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[skudmunky]

Gah! Wire Management!

Nice case though, and frikkin sweet rig. Like the desk setup too.

 

[t10]

The insides:

The outsides:
1
2

A bit of both?
hehehe

 

[taylor]

Quote:

Originally Posted by rreynol Epox 9NPA+Ultra AMD X2 3800+ 2 GB G.Skill PC3200 WD2500KS 250GB SATA2 drive EVGA 7800GT Chaintech AV-710 Liteon DVD + DVDRW (2 drives) Not pictured: Dell 2005fpw Saitek KB Razer Copperhead (2) Seagate 250 gig drives on firewire (2) Maxtor 160 gig drives on usb2 (all in AMS external enclosures)

Would you care to go into some detail about how you made that cool fan bracket over the PCI area? I would be really interested in finding out how it's made, since my NB/SB heatsinks tend to get very hot to the touch. (Most people use temperature monitors - I use my fingers!)

 

[imported_Echo_]

to those ( i think its 1 so far)
who are using htpc cases how are they? im thinking of gettin one for my rig but was wondering if a 6800gt can fit in most of them

 

[chych]

Yeah, I have a lot of... stuff....
A 19" CRT, 19" LCD, 17" LCD all connected to my desktop (PowerMac dual G4... getting old now... also my audio source). My 13" Vaio there, my speakers/subwoofer, and my headphone stuff. And they say college kids don't have space in their dorms? Hah!

 

[skyline889]

How come you guys have old CRT monitors mixed with newer LCDs? Wouldn't it be better to have them all be LCD, idk I only have one Samsung LCD so I guess I shouldn't be talking.

 

[grawk]

 

[Adol]

The most interesting thing in the picture, aside from the Magnepan hiding off to the far right of the frame and the realization that this camera takes worse pictures than some cameraphones, is the nifty Antec case. The system's more sizzle than steak, I'm afraid.

The desktop is the more interesting system. In roughly descending cost order...
Case: Antec P180 (much newer than the rest of the system, since I'm planning to install an Athlon 64 rig in it sometime)
Power Supply: Antec NeoHE 430, revised model
Monitor: 19" Dell P991, rebadged flat-screen Sony Trinitron
Hard Drives: One 160GB SATA Maxtor 6Y160M0
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Scanner: Canon CanoScan LiDE50
Video Card: ATi-brand Radeon 9600XT 128MB
Motherboard: MSI K7N2GM-V, since dual channel on nForce 2 boards never worked right.
Memory: 512MB of Kingston ValueRAM
Sound Card: Audigy 2 Value
Optical Drive: BenQ DDW1620 dual-layer DVD+/-RW
Cooling: 3 low-speed 120mm fans, and a pretty-but-ineffective Zalman CNPS6000Cu heatsink.
Mouse: Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical USB
Floppy Drive: some $10 Mitsumi thing
Keyboard: some ancient beige Micron OEM thing

The laptop's an almost standard Dell Inspiron 6000, which isn't particularly intersting.
CPU: Evil Empire Pentium M 1.5GHz
Video Chip: ATi Radeon X300 64MB
Hard Drive: 40GB 4200RPM Toshiba
Screen: 15.4" 1280x800 LCD, no dead pixels
Memory: 512MB of DDR2
Optical Drive: extraordinarily vibration-prone 24x Toshiba DVD/CD-RW
Sound: Icky.

There's a pair of AKG K501 headphones wrapped around a barely-visible CMoy amplifier, and a little cheap CyberPower UPS in the bottom left corner (the power strip in the bottom right is for my TV and game consoles), too.

 

[rreynol]

Quote:

Originally Posted by taylor Would you care to go into some detail about how you made that cool fan bracket over the PCI area? I would be really interested in finding out how it's made, since my NB/SB heatsinks tend to get very hot to the touch. (Most people use temperature monitors - I use my fingers!)

Sure!

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...oducts_id=2036

or

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...oducts_id=2042

 

[Elec]

I actually just rebuilt my box, replaced a couple parts that were circa 2003 so that I could enter the modern era of gaming

What I had was a Barton 2500+ overclocked to 2.1GHz, Epox 8RDA+ motherboard, and Radeon 9700 non-pro. Replaced those with the following, the rest was (mostly) stuff I already had.

Antec SuperLanBoy aluminum case
Athlon 64 3800+ X2
EVGA nForce4 SLI motherboard (think it's nf41, was free with the video card)
EVGA GeForce 7800GT
1 gig of GeIL PC3200 Ultra
250 gig and 40 gig WD PATA hard drives
replaced an ancient (1998) 2x DVD-ROM and a 48x CD burner with a silver-front NEC 16x DVD burner to match the case
Audigy2 OEM
Hauppauge PVR150 TV tuner/capture card
OCZ ModStream 450W power supply

I have some other crap sitting around that I'm not using at the moment like a fanbus, couple 80mm blue LED fans, cold cathode (that I managed to blow up the controller board for, oops!). I've been playing around with overclocking my X2, I've got it at 2.7GHz now (up from 2.0) which is awesome, but I'll probably have to replace the stock cooler for heat reasons. I'd also like to replace the RAM and maybe add a Raptor or a second burner, but those are all things I can do later. I've got furniture, a car down payment, headphone gear, an HDTV, and more computer parts all fighting over my money now, so more PC parts may lose for a while

I'll see if I can get some pics up later. My wiring is a mess because all the rounded cables are so stiff.

 

[taylor]

Quote:

Originally Posted by rreynol Sure! http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...oducts_id=2036 or http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...oducts_id=2042

Thanks!

Looks like it's just sheet metal with a long hole on the mounting end. Does this go between the PCI card brackets and the screws? I bet I could whip up something like that in a little while with some spare sheetmetal.

 

[Illah]

You can ghetto those by just bending old PCI slot covers to hold a fan. Like you know how they're 'L' shaped? Just flatten them out. Many have a little hole at the end and you can insert the screws in there. Would probably be a much quieter mount also as the flex of the slot covers would transfer less vibration to the case than a big metal plate would. I used to have a pic, it's actually quite simple even though my description might sound vauge.

For it to be even quieter try using a chain of zip-ties or long lengths of string and tension mount the fan. With the right fan you can get 20-30 CFM and be dead silent with this kind of mount.

--Illah

 

[chych]

Quote:

Originally Posted by skyline889 How come you guys have old CRT monitors mixed with newer LCDs? Wouldn't it be better to have them all be LCD, idk I only have one Samsung LCD so I guess I shouldn't be talking.

CRT = free, LCD = $$.

 

[imported_Echo_]

Quote:

Originally Posted by chych CRT = free, LCD = $$.

and crts are still better than lcds although lcds have came a long way in the last 2 years

 

[Elec]

Yeah, I use a Dell 2005fpw LCD and an old 17" CRT. I already had the CRT, upgraded to the Dell. But instead of just using the Dell and putting the CRT in the closet or trash, I use it so I can have a 2 monitor setup. Having 2 LCDs would cost me more because I'd have to...buy another one.