Project N0NAME

people, i'm back and i'm gonna start thinking/working again..

i'm free now! i spent a week learning and taking exams.. interesting enough, i got 3 out of 4 and i got a perfect A at one :D it's funny, 'cause it makes me think how come i failed my exam the first time.. how can i put this.. i jumped from 40% (fail) to 100% (perfection) in 1 day and one night of doing weird maths :)

didn't have time for anything else... or did i? i have some new ideas and i bought some nice 120mm fans.. it has been a tradition for me to buy modding materials each time i failed an exam ;) so i did it again :) i've found red sleeving.. didn't buy it cause it doesn't fit.. with this mod here that is ;).. some nice zalman and thermalright heatsinks (u may find it funny, but i'm happy to see quality products dripping slowly in this part of the world, as i always reccomend them and people find it weird that they can't find that stuff without a huge delay and an online order..) and some video boards.. also, i've studied some AC silencers and found a disturbing thing.. i can modd an Ati5 (or any other for that matter) sink to work on my board and maybe keep it cooler.. but it would need a voltmod too, soo... i'm lazy..
well.. seeing as i'm back after a while without internet or pcs, i'm gonna browse to see what's new around :)
cheers!

hello everybody.. here are some more nifty experiments..

take one mouse piece..

.. and some black leather..

..basic shape after cutting with very sharp scissors.. tried with one pair and failed.. the leather is 2+mm thick...

..glued with care.. still, not perfect.. !: when using leather and glue, be very careful not to stain it! chemicals can burn the leather.. i used this to my advantage, but it could ruin a nice thing..

..cut with scissors and exacto-knife..

mainly done..

..test fit

when working with leather.. a really messy work area resulted :rolleyes:

..some flames "burnt" into the leather.. superglue has this bad effect.. but it can be usefull for adding texture and shapes to the plain black leather..

some holes for the fan to breathe out.. i think that these 3 holes are better than the previous ones..

..this weird texture reminds of the alien mouse mod.. this is a.. alien leather mouse? :p

in the end, i got this:

i just learned how to modd leather.. yey!

so i got some ideas...

i'm wondering.. do i really need a glossy paint job? wouldn't this be more.. unique :D of course, i would need lots of leather.. more expensive than paint cans.. but hey?! what do you people think? :)

I think that looks damn nice man! Good job!

-Dave

Bah you beat me to it. I have a piece of leather with a gator hide pattern on it I was going to make it into a keyboard mod. but my shop is a mess.

Congratz on the mouse.

Leather is nice stuff to work with.
Upholstry and garment type leather is usually chrome tanned so they have a great finishe but don't stretch/mold very far.
If you want to have some real fun try wet molding vegetable tanned leather. you can carve, stamp and paint/stain it.

Super glue is hard to work with because it sets fast and its not flexable. You might want to try a contact type cement. You can get a little tube of barge cement for $3-4.

Man if you add some hair to the mouse.. it is a mouse! hahaha good job, love the leather mouse

10ks guys. i didn't have contact cement right now. just 3 small super glue tubes. i like super glue because it turns into a plsticly hard substance.. i can sand it and build upon it.. stil, i' keeping it in thin layers.. i used it becuae it's clear and i needed something to harden the edges of the leather.. i hardened them, sanded.. even filed with a nail file ;) and repeated until i had rounded edges..
the feel is great.. after one day of using the mouse.. it's like my tactile sensors never get bored! a leahter mouse is so much nicer than a plastic-with-leather-pattern one :)

LOL about the vegetable tanned leather.. i never heard of this before :) and the hairy mouse.. i'll remmeber this.. maybe a hairy monster pc with fluffy screen ;) A hairy mod! =))

Hi dgrmkr , i have wrote you a private message about that things you posted on the page 12 . Please answer quickly :D . salut

why don't we, in our great boredom, take somthing i can replace.. like my silencer..

and take it apart, just for fun?

hmm.. maybe study it?

this is what cools my gpu? well, i knew that.. but i'm gonna think on how to make this better.. if possible.. it's good that i kept the stock cooler.. but it sure is ten fold louder :(

loooong ago, this started to annoy me.. i lost this.. gonna replace it with something more.. different >: )

and this is the beast that moves air so silently.. i must respect the guys who made it! i salute you!

and on a different level.. a friend gave e a nice idea.. gonna destroy something and maybe use what i take out :)

can anybody say inkjet printer?

this works.. i tested it after taking everything apart.. goes both ways too :) i think this could work as a nice door motor? or something.. it needs some gears to reduce its speed, but i may use this for something :)

uuu... coils.. just what i need .. and lots of fun nice looking electronics that don't work together anymore..

