For the last few years I have been using a thermaltake xaser III and I learned how to mod on it. It just hasn't cut the mustard for me though. I had to pull out the hard drive bays so I could install my dual 120mm rad and the pump is really close to both the video card and the mother board. I have a dual 120 WD raid o array that I have mounted on top of my dual bay reservoir. So essentially all my 5.25 bays are used and also my floppy drives had to go with the internal hard drive bays due to radiator as well. So I have my dvd burner sitting on top of my case while I have a 320 gig WD sitting on my floor in the removed hard drive rack. I have too much hardware to fit into it and for some reason I have always loved server cubes. Last year I bought a yeong yang server cube but I felt that was too small as well. I like huge cases as my hands are very very large and I have always hated trying to push my fingers into those small spaces in cases where I usually end up getting cut. So I decided to look around for a case that would be big enough to keep me happy and something that I could mod into a monster tower. Then I remembered back to when I worked in a local computer store and they had this absolutely huge and ancient server cube sitting in the front of the store. I went back there and asked them how much for the case. they told me $135 because I was a former employee. I took it. This thing is huge. It's 18 7/8" wide 16 1/8" deep 21 1/2" tall and it has 10 5.25 bays on the right side and 4 5.25 bays on the left side. It has no external 3.5 bays. I am planning on using the hard drive racks from my thermaltake and several other cases I have laying around inside of it.
Here are some pics of the case before anything was done to it
I have already taken some steps in preparing the case for modding. The case has been sand blasted by me and a friend in his cabinet with glass bead. we primed it with sandable automtive primer. We were forced to use gray and white due to the supplies we had available. I will take some pictures asap to help people visualize just how big this case is and maybe make some suggestions on what to do with it. As I want to cut the windows before I start painting it and wreck all that work with cutting the case. Also if anybody from Long Island NY wants to help out with this feel free to pm me and maybe we can work on it together.
Here are some pics of the case before anything was done to it
I have already taken some steps in preparing the case for modding. The case has been sand blasted by me and a friend in his cabinet with glass bead. we primed it with sandable automtive primer. We were forced to use gray and white due to the supplies we had available. I will take some pictures asap to help people visualize just how big this case is and maybe make some suggestions on what to do with it. As I want to cut the windows before I start painting it and wreck all that work with cutting the case. Also if anybody from Long Island NY wants to help out with this feel free to pm me and maybe we can work on it together.