oooh sorry
First time I've been on the DD site, just fantasising about w/c lol

Here's my really standard PC set-up lol...


Booooring I know, but functional ... hoping to get a 19 or 20" widescreen soon, and some decent speakers, starting to notice the flaws in these Creative 5.1s, although they're not that bad:)

Nice set up H_G *fumes with jealousy*

well this is the first time I've ever mounted the speakers up on the walls like they are in the pic, and I have to say that not only is the music incredible in this setup, but playing games like Titan Quest and Day of Defeat is simply freaking AWESOME

since I don't have rear speaker stands yet, I just put my rear speakers on my two tripods for my camera/dv cam and place them strategically behind me and holy smacks does it sound fantastic!

the only thing I am lacking is the Logitech Z series that are like 400w or more haha

Which 5.1 sound systems are those? The Creative Labs T5400? Well, they all look the same, but have you noticed the volume level going up and down in games? I have that problem, so i need to get some new speakers, hehe.

Erm I think they're the T5400 yeah, although they could be the T5900...
only difference is the centre speaker, mines the landscape orientated one lol
Nope! just your problem lol , UT 2003 with EAX enabled sounds great, but music quality is a little off, I want some Logitech ones

@H_G, What speakers are they?

When I got my Logitech Z-5500's for the Home Theater, I demoted my Z-680's to Lab duty. They're now on my main rig Aileen.

The sounds in HL2 and FEAR still scare the crap outta me from time to time.

Hey, those wood cases are pretty leet. I think I just came up with an idea for my case. =D

Those are some crazy modification/customized hardware man!!! One day i will be just like you, i'm trying right now man....i'm trying....

hahaha, no man you don't want to be like me. Trust me.

I am trying to scrap some money together to put a 15" on the closed side of the rig.
It would be the shiznit.

Is there a reason that you haven't got the memory plugged into the same colour slots?

Logitech X-620's (i finally had to get down there and look at them when hooking up the 2.1 Monsoon system to the Asus rig)

pretty awesome 6.1's but I never even hook up the rear-center speaker (it is stuffed in a box somewhere lol)

Alright then, these are photos of my creation. Not a Lan Case, but a full tower floor model. Since I dont really dont have an Artistic Flair I just build them sensible, practical, first class at least imho.







Ive been asked to try and build a Lan Case. Now I feel motivated to do so, after seeing what has been posted here recently.
It will be built mostly of 1/4" acrylic with perhaps a 3/8" top and bottom with some corner bracing for rigity. It will be of a conventional case shape a have perhaps two external drive bay slots. Im open to suggestions for features.
Should it be mainly an air cooled design or one dedicated to water cooling?
What would be the optimal placement of the On-Off/Reset switches, up high on the case or down low? Would a Lan case be placed on the desktop or on the floor? Give me some input and I will get to work.

Bustedd lol

Excellent job, Dragoe!

I'm not usually a fan of acrylic cases, but that's outstanding!

Very nice! I personally like the clean room, we both are neat freaks, unless you just did that for the picture!

Note: I got the PC Probe 2 working on his computer, but it's a crazy memory hog, uninstalled it. Thanks for your help man.....

I was just down at Best Buy looking at the X-5300e which is nice, but i'm looking for a wireless/bluetooth setup. That was going for $200+ (Best Buy is very very pricey) but it's a very good sound system if you'd ask me. On Newegg it's going for $115.

Dragoe that case is some astounding workmanship! it has so much room its begging for some watercooling, I wouldnt be able to resist myself...

Nice! You running the ViewSonic VX922? Sweet LCD bro! MX518, yeah!!!! Gamerz Wanted!

Note: How could i forget man, SMOKE FREE....!

Happy_Games, I'm not sure if you answered this but I've been admiring those shots of the water cooling setup you made for a customer. I was wondering what additives you put in there to give the water that color? I'm planning my water cooling setup and I've been considering getting that MCT-5 or 40, but I want to know what you used to get such a beautiful color in that setup. I know I know, it should be function over form, but whats the harm if I can have both?

the red color is just Xerex in distilled water

the UV green is Xerex + distilled water + UV dye

the blue is a product called "PC ICE" that looks like electric blue raspberry kool-aid lol

CPU Killer sent me some new XP Fluid that is blue like that too but I've not had a chance to try it out yet

Ahh. I've seen PC ICE at the danger den store. Its supposed to be anti algae and contain lubricants but no anti-conductive stuff in it I would definitely buy the stuff but I am SO scared of having conductive liquid in my setup.

