Sunbeam Acrylic Case: Build 2

[andrevautour]

Hello guys,

I thought it might be fun to post some of my favourite older builds here, so here is the first one I will post.

This is the second build that I did in my old Sunbeam acrylic case that I got back in 2004.

Motherboard: MSI 875P Neo
Processor: Pentium 4
Memory: 1GB OCZ
Graphics Card: Sapphire HD 2600 Pro AGP
Hard Drive: 2X Seagate 160GB IDE
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live!
PSU: Ultra Xconnect in Metallic blue | Some generic grey one
Fans: 2X Antec UV Green, 1X antec clear 80mm

The Sunbeam case that i had was one with gold PCI brackets at the back, which i liked, gold screws, blue tinted roof , motherboard side panel, and optical drive covers.

I understand that there is absolutely no cable management and I didn't even try for this build either, but this is still one of my favourite builds I've ever done. There is just something about the bare multi colored power cables all over mixed with the fairly modern looking red msi motherboard put together with the acrylic case, which i've always had a soft spot for. The end result is something that I really adore.



Here are some pictures from the build process

IMG_4809 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

With the power supplies, as you can see the ultra one is pictured here at the beginning, but is then replaced with a generic gret one with unsleeved cables.

Over the years, and I still don't fully understand why, but we had i think 5 of the orignal 2 connect PSUs, at least 3 of the Xconnect 2s, and 2 X3 units. Every single one of those save 1 X3 unit has since died, and none of them lasted very long at all. In a couple cases they also killed all the hardware in my dad's computer when they did die.

Needless to say I would not go anywhere near an Ultra product these days.

But in this case I'm actually glad the blue metallic XC unit didn't work out because like i mentioned the grey PSU with the colored cables played a big part in my love for the aesteic of this build. I never really liked the look of the XC cables, even at the time, and I still don't.


IMG_4813 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4817 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4819 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4822 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4829 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


You can see the Thermaltake Tsunami Dream box in this shot, I will make a log on my Tsunami Dream build later on.


IMG_4833 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


This is the original graphics card for the build, which was I believe I Radeon 9600XT

IMG_4839 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4837 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

The MSI motherboard I thought was nice looking for it's time. I think it came out around 2003.

IMG_4871 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4872 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4878 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4880 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4880 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4882 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

these 80mm fans were so loud, and i had them all at full speed all the time. i also has something which was called vantec tornado or something like that and it was like 50db i think it was ridiculous

IMG_4883 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4884 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

The little MSI fan had 4 multi colored LEDs in it when it was on

IMG_4885 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

This was the loudest cooler i've ever heard when it was on full-- it had a controller panel at the back you could manually set the speed. I also had green UV IDE cables from mutant mods


IMG_4890 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4894 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

it had a nice subtle look when it was on that i really liked

IMG_4903 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4905 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4907 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4910 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

Sound blaster Live front panel controls!

IMG_4911 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4912 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4913 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4915 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4916 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4921 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


clear 80mm antec fan in the side door + a uv ring

IMG_4925 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

the power supply even had a gold fan grille on it which i really liked too

IMG_4928 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4930 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

 

[rossi94]

Looks awesssoommee D

 

[andrevautour]

Looks awesssoommee D

thanks!

this is the 'updated graphics card'


IMG_4791 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4792 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4803 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


and this is the case that the hardware was coming from, which was a case from 1997 that my dad's first 'custom gaming pc' was built in.


IMG_4805 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

 

[reeper250]

If those cables were sleeved it would look 1x10^6 times better.

 

[andrevautour]

I like it this way

 

[rossi94]

I miss the IDE cable chaos

 

[dalewakelin]

Awesome case to use, gives me good memories of when i first started building pcs

 

[CPMFW]

If those cables were sleeved it would look 1x10^6 times better.

thats what i just thought

other than that its a nice build

 

[andrevautour]

thats what i just thought

other than that its a nice build

sleeving is so common though. i like the throwback and the change from the usual.

Ill post my original build from 2004 is the same sunbeam case using the original ultra xconnect psu and monster mods UV ide cables + some other sleeved stuff i did myself at the time

 

[rossi94]

If those cables were sleeved it would look 1x10^6 times better.

Ever sleeved an IDE cable?

 

[CPMFW]

sleeving is so common though. i like the throwback and the change from the usual.

Ill post my original build from 2004 is the same sunbeam case using the original ultra xconnect psu and monster mods UV ide cables + some other sleeved stuff i did myself at the time

would love to see it

Ever sleeved an IDE cable?

he could get the round ones

 

[rossi94]

I was kidding .. individually sleeving IDE would kill you...