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well proud of being a nerd :)
Beautiful rig man, looks awesome. :D
Great wire management too.
what UV cathodes are those? I have some and they aren't that bright.Quote:
Originally Posted by OV3RCLOCK3R
anyone modded a tt soprano? i have one and im looking for some ideas and inspiration so if u do; please hook a brother up ; i was poring thru this thread earlier today, some very nice looking rigs btw!
What do u want to do?
nothing in particular; im already softcore modding with some uv lights and changing coolers + adding/cutting fans; i just wanna see what other people have going on with their sopranos (its not a very customisable case)Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeBar
NickS - Thanks man. Glad you like it :D
CRXican - Hiper Dual 12" UV cathods :)
havoxz - Post pics of your case so we can help :)
do u feel like doing some more serious modding?Quote:
Originally Posted by havoxz
first of all
ditch the acrylic side panel and use some honeycomb mesh instead
you can totally change it looks by painting the interior black
the exterior would look nice in an orange (metallic maybe) paintjob...
add a set of wheels and two billet handles (the Mnpctech ones are excellent)
make two 120mm holes and you've got yourself a dual rad fixation on the top (for future upgrades)
with an ACryan dual grill for the looks
and a pair of Akasa Amber 120mm fans
and you're good to go...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...L/tsunami1.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...L/tsunami2.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...L/tsunami3.jpg
here's 2 pics of my old emachines etower533i which houses a 533mhz celeron socket a,96mb of pc100sdram,8gb seagate ide hdd,56kmodem,120 watt powersupply.Found some christmas lights so i decided to screww off the case cover panel and am trying to untangle them so i can proportion them over the system and do some other modding with cardboard.took 1 pic with all lights off and then with the kitchen light on.http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...s/Picture7.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...s/Picture8.jpg
THAT LOOKS AWESOME! wow did u draw that up urself?Quote:
Originally Posted by SlackerXL
something like that is definitely an idea! wow; just one thing; putting the double fans at the top :S
1 fan is free to suck air up whilst another will be situated directly above the psu or dvd drive >< :p some nice ideas tho; ill consider it
How on earth would you fit a psu in that case?
yea i measured mine there is only room for one 120mm fan with the dvd drive and psu there is like barely no room left inbetween the 2Quote:
Originally Posted by havoxz
i love the idea of 2 at the top with that double fan grill; very coolQuote:
Originally Posted by whoodiestyle
if you can spare the two top 5,25 bays
you can use a dual rad,
as long as you'll use 3/8'' tubes
in order to be able to make the necessary routing
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...amiracing4.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...amiracing5.jpg
if you don't plan to use more than two hdd's
you could also remove the hdd rack and reserve the space for a pump
while adding the rad and fans on the bottom
and moving your disks in two spare 5,25 bays
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...amiracing6.jpg
ppl please keep in mind that those are just rough sketches
and not some sort of Tsunami modding guide...
Havoxz asked for some ideas and i thought it would be better to present some images ...
I'm pretty sure I've not posted this, my case of 2+years :)
Before:
http://news.equk.co.uk/images/mainpcold.jpg
After:
http://news.equk.co.uk/casemod/images/window2.jpg
Project Log
and uve posted some very very nice ideas and images :DQuote:
Originally Posted by SlackerXL
how did u draw them up? looks fantastic
edit:
looking at the above picture did u design or intend for the front fan to be intake, the air blows across then is blow up the gfx and blow across over the HDDs and exhausted thru the top?Quote:
Originally Posted by SlackerXL
if it were done like that all but the double fans at the top would be intake
would something like that work?
AND equilibrium; nice job u've done, i took a look at ur project log :D
I'm glad you liked it havoxzQuote:
Originally Posted by havoxz
i'm using Sketchup,Illustrator and Photoshop for the sketches...
the orientation of the fans in the previous sketch was not intentedQuote:
Originally Posted by havoxz
i just threw the fans...in the case :p:
i think that the optimal airflow could be achieved with a layout similar to the one below
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...acing7copy.jpg
which project log?Quote:
Originally Posted by havoxz
i don't remember posting something here in XS :confused:
looks very nice ! the illustration of airflowQuote:
Originally Posted by SlackerXL
as for the project log i was referring to equilbriums :p
Will the bottom rad not be getting hot?Quote:
Originally Posted by SlackerXL
Blowing hot air in from the bottom? :confused:
Will that not lead to more hot air in the case rather than cooling things down?
thx :)Quote:
Originally Posted by havoxz
silly me...Quote:
Originally Posted by havoxz
i thought you were talking about the intake-exhaust air volume equilibrium
:eek:
a dual rad does not warm that easily...Quote:
Originally Posted by equilibrium
not even with a D955 on it
(provided you have a decent flow and an adequate pump for your setup)
so the air coming through it will not affect the system temp as much as you think
also, as you probably already know,
the air from the lower level (floor level) is always cooler and by warming it up
you force it to move upwards towards the exhaust fans...
i ve used this particular configuration in more than 15 cases the past few months
(most of them Stacker 830's without the side fan panel)
and the results were excellent despite the Greek summer temps :p:
the only thing you should do, is add two fan filters to the bottom fans because floor-level air intake tends to collect all the underlying dust
and reduces the rad's effectiveness really quick
http://img310.imageshack.us/img310/6...0023do6.th.jpg
http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/6...00271yw.th.jpg
I will post more when I get some good night shots. They don't seem to be turning out very well, along with some pictures of the case with the window on and such..
I like the design of the airflow (without the bottom rad).Quote:
Originally Posted by SlackerXL
I just don't see the reasoning for 2 rads in 1 system unless you have 2 seperate watercooling setups in the same case, which would mean 2 pumps, 2 res's etc etc.
Doesn't adding another radiator change the flow of the water aswell, especially with the flow going from the top of the case to the bottom (and then having to go back up to the components).
But maybe I'm not thinking about this correctly :confused:
Be interesting if you could post the 15 cases you've built with this design to see exactly how it's all setup/working etc :)