Project: Frozen Sun

New Stuff!

I gotta post a some new updates cause the boy is busy being lazy as usual. He claims he is doing homework... likely story!:rolleyes:
On top of that he has got this whole modest thing going on so he doesn't want any pictures that include him!
Anyway here is an update...

The boy removing the tooless drive holders..

(You can't hardly notice were the ugly truck ran over him!:))

It's nice to have lots of work space to spread out...

More fidely sleeving work...

But it sure makes difference when you are done!

I will add more later...

More pics of work I made the boy do...

Removing the window...

You have to be careful when popping out the little plastic rivets that hold the window in place. The boy used a small hex driver to press them out.

We just got new parts delivered!

Santa brought us some parts...:santa:

More sleeving...

10 green LED lazers for spot lighting.

And the best part...A Crystalfontz 635 w/ SCAB. With a bunch of assorted cables (We got 8 thermometers!) :p
Front view...

This is the 4 x 20 unit!

Back view...

The boy and I are planning to flush mount the LCD into the top of the case about 2 inches back from the front.

Maybe when we are done with this mod we will do a review on the Crystalfontz...:?

Nice work, sleeving looks good, I love the green and black.

yeah! She's nice!

Love the spotlight's lots of potential for them.

You are working very neat. Very good ;) Saves you a lot of time because you don't **** up things.

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Originally Posted by TEAMIKKE

You are working very neat. Very good ;) Saves you a lot of time because you don't **** up things.

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Haha too true.

We hope to go crazy programming the LCD.
The boy is quite the programmer! (Who knew, like rainman or something...:D) Once the boy works his magic it should be pretty cool! Maybe we will post a movie of the various screens!

With 8 Dallas temp sensors with the LCD and all the temp sensors built into the mother board...ect we have more things wired than the CIA! :eek:
We are going to make our own water temp doohickies. (That is a technical term for those of you who are slow ;)) We will epoxy the Dallas temp sensors into 1/2" tee's probabbly using epoxy to hold / waterproof the sensors. We are thinking about 3 of them. The rest will be air and redundant hardware.

Proposed Temp Channels:

1. Coolant out of the rad.
2. Coolant out of the CPU, into the GPU.
3. Coolant out of the GPU into the rad.
4. Air into the rad (ambient).
5. Air out of the rad.
6. Air in the middle of the case (case ambient).
7. Case exhaust (One of the rear exhaust fans).
8. Maybe a redundant CPU Channel.

Along with the Koolance Flow Meter we plan to get we will be able to monitor thermal performance closer than NASA watching a shuttle landing! :eek:

Also thanks for noticing the good work the boy is doing.
(Good slaves are so hard to find nowdays...:banana:)
I actually used to be a Quality Control Inpsector at Nuclear Power Plants! :alien:

It's good to keep an eye on case temps but I think your going a bit over the top with the sensors. Also, if you epoxy sensors in to "T" joints that will create a major leak point.

I like the idea but the watertemp. barly changes. I would implant 1 or 2. 1 for the radiator and 1 after or something like that. Altough I think even then there will be only a Delta of 3-4 degreas.

And you have to be carefull with epoxy indeed. I've heard many stories that it came lose after a while.

I am not sure why, if we had a tight joint to start with, we would have to worry about leakage. :? I would think that the epoxy would be totally inert and last forever. We have given some thought to trying an acrylic bathroom type caulk. The idea being that we could always remove the sensors from the caulk if we wanted to. Epoxy is so permenant! :lick:

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Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz

It's good to keep an eye on case temps but I think your going a bit over the top with the sensors. Also, if you epoxy sensors in to "T" joints that will create a major leak point.

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Isn't the whole idea of this website to see the work of people who have gone "over the top" working on their computers?

Just wait...the boy and I have only just begun!! :D:D

WOW!! Dude you put alot of money into this. I could only dream of having that kind of hardware in mine. +rep for design and +subscribe. Keep modding!

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Originally Posted by Fuganater

WOW!! Dude you put alot of money into this. I could only dream of having that kind of hardware in mine. +rep for design and +subscribe. Keep modding!

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Thats why I had the boy... :neutral:

To pay for my toys! :p

Background info update:

To start with, I just wanted to clear a rumour that I heard going around.

1. He has NOT done away with me yet! I'm still alive and kicking, though his latest attempt came darn near to starving me to death! He sent me to the local torture specialist (a.k.a. orthodontist), and affixed to my mouth their latest torture device (braces). Luckily, the specialist wasn't very attentive, and left one molar top and bottom on the right side of my mouth that I can still chew with! I will shortly be releasing a list of the foods that can be eaten with two teeth.

In other news, we've decided that in addition to the computer, we will be modding my head, to go along with the braces. We're planning to include 2 250GB harddrives, a Creative speaker system, as well as a Nvidia GTS Video Card. We will be watercooling the setup, with contact points being 1) My rear molars, 2) the GTS, 3) My incisors, and 4) The CPU.
The radiator will be located on the bridge of my nose. We're going to have a Blue/Green light scheme, highlighting my toungue and chin, and a built in radio/TV setup using my braces as an antenna!