..this has no use.. at least, can't think of any..that reminds me: my mom got a nice idea after she saw the empty.. printer.. shell. she asked if a pc could be put in there :) nice idea :D not for me.. but maybe one day... i'll make something of it..

this is my favourite! a 30VDC power suply.. it can pump out 15W :) with a nice voltage divider.. i could get this puppy to run..oooh... 2x~12V + 1x~6V.. and use a few fans in the process.. maybe i can adapt this to my wind-tunnels and cool the cpu 24/7 :) without drawing power from the psu.. sure, a relay or some transistors would be useful to turn it off..

but that's still far :) first, i need to find some steel and make a sturdy clip for the sonic tower...

hello everybody,
i'm back for a few minutes.. using a friends pc.. i bought a PSU today, in line with my no-name project.. i used to wish for an antec smartpower, but that's gonna go in another project.. for now, i've financially settled for a 33$ PSU, made by a weird chinese manufacturer ho doesn't seem to reply to mails.. the PSU is rated at...uuu... 600W.. of course, i don't believe that.. no1: it says 450W on the box it came in, it says 600W on the sticker and if i calculate the voltages x amps i get 620+... and after further browsing, i got numbers like 520W or even 350W.. anyways, i will not tell you more now, as i'm gonna test it in this PC i'm typing on ;) see u after the edit :)

...back from the dreaded school.. yes, it's 9 pm.. dang it, this year is so much more demanding.. can't miss as much as last year and it's taking sooo much time to do anything.. well, i tested my newish psu and it works smooth and quiet.. not a power pc cooling unit, but.. it works with 2 pcs, although it has that buggin-me wire.. one pc even works faster, as it's psu has a fried atx connector :dead: (btw, nice new smileys.. i love them:up:)

this is it..

aaaanyways, i'm going back home in the weekend, because the folks that are responsible for my existence don't seem it fit for me to have a pc :( j/k, but i am going back to speed up the process.. hopefully, i will also find a cash source as i seem to have strechted my budget over the limits with the psu.. not because it's price, but the bastards that run the university charged me (errm, us) with enough cash to buy a dang power pc cooling PSU! :mad:

well, ... till then...
PS: :bunny: i have to use this lil fellow =))

hello all, like i said, i've returned to my home for a day or so.. and was faced with the prospect of cleaning up my room and paking some bags.. didn't really feel like it, so i modded some stuff, reinstalled windows.. the usual..

seeing that i take small pics with my phone, i decided to get a bit more concentrated worklog.. so, if possible, i'll merge 4 pics into one.. of course, for more details, i'll try and either buy a better phone/stand-alone camera or borrow something.. till then, image clustering!

now, i always wonder what would make my modding exercises unique.. because if i can't advance cooling.. aesthetics are next :) sooo, what's the most :alien: thing u could do? ok.. had to use the alien head... hmm.. how does a leather silencer sound?! it doesnt.. hihi

typical workflow.. trusty scissors and chalk.. plus cyano-acrylate..

and finally, after half an hour or so.. :)

tada.. dead silent.. yess.. it may be subjective, but this is genuine leather.. so it's dead silent.. hihi.. sorry for the cow..


On another plane.. i downloaded some pics from my phone.. with the psu.. stock for now, still thinking what to do with it..

pictures of package and the dreaded sticker.. over-watt claims bugg me..

..still, nice looking.. maybe more leather??

..satisfactory wire diversity.. i don't have a pci-x board yet.. but it's nice to know i have a psu ready for it..

..jerks could have sleeved all the cables.. now i'll have to do it myself.. i gotta start from somewhere, don't i? i'm a bit afraid about the wires, but the trickiest has been done already.. now, if i could find some black sleeving.. hmm...

