Scratch Build – In Progress Completed WWII Online case-

Here is the final assembly stages which took a few days:





It is getting really busy in here:


not easy to get the monitor in there but it fits great:



the left side:


this view really looks sweet:


the back side, I have Nanboshi connectors instead of C13 and USB:



the left side showing wide angle diffuser air intake, speaker and lifting handle:



Lots of info avaliable on the front bezel:


time to get this thing to breath some fire:




the gauges from the game look great with the front panel


compared to the concept drawing it turned out quite well:




The specs are:
Saxon Computers Hemmed LCD Case with Keyboard Slide
4 Honeycomb Airflow Straighteners from Saxonpc.com
GIGABYTE GA-965QM-DS2 LGA Q965 Express Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Superclocked PCI Express Video Card
Western Digital Raptor X WD150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
HIPER HPU-4B580 12V v2.2 580W Power Supply
OCZ Platinum 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (loaner chip employee benefit)
ViewSonic's 20.1" VX2025wm widescreen LCD
HIPER HCK-1S18- Silver Slim Clavier Keyboard
Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVDSATA Model AWG170S-B2
AeroCool TURBINE 1000 120mm Fan
LINKSYS WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router
HAWKING HWUG1 USB 2.0 Wireless-G Adapter with Removable Antenna
ALTEC LANSING Speakers
Logitech 931379-0403 Cordless Notebook Mouse
Fieon Digital HYN104-BLU 4-Port Hub


Thanks to:
Barry Sharp &
Shawn Erickson for endless questions and listening to verbal updates
Slaymate and Hardware Hell for sporting my worklog and questions
Logan Goodenough for sacrificing dad playtime for PC building time.
Charlie FM 97.1
Donna Essenburg for her great customer service

 

Dude, that case looks awesome! Great Job!

BTW, sorry for your lost

 

quick question:
how did you hook up your hour meter? i have one too and i'm unsure how to hook it up

 

If you have the same brand the hookups are on the back top. the pinout is on the website of the manufacturer. I had too look as it came with 0 documentation. Let me know your brand and I'll help you figure it out, or get a flashlight and look again

 

Lighted shots

I got around to getting some lighted shots.


You can see alot of what is going on with the lights on:


I like the lights on those fans, for one I could not get thtem to be switchable, and they glow very faint diffused LED's, not bright like some fans.

I was a little worried the diffuser would make noise as it does it's work, but it is dead quiet and you can tell it is drawing air very even.






Here is a 1/2 dark shot so you can see the body too.



I may go back in and add a regular 2.0 amp, oh man that will be sweet to have this baby crank some good tunes too. It goes plenty loud for gaming and youtube, but not for a party PC 7.2 surround

 

Nice job! I like how everything fits so nearly and the industrial-esq feel of the bolts. I didn't realise it was a TFT on the front at first

 

Thanks for the comment. I am very happy there is not one phillips head screw on this case. The button head allens turned out great, and you can disassemble the whole case with one allen wrench. I am still trying to figure out what photo looks best to show it has a TFT inside.
Here is a pic with the inside used as the wallpaper:

 

Nice!

 

mo' pics

The two request for photos I have recieved of course were from Shawn and Barry, the folks I thanked for many electronics Q: they wanted to see more pics of the connector to the ouside world, and Barry wanted to see something on the monitor more interesting than WWII Online (Yaaaaawn) He was bored on that game. So here is some other screen shots, anyone got tips on filming the LCD?




And the connector to the outside world. Only the 3 pin AC, rated at 10amp, and the 5 pin for gaming joystick. I may order another 5 pin and hook it USB, but I rarely use USB 'cept for the camera. These Nanaboshi connectors are from Kinetic Technologies of Ohio. They are a great vendor and really helped me ascertain the right configurations.



I also meant to post this pic of the LCD cover being removed.



And it was noted that the last pics I posted the wires look pretty messy.
Considering is has all the PC wires and wires usually running behind the desk I think it turned out OK for 2 days of soldering. Here is how the wires look before the monitor goes in.



And one pic of the top which was not posted.

 

Here with a temporary clear top I took a photo of smoke going into the intake and passing through about a dozen honeycomb cells for cooling. There are about 450 cells but I can only do this to a few at one time.




The dual diffusers are working great. Here they are being tested with an anemometer for flow rate. 3.5mph at the cells, and still 3.1mph flow past the CPU heatsink.

I had this side off so I took some pics of how the monitor mounts in there.

 

would be nice if you add an handle.