My rigs.

OK guys so this will be the last update before I go on a little hiatus due to lack of funds. I do have some things to do but none will be worth picturing.

So here is the case.



As you can see, it's quite heavily cut now. And here is where the project stands.



I now have to repair both the power and reset buttons as the wires got caught and they both ripped out. Doh.
 
Today paranoia got the better of me so I did this.





Memory.



And the CPU.



Now obviously I've never taken a motherboard apart before so I was pretty para. Turns out everything made it through and works fine. Phew !
 
Oops. forgot all about this lol. Today I decided to tidy up the bits and bobs. Everything was in a bit of a mess.. Any way, allow me to introduce you to Mr Skull.



This part actually took me about an hour. What I did was stuck it down and then used the Dremel to carve around the edges.



So that's my light blank. I've polished the edges since but the sun has gone in.

Here is how they fit.



They're now setting, so I got on with this.



Mark.



And...



As I say, glue setting so that's it for now but this will become the centre piece of the front of the case. 5 white LEDs :)
 
Nice idea in theory, nightmare in practice :D

But still, it's done now. Won't be doing it again though :D

Started the building last night, need to make a few adjustments to the shroud but the plate is in, the board is in, the GPU is in and all the wires have been connected. And it works ! yay !

Just got to try and find a way to get the side panel on now as it's awfully tight. Then I need to connect up the fans and so on and put the front on.
 
Build time.

Was pretty painful tbh. The wound I had on my thumb had closed and stopped bleeding. Then by freak accident I picked up the hot swap bay and something inside it was very sharp and went right into the wound on my thumb. I yelped, it had gone in pretty deep and it started to bleed profusely again. Quick thinking I sprayed on some cold Iodine and stemmed the bleeding. Then I wrapped it in tape and tissue. It hurt like a fly sliding down a razor blade using his balls for brakes, but I had to continue.

So, here is the case with the panel mounted and everything sort of hanging loose. You can see the rear fan now.



Time to fit the hard drive.



Here is the mess of wires I was talking about around the back.



There's about 5mm if that on the outer edges. The panel bulges out offering a small area to go thicker but for the most part this was the hardest wiring I've ever had to do. All of it needed to be forced into the areas where the side panel allows more room.

As you can see here, it was hard. Front panel now on.



Fit the hot swap bay.



And turn the case around.



Remember Mr Skull? well here he is all wired and set.



OMG, bad-ass.



Problem is there's now even more mess to contend with.



OK, so with everything all wired and connected it was time to fit the side. I did some final management and used a few ties. Then I laid it on the floor and evenly pressed the panel in.....



WOOHOO ! she fits !! I'm still not sure how lol.



And finally time to spin it around again and set it to one side so I can mod the PSU box.



Still a ways to go......
 
And we draw ever closer. First up I want to mention my poor thumb...



But enough of that gay banter ! let's get right down to business.

So it was time to mark up one of the final panels.



And using the dimensions I had previously marked..



So it was back to the rotary tool to create that panel and adjust the psu box.

Just remember, the word of the day is clinical.



But hey, let's not get carried away. It's not done yet. I still have to make the floor pan.



But man alive, I just can't get enough of this ****.



OK so here is Mr Skull..



And around to the business end. Note the fan controller has been modded into the back of the case shell. This controls the rear exhaust.



Look in the background... IT'S ALIVE !! ALIVE I SAY !!!



Oh yeah. Remember those floating fans in the roof?



BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.
 
Cheers !

Just trying to get Niresh to boot on it now. First attempt failed.. I think it's because I built it with the ISO rather than the DMG.
 
Shivy011 said:
Looks really good!
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It'll look better once I have finished the floor pan.

I have an old Powerbook that I swore I would rid myself of once I had access to OSX. It's got a Kingston SSDNOW ! 64gb MSATA in it, so I will be buying a converter box (that kinda looks like a regular SSD) and then mount that in the floor pan.

Tonight I decided to try on the windowed side panel that's been sitting in a box for about a month. Clean forgot it had a 120mm side fan mount so will no doubt cut that out and do something funky (possible location for a 140mm Corsair AF which has empty LED holes so I can fit some white ones..).

