Help, I Need a new case!

The cables do not fit well in the old case and there might be an overheating problem when closing that case.
There are too many flex cables and disks inside which are obstructing any fresh air to cool the parts.
Some disks can't be secured as the case is really full.
This weekend, I found a bigger case, which seems to be suitable for me. And it looks nice! It is made of aluminium.

Front view: the new case on the left side is bigger in width and in height.

Side view: the new case on the left is deeper too.

And it came with wheels! But the use of these may be too dangesous on a desk.

The system board tray can be shifted out from the case, same like as with the old one.

The subchassis, on which the system board and add-on cards can be mounted. Note that there is a 120mm fan in the back.
There is also a 120mm fan in the front, which will cool the disks.
On the system board are extra power connectors for these, and their function
can be monitored via BIOS and an online Asus utility.

After removing some flex cables, you will begin to find some of the inner content in the old box.
Notice the two disks at the bottom! Not nice...

Jaj! I really hope I will remember where all those screws near the CDROMs came from...
I removed 6 disks, a floppy drive, zip drive, jaz drive, CDROM drive, CD burner, and a DVD drive.

I will reuse the 320 Watts power supply. The other one I gave to a friend.

The system board on the old chassis. You'll find a FireWire card, Audigy Sound card,
Adaptec U2W SCSI controller, Promise UATA100 card, Geforce 2 GTS card,
and two 256MB DIMMs plugged onto the system board.
This is a Asus A7M266, with Athlon Thunderbird 1400.
The North-bridge, CPU, and Graphics card have their own cooling fans.
Note that the memory chips on the graphics card have heatsinks.

The system board on the new chassis, complete with the add-on cards.

On the right bottom side we can see 5 disks, the 6th disk is on the left top side.
The removable media is already mounted too.

Do I need to know what goes where? These cables filled up the old case, obstructing ventilation.
Let's see how they will fit in here.

There's still sufficient room for venting cooling air.

Mmm. Do I see that last picture on the monitor again? Seems everything works fine!
Time for a cup-a-soup! Then, I'll publish these pictures on the web.

The case will be modified with these LEDs:

www.ledtuning.nl

Worstation Specs (06-2003):

• ATX Midi case w/Power Supply 320 Watt

• System Board: Asus A7M266 (BIOS 1007)
  
• CPU: Athlon Thunderbird 1400MHz
  
• Memory: 1GB PC2100 DDR RAM (266MHz)

• Graphics: Hercules PROPHET II GTS 64 MB AGP TV-OUT 230/390MHz
  (Tweaked to NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro)
  
• 21" HP P1100 Monitor

• SoundBlaster Audigy Sound Card
  
  • Speakerset Creative Inspire 5.1 5100
    
  • 400W CarBooster with 13.6V/32Amp power supply
    
  • 600W CarSubwoofer (closed system, 20Hz-5KHz)

• Adaptec 2940U2W Adapter AIC78U2
  
  • ID 1 HDD Quantum Atlas IV QM318000TD-SW 18.2GB 7200 U2W
    
  • ID 2 Plextor 40Speed SCSI CD-ROM PX-40TS V1.05
    
  • ID 3 Plextor SCSI CD-R Writer PX-W1210S 12/10/32S V1.05
    
  • ID 4 Iomega 2GB SCSI Jaz Drive VE.15
    
  • ID 5 HDD Quantum Atlas_V_18_SCA 18.2GB 10000 U160 V0230
    
  • ID 6 HDD Quantum Atlas10K2-TY184L 18.2GB 10000 U160 VDDD6
    
  • ID 9 HDD IBM DNES-309170W 9.1GB 7200 U2W VSA30
    
  • ID 12 HDD Seagate ST39102LC 9.1GB 10000 U2W VHP02

• Promise Ultra100TX2 Interface Adapter
  
  • HDD Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 9 160GB 7200
    
  • HDD Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 9 160GB 7200
    
  • Plextor DVDR PX-708A V1.06
    
  • Iomega 100MB IDE Zip Drive V03.H

• 2-port FireWire & 3-port USB 2 Card
  
  • Hama 46981 FW CompactFlash I/II Reader (FireWire)
    
  • Maxtor 250GB Disk 5000XT IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device (movies)
    
  • Maxtor 250GB Disk 5000XT IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device (music)

• 10/100Mbit Ethernet Card
  
  • Lynksys WAG54G Wireless-G ADSL Gateway
    
  • Edimax 5-Port Fast Ethernet Switch 10/100Mbps

• Logitech MX500 Optical Mouse (black)
  
• Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard (black)

• Twister USB ISDN TA 2 x 64kb
  
• E-Tech 56k modem external

• HP PhotoSmart S20 Photo Scanner
  
• HP ScanJet 6300C Scanner
  
• HP LaserJet 6P Printer
  
• HP DeskJet 1120C Printer
  
• HP DeskJet 990Cxi Printer

  OS: Linux / Windhoze XP

Bright LEDs for the modifications of the standard lights came from:

www.ledtuning.nl