Preparation

December 2012, It's been one year since the 'Early Stages'. It is time to upgrade the 'Case'. Planning and budgeting has been going on thru the year. But planning without action is futile, an inaccurate predictions, a waste of time, bla bla bla bla bla bla....


New features :
- 2 feet Glass Aquarium with Top cover (Ready made)
- PC Water cooling Radiator
- Custom Plug and Play PCB Board for switches, I/O, Lighting, etc (DIY)
- Sound activated lights
- 3M RGB LED lighting system
- 3M Carbon Fiber Vinyl (for the Top cover)
- Electronic dancing BMX & Skate
- Moonlight mode
- Motherboard background light enhanced
- Total silenced
- Dust free

So, where do we start? Let's start with this,

Above picture was taken as a reference. It's because, for this upgrading process, it requires all components to be taken out, uninstall, and drain it from the oil. Plus, i was too lazy to search for the motherboard manual when it comes to install everything's back.

Below picture showing how i drain the wet components, actually there are faster ways to drain it all up.

One of the logically faster ways is by doing below steps (at your own risk) :
- Unplug everything (including the motherboard battery).

- Leave it for a day just like above picture.
- Wash it with warm water and some liquid bath soap.
- Scrub it with tooth brush.
- Dry it out overnight.
- Use hair dryer to totally dry it out.
- Repeat the drying steps until you satisfied.
- Replug everything's back to normal.

The reason why you should leave it for a day after unplugging it and before start to wash it is because, capacitor stores energy, it requires some time for the energy to drain. Why liquid bath soap? liquid bath soap is not strong enough to harm the components. Why hair dryer? use other method if you have one. But just make sure that there is no way or anything that could hold water under it. Extra alert on the slots.

Didn't believe it? see one of the example

As for the Hard Disk Drive (HDD), it should be position on where no liquid could get inside it. I have seen some of them submerged the HDD also. But i believe, for a long term, the performance of their PC's will drop. Unless they either modded their HDD with 'Air tube' or they're using Solid State Drive (SSD). Here's where i put mine.

Just right below the Top Cover separated by the cardboard.


Now let's go to "Wiring"