Project: Shining Sun > Construction complete > 18th June

Discussion in 'Project Logs' started by olv, 13 May 2003.

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  1. Madyeti

    Madyeti Supermodder & sig shrinking victim

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    I Love it olv! Great work! I might have to start planning out a acrylic cube of myself, I'm getting the twitches just looking at the beauty... :D

    ~David
     
    Madyeti, 19 Jun 2003
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  2. Dredog

    Dredog What's a Dremel?

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    Good job OLV,

    I had the same idea of using the metal brackets to connect the corners of the case i'm going to make. Glad to see that it looks nice on yours. I must say you did a pretty good job considering that it was your first mod. I only hope that mine will look as good as yours.
     
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  3. olv

    olv he's so bright

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    thanks for the comments guys, i'm glad u like it.

    As for the heatsink, this Alpha PAL is designed to have the air sucked through it but apparantly it works just aswell with the fan blowing onto it. Most heatsink i think are designed to have air blown onto them. i might flip it over and see if i get a difference in temps.

    i look forward to see a project log from u Dredog :thumb:
     
    olv, 19 Jun 2003
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  4. Lord_A

    Lord_A Boom baby!

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    Nice work dude :clap:

    I would change the wooden (that's what they look like to me, I haven't read the whole thread :blush: ) motherboard mounts to clear ones using acrylic or perspex.
     
    Lord_A, 19 Jun 2003
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  5. Caged

    Caged What's a Dremel?

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    I've got that board, but it has a passive northbridge - and no serial number :worried:
     
    Caged, 19 Jun 2003
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  6. Devil_H@ck

    Devil_H@ck What's a Dremel?

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    Hm, I thought it was designed to be blown on?
    My fan's blowing :).
    And I think most heatsinks are designed to have a fan suck air out of them.

    I'm probably totally wrong :wallbash:.
     
    Devil_H@ck, 19 Jun 2003
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  7. mclean007

    mclean007 Officious Bystander

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    mclean007, 19 Jun 2003
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  8. olv

    olv he's so bright

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    Yes most heatsink should have the fans blowing onto them but in the ALPHA instruction manual the diagrams show the fan fitted to suck air out and this has been mentioned in other threads.

    I get an idle temp of 35degrees so i'm happy with it sucking, so to speak lol.
     
    olv, 19 Jun 2003
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  9. ouija

    ouija Trust me, I am doctor!

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    I would have had the intake closer to the heatsink, or have the fan on it blowing down the fins. Maybe you should test temps with both methods?
     
    ouija, 19 Jun 2003
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  10. olv

    olv he's so bright

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    when i have recovered from building it i shall swap all the fans over and see if it makes a difference.
     
    olv, 19 Jun 2003
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  11. djengiz

    djengiz Pointless.

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    Super case!
     
    djengiz, 19 Jun 2003
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  12. yodasarmpit

    yodasarmpit Modder

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    Very nice there olv :thumb:

    The L-brackets look a lot nicer than I had imagined, and that is a sweet looking mobo.
     
    yodasarmpit, 19 Jun 2003
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  13. olv

    olv he's so bright

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    Thx, the mobo is great appart from the onboard gf4 mx is ridiculously unstable, i couldn't even install winXP when using it and i cant even keep it in windows long enough for it to finish installing the drivers. With a dedicated agp card its rock solid stable.
     
    olv, 19 Jun 2003
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  14. the_secret

    the_secret What's a Dremel?

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    -> great work olv :thumb: and props to your granddad :thumb:
    -> are you still going to do the sun design?
    -> maybe you could test how it looks by printing the sun on some overhead transparency's?
     
    the_secret, 19 Jun 2003
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  15. ouija

    ouija Trust me, I am doctor!

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    Errr.. just noticed the optical drive nearly blocking the intake fan :eyebrow: Wasn't it originally going to be horizontal?
     
    ouija, 19 Jun 2003
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  16. olv

    olv he's so bright

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    Yes u are right on both account ouija.

    The drive was going to be flat but it was easier to fit it in vertically. It does partically block the intake fan, about a third of it but this is ok as soom of the air will be circulated around the HDD aswell as getting pushed under the gfx card.

    Cooling seems to work very well with a pretty much constant ambient temp of 25 and load temps of 38.
     
    olv, 19 Jun 2003
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  17. olv

    olv he's so bright

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    the testing method is a very possible solution, i'll look into it
    thx for the idea.
     
    olv, 19 Jun 2003
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  18. Boz

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    very nice work there. like the whole colour scheme and cant wait to see what it will look like finished :)
     
    Boz, 19 Jun 2003
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  19. the_secret

    the_secret What's a Dremel?

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    -> your welcome, glad i could help :D
     
    the_secret, 19 Jun 2003
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  20. NiHiLiST

    NiHiLiST New-born car whore

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    I never thought amber LEDs could look cool but you've totally proven me wrong olv :rock:
     
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