Thanks to everyone who voted for Arya in MOTM. Arya found her place in my living room. Cable menagment is a mess since I still need to short PSU cables and modify it. I added PSU connector mount Current state of PSu (will be passive when I make my own heatsinks). Arya's place in living room. I still need to mount plexi and metal mesh, modify PSU and paint everthing.
Nice work man! You need to put that thing on a pedestal or something though, not hide it in the corner.
Thank you Ocelot. I am happy that I can even keep Arya in living room since mom want to throw her out.
Ok, it's been four months since last update. Arya was in use, so no changes has been made. I purchased a new camera so now I will show her state before I continue this project. Not very pretty and has a lot of wires. But I changed that today-I unsoldered all unneeded cables and shorened the main 24 pin cable. Metal mesh was intaled in PSU section and all fitted nicely. No more wire mess there. I also swap the stock loud 80 mm fan with small laptop turbine fan. I still need to add resistor that fan to keep noise level acceptable since PSU doesn't have auto fan control.
Yeah, I was busy, but still, that is no excuse for stopping with this project. My goal is to complete this project in one week.
Well, the isn't much work left to do-sleeving, little bit of soldering, cut plexi window, mount some things and paint whole case. Since I changed my mind about color (black instead mahagony) that will same me a 4 days of work.
PSU cables are finished-they all are shortened and sleeved. New fan got resistor soldered to run quiet and it also has cable in paracord. Now everything looks good without cable mess.
It took me a little bit longer to post new update. Allmost everything is completed, and I only have to install window and sort some minor thing and that is it. Arya now looks quite different, matte black color scheme fits her shape really well. And my pictures looks better (finally ).
I got some bad news-MBO and PSU in Arya are dead. It happened yesterday-due to condensation on window above my desk, some water found it's way to my wall socket and as a result I lost Arya, printer and speakers. Two wall sockets are also dead. My monitor was only thing that survived. Today I send MBO on RMA, but I still haven't tested RAM, HDD and LED controller-there is around 95 % chance that they are dead also. This is major setback, but will continue with work on the case itself.
I am almost sure that accidental damage is not covered under RMA. Do you have home content insurance?
You are 100 % right-that is not covered under RMA, but there is still a chance it will pass. No, I don't have any insurance.
