After almost 2 years trolling around here, I'm finally going to do something of my own. Project USMC. Work will officially begin tonight. My computer is currently housed in the case, so I'll be taking everything out and moving to a temp case. Here's pictures of the case I'll be using.
On top of the case is a Maxtor 80 Gig USB HDD. The shell for this will be painted also. Probably black with red accents. I'm also planning on changing the LED's from green to red.
I suck at cable management right now. That will be fixed with this mod.
The design:
System specs:
Soyo motherboard with onboard sound (don't remember the model number ATM)
Intel P4 2.66 Ghz socket 478 processor
1 Gb Kingston 333Mhz DDR RAM
internal - 160 Gb Seagate HDD with Windows XP Pro
internal - 40 Gb Maxtor HDD with Windows Vista
external - 80 Gb Maxtor USB HDD. Stores music, pics, docs, apps..
BFI Technologies NVIDIA 5950 Ultra 256 Mb AGP - *need to replace the fans somehow
Sony video capture card/TV Tuner
Linksys 10/100 NIC. The SOYO onboard NIC 5uX0rZ
2 - 80mm red/blue LED fans
1 - 80mm blue LED fan
Speakers - Labtec 2.1 system that I got almost 10 years ago. These things STILL rock the house.
Unknown brand DVD and CD burners. Might only go with 1 Optical drive. The DVD burner does everything I need.
That's about all for now. I'll post up some pics tonight. My oldest daughter (11 yrs) has been begging me to let her build a computer, so I'm going to have her help me transfer this one to it's new case. Comments, questions, suggestions, and constructive criticism are always welcome.