bschott
10-24-2007, 01:10 AM
Recently, I was talking with a college IT Director friend of mine and he decided to give me heads up on when he was doing a yearly clean up of the PCs and servers the college no longer wanted or used.
I was able to save a couple servers and a bunch of PCs from the 'prep' area before they went into a waste truck headed to the city dump's shredders.
One of the servers I just had to make my new main PC.
It started as a basic white Chenbro SR-103 case with a 800Mhz xeon setup (which I trashed out in liew of new components).
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/cubedoorb.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/backcubeb.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMAG0011.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMAG0010.jpg
I had a basic idea of what I wanted to do in my mind and I worked from there...my goal was to create a new, more powerful multimedia machine...basically Ultimedia's replacement.
I stripped the case down to the basic framework and started cutting the windows I wanted. I thought of going with tinted lexan for all the windows but it was just too dark for this mod.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0035.jpg
I didn't like the lines in the basic case, and I didn't like all the 'led' indicator lights in the front of the case.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0045.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0032.jpg
While I was cutting, my buddy Curtis started filling in the lines and holes with fiberglass.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0040.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0037.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0039.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0033.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0038.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0044.jpg
I was able to save a couple servers and a bunch of PCs from the 'prep' area before they went into a waste truck headed to the city dump's shredders.
One of the servers I just had to make my new main PC.
It started as a basic white Chenbro SR-103 case with a 800Mhz xeon setup (which I trashed out in liew of new components).
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/cubedoorb.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/backcubeb.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMAG0011.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMAG0010.jpg
I had a basic idea of what I wanted to do in my mind and I worked from there...my goal was to create a new, more powerful multimedia machine...basically Ultimedia's replacement.
I stripped the case down to the basic framework and started cutting the windows I wanted. I thought of going with tinted lexan for all the windows but it was just too dark for this mod.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0035.jpg
I didn't like the lines in the basic case, and I didn't like all the 'led' indicator lights in the front of the case.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0045.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0032.jpg
While I was cutting, my buddy Curtis started filling in the lines and holes with fiberglass.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0040.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0037.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0039.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0033.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0038.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/Bschott007/IMG_0044.jpg