Added: 10.03.2004
Category:
Full Case
Owner: grz
Country:  Finland
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Minimum-budget-mod.
This case had originally a K6-2 333mhz.
Had to enhance the airflow;
- front plastic grill: half of bars sawed
- front metal grill (not visible) drilled away, it wasn't intended for cooling at all I guess.
- back grill: destroyed with screwdriver etc and 80->92mm
light with 1,5 euros:
one 260ohm resistor and 1 superbright led in the front! Looks quite nice for the price.
Front sidebars done 2x priming paint and 3x shiny black. Original color was bright green, very ugly.
Interior coated with bitumen.
money spent:
- led 1,5e
- bitumen 12e
- paint 10e (still left)
COMING NEXT: full jet black shiny paint. 120mm blowhole, selfmade rpm-controller.
hardware: XP2600+ @ 2.2ghz, R9700PRO 330/660, cl2 3-2-2 kingston hyperX 2x256mb, A7N8X, Zalman 400W, 80gt seagate + 120gt maxtor@silentdrive. etc.
Main point is to have reasonably good looking computer with a minibudget.
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| Heatsink Burns | 22.08.2004 11:50 |
| (One more thing; bear with me.) You want a "reasonably good-looking computer," right? I think white is a good color for this. If you can get your ENTIRE case painted jet black, drives included, then go right ahead. Personally, I wouldn't put white drives in a black computer. Might want to consider painting the black trim white. |
| Heatsink Burns | 22.08.2004 11:47 |
Looks like some case modder got locked in their company's computer room over the weekend... :-)
I think it looks good without the window. It has a touch of class to it, plus the inside really isn't much to show off. If you're going for the window, I recommend some form of wire management. A modular power supply will help you tremendously here, as you can just take out the leads you don't need. Also, replace those flat cables with rounded ones (or paint them a different color at least, they're ugly. |
| ~Mike~ | 17.05.2004 19:46 |
| PAINT it |
| esNiC | 12.03.2004 12:11 |
| yeah make a window! 4/5 |
| KlaZaA | 11.03.2004 17:24 |
| The front must be a killer in the dark :) Make a window and all that, then ill like it even more. 3/5 |
| grz | 11.03.2004 14:10 |
sasseli: bitumia on molemmissa kyljissä, ei tosin näy kun on kylki pois ;) Johtoi ei oikeestaan ole "modattu" yhtään.
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The cables are pretty ugly but better than before. The rounded ide is pretty stiff and the zalman's powercable to mobo even stiffer.
Better pic of the interior (320k):
http://koti.mbnet.fi/grz/hw/inside.jpg
PSU's airflow isn't blocked 100% although it looks like it. Wiring is still ugly though. |
| sasseli | 10.03.2004 21:58 |
mihinsä muuten sitä bitumii laitoit? vasempaan ovi-kylkeen?
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| sasseli | 10.03.2004 21:56 |
ihan jees.. mutta noi valot sais olla esim siniset.. muua ei se mitää.. mutta toi sun johtojen modaus vähän kusee.. 3/5
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| Japala .:admin | 10.03.2004 20:27 |
What is bitumen? Don't you people read metku? ;)
http://www.metku.net/index.html?sect=view&n=1&path=mods/bitumi/index_eng |
| Ratman | 10.03.2004 18:53 |
| nothing more to say, i have to agree with all the rest. nice start. clean up the cables and put some more mods on it |
| rutger1413 | 10.03.2004 18:46 |
| nice start. Paint job, wiare cleanup, window. Then it would get a bit higher. 3 |
| gibb3h | 10.03.2004 17:44 |
| bitumen is a crude oil product, it is used to surface roads and for sound proofing, there u go, chemistry lesson over :) |
| grz | 10.03.2004 15:54 |
Thanks guys.
I'm not quite sure what "bitumi" is in english, bitumen is what a translator gave me. It's that 4mm thick stuff that's very heavy. Bought it from a car parts shop.
Dust filters might be a very good idea =) |
| well | 10.03.2004 15:21 |
| why are everybody talking about the things inside when people often want to know what people things about the case but nice work !!! well........ 3/5 |
| Archoni | 10.03.2004 15:20 |
| yup, good start, more mods needed! 2/5 |
| DeadTeddy | 10.03.2004 15:03 |
Bitumen is like this weird industrial sponge or something.
Like Nado said, it's a good start, but it's just the start so 2/5. |
| Nado | 10.03.2004 14:48 |
nice start. but what is bitumen?
2/5
btw: clear up the cables and put some dust filters in there... |
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