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Unfortunately, I've come into a problem. In order for the VGA mods to work with the PSOne screen, you either need to have a video card capable of csync (most ATI cards, very few NVidia cards) or make a csync composer mod...all I have are NVidia cards :( So I'll have to see what I can do..
Which cards specifically? If you know, then you can post right here in the wanted section ;)
what app is that SS?
Its a rainmeter skin, originally ForceX system resource monitor, that I changed the coding quite a bit to make it look like that
Can you PM me the code?
very clean build! I really like the plate with the japanese on it.
Out of curiosity, who made that CPU block you're using?
It's a Watercool HeatKiller rev 3.0 that I painted black and white, it turned out nice :D
I just finished redoing my loop, just working on getting as many bubbles out as I can now, before I close her up again for the time being. Got a lightbar installed, damn that thing is bright :D and I'm about to test out the fan, so expect an update in an hour or so with pics :D
Waiting :D This should be good...!
Okay, fine, update time :P
I picked up some "pearl" colored anti-kink coil for my loop, since Fuga didn't like how my loop was before, so I used that and cleaned it up, just a tiny bit...
Before:
And after:
So that was the major change.
There were two other smaller changes, one was I picked up a "corner" LED lightbar to give it some light..I ended up with a bit more than "some" light lol but I like how it turned out, here's a pic from the outside:
The second change was that I picked up another fan for that bottom area that was bugging the crap out of me lol. It's a noiseblocker like the rest of my fans, but I picked up the one with the lowest rpm. I didn't need a whole lot of cfm, just wanted some more airflow, and most importantly ITS QUIET! No longer is my case a wind tunnel if I have a fan in the bottom slot! :D Even on full speed, my case is hardly louder than before. Very happy with that one :)
So yeah, that's where I am now, just dealing with a loud pump/res (until it gets most of the bubbles out, the res/pump combo has a habit of being fairly noisy lol).
Pretty much the last things to finish in my case are the LCD screen for the side panel, and fixing the LEDs/bleedthrough on the res. Hopefully I'll get both of those next weekend, but who knows :whistler:
Anyways, comments and suggestions are welcome and encouraged!
P.S. How do you like my loop now, Fuga? :banana:
Very nice!!!! I like the way the anti kink came together...:up:
I like alot :D
Nice, definitely like the after pics of routing. Though I don't mind the mazes either with the kids. lol
Looks much cleaner. Very nice!
Alright small update:
Things left to do and status on those:
PSOne Screen: both the screen and the graphics card I needed for it are in the mail, hopefully should have them soon. Once they get here, the real fun shall begin!
Case Badges: TLHarrell is going to be making me some really sweet acrylic case badges, that I will light up with some LEDs :D So, a shout out to him and his business, White Light Laser Engraving :D The sample image he made for me can be found here. So for this, I picked up a bunch of LEDs, and will be experimenting with them as to placement, and other uses for them. I may try to leech some power off of the fan's touch connection on the door panel, to put some LEDs on there instead of having the light bar above the window on the case frame.
After those are done, I should be finally able to call this case closed :D
Eagerly waiting to see :D
Minor Update:
Got the screen, and got it in place! Just waiting on the video card now to see if it actually works! :D
Also, I decided to name my pc Myrmidon since it sounds awesome and no one else has taken it :D
Send me the sizes for the screen frame and I'll cut you a little .06" black bezel to cover the fugly edge.
Okay, minor update, no pics yet though sadly :(
I still haven't been able to get the screen working, will keep trying. I did figure out a way to hide the cables fairly effectively though. For powering the LCD I took a Sony PSOne Car Adaptor, the version that had the power brick, and I cut off the cigarette lighter part and swapped it with a molex connection. Works like a charm, but the brick was bigger than a cable :P. So, I moved all of my drive's down a tray, and put the brick in the top tray, along with the excess cabling for the screen. It's a perfect fit! I had to remove the connection bar in the back of the tray area, but it was simply screwed on and was no biggy at all. I was also able to remove the button from that particular tray, also just screwed on, so now no one can pop the tray out and screw up the wiring :D Much happier with how that turned out, especially considering since I only have 4 Sata cables for 5 bays, now one isn't being left unused! :D
The case badges have been made, and should be here this week, again, a big shout out to TLHarrel and White Light Laser :D Here's a pic he took of them for me, can't wait to get them wired up with LEDs! My plan is to light AMD and NVIDIA green, MSI blue, and OCZ and Corsair white. Not sure on the order yet. If you look on the previous update's pic, underneath the area where the screen is, there's a small flat recessed area between the screen area and the hard drive trays, and that's where I want to put them.
Along with the case badges, I also want to mess with the wiring a bit for the side panel fan, and reuse the door to case touch contacts, and wire some LEDs into the door panel to get some custom LED lighting that doesn't light up my whole desk like the current light bar I have in does lol.
I also ordered some Gentle Typhoons to replace my rad fans, if I like them I will paint them black and white to match my color scheme. They should arrive this week as well.
With that, I should have been done with my pc, but of course, TLHarrel spread his bad influence on me and has me thinking of other possibilities lol.
These are:
Taking off the aluminum faceplate from the rad, as well as the faceplates from the drives, and create a solid plexi panel for the four drive bays. For the window to the res, instead of being a rectangle I'd probably have TL cut a hexigonal pattern like the mesh in the rear of the case, and also etch Myrmidon into the panel to the right of the res window, which would be lit by white LEDs inserted into the res in the pump side. This would give a custom and very clean look to the front of the drive bays.
