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DragonMaster

11-01-2006, 11:09 PM

You first need a round corner to bend the plastic! ;) (I can't think of anything I have here)

but for my Bday I got a heat gun (fancy hairdryer)
People, don't dry your hair with this tho, it's REALLY hot, you can melt paint with these (Heat gun's normal use)

That's very good looking Mark!

BigD

11-01-2006, 11:16 PM

great job mark

a while back i was thinking about building a comp kinda like this... but i didnt have the skills needed :(

im looking at doing it now... but in a upright design kinda like the mountain mods version...

wow i lost a lot of stuff in the move that i thought i put in a carfull place that wouldnt be lost!:???:

good luck with the contest mark... did you get your house done yet?

markkleb

11-01-2006, 11:17 PM

LOL, its definately no hairdryer... For round corner I took out one of the rods in my closet where you put the hangers. Its about the right shape for the bend

Kougar

11-01-2006, 11:25 PM

Mark, you just can't stop can you... ;) Those case design companies dunno what they're missing out on...

DragonMaster

11-02-2006, 12:22 AM

For round corner I took out one of the rods in my closet where you put the hangers. Its about the right shape for the bend

That's a pretty good idea! Thanks Mark!

I had the gun and hanger pole for years, but not the acrylic ;)
Hey, jsut think at it, I think my parents did buy 1-2 acrylic panels years ago, and they're still unused.

werty316

11-02-2006, 01:17 AM

Lookin good as usual mark and I can't wait to see the finished product ;)

all4spl

11-02-2006, 01:44 AM

man i love to watch all the threads that have ur mods in them...

darkorb

11-02-2006, 01:53 AM

lol who dont?

Kougar

11-02-2006, 01:05 PM

Sbrehm, hurry up with that popcorn before the intermission ends! :-D

DragonMaster

11-03-2006, 12:15 AM

Than I glued then to the mobo tray with acrylic solvent. Its kind of a pain to use as its thin like Solvent.
Isn't it solvent? ;)

Was the bottle with the needle coming with the solvent? if not, would old inkjet refill bottles work or the cap will weld itself to the bottle?

all4spl

11-03-2006, 12:19 AM

man i love this mod!!!!

Kougar

11-03-2006, 01:44 AM

Those are some really serious cements!! $6 doesn't sound to bad for it... ;)

DragonMaster

11-03-2006, 01:49 AM

I am no chemist but the bottle says "cement" but its REALLY thin (like water)

It says "solvent ciment"!

Cement only means that it's "welding" things together once it dries, it's not the concrete thing!

Here's the wikipedia definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement

markkleb

11-03-2006, 02:09 AM

well, having worked on houses for about 25 years im pretty sure its not the concrete thing:roll:

DragonMaster

11-03-2006, 03:07 AM

well, having built houses for about 25 years im pretty sure its not the concrete thing

Oh, that's why you're so good working with case mods!

markkleb

11-03-2006, 03:09 AM

yea, just like little houses, without the concrete:lol:

That might be a good modding article, Glues.

GIBSON

11-03-2006, 10:17 AM

yea, just like little houses, without the concrete:lol:

That might be a good modding article, Glues.

It could be a great help to people starting out. These are the kind of things that give you a head start when modding. Getting the right stuff for the job from the beginning.

DragonMaster

11-03-2006, 04:16 PM

That might be a good modding article, Glues.

Sure! We don't need anymore acrylic cutting articles, I counted over 5 telling the same thing online.

all4spl

11-04-2006, 09:49 PM

update?

markkleb

11-04-2006, 10:20 PM

I am doing the wiring, I will post picts tomorrow...

all4spl

11-07-2006, 01:20 AM

well it's past tomorrow... any more pictures???? srry for rushing but i love this mod and want to see it go...

darkorb

11-07-2006, 08:54 PM

sounds intnse

all4spl

11-08-2006, 12:27 AM

very nice!!!

DragonMaster

11-08-2006, 01:19 AM

Nice!

