I can never think of a good name when it comes down to it. But hey... I like this one. Anyhoo... lets begin First off, the reason for finally doing this project is my watercooled SN85G4 finally crapped out. I don't know what happened, but hey, wanted to do this for awhile anyways. MAKING EXTERNAL LCD CASE Haven't recieved any of the actual computer parts in the mail yet, so I began mounting the LCD to a hacked up dead cd-rw drive. I rather like putting my LCD under my monitors, hence no reason for mounting it in the case itself. I didn't get every picture of each step in here, mainly because I forgot. Here is 2.5 inches of the cover primed and ready for paint. The feet (rather foot) cut and ready to be clued together to make one solid piece. The feet being super-glued together. The feet after copious amounts of sanding and filing. The feet after painting the bottom and edges. This was a base coat of silver-with black on top. Left the side and front edges unpainted for nice LED action. I plan on having 3 LEDs of different colors mounted in the plexiglass for LCDC to tell me when I have email.
OOO FIRST PACKAGE Look what came while I was out painting I wonder what is inside. Nice. It is my Lightscribe CD-R's and DVD+R's along with the Lite-On DVD/CD Writer and the brain of the beast... AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Dual Core goodness
you need special lightscribe cd's/dvd's ? i always thougt the burner is important... until now i dont have furter impressions
Yes, unfortunatly. And they are a bit more expensive that plain old CD-Rs as well. But... they are really cool
FINISHED MO LCD BOX Alrighty, after the paint dried... I finished up the LCD box. Two pics of the wiring of the LEDs Test shots of LCD in action Thats it for today, tomorrow the rest of the rig should be here.
Hrmm, I will follow this project for some more reading material. Hope to see some really good things out of this fellow. Any plans you can show?
Well.. as far as a drawn out plan? No.. do not have that. And ultimatly, this is not going to be one of those hardcore mods you see. Don't have the time, nor (IMHO) the skill for something of that caliber. But, mainly, it's going to be a black and uv red themed case. No intricate modding here. Plan on keeping the clean look of the Lian-Li. I've got to get all the material together, then see exactly what will come of it. Because if I know myself, it will never turn out exactly what I had in my head. Just waiting on UPS after work today.
PARTS PARTS PARTS Yesterday, I recieved (most) of my parts. So lets get to those! That would be: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe ATI X1900XT 2 GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 Sitting on top of a Lian Li PC-7 Plus 5 feet of Tygon Tubing Swiftech Apogee (for which I still need the socket AM2 hold-down) Swiftech MCW60 with BGA ramsinks Vortec 600W Sleeved (UV Red) PSU 2 Samsung 160GB SATA2 HDDs 2 Black Ice GT Stealth 120 XFlow 2 Red Fan Grills Vantec Sound Dampeners for PSU and Fans Alphacool Laing DDC Acrylic Top Laing DDC Pump from SN85G4 case Alphacool Slot Resevior with UV Led CONSTRUCTION First off, I took the massive cooling fan off the X1900XT and mounted the much smaller GPU block and ramsinks Next the mounting of the radiators and fans Front Fan (just fits behind front bezel of case) Front Radiator Rear fan and Radiator Had to "move" the existing mounting holes about half a hole width up so that I could actually screw into the radiator mounting holes. Thats about all I had gotten done yesterday. I'll do an update later on tonight after I get work done today. (Would like to apologize for the horrible pictures, but apparently my house has no good lighting for taking photos... and my camera is... horrible)
Lindale! Tyler here... Went to Home Depot to get some more parts today... Should be posting pics of mostly everything later on this evening.
Haha Tyler Im the Assistant Systems Administrator at UT Tyler I also have some friends from McKinney, ah the small world of the Bit Tech forums
COME TOGETHER Things are comming together now. Still waiting on my 2 CCFL's and the AM2 hold-down. But I have things to show you all. LOGO MAKING Since the project has a name, it must need a logo. Of course, that says Black Demon in Chinese. (Demon, Ghost, Spirit, etc.) Hopefully, it will be painted as such, in red paint. (Getting to that in a little while) I printed the logo mirrored on a fullsize label sheet. Then my little chinese helper got the exacto knife out. COPPER ROX I like copper tubing. And the motherboard has those nice little copper heatpipes on it. Aaaand, since I ran out of tygon... I decided to make something that matches. Here is me, bending some copper tubing to "extend" the radiator. Polished up. This recieved a clearcoat to keep that shine on it, but it doesnt really look any different.
MORE PICS Here are some more pics of most of the computer put together. Alphacool Repack Hoses into the Repack Fillport installed at top of the case. Laing DDC pump with acrylic top installed. ATI X1900XT installed and hosed up. Another shot of the rear radiator. Right behind that radiator. T-Line and DVD writer HDD's installed. Three shots of the copper pipe installed in the case. Whole case all UV'd up. Front wires glowing Bottom wires glowing
Well.. it looks as though... the logo idea will not work. Need to find a place to make custom appliques