Got Case Mod?

[MadMike]

After spending several years with my full tower steel behemoth, the bumps, the knocks, the rust, and the inevitable lan party stickers (TFLannage 1998, Nerdfest 2001, TFL2002).... it was time to retire the big guy.

Besides, the case was so warped my sound card popped out of its slot at odd moments.

So whilst in the US of A last week I picked up a new toy.

A Raidmax 288, all aluminium, 3 case-fan, "X" window beastie. (www.dealsonic.com)

Yesterday I grabbed a blue LED Antec 80mm fan, and a 12 inch blue cold cathode. (www.auspcmarket.com.au)

Here's my new case. :)

http://pnpmadmike.tripod.com/case/index.html

[NismoR31]

You nerd.




does it flash? ;D
looks sweet

[nexus-6]

geek

[kyle]

http://www.pccasegear.com.au/index.htm

[Caliber]

speaking of cases and geeks and games and stuff.. has anyone seen this freak's box?

http://www.techtv.com/graphics/thescreensavers/3381858.jpg

looks relatively normal you say? ...

The following systems are installed in the Boxx:

Atari 2600
Nintendo Entertainment System (8-bit)
Microsoft Xbox
Nintendo GameCube
Sony PlayStation 2
A custom PC


http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/supergeek/story/0,24330,3381725,00.html

:-D

[SpaceMonkey]

Over the next few months I'm putting together a new uber-beast. Specs I've decided on thus far are a Lian-Li PC50 all aluminium box with window , cold cathode lights, Athlon XP with thermaltake volcano 9 cooler, stock fans replaced with thermaltake smartfans, matching temp guages and stealthed CDROMs, Viewsonic P90F 19" monitor (black) Altec Lansing P90F 5.1 speakers and Creative Audigy sound card, Radeon 9700 VGA (hopefully) and ATA RAID.
You would not believe how hard it is to track down all black and silver components, especially a nice looking 19" flat screen CRT. In fact the Viewsonic is the only one on the market.
Geeky I know but I want something serious for when Doom III is released.

[SpeedFrog]

Originally posted by MadMike
http://pnpmadmike.tripod.com/case/index.html

Nice. I'm considering getting a Lian Li PC65 (http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/review.php3?t=2180) and a blue cathode tube next paycheck (if I can afford it!).

[MadMike]

Thats what I just bought the missus... :)

http://www.users.on.net/madmike/images/putas/

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally posted by SpeedFrog


Nice. I'm considering getting a Lian Li PC65 (http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/review.php3?t=2180) and a blue cathode tube next paycheck (if I can afford it!).
Lian Li's are nice, I'm going for the PC50 cause I want something more compact, gonna install my own window.
I still wish more of the distributors in Australia were more onto it with supplying back and silver components though, especially monitors.

[SpeedFrog]

Originally posted by SpaceMonkey
I still wish more of the distributors in Australia were more onto it with supplying back and silver components though, especially monitors. These stick-on drive bezels might be just the thing in the meantime. (http://www.dansdata.com/llbezels.htm) They're not great, but they're better than nothing.

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[SpaceMonkey]

Originally posted by SpeedFrog
These stick-on drive bezels might be just the thing in the meantime. (http://www.dansdata.com/llbezels.htm) They're not great, but they're better than nothing.

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Already onto those, I'm gonna use them with my case. like I said the monitor was the main problem, there are only 2 black 19" monitors on the market in Australia and one and IBM (ie overpriced and ugly) the other one (Viewsonic) is cool though, if a bit pricey.

[SpaceMonkey]

On a better note I got the coolest looking set of Altec Lansing 5.1 speakers in the courier today, can't wait to take them home and plug 'em in. check these puppies out:
http://www.alteclansing.com/product_details.asp?pID=5100&sID=1

[SpaceMonkey]

Just scored an Antec Lanboy box with blue tri-led fans and SmartBluePSU, UV cold-cathode and UV reactive IDE cables. will post a pic when it's assembled.
Plus found a cheaper black 19' flat screen monitor, mitsubishi do one for $510 :)

[Wet Cardboard]

I was thinking of getting the lanboy myself. Well, when i get a job...

If I could afford it I'd be getting that Coolermaster case with the aluminium door at the front. Saves the hassle of fixing drive fronts. Don't think I'd put a window in the side of it though. Like it smoooooth.

[SpaceMonkey]

The Lanboy's good value at $190 with a quality 350W PSU, can't really do better than that for an all-aluminium job. Not as sexy as the all brushed aluminium Lian-Lis and coolermasters but waaay cheaper. And it's got a door so you dn't have to stealth your drives (although I've done that anyway!!)

[Wet Cardboard]

Thats what I read. Its all windowed up too isnt it?

My ultimate case has been upgraded to one of the coolermaster server numbers with the internals from a Vapochill. I don't ask for much. (Never mind that those two cases put together would probally cost more than my whole compy 386 put together.)

:lol:

[Mayday]

This is the geekiest thread I have ever seen!

[SpaceMonkey]

Geeky is good.