..test drive..

..voltages are much more..errr... well, the 12v is a whooping half a volt bigger than with my running psu, but the 3.3v is still to low.. hopefully, this is a mobo mis-report..

uuuuu...uu... i almost forgot.. i have a Q for some of you guys.. could get censored.. but this is something for history's sake, i had nothing to do with it.. just a lite birthday celebration with a few friends..

what effect do you think this has on a working PC?;) 'cause after this evaporated, funny stains were in the PC's case and it worked.. not :dead:
of course, it did get fixed.. in a way..

till monday afternoon, cheers and happy modding..

hey not to sound critical or anything, but wont that leather heat it up? or just make it slightly warmer?
its a cool idea tho! i wanna do that to my mouse!

@nzcubey: criticism is good. and it's nice you noticed the small issue.. but! i'm a cooling freak :) i won't make things worse... so, no, it doesn't actually contribute to the cooling or heating of things.. it's just leather on a plastic shell.. the shell has a sole purpose of guiding the air.. :) of course, if i do observe instability or heat build-up... bye bye leather jacket, hello new silencer(even bigger this time).. although, i think it's safe.. so, safe, that if anyone wanna try this.. go ahead! it's fun to wrap and glue the leather and the finished product looks sooo.... leathery! oh, of course, leather is not meant to be used on aluminum, copper or chips ;) (although it would look sick.. in a hellraiser-cenobite kind of way.. it would probably heat things up this way..)

i'm going to start redecorating my environment.. i brought a 1/4cubic meter of modding materials and tools and will be probably buying more.. also, i moved all my speakers (raw drivers) here too, as i'm planning to do some other kind of big boxes too.. aaaanyway, i'm sleepy as i've travelled all night, so, seee you in a couple of hours :) i'm out:dead:

night everyone,
more experiments have begun.. there is a big lan up ahead in my area and i was thinking to enter.. just for curiosity's sake.. i don't have many mods done for now.. but i did buy yesterday a new soldering gun, some chrome paint, some carpenters glue... err.. not related :rolleyes:

system-wise, once again, i am using only 512 megs of my noname ram.. i can't get a stable system with 2 sticks.. i just hate it..

i've done some masking, painting and thinking.. i'm gonna do some cutting in the morning(maybe.. i have classes from 8am, that's 5 hours from now.. i think i'll pass...), and then the first part of my project will be completed.. hopefully, this week end i'll do some "good looking" mods, no hardcore stuff.. just trying to sprucen up things.. chrome flames, chrome accents.. some pin stripping.. aaah, the usual.. but i'm doing it freehand, no models.. so, i have some pics and stuff...

i masked the panel with tape and drew some lines to prohibit me from cutting there, then i drew the flames in those areas, following a 45 degree slope, upwards, where possible..

..some more detailed flames..

..one tiny sig..

..the panel, marked for cutting and painting..

..some of the masking removed..

..layer one..

..layer two..

..don't like this thing, but it won't be visible.. i'll cover it with the latch, painted to match the silver :)

..tape removed, but not completely.. yes, i will cut, then!!! bang my head on hard objects if i scar the paint job..

..the sig.. this tells me i need to buy a sharpie/ quality cd marker and pin stripe everything.. more contrast :)

..still, i like the end result.. it's not mirror-like, because i kept the black matte finish.. it has lumps from the start, so no orange peel ;), and after it cures i'll coat it glossy... don't know yet.. i'll wait a week or two...

bloody hell

it looks very nice

must take e few more pics of it, try outside in sunlight, so we can see it in all its glory

:) 10ks :) i'll try with a friends cam.. 5mp :) gonna resize of course, but first! pin stripping!! gonna edit later.. oh, as i spent some time analyzing magnetic and electric fields today, i had some wacky ideas.. i think i'm gonna do more accents on the case.. in other places too.. edit coming..
edit1: i bought a nice and pricey sharpie with a very fine tip, to do some contours.. as i expected, it shows.. the flames are way more clean now.. i had some slip ups in the masking tapes.. well within tolerance's range, but i wanted it closer to perfection.. also, i started cutting the window.. did about 40%, but i had some unfinished business to attend to.. so i left my stuff as it was... Oh, not to forget, i had a level-up in soldering skills, after i found out my altec headset's in-line volume controller ...not inline... so i had to desolder the remaining 2 connections (out of 6 needed ones..) and redo them all.. took about an hour as i had to improvise a soldering station..