Here's my Crossfire Rig...More to come when I take some of the SLI Rig as well..






And yes, for those of you wondering what I'm going to do with all the space. I'm going to be putting in watercooling in the next couple of months, when I get some time.

I never worry about it

I've had conductive fluid drip from the cpu block down into the PCI-E slot with a 6800GT running in it, which then of course dripped down into other PCI slots etc and the only thing that happened was the motherboard rebooted and got stuck on the black POST screen saying CMOS Checksum error (the rig is still running 100% 4 months later)

I did a little more research on this PC ICE stuff and it actually seems to be non-conductive. I'm kind of confused because DangerDen is known for their honesty in product descriptions and say "Danger Den doesn't market/sell PC ICE as non-conductive. Do not allow PC ICE to contact any electronic components." Perhaps they are just trying to cover themselves against lawsuits from angry water coolers or something because all these reviews I'm reading have tested it and shown it to be non conductive. That puts me at ease I guess. I'll stop hijacking the thread now

@dab

Great setup in your Antec P-160 case. I turned my drives around as soon as I put everything together and saw how much space was left behind the drives.

You might want to take the two unused drive trays out. This will increase the airflow around the drives.

I've had my case since they first came out and it's been the best overall case I've ever owned. I especially like the stealthed floppy and optical drives.

I'm on my fourth build in the case and getting ready for the fifth when I get my AM2 DFI board.

Man...I got no love...lol...

Thanks for the tip Ex-Roadie.

While I was taking them out my friend sitting here says he told me to do that months ago, heh I should listen more carefully.

I just ordered a Coolermaster Centurion 534 for the next build, it was on sale. I like the sleek silver look, and the price is right at about half what my P160W cost!

I'll give ya some. Absolutley Stellar wiring dude! Very clean install Love It!!

I need a new case wish the CM 810 price would come down like say under 200 would be nice.

I tried some cable management on my armor because I found these little holes on the non-windowed side of the case so you can run cables behind the tray. The probelm though is that theres barely any space between the mobo tray and the side panel and the holes are pretty small. I pretty much ended up trying to pull rounded ide cables in all different configurations while calling my computer unspeakable names. I am terrible at cable management, so props to you s10man69.

Thanks man...

Check out the prices over at SVC.com man..they got some good deals...

Smoke Free.. hehe.. I have Panty hose on the rear Intake, and the front has the stock case filter installed. The PSU and various openings are the only outlet, so effectively all of my intake air is filtered. And the pack of belmonts on the left.. leave no trace on my expensive toy. This is the coolest ghetto mod I ever learned, and I hope some of you find it useful. See how easy it is to hide too.. just a zip tie over the cable, and trim it up clean.

My new build Lian Li V1200.I still have some wire work to do yet,not sure which ones or which color iam going to use.Components are listed in siggy.No they are not DFI yellow IDE cables.LOL.I purchased them from SVC.

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Nice work there. I absolutely love Lian Lis, they're absolutely gorgeous. If they didn't cost so darn much, I probably would have ended up getting one instead of my Armor.

Thanks,
The last few years i've been sticking to lian li's.I have 2 now,the v1200 & a PC65 also.I just sold my 3rd 6077 which was a good case.What disapointed me about this one was,it did not have a pull out motherboard tray like my 65 & the 6077 did.It also does not have a reset switch which i use much overclocking.I'm going to buy one and install it in a drive bay cover.

I'm destroying an Aspire Q-Pack mATX right now with modding etc (it is gonna be ugly but I always believe in function over form!)

my next one though...is gonna be this Lian Li mATX:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16811112113

I'm really starting to get into this whole mAXT thing! And like Prostock... I really really really love my Lian Li cases

what mATX board would you use?

