Greetings Guys,
This has been a long time coming, I decided to break down and get some new drill bits and just freaking do it.
I went out and got an 8800GTX due to my 6800GS getting sold locally here, i didn't want to toss either of my Super Lanboys because of a stupid 1" of 8800GTX pwnage not letting me get the thing in the case.
Took me about 5 hours from teardown to power on.
It was pretty clean in there before i guess, the biggest problem was the 4 hard drives that form my 2 RAID 0 arrays. Notice the Jaton MX440 twin head PCI video card in there Yeah, i wasn't gaming for like... a week.
Some after market sinkage, loaned the stockers to a friend so he could RMA his board... still a work in progress, i know my northbridge isn't going to win any pretty points... but it works
Grill cutting for airflow .. The super lanboy cuts like BUTTER :P Entire drive cage is out there is SOOOOOO much room in this case without it.
After about an hour of measuring and dry fitting, it looked like the seagate raid array i had going would fit at the bottom of the case ( TIGHT fit ) and the WD raid 0 array would fit up top in the 2 5 1/4 bays that i wasn't using. Notice how close they are to the end of my Audigy ...The seagates are on short brass standoffs, and are mounted using some freshly drilled holes in the bottom of the case.
Better look at the bottom, i wish i could have used some of the holes from the recently extracted drive case, but none of them lined up.
Zero room to work with cables. i had to use the reverse upsidedown sata cables and a double sata to single molex adaptor in order to properly connect the drives and not break anything. At least the standoffs the hard drives are sitting on provided a space to stuff cables
Started wiring everything back up. Out of everything i had done up to this point, this took the longest and took the most out of me.
OMG... almost done! 8800GTX is in, and starting to look pretty :P
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