added some details too.. black on silver flames...

i hate my phone camera more and more.. the "finish" is not even close to a mirror shine, but in real life, it still "does" some reflections.. not with the cam i'm using, oh no...

i'm not sure.. i don't really like the idea of signing stuff.. but this makes the pc more personal..

a wider shot.. you can barely see the cut in the upper part.. i will probably get some time to cut the rest today.. after my room mates go to school (i'm free :) ).. so i'll try and stick to my flames as much as possible..

this is my new "soldering gun"... ok, it's big and not very precise, but that means only one thing: +skill and craftsmanship :)

and my soldering station... hmm... i have a lamp.. but it's not mine.. maybe next month.. i'll get something..
till next edit.. good night :)

hello all, i have some activity to report.. mostly for my memory, which is now flooded with countless electonics stuff..

been working on a project for a friend.. his nick name is "hamster", so we're making a box to fit a.. hamster...

a nice model designed in photoshop...

more work done...

more work.. almost done... well.. done, but just one side.. case coming up..

..owner..

speaking.. of sound... a while back... hmm.. i have to share this too..

..nice?

heavy...

really heavy.. 600W of 20-80Hz :D

sweet sub

you could put some phonaabsorbant foam in it

true... will do that.. need more cash tho.. you know ;)... the foam, with or without the nice lil pyramids... it's a bit expensive here ;).. and i aint got no cash now.. also, we have now more than ..err.. less than 3kW :)

i'm once again happy.. i got a nice and nifty 6800gs to replace my 9550... i think this is an upgrade.. from 450mhz/4pipelines to 450mhz/12pipelines, from 540mhz ddr2 to 1000mhz ddr3 :D
on another plane of thought, i did some research and i'm doing some controllers, PWM style, which i'm gonna post eventually.. after all testing is done.. :) i love what i learn at university :)
gonna have some pics and exps in the morning... till then.. bye :)

as promised, i have pics of some of the stuff i've been doing.. 1 bad news, 4 me that is, my keyboard died and i gotta buy a new one :(

i've been working on a water-cooling idea, studying some .pdfs from arctic cooling, learning more about programming 4 the web.. and learning how to type with the on-screen keyboard.. till monday.. :|

b4 the kb died, i was working on my mouse:

darn blue led wonttrack as good as the original red one.. so.. color change time :).. red and blue all the way...

cut the old led..in w/t the new..

my workshop.. the lack of a kb made it this big ;)

some shots of the re-assembled mouse:

added a blue ultra-bright led to counter the red light showing from the sensor.. a,my phone sucks..

dark shots:

..replaced the bi-colored led with 2 separate leds.. also, they are not as bright or colorful (=annoying). the effect:

red.. 600dpi

purple.. 800dpi

blue.. 1000dpi

more to come soon..

...some shots of my new video board, which satisfies 3 of my needs: gaing, modeling and a cooling challenge. performance-wise, this board is at least 4 times better than the previous.. but noisier.. unmodded..

so.. the box..

plain and not very informative.. frequencies or nifty numbers are missing..

THE box which contains the card.. sturdy packaging..

typical set of accessories: dvi2vga, pci power express connector (yes! this card is agp but has a peg power connector! weird.. but useful..)

time for the card:

it'sbigger than i expected.. no problem tho :)

power stage.. peg connector.. 3 or 4 phase voltage.. nice..
this needs cooling :D

stock cooler.. thermally controled, but still whiny.. a bit lite when compared to the 6800 ultra. will change it :)

i'm planning on using all the outputs in the near future.. so yay! for 3.. nothing new tho, as i actually wated 2 dvi ports.. i read lots of (partial and unrewarding) reviews and i've seen a model with 2..

with the current setup, the back of the card almost hits the fan.. less than an inch clearance there.. and the latches of the dimm's could scratch off a few resistors if not carefully installing it.. getting crowded..

