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Congrats on your test score! :D
Good job!
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Thanks. It a huge weight off my shoulders. Now the only thing I have to worry about is modding lol.
woo! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
Finally the update I promised guys, I know it's not a lot but I worked everyday the past week so I haven't had any time for modding.
I have completed the FDD cover.
Here is the piece cut, sanded and drilled ready to go with an assortment of mounting bolts.
Pic:
The exposed piece of plexi:
Installed with the disk drive bay cover:
A shot of them both together:
Now with a bit of UV light:
I know the glow looks a bit "blotchy" but in reality this plastic glows under any light and I have plenty of light in my case.
And finally a shot with the rear cover for the disk drives:
Looks quite good together I think but I think something is missing. I have an idea that I am looking to try out and hopefully it turns out. I think you guys will like it. Well that's all for now. Until then...
Happy Modding.
I do like the plexi but I think that bare metal beneath it, doesn't look so good. I think you should paint it! Make it black or something. Then it would be a lot prettier.
The only problem with painting it black is the green no longer looks as green. Then it looks like black with a strange tint on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TEAMIKKE
It will be black. I was just showing you guys how the plexi looked mounted. If you have a look a few pages back to how I did the support bar plexi you will have a better idea. I guess I should have put that in earlier lol.
EDIT: Must have posted this as Maleficus posted his comment.
Good job then :up: Also like how you made the back of those bays.
Thanks, I know they are a bit different and they are actually a bit crooked but you don't notice it when it's installed.Quote:
Originally Posted by TEAMIKKE
amazing stuffs man... trully amazing... congrats on ur tests score ... and thats hell of a sexy hdd cage
Thanks buddy, I try my best haha.
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Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
Make sure if you haven't already picked one up to get one with the variable speed not one with just two speeds or whatever. The variable speed dremels are so much better.
I got the 300 series which is variable speed.
YAY, I have heard back from the place I ordered my radiator from. They HAD moved stores and changed their website so that's why they didn't receive my order (I sent them an email a few days before Christmas inquiring about this). I am going to place an order when they start again in the new year (Jan 3rd I think).
Also I would like your opinions on something. As I was looking at the site where I will be getting my extra fans and grills etc. from I found that they had got this radiator in.
Alphacool NexXxos Pro II REV.2 Radiator (240mm):
http://www.pccasegear.com.au/prod6172.htm
What do you guys think? Have any of you used this radiator or know anyone using one? This place stocks the HWLabs Black Ice radiators also but don't have the 240mm Stealth (I will have to ask about that when they open early Jan). Ordering the radiator from this store will save me a credit card surcharge and another postage bill. The radiator is also about $10AUD cheaper than the Black Ice Stealth 240mm but doesn't come with fittings, with the fittings they are about the same cost (fittings are $4AUD each :eek:).
Anyway onto the modding. There is very little for me to do until I get my radiator because I can't paint that last bit of case until the holes are cut for the radiator fans and I can't mount the pump until the radiator is mounted.
I have however almost finished mounting my second to last piece of plastic.
Ok so here is the victim for today :twisted:, a piece of plastic cut to size and sanded correctly:
Here is how it will be mounted:
I will be using these small brackets to hold the piece of plastic in place:
Here are the first two brackets mounted, I have mounted the bracket on the existing screw holes from the outer disk drive bay and floppy disk bay cover.
Pic:
Here is another or the brackets mounted directly opposite the other two, I had to drill this hole:
And the final one installed on the HDD rack directly under the bracket shown in the last pic, once again I had to drill this hole:
Here is a pic of all the brackets installed in their correct places:
I haven't done any more to this piece of plastic or the last remaining one due to me running out of the screws I was using so no more work with plastic until I get some more.
I was however sidetracked by a little side project.
This is my ASUS EN8800GTX:
I was originally going to remove the plastic shroud from the fan and aluminium fins thinking it would yield better cooling until I found that two of the mounting screws were under the GRAW themed sticker (which is directly stuck into the default Nvidia one by the way). I scrapped this idea and after cleaning as much dust from the fan and aluminium fins of the cooler moved on to my next idea.
Sorry about this blurry pic guys, my camera doesn't like extreme close ups lol.
This is the a pic of the very edge of the PCB (furthest away from the DVI ports):
If you look in the center of the picture above the three capacitors right next to each other you will see the fan cable. Just above that is two little chips about 1cm squared, I have no idea what they do but due to my computer not being in a case I did a bit of poking around while everything was running to find "hot spots" and believe me when I touched these chips I burnt my finger tip quite badly.