2fast4u

11-08-2006, 03:16 PM

That is a nice case. I love the looks of acrylic. Is that heatsink for the northbridge chip? (Sorry if I got the term wrong)

markkleb

11-08-2006, 04:43 PM

yep 2fast, Its a Coolermaster Blue Ice chipset cooler. It comes with a 40mm lighted fan in its middle. I took the fan out because I am going to use a 120mm fan to cool it and the 2 video cards instead.

thats one of the reasons i chose the Biostar Tforce SLI mobo too, they put the northbridge between the 2 video cards (not under them) The other is it is Soooo easy to OC stuff.

PP Mguire

11-08-2006, 11:11 PM

I believe you can do the same with the DFI Lanparty ;)

markkleb

11-08-2006, 11:22 PM

If you have skills in OCing there is no equal to the LanParty Expert.

Therefor I believe the LP Expert is majorly wasted on me.

The Biostar has a program in the bios that lets even me set mt 3700/Opty 148 go to 2750mhz with the greatest of ease.

PP Mguire

11-08-2006, 11:32 PM

Thats why you should have gotten a SLI-DR instead of the Expert. I dont really like the expert anyways. I agree on ease of OCing though, i hate wasting alot of time trying to get a higher clock speed.

werty316

11-08-2006, 11:44 PM

As long as a board can OC, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a DFI board, and it has at least two PCI slots, any board will do for moi ;)

PP Mguire

11-08-2006, 11:58 PM

Eh what can i say im a DFI fan boy. I just love the UV part of the boards and the excelent performance i get outa them. Of course i would buy only one other board.

werty316

11-09-2006, 05:14 AM

Nothing new from you but still looking good Markkleb http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/1266/thumbup2mb0.gif

markkleb

11-09-2006, 05:17 AM

I spent 11 hours soldering today, Nothing New?

werty316

11-09-2006, 05:22 AM

Nothing new by you soldered the cables to the back of the mobo...

Null

11-09-2006, 06:03 AM

I love watching your work(s) in progress.

It makes me feel so inadequate.

Thanks, Mark. :mrgreen:

PP Mguire

11-09-2006, 08:16 AM

I was fortunate that i was always encouraged when growing up but i always pushed my parents away. I was really stupid until my sophmore year of high school but only since ive graduated have i really grown to appreciate them.

DragonMaster

11-09-2006, 04:24 PM

I spent 11 hours soldering today, Nothing New?
Hehehe, mobos are a real pain to solder compared to any other PCBs. Probably because of the amount of cooper there's under the layers. The only time I had to change capacitors on a motherboard, I had to set my soldering station at 850 F to get the solder to melt, which is burning the iron's tip.

BigD

11-10-2006, 05:12 AM

i need to get a good with electrical stuff... :(

GIBSON

11-10-2006, 08:02 PM

Nice work mark! Nice to see you are thinking about noise as well (most mods we only see and don't hear, so it's a bit of work that most people will never notice :))

DragonMaster

11-10-2006, 08:28 PM

Mark, it looks like you had lots of fun! ;)

i need to get a good with electrical stuff...
It's quite simple actually. You need ~$200-$225 to have a decent iron and multimeter and start playing with simple things. I started with a $20 iron, but wished I had my soldering station since the beginning(Things go much better now, no problems getting the solder to melt anymore, I never killed stuff made of plastic since, except LEDs).

darkorb

11-12-2006, 03:26 AM

thats awesome man

tomato

11-12-2006, 05:53 AM

Great work, as usual markkleb ;)

Kougar

11-12-2006, 06:01 AM

Impressive job to date Mark! As usual... ;)

Null

11-12-2006, 06:05 AM

Hey Mark, next time you're in Orlando, can you fix the short in my car stereo?

markkleb

11-12-2006, 06:07 AM

Il be way too busy at Epcot Center:lol:

Null

11-12-2006, 08:49 AM

Il be way too busy at Epcot Center:lol:

Understood.

