[Col_Loki]

Ok guys this seems like a good idea for a sticky and it was in the idea's thread so here it is .

Pop up pics of your rigs, mabye some info on it (tip or two) etc.
I would like to mabye make a max of 4 photo's as its going to be very slow for us poor people who dont have broadband in there area yet (56k sucks).

Any comments like "Nice rig" , complements , advise etc are fine but i will only leave them up for a couple of days ....... as its basically supposed to be mainly pics. Its nice to give your impressions and complements especially when people have put alot of effort into the modding process. [This means you SHOULD post comments if you want, i will clean up the thread in a couple of days so no harm done ]

I wont be adding my system to it (sonata case) but i will be changing things alot in the summer and might match up the watercooling system with the XaserII (clear side) and then ill post a few.

Anyway enjoy.......

[CombatCow]

Ok well i may aswell get the ball rolling on this gallery,im gonna be cheeky and post up two of my mods in 2 seperate posts in order of date,oldest first.
** all images are under 100kbs each **

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erm,got a very plain alu case to do a thundercats mod to start with.was easy to cut out the design with my dremel.





I added more crazy lighting and a extra top window with a thundercats custom applique from " shatteredweb " and then an coolermaster aerogate 2 fan controller and cooldrive's.



I switched to watercooling kit i got from " hitide.ie " and added 2 rad's with two 120mm blue led fans, and uv reactive tubing some of which i used to cut into spiral wrap for the psu cables,also had a zalman fanless chipset cooler there.



The neon tubing lit up "revoltec cold cathodes" in it's full glory.Bling* Bling*

Full Spec:

Abit KD7 Mobo
Amd Barton xp 2800+
1 Gig Crucial pc 2700 DDR Ram
2x Western Digital SE 120Gig HDD's
GeForce Fx 5900 Ultra

CombatCow

[CombatCow]

Ok well this is my latest "pride and joy" that was made just last week.

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Ok well this is the sexual "limited edition" CasEdge Diabolic gaming tower. The pic cant really do this case justice but it has a really glossy red and black finish to it.



yup that's 1 sweet stealth dvdrw drive if i do say so myself



The rad's are mounted in the top of the case ( take up two drive bays ) also have 2 120mm red antec led fans for em that are controlled to 5v - off - 12v with the zalman fan controller at the front.It was a tight squeeze fitting the 2 single rads in the top,but worked out very nicely.



The ''guts'' so to speak
* oops that 80mm fan was just for a lanparty *
pretty much the same spec as my other pc above.

The noise is minimal,the only sound is a hi-pitch one from the hdd's which are soon to be replaced with quiet sata samsung spinpoint 160Gig Hdd's

CombatCow

[jozi]

Not much done to it but i'll post anyway.

Here's the spec:

Antec Lanboy case with Antec 430watt true power PSU
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Mobo
Amd Athlon XP 2500+ overclocked to 3000+ (pc thinks it's one anyway)
Thermaltake Volcano 12 Heatsink and Fan combo
Aopen Aolus Geforce 4Ti 4200 8X AGP
52x32x52 Lite-on Cd-Rw Drive
Lg DVD Drive
2 Hard disks, 60Gig ATA133 and 80Gig SATA (Both Maxtor)
Sb Live 5.1 digital
2 Antec fans, blowing in/out

Mods so far
I cut the mesh away infront of the front/rear fans and tidied up the cables, hid as much as i could

Future mods
maybe a fan in the top and a coldcathode tube

Jozi

[jozi]

Pic

[jozi]

This pic is 2 foto's joined into one file

[Prosta]

Wanted to put something on the other side of my Super Lanboy
Finished this last night. Will post more pics tonight

Origional was in 2000ad by Simon Bisley
http://www.simonbisleyonline.com/2000AD/abc06.htm

Done using a pantograph (check google for demo) and CD permenant ink marker.

Took about 10 hours

[Prosta]

pic of case lights

[magick]

Well since everyone is doing it

heres mine

[Verdammt]

Here's my baby, I'm adding a big peltier rad this weekend.

[El_MUERkO]

Heres two pics of my PC, if i disable the flash the digital camera goes blurry so sorry for the lower quality.

[El_MUERkO]

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[sutty]

Spec:
Thermaltake Skull case
Athlon 2500+ Barton
Asus A7N8X-e Deluxe
Radeon 9800pro
512meg of OCZ 2700 Rev 3.2 ram
SCSI Ultra 2 Controler
Seagate Ultra 2 18.2gig drive (7,200rpm, 6ms seak time)
Maxtor 200gig ATA133 8meg cache
LG SuperMulti write DVD writer
Pinnacle PCTV Delux
Antec 480w Trueblue PSU

Water cooling:
Waterpump Eheim 1046 12V
Watertank Innovatek AGB-O-Matic
Radiator Innovatek Innova-Radi Dual (Dual 120mm fan rad)
VGA cooler Cool-Matic ATI rev.1 for Radeon 9700/9800
VGA/Chipset Cooler innova-Graph-O-Matic rev.2 GF4-GF-Fx/Northbridge
cpu-cooler innova XX-Flow rev.1 Socket A Color: transparent


What I had wanted to do when I was fist planing the system, was put all the water cooling into my old shuttle SN41G2. But sadly due to drive lents, I would not be able to fit the VGA cooler for the 9800pro in. So I scraped that idea and went and got a Thermaltake Skull from stock in Elara. I went with the skull as it came with a side panel and is quite a sturdy case. So cutting into it would not cause any problems with it.
Heres some pics..


Not much was done to the frunt of it, that you can see. The temp and fan control unit is about 2mm out more than when the case is not moded (its a really big Rad for the water cooling) The "Thermaltake" sign on the front is meant to light up. But I removed the controler as it looks crap! I'll be changing it with something better, once I can think of something to put in there


I had to cut a rather large cut in the case for the fans to have airflow. The Rad is below the fans and goes from the PSU to the frunt of the case. There is about 2mm on each side of the drive mountings for clearance. I put Antec Nice killers on the PSU and two 120mm fans. They keep the vibrations down.


On the side, I removed a "bracing bar" that runs accross the middle of the case. (its used for making sure cards dont pop out of there slot and to hold an extra HDD and one fan) Installed 2 UV cold cathode lights. One running accross the bottem and one on the bottem side as seen.


If your wondering about the winding path of the tubing going from the Rad to the water tank and the pump to the CPU/Chipset/9800pro. I found that when I turn the PC off, a small amount of air that is in the tank, Comes back up the pipe and was going into the Rad and casing an air lock. This bend going down stops this from happening.

[Raz]

I did this one last summer. Turned out quite well though the case is fairly crap. CombatCow helped me out with advice and cathodes.
The first is a daylight shot.
I did the window mod, blow hole at the top, lights in the drives, an extra fan on the PSU and a complete respray along with a lot of other bits and pieces.
I've documented some of it at www.easymods.cjb.net

[Raz]

The second pic is with the lights on. I took it without flash so the shutter speed was slower hence the blur. I might take a better on some time in the future