ALIENWARE ALX Case Mod Project

Mr Bill 'Tape of the Gods' Owen, is that u? Excellent work. I'm sure I caught one of your Aliens on the ModZoo did I not?

check us out Mr Bill, we've got our own Area-51 R1 window mod zoo here:

 The ALX-Files: ABOVE TOP SECRET: Uncovering Area-51's Biggest & Best Kept Secret of All

The ALX-Files: Acrylic Window Kit Mod Area-51 R1 Tower

Airea-51 Pegasus 980Ti SC SLI

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Welcome to the AlienClub Mr Owen. Your famous works are sublime indeed par excellence

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I've spoken to Mr Owen in a private message & he's onboard with the idea that as I introduce him to the ins-&-outs of Alien products, I'll also be informing you the reader in the process. If you have your own mod-tips to pass along, join in as we discuss Aliens of the past & present ...

- the Ultimate AlienFriend -

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Ty for acknowledging our work Mr Bill. As you witnessed, here in Coliseum Airene's build Pegasus is the forum's Mona Lisa; I may be Mr Monet, but Mrs Money is the reigning mod-Queen here & the forum's one & only hex-kitten; for our fairy tail presentation brought to all on Christmas & St. Valentine's, there-in where Chapter One the Beast meets Chapter Two the Beauty, her Winged White Stallion has been taken as far as we can using off-the-shelf parts, where her & I both know it's a dream-come-true to have a waterloop for a final finishing touch; but no matter how smart & clever a girl she is, those long lovely polished fingersnails of hers may not get the chance to turn wrenches nor find their inner-plumber to see it through to the end, while hiring the job out isn't the same as d-i-y now is it. Of course the precedent was set for a loop years back so she does have inspiration from at least one A51 R1 owner, where the desire for purple anti-freeze to steal the show once & for all from the lesser-men is about as real as it gets

Area 51 Modded Build >< Area 51 Carbon Proto-type

z77 Ivy

A motherboard swap in the R1 is a pleasant reality when nature calls, but note Mr Bill: he's stuck on the whimpy stock proprietary power supply. It's proprietary nature is a hurdle we've found a work-around for, & nothing's stopping us any longer, 1500w | 1600w to press the point:

Area-51 R1 uses a dedicated AlienFx daughterboard in the case floor & reqwires a new hand-made psu harness with new modular ends in order for the daughterboard to work & to my knowledge I am the only person in the US who actively makes & sells these harnesses for any & every power supply on the market; without the special harness an R1 owner's forced to use the stock psu; thanks to my ingenuitiy & that of others & now soon yours irrespective of the flavor of the chassis one chooses to work with we are never in danger here of slowly running out of ways to reinvent our shrinking maze:

The ALX-Files: On a Practical Approach to the Area 51 Aurora Power Supply Swap Corsair ax1200i ax1500i Seasonic x-1250 Hale90 New R2 1500w Psu

hand-made daughterboard 10p kable + 24p extensions for my XFX/Seasonic Pro 1250

The ALX-Files: A Triad of Power Supply Swaps. Area-51 Aurora XPS 730x ... How to Make an Area-51 R1.44 Using the r2's New 1440w Delta ... Lessons In the PSU Swap Done Right

a link to my seller page & hand-made psu kables or kooling adapters

In order for the Alien Command Center software & top pcb-board power strip to integrate with a new water cooling pump I exclusively offer Mind-Meld liqwid kooling adaptors:

The ALX-Files: Operation Mind-Meld: Command Center Retrofit Corsair = Corsware

Anti MIO Kooling Projekt

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La Galleria

- note the non-original sprayjob on this White Knight, though admirable, is not enviable -

it fails for & from the concept we know as 'less is more'

think what you will about the rouge et noire makeover but just this week baby brother Aurora ALX has been newly reinvented on public display to accept a full-ATX mthrbrd & premium cooling by Justin / DugiHowser

who has the where-with-all to offer his customers black as well as a peak-in lighted side-window

we'll see H100i again later, but to see it in this pip-sqweak Alien's qwite a feat: hand-modded in there, shoe-horned. It'd look cuter with an Asus x99 Broadwell-E up in that joint, a possibility. And at least one Area-51 R1's chassis was successfully powder-coated top-to-bottom in black (here here here, links do not have pics) but the pics - which I've seen but do not have, no longer exist online - unfortunate I assure u since the results were stunning:

don't leave home without it ...

Mr Bill's Ancient Alien

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Your doorway into AlienClub Coliseum Mr Owen is a window-mod project for a pre-Dell A-51 ALX. Pegasus & my KnightFury are two of the finest examples of modded yet newer model A-51 R1 Phobos which I've just given a brief tour & overview of which included our pint-sized sibling Aurora Deimos. I'm sure you've seen, heard & know of Alien Nation's very latest model the A-51 R2 Triad, or A-52 for short, of which I also own & have done limited modding as my newest arrival:

The ALX Files: Operation Kalifornikation / Area-51 R2 Kase Build / Surfin' with the Alien

there are no water-piped R2's on this forum or any other I know of yet or I'd give you the head's up; the basic mods we've seen so far the past year are mthrbrd & psu swaps.

Area-51 R2 - swap to a new motherboard, is it possible?

