[hellboy99]

Originally Posted by papu

I like it , reminds me of when i painted my dell 5150 Black cant wait to see the top grill

Here's the vent / grill I made, just have to fab and mould it to the top, put in the fan and lights

[Explosive_Cornflake]

Originally Posted by hellboy99

Got bored with the look of my Dell Dimension 9200 and decided to give it a face lift yesterday, I got most of it done and hopefully I'll get to finish it off next weekend.

All I've left to do is to spray the remaining primed side panel, put an air vent on top (I fabbed it using a piece from a car bumper and fibre glass), and then spray it. Will post more pics when it's all done, but here's it so far

That's an excellent finish on the paint. Care to detail what you did?

[hellboy99]

Originally Posted by Explosive_Cornflake

That's an excellent finish on the paint. Care to detail what you did?

First off I filled in the Dell logos on the side panels with car repair body filler and sanded that down flush with the panels when dry, then sprayed the case with primer.

Paints I used are car paints; the blue on the sides is a custom paint my brother had got made up for one of his cars, I added a metal flake to it and then finished off with a coat of lacquer.
The red/wine colour on the front is Ford Mondeo red, decided not to apply a lacquer to it as without it, it gives a flat / metal type apperance and I think it suits it

The vent / grill for the top was made from a cutout section from the middle lower part of a Ford RS back bumper. The back end of the vent was bent down to shape by heating it with a blow tourch and bending into place.
I then made sides for it using fibre glass, they will be fibre glassed onto it (lights and fan put in place) and then the whole vent will be mouled onto the top using more fibre glass, sanded down into shape, made flush to the case and then sprayed.

Hopefully I will get it all done this weekend and will post up pics of it then

[C.D.]

Some very impressive case mods here- I did my first "mod" today, though it is not strictly speaking a case mod.

Problem:

I have an OCZ GameXstream PSU, which was initially very quiet upon purchase two years ago. Fast forward to this week when I get a new case (Antec P183), GPU (Sapphire 4890 Vapor-X) and CPU cooler (Nexus Xir-3500), which are all known for being very quiet. I kid you not when I say my PSU sounded like an airplane in comparison to the rest of my system.

Solution:

Took apart my PSU, cut the wires to the 120mm fan and spliced them with the wires for a new, much quieter fan. The new fan uses less current at full load (0.24 vs 0.45) is 12V aswell and is also rated at 80 CFM, but seems quite content to push significantly less air through my PSU (you can really feel the difference). However, all the voltages (3.3V, 5V etc) are all fine under load and it is waaaaaaaaaay quieter so I'm happy.

Just thought it might be worth mentioning for any boardsies who like quiet PC's- much cheaper than buying a new PSU.

[Pokes]

Chieftec CH-03 casemod.. I wanted a new case but money is tight.My system was running a bit too hot so i added a 120mm exhaust fan in the top and two 90mm fans as front intakes. I still have a bit of work to do on it , I want to put in a side window and fit fan filters on the intakes. Going to replace all fans with blue LED ones too.

Before



Top



Re-Worked Front (Looks like it needs some more work )



System is

Amd Phenom II 720be x3 @ 3.4ghz
MSI C770-C45
4gb OCZ Platinum 1600mhz DDR3
Radeon 4850
Spire CPU cooler
2x 1tb Samsung F1's
550w Enermax PSU

[hellboy99]

Finally got my Dell case finished (didn't put the vent on as I couldn't get a fan in due to the side panel release system) , went from this:




to this:

[Spiritine]

Bump bump any modders out there!!!

[Explosive_Cornflake]

Odd you should ask that today. I haven't done anything in years, and today I'm covered in saw dust.

I'm making a clock/photo frame/news ticker/weather widget.
It'll be another few days.

Old 14" laptop, Dell 630m, that doesnt charge anymore is becoming this.




Tomorrow I need to finish the wood, and should hopefully be receiving an 8GB cf card and an IDE-CF adapter. Hopefully it'll be silent.
I'll be doing a write up on it when it's finished.

[Spiritine]

that is quite a big clock lol

[Access]

Originally Posted by Explosive_Cornflake

Odd you should ask that today. I haven't done anything in years, and today I'm covered in saw dust.

I'm making a clock/photo frame/news ticker/weather widget.
It'll be another few days.

Old 14" laptop, Dell 630m, that doesnt charge anymore is becoming this.




Tomorrow I need to finish the wood, and should hopefully be receiving an 8GB cf card and an IDE-CF adapter. Hopefully it'll be silent.
I'll be doing a write up on it when it's finished.

any update on your project... it looks fecking cool! are you wall mounting in a particular room? / was it just an old lappy you had lying around?

[Explosive_Cornflake]

Originally Posted by Access

any update on your project... it looks fecking cool! are you wall mounting in a particular room? / was it just an old lappy you had lying around?

Only a small update I'm afraid.
I ended up getting a new job and moving, so didn't have much time, but I'll hopefully be sorting out the last few bits in the next few weeks.

It was an old laptop, few bits needed replacing and I bought a new one that's a bit lighter for travelling/dual core etc.


Was just a quick demo of it. Unfortunately it was a regular mechanical hard drive.
The CF card I orderee, or else 1 of the 3 CF to IDE adapters i got have a problem. The system can't boot from it. As far as I am aware, you need some special utility from the manufacturer to turn the CF card from Removable to fixed type. As far as I can figure out, the laptop BIOS won't boot from something that calls itself removable. If I can't change the type I'm going to think about making a PXE boot image.
It'll be a few weeks weeks before I get time to do this.
The plan is to have a clock running, but maybe also a photo slide show and a bluetooth/wifi interface from a phone to chnage radio stations etc.

[ED E]

I'm buying several litres of cooking oil tomorrow.....

[Komplett-Tech: Ryan]

Originally Posted by Lethal_Bullet

I'm buying several litres of cooking oil tomorrow.....

Fishtank pc? I hope you got unscented/distilled oil.

[Supermensch]

Without meaning to necrobump...

Why buy a case when you can doll up a shítbox!









Obliga-show off of my AMD Hackintosh

[papu]

that reminds me , , Counts as a case mod right?