Bubbaxm2
Apr 2 2008, 01:33 AM
While I doubt mine will ever look as nice as Soundx98's case I decided to buyone for the hell of it.
I have had my Asus crosshair board for sale forever and since no one wants to go AM2 i have decided to put it to good use. Going to team it with..
Asus Crosshair
2 GB of OCZ pc 8800
OCZ Gameextreme 600(just ordered a new as I was to nice and gave my last one away)
MSI 8800GTS 320 OC(just ordered)
2x250gb seagate sata 3.0gbs Hard drives in Raid 0 (just ordered)
X2 5200 that will do 3.3 that no one wanted (other than lowball offers that barely covered shipping)
Noctua 120 heatsink
Sucks having all of this stuff nobody wants. lol... Just cost me 400 bucks to do something with it...lmao
pikachinks
Apr 2 2008, 01:02 PM
(bubbaxm2;787641)
Sucks having all of this stuff nobody wants. lol... Just cost me 400 bucks to do something with it...lmao
Yea.. I upgraded my case and ended up getting an entire new watercooling setup lol.. its okay it shall cost u more.. cuz u gotta get this.. and that.. lol.. good luck on build hope to see some pic's..
t_ski
Apr 2 2008, 09:46 PM
Subscribed! Any plans on how you want to mod it?
Bubbaxm2
Apr 2 2008, 11:49 PM
As of tight now I am just going to paint the inside(not sure what color yet) and cut a few holes for cable management. It won't arrive from the egg until Monday or Tuesday and and I leave on Saturday for vacation for 2 weeks. Probably a good thing, as my wife will need a few weeks to cool off about the fact that I bought it in the first place..lol
Bubbaxm2
Apr 30 2008, 11:26 PM
Well I finally got started on it. Drilled a few holes to make room for cable management and a few to allow me to mount the hard drives backwards without cramping the connectors. Also had to fabricate an deflector to grab air from the bottom 1/3 of the bottom fan and blow it over the hard drives. Had to do this because I wanted the hard drives flush with the back of the mounting area and they would have stucj out if I was to put the fan directly in front of them. Mounted them using the Scythe Disk Stabilizer II(thanks for the idea soundx98). They should have plenty of airflow with the deflector and the way that they are mounted. I can't believe how thinner these new seagate drives are. I also hacked apart an old power supply and grabbed the front half of it to use to eventually cover up the wires coming out of the ps and heading into the back of the m/b tray. I will have to paint it black to match of course but that will be later When I pull everything apart again an paint.
Bubbaxm2
Apr 30 2008, 11:32 PM
Still waiting on my new Muskin ram,(this board still doesn't like OCZ for some reason) 8 pin power cable extention cable and longer sata cable for the dvd burner to arrive also. Then I will finish up the top half of the case. I am not going to be able to use a fan controller like I wanted to either because of the way I mounted the hard drives.
Bubbaxm2
May 1 2008, 12:12 PM
Woohoo the rest of my stuff came in. Time to finish this baby up!
Bubbaxm2
May 1 2008, 12:13 PM
And someday I will figure ot how to make the images just show uo without having to click on them.
radodrill
May 1 2008, 02:44 PM
(bubbaxm2;791334)
And someday I will figure ot how to make the images just show uo without having to click on them.
Actually quite simple; upload them to an external image host such as
photobucket,
imageshack, or the
OCIDB; then insert the image into the body of the post with the img tags.
for example, the following:
[noparse]

[/noparse]
will show up as below:
soundx98
May 1 2008, 03:30 PM
I think your case is lookin' very "schwing".
Sure would like to see some better pics at 800x600.
I like the PSU wire "cover-upper" and the air flow deflector a lot.
more pics por favor
Bubbaxm2
May 1 2008, 03:47 PM
Imageshack is a pain in the azz!
By
bubbaxm2, shot with
Canon PowerShot S3 IS at 2008-05-01
radodrill
May 1 2008, 03:50 PM
I prefer the OCIDB or Protobucket over Imageshack
Bubbaxm2
May 1 2008, 03:53 PM
I got it!! I suck at the imageshack.lol
That is a picture of it all done minus the sunbeam blue cathose light kit and paint.
Bubbaxm2
May 1 2008, 04:02 PM
Bubbaxm2
May 1 2008, 04:03 PM
And it works alot better than I actually thought it would. Tons of air flowing out from underneath them. Can't hurt that the drives are so thin either. I also flipped one set of the black metal parts of the drive mounts. That gave me more clearance.
Bubbaxm2
May 1 2008, 04:16 PM
Picture of my temps so far. My anmbient room temp right now is 73 F. Not bad at all!
By
bubbaxm2 at 2008-05-01
radodrill
May 1 2008, 04:43 PM
Might I recommend that you combine things into a single post (editing the post) rather than double posting
Bubbaxm2
May 1 2008, 04:47 PM
Does it really matter? I just figured out how to do it.lol. Cut me a litle slack would you..
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