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Jimbo sell off those ares ram and grab some of those beige colored vengeance pros I linked earlier.

 

Why on earth would I replace my ram with slower ones?

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Probably a 2.

 

Once you remove those two panels (which are designed to come off easily) you just need to remove the metal grills* to be painted. The top one comes off very easy but the front one takes a little more work (there is a piece behind the Corsair logo that makes it a little bit of a challenge). Once removed, I used the same paint that I used on the fan rings. after that I put on two coats of glossy clear coat (bought at Home Depot and used for cars).

 

*The grills are held on by 4 screws and plastic tabs.

 

Here's the underside of the top grill. There are four screws and some plastic tabs to hold the metal part in place.

 

http://i61.tinypic.com/295poc9.jpg

 

Anyway, here are the final pics (until I water cool my GPU) of my case, now that I got my fan controller (old one wouldn't fit):

 

http://i62.tinypic.com/ipcmxc.jpg

http://i60.tinypic.com/4vijjp.jpg

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Very nice gold accent Jimbo? On a scale of 1-10, how much work was it to do this? I'm thinking others might interested.

 

Probably a 2.

 

Once you remove those two panels (which are designed to come off easily) you just need to remove the metal grills* to be painted. The top one comes off very easy but the front one takes a little more work (there is a piece behind the Corsair logo that makes it a little bit of a challenge). Once removed, I used the same paint that I used on the fan rings. after that I put on two coats of glossy clear coat (bought at Home Depot and used for cars).

 

*The grills are held on by 4 screws and plastic tabs.

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Added to my black and gold theme.

 

http://i57.tinypic.com/55qx4o.jpg

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nice,always good to see the 540 getting exposure as it looks like corsair really produced a case alot of people have been wanting

tight on that push/pull,,why didnt you mount the fans on the outside of the case frame?

 

I didn't think about that because there was plenty of room.

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Nothing fancy but here's mine.

 

http://i62.tinypic.com/15zs0oh.jpg

 

http://i61.tinypic.com/174ccz.jpg

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I have a couple pre-finished pics

 

I haven't received all the parts I need just yet....

 

I love this build. I thought I was the only one who mounted their H100i radiator vertically!