Sunday is the last day for food and wine festival at Epcot.

I will miss my little Japanese friends. However, I have a new Chinese friend. She is from Beijing. :grin:

The real deployment of POS handheld devices starts for me on Monday and I will be in and out of the parks, including Epcot.

I hope to see you there. ;-)

PP Mguire

11-12-2006, 09:38 AM

Everything is cool cept the front looks kinda wierd with all plastic. Im sure youll fix that though.

GIBSON

11-12-2006, 11:21 AM

Waw, that seems to be coming together very nicely mark! I like the sliding hdd's beneath the motherboard. I didn't always get what you were trying to say in your posts about what you were going to do, but the pictures clear it up nicely :-D

liqnit

11-12-2006, 08:08 PM

Impressive!!
i like the chipset cooler

markkleb

11-12-2006, 08:13 PM

I got it because it was tall and I was able to mod it to fit between the SLI cards.There is gonna be a 120mm fan blowing through a tube to cool it and the Passive Video Cards.

There is origionally a 40mm fan that goes in the middle hole, But when I use my 120mm Silenx fan it just slows down the air, lol . So I took it out.

darkorb

11-12-2006, 08:19 PM

nice man, when u think/hope its all gonna be done?

markkleb

11-12-2006, 09:47 PM

Well, if its not done by Wed I am in big trouble:grin:

PP Mguire

11-12-2006, 11:29 PM

I cant believe your putting H20 in this small system.

markkleb

11-12-2006, 11:40 PM

And its all on the inside (nothing hanging out)

AND there is still plenty of room to put a pair of 8800s in SLI.8-)

werty316

11-12-2006, 11:45 PM

Yep thats when the CM modding contest ends.

DragonMaster

11-13-2006, 12:08 AM

It's not because the case is small that the CPU isn't powerful, H20 can be useful ;)

Here we have a proof that with a well-thought case layout, you can put much more than you could believe in a small space.

markkleb

11-13-2006, 12:26 AM

Yep Dragon. And guess what, I just Knocked it off the bench and it looks like the mobo is toast.
I hope I can fit this DFI mobo in time..

darkorb

11-13-2006, 12:28 AM

****!

DragonMaster

11-13-2006, 12:30 AM

Ouch! And the ATX connector is soldered...

markkleb

11-13-2006, 01:26 AM

The solder isant the bad part, I have to use my DFI Expert mobo and WHERE and HOW MANY wires to solder is different....

So I have to re-engineer the mobo tray. I should have it done late tonight.:grin:

Cross ur fingers:lol:

2fast4u

11-13-2006, 01:35 AM

small suggestion... maybe u dont want to do this but i think u should try to make the I/O thing towards the back like a regular case...

darkorb

11-13-2006, 01:48 AM

so that mobo is gone?

markkleb

11-13-2006, 01:52 AM

The Biostar is dead, I tried 4 PS and different memory and it just smokes...

Thank God I have the DFI out of the AntecTheDark...

darkorb

11-13-2006, 01:59 AM

go work, not much time!

GIBSON

11-13-2006, 08:11 PM

Damn man, that sux! Will everything still fit with the new mobo?

GIBSON

11-13-2006, 08:23 PM

I just hope you get finished in time... This would so blow if you were to be late with your awesome mod!

DragonMaster

11-13-2006, 08:51 PM

2fast4u

11-13-2006, 11:08 PM

any pictures?

werty316

11-13-2006, 11:52 PM

I was about to have an idea or a question, but my computer restarted just when I was about to start writing it...

I wonder why the DFI RS482 / Enermax Liberty problem only occurs when F@H isn't running... :-x :???: :confused: (I stopped it temporarily to get a few extra MBs of RAM)
Could be a load issue.

Anyhow I hope you get done in time for wednesday markkleb as I look forward on seeing your mod as well as everyother user who entered.

tomato

11-14-2006, 08:53 PM

Nice work, markkleb ;) 8) How did you bend out the fins on the heatsink? IE: very carefully with a pair of pliers?

markkleb

11-14-2006, 09:04 PM

Actually I just used my fingers..

