simon275
12-21-2011, 06:22 AM
Hello TBCS
For those who don't know me Hello! For the rest of you it is good to be back. It has been a number of years since I have been full time on the forum. My interest waned a bit after the passing of Bucko and other things in life like working full time and getting hitched.
Any way I am settled now and I have got back into modding. My first mod is called Silent Sentinel. Silent Sentinel is a replacement case for my server case which is currently an old school Antec Super Lanboy. The new case I want to be small and unobtrusive. The server is currently a MATX board so the Antec case is much to large.
The system specs are as follows
Gigabyte Motherboard
Q6600
4GB DDR2
1 TB HDD
Intel 1000mbps PCI NIC
VMWARE ESXI 5.0
I mainly use this server to run various IPS firewalls and other Linux VMs for various purposes.
To begin with I am going to recycle the motherboard tray out of the Super Lan Boy. Here is the victim
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll114/simon275/DSC_0001.jpg
After drilling out maybe a dozen rivets including the back panel so I can pull the motherboard tray out.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll114/simon275/DSC_0003.jpg
I don't have any plans scanned but here is a rough idea of how things are going to be laid out on the motherboard tray. A case will then be built around this using aluminium angle for the structure and then plexiglass for the covering panels.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll114/simon275/DSC_0006.jpg
For those who don't know me Hello! For the rest of you it is good to be back. It has been a number of years since I have been full time on the forum. My interest waned a bit after the passing of Bucko and other things in life like working full time and getting hitched.
Any way I am settled now and I have got back into modding. My first mod is called Silent Sentinel. Silent Sentinel is a replacement case for my server case which is currently an old school Antec Super Lanboy. The new case I want to be small and unobtrusive. The server is currently a MATX board so the Antec case is much to large.
The system specs are as follows
Gigabyte Motherboard
Q6600
4GB DDR2
1 TB HDD
Intel 1000mbps PCI NIC
VMWARE ESXI 5.0
I mainly use this server to run various IPS firewalls and other Linux VMs for various purposes.
To begin with I am going to recycle the motherboard tray out of the Super Lan Boy. Here is the victim
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll114/simon275/DSC_0001.jpg
After drilling out maybe a dozen rivets including the back panel so I can pull the motherboard tray out.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll114/simon275/DSC_0003.jpg
I don't have any plans scanned but here is a rough idea of how things are going to be laid out on the motherboard tray. A case will then be built around this using aluminium angle for the structure and then plexiglass for the covering panels.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll114/simon275/DSC_0006.jpg