Case Wrap

We start off with making sure we have enough wrap to do the job.  You can see why I am quite confident that few cases will have side panels too large for a wrap.  The Xaser II is a good sized mid-tower and the small sized wrap handles it with plenty to spare.

 

Flipping the wrap upside down, we lay our side panel on top to outline and trim our wrap to a perfect fit.

Cutting it to size is half the battle.  The second half is applying it.  Included with the wrap was a small plastic spreader to help you get things applied without too many bubbles.  By going slowly and carefully, things went swimmingly with not even a single bubble.  (I wish I could do a good a job on the county sticker I had to put on my car's windshield.)  With this done all that was left was to put the side panel back in place.

  

I was very impressed with the ease of the installation.  I did pull some of the wrap back once it was in place to see how well it would take to being pulled up and laid back down was necessary should the installation be off a bit.  It came up with only moderate difficulty but I am happy to say that it didn't stretch or lose its stick.

We also took this opportunity to swap in some Panaflow 80mm Case fans.  The Panaflow units come in three units: low which turns 2400 RPM moving 24 CFM at 21 dBA, medium which runs at 2450 RPM moving 32 CFM at 28 dBA, and high which operates at 2950 RPM moving 39.5 CFM at 32 dBA.  I'm not going to do a full on fan review here but I was so impressed with the decrease in sound with the Panaflow units I did want to mention them.  Now in my mind, the Panaflow "low" unit is the one to go with because of the substantially diminished noise and reasonable airflow.  The downside is that they do not come with connectors.  You will need to either have some Molex "blanks" nearby or pick up some connectors online.  Case Cooler carries both.

  

The final product ended up quite nice I think.  Sharp looks and quiet running can't be wrong.  The Case Wraps priced at $30 which makes them not to pricey a mod item to really spritz things up with a bit of panache'.  Thanks again go out to Case Cooler for providing us some nice modding gear to make this review possible.

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