DragonMaster

11-14-2006, 09:12 PM

I would have stuck identical triangular objects between each fins.

Anyways, nice job Mark! It's great to see you've been able to do so much job after everything broke.

markkleb

11-14-2006, 09:18 PM

Broke, LOL. Its a conspiricy
Last night I found my new DVD didnt work...Lucky for me my brother found one in Calif and FedExed it to me.
Now if I can get the REATRDS at FedEx to actually deliver it that would be something..

Thanks Pete:grin:

DragonMaster

11-14-2006, 10:39 PM

1-800-gofedex

When you're going to post pictures of your case for the CM contest, the DVD will not look worse than anything else :wink:

DragonMaster

11-15-2006, 01:09 AM

I thought about using the Broke one but I really want this to be a WORKING mod.
That's always better if you plan to use it after the contest ends ;)

On this mod I also soldered the USB, Power switch and MediaLab wires to the back of the mobo so there were a LOT of chances to fry it. GREAT mobo DFI!
Unless the PCB is really crappy and you find a way to fry the traces or physically damage them, you shouldn't have problems soldering a motherboard. They get soldered in reflow ovens when they are manufactured, and then washed in dishwashers (Don't try this unless you're able to find 100% real H2O tho) ;)
Some components that don't like dishwashing or oven heat are soldered later, you can find rosin flux around these components on some boards.

darkorb

11-15-2006, 01:15 AM

what happens if u win the cm mod?

werty316

11-15-2006, 01:20 AM

what happens if u win the cm mod?
You get a prize :lol:

Checkout the CM forums (http://www.coolermaster.com/phpBB2/index.php) ;)

DragonMaster

11-15-2006, 02:26 AM

http://www.coolermaster.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5052

It looks like the contest is going to be extended for an other 5 days, Mark will have time to fix his last minute problems :roll:

werty316

11-15-2006, 02:48 AM

http://www.coolermaster.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5052

It looks like the contest is going to be extended for an other 5 days, Mark will have time to fix his last minute problems :roll:
5 more days??? ah no as the contest ends on Wednesday Nov. 15th is the deadline.
The new deadline will be 11/15/2006, 11:59p.m (Pacific Standard Time).
How'd you come up with 5 more days?

DragonMaster

11-15-2006, 03:23 AM

http://www.coolermaster.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5345

Last message:
No contest extension finally.

darkorb

11-15-2006, 03:50 AM

wow nice man, gl with that

PP Mguire

11-15-2006, 05:13 AM

Wow looks like youve had alot of trouble. Hopefully its all worth the trouble.

DragonMaster

11-15-2006, 11:54 PM

:shock: Niiice!

Make sure the fan doesn't kill the IDE cable! ;)

werty316

11-16-2006, 04:55 AM

Damn markkleb that is lookin sick!!!! :shock:

Great job so far.

You have until 9 AM Pacific Standard Time, Thursday Nov. 16th. to submit your entries.

I hope you will finish in time.

XJnine

11-16-2006, 02:06 PM

That's some damn good work! Good luck with the judges!

DragonMaster

11-16-2006, 08:51 PM

Which topic? Will it magically appear if I get 20 posts?

PP Mguire

11-16-2006, 10:31 PM

Wow, you made it look SOOOO much better than before. I just wish the front and back where the cool blue looking glass like the middle is.

PP Mguire

11-16-2006, 11:03 PM

Well i think it looks good right now, i just thought it would look cool in all blue. (I love blue and pink)

tomato

11-17-2006, 12:45 AM

WOW, lookin' SWEET! Good luck! :)

werty316

11-17-2006, 03:47 AM

Can't wait to see what everyone has comeup with. Good luck markkleb ;)

PP Mguire

11-17-2006, 09:58 AM

Blue and pink does sound sweet. I have pink UV spray paint i could put on a case. I need some black though to make it look good. Hope you win the contest though.