i had some problems powering up after installing.. i had to 'persuade' my mobo to start.. had to boot several times with no video adapter.. only then did it post.. i haven't routed the cables for final placement, 'cause i'm waiting for a sleeving kit, uv lights and some fans to arrive..

end of "hard" part

on the software side.. using riva tuner and lots of read material, i studied the possibilities of my new acquisition. so, time for some info for those wanting to buy an 6800gs, agp8x, 128b video adapter:
the model i bought has an nv42 gpu, clocked at 450mhz, with 3 quads and 5 vp.. also, on the crippled 128b bus are 4 modules of gdd3 ram or 256mb of 1000mhz sweet memory.. i like this round number :) if it would have been an nv40, i might have able to unlock some gpu parts.. 1 quad and 1vp.. no luck here..

temperature wise, the core idles at 25~30 degrees and goes 60ish~70 after 6 hours of maxed out details in nfs carbon:)

noise wise, fan is loud at boot (over my 3x120mm 5v fans..) then quiets down, ten revs up when i start a 3d application.. i would change the cooler with a silencer, and will do it too, but there is a slight issue: 4 ram modules, parallel with the gpu, instead of the 8 modules, surrounding the gpu in a 6800/7800 fashion.. some modding may be required..

running 3dmark 2006, i got 2500+ marks at defaults.. i believe my cpu and memory may limit the performance.. will see in the future :)..

as i am low on cash now (card cost ~150$ with vat), a nv5 silencer mod will have to wait.. but i need a keyboard, as my skill with the mouse/on-screen keyboard is increasing at a scary level ;).. i've looked around for something to suit my needs.. and didn't have much luck.. so i ended up with searching the models in stock..

i kinda like this.. if it can have lights built in to it.. oh, i can't find a good keyboard with leds and multimedia keys and not in a mini format.. argh.. there are some aspects i dislike and some i love in the above model.. if i buy it, i'll explain :)

hello everybody... i didn't buy the keyboard i posted yesterday... i instead shopped for a nice quiet and easy to type board... not very moddable, as it's a slim.. here it is:

..hmm... i will do naughty stuff to it.. and it has a nice software.. headphone and mic.. usb port :)

on another note (man is this nice to type...), i bought some stuff today.. ICs and stuff.. and lost it.. man i suck... well, i need more parts :(

Its lookn great so far. I wish you had a better camera so i could get the full awesomeness of this mod lol. Other then that its great i like what you did with the mouse

1st, thanks nocturnal :) (still, i don't have cash to buy a camera yet and i don't think i'll get one for x-mas.. i try my best with the phone cam.. :( )
2nd.. worklog time.. i have lots of things done.. will post only some, as i'm still experimenting with something..

i wanted to do something nice with my 6800.. and i had some bucks to spare too.. so i read reviews and reviews and... i bought "meself" a nice cooler:

..an accelero x1 :)

..with 3 heatpipes, big aluminum fins.. i almost fell in love.. it doesn't have DHES... but...

it came with lots of stuff.. thermal tape, screws.. lots of them...

but it didn't fit my board.. one end was hitting the dvi connector, the other was "touching" the power components.. and the holes didn't line up! :( i thought about modding it.. but i found 2 downsides: 1. can't cut the heatpipes and redrill holes... 2. not clear plastic.. just black and shiny.. that is not to my liking, because i had something in mind :D

so i returned it, got my money back.. and bought my second option:

hooray! an AC nv5 silencer.. only slightly worse than the x1 in reviews, with a clear shroud, direct heat exhaust and no heatpipes to hinder my modding process... the thing is that the heatsink must fit in such a way that it covers the HSI chip as well, as i still use a socket A with AGP.. :( i looked at the vf-900 and vf-700, some passive products from Tt and Zalman.. but they can't work properly..

i got the usual in the package.. instructions.. won't need them.. heatsink for ram on the backside.. won't need that.. brackets for outputs.. don't need that either.. and the sticker :D i'll use that...

ah, before i proceed with the actual modding, i played a lil with the components i had laying around (i ran my pc with an g4mx400 in the process, so i could enjoy some nice long mixes..). it struck me that the stock heatsink wasn't that bad actually, from a design and structure point of view.. of course, the fan was the problem, 'cause it was loud in 3d mode..

