soltek mod

steveo · 13 Mar 2006 at 10:29

hello all thought i would post some pics of my modding so far on my soltek sff, i had the barebones in the cupboard for ages coz i built up another system with in a normal case but i thought if am not going to use it i might as well sell it or mod it so yup i decided on modding it pics so far

comments and advice welcome

had to cut a section of the back frame so that the plastic fan section could fit in

thought instead of 1 fan why not have 2 lmao (got to love duck tape for cable management

this and the bottom pic was done with 1 cutting disc(not a diamond disc)

still have lots of grinding and cleaning up to do but its snowing and its cold so it can wait till later, remember its a working progress

steveo · 13 Mar 2006 at 22:26

ordered my mesh grill and trim today should arrive tommorrow, EVH i no m8 thats where i got the idea from just loved going to calis mod that i needed to do it myself, i am using a dremel for all the work i got it from argos for about £50 and have used it on 6 cases so far and i will never go for a cheap version again did both section on the soltek with one normal cutting disc u cant do that on steel coz it would just knacker up the disc in seconds, as for the overall plan when i manage to get the trim and mesh fitted am seeing a bud who spray paints bmws and a local dealer to see what he can do with this one (he spray painted a lian li case yellow for me couple years ago)

steveo · 14 Mar 2006 at 22:31

idle temps on the gpu are 35 to 38 load is about 45 so yea am happy with it

steveo · 19 Mar 2006 at 10:42

sanded down and primed

steveo · 23 Jun 2006 at 09:14

results so far, the paint work is ok it could have been better but its not bad for the tools and equipment i used (ie not a lot) so have to paint the cd covers and the grill black but its getting there

ps sorry for poor pics i used my phone

steveo · 24 Jun 2006 at 18:43

c&c welcome ordering some more trim for the edges this week i was thinking of replacing the 120gb hd for some thing bigger :confused:

steveo · 24 Jun 2006 at 19:28

yea the yellow is i bit wired in pics sometimes it looks like a vis jacket of a work site others its just normal yellow, i got the soltek barebones ages ago and for the rig its self it was about 150,amd64 3000 sck 754 hoping i can get a mates 3700 of him in september, i have 1gb of geil mem,120gb wd had drive, poineer 109, gainward 6800 ultra with artic cooler on, temps are dam fine now with me having 2 120mm fans blowing over the cpu and mobo and on to the back of the gpu cpu at present is 30c idle and and gpu is 35c not overclocked

all stable not bad with it running of the original psu which is 230watt i believe but i think barebone psu differ from normal ones :confused: