Zippyc's "Air-Stream" Lan Rig, Opinions Please?

[zippyc]

Zippyc’s “AIR-STREAM” 2.6 Ghz Portable LAN Rig. It does 21 K MO's with no volt mods anywhere, without breaking the bank. I run the 9800 at 467 core.
(Edit due to a little more benching)

Ok, so I’ve been working on a somewhat unique (I think…) gaming rig for the past couple of weeks and wanted to get opinions on looks/ functionality/originality if you don’t mind. I had fun building this, and may offer to build these for sale if people like what they see. Keep in mind this is about 80% complete, but the temperature dissapation results are excellent so far.

I wanted a rig with handles for portability, and this All Aluminum Rack Mount chassis caught my eye as it was A) All aluminum B) Had handles and C) Has excellent airflow characteristics if you chuck the factory hard drive mount and strategically place additional slot coolers and D) Is no larger that a Mid-Tower system.

The Hardware I am using:

Barton Mobile 2600 XP, 2.6 Ghz at 1.775V on air
DFI Lanparty
2 x 256M Kingston Hyperx PC3200 cas 2.0 (BH-5), 217FSB+
Fortron FSP 530 (Adjustable Rails Baby!)
Radeon 9800 Pro at 450Mhz Core, 355Mhz Mem
52x CD Rom (El cheepo)
Coolermaster Aerogate II Four Fan Control/ 4 Temp Display with Alarm
AMD OEM CPU Cooler and fan for GPU
Vantec C7040 CPU Cooler
Hitachi Deskstar 180G IDE w 8M Cache


Unique Features:

This chassis is the only chassis I am aware of that provides 360 Degrees of Radiating Exterior (When mounted in these little inexpensive rack stands.) NO SURFACE TOUCHES THE GROUND!!!!!

Airflow is all front to rear…the majority is directed through the front 120MM Fan (At 86 CFM) after going through a removable air filter. A small amount is also directed by the little fan in the Aerogate that also serves as a hard drive cooling source.

But most importantly there is a suction created by the combination of 2 High Flow Slot coolers, a 60MM exhaust fan, a 80MM exhaust fan, and the two 80 MM exhaust fans in the power supply. ALL EXHAUSTS POINT/ EXIT IN REAR.

This results in like 230-250 CFM suction. (This will become more balanced when I add the cold air funnel for the CPU.)

The whole assembly weighs around 26 Pounds.

The are also two additional 80MM Internal fans (Aluminum, blue LED) that push like 36CFM each right over each side of the video card for cooling.

And of couse I drilled, Lapped, and Polished the old AMD OEM CPU Cooler to fit the 9800, and fashioned a focused-clamp point mounting system to pinch the GPU directly against the cooler (see pic for detail)

And I added an exterrior-accessable BIOS reset switch in order to be able to completely reset the bios without opening the chassis, whick is Key-Lockable for security.

So first…here it is, Zippyc’s “Air-Stream” mobile LAN rig! What do you think of it?

To Do's:

1) Paint to match the CD and control panel.

2) Add 120MM fan/shroud combo to top cover to provide lots of cold air to top of CPU cooler.

3) I need to get a north pole cooler for the North Bridge

(I’m posting more pics of shinny blue inside, rear, along this thread….)