Project: Eruditio

[Doddsy]

It's Latin for learning. Anyway just posting some preliminary pics of a probably very long term project. Here are a few pics of the case that I got it in.

I was thinking about dremeling the exhaust but then thought what's the point casue I'm changing into the larger case so I'm gonna focus on that.

Here is how I got it:

Here it is after I've added; a YS-tech fan as an exhaust, DVD-ROM drive, extra 80Gb hard drive, and swapped teh 56k modem for a network card.

Here's the case I'm going to be putting it in:

Thinking about having a DVD-ROM and burner, as well as possibly a 3x3.5 into 2x5.25 hard drive caddy. Maybe set them up as RAID3 or RAID5.

Back:

Thinking about modding the 80mm fan into a 120mm (or 92mm at least).

Here's the insides, plenty of room in here:

First stage will be to get some decent ventilation going through it as I want to run the chip passively, looking at the thermalright SI-97A (anyone got any experience of this?). After I get the case breathing a bit better, and possibly looking a bit better, I'll be looking for a nice (cheap) quiet little PSU before I put everything across. The hard drives and things will have to come later.

Full specs:

AthlonXP 1800+

Nforce2 mobo (no idea what kind yet)

256mb ram

40Gb HD + 80Gb WD caviar.

Onboard sound and gfx

 

[equk]

haha, they left the silica gel in that comes in the case when it's shipped

IT works? haha

Should be a good little silent system tho reminds me a bit of my old firewall system I built.

 

[Ham]

Your mobo is an MSI.

As for a PSU for that kind of system you could pick up one of the Hiper 350w that would do the job.

 

[Doddsy]

I liked the I.T. works too, pretty funny.

Yeah I'll only be looking for something like a 350W, main things would be edecent build quality and quiet. It has an FSP 250W in it just now which should serve it well for a while.

And good call Ham, the mobo is a MSI MS-6367.

 

[Doddsy]

Ok slight adjustment to this project, just sold the PC for double what I paid! Good business. So as I have some DDR and an A64 lying around (and a zalman 9500) I'm gonna change it to a socket 939 system. Should give me a bit more grunt. I'm gonna base it around the asus a8v-vm as it's cheap, available, and has onboard video (can't afford a gfx card).

Edit: Yay, 100 posts!

 

[markkleb]

I love these kind of mods. Looking forward to its progress.

I think on forums a condition of membership is a thread where everyone has to post a pict of them and their comp.

That way as you and your comp change everybody gets to watch.

 

[Toxcity]

Nice one dude!

Will be looking forward to the out come of this project!

 

[Doddsy]

Well I was just about to order my mobo and thought about the PSU. I'll ultimately (hopefully) be running 3 sata drives in raid5, system drive (80Gb EIDE) probably a RAID controller, mobo, a64 3000, 512mb/!gb Ram and a couple of DVD drives. What kind of PSU should I be looking at?

Tagan 330W:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=138556

Seasonic 330W:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=277839

I like the look of the seasonic but not sure if 330W would be ok for all those drives, I probably won't be using a gfx card and if I do get one it will be fairly low end. WHat do you guys think?

 

[markkleb]

I bought one of these for All4Spl and its a really good PS

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=271184

If you dont want the fancy blue colors than i think this is the same one

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=468726

Its a little more but it will help in the future if you need more. Its always better to start with a good foundation when building a comp.

I try to stay away from PS with 80mm fans (noisy/low flow fans)

FSP is a really good company.

3 or 4 Hdds wont draw too much power (the CPU and GPU are the power hogs) so either of your 2 choices will work.

 

[Doddsy]

Yeah I was looking at that one too, there's also another Seasonic on Scan that's 380W. Hmmm, choices.........

 

[all4spl]

that blue storm rocks... highly recommend getting that one...

 

[Doddsy]

Thanks for the recommendations guys, I was stuck between 2. The FSP and teh 380W Seasonic. After reading reviews on silentpcreview I went for the Seasonic, primarily because it's quieter. I'll get some pics up when the stuff arrives.

 

[Doddsy]

Here's the stuff I had delivered/stuff I had lying around to go in:

Finished:

System running:

During the install I deceided I'm gonna get a new case for this, the one it's in just now is awful. Thinking about the coolermaster centurion rc534.

I'm also having a bit of a nightmare with it, I installed ubuntu but it turns out that there isn't a display driver for my integrated graphics! Stupid thing takes ages rendering anything.

I will get around to installing ubuntu server at some point. Also my boot drive (western digital 80Gb) makes a ridiculous whining noise that's really annoying.

 

[all4spl]

i see that fan controller that you have... doesn't that come with a remote you can use to turn it on and off?? how does that thing perform??

 

[Doddsy]

i see that fan controller that you have... doesn't that come with a remote you can use to turn it on and off?? how does that thing perform??

Don't think it came with a remote, it has a temp sensor, vu (?), and one 3 pin fan header. it's not bad but i'm only using it for the cpu. And 'cause I had it lying around.

 

[equk]

get some spray paint and spray the case black or something

looks like it's turned into quite an expensive project

 

[FragTek]

lawl nice case i used that exact same case for a rig I built my mom about 4 years ago, w00t!

 

[Ham]

How much did it cost you all together then?

 

[Doddsy]

Not been expensive at all tbh, if you take into account the money I made back on the original PC I've ended up spending a grand total of about £10. Most of the bits for it (a64, 9500, HD, memory)I had lying around. All I needed to buy were the PSU and the mobo.

And lol @ Frag, the case is awful. The metal is so thin on it, it just bends and breaks so easily and the damn thing has so many sharp edges!

 

[FragTek]

Yeah, it's bad to say the least... Works good as a cheap-o though, but so does setting everything up on a cardboard box haha