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Looks great!
That case looks really interesting to build in with all the ways you need to route cables to be clean but once you got it looks really nice, good job. Reminds of the Haf-X. Most of my mess at the moment is I am using a deepcool rgb controller that lets you control DRGB (my fan rings) with a RGB header (my Taichi only has RGB headers). But I found that my strips work fine but if you try to pick certain ranges of the RGB spectrum it will just cause the DRGB to go nuts and be flashing or all kinds of colors. It only works with non full range colors like red but must be darker red. So now I have their own RF controller back which is small so I will eventually pull out all the deepcool wiring and just run the strips off the header itself and the fan rings will be on their remote which is fine.
Malcolm
Yeah, I also had the HAF-X....
In some ways I still feel the HAF-X is the better case as it has better cooling, as well as the ability to hold an optical drive as well as hot-swappable drives. The H500M though kill it in the "beauty" department... and one of the main reasons I got it.
I actually tried to get into the "lighting" thing but got frustrated with all the different connection schemes - Cooler Master has this, Corsair has that, etc, etc.... In the end I just have the two front case fans connected to the MB for lighting sync. And just use a Corsair fan with a red LED on the rear. Done. Finish.
The Coolermaster looks super clean. Seriously thought about getting it for next build but went with the Corsair 680X in the end.
If I'd had the room, I'd of gotten the Corsair 1000D. Man I love that case, but it's HUGE, plus the expense of adding lighted fans. That said, I honestly came real close to getting one but in the end it came down to the space I didn't have - plus the expense of the fans.
BTW here's the H500M all light up...