Project Sinister: Something Sinister This Way Comes - Letting the Case Breathe
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The next thing was to make some dust filters for my fans. I didn’t want to build a dust trap, and I wanted the interior of the chassis to be really clean looking so I opted to make some perforated steel fan filters. These fan filters constrict the air flow slightly, but with the presence of two 80 mm fans on the front, I wasn’t too concerned about too much constriction. Additionally, the perforated steel will look really good on the inside and on the rear.
Once everything was cut and cleaned of sharp edges or burs, I like to do a dry fitting of the fans and power supply before I move on. It’s always a good idea to dry fit everything that you’ve modified to be certain that it actually fits before you go through all the trouble of painting and polishing it, only to find that you either missed holes that needed to be drilled or find that your measurements were off and now nothing fits right.
The front fan intakes fit well and everything lines up decently. I decided that I would run the power cables for the front fans up and through the optical drive cage. I did this because I really want that front lower half of the chassis to be completely clean on the inside and rerouting these cables up and into the optical bay would help accomplish that.
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