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gobygoby · 02-23-07

OK! Woot! got the post of 4 posts done. Now onto #2!

So one itme that just came out was the OCZ XTC Ram Cooler! I saw this on another persons rig ( I think it was Slades) and I just had to have it! Well, I am glad I got it. This little cooler puts out a lot of cool! and its got the bling bling factor too! with the chromed casing. I thought I would put together a little review for you all. so you can see lots of pics of it!

First I ordered from Performance-PCS (Those guys are GREAT!! got the cooler in 2 days!) I also had to get a new UV CCLF set cuz I broke one of mine.

All the Accessories. You get to different types of brackets. One set for ram that is for in a row and one set for ram that has 2 and 2. You also get 2 thumbscrews and 2 flat screws. I had to use the flat screws becuase I didnt have enough room for the thumb screws.

Here are some scissors next to the fan to get an idea of size. The fan is actually pretty big.! Woot!

So here it is installed.

You may also notice I decided to make the horizontal bar as well, it turned out pretty nice!

gobygoby · 02-23-07

2 down and 2 to go!

For my next trick.....

I want to give mad props to the guys at MNPCTech! Bill and Stu are so lucky they get to build computers every day! Its got to be a fun job! So anyway, Bill has a pretty cool video about this really industrial strength tape or as he calls it " Adhesive tape of the gods!"

. and it really does stick....its almost hard to get it unstuck!

So I decided to get some and try it out. Its good stuff!

I used it to hold down some of my lights. and this particular light pictured is the one that started the whole vertical false wall!

So now that the false floor and walls are in, the lights are finished I then moved to re-hanging the top tube. I originally had it zip tied in...I didnt like it but couldnt really think of another way to secure it in. So endless hours of walking around lowes trying to figure out a solution, I came up with this.

Its a copper tube hanger. Basically what I did was make a plate out of acrylic that was the width of that crossbar. and long enough to mount 3 of these hangers to. I then drilled holes in the acrylic and screws the hangers to the acrylic plate. Next I screwed the plate(with hangers) to the crossbar, then I put the tubing in the hangers and screwed them closed. It worked very well.

gobygoby · 02-23-07

Ok, so now here is a mod some of you have been looking forward to, or will be interested in seeing.

This is the DVD Steathing Mod.

The premise was to attach the Amor mesh plate to the DVD tray. But a few things had to be in place before that would work.

First, I didnt want to use the dvd tray front plates incase I wanted to use them later. So I grabbed a few from some old CD romsI had out in the garage. The fit on the drive tray nicely, but had to be cut down on all 4 sides are they were a bit to big all the way around.

Here is the un-modded tray plates

Next I had to make the center of the Armor front covers flush with the edges....Hope your can follow me here. So I created some plates to fit inside the Armor plates. I cut out little areas to allow for the metal tabs of the mesh great to stick through so I could have acces to the to clean the filter stuff inside.

and the little sticsk above are for stand off between the drive plate and the armor plate. that way the armor plate wouldnt hit the open/close buttons when its closed.

The glue on the Armor plate.

Plate attached to the inside of the Armor Plate.

here is teh drive tray plate mounted to the dvd rom.

Now I have mounted the stick stand offs on the drive tray plate.

and the glue on the stick ready for the finished Armor plate

Now I had to modify the front plate panel, so the drives would go in and out smoothly.

So first I had to break the mounting tabs from the Armor Plate.

(still intact)

and here is the intact front panel

Kinda hard to see, but the protruding portions have been sanded down...did this to both sides.

1 down and 1 to go!

And for the DVD stealthing Pron....then finally!

Probably the hardest part of this mod was drilling the holes for the DVD drives mounts in the Drive tower. The drives had to be recessed about 3/4" of an inch so all new holes had to be drilled. It was hard to get the holes exactly where they are supposed to go...they arent perfect, but close.

I also almost couldnt do this mod. When I was recessing the drives, I pused one back and it bumped into something. It bumped into my vertical false wall the hides all my wires. Luckily the drive didnt ahve to go back the entire way........I had about an 1/16" of an inch to spare....wow, that was close!

If you guys try this mod, please feel free to ask questions! Its a pretty simple mod.

Good Luck!

