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stevej696

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Hi guys i've been wanting to do a new project for ages and now its finally time to do it. This project i'm doing is for my girlfriend but mainly involves a new case, processor, Hard drive and graphics card. The motherboard, Ram and Psu are all less than 6months old so decided to use them as she wants and i quote "A sparkly and pink computer":rolleyes:

So here's the plan:

I currently dont have my camera as a bus ran over it last week and broke it so i will post the links to the parts i am getting as a guide and the rest will follow suit hopefully.

This is the case http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135581

As you can see it already has acrylic side panels which is a bonus and should save some time when modding. The sides are staying acrylic but i'm wondering whether or not to mesh the top or get a custom design etched into the top. Wonders...........

The next thing is to get 2 92mm antec tri cool fans for the sides to act as intakes as it has a 120mm fan as standard as an exhaust but no intakes:crazy:

That's easily sorted out though.

Apart from that the final spec is:

Gigabyte GA-73VM-S2 Mobo

E5200 standard voltage (for now)

2gb OCZ Platinum 800mhz ram

OCZ ModXtreme pro 500w psu

500gb Hard drive (dont know what model yet depends on budget)

Zotac 9600gso GPU

Respray in hot pink with mobo heatsink and ram to math

Pink 12" CC Lighting (may go UV with UV pink acrylic)

If you have any comments, suggestions please feel free to comment.;)

stevej696
 
Haha, sound cool dude. ;) Sparkly and pink seems like an interesting outcome. Hope you can get a camera soon to snap up the process.

Funnily enough I'm hoping to do a mod on that case! And I was thinking of replacing the acrylic sides with a mesh. Definitely subbed dude.
 
She looked at the pink cases and didnt think they looked right, but when i showed her the cube case she liked it but wanted it in pink! As far as i know they dont do that model in pink so the next best thing is to spray it.

Hopefully im gunna order it 2morow so im going to have a final browse with her and get her to choose a definate case. But its lookin like she wants the cube which is fine by me!:D

stevej696
 
A plan is to watercool the case using a xspc 80mm radiator but i have never used any sort of water cooling before so research me thinks :)

I was planning a single and simple loop to the cpu only but i dont know due to the small dimensions if thats possible.

She's thinking about getting a small case so this should be intertesting :)
 
Ok so here's the case http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143893

I got it a while back, she decided that she liked it so that's the case for the project. I've put a 120mm hole in the side where the 80mm side fan was originally as the case has no intake fans but does have 2x 60mm exhaust fans.

The next step is to get a 1500rpm 120mm fan for the intake in the side but i am wondering if this will be good with the 2 60mm fans as exhaust fans and whether it will be too much for the small fans to shift?

Are there any good 60mm fans out there good enough for the job?

stevej696
 
we need pics!!!

and its good that you have more intake than exsuast, becuase you can put dust filters on the fans and they be filtering the dust and becuase you drawing in more air than pushing, the extra air will be forced out in little holes instead of sucking air through them drawing in dust from those locations.
 
Ok ive managed to get a camera so here's some pics:D

Here's the fan cout out for the side intake, first time with the dremel!:o



Its in need of some u-channel and a dust filter but the case is going to be sprayed before the are installed

How crampd it is



Front



Back



And finally with side attached



The next step

The next step is to hopefully create some space somehow, i was thinkin about removing the CD mounting case and running a external dvd but i dont think this is a good idea as it gets used regular for games.

Talking to my girlfriend, she wants to use it on its side so that opens up the possibility to install case fans at the bottom as exhaust fans for the graphics.

Also thinking of cutting a hole above the hard-drive cage, installing acrylic and taking the protective case of the hard drive so that u can see the internals working thru the acrylic. Not too sure yet.;)

So there's the plan at the moment they arnt set in stone tho as its getting adapted as i go:)

Any comments are welcome, guidance too;)

stevej696
 
She likes playing on gta san andreas/ gta4 on my pc so thought it needed a good punch graphics wish as gta4 can be very demanding and its going to be running on a 18.5" monitor;)

Im running a 4850 radeon but this will be too much and too hot running for the case so a 9600gso is a very good low heat card:)

12days to next mod updates:)
 
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