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Hey guys :)
been a bit of a lurker here now for a bit and have been very impressed by the quality of the mods..... some of the mods here blow me away!
Anyways thought i'd share my latest creation and become a bit more active here in the forums :)
This was the second full resto of this type of old retro style hp tower.
I also made a customed theme mouse to suit, the KB i gave up on :)
a few internal shots
Custom side mounted window LCD
Top shots
close ups!
Spare side panel
Rear shots
Side mounted water tanks
HPResurrections new home :)
OH MY GOODNESS! This is one of the best Mods I have ever SEEN!! How much time and money did that take!? I absoloutely love that mod, there is not one thing I can criticise! And a W3 fan, great. I love the Side mounted LCD and the "visor" on the optical drive in trully cool and totally fits in with the rest of the mod. Do you have any other mods for us to see?
Any way, brilliant work, keep us posted and I hope to see you around the forums.
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PS: Nice little digital camera you got there.
Defyant...check your PM's.
i raise my hats. this mod looks really awesome. although i would have put the cd drive in a lower position for easier reach (since its on the top of the desk) but other than that im totally impressed.
simply amazing!
That's just awesome....
Very nice work.
Did you have to run the monitor cable back into the case for the LCD side panel? Or did you set it up all internal?
I never get tired of looking at his work!
*clap!* *clap!* *clap!* *clap!*
h...o...l...y c..r..a..p. I just dirtied my keyboard. That is insane, I could never mod like that. I still cant get over how awesome that is! :eek: :eek: :eek:Best mod I have ever seen
A wonderful breath of new life into that case.
I've always found that older cases can have more personality than newer ones. They have more shape and workable curves.
Again, love the case, grats.
absolutly beautiful.
i hope that one day i can do stuff like this...
oh, how i would love to see the work log for this case.
Thank you very much guys :)
the cable does run thru the back and inside,Agreed Xato, its the curves that draw me to these cases :) Dante checking now :) Frakk! the next one will be lower :) Aka ra, the worklog is huge!!!
you can see some of it here :)
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~luke...r/gallery.html
Again guys thanx :)
browsing through ure pics i came to the conclusion that you know how its done :D
Defyant, you are one of the best :)
that is one of the best mods I have seen. Great Job.
What is the green liquid, and where did you get those tanks.
thanx again guys :)
The tanks i make myself :D
http://photobucket.com/albums/y165/D...WATER%20TANKS/
the green liquid is just car coolant
NOOOOOOO!!! not fair!! ive been thinking of the moniter in case idea for a couple of years. Now it wont be original.
Anyway Crongradulations man that is so freaking awesome, i know my version would not have come close.
Doesn't mean u cant still do it... If you want it to be original, just think of a twist to stick on it...
100% right!!!!! i coulda just stuck a lcd in the panel, easy! , but i thought put a twist on it and put in a window, in a panel :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Xato
another one i did recently for my server mod, was to use the the whole panel and its casing and put that into a side panel, as well as still having a small top window.
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/d...I/IMG_2090.jpg
theres soo many things you can do to put a twist on an old mod :)
Nice, would have been cool if the PSU was at the bottom of the case and the mobo was moved up, for a nice view of the CPU etc. But that would have taken some hardcore fabricating =D
ahhhh good thinking mate :)
i did somting similar when i did the Fusion mod,
Project Fusion
this time i was thinking of doing a mod to the psu to make it a bit more pleasing to the eye :)
Lol, nice horn... was that the tube to top up the reservior.
As always good job, yours was one of my favorites on the [H] show us your rig thread
One of these days, case modding is gonna be a full fledged art form..*tear* It's just so beautiful! *weeps with joy* :D
I just realized that your motherboard was stealthed. I thought it was an awsome mod anyway but that was an extra nice touch.
is liquid cooling difficult to do?
Not particulrly difficult, just make sure that everything is screwed on tight and that you thouroughly test it out before you put it in your computer or else there will be tears when you see your ruined computer soaked in water.
First off - Wow man..... wow.
Secondly - ..I am not to sure how I am going to phrase this but here it goes. How do you do the power set up.. I will use this mod for instance, but I have looked at a few others and this applies to them aswell. In your HP mod it looked like you used audio auxillary cables, and im just wondering how that works. I saw your photohost and i understand that you solder the red and black cable to the head, and then you plug it into your computer externally. I dont know where it goes from there... lol. Do you have like a junction box that you connect everything to? Maybe it is alot simpler than I am making it out to be. If you could, could you kind of give me a run down on how that works, or if there is a tutorial regarding this could i be redirected? Thanks a bunch man. Happy Modding. :)
May I ask what the price of this new computer was and what the specs on it are?
Again thanx guys :)
Deviantgodd ;
the rear Audio power jacks on the back are just spliced into the 12v+(yellow) and a Negative - (black) on the main loom. in the case of HPR2 where all the power cables are hidden behime the motherboard, iv'e simply cut the male molex off and soldered these wire togther. then then feed out around the PSU to the back of the case where they are again soldered to the back of the female RCA plugs, then heatshrink is used to tidy eerything up :)
If you still feel stuck mate, i'll be happy to do a qick photo "howto"shoot to help out :)
NavySealLTBlue
It's hard to put a price on a mod like this, a lot of parts are brought but never used, paint is from my bulk supply as is the bondo. In aussie dollars , theres no way it cost more than 2.5k all up inc hardware, even with the LCD wich was brought SH for a meger 120au.
Hardware was middle end @ NF2 mothetboard with a XP3200 and a 9800pro being the bulk of the parts, a 200gig HDD and DVDcombo drive and 1 gig of ddr 400 ram was used. I suppose this older tech could be classed as lower end now.
The watercooling is pumped thru a full set of Silver Prop's latest series CPU,GPU and chipset blocks by Swiftech mpc600 pump. Twin 120mm Pabst fans cool a BIX rad and a custom made dual 380mm x 50mm set of tanks supply the life fluid.
The case has since gone on a tour of the citys bigger Computer Hardware stores for the next few months (missis baby) so i downgraded the VGA to a 9550 :) and lowered the ram to a single stick of 512.
Simply amazing, a real inspiration to us all, and the fact that it's retro....wow
no real questions yet...just wow
I am a visual learner (Lol). If you could so that How-To it would be much appreciated. Thanks a bunch!Quote:
Originally Posted by Defyant
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F***ING NICE!!!
-Grendel
thanx guys :)
Will do Deviantgodd just gimee some time and i'll get someting posted asap
that is sweet! great cable management.
sweettt jobbb <33
i was wondering what kind of paste that is that u made to reform the case
Hey defyant, GREAT JOB! Awesome paint job and case all together. Check your PM's...
