Project R2-D2 PC

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My 1 year old daughter loves R2 too.

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Today I worked on the temp LCD for the Processor.

Here's it's new home.

Here's the temp in my basement.

Here's how not to install it upside down kiddies.

I cut out the area. What you can see is the front of the Vapochill.

And installed.

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I forgot this...

I retested the LED's for R2's head.

Here's a zoom in of the smaller one.

And I've prepped to have the mobo mounted. I'm just waiting for one more thing to arrive. Another Gig of RAM! It'll be 2GB total.

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My new temp LCD has a female molex and all the molex ends from the PSU are female too. I needed to have a adapter that has two male molex connectors. I did not have one in stock so I made one. Using a female to male adapter, I added another male molex to it by soldering.

Next up is a question I'd like to ask of everyone. I have a clear drive bay cover that I'd like to add to R2 to act as a window, but not deflect from the "look" of R2. I painted it blue to match the exterior.

As you can see it's still see thru.

The question is where to put it if at all?

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Instead of the blue window, I still need to install my DVD drive. I could put it in one of the blue spots above with the face painted to match.

Also, my 2nd gig of memory arrived!

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Some have asked to see the whole interior and so here it is:

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The motherboard is ready for installation.

Go figure, the Temp Sensor is about two inches short.....

Here's the inside so far. Go figure, I was in a hurry to see it with the video card in and now I'll have to take it out. I won't be able to reach under the Video card to install my PCI cards and screw them in unless I do.

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Here's the problem. My motherboard may not be compatible with the Vapochill. I have been doing test runs and some wiring modding to hopefully fix this problem without having to buy another mobo. Although I may HAVE to. The Vapochill does work and during the last use I got this:

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I removed my PSU and motherboard so they could be tested without the Vapochill attached. My PSU ran fine.

But somewhere inbetween coming out of AF1 and going in to R2D2, my mobo is Dead.

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My new mobo arrived. It's the Abit IC7-G.

And after the vapochill got down to -10 the system booted just fine.

Here's some pics with all the fans working. I don't think I'll be adding any cathodes.

Here's my CPU temp in the BIOS.

And my current OC of 3.61Ghz from 3.2. I will do more, I just need to do some testing to see how stable it currently is. Then I'll need to probably play around with the memory and CPU ratio's and CPU voltage. I want to get it up to 4Ghz stable.