SilentStryke

Woot Woot! Cant wait to see some more of the famous Goby project :P

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aajvs99

YAY more updates!

christian_piper

I haven't been here in a while.. Lookin GREAT!!!!! I cant WAIT to see it finished!! SO perfect!!



Ya I understood it- I am just a fan of EXTREME overkill... When I can afford it.. And wherever it is possible...

gobygoby

Alrighty!!!!!!!!!!!! Its about time for an update. Yippeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

Tonights episode is brought to you by:

Diet Pepsi and Cherry Sours.!



well. Where am I???

I left off when I started putting together my water cooling loop. I got to the VGA block installation and was going to use the thermaltake aquarius II VGA block. Its really a nice looking block.....but......its really made for 1/4" tube. and since my loop is all 3/8" ID, that block was going to be restrictive and make my whole loop pointless. I though the block might be ok because they advertise it comes with 1/4" and 3/8" fittings....well, the inside of the block is only drilled out for 1/4". I have no idea why thermaltake does that, they do it with almost all their WC stuff. stupid really.

So I decided to get a Maze4 GPu block from Danger Den. I was a day late in wanting to buy a used chrome Maze4 on another board....that would have been sweet. So instead I just baught the acetal top version which is about half the price of the chrome version. So thats on its way to me as we speak!

Next, by the recommendations of people here, I was advised not to put 3 raptors in the HDD cage. instead only put 2 in there and the other 2 in the drive tower. so thats what I am going to do. My finished HD setup will look like this

Raid 0+1
Raptor 74
Raptor 74
Raptor 74
Raptor 74

Storage
Raptor150

I bought 2 more raptor drives for a total of 4. I got one tonight and getting the other in the mail sometime this week.

I also won a Vantec HDD cooler/EZ-Swap drive on ebay, now I just have to get one more.

and still have my gift cert for Frozen and I plan on getting some odds and end stuff, and my lighting gear.

Next, i FINALLY got my 25cm thermaltake fan door yesterday in the mail. I dont think the order got placed the first time, then I called to see what was up and I still dont think it got placed, then I called a 3rd time and finaly got a tracking number. only took 4-5 weeks to get here

so here is the fan door!



unwrapping...


Ta da!


Here is the guacamole and cheese, that fan is HUGE!!!!!!!!!


Close up




Now the whole reason I wanted to get the fan door was because of the fan.....NOT!

I am not even going to use the fan. In fact, I already sold it. I am going to mount a PSOne LCD screen into it, because modding is cool. So here are a few pics taking apart the LCD





cracked open!


close up


back panel


the guts!


Close up of the back of the LCD board


Wires


Side view of the LCD. This thing was REALLY thin and small. after seeing it up close and in person, this would fit nearly perfect in a cd drive to make it open and close with the LCD, now that would be sweet!



and here is how it would look in the mesh circle





and now I had to paint the door, so here is the door, naked and taped.


Primer


First Coat


Second coat.


Right after it is painted, it was REALLY shiny for some reason...i never saw it that shiny when I painted everything else.


it did rain yesterday so the humidity was really low and I bet it was probably like 65 degrees out. Thats farenheit for all you UK'ers.

When I looked at the paint job today after I got home it was suprisingly smmoth and shiny. it never turned out like that with anything else I painted. I am going to guess the col weather had something to do with it. it was only like 60 here today...brrrrr!

Still have to make mounts for the PSU and rig the fitting for the chipset blocks. then I will be caught up until the Maze4 gets here!

oh ya, one last thing before I go. I got this in the mail today too!!! I am so excited like a giddy school girl......err.....I mean.....<manly voice> like a dude riding a harley </manly voice> LOST pwnz! I am a LOST junkee! I started watching it in the middle of Seasn one when Survivor ended. I needed something to fil the time slot so I picked up LOST. I got hooked. I finished out season 1. Then I was die hard in season 2 up till about half way when my son was born. I missed a few episodes and decided to stop watching so I woudnt be "lost" when I could catch an episode here or there, so I just stopped watching. cant wait to watch the hole season all the way through.



and I got that cool skate board from a pair of Tony Hawk jeans...sweet!

till next time..........later!

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NEXT MOD: ? ? ?
FINISHED MODS: * Painted Chassis * PSU Mod * Access Holes For WC Mounts * Added WC gear * Front Doors - Washer Mod * False wall * USB Christmas Light Mod * False Floor * Stealth DVD Drives

bdattilo

I can only see 1 of your pictures .....the one of the LCD

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Delphi

hmm goby all your pics are dead cept for "the guts!"

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Edit: Nvm


Gooooood Job Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sin100

Nice one!
Keep it reeling

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K092084

Been waiting this from the beginning, and I have to say, you have alot of patience there man. I would be going crazy and wanting to finish it up so I could finally use that computer. But I guess as long as you have another decent computer you are using, its not so hard. But still good work, and you have alot of patience, keep it up.

mattlb0619

agreed, nice update...

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