Oi oi, new fella, new project...

[Drew]

Hiya people, I am new here, and pretty new to modding as a whole, but I'll sure as hell give it my best shot!

Having been inspired by the likes of project:Blackout and project: Doom3 (mars something), I found myself hankering after a modded case.

I am nowhere near as talented as those guys, and will mostly be sticking with off the shelf mods, but I dooooo fancy some mirrored bits...

Heres the crack so far....

I acquired my mothers 8yr old PC (AMD Duron 700Mhz (now overclocked to 800Mhz ), 128Mb RAM , 8Gb HDD ...not exactly NASA...) and set about it (after being suitably impressed to find that it would run Unreal Tournament ).

I started by painting the original beige (ewwwwwww...) case silver....didn't go well so I ordered some new bits from ebuyer, and set about it properly.

I ordered a new case, some tri-colour cathodes, round IDE and floppy cables (floppy now removed - I weren't usin' it, and the cable was messy...) and a bio-hazard fan grill.

I set about the old beast with a screwdriver, ripping bits out and throwing them over my shoulder (muppet chef stylee), before refitting in the new case (tidying what wires I could behind the metalwork).

The wires are next on the list for deletion - I'll extend 'em (properly, not like in the pics...) and hide em away somwhere...or at least make em look tidier - I SOOOOOOO HATE WIRES!!!!!!!

Heres how she looks...

The next bits to go on order are.....

2 x blue UV reactive 80mm fans
1 x blue LED 120mm fan
2 x 4" blue cathodes
2 x 4" (maybe 12") UV cathodes
Some mirrored thin stuff (not sure what just yet, to cover up the rank metalwork - what I cant cover with mirror I'll paint)
UV reactive cable tidying (maybe heatshrink, if I can find it...I SOOOOOOO HATE WIRES!!!!!!!)
Some shorter IDE cables (single headers, if such a thing exists)
Black DVD R/W (the beige CD R/W looks mingin)

Erm, I think thats about it.

Oh and if anyone knows where I can get one, I'd like a blue fan (LED or UV reactive) for the processor heatsink... or maybe a big copper heatsink....mmmmm that'd be nice....

Since I'm kinda low on inspiration, if ya have any cool ideas, pitch 'em, and we'll see where it goes.

Once this ones kinda done, I'll set about a new one, for the full mod treatment.

I'll keep ya updated.

Cheers,

Drew

[XCruiserGamer]

Have you tried http://www.xoxide.com. They have some neat stuff.

[Drew]

Bingo!

'Aint they got some kit?

I have a new favourite friend.....

Drew

:edit: My pics have disappeared :-(
:edit2: Sussed it, bandwidth exceeded :-(
:edit3: Changed hostage, much better ... bloody geocities...

[Rankenphile]

not too shabby, mate.

[vidas7de7jesus7]

In my humble opinion (but remember, this is only my opinion) I would upgrade the motherboard and parts before you go buying a new heatsink. Save yourself a few bucks. All the other stuff is pretty much stick it where you like, but the heatsink is usually processor specific. And it's pretty nice overall. That tri-color throws the scheme off a bit (I like the whole blue and black thing, keep that up). I've heard the pros say that two colors should be max for lights. It was either that, or two colors overall. You get to many colors and the picture gets "busy." Other than that, very good. If you look in your area, there might be someone who can chrome those bits for you. *devilish smile* Might cost a little bit, but should be worth it having all that shiny metal loveliness.

[Drew]

Completely agree about the lights, the tri-colour seemed like a good idea at the time, but I wasn't happy with 'em as soon as I fitted em.

For a time I had the green and red taped off so it was just blue, but it looked a bit.....well, crap really with the tape. New blue cathodes on order.

Motherboard upgrade....definitely warrant due consideration, theres some lovely pre-lit heatsinks about for other processors...and the kids could use a PC for their homework...I feel a plan coming on...

And Chrome? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

I like the way you think my man.

Drew

[d_stilgar]

I actually like the tri color cathodes. I like the whole mod too. We all start somewhere.

[Omega]

haha, i have a 700mhz athlon. muhc love. <3


makes sense that it can run UT, though, since that's a computer of the same era.



aaaaanywho, i would say to pick a single color, or two (that compliment each other, red and blue is a no), and go with those.

EDIT:

use http://www.lotechdesigns.com/host
it's run by lotech, one of the forum members, it's free, 10mb file limit, etc. always up.

[Drew]

Thanks for the link Omega, piccys now hosted by lotech...many thanks Lotech, whoever and wherever you are..................

Drew

[Drew]

Oi oi, small update...

Done a bit more cable managing, lookin a bit better now...and I've found out that soldering is harder than it seems...or maybe my iron is poo?

Also removed the CD ROM (weren't usin' it) and the floppy drive is out too now, just need to figure out what I'll put in the holes to replace 'em (I lost the blanks from the original build, D'oh!).

Anywho, this is what she looks like now....

Ran outta heatshrink, so the cathodes 'aint fired up yet, but I'm still well chuffed.

The mirrors are just laid in there to get a feel for how it'll look (still can't find any thin mirrored plastic yet), but like I said, I'm well happy with the look so far, just a shame it's not half as tidy behind the motherboard tray....

Drew