Yeah, the Lanboy's got a window. Vapochill's cool, seen some cool peltier based kits recently too....

[IssUes]

yes ive modded my case.. window, top blowhole and rounded cables and just some LED Fans..

[IssUes]

and i just bought my first Waterblock so i can start my Watercooling..

[SpaceMonkey]

Was thinking of going the watercooled route but not sure if I've got the OC'ing headroom to make it worthwhile. gonna see what I can achieve with my HSF and fan setup first. Would be quieter though.

[suenomartino]

I'm going to be putting in a 3" exhaust from the turbo back on my box next week.. pod filter to come next month..

[FunkStu]

Does anyone know how to get semen out of a keyboard. It makes my fingers sticky.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally posted by FunkStu
Does anyone know how to get semen out of a keyboard. It makes my fingers sticky.
I vomited on a keyboard once. I threw it away and bought a new one.

[Wet Cardboard]

Originally posted by SpaceMonkey
Was thinking of going the watercooled route but not sure if I've got the OC'ing headroom to make it worthwhile. gonna see what I can achieve with my HSF and fan setup first. Would be quieter though.

What CPU you running again?

[SpaceMonkey]

Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0GHz). By all accounts a pretty good overclocker, apparently good for up around 2.4GHz without any radical cooling setup. Its a 133MHz bus CPU so the best way to OC it would be to drop the CPU multiplier back to 10-12 then crank the FSB way up to near 200MHz.

[Wet Cardboard]

Originally posted by SpaceMonkey
Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0GHz). By all accounts a pretty good overclocker, apparently good for up around 2.4GHz without any radical cooling setup. Its a 133MHz bus CPU so the best way to OC it would be to drop the CPU multiplier back to 10-12 then crank the FSB way up to near 200MHz.

Cool cool. You know the price diff between that and 3000+ off the top of your head? I figured that if the 3000 is the first of the new barton cores it would probably have alot of headroom. Maybe I should just do my own research... :)

If I end up building a new compy soon I'll most likely use that chip. Add in about $300 worth of water cooling and I'll be cool. (I wont be building for a while, keep in mind, so the 3000+ should be much cheaper by then).

The geek shall inherit the earth.

[mungo]

You are all crazy like my mate, he got an old server case and stuck two 120mm fans in the front bay and then two 80mm in the back and a single 80mm blowhole in the top. This adds to his 80mm fan on his processor, 60mm fan on the north bridge and 40mm fan on his video card. Just stupid.

Then for me, stock dell case (XPS B800r), with the cd rom removed. Power supply fan running at 9.2V (as low as it would take), Main (90mm hooded to a SEPP2 P3) CPU fan running on a switched speed controller providing either 12, 10, or 8V. The 8V setting makes the computer allmost silent and the hard drives are the loudest component while running in this mode. There are no other fans in the computer (try finding a geforce 4 without a fan! ) and the optical drives are all external. Next step is to reduce the fan count to one.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally posted by Wet Cardboard


Cool cool. You know the price diff between that and 3000+ off the top of your head? I figured that if the 3000 is the first of the new barton cores it would probably have alot of headroom. Maybe I should just do my own research... :)

If I end up building a new compy soon I'll most likely use that chip. Add in about $300 worth of water cooling and I'll be cool. (I wont be building for a while, keep in mind, so the 3000+ should be much cheaper by then).

The geek shall inherit the earth.
There's a big price jump up the 166MHz TBred B's and Bartons, $200 up to the 2600TBred with the 3000+ being well over $1000+!!! Even the cheapest Barton (2800+) is over $700. Given that I've already got my 2400+ to 2.34GHz (faster than ANY of the stock Athlons and I should be able to get the bus up to 200MHz with the wire trick (will try that tonight) I can't see how there is any justification in price/performance for going for the Bartons, as I doubt they'd overclock that much better than the TBred B's.

Update: Just tried the wire trick (shorting out a couple of pins on the CPU socket to unlock the multiplier) and it worket a treat! Now have a 2.3GHz CPU with a 200MHz FSB (RAM at CAS2, 400MHz DDR) Not bad for a $285 CPU without any special cooling.

[MadMike]

Are you running special ram? I've been looking at getting some of the exxy OCZ high performance ram.

I'm also running an Epox 8RDA+ Nforce board. Apparently its good for up to 200MHz fsb

[SpaceMonkey]

I'm using 2 sticks of 256MB PC3200 Twinmos RAM. its advertised at CAS 2.5 but I'm running it a CAS2 6-3-3 timings. Given that it's a lot cheaper than OCZ or Corsair I doubt it's worth the extra money to buy those brands for the negligible performance increase (ie 5-2-2-2 as opposed to 6-3-3-2).
The 8RDA+ is a good OCing board, it will unlock the multiplier without modification (not that the wire trick is exactly hard). I'm considering giving my MSI to a mate for a system I'm building for him and replacing it with an 8RDA+. It allows some scarily high Vcore settings so I might be able to squeeze another 100MHz out of my CPU with one, my current board only allows 1.8V which I suspect is what's limiting it's overclocking potential.