Project: General Li

[JN]

The General Li is a tribute to the Dodge Charger used in "The Dukes of Hazzard" (named: General Lee). For this project I will be using some sweet orange paintwork on a Lian Li case along with airbrushed graphics. Other features are "hush-hush" at the moment, but as the worklog progresses you'll see some of them come out into the open

[28/08/07]

Ok, not much happening today, but I've ordered a couple of parts:

- Lian Li PC-G70 Case

- 2x Hitachi 320gb SATAII 7200rpm 16mb Disks

- Asus Blitz Extreme

- Mosfet Coolers

- Swiftech Copper NB Cooler

Once payment for Project F40 clears on Saturday, this is what will be arriving:

- Lian-li Drive Bezel

- Akasa Fan controller

- Intel E6850 Chip

- BFG 8800GTS OC2

- Samsung 20x20 DVD-RW SATA

- 3x Orange SATA cables

- Creative X-FI Sound Card

- 2x Delta high-speed fans (190cfm)

[29/08/07]

In preparation for having the case powder coated (orange external / black internal), I have dug a few extra components out of my wardrobe that I want powder coating.

- Removed all internals components from PSU and cleaned of all labels ready for powder coating orange. (pics to come)

- Cleaned up OCZ Memory Cooler ready to be made orange

- Found spare Akasa fan controller bezel - to be made orange.

I'm still on the hunt for an orange sleeving kit and some low profile passive coolers for the Blitz southbridge and crosslinx chips. If anyone has any ideas, let me know

[31/08/07]

OK today the case arrived. After being a little disappointed with it's quality I put that aside and got to work. Here's what was done:

- Drive cage and riveted bracket removed.

- PSU cage removed

- All fans, plastic parts, labels and stickers removed (ready for spraying).

- All rivets drilled out and replaced with screws.

In addition to this I also knocked up some plans to take to the laser cutters:

[31/08/07]

Ok not much interesting report apart from the arrival of a load of components

E6850 - (SLA9U / L723A943)

BFG 8800GT OC2

Akasa Can Controller

Delta 120mm fans (FOOOOKIN LOUD!!!)

SATA Cables

X-Fi

Samsung 20x DVD-RW

 

[jiffz]

Wootness! Will it be a tower or different design?

 

[JN]

Wootness! Will it be a tower or different design?

Its likely to be in a tower, but i'm going all out on this one and bringing in the laser cutters, powder coaters, spray painters and lots of hush hush bits!

 

[!TIMMY!]

sounds good, cant wait til it gets under way.

 

[Rastalovich]

It`s merely the testostorine involved here.

Definately go for the sprayed additions, de-cals are very available but have tendancies to either come off or look cheap.

Wonder how u can work-in the moonshine to the wc ?!?

 

[JN]

It`s merely the testostorine involved here.

Definately go for the sprayed additions, de-cals are very available but have tendancies to either come off or look cheap.

Wonder how u can work-in the moonshine to the wc ?!?

Exactly. This project is going to be everything i've always wanted to do but was afraid of people saying "wtf why". Loads of LOUD Delta fans, rugged unpolished looks, cr@p loads of power (but most of it going to waste thru the rear wheels). It's gonna be fun to do

 

[Rastalovich]

Wonder how well u could make a fan look like a car`s radiator fan ? Not todays fans, but the older ones - kinda an off yellow`d brown color.

hmmm, be so kewl if u could sort out a large-ish fan to go inside it that runs off a belt ! House a nice motor in a modded 3.5/5.25 bay.

 

[Mr. Smith]

beefcake...

beefcake...

BEEFCAKE!

This should be sweet. So are you getting a monster chip? QX jobbie?

 

[llwyd]

OI, where's my props for the name

looking forward to pleeeenty of pics

 

[JN]

OI, where's my props for the name

looking forward to pleeeenty of pics

Props to Llwyd for the name (even tho i cant remember how it went down)

 

[darkorb]

Wow dude, i thought ur other comp was INSANE, so i cant wait fro this one

 

[JN]

OK, Just done some speccing up, and here's what the inside of the General Li is most likely going to comprise of:

Intel C3D E6850

Asus Blitz Extreme

BFG 8800 GTS OC2

Creative X-Fi Xtreme

Hitachi Deskstar 320gb (RAID0)

RAM unknown as yet

Samsung 20x20 DVD-RW

Lian-Li PC7 Plus II

PSU unknown as yet

Cooling unknown as yet.

 

[llwyd]

OK, Just done some speccing up, and here's what the inside of the General Li is most likely going to comprise of:

Intel C3D E6850

Asus Blitz Extreme

BFG 8800 GTS OC2

Creative X-Fi Xtreme

Hitachi Deskstar 320gb (RAID0)

RAM unknown as yet

Samsung 20x20 DVD-RW

Lian-Li PC7 Plus II

PSU unknown as yet

Cooling unknown as yet.

holy crap

will be making a trip up to play some games on that badboy haha

 

[Dav0s]

holy crap

will be making a trip up to play some games on that badboy haha

haha yeah, me is off to jims as soon as this mofo is completed

it looks sweet mate, cant wait to see and hear some more detailed plans

 

[Mr. Smith]

OK, Just done some speccing up, and here's what the inside of the General Li is most likely going to comprise of:

Intel C3D E6850

Asus Blitz Extreme

BFG 8800 GTS OC2

Creative X-Fi Xtreme

Hitachi Deskstar 320gb (RAID0)

RAM unknown as yet

Samsung 20x20 DVD-RW

Lian-Li PC7 Plus II

PSU unknown as yet

Cooling unknown as yet.

DUDE! You are getting one of the new C3D e6850's? I hear those suckers clock to 7ghz no probs. On hot air too

As for your ram, you'll be pleased to hear there are price cuts on ddr3 due in the new year as ddr3 goes mobile (notebooks)

Cooling - aren't you going for what was briefly discussed? I won't spill the beans in case you were just toying with the idea... Do it!

 

[JN]

Ooopsie, bit of a typo there

Your thoughts people...should I hunt down some orange LED fans or just grab a couple of hugely noisy Delta's and maybe spray them orange?

 

[Nagaru]

I would go with the Delta's or something like that, not really a huge lighted fan lover. I think lights behind fans look better.

 

[Mr. Smith]

Delta's on a f/c ftw.

Say, I'm thinking of getting some of the slimmer delta's 100cfm as a pose to these 140cfm ones... Maybe we can sort something out? Where are you sourcing them? Sidewinder?

 

[JN]

Delta's on a f/c ftw.

Say, I'm thinking of getting some of the slimmer delta's 100cfm as a pose to these 140cfm ones... Maybe we can sort something out? Where are you sourcing them? Sidewinder?

I may well be interested. How many have you got and are they new? Sidewinder would be my first choice as the only place i know to buy Delta's from in the UK are t0553r5

 

[Mr. Smith]

I have four Super High Output but I think I want these

I have used 3 fans since I got the q6600 so literally a week or 2 max, one was just opened to test the other day.

I'm not really sure if I was suggesting splitting the shipping and ordering together or selling you mine, it is early!