[Intermediate] 2010 - Roots Reggae Music Mod

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Below is the full worklog with index for you to follow everything.
Here are a few starter pics















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before we start !!!

"This MOD is all about sweet roots reggae music"
I made a radio server with all kinds of reggae for you to listen.

To listen you need Winamp or some sort, or a player thats able to add locations
you can listen here

http://registered-foundation.servemp3.com:8000/
or
http://registered-foundation.servemp...000/listen.pls for a direct start

The radio contains only reall vynil records and all of dem are singles
Some dancehall tunes from record also still in there i try to delete dem fast.
Lets hope they dont get played when you listen lol

Sit back, chill and relax while reading this thread

At first the picture's have bad quality but they get better in the end

allright my first MOD and starting at intermediate
Gonna be a huge challange to compete after what i have seen what has been made last year, will do my best though

The Idea:

This MOD isnt about superfancy stuff, latest technology and such.
I want to try and make a roots reggae MOD and since true rasta's dont have much money this has to be a cheap MOD to.

So what cheaper then Modding my own pc ?
right.. so ill be modding my own pc.
Wasnt a cheap computer, but its almost 1 year old now and we will just think a Rasta can buy this second hand now

Alot of reggae stuff on the market always looks really overdone with all those colours and looks a bit fake to me. Ill try to be subtle with the reggae colours [red, yellow, green] in addition i want to blend it with black and white colours. Black and white as humanity in Unity. Rasta's are all about peace and love

Its about music so the computer is going to be quit and have a good sound output. for that ill be using an Asus Essence STX. it has an RCA and Jack 6.3 output, wich is perfect for hooking up on a proper reggae soundsystem.
ill take pictures of it hooked up onto a system as well. that way u see the purpose of this Computer and how well it blends in with a reggae soundsystem.

The MOD has to be fast an easy to. a rasta isnt someone who would put alot of work in a computer i think [you have to be a nerd like us ]. also can serve as a nice example on how to MOD ur own existing computer fast and cheap.

Thats the idea, now to work it out. first ill list all original components used in this computer before modding.

The Plan:

1. Paint grills red, yellow and green.
2. Paint the RAM [black, red, yellow and green]
3. Replace case fans for white ones.
4. Get blue led out of CPU cooler.
5. cable management [holes etc.]
6. LED light system on fan controll.
7. Paint case inside.
8. Paint graphics card.
9. Paint back of case.
10. Get back fangaurd out and replace for a silver one with golden screws.
11. Put music on server.
12. replace disks for SSD's.
13. Put SSD's out of sight on side panel.
14. Stealth dvd player.
15. Make own system speaker.
16. Custom sticker sidepanel.
18. Paint grill from top fan
19. Paint grill side panel
20. Custom sticker on side of graphics card
21. Custom sticker front top case
22. Make 8-pin power connector longer to go behind panel.
23. Build radio server for people to listen while reading this thread.
24. Make a little garden in the case.
25. hopefully a custom wrist-wrap in reggae colors hanging on PC.
26. Hook to hang up ur headphones on side panel.
27. Slot protectors on those u can still reach.
28. Flip HD if raptor is still in there [poor me ]
29. Blend in computer with my stereo.
30. Overclock + benchmark results.
31. Final picture session.

Lets hope we can everything thats planned

It is best if you just go through this whole thread so you dont miss a thing of this MOD, though i have also made an index for you all to navigate easy.

Index:

- The Parts
- New fans and stuff
- The front grills, Ram and stealth Dvd-player
- Graphicscard painted
- Case painting and hole for Drivebay
- Looks after first paint job
- Painted drive bays, hole for PSU and new fanguard
- The looks so far
- SSD, LED Lights and System speaker MOD
- Blasting sound for you and for me
- Second SSD, Fan MOD and CCFL Light MOD
- Big problems
- First stress test new parts
- New parts installed
- Side panels paint job
- Headphone rest, I/O Shields and overall looks
- Overclocking
- Hurry HURRY !
- Computer Gardening
- More fans
- Final Picture Session
- Conclusion (end)
Edited by Farih - 6/30/10 at 6:46am

allright then here some of the parts in this computer. watch out, these parts havent been MOD yet. more parts maybe will be added during MOD

The Casing [Antec nine hundred]



The Board [M3A32-MVP Deluxe]



The RAM [Mushkin DDR2 1066 8GB]



The Graphics [HIS 4890]



The CPU Cooler

[img=http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/7417/zalmancnps950003.jpg]

