Cuzza's Sega SC-3000H Nano-ITX Mod

Mussels · Sep 12, 2009

looks terrible from the inside view lol

morpha · Sep 12, 2009

complete win

Cuzza · Sep 12, 2009

Thanks for the constructive criticism Mussels! lol. I never did set out with interior aesthetics in mind. About the only thing I could possibly do to improve it would be to custom make all the cables to exactly the right length and route them accordingly, something I have neither the ability or the desire to do.

Mussels · Sep 12, 2009

it doesnt need to be pretty, you blocked any view of it from the outside, and it all seems to look good externall.

MKmods · Sep 12, 2009

Hey Cuzza it was really fun watching this thread, it gave me many new ideas on how to do my own :respect:

its so cool to see "other" ways to do comps.

Cuzza · Sep 12, 2009

I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for your input and ideas, it all helps in many ways. That goes for everone who has posted here. :toast:

Cuzza · Sep 13, 2009

check it out in the case gallery

http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/2336.html

Random Murderer · Sep 13, 2009

wow. now i wanna do this with my old atari 2600...

morpha said:
complete win

indeed.

a_ump · Sep 13, 2009

i wasn't here to watch it but i just read all 5 pages and DAM NICE is all i can say. This is definitely one of the most interesting and unique mods i have seen on these forums. nice job man, i've always wanted to get into modding just don't have the place for it. can't say it enough but very enjoying read.

and you already got thermal paste i assume on there, i used AS5 on my computer with my q6600, after 10 months or so my idle temps crept up some and i was like meh. then bout 4 months later i realized i was idling at 56-58 celcius

haha so i finally reaplied the paste.

Cuzza · Sep 19, 2009

Almost gave myself a heart attack! Had the Sega apart to work on cable management, make some space for a USB wifi dongle, and that went nicely. Went to power it up afterwards, no picture.....

Since the only thing I had been messing with was cables I figured I had damaged the VGA link cable while bending it around the components.

So out came the multimeter, checked all the pins and everything is OK, still no picture, but can tell by HDD sounds and everything else is normal it is booting OK. Really worried at this point...

Then I pulled it all to bits, cleared CMOS and tried again, great success! Picture on screen. So I dunno what the hell I did, but I needed a bloody stiff drink after that. US$250 to replace a bricked board is something I really don't want to cough up right now.

Was thinking about my next project, but now I have to get this thing back together, grrr, also need a new cable to the keyboard because I fucked the original one and now I can't program the keyboard. Can still type but some keys are still redundant, irritating.

currently bidding on a few old puters

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=241612114

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=241659901

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=241761665

We'll see how they go. MKmods, if I win the Vic20 we can have a race! No wait, I can't beat you at that. Well, we can have a lot of fun comparing notes anyway. Whatever one I get (if any) it will be fun.

[Ion] · Sep 20, 2009

Amazing, I am very impressed

MKmods · Sep 20, 2009

Cuzza said:
We'll see how they go. MKmods, if I win the Vic20 we can have a race! No wait, I can't beat you at that. Well, we can have a lot of fun comparing notes anyway. Whatever one I get (if any) it will be fun.

LOL, a race? I accept :toast:

(Il keep mine in its box and in 1 piece till I hear more)

Cuzza · Sep 20, 2009

Thanks, [Ion], this is my first go at this sort of thing so hopefully I can do even better.

MKmods said:
LOL, a race? I accept
(Il keep mine in its box and in 1 piece till I hear more)

You an take yours out mate. The bid on the Vic20 and the amstrad went out of my price range. But I got the Mac for $5.50!

As for the sega, I've done the power LED, and improved cable management.

I have also managed to damage the keyboard matrix ribbon, scratched a tiny bit of one of the conductors and it broke the connection, and I managed to make it worse, and ruin another conductor while trying to find the fault. But I think I can fix that with some conductive paint... right? If so, not really sure where to get some, or what sort, any advice there???

anyway, may as well post some pics

Updates to cable management, should provide space for the wifi and bluetooth dongles atop the DVD drive

and here is the power LED i wired up, the yellow wires again jam onto mobo pin headers.

