Bengal Rig V4 Update.
Cooler Master SL600M Modifications
Modifying the SL600M
Firstly, everything gets stripped out of the case. And by everything, we mean everything. Some test fitting behind the scenes meant that Tom had worked out a SFX power supply would, just, be able to fit in the front of the SL600M. Here is the case upside down. The coating on the paint meant it slides everywhere on my desk, which is why you can see the rubber mats stuck to the feet. Nobody wants their case falling three foot to the floor. Particularly given how important it is to my downtime.
Without any obvious clues it might not be clear what you’re looking at. The chassis at the back is front down. The current “top” in this photo is where the IO section of your motherboard would be. The bit leaning at the front you can see previously held the power supply. It still will, but it’s going to need some parts cut from it. Bring on the Dremel.
With a fair chunk cut out of the front panel, and some 3D printed brackets, the Cooler Master SFX PSU is now mounting outside of the case. Well, inside still, but outside of where it should be. This is such a perfect mod that we’re not sure why it’s not an official way to build the SL600M. Especially as it’s already a very moddable case.
Here it is in close up. You can see just below the power supply how much has been cut out of the front. You can also see the new brackets doing their job. This wouldn’t work with a full-size PSU which is why we’ve gone the SFX route.
With the front panel in place it’s a tight squeeze, but there is just enough airflow and space to keep the PSU cool. Also by running a 1300W model we know that there is enough headroom even with the Palit RTX 4090 Game Rock running to not overheat things.
What this mod really does is free up tons of internal room. Enough to easily mount the Palit RTX 4090 Game Rock without it being squished behind the SL600Ms vertical bar. To help show off the gorgeous custom orange paint it’s being mounted vertically on a PCI Express 4.0 riser cable. Cablemod custom orange and black cables complete the effect, even though most of them is hidden away. They have to be custom lengths to go from the power supply down to the bottom of the case before running up the back and into the CPU 12V connector on the Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X motherboard.
Now we need to hide away the cutting and riveting. Some simple custom sized mirror panels perform double duty here. They cover up the mods to the front section, but also cover up the part of the Cooler Master SL600M you weren’t supposed to see because of the front bar. Without it, and with RGB lighting, a mirror makes the case look even larger, whilst showing off the orange backplate on the Palit. All very flash.
If you didn’t know better you’d think that it was built this way out of the factory. It is worth noting that the EK-Nucleus CR360 barely fits in the roof. It’s significantly chunkier than the Cooler Master MasterLiquid 360 AIO that was previously here. Even if the RTX 4090 wasn’t so big the case would’ve had to be modded just to fit this in. We’ve now got a chimney effect with 200mm fans in the floor pushing cold air to the EK-Nucleus AIO.
Everything cabled in but not quite finished off yet. The power cable is going to have to remain this long because of the big fans in the bottom. To say everything is a tight fit is barely covering how tight it all is.
