Defyant's Light Blade "Its still Cool to air Cool"

Hi Corsairians Welcome to my latest case Defyant's Light Blade.

 

The mod was imagined specifically with Corsair's new LL Fans and RGB lighting kits in mind.

 

The Case design was inspired by the InsolentGnome's amazing G-Frame Case mod.

 

Now thanks to the amazing iCue software i was able to make this mod a reality.

 

This case exists purely to work with Corsair's RGB.

 

As the title says this case will be Air Cooled i took this as more of a challenge over running an AIO... altho i did start this mod wanting to install my custom white painted Corsair AIO i decided that a modded air cooler usingLL- 120mm fans was a "Cooler" option.

 

For the sake of not making this thread too long i have condensed this work as much as possible will trying to keep the most informative parts.

 

The case will be made solely from white and diffused acrylic.

 

The inner housing is a simple box type build from diffused. The cut outs are all done by hand using a router tool. No laser cutting at all on this case.

 

 

A simple rear air duct is made for the exhaust.

 

 

9 outer blades rings are cut and profiled by router to be exact copies.

 

 

 

 

The blades can be cut and hard glued using weldon to the housing. A couple of 140 Corsair LL's can be sat in for a look as well.

As you can see the diffused Acrylic matches the LL140 blades perfect.

 

 

The internals of the case are made in 2 sections a PSU cover and a Front fan housing.

 

The PSU cover is designed to have a RGB feature and have a air dam to help direct air from the 140mm LL fans to the CPU cooler.

 

A home made DIY plex bender is used to get clean accurate bends.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This air dam will direct air where it is needed most

 

 

With the diffused inserts added and one of Corsairs LED strips behind

 

You can see the instant effect.

 

 

With the PSU cover done the Brackets can be made for the mITX Mother board.

 

These are made from 12mm solid clear plex.... The clear is opted for as it wont interfere with the light.

 

 

The 2 new mounts are weldon glued into place.

 

 

Next the Front fan housing can be built.

 

 

 

Again the cutouts are filled with diffused plex

 

 

The PSU housing is cut to fit around the mother board

 

 

And both units can be installed for a test with the RGB strips.

 

 

 

The next thing was to add the external cosmetics

 

For now just the 2 bolt on/addons are installed... Both these are cosmetic and can be added or removed as desired.

 

The first is a rear wing and the second a rear bottom air dam...

 

The a Air dam is used to balance the look of the wing and give the case a Stance . A custom one off press jig was made to shape the dam.

 

 

 

 

 

The new wing and dam are temp glued into place

 

 

 

 

 

Stay tuned MTC soon :)

That looks freekin' AMAZING!

Skills!!.. looking good dude

Cheers DB and Zotty ty guys :D

 

I'm spreadin the good word for iCue where i can, It's really maturing into an amazing piece of software :)

Nearly done for this one, still playing with RGB tho :P

 

Zotty's got me chasing his amazing setup.... it's hard to un-see that incredible RGB :)

 

 

Appols for the lack of updates... im still playing with different light panels idea and add ons.

 

The corsair wall paper engine has changed everything :P

 

Nothing too fancy.. for now a single Node and Hub run the bulk of the setup..

 

Another external unit will be added later as you will see from vids.

 

 

 

 

The hardware can go in with some carbon casemod pro cables... i love a easy wire job :)

 

 

 

The GPU is simple, it just has to be small so it dosnt fill the whole area and powerfull enough to run 3 monitors without ext power.

 

 

 

Ive attached the clear plexiglass sides with magnets and a side locking system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recently i started playing with Corsair Wallpaper for steam engine and decided to add some side blade as well...

 

Ive since upgraded these to underlight as well..

 

 

 

 

MTC soon :)

WOW... one is at a loss for ones words... lol... awesome work as always dude :). that's how you do 'Custom'

WOW... one is at a loss for ones words... lol... awesome work as always dude :). that's how you do 'Custom'

 

Thanks man :) None of this would be poss without corsair and you guys :headbang:

The whole case mod was about RGB :)

 

I did a little bit of work to the side blades, got them to light fuller... and sync'd em better with the front lights... The effects and colours are really limitless ....

 

But for now she's done :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loving that build bud.. amazing work and creativity!