lets go!!
started this at about 5pm and finnished modding at around midknight at which point i got cramp inboth hands and feet while filing. not bad for an evenings work me no thinky.
ok, to start with i saw a cabinate with my hifi in it and thought hmmm, that looks remotely like a mountain mods cube case so promptly logged off and without any further ado or planning, destroyed everything.
the victim
one of my main problems was how i was going to mount the motherboard, then i realised it was allready on a motherboard tray
after some measuring (well i put it there and ureka, it worked) i saw that it fitted beautifully
shiny!!!
here it is mounted, i just used lots of screws through holes allraedy in the tray and its beautiful. just need to get some tape over them so they dont short the mobo out
next problem was where to mount the PSU and the easiest method was to do this:
this is the bracket out of the rear of the akasa eclipse that aall this stuff came from. i just bolted it on and it allows me to screw down into the wood without having to go from the outside in
next came the optical drives and such, and to my amazment, 3 5.25" drives fitted absolutely perfectly across the top so i botched together a tray with a jigsaw and screwed it on using some blocks and voila, its perfek!
the majority of the evening was spent over the tft
i decided to remove the frame and everything until i was left with this:
this was perfect so all i had to do was cut a hole into a piece of wood which took hours, the jigsaw was blunt and i had a tiny little file. after about 2 hours of filing and sanding it eventually fit and i had this:
after that it was just a question of seeing if it fit and voila, its beautiful. i just need some trim to neaten it all up
there is a small gap between the drives and the top oif the screen pannel so i'll need to get somethign in there, maybe some aluminium or something.
after that i just need to mount the hard drive rack which wil take all of 1 minute and then drill out 2 12cm holes in the side for some intake fans and get a couple of grills on the outside. once this is all done i may consider watercooling it for a really nice effect.
the only issue i have at the moment is what to do about a power buttong allthough i have some ideas and a spare button but more importantly, what to do about making the inside accessible. i am going to use the front pannel with the tft as the removable one so i need to find a way of being able to remove it. i can easily do iut using some long screws i have but ideally i want it to look purty.
a couple of my hard drives, until i get drivers for the other raid controller (can't find them anywhere
) and work out how to use the 3rd ide connector i can't use anything else. also need to get a super dooper long ide cable so i can actually use the dvd drive on the left
el gubbins!
the tricky thing is that to put the lid on (it screws down fron inside at top corners, i have to unmount the drives and slide the whole rack backwards, put top on, secure and slide bakc forwards, other than that its brilliant and a very nice fit. might get a hot swap bay up there instead of the left dvd-rom
at the moment the screen is just perched in the hole but this is to give you an idea of what it's gonna be like. there is no power button or anything on the front, just the screen. i was intending to have a buttong hence the hole under the screen but it broke so i'm going to mount a logo or name etc over the hole. the power button is a 2 way switch in a pci bracket, fick it twice and its on, fick it again and you get shut down, rudamentary but it works a treat
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.....not sure about the lady bit though
