Project: Greenie

[bennywidag]

I was given a old computer by my physics teacher, pentium 3, and have had it lying around for a few months. I need to do something with it or throw it away, so i thought why not a mod.

I am thinking possibly a themed mod, though not necessarily, possibly on a game, or industrial, or whatever you can think of, please tell me, no matter how stupid.

This is the case, quite bland and small, but not for long, i want good cooling, which will be hard with the only fan at back being a psu 80mm.

Side

19/08/2005

Right, yesterday i stripped off the paint with a product called Nitro-Mors, i was initially going to sand it but dad said this you give a better finish, and so it did, the scratches i got were from fiddling with the dremel afterwards, and from using a trowel to move the stripped paint off, fool.

Nitro mors

i was very satisfied with the result, and am now in the stage of polishing the metal, to try to get a immaculate finish.

Stripped

 

[bennywidag]

22/08/2005

Yesterday i decided to put in the front blowhole, so started on this.

This is whereabouts it will go

I first ripped out the cases speaker, and 80mm fan holder, so i could see where to position the 120mm.

I could then position the fan in the case, which fitted by about 3mm, and find where to screw the holes. I had to cut out rivet holding the bottom of the case on with the dremel but the case is no weaker for this. I then used a lead from a old set of compasses to poke through the fan screwholes and mark the metal, i then drilled out the metal.

 

[bennywidag]

To complete the blowhole i needed a whole for the air, to do this i used a guide from (pdf) here as a rough guide

i then cut out the hole by doing a number of straight line by using my dremel again, and after a bit of sanding, this is the result

Put the blowhole trim in the front blowhole, tired of cutting my hands,

Also did a bit of wet and drying on the side panels as they were bad, but not much as it wasnt brill weather. This is the top which i have done the most, but has a few scratches i need to sort.

Not much ambient light so doesnt shine much, but it is in real life. Will get some good quality when everything is done.

took about 25 mins with some 400 then 1000 to get that, need a lot more time to spend on it and the other panels. updates come as i progress.

 

[bennywidag]

Right sorry for the lack of updates, had loads of school work, and funds going on the stacker project so appoligies for that.

I have painted the case a nice black ,the super gloss from halfords (all pics are without flash btw, and about 10 mins ago so there isnt much light, will get good shots tomorow.) all went perfect, beautiful finsish until i did the laquer, this went spotty and i sanded it to remove this after only 8 hours, and a goo formed, so i had to go back to the paint and start again. if i did it again i wouldnt have bothered with the laquer.

The front is having a lian li esque mesh affair, uising ac ryans mesh x black so that will look good. the perspex is held on with blue tack so i appoligise for some bits hanging off.

the cathodes are green ones, i need to get a uv or two to bring the perspex to life, there are four green cathodes in there:twisted:. If you have a look i have modded both side panels, so eerie greeness seeps out both sides

front shot without cathodes

Back/ side shot without cathodes

Side shot with cathodes (blinging eh?)

top shot with cathodes

 

[SAS91]

You gonna take some pics in for your teacher to see?

 

[bennywidag]

hmm, might do actually good idea, he might find it "inappropriate use of school resources" though.

Actually, hes okay, since i brought in some pc spiral wrap to do his laptop hes been good to me, wonder when he does the uv light experiments though (its UV blue)

 

[justin]

just wondering, what you are going to do to the front? i say spray the original cover, that would look awesome.

 

[bennywidag]

nah im going to use acryans meshx black panel and make my own lian li type cover for it, should look good

 

[Master_G]

Nice windows, looks really good, quite original, better than ordinary windows (like mine )

G

 

[PHILIP1193]

i really like that mate, real nice going keep it up, you shoudl post it up on bit-tech

Phil

 

[bennywidag]

thanks guys, but its nowhere near good enough to put on bit-tech but thanks anyway.

Kudos to Phil for the absurdly good windows and obscenely powerful cathodes

 

[Master_G]

thanks guys, but its nowhere near good enough to put on bit-tech but thanks anyway.

Kudos to Phil for the absurdly good windows and obscenely powerful cathodes

I think it is pretty close, those guys are crazy modders though, their mods take SOO much time, effort, detail, it's insane.

They do look good though.

G