and a crude fan bus to the 5.25" bay inserts.  It had the same hardware as the Lian-Li mode I just transfered it into that case over the holiday break but this is the case that started my college career.

Computer Specifications:

Motherboard: Soyo KT600 Dragon Plus V1.0 Socket A

CPU: AMD Athlon Socket A 1 Ghz

Memory: Mushkin 2x256MB DDR

Video Card: GeForce 4 Ti 4600

Hard Drive: 73.4GB Seagate Cheetah x15 10,000RPM

Optical Drive 1: Plextor CDRW

Optical Drive 2: Pioneer Slot Load

SCSI Adapter: Adaptec

First Real Project: Lian-Li Case Mod from 2002

This project is something I under took over the Holiday break during my first year in college.  I had so much free time, we had a little over six weeks off due to my exam schedule.  This mod included a lot of cold cathodes used in the front grill, neon electroluminescent wire around the case windows and on the underside of the case, Orbital Matrix display with 4 GPO's used to control the lights vis software (more on that later), and a small 4:3 800x600 VGA LCD screen.

Computer Specifications:

Motherboard: Soyo KT600 Dragon Plus V1.0 Socket A

CPU: AMD Athlon Socket A 1 Ghz

Memory: Mushkin 2x256MB DDR

Video Card: GeForce 4 Ti 4600

Hard Drive: 73.4GB Seagate Cheetah x15 10,000RPM

Optical Drive 1: Plextor CDRW

Optical Drive 2: Pioneer Slot Load

SCSI Adapter: Adaptec

This is a video I shot with my crappy webcam that shows the lights reacting to music through a simple winamp plugin I wrote, later I made a visual basic based app that controlled the lights with toggle buttons.

Please note: I did not intend to free-hand the Japanese character onto the aluminum case side upside down on purpose...Thank you Lian-Li for having a case design that allowed me to slightly modify the door to be installed upside down and still work somewhat properly (see further pictures).  It isn't that noticeable is it? :-P

See! The side door fits just fine!

A Shot of the front of the case where I first installed the Matrix Orbital LCD, I later moved it to the top case window to accommodate the 4:3 LCD VGA screen which I typically used as a second monitor of sorts, usually just had my Winamp playlist.

Here is a shot of the 4:3 VGA LCD