Freaking amazing, i love it, it looks great, just get that new psu in there and make it look purdy! Sorry about the processor!
Awesome ideas. great lookin and original. i love the idea of cutting out the whole front bezel...especially since my current project is the same exact case! though i never entertained the thought of gutting the bezel. great job
Looks like a got a turn of good luck today.... My Aunt came up to me today blameing me for incorectly installing her cpu (she has had the computer for 4 years...?) (I took the foam pads off I guess) she took the computer to a repair place and to the tune of 130$ got it fixed.... She gave me the old cpu so I could see what I did wrong... Just for fun I stuck it in my comp it worked fine! The chip is a duron 700Mhz witch you can buy for 20$ they probably reset the cmos and put a new chip in and charged her 130$ .. .... RIP OFF haha Well lets see how fast a duron 700 can go with this giant cooler.... This is probably going to be a temporary CPU untill I get out and buy an other 2500.. but is it really worth it? Heres a scanned version of my dead 2500...
j/w mate, are you planning on painting the actual case behind the front plexi/bezel? It all looks sweet and all, especially those kick ass plexi fan grills, but the light grey is just glaring at me. Keep up the good work
Dead CPU.. Looks like you crunched the corner of the die. If you put too much pressure on a bare die CPU, you crush the solder under the chip and it shorts out. I did this to an A1000 when I tried to remove one of those 'Orb' heatsinks, damn thing had a spring clip with like 50lbs of force on it. The chip was undamaged, not a scratch, but when I powered it up, the bottom of the package smoked. Maked you wonder why AMD has such high heatsink pressure when they have a bare chip face-down soldered to the ceramic/plastic package. Re: IOpeners The chip you want is a K6-III+ 450, they are very rare, but burn less power for a 450 than the K6-II and have 2x the cache on die to boot! You have to tweak the CPU core voltage to use them, but the machine really hums with a 450 / 256K L2 CPU. About as fast as a Pentium III 400 http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/K6-III
Correct mounting pressure for an amd is 25lbs, p4 is 60ish Why remove the foam pads? they're there to stop things like moving the pc from upright to side or vica versa from damaging the core... I killed a 1700+ by overtightening a waterblock onto it Nice mod btw
Great post - for some reason I never thought of relocating a PSU away from the back wall of a case. I have a case right now that I was thinking of modding and had almost given up because the PSU crowds and overhands the CPU and RAM. I think I'll move the PSU to the bottom front and add a blowhole on top.
The exact reason I didn't get one of those HUGE coolers and instead went with a Thermalright SI-97 (Read a lot of reviews which proved lower temperatures and a LOT less strain on the socket) .... Sorry to hear about your cpu though, I hope you don't run into any more problems with this project :|
the deal seems pretty good if its just mainly for the motherboard, cpu, Hdd's, *jippo ram, and then just other un*important components to me like. motherboards about £80 cpu about £160 hdd's about £70 ram about £40 roughly double it to get $ about $700?
Tigerdirect.com had 2 deals, buy an X-connect or buy an X-connect with a case, Both were the same price Click here that DFI board has many connectors on the back with no other mods half life 2 runs 2X faster than my old board. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- well the X-connect doesent fit... Hummmmm what should I do the next 4 pictures are about 2hrs worth of work I instantly noticed something different when i turned on my pc, the harddrives spin up much faster --------------------------------------------------------------------------
I see redxs, all the time Sounds like you got a really sweet deal, hope you didn't mangle the purdy psu too badly (can't see pics so really can't tell how bad the moddage was).
What do you think of createing the front panel as a flat piece of black plexi and make it open like a door? kinda like this "modern" case also I want the side window to have some sort of design. similar to the front fan.... any ideas?
I need a computer to play the fine folk here at bit tech are helping me get it ready anyway lookie what came today What could it be? Its one of them there 10K harddrives As for the case, My bandsaw blade is broken so cuting plexi to finish this project has been put on hold. to do: 1. fix tools 2. cut front panel plexi (again) 3. mount hinges 4. tint everything 5. get a VFD behind the tint 6. wait for my new cpu and watercooling to arrive.. zzzzz this thing is a little over due but its finally comeing together
