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cygnus_x_1
05-30-2005, 11:06 PM
Well as originally seen in this (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=573)thread the Hammer Mod takes a very skilled hand and tons of paitence.

Starting with this

http://home.comcast.net/~dannyyyz/wsb/media/320829/site1030.jpg

My old rig. NF7-s, Barton 2500, 9800 AIW, 2x160 Seagate Sata drives Raid-0. Pelt cooling on the CPU (MCW462-UHT) and the GPU (MCW50-T) BIX 2 Rad. Watercooled northbridge BIX Rad. 2 Seperate cooling loops. My Testbed for the site i was writing for in '03. My Baby...

Get out of the hardware review scene for a year. Remove the pelt cooling and bring the system back to stock speeds on air. Get the itch to start writing again in '05 and join a site to write for. While cleaning up The Lab (aka "The Garage" as noted in another thread) proceed to place the entire case (hardware and all) precariously on the edge of the coffee table it resides on to clean behind it. Walk away to take care of something else only to hear the crashing sound of the rig hitting the floor. I was frozen like a deer in headlights. After some choice words that prolly scarred my kids for life on the other side of the house, i went to check the damage. Couldn't be too bad, it only dropped a few feet on the concrete garage floor. Well thanks to the EXCELLENT drive cage latching mechanism that is on the Cheiftec cases the 2 hdd's decided to take a tour of the inside of the case. First stop, the freshly RMA'd 9800 AIW where it took such souviniers as the molex connector as well as a bunch of resistors and other crap i dont know the name of. After that little trip it stopped at the southbridge area of the motherboard to just ahniliate the traces on the board. Before the end of the tour the drives committed hari-kari and figured the connectors on the drives looked better attached to the sata cables instead of the drives.

After carefully dissasembling (*note* ripping it out furiously) the hardware i proceded to hammer mod the various components ending with the case.

Final result:

http://home.comcast.net/~dannyyyz/wsb/media/320829/site1065.JPG

I will be glad to tutor anyone on the fine art of the Hammer Mod for a small fee. 8)

reddog418
05-30-2005, 11:09 PM
Ouch...

MisterChief
05-30-2005, 11:11 PM
What did that case ever do to you? *tears*

I guess everyone has an outlet :rolleyes:

MrSlacker
05-30-2005, 11:16 PM
damn man.......

cygnus_x_1
05-30-2005, 11:22 PM
here is the vid card
http://home.comcast.net/~dannyyyz/wsb/media/320829/site1066.JPG

or what was left of it...

http://home.comcast.net/~dannyyyz/wsb/media/320829/site1067.JPG

and the bast@rd hard drives

http://home.comcast.net/~dannyyyz/wsb/media/320829/site1068.JPG

lorddarkwolf
05-30-2005, 11:22 PM
looks like somethim my friend would do! after he would shoot it with explosive tiped bullets!

cygnus_x_1
05-30-2005, 11:25 PM
im really a pretty easy goin guy... :rolleyes:

this was all done *knowing* paul would create this site and to have a truly unique mod work log here...

umm yeah thats the ticket...

MisterChief
05-30-2005, 11:28 PM
im really a pretty easy goin guy... :rolleyes:

this was all done *knowing* paul would create this site and to have a truly unique mod work log here...

umm yeah thats the ticket...
*sniff* I woulda taken that 9800 off your hands... *sob*

MrSlacker
05-30-2005, 11:31 PM
did anything live after the fall? CPU may be?

cygnus_x_1
05-30-2005, 11:37 PM
trust me, that is the reason i freaked out. i had just gotten the 9800 back from RMA like a week before.

the cpu and memory survived, and my buddy from abit hooked my up w/ a new nf7-s :D

Zeus
05-31-2005, 12:20 AM
:eek: :eek: :eek:

I have had those "deer in the headlights at the sound of a loud crash" moments before.

I was at a friend's house for the unveiling of his new HDTV 62" TV. The Best buy installers were setting it up. While they were wiring up the back, my friend and I went to the kitchen to gather up some snacks for the soon to follow movie-fest. At almost the same moment I set my foot down in the kitchen, I heard it.

CRASH!!!

The guy behind the TV pushed too hard on the back of the TV while trying to connect the 3 color component(?) cables and managed to push it off the tv stand and face first into my friends glass top coffee table.

There was much crying that night.

Fortunately it was the installers that killed it and their insurance bought him a new TV and coffee table.