dude. anodizing just prevents the metal from rusting i believe. the scratch is probably through the anodizing and into the metal. the anodizing is not very thick. its like a thin layer.
I bought a box of resistors... how do i test (what do i put my multimeter on) what each resistor is? Its a box full of resistors from 1, 1.2 1.5.... 1k,1.2k..... 1.0m 2.2m, 3.3m ohm from this pic, what do set my multimeter dial on to read the values of these resistors?
yo have tu turn the wheel to te bottom left side (with the green line). The value you select depends on the resistor you are measuring. Try 200 or 2000 and go up if you see a very low value. sorry for the scratches. I would try to sand it and try to get that "brused" look again.
Somewhere on Acrimonius' (sp?) site he has a program that does practicly every elecronic conversion, it also has a resistance calculator.
Have been working on my computer for the last few days. Did a droop mod on my p4c800e dlx: Custom cut heatsinks on most of the mosfets on my board:
Custom cut a thermalright sk6+ to fit as a nb heatsink.... it took forever to cut through all that copper.... tomorrows plan... cutting a top window in my case (i figured that since i had most things out of my computer I would do something i wanted to do but was to lazy to gut all the computers components...) with a 120mm fan hole in the plexiglass...
a droop mod is a mod to correct the droop of voltage going to the cpu that often occures on asus p4c800 motherboards. This mod keeps my cpu voltage more stable so that i can overclock higher.
Wow fast response (I was still trying to get the quote to appear correctly)! Is that mod needed/desired for other boards as well, for overclocking? I'm amazed at your confidence in modding your motherboard! Thanks for the response. Does the resistor go to ground, like a zero bounce switch?
im not sure what other motherboards need this kind of physical modifiication. I just know from another forum that on my particular board, this type of thing is necessary to push your cpu to the limits... Its not totally necessary for smaller overclockes, but Im trying to push my p4 3.2e as far as possible. Right now heat is my issue... im hitting 65C load. here is a good guide I followed: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=324292
what do you think... should I make the window on the top of my case the full length of the case, or as it is in this pic?
full length and if you put led lights all the way around it then it would look pimp. also put a blowhole on it. look here for an example click
If you have the large side windows, then a large top window would make it seem overdone. If you decide to do a top window, I'd copy the style of the side panel one(s).
