New Project time,
My step son has started to take an interest in PC's, He spends a lot of time on his consoles and saw me playing BF4 on Mini Moto Mayhem. He couldn't believe how much better the graphics and audio are.
I'd been thinking about doing him a PC and after a chat with my Partner we decided that as Mini Moto Mayhem was in constant use playing BF4, D33P THOUGHT was pretty much redundant. With a lot of componants not in use, just seems like a lot of money sat doing nothing. So D33P THOUGHT will be torn down to supply parts for his PC. (No whining please)
After a clear out of the attic I has three cases that will be giving up their bits to make one, Hence the name BITZA (bits and pieces)
Here's the donors : A ThermalTake Armor A30, An old ThermalTake Kandalf, the Corsair Carbide 300R probably won't be used.
After some playing about I settled on orientation and some of the bits I'll be using ...The layout will be something like this :
I just need to knit it all together, but this layout will give me plenty of room for the PSU, Cooling stuff and hidden areas to hide all the fugly. The colour will change and hopefully bring it all together looking pretty sweet.
Here's that front radiator from the Kandalf
It should clean up pretty well, it's going to need some cleaning though. After taking it to bits there's quite a fair bit of dust build up.
The other side looks pretty ... I like this view so will swap over the brackets and have this side in view
With the rad looking this good, I will be removing the mesh but had to remove the ThermalTake logo first.
With the logo removed the mesh just slides out
The brackets have been swapped over and the surround still fits as it was designed to do, the oval shape frames the grills quite nicely
and final a few more shots of what I have in mind.
Revised plan
Getting all that to tie together would be a bit of a nightmare, so I've decided to use the Corsair Carbide 300 to house everything. It will save lots of fabrication and I can concentrate my efforts on the inside.
So here's the case
Not much of a looker is it ... but one thing it does have going for it is that it's very plain and simple and once all the internal drive bay slots were removed, there is plenty of usable space.
I've decided to put in an angled mid-plate, this will extend across the entire case, Graphics cards and the reservoir will be mounted onto the mid-plate.
The mid-plate goes right up to the mother board and will hide all the pcie slots, the atx connector will be boxed in as will the I/O section. The idea is to hide all the cables.
I've mocked it up with cardboard to give me some idea of what it will look like, the cardboard will be used for templates
My step son has started to take an interest in PC's, He spends a lot of time on his consoles and saw me playing BF4 on Mini Moto Mayhem. He couldn't believe how much better the graphics and audio are.
I'd been thinking about doing him a PC and after a chat with my Partner we decided that as Mini Moto Mayhem was in constant use playing BF4, D33P THOUGHT was pretty much redundant. With a lot of componants not in use, just seems like a lot of money sat doing nothing. So D33P THOUGHT will be torn down to supply parts for his PC. (No whining please)
After a clear out of the attic I has three cases that will be giving up their bits to make one, Hence the name BITZA (bits and pieces)
Here's the donors : A ThermalTake Armor A30, An old ThermalTake Kandalf, the Corsair Carbide 300R probably won't be used.
After some playing about I settled on orientation and some of the bits I'll be using ...The layout will be something like this :
I just need to knit it all together, but this layout will give me plenty of room for the PSU, Cooling stuff and hidden areas to hide all the fugly. The colour will change and hopefully bring it all together looking pretty sweet.
Here's that front radiator from the Kandalf
It should clean up pretty well, it's going to need some cleaning though. After taking it to bits there's quite a fair bit of dust build up.
The other side looks pretty ... I like this view so will swap over the brackets and have this side in view
With the rad looking this good, I will be removing the mesh but had to remove the ThermalTake logo first.
With the logo removed the mesh just slides out
The brackets have been swapped over and the surround still fits as it was designed to do, the oval shape frames the grills quite nicely
and final a few more shots of what I have in mind.
Revised plan
Getting all that to tie together would be a bit of a nightmare, so I've decided to use the Corsair Carbide 300 to house everything. It will save lots of fabrication and I can concentrate my efforts on the inside.
So here's the case
Not much of a looker is it ... but one thing it does have going for it is that it's very plain and simple and once all the internal drive bay slots were removed, there is plenty of usable space.
I've decided to put in an angled mid-plate, this will extend across the entire case, Graphics cards and the reservoir will be mounted onto the mid-plate.
The mid-plate goes right up to the mother board and will hide all the pcie slots, the atx connector will be boxed in as will the I/O section. The idea is to hide all the cables.
I've mocked it up with cardboard to give me some idea of what it will look like, the cardboard will be used for templates
epic as usual!