Standard stuff is fine but make sure you cover the foam, you never know if it will react with the paint, in particular if the paint is solvent based, if it is water based then it is a non-issue.

Should work. Melamine is a polar plastic, meaning it does have positive or negative loading on the surface and that will make the pigments in the paint stick to the surface. If you want more specific information then let me know. I am working in the color business. I develop colors for the plastics ...

They have a nice comparison of the noise levels on page 2

http://www.hardware.info/reviews.php?id=529&page=2

I've had strange buzzing noises in my at PC one time, turned out to be the mosfets ( the doughnut shaped things with the coils around them) in my PSU. The coils around them started swinging under certain load, used some high stable hot glue and totaly covered them up, noise gone.

Hmm I've now ran into something fairly interessting.. installed 2 x 120mm nexus fans in the duct and put a 92mm fant in the normal 80mm hole (just put it there for now, havent done anything to the hole in the case yet). When I close the front door the airflow goes dramatically down. Theres no PC in...

I will take some pics over the weekend but the mod is pretty easy, the fan sits like in a big slot, you simply cut the upper part of the slot and some one of the tabs that is in the way, it is flimsy when the cage is not in its place but as soon you put it back into the case it does fit well and the...

Nice review. I do have that case and I am pretty happy with it. I made some changes to it. I replaced the 80 mm fan with a 92mm fan by modifying that fan cage. First I had the 92mm fan right at the case front but my case temps went up at least 3C, after I put the 92 mm in the cage the temp went 2C b...