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    Default GraniteCase

    Hello people!

    1st, i will introduce myself!:

    I'm Pieter Veenstra, and i'm 18 years old, and i live in the Netherlands (small ****hole)My english is very poor, but i do my best!

    I started casemodding when i was 15 years old or something, and this is mysecond casemod i have made.
    My parents have a stone machining company, so thats were the idea came from.
    The material coms from Sweden, and is called: Light Labrador, or Bleu Pearl.
    The normall price of this stuff is $150 m² not polished or anything.
    But i got it for free

    I started building my case in January 2006, and now its almost done!

    The Hardware:

    CPU: AMD Opteron 165 Dual Core (S939)
    GPU: ATi Radeon X1800GTO By: Sapphire
    Mobo:ECS nForce4 A-939
    HD's: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320gb, Maxtor 80gb (both S-ata)
    PSU: BeQuiet 600 watt's
    Mem:1536mb DDR1 400mhz

    I will not translate everything of my worklog on Gathering.Tweakers.net, and will also not post every picture here.
    But it will give you a good idea of the whole working process.

    Pics, form the start till now:


    Sponsor, from my GPU


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    1st few steps
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    Some machinery
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    Total view
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    The weight on that moment.
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    Front
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    On/Off Button
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    Front Fan inside
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    DVD Drive
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    Total view
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    Between Panel
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    Part 2


    Building the topcase for the PSU, and HD's

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    Upper Side window
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    Graphics!
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    Thanks to:






    Motherboard tray
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    Rear, and front from the topcase:
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    Fitting, and Glueing the topcase
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    Mobotray on light:
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    Overview again
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    Inside:

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    Part 3


    Front panel inside:
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    @ light:
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    @ night:
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    Inside again with primer:
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    Panels painted:
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    Lights on!

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    Topcase inner panels:


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    Inside view:

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    Topcase lights + overview
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    (ALMOST) FINAL PRODUCT!!!

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    Last pictures taken:

    @ tBCL 2007

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    I won the 2nd Jury price @ this contest!



    And about €650,- of prices!

    The PSU is changed already, by a BeQuiet 600watt modulair, and i'm going to change the HD stickers also....

    BTW....the final weight of the case is 72kg!

    If there are any questions...just ask

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    Default Re: GraniteCase

    wow...
    looking good!

    +subscribe & +rep;

    That will look awesome when it's finished. A thing of beauty.
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    Default Re: GraniteCase

    Welcome to the TBCS forum Pieter and you already know that I like your Granite case.

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    lol thats gonna be one heavy mf!... but it looks like.... = wow!... has anyone ever attemped this before xD??? make a cool inner and this would be GOLD!...

    +rep!
    is that a 120.9 raddy on your case, or are you just happy to see me?

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    Well he was at 35kg(~80ish lbs or something) with only the bottom section and no hardware.

    Im willing to bet this case ends up somewhere around 130lbs. Awesome though, I love it. Gotta love having the right tools for the job around, I only wish.

    Great case. Love it. Just don't try bringing that one to a lan party hehe.

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    Hey! I know you I've been checking that out on GoT and am very happy that you brought it here for the rest of us. Thank you and welcome!
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    WOW, what a way to introduce himself
    Amazing work!!!

    Welcome to the forum, and please stay long. And BTW, don't worry about your english, your work speak for you.

    +rep for sure

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    freekin sweet
    +rep
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