Show Us Your Rig [5]

[ganjiry]

I'm really liking that 600T Zalith, So much so that i'm trying to figure how to raise the 150 nicker to get one myself
Nice choice

Lmao Juan you got it baaad mate. Looking like it's gonna be another epic build mate.
Good job

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Actually it is 4X4 metres I must admit and behind me is a whole area of workspace but still cramped.

Could you get a small shelf under the desktop and slide it in under it? instead of on the floor.

Mind you if you have it on the floor it is a good idea to have it on a hard surface if you have carpets even so a small board with castors would make it easy for you to move it around and make cooling a lot better

I could if I didn't have any legs. The knee hole of the desk already has a small sub woofer in there. The remaining space is for my legs and feet. Everywhere else has drawers in the way. Trust me, I know the room and there just isn't room for anything longer.

Ah look Lady Fitz mate I was not having a go just some logic mixed with my warped sense of humour sorry if I upset you.
I don't indulge in any behaviour that would deliberately upset anyone and if I did sound a bit facetious or patronising when I posted it was not meant to be that at all - just as I said as above. Life is way too short to have conflict of any sort and well perhaps I should have just not said anything eh?

 

[Bungee18]

Thank you Ryan!
You are absolutely right I got it very bad!

Cheers,

J

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Bungee18 and Zalith,
Great builds both. I love how white is the new black !

ICit2lol,
Nice cubby for your quiver of electronics like being surrounded by space heaters !

pparks1,
Was wondering where you were hiding out. Welcome back and don't be a stranger, remember we were your friends first....lol. I still have yet to use my W8 upgrade but when I do I'll be over at the 8 forum asking dumb questions.....hope you'll help !

 

[pparks1]

pparks1,
Was wondering where you were hiding out. Welcome back and don't be a stranger, remember we were your friends first....lol. I still have yet to use my W8 upgrade but when I do I'll be over at the 8 forum asking dumb questions.....hope you'll help !

Yeah, sorry about my extended absence. Hopefully nobody was loosing sleep over where I disappeared to. I was always checking back in on occasion, but found that there was SOOO MUCH to post about on the 8 forums, that I couldn't handle any more tech speak (or drama).

 

[ganjiry]

Thank you Ryan!
You are absolutely right I got it very bad!

Cheers,

J

Noubt wrong with that though mate. We enjoy it so why not aye

 

[ZaLiTH]

Wow... Look away for a day and the thread grows by two more pages. Lol.

I always laid big boxes like that on their sides, opened the bottom and folded the flaps out of the way, tipped the box back up, then pulled the box off the product inside. I find that much easier than wrestling with whatever is inside.

I would've done that, but unfortunately the polystyrene packaging didn't seem to be the original.. I did get it second hand and it was still packed pretty well, but I was a bit scared of letting it fall. Not sure if you know or not (some people here already do) but I can't use my left arm, so I do everything one-handed.

Really like the case, nice and roomy.
Is there a way to turn off or disable the leds ?

Not by default, but I do plan to mod a few fans for that exact purpose. I'm thinking two switches, one to control all the lights, and another to completely turn off certain fans. But since adding the Antec tri-speed 120mm fan that the seller sent with the case, I now have two white lights (200mm), a green one (CPU) and a red one (120mm). It's quite a light show at the moment.

...Zalith, here is a fan that will fit in you new case
Shop for the Galaxy Box Fan, B20100 at an always low price from Walmart.com. Save money. Live better....

It's so big!

Hehe...

It's been kind of hectic for the past few days and couldn't find the time to check in as often as I'd like to.
Looks like I missed a lot!
@ Zalith, great case. That rig of yours is turning into some heavy duty piece of equipment. Congrats!
@ Cranky, you really went all out on that case. It is looking very nice, but follow Paul's advice and tips on wiring to improve air flow and keep your high performance parts as cool as possible.

Anyhow, I thought I'd share what I'm putting together for a very good friend whom after seeing my rig asked if I could build something similar for him, but with some extra customizations. Of course I was more than happy to oblige!!!!

