Project X-1 (rev.a) [Update 24-05-'04] [ON HOLD]

Project on HOLD.

-=====-Sorry all, have got allot to do latley and my project has to be haulted for a while.
When I get back to it, I'll let you all know.-=====-


Hi all,
Along with this being my first post here,... it's my first mod too
This'll be a 'milk run' for my next workstation I plan on building(no point in trashing a new machine,.. I am a newbie remember).
The specs of the rig are:
C3 full tower 'smoked' acrylic case
Asus A7M266-D Dual mobo
2 AMD 2000+ MP
1GB DDR
1 IDE 200GB HD 7200rpm <-- (-- edit--NOT 200MB Thanks Balder )
1 IDE 120GB HD 7200rpm
2 SCSI 36GB HD 10000rpm
Haven't decided what DVD/RW to get yet so I'll stick with my 12x CDRW

Anyway my case arrived a couple of days ago and to my horror, the bottom end of the mounting blocks(on the front panel) had become 'unstuck'.



A better view (slipped a card between so you can see what I meen)



Time to give our patient his 'shot'.



Awww all in bandages.



Ok, ok already! I know it's not a mod, just a quick fixbut hey .

Just a quick fitting to see how well my Zalman ZM-WB2 waterblocks sit in place.



Looks pretty cool huh?,...
... and then I noticed that the motherboard had NO mounting holes in it GREAT!!! Now what?,...



Yup, you guessed it MUHAAAAHAHAHA!,.... gulp



SUCCESS!!! YEEHAAA!!!,... ahm,.. sorry about that.




So that's about it so far. Unfortunatly I don't have much spare time anymore so this project is going to be slow.
Anyhow, I have to be off. I'll try and update this as much as possible.

Thanks all for taking the time to drop in.

Cheers,
Chris.

Pics,... FIXED!

 

Welcome to bit-tech

Looks good, Can't wait to see the finished result

 

does the mounting for that waterblock get in the way of the agp slot? it looks like a very tight fit if not

 

dude. i cant believe you drilled out those holes =)
i didnt realize that that worked.


welll... i might go ahead and get that DFI lanparty then BWAHAHAWHHAW

looks great BTW

 

The board (Matrox Parhelia) clears the bracket by less than 1mm. I'm not going to leave it at that though. There's lots of excess I can dremel off the bracket.



Chris.

 

probably a good idea, wouldn't want to wiggle a monitor cable and short out the back of your (rather expensive) video card.

looks like a fun project, haven't seen too many watercooled dualies around here


(edited to remove pic in reply)

 

Looks like the case that orac used... watching for more. Ahh! Drilling a MB

Good Luck

 

Thanks mate.
I wasn't too happy with the idea to be quite honnest with you. Kind of like jumping in the deep end from day 1

Yeah it's a C3 fulltower like G-gnome's Orac only mine's the BlackIce 'smoked' From clear computer case.
Come to think of it, G-gnome's Orac is the reason I'm doing this. I hadn't a clue that case modding was even done 'till a freind pointed me to his 'masterpiece' right here on bit-tech.

Thanks for all the replies guys
I'm starting to really like this place
Chris.

 

Very... oh so very brave of you. Mmm... dualies.

 

that hole drilling is painfree... are you sure the board still works? mod on...

 

Yup I'm using it right now.
Actually I did get a scare out of it. the first time around it wouldn't boot. Pulled out everything and put it back,... nothing
Turns out, all it needed was a BIOS reset, go figure.

 

man you got balls.

looks nice i just priced those cases too.. if mine came out of the box like that for that price i'd be giving them h*** on the phone.

nice so far thoug please keep the pics comming.

 

OMFG, thats realy crazy drilling holes in youre motherboard, glad it worked.
I like clearcases, as long as the internals are nice and tidy, I'm gonno follow this one

[funmode]
The only thing, buy som bigger harddrives, i dont thing that youre 200Mb will do muck good.... [/funmode]

 

You gonna hate me for this but,.... This is just a milkrun for my new workstation.
I'm planning on replacing everything except for the graphics card and the 2 SCSI drives. Gonna leave them for SYS drives.
The mobo will be replaced with a dual 64bit one
CPU's 2 AMD Opteron 248's
4GB DDR ram
and last but not least The 2 IDE's will go and be replaced with 4 250GB SATA drives for a grand totall of 1TB!! WOOHOO!! but that'll be around x-mass.
Overkill you say,... well yeah but it's not a gammer. I do 3D animation and a lot of video editting for a living so I need the power and the space

Cheers,
Chris.

 

Hhehe, the point was, I hope it 200Gb, not 200Mb... etc..
But still looks promising

 

LMAO!! I totally missed that

I'll go edit it hehe.
Cheers mate.

 

good job! extremely brave of you to drill your mobo!

 

Dude , u r 2 crazy 4 me

 

Man, drilling your board is crazy but i like it !!! ill defo be poping in here a few times

 

ouch that is a tight fit.