Ok, more Pics! :D First off, heres a pic of our current 20+4 tool (thats useless)

If you know what the problem is, or even have any ideas, we're of course all ears!

Next, its time to talk Power Tools! Get excited folks, our first official surgery took place on Sunday!

We needed to cut A hole in the top of our case for our CrystalFontz, so our first step was dressing the patient in Painters tape to prevent any needless scratching! With that done, we got the measurements, and made our markings.

My father was the surgeon this time around (im too smart to play with power tools) XD. He got out of it with all 10 fingers... but the case wasnt so lucky. We cut a bit far widthwise, but it's an easy thing to fix(just cover the excess hole with black plastic).

The result? Succcess! We relied on the slight lip of the screen to hold the display up, because the chip was glued and soldered to the faceplate, rather then bolted as we'd originally hoped. If it was bolted, we would have cut a smaller hole, and bolted it through the case itself. As is, the display fits quite snugly, and can take quite a bit of beating! Heres a view from the underside:

The most important part of the procedure?

The Taco Dip that fed my father while we worked! :p

Well, that about wraps up this post, stick around for the next update!

This mod is looking good guys. +rep to both of you. Can't wait for updates.

i wish my dad cared that much about tbcs
i generally just do the stuff myself and then he just asks why i need it and then i say i dont and then he asks me why i bought it and i say why and then we move on lol i dont understand how he can stare at that dell all day long without something flashing

albeit my dad did just get me two old p3 dual proc servers from his office :santa:
yes it did need the santa....

but yeah i love the armor it was my first real im doing this by myself without dad rig and i still have the case. i cant find like 6 of those 5.25" bay cover thingeys!! lol

but overall great job on the sleeving looks great
ive been watching from the beginning its relle cool
-ben

Header attached courtesy of imagispire.

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Originally Posted by jdbnsn

Header attached courtesy of imagispire.

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Thank You! That looks great.

I noticed the mother board in the header is a MSI P35 Platinum ;)

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This mod is looking good guys. +rep to both of you. Can't wait for updates.

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I'm impressed, we have attracted the notice of the old timers:banana: (or maybe I should have said vetrans)

Any way thanks for the words of encouragement!

Just wanted to say thanks too! I love the header, and the colors couldnt be better!

At any rate, i'm rather disapointed about the last phase of the mod. When we made the hole for the CF (thats CrystalFontz), I was expecting my father to lose a finger or three. Since he didn't (and since i'm smarter then him) I convinced him to play with power tools some more!

The Star-Trekesque plastic top piece

This has been driving me insane for quite some time. I think it just looks silly! However, we couldn't just leave it of, because it was just covered in latching holes.

However, with sudden inspiration, I realized I could avoid all of that by cutting it out! We'll be replacing it with an acryllic panel, and fitting yet another fan in, a huge blowhole, probably 140mm or 160mm! :D It'll of course be a lighted fan, so pretty colors will be coming out from under our desk! :D This is about the area that we'll be cutting and filling (and yes, the perspective is off :P)

Hey everyone, Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! To all our international friends out there, don't worry we love you too! :D

Any way I have a question...
The boy tells me all the really cool dads have 8 or less fingers :eek: (We are not counting thumbs seperately) and that I should try cutting some more holes in our case so that I can be a really cool dad too.

My question is in three parts;

1. Do I really want to be cool dad?
2. I there any, possibbly less painful way to be really cool?
3. How do the cool dads pick their noses? :think:

I would really appreciate your input as this whole cool thing has me stumped!

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Originally Posted by Darth Dad

Hey everyone, Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! To all our international friends out there, don't worry we love you too! :D

Any way I have a question...
The boy tells me all the really cool dads have 8 or less fingers :eek: (We are not counting thumbs seperately) and that I should try cutting some more holes in our case so that I can be a really cool dad too.

My question is in three parts;

1. Do I really want to be cool dad?
2. I there any, possibbly less painful way to be really cool?
3. How do the cool dads pick their noses? :think:

I would really appreciate your input as this whole cool thing has me stumped!

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1) Who DOESNT want to be a cool dad?

2) No man, cutting your fingers off is the ONLY way. Spike hair for extra cool.

3) Cool dads just cover a nostril and blow hard, sending the snot flying.

Builds looking good so far, I'll have to watch this one.

You're a cool dad already! You're casemodding ;)

Don't go over the top with lighted fans though. They spread a lot of ambiance-light. I think it would be prettier if you take a simple black fan and create a fanguard of some nice UV-plexie or so and then lit that up. It's way more subtile then and as an famous modder ever said: Less is more ;)

Just a tip off course. Led-fans can also be cool! Just like you are a cool dad :p

I am so excited!! :banana:

Yesterday I bought 2 each 2Gb (2 x 1Gb) Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC2-8500 1066 MHz Memory kits. for $159.00 total! (not to mention free shipping!)

