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The Offical Coolermaster Centurion 5 Club
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I might start a rival CM Stacker Club
Actually there always is a Post your CM Stacker thread started by Nepstar.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1203970
@Nick: Bummers on your 8800. Hope you get that resolved soon. Nothing more frustrating than paying big bucks for a nice card and having to wait to see it work.
response99
Weaksauce
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Here are some pics of my setup in its current state. I am however in the process of installing a CCFL kit, and a custom window. I'll post those pics when I finish.
Lone_Star_Lynch
Limp Gawd
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Time to revive this thread from 2nd page "alright"ness to 1st page greatness!
My new Centurion 5, my second! With the blue trim instead of silver like my other one. Brand new build. Everything but one hard drive, the DVD drive, and 2 of the installed 4 gigs of RAM is what I just received from Newegg 4 days ago!
Shot with all of it near completion, with a few of the wires all over the place. I cleared them up before anything else, so no worries. I would have got the Zalman 9500 for the cpu, but since I'd already spent 1200$ on everything else I really didn't have much more to spend at all. I actually like the looks of the Intel stock cooler somewhat, and it's just fine as I'm not overclocking until I get the Zalman.
The case in all its glory. All the extra stuff on it came with my Asus P5W deluxe MOBO. The white antenna is the wifi thingamajig which has a magnetic base that goes on top, and the small black square at the edge is the receiver for the remote hanging there.
This case is beautiful in person, more so then the silver one. Blue is my favorite color too!
There it is. I'll get some internal shots later on, once I fix up the wires inside cause they're in a bit of a mess at the moment.
My new Centurion 5, my second! With the blue trim instead of silver like my other one. Brand new build. Everything but one hard drive, the DVD drive, and 2 of the installed 4 gigs of RAM is what I just received from Newegg 4 days ago!
Shot with all of it near completion, with a few of the wires all over the place. I cleared them up before anything else, so no worries. I would have got the Zalman 9500 for the cpu, but since I'd already spent 1200$ on everything else I really didn't have much more to spend at all. I actually like the looks of the Intel stock cooler somewhat, and it's just fine as I'm not overclocking until I get the Zalman.
The case in all its glory. All the extra stuff on it came with my Asus P5W deluxe MOBO. The white antenna is the wifi thingamajig which has a magnetic base that goes on top, and the small black square at the edge is the receiver for the remote hanging there.
This case is beautiful in person, more so then the silver one. Blue is my favorite color too!
There it is. I'll get some internal shots later on, once I fix up the wires inside cause they're in a bit of a mess at the moment.
Negative Decibel
2[H]4U
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Count me in!
Negative Decibel
2[H]4U
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fixed... and added a 2nd one.
filthysanchez
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Before:
After:
I still have love for the centurion, but it's going to my brother to replace his POS case.
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After:
I still have love for the centurion, but it's going to my brother to replace his POS case.
edit:
filthysanchez
2[H]4U
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Lol, I was on the first page of this thread, it was just an update.
Thanks to this thread I went ahead and purchased the CM5.
Here is what I've done with it!
Warning (Not actually this BLINDINGLY BRIGHT in person, just camera exposure time was a little too long)
Step 1: Painted inside of case red.
Step 2: Mounted 120mm red LED in front, replaced rear 120 with a red LED 120
Step 3. Mounted 2 Zalman fan controllers.
Step 4. painted CD drive jet black, and removed white lettering from card reader.
Step 5. Cable management, zip tied EVERYTHING
Step 6. Replaced the blue LED's in the front panel with red ones! :]
Future steps: Install Zalman 9500, with the fan painted black to hide blue LEDs.
Install 320GB Sata once it arrives. :]
All comments welcome!
Here is what I've done with it!
Warning (Not actually this BLINDINGLY BRIGHT in person, just camera exposure time was a little too long)
Step 1: Painted inside of case red.
Step 2: Mounted 120mm red LED in front, replaced rear 120 with a red LED 120
Step 3. Mounted 2 Zalman fan controllers.
Step 4. painted CD drive jet black, and removed white lettering from card reader.
Step 5. Cable management, zip tied EVERYTHING
Step 6. Replaced the blue LED's in the front panel with red ones! :]
Future steps: Install Zalman 9500, with the fan painted black to hide blue LEDs.
Install 320GB Sata once it arrives. :]
All comments welcome!
officermartinez
[H]ard|Gawd
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old pics of my wifes C5
Love the pink.. Just finished my son's C5 today.. Here are his final shots..
Some simple updates to my wife's Tropic Blue
Changed monitor from CRT to LCD (a small 17" one).
Changed speakers from cheap CA speakers to Altec Lansing ones during a sale at Staples (got them for $19 AR).