Ninja_Boy · 02-23-07

Damn Goby. Good work, I'm amazed. One rep per 10 Posts? I'm not surprised at all. This is great quality work and fast, too. I'm thinking of doing some slight modding of my own on my Water Cooling Kit (when it arrives in March).

I'm thinking of running a Reserator normally, except, adding a Danger Den Black Ice GTX Xtreme 120 Raditaor and installing that Radiator on my Exhaust fan, and including that in the loop.

So, it'd go Reserator > Black Ice GTX > Water Block > Reserator.

Oh, and, personally, I'd remove that Southbridge Water Block and put a Thermalright HR-05 SLi Chipset Cooler instead. Maybe, it'd be a good idea to do the same with the Northbridge. A little less clutter would be a good convincing point, huh?

{OCN} Ninja_Boy

gobygoby · 02-23-07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ninja_Boy

Damn Goby. Good work, I'm amazed. One rep per 10 Posts? I'm not surprised at all. This is great quality work and fast, too. I'm thinking of doing some slight modding of my own on my Water Cooling Kit (when it arrives in March).

I'm thinking of running a Reserator normally, except, adding a Danger Den Black Ice GTX Xtreme 120 Raditaor and installing that Radiator on my Exhaust fan, and including that in the loop.

So, it'd go Reserator > Black Ice GTX > Water Block > Reserator.

Oh, and, personally, I'd remove that Southbridge Water Block and put a Thermalright HR-05 SLi Chipset Cooler instead. Maybe, it'd be a good idea to do the same with the Northbridge. A little less clutter would be a good convincing point, huh?

{OCN} Ninja_Boy

Thanks man! Sounds goon on the water cooling setup. but I am not sure you would really need a rad with the reserator....its pretty big in itself and ha many fins to extract heat.....but the rad would make the rig look cooler for sure!

as far as the shipset blocks.....well, they are in there and aint coming out!

It really doesnt looked cluttered.....I like how it lookes kinda like a bomb!

So now is the time for somr ARMOR PRON!! Yipeeeee No more talking....just Pics.!

gobygoby · 02-23-07

Almost done......

one thing that I am really excited about is my new 15" LCD touchscreen. I plan on using this for system stats, rocket dock, widgets, and buttons to open and close my dvd roms. got it for a really good deal on ebay!

Its a littel rough around the edges, but I plan on sanding down the shell and repainting it.

My cat wanted to be in the update, so here he is.

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one last thing. I need some help on how to solve an issue. Basically where the 5 Sata cables come up from the bottom plate to the drives, the wires are kinda flimsy.....see pic

I want them all to go straight up. I have an idea or two on how to make them all go up together but I would like to see if you guys have any ideas. I tought about using acrylic sticks attached to the sata cables somehow to make them all together, but not really sure how it will turn out. If you can think of anything let me know!!!!

beelzebub_75 · 02-24-07

Idea for running sata cables: Take one of the tubes from the long light (can't remember what you called them) you broke awhile back and try running the cables through that. I'm guessing you might get two or three through that little tube though. Maybe try to find some other kind of plastic tube and just run the rest through there...

Off the wall question for ya, Goby... How do you think the case would look if you took the "doors" off of the front? When I buy this case I plan on doing that because, to me, they look totally useless, but I don't want the case looking like crap if they ruin the "image" of it.

b3ar · 02-24-07

Goby, I'm so thankful you didn't get to enter the case mod competition. There'd be no chance for the rest of us!

Those stealthed drives are great. Well done. And the lighting! Do you have to wear shades when you crank it up, or does the power grid in your block dim a bit? D00d!

===> A possible solution for your sata cables is extruded acrylic tubing. When I was doing my case mod (which I just finished, btw - wait'll you see it next week!) I found it at my local plastics wholesaler. They had hollow rods with different diameters, and in different colours. It should be just the thing.

s1rrah · 02-24-07

great mods!

one question, though since i've seen this done on painted armors and it really improved the overall cleanliness of the look: have you thought about ditching all the little clear plastic drive clips running up the side of your front drive spaces?

they sort of detract from the really nice black vs. chrome diamond plate look you've got going which would probably be more impressive without having to compete with clear plastic also dominating the view (the plastic clips almost "try" to look like chrome as well but simply don't work).

i removed mine immediately and went with standard bolts; just a thought.

again, fantastic work ...

BrinNutz · 02-24-07

w00t...Gj Kyle!! Awesome!

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