4Gb of memory, let me throw out some memory numbers for the younger members...

• My first computer had 48k!
• My second computer had 64k!
• My first hard drive was 60mb!
• My second hard drive was 400mb!

:: Doing a victory dance that totally embarresses the boy :: :p

Hehe that reminds me of a computer I was using in school the other day: 8Mhz processor and a 30mb hard drive!!!!
Mind you it still does its job! (it runs a cnc lathe)

Time for the worlds fastest Update! Can I do it in 5 minutes? Lets find out!

First of all, Dad told me that the optimal radius for the window would be about 5 in. So, I brought out my trusty compass, and took a piece of cardboard, drew the correct sized rectangle, and radiused the edges to exactly 5in. diameter. Im a bit of a perfectionist I suppose. :P

After I had finished drawing and rechecking, i played with hobby knives! Maybe not my fathers best decision, but I escaped without TOO much bleeding. XD

After I finished cutting, I popped it on the top, and without further ado, this is what the window was going to look like!

However, we decided to follow the old adage, "measure twice cut once," so we remeasured the template we had cut. It turns out that we were off by about a 16th of an inch! Since my 5 minutes is long since up, I finally get to say something i've always wanted to!

To Be Continued...

Well this is a real cliff hanger....

I wonder how it will turn out? :?

The suspense is killing me.... :dead:

Oh well, you get the idea...

Looks good. I wish my dad case modded with me. Instead I have to fund it all and do all the work. Subscribing to this one!

Looks cool. I am going to have to do something like that when I mount my 240mm radiator on the bottom of my case.

I can't stand it anymore!
I am starting to jones.... I gotta know what happens next!
Where is that darn boy?
Probabbly doing something useless like his homework again! :eek:
I think I will go harass him about adding an update. :devious:
After all, "inquiring minds want to know..."

Ok, time for another little update! Since the cameraman was busy cutting his fingers, we don't have any pictures of the job in progress... However, we do have a primary source of information! Unfortunately, he was killed in a tragic accident, so you'll need to settle for me. :P

To begin with, I once again taped off the case, to prevent needless scratching of the paint job. Then, I clamped it to a board, and we were ready to cut!

Our weapon of choice? The jigsaw!

Again, I used my father for the job of cutting. He's running low on fingers, so he taught himself to use the jigsaw with his feet. Since he was cutting and I holding the board stable, we couldn't be taking pictures, so all we have is the finished product!

The next step (which we decided on after Dad finished cutting the remains of his hand off on the sharp edges, was to sand down the cut with our handy dremel tool!

Here's the patient without the hospital clothes, ready to go back on the case!

Speak of the devil, there it is!

The issue is, the PSU support (the huge silver-grey thing near the back) blocks our view of the PSU, and wastes window space! Now, I couldn't have that, so my dad, drill in hand... well tongue.... proceeded to drill out its rivets. The finished result?

With that done, I couldn't wait to fit in the CrystalFontz for a preview of how it would look! I was a bit disapointed when I found it didn't fit... :P Look closely at the rectangular hole for the display, and you'll see that the mounting rack partially fills the hole!

Once again, looking closely, you can see the trouble areas colored with red sharpie.

Needless to say, I enticed my old man with cookies and coolness to cut these last two sections out, and now we're all set to move on!

Finally, like any good adventure story, the end result is awesome.

were are my updates!!! the armor is my favorite all time case and i love this mod keep up the good work hey cereal do you have an aim screen name id love to talk to you about modding and stuff i think im like the same age as you im 14

:D you can reach me at CerealKilaaa .... when I have a chance to be on that is! :P I Just got back from vacation with my family in MI.... turns out they aren't actually devils(!), which is why We didn't get much done this weekend. :P

looking good guys. :)

It Isn't fair! :twisted:

It seems like everyone and their brother has a sponser or three...

I want a sponser too... I am a good dad, I eat my veggie's, I only beat the boy if he deserves it (or maybe when I am bored...:devious:).

I need a sponser... That boy eats like a horse, do you have any idea just how much Boy Chow costs these days? It ain't cheap, believe you me. The I gotta clothe him, sack cloth isn't good enough for the boy! :eek: He wants jeans and stuff!

All this and I gotta pay for the mods too? It just ain't fair! I am gonna beat the boy till I get a sponser!

Oh look, I forgot to take my meds today... gulp, thats better... (pretty colors)...
Never mind.... :rolleyes:

rofl crazy dude.... crazy dude

Okay, he needs a sponsor. I think thats been established... While were on the subject, I think he also needs some new meds, and a new boy, i'm outta here! XD Ive been playing with the "properties of special triangles" in geometry lately, which has been a bit hard and time consuming. The teacher didnt even seem to get the joke when I asked how to calculate the amount below average of the triangles IQ! :P Anyways, if i get some time between finishing HW and the parade im getting dragged to today, i'll have another update. :D