FredEx's competition prize

Good call to leave the dent, i would also do that!
Its like "mater" in the movie Cars, he collects dents to remember his past ;)
 
Nice to see the system in its rightful place Fred. Shame about the dent and CPU OC, but as you've said, not really a big issue at all.

Enjoy :)
 
Thanks again. I popped the bezel off this morning to re-seat the dust filter. At times it would get a very slight vibration noise going on, barely could hear it, but sitting so close I could detect it. I could then see a spot welded bracket that holds one corner of the dust filter in place is almost directly over the dent. It would be near impossible to knock that dent out if I wanted, which I don't anyway, I like the character.

Got the back-up drive in. Now I can work on reloading more stuff.

Forgot, I think I know why the BIOS reset...the rough trip I think un-seated the battery. I had the BIOS reset again after moving the case around. I re-seated the battery and it has not done it again with all the moving it with the drive swaps. I'm not surprised, when I final tested base stations at Motorola we had to solve problems with things coming loose in transit and made a list of things for the install tech to re-seat.

WOW, just saw, message 400.

Going to edit again! :)

I know I can read the CPU temps, but I wanted to feel the radiator of the H60, been running about 10 hours with just a couple short shut downs. It actually is cool to the touch. The 20 fan push pull Tom added really keeps it chilly. :lol:
 
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What an awesome gift to have gotten, good on you Fred! I also agree with leaving the dent int he case... who knows, that could even wind up being the inspiration behind a full-blown case mod ;-)
 
Did a little modding today. Dug up some old adapter brackets and a modified one that used to be for a floppy drive, to mount the SSD on.

Note no bottom drive cage anymore. BLOW fans, BLOW.
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Closer shot of SATA cables going into the side of the 5.25" bays.
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Front shot of drive placement now.
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Inside. Power cable just reaches, can't currently run it like I wanted.
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Lystfiskern said:
Nice bit of modding there Fred. Always nice to have unhindered airflow straight on to the GPU. Any vibration from those HDDs?
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No, I have not noticed a difference from before they were in and it was just the SSD. I had vibration from the fans, the dust filter would vibrate. On the front bezel behind the Corsair badge, on the inside I put a felt pad that pushes on the center of the filter and stopped the vibration. I had used foam tape, but needed something a little thicker, I found some thick felt feet in my junk drawers.
 
FredEx said:
Did a little modding today. Dug up some old adapter brackets and a modified one that used to be for a floppy drive, to mount the SSD on.

Note no bottom drive cage anymore. BLOW fans, BLOW.


Closer shot of SATA cables going into the side of the 5.25" bays.


Front shot of drive placement now.


Inside. Power cable just reaches, can't currently run it like I wanted.
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Looking great!
 
Very nice read, Josh! And very nice project, too, OC3D :rock:

Quick note: The article cites the author as "Josh Western". I'm sure there's a reason for that
but it's just something I noticed ;)
 
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