Corsair Mod Winner: Newspaper Box

After the painting and fabricating of pieces were completed, the time finally came to start adding all of the guts to this machine. The view from the left side shows the back of the monitor exposed along with the lighting switches and some of the wiring for everything within the box. The light switches were located right next to the monitor behind the hinged door to avoid people touching them. The converters for the 2-12" UV cold cathodes and the 2-12" green cold cathodes was hidden in the ceiling of the box out of view.



The view from the right side shows the mounting position of the power supply, with most of its wires hidden as well as showing the location of the hard drive rack.



The front window gives a full view of how the motherboard was mounted on a sheet of Plexiglas which in turn was mounted to the diamond plate concealing the UPS. The Plexiglas , behind the motherboard, was attached using standoffs and acts to separate the motherboard from the metal behind it while also making the motherboard appear to almost float in the box.



The 2- 12" cold cathodes are hidden in the front left and right corners of the box to light up the main components, while the 2-12" green cold cathodes are located on the ceiling of the box to shine down and light everything fairly evenly.

Packaging foam was also added to the ceiling of the box to cut down on noise along with the door handle to keep the door from slamming shut when closed.