New Project: Sunbeam Transformer Modding

[Chicken Patty]

u said thats your parents rig? does your board have the connectors in the same place? they can vary slightly.

 

[pantherx12]

I'm having the mother board, just bought them a P5B-E plus to replace it.

Cheers for the tips CP, that some amazing work you done with your own case.

When I come back from Newcastle next week and start on this again I want my case looking like that, or better

Whilst it won't be for a while, where you you put a res and pump in my case?

 

[Chicken Patty]

I'm having the mother board, just bought them a P5B-E plus to replace it.

Cheers for the tips CP, that some amazing work you done with your own case.

When I come back from Newcastle next week and start on this again I want my case looking like that, or better

cheers


Yeah thats many revisions in that case, I must have taken it apart like 4 times before It looked like that, and still needed work. I don't have it in that case anymore though. Got a tech station on the way

 

[pantherx12]

Heh, I'm not even going to think about the extra fans I had planned til I sort the cables out first.

Although having said that, just feeding through all the cables etc took an age, I might look into doing a modular plug and play system not all to different from MK's

At the very least just have some sort of adapter, for example one that plugged into the 24 pin and over hung the motherboard with the the pins now facing my tray holes so I can plug in things from that back side of the mobo tray saving me feeding it all through everywhere.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Heh, I'm not even going to think about the extra fans I had planned til I sort the cables out first.

Although having said that, just feeding through all the cables etc took an age, I might look into doing a modular plug and play system not all to different from MK's

At the very least just have some sort of adapter, for example one that plugged into the 24 pin and over hung the motherboard with the the pins now facing my tray holes so I can plug in things from that back side of the mobo tray saving me feeding it all through everywhere.

you got a link to what you mean about the 24 pin?

 

[pantherx12]

No as, as far as I know it doesn't exist I'd have to make it.

Will get on MS paint and draw a crude diagram.

It is incredibly hard to draw with a trackball mouse

 

[Chicken Patty]

ok, I get what you mean. That'll make it easier to route it with having so much of it show.

 

[Cuzza]

Dude! use shift to snap-to straight lines in paint,

And it has a text function too you know....

 

[pantherx12]

Heh cheers man, I was pretty exhausted by the point I did the picture, I actually knew how to do text XD


Anyone know if you get these with 3 pin control ?

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductID=875041&source=froogle

 

[pantherx12]

Bump!

Project is back on, need to tidy my work space ( could take all day tomorrow) But then after that expect more stuff!

Got a whole huge bunch of kit to go for my rig so I'll grab some pictures of that tomorrow for sure.

 

[SkyKast]

sweet! cant wait!

 

[Chicken Patty]

woot woot

 

[pantherx12]

Small update.

Fun times to be had soon

 

[RejZoR]

Designers who "invented" transparent side panels where HDD racks are visible through should be castrated. It's so freakin ugly. But they're still making them. Lol. I don't get it.
Btw, nice build otherwise

 

[pantherx12]

For people with fancy HDDs maybe? heh

I'm not giong to in this build but you could always haev some etching or some like on the side of the DVD drives etc.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Small update.

Fun times to be had soon
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/mopatop/IMAG0042.jpg

very nice!

 

[pantherx12]

Bought the holesaw especially for this build ha ha, borrowing a drill ( and hole saw bit) from a neighbour some time during the week.

I'm actually still tidying my room ( it was seriously a mess) so still no new cuts or anything like that.

but I have got all of my components now so the rest shouldn't take to long!

I have a fan controller ( 4 fan) which comes with temperature sensors, I'm pretty certain I won't be able to cable manage the wires so thinking of disconnecting the sensors, unless anyone has some suggestions?

( Sensors are for CPU, VGA,HDD,and SYS)

Hell I'm even thinking of getting a simpler fan controller rather then this touch screen thing.

Anyone want to buy it ? hah

 

[RejZoR]

Thermal controlled fans are difficult to manage. My ASUS Rampage II Gene has ports for thermal sensors, but you have to place them right and motherboard has to offer proper ranges for low/high speed operation. In my case, the lowest temperature threshold was too low so i couldn't use them for anything useful

 

[pantherx12]

Oh there not thermal controlled at all, in fact they're completely manual, the sensors are separate XD

I'm thinking I won't bother with the sensors, who agrees?

 

[pantherx12]

Bump

I've not been able to do any work since someone in the house was working night shifts, how ever they were not today so managed some more cable management holes

Cuts need tidied up and then covered with rubber but I'm pretty confident that's all I need on the cable management front.

Fan holes coming soon, waiting on a drill.

This edge needs a lot more tidying

There is actually very little space behind the motherboard tray, there is maybe 2 or 3 mm of space for wires D:

Have to squish them all flat.

 

[Chicken Patty]

nice to see you have cut some more holes, how do you think it'll look now? you should try to put a rig in there and wire it up to see.

 

[pantherx12]

Ugggn effort man

lol

Might give it a go during the day though.

I'm still not sure about SATA cables etc.

Thinking of moving the fan in my lian-li HDD bay so I can reverse mount the HDDs anyway.

Either that or I'm going to have to cut the bay up to bits, which I'd prefer not to do.

 

[Thrackan]

Subscribed

 

[pantherx12]

Thanks man!

 

[Chicken Patty]

Hmmm what do you mean cut it to bits. What exActly are you planning on doing?