spartacus

Thanks! Even though I notice all the little picky details and flaws in my work, I think it's looking quite nice for my first "actual" case mod!

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grishkathefool

you're doing fine young'un... keep it up, I am anxious to see the final product with some test results too.

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spartacus

Sorry for the lack of updates.... I bought myself a new mountain bike (real mountains ) and have been riding pretty much non-stop

But, I felt lazy tonite and didn't want to go outside, so I got back to my HTPC.

Here's a review of the night's work:


I mounted the PSU with zipties and some screws through the grill on the mobo-tray side. Ghetto, but it works.

It's cramped, and I still have to put the HDD in, but it is going to work. There's not much room for cable management either.



A quick shot of the backplate -- I didn't want to try cutting a fancy shape for the PSU, so I grabbed a holesaw bit and made two quick cuts -- besides, no one looks at that side! lol



Ready? DIM THE LIGHTS! HIT THE POWER!



It's ALIVEEEEEE!! ALIVE!!!!!!!! yarrr.



I had a blue neon light from when I *tried* to make my car look cool in high school. I hacked off the cigarette lighter plug and crimped on a molex connector .



Lookin' Okay:



I wasn't happy with the blue coming from only one side, so I remounted the neon light just above the grill to uniformly emit awesomeness.



Fantastic!
Next step is to get some RAM of my own... which shouldn't be too hard. I think I found a lead on some DDR-400. Next up will be a hard drive mount where ever I can squeeze it into.

Thanks for looking!!!!!!!

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seven9st surfer

looks great man. i love cheap builds like this. anyone can buy top-of-the-line parts and have a nice computer, but it takes skill to use crappy parts and make a nice computer!

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destroydude

I have to say, that looks pretty awesome. It's very sleek and sexy but I have one question, Where is the power button? I know It's somewhere, but I can't see it in any of the pics. This case could probably be mass manufactured if you worked out the kinks. Nice job +rep.

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Enigma8750

That's a Fine Job you have there pig. A fine job indeed.

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dennisjai

i love the creativity

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spartacus

The plan is to put a power button on the front panel where that rectangular hole is (bottom left corner). For now, I just use a jumper on the header pins ;D
(http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...m/P1040588.JPG)

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scutzi128

My oc'd 3500+ has difficulties playing 720p. I am running a 6800gt with it as well but then again I am running windows 7 as well. I think your gonna need a gfx card with decoding capabilities.

AMK8

I have one question for the OP

How'd the BIOS flashing go? I'm interested in doing this for a Dell....but I'm too scared