dexaroni
09-16-2007, 10:27 PM
I was digging through some spare parts, and found some Lexan panels, a HD, an old HD rack, and got a very good deal on a micro atx SLI eVGA board from a good friend of mine, so I decided to build a home theatre PC for my new apartment. Work began today, I mostly got layout design done, along with modeling, polishing, and painting my hard drive rack. I will be building a Media Center PC, on a budget, in the smallest box possible without sacraficing performance. The box will run Ubuntu Ultimate Edition, so I can stream and download all my content with good open source programs, and maintain the low cost ideal of this box.
So here we have a nice 80GB maxtor HD, and the HD rack in its original form. This will be fixed in a few moments.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/1.jpg
Here is a shot of the HD rack all polished up. It looks primed, but it is actually alloy chrome, it has a nice aluminum look to it.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/2.jpg
Here is the completed HD rack, with the HD mounted within it. After about 2 hours of sanding, rinsing, buffing, and painting, I think I have a final product. Now onto phase two.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/3.jpg
Next I decided to design the layout of the case. How do you like my brand spanking new eVGA board? That is actually a scale board... just not functional.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/4.jpg
And the last shot, here is another angle, and you can see my cardboard DVD rom drive that is mounted in the side. Perfect fit!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/5.jpg
Should have some more progress coming soon, getting a real motherboard to test size with, and a new lexan sheet for the bottom within the next month.
Got a little more work done today. I removed all of the white sticker so that I could get a better idea of how things would look, trimmed up the powersupply, and routed some wires.
Heres a nice view of the HD rack and the PSU.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/worklogz003.jpg
Trimmed the PSU up quite nicely, only the wires I need now!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/worklogz002.jpg
And Got the HD rack filled up nicely. Right now I have two 80GB hard drives in there, but I hope to get something much bigger, as 160 gb is going to be filled up quickly with HD movies.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/worklogz001.jpg
So here we have a nice 80GB maxtor HD, and the HD rack in its original form. This will be fixed in a few moments.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/1.jpg
Here is a shot of the HD rack all polished up. It looks primed, but it is actually alloy chrome, it has a nice aluminum look to it.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/2.jpg
Here is the completed HD rack, with the HD mounted within it. After about 2 hours of sanding, rinsing, buffing, and painting, I think I have a final product. Now onto phase two.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/3.jpg
Next I decided to design the layout of the case. How do you like my brand spanking new eVGA board? That is actually a scale board... just not functional.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/4.jpg
And the last shot, here is another angle, and you can see my cardboard DVD rom drive that is mounted in the side. Perfect fit!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/5.jpg
Should have some more progress coming soon, getting a real motherboard to test size with, and a new lexan sheet for the bottom within the next month.
Got a little more work done today. I removed all of the white sticker so that I could get a better idea of how things would look, trimmed up the powersupply, and routed some wires.
Heres a nice view of the HD rack and the PSU.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/worklogz003.jpg
Trimmed the PSU up quite nicely, only the wires I need now!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/worklogz002.jpg
And Got the HD rack filled up nicely. Right now I have two 80GB hard drives in there, but I hope to get something much bigger, as 160 gb is going to be filled up quickly with HD movies.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/dexcarm89/worklogz001.jpg