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

When you were drilling, how did you know that you weren't drilling through something that would mess it up? Now you've got me really interested!

 

Hey all,
Thanks for all the intrest you've shown on this.
Guido:
If you take a look at he pic on the previous page (the 1 marked front & flip sides) you'll notice that ASUS had pre-marked the mounting holes but for some reason never 'cut' them out.
I read something a while back about 'multilayer' boards. Layer upon layer of circutry( you gonna have to excuse my english all, it's getting really rusty) or whatever you call those fine liney thingies.
After quite a bit of searching and scratching around the net I didn't find anything to sujest that this particular board was 1 of them(No, no, not that "them",... the multi them's,..hehe).
I'll admit it was a risc, but a calcullated one.

DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS MOD unless you're prepared to throw away your motherboad.
If you do try it, make sure there's nothing overlapping( or too close to) the drillbit's exit. It'll puch out the other end pritty hard and damage/destroy anything in its path. So BE CAREFULL!!

Happy moding all,
Chris.

P.s. haven't got anything worth photographing yet, should have soon though. I'll keep you posted.

 

Ah, I see now. Thanks guy. Lookin' forward to what you're gonna show us.

 

uh, actually all modern motherboards are multilayer PCBs (printed circuit boards) and i believe most of the ones out now are 7 layers (some more).

the easiest way to find if it's safe to cut through an area is to hold it up to light. more light will come through areas with no copper traces (the little 'fine liney thingies'). I believe zapwizard used this trick cutting the corner off a video card for the ammobox lanpc (or it could have ben someone/something else entirely)

the reason you didn't trash anything is like you said, ASUS had the holes marked but not drilled (for whatever reason) and i believe the holes are actually part of the spec from AMD.

but mad props for doing the mod, i don't know that i'd have had the gall to drill into a brand new dualie mobo like that

 

7 layers,wow! Thanks for clearing that up for me, was wondering about it.
I thought about putting it up against a light but didn't bother since both sides of the mounts were 'solid' marked with copper anyway.

I was under the same impression, both my other AMD mobo's(Gigabyte's) had the mounting holes installed wich is why I never botherd to check out this one.
At least I got away with it
Thanks,
Chris.

 

heheh i thought the same and bought a biostar......bigmistake so now i have a limited selction of water blocks

 

Watercooled duallies rock!

BTW I had to drill out the 4.5mm holes in the MSI K7-D Master L to fit 5mm mounting screws, so you're in good company.

 

Just a quicky,...

I'm playing with ideas for the power cables. Here's my last, but I'm still not too happy with it.



I'm planing on making a couple of junction boxes and using female RCA plugs for the outlets.



I'm kinda happy with that but we'll see,...

Cheers,
Chris.

 

MagicPixel im planning to buy dual amd for my second system so i have some questions hope you wont be mad
So i have planned to go for dual 2800+ for Maya rendering... So what i dont know is that how big performance boost it will be comparing something like Pentium 4 3ghz

 

OT

Lets just say that my current rig(dual 2000+ MP 1GB DDR) runs as fast as (sometimes even faster) than a dual 2.4GHZ Xeon I have at work Both similar setups/Os's.
I benchmarked them rendering complex scenes in 3Ds Max5.x and Brazil.
High poly counts, caustics , GI, the works.
I'll bet that the 2800+ will out perform the Pentium@3ghz but don't take my word for it.

Cheers,
Chris.

-- [edit]

Yeah they do.
I'm following your proj too, it totally ROCKS!
-- [/edit]

 

Update 24/05/'04

Update 24/05/'04
Hi all,
it's been almost 2weeks and I haven't got much done. Back problems, been in bed for the past 10days
Good news is that everyone ran around at my orders MUUHAHAHA!
Bad news is that every time I sneeked across to the spare room to 'mess' with my proj, I'd get a "GET BACK TO BED!!!" from across the hall.

Anyway, everyones out today so I got some test fitting done.
Water blocks back on,...


Start tubing,...



And in da box,...
The swiftech fill'n bleed kit will be replaced by a couple of Innovatek Fass-O-Matic's.
BTW. Can anyone please, PLEASE tell me where I can get my hands on a couple of 'em. Only a couple of sites seem to have them and none ship to Greece



Ok, happy with the fitting so,...
Everything comes out again. (Damn don't you just hate that part? )



And into it's new home for leek testing.



Offcourse I couldn't ressist popping in a couple of UV's to check it out



That's it for today.
With any luck I'll have the place to myself tomorow too get some more done.

Thanks for taking the time to check it out,
Cheers,
Chris.

 

You CRAZY SOB! You drilled your f*ing mobo! I was cringing all the way. Kudos for you - you gots balls.

-ed out

sorry for that, I just had to get it off my chest.

 

aaand that's how you get a little over 60 posts in the course of a week; you dig up archaic posts, and chicklover 'em

 

2004? I saw his sig in a discussion and I had to check it out.

-ed out

 

Whats the res called and where did he get it?

 

As for where he got it, I don't believe he said.

[OT]As far as thread revivals go, I like them because it brings to light projects I have not seen before that are pretty good such as this one and Mr. Hugi's Snedker wooden case.[/OT]

 

Ooo, maybe I did something right after all.

- ed out

 

Drilling my mobo is something I really would NOT do Cool to see someone has some balls.

 

Lol...where is the problem of drillin a whole, where only solder is filled in?

Ive drilled my old geforce4 too, just for widening the wholes to 3 mm...

 

That brings back fond scary memories of my Asus A7M 266 D athlon dualie. Had the same problem with the holes being filled. There was nothing underneath, but is still scary as hell to drill through, too much slop either way could still kill the board. But I bit my lip and went for it, thing still works like a champ

I recall reading the reason for the fill was to pass EMI requirements.

Good looking mod so far, keep it up. Hopefully you wont have to put more holes through your hardware