I paid $36 for the case, it came with a 400W Powmax PSU. You know the fireworks displays on the 4th of July? I had a miniature one of those after about 2 weeks. If fireworks are illegal in your area, just buy one of these, you won't be dissapointed.
The case along with several other components were from my first home built computer. I quickly learned that drives usually don't come with silver fronts. Unfortunately it was a bit too late.
Current specs:
Sempron 3000+ socket 754
Gigabyte ULi mobo
1GB DDR333 (1X512, 2x256)
Sapphire X1600pro agp
an 80GB (main) and 160GB (storage) SATA HDDs
sound blaster live 24 bit
Optorite CD player / coaster maker
Original specs:
Athlon xp 2000+
EPoX VIA KM400 mobo
512MB DDR333 (2x256) - still in use
Sapphire 128MB 9600se
80GB IDE drive
(same CD drive, floppy, sound card, case, PSU still in use)
Ah, well, its hard to see what is what from the pics, lol. Some info is always a good thing so guys like me don't come across like an ass.
I don't know what you mean by the only CRT that does true HD though. 1080i is the highest right? So thats 1920x1080. I have a 22 Lacie blue monitor that does 2048x1536.I guess you mean considering its 16:10, it has the right aspect ratio for HD. My crt does look better than any LCD, but it takes up too much room on my desk. Its not as heavy as yours, only 70 some odd lbs.
Nice set up though. I'm guessing it for audio encoding work etc considering its silent and your audio equipment is out of this world from the looks of it. And I thought I was doing well with hooking up a receiver and some bookshelf speakers to my computer.
I don't know what you mean by the only CRT that does true HD though. 1080i is the highest right? So thats 1920x1080. I have a 22 Lacie blue monitor that does 2048x1536.I guess you mean considering its 16:10, it has the right aspect ratio for HD.
well.... my gaming computer died and im just waiting for my GB P35 DS3 something (mobo) to come in two weeks(yah i know.....) but anyway im working in my laptop now and by the way, i have a CTR(dell one) trinitron 17" that can handle HD(1900x1600 maximum) and it looks great but the bad thing is that it's not widescreen lol
What do you mean? Other than to drill holes to hide the cabeling? Thats really about it dude, maybe change fans. You could also put handles, feet, maybe even a case skin on the metal side. Lots of options but modding is tough in a premodded case. Its a nice case for sure just, in my opinion, not much you can do.
You could replace the the window on the side with just acrylic and add a graphic to it. Ok you will lose the side fan option but the case pumps a serious amount of air through with out it.
Athlon X2 3600+ @ 2.4 GHz (Scythe Katana 2 HSF)
2GB DDR2-800
HiPer 580W modular PSU
MSI GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
(I've since added a TV Wonder 650 Pro, but it kinda gets lost in underneath the GTS, so I decided not to update the picture)
I affectionately call it the "Fallout" case, as I think it would look more at home in Vault 13 than a LAN party
Front view, case lighting on:
The gray tube on the left is part of the desk, and the gray/black box on its edge is an external hard-drive case.
Front view, case lighting off:
Side view showing the dragon-shaped window (should've cleaned off the fingerprints first, oh well):
Interior:
Pentium 4 530 (3.0GHz), Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard, 1GB GeIL DDR2, GeForce 8800GTX, 957GB in four hard drives, Silverstone Strider 600W, Swiftech watercooling, Lian-Li PC-6085B with powdercoating.
Yes, that is an 80-to-120mm fan adapter hanging off the back. The 80mm Swiftech radiator handled the "Prescott" Pentium 4 and a GeForce 6600GT fine with a 32CFM 80mm fan, but when I put in the BFG 8800GTX Water-Cooled Edition it was a bit overloaded. (It was not a well-planned upgrade.) So now there is a 120x38mm 90CFM fan pulling air through the radiator, and temps are better. I added the front intake fan recently, and temps are a little better yet. Still not "good", but better than they were. My next step is to take the CPU out of the watercooling loop and see how the 80mm rad fares with only the 8800GTX. Which will be a nontrivial undertaking, so I have been putting it off...
I shall post mine as soon as I can de-dustify it, find a camera, and tidy up my cables. Speaking of cables... How do you guys get all those sweet-wicked-awesome cables with all the crazy lighted colours and designs? Makes me jealous...
I shall post mine as soon as I can de-dustify it, find a camera, and tidy up my cables. Speaking of cables... How do you guys get all those sweet-wicked-awesome cables with all the crazy lighted colours and designs? Makes me jealous...
Just a few sites I already have bookmarked. They all have modding stuff but I think FrozenCPU is the best. Anyone else know of any others? I need to get motivated one of these days and clean mine so I can get updated pics to post here.
There are some nice looking rigs here. I guess I'll resurrect this thread and put a few of mine up. It isn't nothing particularly special, but I did some updating and stuff so I figured why not. Although there is still plenty of upgrading still to be done.