stock heatsink: notice the high fin density... and the look of it.. i have to use it for something else.. i really like it..

silencer heatsink.. less fins, further apart.. but taller and longer.. also, they kinda strike me as equally heavy.. so, more copper in the nv5, more aluminum in the stock..!? ok.. i would really like to see a silencer with this fin density, even if it wasn't that silent :)

side by side, you can see some wierd stuff.. my opinion of course.. size and shape differ.. after testing the installed cooler, i hear nothing, so the guys from AC rock (silently).

my fans compared... stock is small and whiny, altough it does move some air.. i'm thinking of reassembling and using it at 25~50% power and maybe mount the thing on my north bridge.. or sound blaster? :)

oooh, i had to see this.. it fits in a weird way and i bet i could make a "silencer" type thingy with some acrylic.. i may try it.. for something else of course.. maybe for a low power cpu?

..next post, nv5 mod :D

to the actual work now...
first, we take the bare card:

..which doesn't actually have the usual 6800 layout.. annoying thing.. the ram modules are placed non-standard, some holes are way-off.. or originally placed..(!?)

then i lose the sticker.. as it is in my way.. and stick it on some other transparent surface :)

i marked the areas which conflicted with the components on the pcb..

started cutting.. man, copper is really hard to cut.. i used 2 and a half big discs for this.. and i mean big.. as big as the motor's hub in a fan (that's what i used to mark my discs when they were still apart of the grinder disc i use.. hihi).. still, i felt like it was going thru butter... copper butter :)

first cut..

a notch here...

i also cut away from the copper, which wasn't making contact with the memory at all in the top, so as to fit back a stock heatsink...

also, i have some plans for the motor.. as we all now, black fans and LEDs have rarelly been seen around.. so..

..silver blades :) nice and shiny.. i don't have the LEDs yet, as I'm pondering whether SMD or regular LEDs would be best...

masked the shroud for painting and added a lil' flame.. i was thinking what to add more.. and...

here came this.. unoriginal tho.. i don't like it, but i have more plans for the shroud later on..

prepped for silver coat..

..silver coat on.. on the inside.. :)

test fit before final assembly (the inner/lower shroud is not installed yet)

final pic.. till now :)
one thing i have to note: the shroud isn't chromy in any way.. just a metallic gray.. the inside is super shiny tho.. :think: very annoying for me this is .. well, doesn't really matter, asi painted the inside silver for future lighting..
till next time, happy modding :)

Hi everybody,
i'm thinking of buying some stuff.. but i'm unsure, as i'm low on cash, yet i feel the urge to do something.. and as i can't find a big piece of mesh/plexi to use for my case's window... :(
So,

red sleeving? this is the only one i can get.. at all.. (i'm limited to buying from one place, so i must choose carefully..)

one of these as a top exhaust maybe?

definitely some uv lights are needed to make the sleeving glow, right? i'm thinking of a nice palce to hide this.. also, my previous inverters went out with a "smoke", so i have 2 spare blue CCFLs.. hmm...

I wanted to ask you guys if red looks good? i mean, i want a black painted case (inside and out), with some lite silver/blue accents.. that means, i will install some leds to make silver fans led fans :) i'm wondering if red sleeving will look nice or not.. :think: the fan and the CCFL are on their way... to the shop.. i just have to decide on the sleeving... by, oh, today :)

You've done a really good job on the leather. Nice trim too. And nice even cuts.

10ks MDCS :)
it won't be the last experiment.. leather is sooo nice to work with and is really good for adding 3d details.. as soon as i get my hands on a big leather piece of the stuff i used on the mouse and the ati2 silencer.. i'm gonna dress the nv5 too.. and maybe more stuff... i'm thinking keyboard.. and maybe front of case.. but i wanna do some structural work there before :)

back to my weird ideas.. i was thinking of adding something to the ideas section, but... hmm... if the silver sonic tower is too expensive/dificult to build... maybe something else... like an... "AQUA" tower... therefore, i would like to offer the ones who read this the mental challange to find problems this design i worked on has:

pics:

basic housing, made from plexi..

the cooler itself...

