da_ripper wrote:what are you gonna make that enclosure from? are you gonna buy one from an electronics store and mod it or make your own?
Make my own, of course
I haven't settled on anything yet, but i think i'm gonna build the enclosure out of plexi, and then screw some nice looking brushed aluminium to it, you wont even see the plexi. I'll still decide though.
da_ripper wrote:are you gonna water cool your hard drives aswell?
No no. Watercooling hard disks is such a waste of money. It looks frikken awesome, no doubt, but it's SO unnecessary.
Guys, nice nice update
I've gone and changed the entire platform of the mod. It's like a 180' turn going on here. Originally, i was planning on using the XCCube i have at the moment, which contains the following setup:
P4 2.8Ghz, HT
2x 1GB Team XTream DDR500
Radeon X800XT PE
220W AOpen PSU
AOpen Case
That has ALL changed. I managed to get my hands on one of these monsters:
That, my friends, is a Shuttle XPC SN26P. This is a MONSTER of a SFF PC. It's slightly bigger than the XCCube, but it's a million times better.
Interested in the new platform? Well, the board is amazing.
-> It's a socket 939 based board, supporting regular A64, Athlon X2, and Athlon FX.
-> It's got an nVidia nForce 4 SLI chipset (yes, i said
SLI).
-> It's got two DIMM slots, dual channel of course.
-> 7.1 channel on board audio
-> Gigabit LAN
-> FOUR SATA ports
-> And last, but certainly not least, it's got a frikken 350W PSU!! 350W! These Shuttle PSUs are so efficient. This PSU powered my FX60, both my 7800GTs, a DVD RW, and a HDD, and it was asking for more. I almost put a frikken 8800GTX in here. I have one lying here at my house, it's one of my friend's card, i wanted to run it so bad
Here's a link to the product page
I also ordered the card reader that i'll be tearing apart for the mod:
That's a Vantec card reader.
I ALSO ordered the reservoir. For the res i'll be using an Alphacool Cape Cool 10:
Now all i need is a socket 939 CPU, and a video card (or two
). I'm gonna keep trying to source that stuff. I can't wait to start this mod, it's gonna be a nice one
Let me know what you guys think