Project: UFO

[master_gokhan]

nice work man keep goin..

[Vice]

Thanks for such great feedback.

Wheels will be comming in soon, when they do, Ill finish up the interior

[Vice]

Well thanks to Lurid, I now have wheels to use with my case.



They have breaks as well!

- I also ordered a few things, like a new chipset heatsink.











And a new thumb drive.


And some Arctic Cooling MX-1 is on the way from axiontech, should be here within a few days, then I will put these new parts to the test.

~Vice

[Frostbyte]

Nice project!

[Vice]

Thermal Paste finally came. Axiontech isn't so great at updating their pages, leave me under the false pretense that it hadn't shipped out, when I ordered it last friday. Important thing is though it got to me I guess.

[Vice]

Preliminary results show that at 3ghz, cpu temps have dropped 2-3c at idle, 10-12c at load, and the temps can only get better, as I have not reached the 200hr optimal preformance marker yet. I now idle at 30c, load at 42c, room temp around 21c.

And yesterday was my birthday as well, and what a treat it was to see these great temps.

P.S - Cpu is at 1.4vcore.

[Vice]

Baseball season ends tomorrow (varsity jacket on the way!), so I'll have more time to do some more things with my case.

Here's a little preview of things to come:




Going to try out this Cold-Heat soldering iron. Heart mixed reviews so I'm going to be keeping the receipt just in case







Some nice sleeving, along with some heatshrink will be coming towards the end of the week.



And some nice new ddr2-1000 ram !



I will be ordering everything on Wednesday, so I should be getting everything by Friday or Monday, but I should start painting this week. We have a 5-day break coming up (Fri-Tues) so I should get a lot finished.

I'll just have this, work, and school for a while so hopefully I can get more done.

[Duh]

nice project.. how about the spirits noise? I have a spirit for k7 and had to remove it as it was unbearable

[Vice]

Unbearable?

Maybe it was just a defecting cooler because mine is silent.

[Vice]

With the help of a friend with a similar project, I learned how to do this:








Combined the two fans to one molex-gave me the ability to lose the other four molex connectors to give it a cleaner look-freed up a lot of space. Heatshrink and spiral wrap will follow , these were just test fans.

A hint of wire management to come.

[whoodiestyle]

dont know if anyone has said this yet but i think that level is done LOL

other than that its looking great

[Vice]

dont know if anyone has said this yet but i think that level is done LOL

Explain please, I don't understand

[whoodiestyle]

Explain please, I don't understand

that level is no good look at it all the bubbles are bent/melted crocked

[Vice]

Oh yeah, that level is at least 20yrs. old

[whoodiestyle]

Oh yeah, that level is at least 20yrs. old

yeah the only level that i seen that supposed to have bent tubes is my dads brothers ye old wooden level

[Vice]

Did the priming this morning- came out great. I'm going to let it dry for 24hrs, so I'll start painting in the morning.

Today I plan on working on the fans since my sleeving and stuff should come this afternoon.





And my setup outta the case:

[Vice]

* I just bought some supplies at home depot, going to make a new front panel, not liking how the acrlyic looks there. I also have new stuff for the base so I can get rid of those three slabs of wood. But unfortunately, I'm going to have to order the wire online, so it will be here by middle of next week. I should be done with the painting soon though, have to cut the new front panel and bottom, but that shouldn't take too long.

[Vice]

First coat is done, its hard to show on the camera, but the color is flat black.

[Vice]

Got a lot done today, so much so, I actually feel "completed" for the day.

I made a new cd drive mount, hd mount will come tomorrow. I also redid the front panel for my case. I started one yesterday, but it came out crappy and my measurements were off.. it was fixable, but I've worked too hard for this case to come out sh*tty, so I completely redid it. The cut for the cd drives is much cleaner now. I will head over to home depot tomorrow to grab a hole saw for the fans, the wood is too thick to use my dremel with any sense of accuracy. Wiring should come Wednesday, and another switch and some zip ties by weeks end.

Pics:








The metal brackets will be painted black tomorrow.. silver and neon-green don't go too well



Those longs bolts will be replace with shorter ones, just using them to hold the brackets in place for now.



First go at front panel:

As you can see, the cut is not very neat.



Embarrassing..



Redid it, took about 3hrs.









Cut is much better, wouldn't you say?

More to come tomorrow.

P.S. New ram comes tomorrow, woot!

[Vice]

* I need your opinion on these, I'm not sure which one to go with for my hd mount.

Type 1 w/ 4drives


Type 1 w/ 6drives


Type 2 w/ 4drives


Type 2 w/ 6drives


Choose either Type 1 or 2 - I'm leaning towards Type 2 because it will match my cd drive mount.

[dysfunction]

nice work

[Vice]

*Thanks

Ram came today, and let me tell you, these sticks are great.


























Voltage @ 2.24 up from 2.2, hardly oc'd at all, these sticks are capable of much more.

[Vice]

Got the cd mount up today, the wire also came in. The front panel should be done soon, just need to go to home depot to get an arbor for the hole saw I picked up on tuesday, and make a template.

[teyber]

its almost like i have seen this before... lol sick case viec

[Vice]

Nice to see you've migrated to XS teyber