Before I can get started on my mini mod I had to detach the fan cable so I could get in and around those little chips.
Here is a pic:
I had a little look in my bits box and found these Zalman RAM sinks. These were originally from a cooler I got for my 6600GT and due to it only having something like 4 RAM chips on board I had 4 left over.
Here they are:
I was originally going to mount the RAM sinks length ways (they are rectangular) so they would get better air flow from my side mounted case fan. Because the default 8800GTX cooler is a little bulky it was a little hard to do it this way so I settled with putting a single RAM sink across both of the chips.
Here is a pic of the sink installed:
The fan cable plugged back in:
And finally the card installed back into my system:
Even with this single RAM sink covering both chips the temp of the chips has dropped significantly at both idle and load. I don't have any actual temp readings but my trusty finger does the job ;). This is only temporary until I get my water block installed, then I will use two of the remaining 3 and cut them to size so they cover the whole area of the chips (at the moment there is about 3-4mm of chip showing each side of the RAM sink), I will also mount the RAM sinks to get the best airflow inside of my case.
Well that's all I have for now guys. I hope to get some more screws before New Years so I can finish mounting that plastic. Once again sorry for the blurry pictures, it's my cameras fault, not mine. Until then...
Happy Modding.
looking great! very colorful too.
Thanks mate, it's always good to get feedback and +rep from a Veteran lol :).
Well I was lucky and managed to go to the hardware store and get the screws later on today. Once I had them mounting this piece of plexi took only about half an hour. So enough talking, lets get modding.
Here are the screws I am using (there are more, these are just the ones I need):
Sorry the pic is from so far away.
Here they are cut to size and with the ends touched up by the Dremel:
This is how I am mounting the plastic. First I put the screw through the bracket and tighten it until it stops moving with a nut, I then put the piece of plastic in place and hold it there using dome nuts. I do it this way to make the plastic easier to remove while in the system.
Here is a semi-side on picture of the set up:
The protected piece of plastic installed:
Here is the plastic installed with the protection removed:
Now I know what your thinking, you are all think why is there a huge gap between the disk drive and floppy drive covers well here is the answer. The very last drive bay is where my reservoir is situated. Due to it being shorted than a CD drive I decided to leave it out of the disk drive cover and make a seperate one.
Here it is:
It is made out of a piece of mesh, it's not done yet. I still have to drill holes and install grommets for tubing pass through along with mounting holes plus I have to fix up the cuts and spray the silver mesh black.
Here is a shot of the CD and floppy drive bays almost finished:
Looks pretty good in my eye and it will look a lot better once I finish the reservoir cover and paint the drive bays black. I also have to do a few minor adjustments to some of the plexi pieces to make them sit flat and line up straight. Until then...
Happy Modding.
*EDIT: QUOTE REMOVED! -Luke*
Hey those little square things that burnt your finger are voltage regulators. I'm surprised that ASUS didn't put a heat sink on them from factory. Those suckers will get hot enough to fry an egg and get second degree burns. It was a good idea to put a heat sink on them because they will burn out quickly if they are allowed to continuity overheat. Looks like a bulky video card too. My HD2900's are that big too. I weighed them today and they weigh 3 pounds each! heavy lil suckers. good luck with the Lexa project looks like ur coming along good. +rep
UL_NY
UL_NY plz dont quote the images to:P...
looking good as always:)... nice with the gtx :/...
p0Pe said what everyone is thinking... You actually don't need to quote an update at all, it just makes the log harder to read.Quote:
Originally Posted by p0Pe
Looking great though The boy 4rm oz!
Looking good boy 4rm oz , loving the green plexi (obviously)
Thanks for all the comments and +rep guys. I'm glad you like my work. I hope to have an update for you all shortly. I hope you all had a good New Years.
Sorry there hasn't been an update for a while guys. I have only 2 weeks of holidays left before my final year of school starts and me and my friends are trying to make the most of it.
Anyway, all that said I have actually had time for modding (well only today actually lol).
Ok, see this gap:
This is where my reservoir is to me mounted, it isn't as long as a CD drive so I have decided to cover the cap with a piece of mesh and cut pass through holes for the tubing.
