Project: Endorphin (Update! 23/01)

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 29 Jan 2007, 11:57

Off-The-Chart wrote:Quick question: 3 Vantec Nexstars however are they not SATA to USB? Will you work around that for the DVD drive? Or am I mistaken with the case being SATA to USB...

Nope the enclosures are IDE to USB

silv3rback wrote:Well done DAE! Im sure this mod is gonna be top notch, as usual! Looking forward to reading your log!

Thanks buddy!

DarkRanger · Post by **DarkRanger** » 29 Jan 2007, 12:11

8O

Dude... I am so gonna visit you every day to see how the mod is coming along...

This is really awesome!!! But then again DAE, you deserve it. I mean, anybody that can mod something from scratch to epiphany's standard deserves it.

I wish you the best of luck with this mod!!

:bigups:

Off-The-Chart · Post by **Off-The-Chart** » 29 Jan 2007, 12:23

my bad...

thought the Nexstar 3 was solely SATA to USB and that it is the Nexstar 2 that is IDE to USB...

gonna be a shame to see those nice enclosures taken apart... if you not gonna use their 'skins' anymore, pls let me know...

-UNSTABLE- · Post by **-UNSTABLE-** » 29 Jan 2007, 12:39

ok so how did you secure your sponsor and do you get to keep the parts given to you?

Prime · Post by **Prime** » 30 Jan 2007, 11:20

wow! dude congrats.

glad you are gonna use the guts of an external HDD enclosure.
this sounds like its gonna be an awesome mod.

you can get card readers from most major 'etailers and incredible corruption.

you got sponsorship, whats the catch?

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 31 Jan 2007, 02:01

DarkRanger wrote:Dude... I am so gonna visit you every day to see how the mod is coming along...

Hehehe, you're MORE than welcome my friend

DarkRanger wrote:This is really awesome!!! But then again DAE, you deserve it. I mean, anybody that can mod something from scratch to epiphany's standard deserves it.

I wish you the best of luck with this mod!! :bigups:

Ahahahahah, thanks alot man

Off-The-Chart wrote:thought the Nexstar 3 was solely SATA to USB and that it is the Nexstar 2 that is IDE to USB...

No, the Nexstar 3 comes in IDE and SATA flavours

-UNSTABLE- wrote:ok so how did you secure your sponsor and do you get to keep the parts given to you?

I just emailed them and asked for a sponsor. And yes, i get to keep everything

da_ripper wrote:wow! dude congrats.

Thanks man

da_ripper wrote:you got sponsorship, whats the catch?

No catch. See, both myself and my sponsors benefit from this. Judging by the "success" of my unfinished mod - Epiphany - it's most likely that Genocide will be viewed many many times. Epiphany has been viewed just under 100 000 times across 3 local forums, Genocide is up on SEVEN local forums and two international forums. That many views is a CRAP load of advertising for the sponsor, so they score BIG time. All that in exchange for a few goodies.

Update time.

Another Sponsor

IceVision

Some interesting news for you guys. As soon as i accepted Prophecy's sponsor, i emailed the guys over at Icevision, who also offered to sponsor me. I was afraid that they would be a bit hacked off at me about choosing Prophecy over them, but on the contrary, they congratulated me and were very amped about my sponsor with Prophecy. They told me that they had already ordered the HDD and and the fan, and that they are gonna send it to me anyway. lol. That's really great of them!

So, everyone, please do me (and yourself) a favour and pay IceVision a visit. These guys are also a great store and have a nice selection. Big Ups to IceVision, they're also very keen on getting modding in SA to a standard that is actually RELEVANT in the world. Thanks IceVision!

Anyway, yesterday morning i got home and saw this in my room:

Hey hey hey!!! Some new toys! I opened up the box:

Okay, so what did i pull out? First off:

An Antec Tricool fan:

Aaag, i hate these frikken 3 colour fans, but i LOVE Tricool fans, so i'll just get rid of the LEDs.

Next, my D-Link 7 port USB hub:

Prophecy was meant to send me two of these babies, but they didn't have stock and will send me the other one as soon as they get stock.

My new Liteon DVD Writer:

Some fantastic new Team Xtreem RAM. Two gigs of high performance goodness:

I have yet to test this RAM. When i get a chance i'll put it in and run some benchies for you guys. Unfortunately i wont get anything mad as this IS only a P4. Before i finish building Epiphany i'll put this RAM in there and bench it

A Seagate 160GB SATA2 Hard disk:

Compared to a regular HDD, it's WAY thinner, which i thought was fantastic considering this will go into a SFF case:

Last, but not least, some Vantec Nexstar 3 external hard disk enclosures:

No no, not only one, but THREE:

Here they are next to the one i had before this mod as well as my 2.5" one for my notebook HDD:

IceVison are sending me a 250GB Seagate SATA2 hard disk, so i'll be pairing up the 160GB and the 250GB inside the SFF case, and in the external enclosure, i'll put a 160GB and a 120GB (the 120GB was given to me as well

)

With regard to what monitor this machine will eventually get when it's done, it will be getting the 17" LCD screen i originally modded for Epiphany. Remember that mod? If not, read it here:

17" LCD Screen Mod

But then what screen is Epiphany gonna be using? Hehehehe... Epiphany will be using a BenQ 22" LCD, which i'll be getting today. The 22" BenQ will be modded to fit in with Epiphany, and the 17" LCD will be RE modded to fit in with Genocide.

So, there you go. Let me know what you guys think of my plans, and thoughts so far.

