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smarteyeball said:

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This definitely qualifies as freaking sweet!

ZaLiTH said:

Lordbob75 said:

If you want to know more about fan mods, I am currently adding variable resistors to my fans so that I can control the fan speed at the turn of a knob. The idea is to vary them from 12V down to about 5V. For me, the noise is nothing, but this might be helpful to you.
Here is the basic tutorial for now:
Fan Speed Controller - Build your Own

~Lordbob

Awesome tutorial, thanks! I check the tuts from time to time, but I missed this one the other day when I was browsing through them.. I was actually thinking of trying to either mod my existing fan controller, or making a new one from scratch.. Either way, the info there will be very helpful.

Anyway, I logged on tonight to share the first few pictures of my case mod project.. I was working on the side panel today, turned out pretty well actually.

First things first, the original side panel (used to be a blue LED 80mm fan in the middle):
Next I cut the new perspex panel to size, and laid it on the side panel with the fans to see how it should look when I was finished, nothing was fixed on as yet:
Then I mounted the perspex (8 small screws around the edged of the side panel), and mounted the fans (decided to go with the standard silver self-tapping fan screws):

Thereafter, I needed to cut out air holes for the fans, so everything needed to be taken off yet again. My narrow jigsaw blades made easy work of getting a smooth curve here:

With everything in place and the holes cut, it was time to remove the protective covering from the perspex panel:
Here we have the panel back on my case... As you can guess, cable management is next on my list of things to do, I'm just waiting for my MNPCtech cable sleeving kit to arrive:
And here we have the semi-finished product, I really hate my phone camera, I just couldn't get a clear photo here... This was about the best of the 4 I took:
I want to either try make my own fan speed controller, or mod my existing one to also have green LEDs and small enough to fit in the 2.5" drive bay below my DVD-RW drive... I don't use or need the LCD display for fan speed and temps (the temperature sensors are crappy on this controller anyway), but I'll have to do that later.

When my sleeving kit arrives, two 12x12" mesh panels will be in the same package, so at that point I'm going to do three things: replace the smoked-perspex cover for the front fan, make protective covers for the side fans, and make a complete mesh side panel as well. That way, if i feel like having a mesh panel instead of perspex, i just need to switch panels and move the fans. I'll put up some pics when I finish that part too..

The awesome part of this whole thing, with the fans at half speed (about 1400 to 1500 rpm), my GPU and CPU are running about 5 to 10 degrees cooler under load than they were. :) I think it's working as intended hey... Hehe...

Wow. Awesome work mate . And those holes you cut with the jigsaw look absolutely perfect.

Bare Foot Kid said:

derekimo said:

xXSevenXx said:

Here:

I like that, looks like a shrine.:)

To what?

Where money is sacrificed in the name of better componants?

smarteyeball said:

derekimo said:

xXSevenXx said:

Here:

I like that, looks like a shrine.:)

lol, yeah - very serene :)


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Beautiful setup. Gaming across those three monitors would be one hell of an experience...

Dave76 said:

Very nice, I like it

Good monitor setup

noobvious said:

This definitely qualifies as freaking sweet!

Buzz2112 said:

Don't know whats nicer your rig or that Epiphone Les Paul

lol, tough call on that one :)

HILLBILLY said:

Beautiful setup. Gaming across those three monitors would be one hell of an experience...

From my quick testing of it - It is. When it works

Some games work quite well with Eyefinity, some need some 'fiddling' and have a few 'quirks' and others just flat out don't like it.

Hell of a FPS hit on some titles too, hello detail lowering - goodbye xAA, lol - always a trade off somewhere


Thanks all.

Even my non-technically minded partner is impressed by the setup. She even bragged about it to her equally non-tech friend, lol.

smarteyeball said:

Some games work quite well with Eyefinity, some need some 'fiddling' and have a few 'quirks' and others just flat out don't like it.

The two games I have by 2K Games--the original BioShock and NBA2K10 both really, really suck with the setup. The get zoomed in to a point where you can't play the game.

Have you gotten Crysis to work at all with Eyefinity?

BTW: I like your setup. Couldn't run those monitors with my "puny" setup!

I'm working my way through titles ATM. I even did another fresh installation to iron out a few bugs.

I believe some games need to have their FOV adjusted manually if they have a configurable .cfg /.xml /.ini

I'm tackling them one by one

(Haven't tried Crysis yet)

smarteyeball said:

derekimo said:

xXSevenXx said:

Here:

I like that, looks like a shrine.:)

lol, yeah - very serene :)


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Holy sheeeeeeet... That is just amazing.

some nice setups here!
here are my *two*




my second setup is the server sitting on WIFI in the garage haha, will hopefully be setting up a LAN through the ceiling in a month or 2.... i hope