Creating a solid black plexi panel to go around the screen. While my first cut wasn't bad, I ended up needing to shift the screen up about 1/8", and this left a lot of open space at the bottom in the mesh, which looks really bad. Also combined with the fact that the screen bleeds a lot of light around it, and that you can see the circuit board behind it, really makes me want to clean that up a bit.
Creating a covering panel for my motherboard, like the Sabertooth P67 has. The initial plan right now is to use smoke colored acrylic, and etch a pattern into it and paint the etchings white, so they give some detail. We still have to check clearances and things like that, but this seems like a cool idea.
Let me know what you think! Comments and suggestions are welcome and encouraged!
Alder
Minor(ish) update!
Fans and case badges came in today! I got the fans in, and tested them! I had also messed with overclocking settings yesterday and they helped my decision.
Noiseblockers @ 4.0ghz folding: 47C
Noiseblockers @ 4.2ghz folding: 51C
Gentle Typhoons @ 4.2ghz folding: 47C
Since the new fans brought my temps back down to where I liked them before, even with the new overclocking, I decided to keep them. Thus I painted them and reinstalled them!
Power off:
Power on:
TERRIBLE pics, I know, but when I finish the build I'll attempt to get some much better pics.
As far as other things go, the fans came with the PERFECT adapter for my door fan plans: it was 3pin to 3pin(yellow only) + molex. This was exactly what I was planning on needing :D The yellow 3pin on the 200mm fan actually controls the LED color instead of the speed like normal, so I plugged that back in to the fan controller on the case, and plugged the molex in. With the molex feeding full power, I then put some resistors on the fan wiring in the door panel to lower the speed back down to where I had it. Now I have full power going to the door and can use that for LEDs, whenever they arrive! :D
And that brings me to where I am now. Waiting for more parts! :P
Good to see you got the fan wiring sorted out so you can use the door contacts.
Nice work! I really liked the cover plate with the japanese nice clean accent to the case.
Thanks monkey! It's nothing close to your level of modding, but I think it's still decent :D
As for a tiny-update:
The world seems to be against me modding! My LEDs were actually supposed to be delivered Friday but I was out grabbing lunch at the time and so they left one of those stupid notes saying I had to pick it up today :mad: But, no biggy right, just one more day to wait?
Wake up this morning, I get a call saying I was supposed to be in at work at 7. Apparently someone had forgotten to write it down on the schedule I was given. So, I'll be working all day today, and can't pick up my LEDs until Monday.
TLHarrel and I have been working hard on measurements and designing the front and side panels, so I should have those soon. Still haven't decided on the motherboard cover yet.
Also, I seemed to have burned out the LED color change switch on the case (lol) and so I'll have to rewire the front fan for blue LEDs seeing as they no longer turn on anymore. The side fan turns green, but if I leave the LED wire unplugged then it turns blue too. I may decide to switch them both out for white, we'll see :)
FINALLY! An update with pics!
I got the case badges mounted and LED lit, and I replaced the LEDs on the front fan with white ones. Here's some pics:
Case badges:
I apologize for the crappy picture, but it's the best the camera could do :(
Front fan:
I really like how they both turned out. However, because the front fan looks so good with the white, I'm thinking about redoing the side fan's LEDs as well, what do you guys think?
Comments and suggestions are, as always, mucho appreciated!
Looks awesome.
Yes. do the fans to match. Take no shortcuts. If i can ever get mine done, those badges would be a cool addition.
Very sexy looking case badges.
Another update with pics!
I got the side fan LEDs swapped out, sort of. The old ones were like super glued in, so I just drilled some new holes :D I like it much better in white.
I also got the case lighting LEDs on the door mounted and wired. They add a good amount of light! :D
Here you can see the white painted Gentle Typhoons better.
Here's a pic aimed more downward to show the light spread.
This pic really shows how the white LEDs in the fan go with the white light inside the case.
Almost done now! Just need the new panels from TLHarrel, but he's got a busy schedule so it could be a while :P
Thanks for reading, comments and suggestions are always encouraged!
Alder
*drool*
Not on the computer, please :whistler:Quote:
Originally Posted by AmEv
I'll take that as a compliment though :D Thanks!
Teeny tiny update, that requires only one word and one number to describe:
RAID 0.
:D :banana:
Those look too small. I think you need to send them to me. lol
Okay, so after Fuga yelled at me, I decided I should do a bit more work and get a small update!
I finally got the panels that TLHarrel made me installed.
Side:
The solid black looks MUCH better than that crummy mesh cutting job I had before :whistler:
Front:
I removed the covers for the drives and the res, and replaced them with a single panel. The drives are now stealthed, and the res has a cool new window! :D On the right, in the space where there aren't any hexagons in the pattern, it actually says MYRMIDON, and was originally going to be lit up, but it didn't work out so well, so I may just paint over that with white lettering later on.
Here's a shot showing the stealthed drives and buttons:
And another with the bottom drive opened:
(ignore the grotesque amount of fingerprints on the panel, I was having trouble getting the top drive cover to stick properly and allow the drive to close, I'll get those cleaned up later :whistler:)
So that's where I am now! Getting very closed to finish, hopefully should be able to pick up what I need today with a trip to Microcenter, and unless TL works his magic and comes up with some super awesome fan grills for my inside fans, I should be finally finished!
Looks pretty sweet. When should i expect it at my door? lol
Looks awesome.
Loving the stealthed drives. Came out really clean.
awesome plexi work bud.
All the props go to TLHarrel, I simply measured every distance I could and bam, instant fit plexi! :D
Hmmm.... maybe I should use that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Aldersan
