Soldato
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Hi all
Currently working on this at the moment. Not sure what it's gonna be used for but I'll come up with something.
I got given this CD player (phillips CD582) about 10 years ago and it is/was an excellent player (good DAC) until a year or 2 ago it stopped working. It's lay around ever since and I've been working on a mini PC case mod in my mind on and off for this time.
Not until now do I have a board that will fit in it (along with a PSU).
A GA-6WMMC7 mATX, picked it up at the market, along with a PIII 733 and a U160 SCSI card for the princely sum of £2. Good things: small, PIII733 is still decent, ( i tested it with a few live CDs + 256 ram - browsing usual websites and general desktop use, drawing, word pro etc you'd never know it wasn't a 2GHz beast, really)
Bad: no onboard LAN and only USB1
Cost will be as low as possible, currently at £10 (PSU + board). Not sure whether to make this a download box, or a network audio player, or fit 2 nics and make a nice router, ideas?
Onto the pics...
1.Front shot: gonna keep the play/next buttons, the power buton and the phone socket. Everything else replaced by black mesh. I'll wire the buttons onto the gamepad port perhaps, for a winamp plugin? Behind the mesh will be 2 or 3 low noise 60mm fans, and I'll mesh part of the back for better airflow
2. erm, another front shot - if i remove this i'll mess my picture numbering up...
3. guts of the CD player - the psu is mounted on the main board to the left. the gap at the right is just that - maybe the 'extra space' makes for a more hi-fi sound.. : )
4. after all the guts removed. I cut off some of the more protruding case plastic fixings.
5. old skool circuit board
6. another circuit board shot...
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k.malone97/ocuk/casemod1/IMG_0937.JPG
7. Thought about mounting the board straight on to the plastic bottom of the case, but then I found this old dell mb tray and thought it might be better to mount onto a metal plate. When the top of the case is on, top,left,right,and bottom will all be shielded with metal.
8. a few cuts later. it nearly fits
9. cutting a slot where that line is allows the board to slot right over that plastic moulding. this actually holds the board quite well.
10. trial fitting. Also more backplate modification, and there was a small metal tab at the right which naturally held the board in place as well.
11. a dlink 530 nic. woops to high. I'll need to have a search to find an even lower profile nic.
That's it for now. I'll post as I do more.
edit. after reading it back to preempt anyone saying, "but there's no mobo risers" I was going to put them in, then I realise that would mean I'd need an even lower profile NIC, could I put onto the board a layer of non-conductive foam or plastic on some type?
cheers
Currently working on this at the moment. Not sure what it's gonna be used for but I'll come up with something.
I got given this CD player (phillips CD582) about 10 years ago and it is/was an excellent player (good DAC) until a year or 2 ago it stopped working. It's lay around ever since and I've been working on a mini PC case mod in my mind on and off for this time.
Not until now do I have a board that will fit in it (along with a PSU).
A GA-6WMMC7 mATX, picked it up at the market, along with a PIII 733 and a U160 SCSI card for the princely sum of £2. Good things: small, PIII733 is still decent, ( i tested it with a few live CDs + 256 ram - browsing usual websites and general desktop use, drawing, word pro etc you'd never know it wasn't a 2GHz beast, really)
Bad: no onboard LAN and only USB1
Cost will be as low as possible, currently at £10 (PSU + board). Not sure whether to make this a download box, or a network audio player, or fit 2 nics and make a nice router, ideas?
Onto the pics...
1.Front shot: gonna keep the play/next buttons, the power buton and the phone socket. Everything else replaced by black mesh. I'll wire the buttons onto the gamepad port perhaps, for a winamp plugin? Behind the mesh will be 2 or 3 low noise 60mm fans, and I'll mesh part of the back for better airflow
2. erm, another front shot - if i remove this i'll mess my picture numbering up...
3. guts of the CD player - the psu is mounted on the main board to the left. the gap at the right is just that - maybe the 'extra space' makes for a more hi-fi sound.. : )
4. after all the guts removed. I cut off some of the more protruding case plastic fixings.
5. old skool circuit board
6. another circuit board shot...
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k.malone97/ocuk/casemod1/IMG_0937.JPG
7. Thought about mounting the board straight on to the plastic bottom of the case, but then I found this old dell mb tray and thought it might be better to mount onto a metal plate. When the top of the case is on, top,left,right,and bottom will all be shielded with metal.
8. a few cuts later. it nearly fits
9. cutting a slot where that line is allows the board to slot right over that plastic moulding. this actually holds the board quite well.
10. trial fitting. Also more backplate modification, and there was a small metal tab at the right which naturally held the board in place as well.
11. a dlink 530 nic. woops to high. I'll need to have a search to find an even lower profile nic.
That's it for now. I'll post as I do more.
edit. after reading it back to preempt anyone saying, "but there's no mobo risers" I was going to put them in, then I realise that would mean I'd need an even lower profile NIC, could I put onto the board a layer of non-conductive foam or plastic on some type?
cheers
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