Looks good with that DFI mobo. I wish they'd make more boards for intel.
Love that duct tape sheathing on your PSU.
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Looks good with that DFI mobo. I wish they'd make more boards for intel.
Love that duct tape sheathing on your PSU.
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Originally Posted by Cana-Balsitic
the duct tape is holding my UV cathode up, yo.
I just made and added in a fat ass 120mm fan duct made of CARDBOARD and it lowered my temps by 4c. woo!
now i idle at 51...
Moved my slot cooler and added a ghetto-ducted 80mm fan, I will see how good this cools it down now.
Aaaand the new plamement of cooling devices is working like a charm. 6c lower on CPU (from a hot 55 to an acceptable 49), BIG drop on the GPU (50c to 32c), big drop on the IDE drive (45 to 33), and a moderate drop on the SATA drive (53 to 49).
:cool:
Did you put that window in or is that standard with the case.
Also, I recomend the radeon x1800. Runs Elder Scrolls 4 oblivion flawlessly on highest settings.
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Originally Posted by Razors Edge
Standard with the case, and also, I don't play the ES series, I play WoW, and my X800SE does the job quite well.
Just swapped my True-Power 480w for a SmartPower 500w Modular! I really need to cut a blowhole in the top of my case, though, it's literally hot to the touch up there
I should find my thermometer D=
I'm bored. And I just put my old set of blue CCFL's back in the case. With the 120mm and 80mm LED Fans, dual UV ccfls, and dual Blue ccfls, plus the Lazer LED (all of which are temporary), it's bright as ****. It's illuminating my room dimly, under my desk brightly. Pretty nifty.
But I figure I'll go ahead and do some lighting and cable management work, maybe even etch the plexi or cut the metal.
Pictures later, of course. Good thing it's getting late -- perfect time for my night shots <3
-Omega
So, it's 11:28 PM and I still haven't sorted out all the problems that arose from such a single thing -- but here's a recap
I dismanteled my PC, Antistatic bags and all. Re-did the THC on my CPU.
I cut the hole.
I cleaned the case.
I went to dinner.
I got back from dinner.
I cleaned the case better.
I re-assembled the system
I finished re-assembly.
One of my CCFL Inverters was shorting, causing my PSU to automatically shut the whole rig down.
I figured that out.
I took out all my CCFL's.
Computer boots up and plays nice, now.
SATA Hard drive fails to respond -- I'll fix that later -- It's probably just something stupid like I didn't plug it into the right port =/
Good to see you got the mod back on track. I need to get back to mine as well
Well, this computer never really has been a "true" mod. It's just been some stuff that I've tried (mainly Drive stealthing and the blowhole on top now) and figure I'd post.Quote:
Originally Posted by simon275
The computer is now CCFL-less. It's only lit by two LED fans (rear 120mm & top 80mm) and a Jumbo Lazer LED thingy, which for 3$ (8$ after shipping) lights my case really well. Because the IDE Cables are yellow, they react to blue and UV lights, so the IDE cables and all the UV Yellow stuff on the mobo are actually illuminated. It looks cool.
And the wire management is better, huzzah!
Haha. I found the problem with my SATA Drive... It didn't have power. I'll elaborate:
I have these two molex splitters that came with two of my ATi Cards (My current one, the ATi Radeon X800SE, and my dad's, the ATi Radeon X800XL). I usually use one for the HD's, another for the Videocard and Lighting. This time, I split the power differently, I made it one for Videocard and one HD, the other for Lighting and one HD. As you all read, I took out most of the lighting and re-did the power scheme. I noticed that there were two unconnected molexes, so I connected them (one was male, the other female). So when I pulled out the power from the SATA drive, I had a molex splitter with a loop and another molex connecter. D'oh.
Update on the cathodes: The UV cathode inverter was fine! I figured since one tube wasn't working and the other was brighter than usual it'd be ****ed up, but I unplugged the bad one and the remaining one lit up all the way. Then I plugged in a working blue cathode to illuminate the side of my drive bays. The UV cathode is next to my motherboard behind all the cables so they're UV Backlit and alot of the ports on the right side of my mobo are quite prominent. It's lit well and well lit. I also added a switch to the Lazer LED's, to turn them on or off for effect.
Pictures later. I think this is the best Cavalier has looked.
belive you me i love taking apart/rebuilding/changing around stuff in my pc but every time i do it something doesnt work a couple of tips as to stuff i found give me problems if they are messed w/:Quote:
Originally Posted by Omega
1. like u said those frickin ccfl inverters i jus lost 3 bubls in an attempt to sleeve them
2. another/molex splitters (my dad has so much parts and he had givin me 2 hughmongus full 5-1/4 inch 1.8 gig scsi drives they had there own external enclouse (also weigh about 8 pounds each) and to me they were relics. you may think why the heck would i want 2 1.8 gig scsi drives, well i didnt want the drives i wanted the psus from them bc they had molex connecter and it basicly could make a dual dvd drive enclouser via ide to usb adapters or i could use it as raid 0 instead i used them as external psus for testing stuff that i made for my pc (lil led circuts running off 12v etc.) meanwhile one my small one there was one molex i then split it with two splitters and like you did looped it and fryed my small enclouser. i still have the big one but always check your work went it comes to psu
3. hdds and magnets on onboard speakers dont play nice!
this one is pretty self explanitory, if u want ill elaborate
4.never work when tired
i fried my old socket A mobo by putting it in w/o the lil gold posts man was i being dumb
well thanks for listiening to me
ben
Thanks for the advice, But hell, I don't know how many computers I've dis-assembeled and re-assembeled and fixed hardware problems and so forth. I'm much more of a hardware geek than I am a software one, and it pleases me greatly to tinker around in my case. I'm also usually pretty careful when working with sensitive components, like even if I know I don't have to worry I will, just how I am.
My computer isn't always picky, though. It's just that if I mess up the configuration of IDE channels or PCI cards or something else minuscule like that, I get BSOD's for a week before I can figure out what the **** to do, then after I switch it back the day after I start getting BSOD's, it bitches at me more. Luckily, this time, I didn't have to go through that because SATA is hot-swappable and I only have one PCI card that I put in the right slot agian (not like it's hard, bottom PCI slot).
EDIT:
Rofl, good job on frying that Socket A. I work when I'm tired all the time, though. Yesterday, what was supposed to be up to three hours of disassembly, metal work, then reassembly, turned out to be 7 hours (4PM to 11PM), with the reassembly and troubleshooting at the end. I actually thought that my system crashes were my videocard's fault (until I removed my CCFL inverter, then it worked, but before I got a long-short-short beep code which is no video).
But, Lo and behold, it works.
I need a new rear 120mm fan, the LED's in this one are dying D=
WTF?? its all about Intel and Nvidia!Quote:
Originally Posted by Omega
nice case though it looks nice and smooth
UPDATE MOFOS!
Just installed my MSI Neo5, Intel C2D E4500 Allendale, eVGA 7800GT, 2GB of PNY DDR2 RAM and other stuff (old hd's, psu, etc)
Installing windows right now, I'll post from the machine once it's up and get pics once I find my camera.
Posting from the new pooter
it's nice
very nice
also quite loud (that's the 7800, sounds like a leafblower)
Bump and lock, this computer's no more. It's sitting in my closet, iirc.