Here is the piece of mesh cut to size and holes drilled:
Test fitting, fits perfectly:
Bolted on to see what it looks like:
Mesh painted and installed, sorry no pics of the painting:
A shot of all the drive bays installed, nearly finished YAY:
A lighted shot:
This whole top section is almost complete. I still have to paint the actual drive bays black and trim down a few pieces of the plexi to get it to sit right.
Next we move on to some painting.
Here is the victim:
This piece is the very front of the case, it helps support the drive bays. It doesn't really need painting because it won't be seen but you can't paint a case and leave a piece out ;).
Here is the painted piece:
After this was painted I thought that I may as well re attach it to the front fan bracket.
The front panel, fan bracket, dust trap, screws and grommets:
The fan bracket fitted in place:
Riveted together:
Grommets installed:
Dust trap and screws installed so I don't lose them:
A picture of the lot:
That's all I did today. The end is getting near, all I need to do is get the radiator and mount it and get some fans and a few more bits and pieces. I also have to make a plexi pump platform so I can fit the pump in the case. Until then...
Happy Modding.
No replies? I'm heartbroken lol.
Well today was my brothers birthday so I didn't get much work done so before his friends came over I put together the case that were done for some progress shots for you guys.
Here are the pics.
A side on view of the entire case:
All of the drive bays:
A close up of the optical drive bays:
A close up of the HDD bays:
The PSU cover and radiator:
The expansion slots:
Getting really close to completion now. Let me know what you guys think, suggestions are always welcome. Until then...
Happy Modding.
We're speechless...Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
great modding it is, hmm
keep up the good work!
Thanks, I'm still waiting on a reply for my new radiator but once I get that the mod is almost done.
This is awesome. You should definitely get some diffuse LED lighting on the plexi.
I was thinking of lighting the plexi but I already have 3 UV CCFLs (1x 30cm 2x 10cm) scattered around my case that should do a good enough job. Also the plexi I am using glows brightly when I put it over one of my blue LED fans, I don't know why but it works. However I do have a 3 LED ultra bright LED module which will be lighting the side of the disk drives and floppy drive covers. I hope that's enough lighting, I'm not that great at wiring LEDs up and stuff like that lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ethan Jay
Thanks for the comment.
I made a banner for your project, it's in your first post. I know the text looks bad, when I get more time I'll try to fix that up to look better.
Looks great, can't wait to see the final look! +rep :D
Thanks for the +rep, comments and the banner. It looks great jdbnsn.
Hey The boy 4rm oz, Just read through your log, very nice work. I'm loving this repuation thing, i have you some points.
cheers
slamaa
Thanks man, glad you like it. I left you a message before...and some +rep, your mod is fantastic. Thanks for the +rep buddy. I am going to knuckle down tomorrow and try to get a whole heap of painting and stuff done.
ugh, I had been working on beefing up your banner last night and it was looking awesome, then photoshop crashed. :(
Don't go out of your way for me, I know you have better stuff to do than fiddle with my banner.
Thanks for understanding. I am rather enjoying making it though so I don't mind taking a little time doing it right. I have it partially restored, what do you think of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
Oh man that is so awesome, fantastic job, thanks.
Sorry about the lack of pics guys (I should have some up tomorrow) but I thought I should tell you what's going on. I have painted the motherboard tray (pics tomorrow) and riveted it to the front and rear panel of the case (pics tomorrow). I also need to do a bit more work on the drive bays and then I can take all the plastic off them and paint the bare metal black, only problem is I'm out of paint lol. Oh well, just another thing to add to the list. I am still needing to order my 240mm radiator, I know the supplier was moving warehouse but I guess I will give them a call tomorrow, the good thing is that my auntie said she would buy it for me so that's $100AUD I don't have to spend lol. Until then...
Happy Modding.
Ok guys, here are some pics as promised.
Here we have my mobo tray:
I need to make a cut so I can rout cables, here is a before shot:
And thanks to my trusty Dremel, here is an after shot:
Now onto the painting.
Here is a shot of the primed mobo tray:
And here is the painted mobo tray:
And finally some construction pics. I have attached the rear panel, mobo tray and front panel together, looks quite good in black.
Here are the pics.
And here is a pic with the top panel installed...just cos I can lol:
I still haven't got my paint yet so I haven't finished the alterations to the drive bays, I hope to get them done soon. Until then...
Happy Modding.
Work great friend The boy 4rm oz
The radiator in that position improves its performance?
Thank you for your comments on my topic
