Project: Frankenstripe

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Originally Posted by Eddie Van Halen

Why plan? Every time you make a plan, it just blows up in your face.

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Ain't that the truth. My parent's computer died over the weekend, so guess where the mobo for this is heading?

Yep, ma and pa have a beefier machine than me now. I gotta do something about that in the near future.

Plus, I've been debating on just what all this particular machine is going to do. I've also got some other ideas that I'm kicking around as well. They'll be made public soon, I promise.

In other news, I've primed everything, just looking for the time to paint.

cool man wanna see more of this one

And from the ashes rises the Phoenix.


We are officially on to Mach 3 with this build. Nearly everything has been scrapped and we're starting over again. The NZXT Gamma that I recently reviewed will be the recipient of the striped paintjob, a smaller window and some serious hardware.

If nothing else, I'm still having fun with this!

New parts, getting ordered as soon as I get the taxes done:

ASRock A780GXE/128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G ATX AMD Motherboard

XFX HD-575X-ZNFC Radeon HD 5750 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

AMD Phenom X3 8750 Toliman 2.4GHz 3 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 95W Triple-Core Processor

Patriot Gamer Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Desktop Memory Model PGS24G8500C7KC x 2

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST380815AS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive x 2


hec Zephyr 1000 1000W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

And of course Windows 7. Like I said, some serious hardware. My single core days are soon to be over.

All that, and only a Phenom I? Phenom II stuff is pretty cheap. Srsly.

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Originally Posted by Kayin

All that, and only a Phenom I? Phenom II stuff is pretty cheap. Srsly.

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My bad.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103652

Damnit, now I gotta find a decent cooler lol.

Was just joshin ya, but that's much better.

This looks interesting. Will be watching.

Alright, side window and 4 chrome thumbscrews ordered from FrozenCPU. Should be here some time next week, then the Gamma case is going to meet Mr. Dremel!

And my latest mobo plans go derailed as I didn't act fast enough on buying and now Newegg isn't carrying said boards any more. So now I have narrowed my choices to:

Elitegroup

MSI


DFI

The DFI board is leading the pack at the moment. Need to do some more research on all three of them before I make the purchase.

Getting some dremel cutoff wheels a bit later today. Also spending some uber cash at the lumber yard this weekend as well--garage here I come!

Edit: almost forgot, I may have a line on some other goodies from ebay. Just waiting to hear from the seller regarding dimensions, so I can figure out placement.

I saw you had 29,999 views, so i had to look! lol... happy 30000!

New parts ordered today, waiting for a shipping confirmation

1 TB drive for storage
4 gigs RAM
A pair of these for booting
MSI Motherboard
Raedon 5670 video card
Phenom II Tri Core Black
850 Watts of PSU
And a CPU cooler. Yes I went cheap. This is temporary.

A Wacom as well!

As you can see, I've got some new hardware. And I've modded the Gamma a bit (and managed to **** it up in the process)

No sweat though. An email to NZXT remedied the situation. Thanks NZXT!

And with that, this particular worklog has reached its end. After some quick discussion with OvRiDe, it was decided that due to the massive changes in hardware, a new worklog shall arise. Stay tuned, Constant Reader, stay tuned.