Case Mod - In Progress Project Oldschool HTPC - Update 2008-06-24 - front panel progress

This is the thread to present my work on the mod i called HTPC. It's a little bit oldschool-like,so hang on for my new posts and photos.

 

so this is the begining..the old desktop ATX case,bought for the equivalent of 10$ at a store with used computer parts.

from the front side..

without any plastic pieces,just skeleton..

 

well,let's see, whether the pictures will be shown

 

umm cool another modder, and welcome to bit-tech.
theres like no pictures!

 

try uploading photos to www.photobucket.com and then copy the img links across from there

 

yeah what he said

 

ok,i'll try do it that way

 

so trying to use photobucket:
the first three pictures:

 

it works greatthanks guys for this

 

I wanted to tune-up the back plate, so i use angle grinder (i suppose it's good translation) with cutting wheel in it to make a window:



then as you can see,i made some soldering of the holes, that there were.

 

haha nice old school case! ill keep an eye on this!

 

glad you got pics working

 

thanks..and the front of the new design will be more oldschool that you can imagine. it'll look like 70' radio or something like that. keep an eye on this an you'll see

 

Next thing to try is to use the "Edit" button instead of double, triple,... posts

 

oops..i'm using F5 button,but that dont work that way and the posts are posted twice or triple times i have to manage with that and do not pres F5

 

i have to say something about hardware,that is planned to be inside this monster. because i have some old PC parts at home,i decided to use them. (father wanted to buy a DVD player,but using spare parts,the PC will be better and cheaper) so this computer will be low-end as well. the parts that i have at home (and they're already installed) are:
gigabyte 865 full atx motherboard
P4 2,8 GHz CPU (Prescott)
Geforce FX5600 128MB graphic card
and some DDR I memories
really weak, heating configuration to build HTPC. but cost is cost and they were at home for nothing...
So the aim was to build HTPC,quiet and able to cool that prescott stuff... nothing,except HDD and DVD-RW drive was buy as new, all others were used parts.
so this is the explanation of cooling stuff inside and the low-cost design.

 

i have this cooler master cooler for a good price, so here it is:

but there isn't the right kit to use it with intel s775

well,i had one stock cooler for intel,that was never used..so i cut it and then i have to file the hole from 32 mm diameter to 40

so this was the right way and after spraying the piese of metal and polishing the cooler base,this was the product:


after adding some rubber silentblocks and AC 9L fan:


and i had to make a plastic backplate for this cooler,using screws to attach it to MB.

so hang on for more photos,guys...

 

the second thing a did was to modify the power supply..i don't like that in almost every power supplies fan is blowing inside it perpendicularly to the output mesh.so i decided to modify the supply tu use another fan (thermaltake silent wheel) and to attach it non-perpendicular..so watch the pictures, the tuning is evident...


all parts that i used:






it's good to have the cabels labeled to know which one is from which place:

so,let's go and finish it:

welded sides to the top of this tin,using MIG welding machine

with attached fan on it:

detail of cable,sorry for badly focused pisture

so there it is:

 

Nice mod on the Power Supply duder

 

so this was the supply mod. and now, the backplate as well..do you remember the window i cut out? so the product is here:



i used Cu wires and soldered them parallel to each other to make a grill.after spraying up with black color, this is it...
and DVD bay - i have to cut out a piece of metal which was in collision with CPU cooler:

then i cut the pieces which should ¨have been for mounting HDD bay, cause i mount HDD into 5.25 position so i throw that HDD bay away and get rid of that mounting pieces on the DVD bay:

necessary silentblocks (i use them everywhere is needed...)

so that's it for today,post me your comments and critics of course. i have another maybe 20 pictures of case on my HDD and nowadays i'm working on the front panel of this case.