welp.. it's all together.. here's some pics from start to finish:
http://acm.cs.uic.edu/~tamale/pics/newcase/
and here's some pics from the lan i'm currently at
http://www.ducky-eh.com/wwl3/
cpu is currently a nice chilly 19 degrees celcius
it's a 2.6 oc'd to 3.0