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--==XCM I-Case Crystal With Blue Light Kit==--
First I would like to thank the people over at www.XCM-Live.com for the case and also to Soulja for providing me with the case for review, you guys are GREAT, thank you!!!
Well I woke up to a pretty package from across the world, thinking it was a wii, I quickly opened the package to reveal the new sexy XCM I-Case.
After taking all the pieces out of the packaging and filling up my whole table with parts, I would say that XCM definitely gives you every single piece for a custom case swap, and they even throw in the tools to get you through the install.
Included it’s the top and bottom half shell of the Wii.
The faceplate with power, eject and reset buttons.
2 Gamecube port covers
The battery cell holder,
Both the stand and the stand stabilizer,
Clear fan shroud with 5 leds,
Metal shielding with window and 8 leds,
A Tri-wing and Phillips screwdriver,
Rubber feat and stickers.
I’m not going to go over all the details in swapping the case over as Soulja did a great job with the XCM Black Knight I-Case review which can be viewed here
http://www.wii-ftw.com/?page=xcm.black.knight.ri
This case introduces 2 new products to the I-Case family. First the clear fan shroud which includes a strip of 5 leds. The other is the metal shielding with a window to see your disc spin, and also has 8 leds circling the window.
Installation of these parts should be a breeze (if you want a pulsevu install skip this part)
Once you installed the Light Kit finish reassembling the case and putting on the stickers and rubber feet and you should be complete and have something that looks like this,
--==Tutorial==--
Now the light are really cool but what would be even cooler, hmmmmm,
Hooking them up to the PulseVU chip from Sickmods.net
To do this we need to rewire 2 points.
You can either clip the connector or what I did was stick some wires down in the connector and solder them in (In Green Below)
Now since the PulseVU is still active during standby we need to rewire the red wire to a 5v source that stays on in standby, I found the easiest to be on the USB points, so flip the motherboard over and solder to the 5v.
Below the the 2 arrows are for the USB1 and USB2 5v source, pick one and solder it down.
And the white wire you will solder to the VU pad on your PulseVU chip.
Check the video out in action @ http://youtube.com/watch?v=b_1-iivbjaI
--==Final Thoughts==--
What can I say, XCM takes it away again with this case. The quality is great, and didn’t show any signs of stress while assembling the case. Everything fit as it should including the Gamecube covers which as well open and close without a glitch.
What I also noticed is XCM started supplying new Phillips screwdrivers which have are far better quality from the last which I broke 3 without trying.
Some of the rubber feet I put a little glue to hold them better as the adhesive film on them isn’t to strong.
Overall I think most people will love this case and I hope to see a while line of Crystal color cases and LED kits, personally I would get blue anyways so I’m glad they made the choice to produce this one first.
If you are looking for your wii to stand out look no further XCM will definitely win you over.