The Soundcard [Asus essence stx]
OMG!!!!!! look at that !!!!!!!!
there is the Conquering Lion from di Tribe of Judah on my soundcard



The PSU [BeQuit dark power pro 550W]



The original 3 120mm fans [antec tricool blue led]



The Disk [150gb velociraptor]



Wont show pictures yet of the soundsystem its going to be used for. they have nothing to do with this computer itself i think, but i have Painted the speakers before so it will match with this PC. pictures will be shown together with this computer when MOD is completed.
Edited by Farih - 6/18/10 at 7:58am

As soon as i signed in for this competition i went to get some stuff and got home with some paint, fans and a fan controller. couldnt buy black paint yet out of money lol
good thing we have till july 2010

Exchanged the 3 original antec fans for these :

Nexus real silent 1600rpm for side and back



And 2 of these Sharkoon's 2000rpm in the front



after that i installed the fan controller [scythe kaze master 5.25]
the black and chrome edges look really nice with this case



After that i took the bottom 6 front grills of and spray painted dem

2 red
2 yellow
2 green

It looked really nice so i thought i could spray paint my RAM memory to
Liked i sayed before i dont want to over do it with all those colours so i left the top of the modules black, this way if you look straight on top of the RAM they look black. but if u look from the side's u can see the colours slightly.

In all this was an easy thing to do and made everything look better allready.

Explanation:

These post have come fast after eachother becuase when i signed in i couldnt post a thread here yet and i was allready busy modding

Found my old camara to take some pictures. to bad this camara is ****ty quality. on the pictures it doesnt look as nice as it really is.

Allready painted the grills before i found camara, here's a picture of it though




Yes i know the cables are a mess, will get back later on that



Here is the RAM i spray painted. the black one u see is how they look original.



when installed and u look straight at dem they look black
but if you look from a side then u see Black, red, yellow, green... Woohoo !

Here u look straight at it.




here's a look from the side [colours hooray !]



Turned out really nice i think.

Folded some mesh around some plastic rubber like stuff. the folding made the paint snap so i had to repaint it again. planned to use this on the dvd player so it looks as 1 with the front of the case



And just stuck this thing onto the DVD player. Lined-up the DVD player with the rest of the case.










Sorry again for camara.
Edited by Farih - 12/19/09 at 3:00pm

Now for the graphics card.
Lets take it apart and paint it to
Trying to let it look old and cheap
Have put primer on it first, then painted it black and after that dryed it sprayed a little primer over it again. Looks like a cheap old graphics card now, exactly what i wanted
To bad the top is still red.. to afraid to spray paint over that electrics board









Turned out nice huh



Some Zalman zm-stg1 thermal grease on it, with a bit of luck a few degrees cooler
[its a really thin TIM, u spread all over the chip instead of a grain in the middle method]



lets see how it looks inside the computer.



Sweet

lets put everything back together now and see how it looks so far.







loads of more stuff to do still...........
Edited by Farih - 6/18/10 at 8:00am

Today i spray painted the inside and the back.
Gave it the same look as the graphicscard. old, crappy and ruff.

Flipped the disk and amde a hole to the side for its sata cable.
for now there's psu cables in there to till i find a better way.

The fanguard needs to be cut out still for better fitting.

Drivebays need spray paint, sadly i ran out of black



pfff what a mess mainboard lies aside with cpu cooler and ram still on it



what a pretty psu huh...



Nah, we are not going to flip this psu.. this side is ugly



A hole to the side needed to flip the disk



plus a hole to the side in the drivebay ofcourse

will put protective edges on it later



Primer on the case first

then we spray it black, let it dry and sprinkle a little bit more primer



Yeah thats what i want, doesnt it look crappy



Yeah very crappy a poor man rasta cant have an expensive stylish case right ?
This looks stolen from a dumpsite

Lets couler some stuff............




now let it all dry
Edited by Farih - 1/20/10 at 1:55am

After a night of drying lets put the computer back together. almost x-mass and out fo money. better put it back together and use this computer till i can buy more stuff.



Looks nice i think.






Here u see those bands we sprayed before, notice the tie-wraps in red, yellow and green to



With the graphics and soundcard in it.



The back, the aluminium parts going to be spray painted black/primer like the rest but i was out of paint for now
Edited by Farih - 1/20/10 at 1:55am

Those pictures are really bad, it looks alot better then the pictures show. think i have to buy a new camara for this competition
Will take some time before update on mod again

Made a hole next to PSU, its not big enough and the 8pin cable that goes next to cpu is to short to lead out of sight. Will make the hole slightly bigger and lengthen the cable.
Picture update soon