...

Thanks, my baby really is at long last living up to her name, I've used the same computer name for more years than I can remember. I love that design you did though, the black/white/red combo really works nicely!

Bungee18 and Zalith,
Great builds both. I love how white is the new black !

Haha... Is it really? I actually surprised myself with getting a white case, I never thought I would. Actually, most of my friends thought that too, especially after seeing the (cheap) black/green XFX attempt I had before. Honestly though, it grew on me very fast... Like, 15 seconds after getting it out of the box and I was in love.

Edit: Awesome... My 1111'st post.

And yes, that was a very random edit.

 

[pparks1]

C'mon man you know if you could ban the sale of those large cases you would

I would never go so far as to say they should be banned. However, I think there is an unrational desire out there for those who want super powerful computers to equate the size of the case to the power and performance contained within. For others, they really do want to install 15 hard drives and run 24 case fans. However, for many people, we won't ever venture anywhere near that far. A slightly smaller case that can be more easily moved around and tucked out of site can often be advantageous and doesn't necessarily make the computer less powerful or impressive looking. I don't want anybody to think that they simply cannot build their own powerful computer simply because they don't have the physical space to store a jumbo sized case.

I don't prefer tight, tiny cases either but, unfortunately, I live in tight, tiny quarters that don't have room for a bigger case.

Yeah, I have 3 desktops on my desk at work, so I don't have room for 3 HAF X's. But I do have room for the Antec 300 and it's big enough for my needs. Although admittedly, could use more cable management features.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

...I do have room for the Antec 300 and it's big enough for my needs. Although admittedly, could use more cable management features.

My Antec Two Hundred V2 had even fewer cable management features. I had to add four grommetted cable management holes at the bottom of the MOBO, do a bit of metal massaging elsewhere, and wound up making custom PSU cables so I could cram everything in without the cables obstructing air flow.

 

[pparks1]

my home machine is in an Antec P180 case, and while it's got good airflow and plenty of power management features, it's a little bigger now that I would like. I'd shrink it to about 60% of it's full size if I could. I only run 1 single network card (nVidia 570GTX), and 2 hard drives (1 SSD, and 1 standard mechanical drive). I boot only Windows 7.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

my home machine is in an Antec P180 case, and while it's got good airflow and plenty of power management features, it's a little bigger now that I would like. I'd shrink it to about 60% of it's full size if I could. I only run 1 single network card (nVidia 570GTX), and 2 hard drives (1 SSD, and 1 standard mechanical drive). I boot only Windows 7.

If you like the P180, take a look at the P280.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Bungee18 and Zalith,
Great builds both. I love how white is the new black !

ICit2lol,
Nice cubby for your quiver of electronics like being surrounded by space heaters !

pparks1,
Was wondering where you were hiding out. Welcome back and don't be a stranger, remember we were your friends first....lol. I still have yet to use my W8 upgrade but when I do I'll be over at the 8 forum asking dumb questions.....hope you'll help !

Well linne I set up an 8 laptop for a neighbour just the the day and I was surprised really it was not that hard it was to do that and I installed some word processing software and changed the security etc tec mind you I just had to fix it to look more like 7.

Personally and in spite of what I have said in the past if it were not for that awful first screen it seemed ok.

Oh and welcome back from me PP

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

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That gap above the reader is from the optical drive. I have a BD drive on order that will hopefully fill that gap (but, then again, it's the same brand as the existing drive).

Remember that gap I mentioned between the optical drive and the card reader (of course you do, I just reposted it)? Well, I picked up my new BD-ROM drive from my mail service yesterday, installed it today, and it's still got that stupid gap. What is it with LG and under-height faceplates on their optical drives? Before I cinched down the drive for keeps, I stuck a piece of double sided scotch tape on top of the card reader faceplate and stuck a thin scrap of the anti-static foam I had knocking about to the tape. That filled the gap up nicely and the foam isn't noticeable if you aren't looking for it.