Shouldn't be too long though. Now it's getting OSX on there, as so far all I have managed is a blinking cursor lol.
 
OK so really getting there now..

The expert who promised to help me has been wonderful. We tried in vain for nearly two days to get the sound working, then I remembered I had this.



Which hilariously was immediately detected by Voodoo and worked straight away ! so that's the sound sorted.. Time for some fun !



hehehe



Also installed and tested...

Grid
Trine
Borderlands 2

Then it was back to work. Here is the finished floor pan.



And my converter for MSATA to SATA 3 arrived, which I duly modded.



iSSD !
 
OK so update. Here is something I've been working on for the past couple of days.



To make that I had to cut two pieces of acrylic, then put them together in a glue sandwich before sanding and cleaning and polishing the edges.



Like so, and then drilling ten holes through the black side only.



And the sides, pre fab.



OK so time for some LEDs. I don't even want to get into how long this took, nor how utterly mind numblingly boring it was.



OK so test fit.



Good ****, then glue.



And put to one side to set. I also made a SATA braid cable/extension/converter thing.



So not much left to do now... I also ordered a fan for the side intake.



LEDs, which is kinda nice.



But the real reason I bought it is this.



Which should work on the outside of the case. I am going to bondo/filler the Aerocool logo and repaint it in white...
 
Update. So as of now the MAC is sitting with a cover over it whilst I figured out how I can hook it up.

In the end I found this.



Which has three USB sockets (so keyboard, mouse and sound card) and two inputs from the PC. This way I can just hook my stuff into the KVM and use both computers with one set of peripherals.

My monitor has three inputs so I will simply plug both BPM and X8 into the monitor and switch inputs.

Right now the SSD stand is setting. I have glued on the side parts so theoretically it should be ready to mount once the glue sets and I can clean the edges. Here it is being tested.



And the side the SSD will mount to.

 
Rilot said:
ALXAndy, we can't have hackintosh talk on this forum. The legalities of it are too vague.
I've removed posts showing your installation but I'd appreciate it if you stick to the physical build and not talk about the OS. Thanks.
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Hmm. That's odd because Mavericks is completely and totally free. All you need is an Apple account.

But OK yeah will stick to hardware.
 
davido_labido said:
Aye, I know the intent, I'm just not a fan of branding particularly. I personally think it would have been better to have fewer apple logos, but make one more prominent (like apple do) not knocking it bud, I'm sure you like it which is all that matters!! I often do things that others dislike.
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Yeah that's fair enough man :)

Apple do tend to brand everything individually. I guess it's because they're more like designer products than PC parts. Mind you, let's face it, OEMs do love a bit of branding don't they?

Once I get this finished I'ma try building me one of them trash can MACs using a Dyson cylinder and a AM1 Kabini.. My mate is just doing the software research as I type this :D That will be mainly unbranded.

So what's left to do?

* Finish the side panel. The one I've not even touched. With any luck the fan for that will arrive today. Got a little bit of filling and spraying to do, and some minor etching to get that knocked out.

* Pull all the cables through properly and neatly and then stitch them all.

* Fit a Firewire 400 card. I have a Lacie Porsche external drive which is my Time Machine. I want to use it, card was only £5.50.

* Set up the KVM.

* Mod the desk to add an extension to the side for the MAC to sit on.

Once I'm all done and hooked up I will begin looking at parts for the next conquest :D
 
Update.

The Radeon R9 290 came. Sadly it doesn't work yet. I am currently fighting to get the latest OS on here... Won't go into detail but it's safe to say I'm losing the fight.

Any way. Today I hooked up the MAC and took it apart to start working on software so I could easily switch the hardware. I couldn't be bothered plugging in the sound card so I found an old bluetooth dongle I paid 99p for in my drawer.



Which allowed me to hook up my Pills dude.



Very handy.

The side panel fan is in.



And the outside.



And I created a splitter for the power button like this.



And wired up the secondary easy access power button like so.



Plugged it in.



And have now received this.



And this.



Oh yeah, and this.



So now I am just waiting on getting the ermmm, latest OS on here before I set it all up permanently.
 
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