Project: eMashine

maduser · 22 Sep 2009 at 20:29

After a recent upgrade 3 months ago in my antec skeleton i decided to have some fun with the parts left over

I salvaged this micro tower emachine from death by crusher and i am injecting it with a new life. So far ive justed chucked everything in the rig and got it running. I will be stripping it to have the chassis sprayed and then il goto work on the rest. Removed the floppy drive plate since the pics and replaced it with a blank from a donor emachine, much smoother

(think some fibreglass is in order muhahahaha)

PGdude · 22 Sep 2009 at 20:46

My case looks just like that. Except smaller! And less cool.

Tear off that horrific front and try and build your own front.

Don't take me seriously.

PishY · 22 Sep 2009 at 21:01

nice mate!

just dug my old Emachines out the attic!

with a good old socket 370 Celeron 1ghz, 128mb ram, 32mb Hercules prophet graphics card! what a beast! haha

David41 · 22 Sep 2009 at 21:47

Good recycling of old parts, but can you even get the side panel on with that cpu cooler?

PGdude · 22 Sep 2009 at 22:00

Make a Muscle Car style air intake to accommodate the extra clearance for the cooler XD

Shawreyboy · 22 Sep 2009 at 22:10

PGdude said:
Make a Muscle Car style air intake to accommodate the extra clearance for the cooler XD

That would be pretty win. Soo much so if it had working butterflies on the intake.

Blackhawk47 · 22 Sep 2009 at 22:18

David41 said:
Good recycling of old parts, but can you even get the side panel on with that cpu cooler?

Should be fine I think but very very close.

alex24 · 22 Sep 2009 at 22:20

Looks like one of those emachines that suffered PSU failure which also killed the mobo. I've written off more of those than I can remember!

maduser · 23 Sep 2009 at 08:41

thx, the side panel does fit and i will be cutting a window into it plus i have been thinking about mounting the intake fan down the front bottom corner as there is not enough space to mount it on the front although i could ditch the front usb & audio panel. It does look bigger in those pics but its 365x390x180mm (HxDxW) running a matx nforce mb, 4gb geil ddr2, AMDx2 5200 @ 2.9Ghz (i would need to chech that i havent looked in ages) 10% oc, 9600GT 512mb running 10% oc on the core + shader. (Benchmark 9998 3D mark 06, crysis all settings high no anti ali gfx bechmark avg 31 fps pre oc) As for the front panel i had already thought about building a new one

or use fibreglass to reshape the existing one. Undecided

EsaT · 23 Sep 2009 at 17:47

alexhull24 said:
Looks like one of those emachines that suffered PSU failure which also killed the mobo. I've written off more of those than I can remember!

PSU on top without real case cooling and probably also cheap PSUs at stock...

alex24 · 23 Sep 2009 at 18:05

Yeah the problem was super cheap-ass PSUs, not that the mobo was that good anyway in any of them.

Just looks a bit weird seeing a decent machine in there, those cases remind me of hundreds of HW failures!

PGdude · 23 Sep 2009 at 23:55

alexhull24 said:
Yeah the problem was super cheap-ass PSUs, not that the mobo was that good anyway in any of them.

Just looks a bit weird seeing a decent machine in there, those cases remind me of hundreds of HW failures!

Couldn't agree more.

maduser · 24 Sep 2009 at 17:46

I've sourced another water kit, modding is more addictive than i thought

My friends selling his think i should ditch the zalman for it or?

maduser · 27 Sep 2009 at 18:20

Moved it from tempory storage (under the desk) and used it for my bedside pc
some pics of it fired up

My sunday afternoon spontainious room mod

When i get some time il start stripping it for painting etc and think about a new front end some designs for it.

G-Dubs · 27 Sep 2009 at 19:45

Shawreyboy said:
That would be pretty win. Soo much so if it had working butterflies on the intake.

Oh god yes

Man that's a cool idea

Anyone seen a mod like that??
I currently mod a skeleton, but am thinking of lobbing my old Q6600 into a small case strapping on a big Fup off cooler and trying it myself