Installation was a breeze...or so I thought until I tried to remove the front panel of the case (I should have known it was too easy). The LG faceplate is just a hair wider than the faceplates of the card reader and the 3.5" swap bay and catches on a tiny lip in the 5.25" bay opening in the case front panel. I had the Divil's own time getting the front panel off (it took about 15 minutes to get it off). I then wasted the next 45 minutes using a knife and nail file to trim down and taper the lip on the front panel and to taper the backside of the LG's faceplate near the corner that was catching so the front panel wouldn't get hung up. It's done now, thank God, and one can't see my surgery when the front panel is installed. I'm not bothering with pictures becasue I'm pretty sure everyone knows what an optical drive looks like.

I finally put the side panels on the case—I had been running it without the panels since I was too lazy to be taking them on and off—and have been fooling around with fan speed. With the front and side fans set to a barely noticeable drone and the exhaust fan at the back set to full speed (oddly enough, I can't hear the rear fan running full speed over the other fans), the CPU temps have been about the same as when the sides are off. I did a smoke test at a gap I couldn't seal up on the front panel and, when I got source of the smoke (a recently extinguished match) about a quarter of an inch from the gap, the case would suck in the smoke so the case was running negative pressure. If I turned the rear fan down all the way, the smoke wouldn't suck in but wouldn't blow out, either, suggesting I'm close to neutral pressure. The CPU doesn't seem to run much, if any, warmer with that fan turned down. It's hard to tell since the ambient and the CPU temps keep fluctuating. Core 5 is the hottest core on my CPU and it hasn't gone over 45°C when just surfing the net (ambient is 27°C). I'm just going to keep an eye on it to see what it does. I would rather increase the front and side fans' speed than raise the speed of the exhaust fan. I'll, probably will have to up the front and side fans' speed anyway to counter dust accumulation on the filters.

I still want to add a TV tuner or two but methinks I'll spend some time using the machine for a while before doing any more work on it.

 

[kbrady1979]

I have that same LG CD/DVD with M Disc support(wish I had gotten the BR model) and I didn't have a gap on the top/bottom, but when I locked it into the 5.25" bay, it shifted to one side and left a small gap on the left. Small piece of cardboard as a spacer fixed it. I feel your pain, because I'm a bit of a perfectionist myself and it literally irritated me to no end to see it offset like that.

 

[Britton30]

Lady Fitz, that's more the fault of how the case mounts the drive. I am using 3 opto drives, HP, ASUS, and an LG BluRay, all the face plates are identical in size and are different ages, the oldest about 7. (Well it still works)


This was a tight fit, case is an Inwin Dragon Rider.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Lady Fitz, that's more the fault of how the case mounts the drive. I am using 3 opto drives, HP, ASUS, and an LG BluRay, all the face plates are identical in size and are different ages, the oldest about 7. (Well it still works)

Actually, no, it's not the fault of the case. The previous LG drive, other than that stupid gap at the bottom due to being under-height, fit just fine. I had no trouble removing the cover with the previous drive in place.

Both LG drives faceplates aren't as high as the faceplates on the card reader and the swap bay. The newer LG drive's faceplate is a tad wider than the faceplates on the previous LG drive, the card reader (actually, the 3.5" to 5.25" adapter), and the swap bay. The carder reader and swap bay face plates are identical in size.

 

[kbrady1979]

A much better picture

 

[ganjiry]

I did a similar thing with my card reader, Only i chopped up 1 of the drive bay covers and a drive bay converter with a Dremmel. the face of the bay converter needed sanding down to size a fair bit to fit the mesh over it. I didn't quite get it straight though.

 

[kbrady1979]

That's a good solution! I lucked up and my buddy had an adapter from an old Dell that works perfectly.

 

[ganjiry]

That's a good solution! I lucked up and my buddy had an adapter from an old Dell that works perfectly.

Yeah yours looks like it was meant to be there Good find