I'm using my DFI RS482 Infinity right now in the Q-Pack, and I have to say I like it enough that I would probably use it again unless there was something better (I have no problem using another motherboard brand besides DFI if it is better, and honestly, DFI has such a limited mATX selection that I might find something better...I'd love to have a Conroe mATX board for sure)

I like it:)

I have posted this in another thread before and it hasnt even got a dfi board in it
but here is my ammo box case


not my main box but it uses a microatx board and when I have heaps of money I could use that DFI RS482 Infinity ?? microatx board for 939 sockets ( that happy games is talkin about)
hopefully Im following the size rules
as these are thumbnails

I'm not too big a fan of micro atx but that ammo box is awesome! Very nice work

The Ammo case mod, I had considered it when I saw Ammo boxes on sale for cheap. Never got around to doing it though.. Nice work!!

Thanks guys:)

the next project is a HTPC

sweet ammo box.. i always see those at the army surplus store, often considered putting a little bit of 1337 inside one.. n1cely done!

well my current case is twisted to where my cards are not screwed to the chasis, so it's time to get a new case, here's my upcoming replacement case.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16811208013

I think my next project would be water which is about the only thing i have not attempted yet.The case for it would be the Lian Li G70.What do you guys think? OK for water?Have to do away with the plus fans in front of the mb tray.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.as...Case+%2D+Retail

New picture added with my accelero cooler on my new 7800GT.Man them accelero coolers are huge.Did not expect them to be that big,but it looks like if i add sli i will have enough room to fit another one on the second card.

I recived one of these with my V1200 and have no idea what its for,the square metal flat plate?.Anyone know?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.as...Case+%2D+Retail

Here's revision 3 of my old case. It's still a work in progress, but has some really cool stuff to it. I made the hoodscoop by hand. I made the basic shape out of styrofoam, then covered that mold in masking tape. then I hand laid fiberglass on the mold, and finished it out with bondo (fiberglass resin gets harder than I felt like sanding). Inside, the radiator has a fiberglass fanshroud with 2 120mm aluminum frame fans mounted at an angle. That shroud is slid over a 1977 pontiac bonneville heatercore, and it does a pretty good job getting rid of the heat in my rig.

All the diamond plate is real aluminum.... not the contact paper stuff, even though they are getting the contact paper stuff looking pretty real these days. I have the side panels painted, but I am changing my mind about them right at the moment. I will ditch the flat look for a couple of fiberglass ducts towards the top. i think I will put a 120mm in each door inside the soon-to-be ducts, with the vents blowing towads the back (exhaust). Then, I think I am going to make some gauge pods for the bottom of each side panel, and mod a Musketeer to put two of the round gauges in one side, and the 3rd round gauge in the other. I'll keep it looking even by modding the fan control sliders onto a round faceplate (same as the other gauges), and put it in the side that only has one gauge.

like I said, this is a work in progress, and it's my main rig, so the wiring is a mess. Also some pictures are a little older than others. I have the power and reset buttons mounted on the front now, even though some pics don't show that. Also, the yellow thing above my DVD burner is the hard drive cage.... still a little rough, but I was in a hurry. It mainly consists of the original cage from the case (the removable kind with the lever-lock) with the top, including the lever, cut off to fit the space above my DVD burner. Then I made a fan mount out of plexiglass, and heated it up to bend around the front of the cage. It actually has flames cut into the plexi.... but you can't see that while it's in the case.



As you can see, I still have to move the waterpump. I am gouing to make a bracket that will mount it right behind my bay res, upside down. and the wires need cleaned up.... I said that once, but it is nasty enough to mention twice. And don't mind the mess, I am a slob.

Looks pretty sweet, What's your budget for a case? Also are you looking for a full or mid tower? I recommend checking the Thermaltake Armor and Armor Jr. they are built for fan, fanless and water cooling.

The thermaltake armor is a great case for watercooling. Plenty of room. I really like my armor and the only thing at this point that I regret is that at the time I didn't have enough time for a really nice Lian-Li (I absolutely love how they have a compartment for drives/psu and another for the motherboard), but my Armor has performed very admirably.

If you do consider the armor, be warned that although the black one looks way cooler than the silver one (in my opinion), its made out of steel and is heavy as HELL. If you have the scratch for a Lian-Li try to look into a V2000B. Thats my dream case right now.