Guest Primetime/IL Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 (edited) Well I thought some of you may be interested in the time I spend when Im not outdoors. My occupation is a computer technician, when it comes to upgrading my parts I always custom build my machines. Heres my latest and greatest "Tower of Power":D:D Here is the beginning, freshly out of the box Antec 900: I drimeled the holes that you see in it for wire management, and sanded down the inside with 600 grit, taped off for its first shot of paint: After first shot of paint, I went to Autozone and picked up 1/8" Vac Hose to cover the holes I dremeled so the wires would not get cut: Had to lengthen the front panel connectors (Power, Power LED, Hard Drive LED, Reset switches) Soldered and heatshrunk: Picture of the back once the parts where installed and wires ran through, duck tape them to back. Theres a black cover that covers this back panel...: Picture of the front once the parts where installed and wire management was taken care of: Shot of the back with the rear exhaust vent cut out: The completed project, theres a side clear windows that goes on this side with another 120mm fan. This case comes with 4x 120mm fans and a top 200mm fan:eek: They each have options of low/med/high: The parts... CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 overclocked @ 4.5Ghz RAM: 4GB G.Skill DDR2-1000 Motherboard: ASUS P5K-E WiFi AP HD: 2x160GB Western Digital SATA2 in RAID0 Video: 512MB EVGA 8800GTS Power: Corsair HX620W Modular Case: Antec 900 Cooling: Zalman 9500A LED Monitor: HP 22" Widescreen HDMI OS: Windows 64bit Vista Ultimate SP1 Edited November 7, 2008 by Primetime/IL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohiobucks Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Cool! Ever play Spider Solitare on that beauty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Cool! Ever play Spider Solitare on that beauty? Bet he does...LOL...when he's not figuring out the spatial densities of the gases on mars:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Very nice. Wish I knew something about these things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mach1 Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Both my brothers-in-law and two cousins-in-law are computer junkies and have each built their own tricked out computers for gaming. One of them is a computer engineer, another is in electrical maintenance, one is in computer something, and the fourth is in school for some type of engineering. I know some about computers, but if we've got a major issue, we go to one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Holy smokes! That's quite the rig there. Nice, clean work and tidy work! I'm an automotive tech for an occupation, there's nothing I hate worse than seeing crappy wiring jobs with scotch clips, junky little butt connectors etc, birdsnest of wire everywhere. I'm a solder, heat shrink, conduit kind of guy when it comes to wiring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_lou Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 That's a very nice machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backwoods07 Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 $$$ Cha-ching $$$ Awesome machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 That looks like quite a machine, bet it would load this studio software and handle video stuff a bit better than this dell I am using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loomis1228 Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Can you pull a boat with that thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Looks like a great project! Good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Awesome! Ill PM you my address so you can ship that right out to me..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfletch7441 Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 What a nerd!!! Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie65 Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 awesome project. I have thought about trying to build one for a few years. I am not real knowledgeable on computers but have always thought it would be fun to build one & a good way to learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michiganbowhunter_SQ2 Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Dang, thats nice. I think my next machine is going to be custom built. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 looks like a winner to me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladybird Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 Very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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