SharkMan
09-14-2006, 06:56 PM
this is that computer i was talking about building for my parents, from my other thread.
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4181
Basically making this computer from spare parts (...isn't that how they always start) only things i've actually paid for this year is the mobo, hardrive, and case; (besides all the modding supplies)
i wanted them to have a quiet pc, cause their current one, which was my old one, is loud and overheating ironically considering all the fans. i was thinking about passive cooling it, but i wasn't sure how the cpu would do in the summer, and inside the extremely cramped case. I also wanted it to be small, almost a sff (would people consider micro-atx sff?) so i went up to circuit city which was having a sale on an Antec Aria, for 50 bucks. including its wierd shaped 350w psu. this case has been a major bitch putting together, probably the most cramped case i've ever worked with, but i have loads of ideas for it. mainly low profile like my other one.
got the lighting today, was unable to fit the second cathode in the case, and the one i did fit only fit sideways.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/hbsharkman/casemods/saria2.jpg
yes! cables are managed, well they were as much as i couold make them fit, i'll probably mess with them more when i get the el wire on the side.
otherside, with the zalman heatsink and oddly mounted fan, its the only fan in the case besides the 120mm in the psu.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/hbsharkman/casemods/saria.jpg
you can just barely see the sound sensor by the hard drive underneath, behind the fan
perspective shot, incase you cant tell how small it is from the other 2 shots. there was a useless bracket on the top, in between the psu and case frame, that i had to remove in order for the heatsink to fit inder the psu
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/hbsharkman/casemods/saria3.jpg
when i first got the case i had no idea how to install anything into it, because of lack of instructions THANKS ANTEC! (they're usually good about that stuff).
i followed a guide i found on google and bought the same heatsink apparently that everyone else who has ever boughtthis case had to buy; because the stock heatsink and fan don't even fit.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pach/antec-aria-case/
what i plan to do, is put this drawing i made on the side of the case, probably use some sort of vinyl sticker, i saw a link somewhere to a site called www.papilio.com i think it might've been here, but i cant remember cause i search google so much. the picture i've drawn up has stars in it and a big moon, going to cut out those sections... sort of, for the moon i'm just going to cut it out of the vinyl and stick it onto a piece of plastic i'm using to diffuse the light. the white ccfl light with be sound sensitive to the hard drive like what i saw on that hp mod, the elwire, is foing to be connected to a phototransister (or is it resistor) so that it only turns on when the lights in the room are off. i would do it to both the lights but i'm not sure how to do the wiring. I was going to have a lumin plasma disk, on the top, but i've heard that they are dangerous to put close to computer components (not sure about this, anyone know?)
the other side of the is going to be a window, with a translucent vinyl sticker of a guy riding a bicycle up a mountain or something; or maybe i could cut the side in the shape of a bike, heh.
my mom likes stars, and my dad likes bikes, i mainly had the idea for my mom so this is more her computer than my dads.
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4181
Basically making this computer from spare parts (...isn't that how they always start) only things i've actually paid for this year is the mobo, hardrive, and case; (besides all the modding supplies)
i wanted them to have a quiet pc, cause their current one, which was my old one, is loud and overheating ironically considering all the fans. i was thinking about passive cooling it, but i wasn't sure how the cpu would do in the summer, and inside the extremely cramped case. I also wanted it to be small, almost a sff (would people consider micro-atx sff?) so i went up to circuit city which was having a sale on an Antec Aria, for 50 bucks. including its wierd shaped 350w psu. this case has been a major bitch putting together, probably the most cramped case i've ever worked with, but i have loads of ideas for it. mainly low profile like my other one.
got the lighting today, was unable to fit the second cathode in the case, and the one i did fit only fit sideways.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/hbsharkman/casemods/saria2.jpg
yes! cables are managed, well they were as much as i couold make them fit, i'll probably mess with them more when i get the el wire on the side.
otherside, with the zalman heatsink and oddly mounted fan, its the only fan in the case besides the 120mm in the psu.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/hbsharkman/casemods/saria.jpg
you can just barely see the sound sensor by the hard drive underneath, behind the fan
perspective shot, incase you cant tell how small it is from the other 2 shots. there was a useless bracket on the top, in between the psu and case frame, that i had to remove in order for the heatsink to fit inder the psu
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/hbsharkman/casemods/saria3.jpg
when i first got the case i had no idea how to install anything into it, because of lack of instructions THANKS ANTEC! (they're usually good about that stuff).
i followed a guide i found on google and bought the same heatsink apparently that everyone else who has ever boughtthis case had to buy; because the stock heatsink and fan don't even fit.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pach/antec-aria-case/
what i plan to do, is put this drawing i made on the side of the case, probably use some sort of vinyl sticker, i saw a link somewhere to a site called www.papilio.com i think it might've been here, but i cant remember cause i search google so much. the picture i've drawn up has stars in it and a big moon, going to cut out those sections... sort of, for the moon i'm just going to cut it out of the vinyl and stick it onto a piece of plastic i'm using to diffuse the light. the white ccfl light with be sound sensitive to the hard drive like what i saw on that hp mod, the elwire, is foing to be connected to a phototransister (or is it resistor) so that it only turns on when the lights in the room are off. i would do it to both the lights but i'm not sure how to do the wiring. I was going to have a lumin plasma disk, on the top, but i've heard that they are dangerous to put close to computer components (not sure about this, anyone know?)
the other side of the is going to be a window, with a translucent vinyl sticker of a guy riding a bicycle up a mountain or something; or maybe i could cut the side in the shape of a bike, heh.
my mom likes stars, and my dad likes bikes, i mainly had the idea for my mom so this is more her computer than my dads.