Ok Time for an update... I spent all last week painting the insides to the cube. The bottom half below the MB tray is going to be white on the inside. Unfortunately winter came along and slowed me down. Luckily I live in Texas and winter last about a week so I am back in action. I finished the last of the clear coating today and all of the sides are finished being painted. Here is the Motherboard tray. Its a special MB tray in that it sits on Drawer rails so I can pull it out the back and have easy access to the hardware in the bottom section. This is something I have always wanted to try. The small hole on the left is for the SATA and smaller cables to go down to their devices. The large cutout is for the big red 120mm fans and possibly a radiator... Haven't decided if I want to WC this yet. The rails.. These two will be mounted to the sides of the case. I also cut and painted some Aluminum Honeycomb mesh the Red Annodized color. These will go in the open window areas and possibly over the two large front fans. mmmmm.....RED. Here are all the pieces painted. Ignore the floppy, I have no idea why it is there. and an overall pic of my assembly area. Mess in progress. I Should have some more pics soon as I have also painted the bottom and the drive cage.
well i got all the angle pieces annodized today. Which means I can start putting the pieces together...woo hoo! I got to get a better camera or something because these look 10X better in person.
First off forgive me if I don't make this log a written master piece. I am kinda tired. So, now that the brackets are painted I take the bottom piece and attach them. Then I add this drive cage that I turned upside down and painted white. Take some of these bolts add some 1/4" collar spacers Put it all together... Start attaching things.... Here you can see that it is only the bottom section below the MB tray that will be white.
I dunno, it does seem pretty quiet though. Anyways, great work! I can't wait to see further progress.
Wow... How have I missed this project? Anyway, to guess at your hardware... Sapphire PI-A9RX480 motherboard (boy, is that a mouthful...) Red Zalman CNPS-7700 2 GB OCZ DDR 3200 X-Fi XtremeMusic SATA hard drive (of some sort) X2 4800+ or FX-57 And, of course, the X1800XT.
The plexi and alu combo looks extremely nice. I'm doing something similar but with blue plexi and less obvious. Anyway just to say I like the combo ;-)
LOL, I didn't think anyone would actually try but you are really close. Here are what the specs will be. Sapphire PI-A9RX480 motherboard Red "Fatal1ty" Zalman CNPS-7700 1 GB OCZ DDR 3500 GS X-Fi XtremeMusic SATAII Samsung 200Gb hd FX-55 @ 2.8 X1800XT "Performance Edition". 725/1600
Just saw this...http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=82696 That would go nicely with my case wouldn't it. It's like they are made for each other. I am going to have to look into this....the ram looks lovely too.
Note: I do believe that is someone else's work that he wants to do the same....as he said "Just SAW this....Would go nicely with my case..."
Yes, I should clarify that. These pics come from the link above the pics. They do have the same MB and a similar video card. I was just saying "I saw them, and want them, they would go pefectly with..."
Here are some minor updates: I got three sides together now. I need to get some special bolts to hold on the rails so that they won't stick out and get in the way of the movement. I am just afraid of going shopping with everyone and thier grandma out right now. lol, too many people make me crazy. a peek at the insides. I started working on the back. Here is a rough cut piece of aluminum for the bottom half. It will hold the PSU in place. The top half will be connected to the MB tray and slid out with it. tommorow I will sand it up and paint it clear one side white on the other.
They have it on the site right now. Though strangely it doesn't show it in red. http://www.dangerdenstore.com/product.php?productid=206&cat=47&page=1 Hopefully I will have an update later today. I haven't been working on it much as I have been busy with the holidays and all. We have a half day at work today, and I plan on spending the last half working on this. I want to get it mostly finished in time for a LAN I am going to on the 14th.
OK, we had a half day at work so I spend the after noon working on the back I/O plate. To start of I had this piece of Red plex left over from when I had all the pieces Lasered out. The Plan is to bend it and us it as a clear I/O plate. Here you see it on the bender marked. This little trick turned out to be more difficult than I thought. Getting all those little pieces to all bend without getting wobbly was rather difficult. It gets pretty tricky and you have to move while its hot. So unfortunatly I didn't take any pics of me doing it. basically I bent it over and then up again. This way I can attach it to the Alum. back piece. I also like the way it looks all curvy and translucent. I cut some 1/2" strips of the plex and boxed in the back area. I am glueing it together in the above pic. To make sure I got it right I got out some old expendible parts. I used this fried shuttle mobo and an old Canopus 3dfx card to make sure I had the back height correct. man this card brings back memories. as you can see it turned out OK. The card fits fine along with the rest of it. I then needed to check the alum. back plates to make sure it all fits together. the back plates were made on the pin router just like the other sides. everything seems to fit. Now I have to clean up the edges and put the holes in it for mounting, sand it up and paint it. I will get to that this weekend most likely. in the mean time here are some pics of the removable mobo tray in action. I temp taped the pieces together to make sure it all works smooth. oh yeah, thats gonna come in handy. and just for fun because I was curious and had the camera. If I were to add the top.... yep, she's coming along nicely... stay tuned.