any way of connecting the hoses is nice :) i would really like a program to simulate water and thermal flow..

i pondered on the proportions of the back side :) a lot..

hihi, wouldn't it be funny to see logos on fins inside a waterblock ;)

Some explanations: i'm thinking (heated) acrylic (2mm), not too thick, transparent, glued with special glues and sealed with silicone? And a steady and patient assembling of the acrylic pieces.. they have to go round the tower, so.. care and attention would be important ;) The waterflow would be like in a double-pass radiator.. the water is forced in half the space, then it passes thru a back chamber and goes to the other half, then exits.. the middle separator (not shown, as i'm not sure yet) would be made of some filler/adhesive sandwiched/injected between the middle fins, so as not to allow water flowing thru. the barbs are just for show, as i may end up using anything handy, from 3/8 to 3/4" size.. plastic or metal..

why would i consider this at all u ask? well, first, i don't have the money to buy a nice waterblock, no machine to build one of my other designs(which involves milling thick copper...) and lots of spare "CPU" time :P

this is like a version 1... well, after lots of tweaks and area/sections maths and boring stuff.. plus, it has to look good... and even though the sonic tower isn't the most efficient heatsink, it's performance with 2 12cm fans is wowish.. and noisy, so i thought that maybe immersing it in flowing water would do miracles :D (maybe not as good as a jet impingement block, but hey, no mill..)

one issue i can point out myself is weight.. i think a thru mobo and case mounting
would be best.. and maybe even a small piece to connect the cooler to the strengthening bar of the case... i don't know..well.. this is just another experiment.. i just want some opinions :)

yeeey!!! got my ordered stuff... and tried some of the sleeving :) it's cool... and pink/orange :) and the ac12 fan is really silent... aah, the uv ccfls are quite cool too.. almost unseen.. and yet, the effect is nice.. have to sleeve my psu, but that has to wait as i have to build a secons sli/amd rig for a friend :)loong day awaiting :)

edit:
got some pics of the stuff i did :)
some sidetracking:

simple case, because this PC mustn't look like a gaming machine :)

insides: asus m2n4-sli board, am2 3000+/stock cooling, 512ddr800, 160gig hdd, x800gto and a light-scribe dvd-rw :) nifty and useful.. this is a simpler version of the pc i worked on yesterday.. got no pics of that.. same mother board, but 1 gig of ram, 600 gigs of hdd space, and a 3500+... only one video board for now.. but i have plans ;)

my pc:

before installing some of the new stuff...

behind the white curtains :)

uv :)

...uv :D
this was my first attempt at sleeving :) i managed to go with the wrapping over the connector without ripping it apart :) but soon, i'll try my luck with the psu...

Yeah , i hear you with the whole camera issue. But this mod is looking very nicely so far. I like the watercooling idea you have going. Did you make those designs?

10ks... i try to experiment a lot :) and maybe one day i'm gonna build my dream machine :) but we all gotta learn some way, right?

about the designs, let's jsut say i don't sleep good at night.. and just 3 things pop into my mind and help me sleep.. :) one is keeping things cool :D and i wanna share some thoughts with people interested :) 3dsmax helps more than paint ;) also, i try to put some thoughts behind my designs.. who knows, maybe someone will build this.. if not me :)

hi everybody :)
i'm happy right now.. i've been fiddling for about..oh.. 6 hours... why u ask? well, at first, while trying to sleeve my psu and after i managed to sleeve some cables without removing the end-caps.. i had to remove the 4 pin molex connectors.. and surprise, no tool.. so i wondered what items around me could substitute.. ??

i tried paper clips.. guess i'm not that good with them.. tried a ball-pen and took that apart.. i heard that u could use those.. i couldn't.. i knew how a pin remover looks, so i tried to fashion one from a piece of metal.. to be more precise, the metal protection off of a floppy disk.. it worked for about 4 or 5 pins.. but i cut my fingers open in several places.. nasty.. so, what else could i use? well, after further studying the anatomy of the connector "wings", i tried with a screw driver.. a small one, used for those small screws we have in watches and stuff :) took me a pin to adjust but then they all popped right out

me and my work bench (bed) :)

pins removed :) the begging

heating things up with.. {pause...}

...a hair drier! courtesy of a friend :)


i skipped a few stages cause i was to into the sleeving thing :) and after all that cutting, heating and waiting.. some crappy pics with my phone :( ;)

a uv test before putting my stuff in

the inverter and my first try at sleeving.. small cables, no need to remove the connectors.. first try with heatshrink too.. i used an open flame for these.. but i kinda burnt.. myself :)

tangle of wires that can reside at the top of the case.. for now..

wires coming down like a orange fiery snake :)

..power goes to the hdd drive and video card..