God Bless

Ettienne

Off-The-Chart · Post by **Off-The-Chart** » 31 Jan 2007, 03:58

OMW, those enclosures look so delicious... *droool*

Gonna enjoy seeing another LCD mod...

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 31 Jan 2007, 06:44

This is sooooo cool...

*Cries*

DarkRanger · Post by **DarkRanger** » 31 Jan 2007, 07:25

Luckily DAE has agreed to give me whatever he will not be using!!

hehe, congrats mate, cant wait for this mod...

**Runs off to Prophecy**

AlphA · Post by **AlphA** » 31 Jan 2007, 07:25

Good stuff DAE.

Must say, you're becoming quite the photographer with all your mods!

Those Macro shots are really good.

Lithe_Joint · Post by **Lithe_Joint** » 31 Jan 2007, 07:46

Good work man!
And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how you start your path to success

MongwopMan · Post by **MongwopMan** » 31 Jan 2007, 08:25

Jelousy makes you nasty, nasty makes you green and green makes you MONGWOPMAN!

LOL!

Congrats dude, i'll be watching this one too!

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 31 Jan 2007, 08:27

Off-The-Chart wrote:OMW, those enclosures look so delicious... *droool*

WiK1d wrote:This is sooooo cool...

*Cries*

DarkRanger wrote:hehe, congrats mate, cant wait for this mod...

**Runs off to Prophecy**

Lithe_Joint wrote:Good work man!
And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how you start your path to success

MongwopMan wrote:Jelousy makes you nasty, nasty makes you green and green makes you MONGWOPMAN!

LOL!

Congrats dude, i'll be watching this one too!

Thanks guys

AlphA wrote:Must say, you're becoming quite the photographer with all your mods!

Those Macro shots are really good.

Hehehe, thanks man

I'm really trying to get my pics to look more professional

Off-The-Chart wrote:Gonna enjoy seeing another LCD mod...

Ooh yeah i can't wait for it hey

WAJeff · Post by **WAJeff** » 31 Jan 2007, 09:03

No this is how you mod and mod properly... You have no idea how lucky you are to get those sponsors with all that free stuff, maybe they can organise the same for me with my 'small' mod (or at least compared to this!)
Well done DAE!

DjStyles · Post by **DjStyles** » 31 Jan 2007, 09:08

WOW dude, that is absolutely amazing. Well done man, you deserve it. Cant wait to see the outcome of this.

abs · Post by **abs** » 31 Jan 2007, 09:09

Nice going Dae, the reason why you getting such nice sponsorship cause your modding speak for itself and very well deserved, good luck with rest of your modding. And please dont forget the golden rule and

TEST lol I wouldn't want to see this nice stuff blow up in smoke lol ill be checking up on this thread with much anticipation

qace · Post by **qace** » 31 Jan 2007, 09:20

Some cool stuff there DAE...eagerly awaiting your mod updates.

Post by **Kronos** » 31 Jan 2007, 09:58

Hey, What are you playing around with this stuff for, when Epiphany is not yet complete?

Get off your lazy backside, tell Tee you'll see her in 2 weeks and finish the first mod.

hiphopbunny · Post by **hiphopbunny** » 31 Jan 2007, 10:39

Kronos wrote:Get off your lazy backside, tell Tee you'll see her in 2 weeks and finish the first mod.

In this case, pleasure (me) before business (case mod)...

DarkRanger · Post by **DarkRanger** » 31 Jan 2007, 10:57

hiphopbunny wrote:
Kronos wrote:Get off your lazy backside, tell Tee you'll see her in 2 weeks and finish the first mod.
In this case, pleasure (me) before business (case mod)...

LOL!!! Good one!! hehe, DAE, no wonder you're not finished with epiphany...

Off-The-Chart · Post by **Off-The-Chart** » 31 Jan 2007, 11:47

hell DAE, go for the pleasure man... the modding can always come later, but the pleasure of one person cannot be replaced that easily...

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 31 Jan 2007, 14:12

hiphopbunny wrote:
Kronos wrote:Get off your lazy backside, tell Tee you'll see her in 2 weeks and finish the first mod.
In this case, pleasure (me) before business (case mod)...

You have it all wrong.

Business (HHB) before pleasure (Case Modding)

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 01 Feb 2007, 11:51

Off-The-Chart wrote:hell DAE, go for the pleasure man... the modding can always come later, but the pleasure of one person cannot be replaced that easily...

No need to make suggestions hey, she's my girlfriend, not a piece of meat

Just got some stuff from the guys over at IceVision

Looky:

A 250GB Seagate SATA2 HDD, a 120mm fan, and 512mb of Twinmos RAM:

I told Mario from IceVision that Prophecy had already sent me RAM, GOOD RAM, but Mario sent me some RAM anyway. lol, i have no idea what i'm gonna do with it:

My nice new Seagate:

IceVision, thank you so much!! I really appreciate it

The 250GB from IceVision and the 160GB from Prophecy will go into the PC itself. The 160GB for the OS and the 250GB for storage.

I'm gonna drop Systems104 an email and see if they can hook me up with an LCD or VFD. I have bought from them before, so maybe they'll hook me up

WAJeff · Post by **WAJeff** » 01 Feb 2007, 11:56

Nice one once again DAE! Dont you wanna sell me that RAM? I could really do with it!
What mobo you gonna be using? Im sure you can squash those RAM sticks in somewhere!

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 01 Feb 2007, 12:06

lol, no this mobo only has 2 DDR slots, both of which will be filled with some Team XTreme goodness.