Added a TV tuner card (Hauppage HVR 1800)
Added a linksys wi fi card.
Few more cards.
No real visible change from outside (back has more connections)
moved her rig to my PC desk. Looks a bit nicer now.
Changed monitor from CRT to LCD (a small 17" one).
Changed speakers from cheap CA speakers to Altec Lansing ones during a sale at Staples (got them for $19 AR).
Added a TV tuner card (Hauppage HVR 1800)
Added a linksys wi fi card.
Few more cards.
No real visible change from outside (back has more connections)
moved her rig to my PC desk. Looks a bit nicer now.
Thanks!
Case= Coolermaster Centurion 5
MB = BIOSTAR TA770
CPU= AMD 64x2 5000+ BE set at 15x=3.0Gh
Heatsink= Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
Video= MSI N9600GT 512M OC GeForce 9600GT 512MB
Memory= 3GB A-Data Dual channel
PSU= ULTRA 550W X2
HD= Seagate 250gb Sata
DVD= sony dvd burner
OS= win XP pro
Case= Coolermaster Centurion 5
MB = BIOSTAR TA770
CPU= AMD 64x2 5000+ BE set at 15x=3.0Gh
Heatsink= Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
Video= MSI N9600GT 512M OC GeForce 9600GT 512MB
Memory= 3GB A-Data Dual channel
PSU= ULTRA 550W X2
HD= Seagate 250gb Sata
DVD= sony dvd burner
OS= win XP pro
^^The beginning^^
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I started with a blue and i didnt really like it that much...
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When i cut my window i went thru a few ideas of acrylic or glass
And i was sitting at bruster ice cream and i was looking at the table i was sitting at and it gave me a really simple minded idea.....
Metal mesh.. 
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This is current front view..
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I still need to get a diffrent fan for my cpu HS but thats the only 80mm i had.
Wanted to get a 80mm fan with a decent CFM rating...
>>At a decent price..
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Swapped fans with another 80mm Cooler Master fan i had...
I'm waiting on a Blue 12'' CCFL, and a fan for the cpu HS.
I might keep the current one on there, not sure yet.
Slight edit::
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OOK... i started modding yesterday and it turned out pretty sweet looking..
Im diggin the orange/black (the only blue i used is in the fans/ccfl)
The blue light makes it look brown though.
But i used a pumpkin orange instead of a florescent orange. Looks a lot better....
heres a few pix of my case totally dismantled.. that was fun..... not!
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After an hour or so of primer
(spray a light coat wait 20mins. spray another coat ETC.)
And an hour of letting that dry with a box fan in front of it on high.. lol
I sprayed it...
I got up this morning to go look and to do another coat, i found this
Just the shade i was hoping for...
So i touched it up a bit and it looks fantastic..
------------ Somewhat finished project----------
I still have to get the side panel done..
I talked with a guy that does airbrush work and he told me that it would cost at least 100$ to do the whole case and i wouldn't get it back for a week or two..
so i said F-It and sprayed it myself.
But he did say that he would airbrush a toxic waste symbol on it with some decent detail for about 20$ so i'm going with that plan..
>>>I have a question to all of you that painted yer C5's....
What was yer trick to getting the front bezel aluminum sides to keep paint.. every time i spray mine is runs like crazy.. and i've tried airbrush and spray paint....
And i've tried very thin coats and it still looks like @$$.. aaargh!!
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OOK... i started modding yesterday and it turned out pretty sweet looking..
Im diggin the orange/black (the only blue i used is in the fans/ccfl)
The blue light makes it look brown though.
But i used a pumpkin orange instead of a florescent orange. Looks a lot better....
heres a few pix of my case totally dismantled.. that was fun..... not!
----------------------------------
After an hour or so of primer
(spray a light coat wait 20mins. spray another coat ETC.)
And an hour of letting that dry with a box fan in front of it on high.. lol
I sprayed it...
I got up this morning to go look and to do another coat, i found this
Just the shade i was hoping for...
So i touched it up a bit and it looks fantastic..
------------ Somewhat finished project----------
I still have to get the side panel done..
I talked with a guy that does airbrush work and he told me that it would cost at least 100$ to do the whole case and i wouldn't get it back for a week or two..
so i said F-It and sprayed it myself.
But he did say that he would airbrush a toxic waste symbol on it with some decent detail for about 20$ so i'm going with that plan..
>>>I have a question to all of you that painted yer C5's....
What was yer trick to getting the front bezel aluminum sides to keep paint.. every time i spray mine is runs like crazy.. and i've tried airbrush and spray paint....
And i've tried very thin coats and it still looks like @$$.. aaargh!!