..future wise, i kinda played with some zip-ties.. there will be a fan at the top eventually...

pic of case... i really need a new camera.. :( maybe i will gather the nerve and ask my folks.. i wanna save some bucks for more modding stuff... :)

a bit more light from my screen.. and u can almost make outthe traits of my case..

well.. i think i'm going to do one more thing tonite :) either paint something or read some stuff...

This is a great mod, but i hope someone gets you a good Camera this Christmas. ;)

Was wondering what you'd been upto, as i hadn't heard from you in a while! Anyway, progress is progress, keep it up! :)

-Dave

well, dave... i had to spend some money to pay a fine.. darn government and darn police.. it would have the difference to make my card a 6800gs with 256b bus and 512MB ddr :( and school is taking a lot of time this year.. and i have some voluntary work stuff too.. hmm.. :( i'm too busy. can't wait to get home.. and do some modding/relaxing/eating :D i'm very sorry i didn't have much time to do/learn more programming stuff (for the other project i've been working on).. even CAD work is getting ever so rare.. in exchange, i know how LCDs/RAM/flash/transistors work.. "intimately".. ;) and lots of other stuff that one day may end up in a nice build.. a really nice one.. i'm studying SMDs (hobby) and digital/discrete circuitry (university) at the moment and find these subjects quite compelling :D ..unfortunately, i chose to work on a newspaper once a week (it's fun, but for free) and have to earn some cash to buy stuff.. that is not on my parents shopping list ;) i don't get it why they don't understand my need for water cooling ;) and a new mobo/cpu etc..

update: i've been painting a fan for a while (the AC 12)... it looks nice, but the paint doesn't stick too good on aluminum.. hmm... i like silver/chrome.. also, i gotta buy like 2 dozens blue leds when i get home and think of a nice usage.. i did actually, but i want dimmer leds, not the super brite ones..

i'm looking at a good hdd cooler too, with heatpipes, although i'm not sure i'll buy one.. and a nice north bridge cooler.. i want as many heatpipes as possible :) found some, but they aren't the best..

waiting for paint to dry.. will go to sleep and see what results are..

Very cool my friend, im about to buy you a camera so i can get the full effect from this mod lol. Keep up the good work

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i don't get it why they don't understand my need for water cooling and a new mobo/cpu etc..

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Yeah, what's with that, eh? Can't they see how important it is? ;)

Anyway, sounds to me like you got a firm grip on Student life-don't worry about coding for now, things have taken a subtly different direction recently.

-Dave

thanks guys :) i appreciate the support :) and thanks for the camera :) i have lots of plans in mind and lots of stuff i wanna do.. but it's like, in 20 mins i have to go to school.. then stay there 6 hours.. come back, pack my stuff.. sleep.. go back to school tomorrow till in the evening and then go home.. busy busy.. and i wanna do so much stuff :( well.. got to go :(

hi everybody and merry Christmas to you all!
i'm home and all my stuff is working again (had some troubles with windows.. darn thing, it's like it knows when my pc is moved.. creepy)
i won't be doing any modding (or so i think) 'cause i've had to leave my tools back, but i wanted to post a pic of my pc before "shipping" it home..

..i'm planning on cutting the flames, sanding them smooth (not sharp.. an idea that passed my mind, tried it, and cut my foot in the process.. :)), removing the existing paint (all of them), repainting the panel piano black and adding flames.. then finishing it with several clear layers, to get the piano look :) or maybe something else? i have several nights to think this thru :)

till then, i'm gonna spend some time with my folks and maybe do some 3D work.. cause i feel like it... :)

oh, if these are my last words this year.. then.. Have a good time with your families! :)