derek2esilent

really nice work so far

^^ ya 9800gx2, not trying to start a war, but 4870? DONT START A FANBOY WAR HERE WITH MY COMMENT!

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With your mod
I HIIIGHLY suggest getting something modular
The inside is going to be ruined by the countless useless cables

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i would agree. modular might be better so you don't have soo many unnecessary cables laying around. that you wouldn't have to deal with them. DA750 yea? i'm loving mine.

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nategr8ns

Another option is cutting the wires. You can buy some 5-pin plugs (one male and one female) and snip the SATA wires and use these connectors, making it custom-modular .

Molex connectors are easy to get and will work for all of the 4-pin wires (just not sata, PCI-e, 24-pin, and 8-pin.

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dustandechoes91

Sorry I haven't read enough into your plans but there are 30 pages......but anyways in case you arent already planning on it I would put some screen over those fans and paint the screen the same color as the case will be. It would keep some dust out and it would take emphasis off of the gaping holes with plastic fans inside

ice_owl

PC Power and Cooling make some of the best PSU's out there you can't go wrong with that and some of the best warranties too I might add.

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I attempted to post this last evening, as well as a new update, and I think OCN went into server-maintenance-mode or something, lol...

thanks for all the comments guys
I will be able to stealth the left over wires, so I am going with that psu and yes I love my DA850 in my sig rig

yep, thats already the plan. I am going to cut mesh into circles and put them in the holes, and most likely epoxy them, so they are flush to the outside of the case. Then when the case gets painted they will get painted too thanks for the input

@Ice_Owl, yeah that was a determining factor as well

update coming...

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The Intelligence - Day 10

If I'm ever gonna start painting this thing I need to get all of the mock-up and fabrication done, so I started doing the stuff I have been putting off.

removed all the remaining case hardware including the feet and the Zero-H id tag and serial number. This took over an hour since everything was riveted to the case and had to be drilled out. The feet needed their own special set of steps:

-drill hole in rivet from inside of case
-cut a cross pattern in the head of the rivet using a dremel cutoff disc
-squeeze the cross cut inwards using pliers
-whack the rivet with a hammer
-pry foot off with a flathead screwdriver from the outside of the case

rinse, repeat * 4

drilled the pilots for the intake fans (sorry bright)

having learned from the holesaw issue from other day, I devised this method of supporting the case correctly for holesawing the intake openings...



much better and way more stable than the other day, and I didnt end up with incomplete cuts this time, and no jumping drill, etc. When the cuts were done I just filed them a bit with a half-round

increased the screw holes from the pilot size to their actual size of 3/16

needed to get the mobo pan anchor screws done. I drilled thru the pan and rails with 6-32 drill bit, then tap threaded the rails with the pan removed (this pic is not indicative of what I just said above - I started to tap thru the pan but realized it was silly)

after I tapped the rails, I drilled slightly larger holes in the pan, so the screws pass thru, and screw into the rails, this is the test fit.

then on the rails I JB-Welded some #6 washers around the holes I just tapped. This will rise the pan flush with those srew heads. I did this on all three rails, but only two are pic'd

apparently ZH doesnt fully glue the case channel all the way around the case, so I ended up with a couple of places where I had to jb-weld it back in place. I guess it isnt ZH's fault, it was fine and sturdy as a camera case, but not so after having been cut up to fit a computer inside

welded

and this part, same deal, loose channel and another piece completely off...

jb welded and clamped. I keep forgetting to get some small clamps to keep in the shop...

so I made Make-shift Clamp Support - Version 1.0 Stepping A0


Once the psu arrives I can jbweld the L brackets and rail spacers in their final places. Then on deck is to mount the hdd and dvd supports.

Thanks for watching

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parts update:

Just ordered the PSU I linked above, and 2 gigs of Corsair DDR2 800 (4-4-4-12) memory
Also I am bouncing my sig rig up to a Q9450 (45nm) Quad 1333 fsb, and a XFX GTX 280 1GB 512bit GPU, both of which I just ordered as well So that means this project machine will get my Q6600 and the 8800GTS 320

the 8800 has a zalman vf1000 cooler on it which had a blue led fan. Anyone have any info on changing out the led/resistor to make the blue led glow red instead? I cant put anything blue inside the red intelligence ?

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derek2esilent

all you need to do is find the LED size of the ones in the vf1000. they swap them out for red ones. some1 did something like this lemme find it.

EDIT: http://www.overclock.net/case-mods-g...-fan-leds.html

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