Project: Silence of The Fans **New Pics Mounted IR Reciver**

Silence Of The Fans

I just want to say that this site rocks!, I been wanting to get my hands dirty and make a cool case for my micro ATX mobo. This is going to be one of 3 computer that I am going to build.

This computer is just going to be a media station I am building Hannibal a 1000GB storage server and Red Dragon a Xtreme Game Station.

here are the specs:

Intel Pentium 3 1.0 GHZ
PCCHIPS M773MR+ Micro-ATX
512 MB RAM 133MHZ
40 GB 2.5" Hard drive
CD-RW/DVD Slim Drive
Creative DVD Remote

I am going for a clean-high tech look the high of the case is going to be 1.5"


the dimentions H 1.5" L 7.5" W 9.5"

 

moddin the Heatsink

The heatsink is 1/2" taller that the highest point in the mobo so we have to cut 1/2 off of the heatsink.




Now the heatsink is 1" tall with the fan.

Since all of you know how to cut aluminum I will not go into the process.


after I cut the top of the heat sink I mount the fan using afew drops of glue of the four conners of the fan. I put some thermal grease and connect every thing and turn on the pc the temperature sits at a 46C at full load . so no over heating problems even in a 90F weather. I will upload pictures tomorrow for some reason my camera only knows one word ERROR.

 

just a sketch like I think I want to build it but then again we all change the design along the way . On the left we have the power button the the power led and the HDD led then we have a volume control(the gray round thingy. we have a small maybe a 2x??? LCD. then we have a connection for earphones and the gray round things are where the IR detectors are going to be one for the wireless keyboard & mouse and one for the remote control. simple yet elengant let me know what you guys think on the arrangement or do I need to add something or remove.


by the way the cd-drive opens from the lef side, the ram was in the way otherwise I would have put it ontop of the LCD.

 

i have an idea. how about making thing a wee bit taller and putting hdd and dvd in very bottom, under the mobo?

 

It does seem it would be easier if you just made the case a little bigger.
try fitting things in using SketchUp. (see my sig)

 

I might go to 2" inches but it seems a bit too high. but I would be able to fit a Radio reciver (usb FM)

 

I have very bad luck my logitech Z-680 speaker amplifier unit whent up in smoke, since I only had one year of warranty and that year already pass I am stuck with it but the I saw that it had some cool heatsinks that I am going to use for my case.

 

2.5" to 3.5" Adapter

I just got my Adapters on the mail.

 

IR Reciver

 

pics dont work for me. Sorry to hear about your Z680s, they do have a nice heatsink unit on the amp though

 

Sorry about that I am moving to another server. Check back in a while.

 

Pics work now, very cool stuff, that is one TINY hard drive!!

 

Got My CPU

I got my Pentium 3 1GHZ cpu On the mail today. I order the Slimline converter for my CDRW-DVD Drive.


After that I am going to start building the case from Sheetmetal and Lexan.

 

Hmm, the only pics i see are those in your last post. I dont even see red x'es were the other photos should be...

 

same for me

 

Only red x's

 

I see em, I just don't know where you're goin with it lol.

 

Pics are good now......

Looking good so far! Keep up the "tiny" work....

 

Pics are down, except for those hotlinked...

 

None of your pics work for me except the ones in post 13.