Right, well as some of you may have seen from my other thread, I intend to bring new life to a rather nice case, which my sister knackered the internals of.
The case is this one:
So pretty nice looking. Thought it would be a shame/crime to throw it away, and wondered what I could do with it. Then I realised I'm moving into a new house next year, gunna have a bit more space than I would otherwise have, so it's going to be a media machine. First it is going to take care of my MP3 collection, then, if I can get hold of a suitable hard disk carrier (ala Wanted thread) mod it to be my home server.
So, How big is it really?
As you can see, I've already removed the motherboard, but the hard disk in there is a standard 3.5" drive, this photo would probably give you a better comparison though, against a 120mm fan.
As you can see, once the caddies that came with it are removed, it's not a bad size. The PSU you see there is a 220w unit, so that should be more than adequate for the 25w board and 6-8w each hard disk would use. The PSU itself has a basic range of connectors on it:
So I'm probably going to cannibalise leads from a dead PSU, then sleeve the lot to make it look good.
This shows the back of the PC. As you may have guessed from the provision of two expansion slots, it was designed for ITX, not mini ITX. If I fit cathodes to the machine, then this could be a location for the on/off switch, otherwise it'll be the place for the spare usb headers, and maybe an ESATA port. Also, not sure if the Parrallel & Digital Audio out spaces (which I have the connectors for) will fit the new board, so might have to do something with them, not quite sure what yet. Might also replace the PSU fan, last time I started the machine one of the fans was making a bit of noise, if its that one then it will be replaced with a blue one, to match the power button. Haven't got an action shot, but its blue around the edge, which pulses with hdd activity.
This picture also shows the layout of the front, not quite sure what to do with the 3.5" bay, but I'm going to try and get most, if not all the ports on the front working (the board I'm thinking of ordering has firewire & audio headers, not sure about the optical in/out though), so it remains as close as aesthetically possible to the original (which I must say, I thought looked pretty damn good).
Oh, and one final picture, the dead board I pulled from it:
Was a Athlon 2600+ with a Gig of RAM, GF4 inbuilt graphics (or for a time, Radeon 9600 Pro). Not bad, but did run hot
Hopefully this incarnation will be a bit cooler 
The case is this one:
So pretty nice looking. Thought it would be a shame/crime to throw it away, and wondered what I could do with it. Then I realised I'm moving into a new house next year, gunna have a bit more space than I would otherwise have, so it's going to be a media machine. First it is going to take care of my MP3 collection, then, if I can get hold of a suitable hard disk carrier (ala Wanted thread) mod it to be my home server.
So, How big is it really?
As you can see, I've already removed the motherboard, but the hard disk in there is a standard 3.5" drive, this photo would probably give you a better comparison though, against a 120mm fan.
As you can see, once the caddies that came with it are removed, it's not a bad size. The PSU you see there is a 220w unit, so that should be more than adequate for the 25w board and 6-8w each hard disk would use. The PSU itself has a basic range of connectors on it:
So I'm probably going to cannibalise leads from a dead PSU, then sleeve the lot to make it look good.
This shows the back of the PC. As you may have guessed from the provision of two expansion slots, it was designed for ITX, not mini ITX. If I fit cathodes to the machine, then this could be a location for the on/off switch, otherwise it'll be the place for the spare usb headers, and maybe an ESATA port. Also, not sure if the Parrallel & Digital Audio out spaces (which I have the connectors for) will fit the new board, so might have to do something with them, not quite sure what yet. Might also replace the PSU fan, last time I started the machine one of the fans was making a bit of noise, if its that one then it will be replaced with a blue one, to match the power button. Haven't got an action shot, but its blue around the edge, which pulses with hdd activity.
This picture also shows the layout of the front, not quite sure what to do with the 3.5" bay, but I'm going to try and get most, if not all the ports on the front working (the board I'm thinking of ordering has firewire & audio headers, not sure about the optical in/out though), so it remains as close as aesthetically possible to the original (which I must say, I thought looked pretty damn good).
Oh, and one final picture, the dead board I pulled from it:
Was a Athlon 2600+ with a Gig of RAM, GF4 inbuilt graphics (or for a time, Radeon 9600 Pro). Not bad, but did run hot
Hopefully this incarnation will be a bit cooler 