- this is not my build photo, it was sent last week by a fellow grey -

to leave the stock offering behind this owner contacted me to help do an Asus SaberKat x99 mthrbrd swap made chilly by Corsair H100i GTX; now that this R2 build has made its public forum debut, in this teezer photo what we're seeing & for the very 1st time is that a 240mm rad can go on the right case wall of Triad & a superior mthrbrd can silence the haters

- note in R1 however, space for 120mm x 360mm in the motorized Penthouse roof-top -

Since I own both models, & can see them side-by-side on a daily basis, the R1 can not will not nor will it ever be outclassed outdone nor outshined in the looks & features department by the R2, perhaps not even by you Mr. But you could certainly try ...

Here Comes the Next Contestant / NickelBack

Therefore when you say you'd like to do an Area-51 we can be sure the lineage dates to before & after Mr Dell & his billions, so you tell us which A51 you had in mind as your trumpcard; I hope for your own sake one day you will've done them all. R1 retired in late 2011, found on eBay; the higher ticket price at purchase now off-set by high resale value now add collector value. New restoration parts are still available if you look hard enuff. Intuition tells me your heart's set on doing an R2 build however I dare say the Bill Owen Alien Collection will not be complete until he's realized & reinvented the R1 to the world's ongoing astonishment of course. Pre-Dell R1 & R2 we would know it as Owen's rendition of a personal Triad. Area-51 R1 is of the world's greatest factory-unfinished works yet required nothing at birth not to be the center-of-attention

please do think it over

I can't speak for stock Alien products, but Airene and I've done what we can to rehabilitate the Alien name; to do so we went shopping from the aftermarket in order to reach the next level & qwiet the haters. I've argued there is no better home for the world's finest hardware than when housed behind the walls of Area-51.

Welcome to the wonderful world we know here as the Art of Alienware

Welcome to Dream Land

welcome to the GLX Club

hand-polished exterior make-overs for a glassy classy mirror-finish

well hello there beautiful

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below are interior make-overs using lots of Benjamins & Euros well

Blanche Neige ... Snow White SkyLake Winter Dream

using Asus Z170 Deluxe, Seasonic Snow Silent 1050 & my hand-made swap kables

MSI x99a teezer: a build I helped on, sprung to life April 2016, Broadwell-E ready

Pegasus X99 Deluxe 980Ti, before the EVGA bridge, soon to have 1080 GTX twins, also using my hand-made kables for the entire kase harness, sleeved purple/black twizzlers ...

my 990Fx Vishera Lolita

Z87 Knight Fury

Rammstein

Gigabyte Xeon

Sandy | Ivy Xtreme

X79 Summer Projeckt

FireAza's Haswell

Upgrade mthrbrd - what's the current trick to getting everything working?

Kiax MSI X99 5820k - Motherboard Swap Project

another Ancient Alien: one of the 1st owners to swap over to EVGA's X58, with lights

Z87 Maximus

pint-size wet-boy

this case was bought from Justin & wrenches were turned for TitanX later

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- Wet Dream Land -

see MaxMod's in a following post below with some Agent Orange anti-freeze

this is in a follow up post below also

here we see Klengen's pride n' joy: Asus X79 Black Edition & a power supply swap using my hand-made cables, shipped from the US to Europe. He's pleased as punch to get his AlienFx back. Below are more friends just in from overseas ... off-world & very wet ... like a kamikaze tsunami

like blood th'ukin Godzillas

ASUS R5E 5960X ARES II

 ASUS 6700K GTX 980Ti

ASUS R5E 5960X ALX-51 TITAN-X

ASUS M7F 4790K GTX970

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 Asus Rampage IV Black Edition 4960X Titan Black

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Mr Bill? Sir?

U din't think u was gonna top the almighty R1 with that lil' bitty R2 Triad case now, did ya?

Oh my.

... oh me oh my ...

I see here that the MNPCTech photo links are broken, & difficult to find online. The person that hired Mr Owen to do this build has posted links (to small photos) here in a 3page build log which post-after-post keep the reader appraised of the progress of the entire build start=to-finish. The page is here if you're interested: Alienware ALX 1.5 BLACK EDITION Case Worklog 

youtube: Alien Carbon Fiber Paint Case Mod

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Here's Part2: Alienware ALX Build log

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April 2016

Alienware Area 51 Case Mod Contest Finals 

Mr Owen wasn't contacted to participate in their Wet Dream build

- he would've won by a mile -

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Template for a kase window

This entry is of special note for its window design: I already looked into 'how' to do a window, & funny enough, someone else 'saw' the best way also. This is the 'optimal' way to keep the led's & the hex-pattern. You don't need etched acrylic with glyphs like they did unless you can afford it, but it helps, *** right it does. They stole my design idea I came up with last September 2015 & I'm glad they did: now they need to offer it to the public (I messaged them, with no reply ... retards ... they could make a fist-full)

Above, you lose the led's but gain a larger looking-glass window

a 'shadow-box' mod is necessary for full windows like this

'shadow box' is due to the flat metal-plate relative to the convex doorskin

In the green kustom, note 'filler' trim pieces between window & panel. Shadow-box is necessary, which is why they used it here. The prior tri-glyph window we saw doesn't need a mod like this

variation on a theme: slightly more window, in-line with LED strips

no window, but?, a 240mm rad

hardware's entombed in this sarcophagus | snuffeluffugus

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like Timothy Leary said: find the others

... find the others ...

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edit: PAX Event Sept 2016

two years later, here it is, the one we've been waiting for

this is a molded-acrylic design: note it's a three-section window with rounded flush edges

it needs to be offered immediately through Aliens,com/acessories