Project: Spider

[dcattena]

Hey all, Ive gone for something different and purchased the Lian Li T1 Spider case After some annoying assembly it looks really good, cable management is great for its size, only downside is a gpu cant really fit...which is what im attempting to do

Im looking at a 100% modular psu, i found a nice silverstone one which will do the job. Im going to have a 100% modular one so i can modify each cable to reduce the length so theres no messy cables hanging around.

Motherboard is going to be a gigabyte 1155 mini-itx , 8 gigs of ddr3 ram and a 500gb Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive that mounts under the mobo.

So far im taking some measurements so see where i can fit these dam over sized graphics cards, the gts250 in this case which i currently own.

Im thinking of mounting the gpu directly under the mobo with a pci express extension cable, all in all this should be a interesting build.

Heres some parts im looking at using:

Silverstone Strider Plus 600W ST60F-P

Intel Core i5 2500k

Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3

Seagate Momentus XT 500gb

Nvidia EVGA GTS250 1GIG

Lian Li T1 Mini-ITX Test Bench Black

Any thoughts, comments welcome

Cheers.

Dcattena

PS: keep an eye on the n64 HD project, new updates in a couple weeks finally!

[dcattena]

Hey again, Ive managed to build the graphics card mount, it sits on the rear of the motherboard tray. Theres a total of 5 nuts and bolts holding it together All supported from the IO shield and seems to be holding the weight good.

All i have to do now is change the motherboard mounts around so it faces the right way and then purchase the rest of the parts

And then a ridiculous amount of wiring

Original case assembled:

I have to get that gpu into that tray :S

Nakedness

Bracket mounts:

Mounted into mobo tray:

Finally mounted into main chassis: ....and n64 HD hiding in the background

Thanks for reading,

Hopefully new updates soon.

Dcattena

[AmEv]

Awwwww.....

N64 wants attention?

don't worry. You'll be played with soon.

[dcattena]

Just bolted on the hdd and slim optical drive mount. It sits underneath now because its original place is now home to the graphics card.

[DrkSide]

I was just thinking about doing a build with this case. Looks awesome, can't wait to see what it turns out like.

[Mark_Hardware]

Wow that's pretty cool!

[dcattena]

Just installed the dvd drive which arrived today Hard drive will sit above the drive....once i get one.

OMG NERO 9!

NERO 9!!

Anyway, new parts will be on hold as this week ill be working on the n64 as the final part has arrived. Stay tuned.

Cheers

[dcattena]

Just wired up the dvd drive, so now i dont have to buy a stupid slim sata adapter it works fine now.
All thanks to allpinouts.org

5V wired and ground

Final look, ill cut these short once i put it in the actual system, and add some more heatshrink
Ignore the black smudgy stuff thats just melted plastic holding the wires together so there a bit neat.

[StormRider]

I believe some sleeving is in order

[dcattena]

This is just temporary until the power supply is attached everyhting will be sleeved and neated and that molex plug will go ugh