Edit: one more thing, if anyone can recommend to me a good, quiet, 60mm x 60mm x 10mm fan, that would be awesome, because the little 40mm one in there is a little loud. In fact does anyone have one they'd like to part with? I'll pay you to ship it over here

Cuzza · Sep 23, 2009

My Dad suggested I go visit this man he knows who fixes car speedo's, so I did, and he knew just what I needed, so he got out a big catalogue and we looked the stuff up and I ordered it. $17 for this:

Painted it on there and voila! Fixed.

Then the issue of no picture reared its ugly head, and, after clearing CMOS and stripping the board bare I finally got it to POST and into the BIOS. But can't be bothered putting the bastard back together now. I think something may be shorting, somewhere, when it is all put together. Will get back on this issue.

Anyway, again, any advice on the fan issue? (see previous post)

Necrofire · Sep 29, 2009

I have a few AMD fans (70mm?) and possibly a 60mm (but taller than 10mm, I think)
I'll check when I get home, PM me if you don't get another offer before tomorrow evening

p_o_s_pc · Sep 29, 2009

hate to tell you this but you could have got stuff for a defroster repair kit and used it. Can get it at most auto parts stores for about $10. If you have room for a stock AMD fan there great. Put out nice amount of air without too much noise

Cuzza · Sep 29, 2009

I've never seen such a kit, but I imagine it would have the right stuff in it. It would probably be about the same price anyway. Maybe I'll have a look and see I got burned.

10mm is maximum height I have space for, 70mm wide might fit but I think 60mm is max. I found a 60mm fan at the junk store, it's good size but it was noisier than the 40mm.

If I can't find one on the cheap I might order one of these:
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/6157/fan-328/Cooljag_Everflow_60mm_x_10mm_Fan_126010DL.html

Won't be cheap to send out here. Anyway, I don't have anything better to blow cash on do I?

Cuzza · Oct 18, 2009

I made a video of the Sega. Check it out on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F7lVB_MDXs

MKmods · Oct 18, 2009

Looks cool Cuzza, thanks again for the help

Cuzza · Oct 30, 2009

I've designed a new custom heatsink for the sega. About 4 hours on sketchup for this:

Drawing it is one think, but making one, that's a different kettle of fish!! lol. Pipedreams.....

1Kurgan1 · Oct 30, 2009

If you made it with all the measurements couldn't you just contact a business that specializes in that field, send them the file and have them make it?

Cuzza · Oct 30, 2009

1Kurgan1 said:
If you made it with all the measurements couldn't you just contact a business that specializes in that field, send them the file and have them make it?

Oh I'm sure that's possible, but I doubt I can afford it.

Lazzer408 · Oct 30, 2009

Yukikaze said:
Nah, chopping up video cards isn't awesome, that's insanity

I'm not insane.

Cuzza said:
I've designed a new custom heatsink for the sega. About 4 hours on sketchup for this:

http://img.techpowerup.org/091030/sega heatsink.png

Drawing it is one think, but making one, that's a different kettle of fish!! lol. Pipedreams.....

Cuzzo, turn all those fins in the same direction. How will the air get from the fan across the fins if they're sideways? Or did you have something else in mind?

Cuzza · Oct 30, 2009

Lazzer408 said:
I'm not insane.

Cuzzo, turn all those fins in the same direction. How will the air get from the fan across the fins if they're sideways? Or did you have something else in mind?

You raise a good point. Here's what it's supposed to do right now:

Air is blown under the fan and down the fins underneath it. When it reaches the central section it can go left or right. This is the only point around the heatsink where there is much room for exhaust, on top the case/underside of the keyboard is very close so won't get much flow that way. I suppose if I made the fins on the front part of the heatsink slope the other direction some could go there, that would probably help. In fact, now that I think about it I really should make it go that way because the fins don't need a base there and the air can escape underneath. So I'm going to redesign.

F2K · Oct 30, 2009

Great mod Cuzza.

Just read through the whole topic and it really inspired me to try something similar

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Cuzza's Sega SC-3000H Nano-ITX Mod

Mussels

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Mussels

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MKmods

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Cuzza

Cuzza

Random Murderer

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a_ump

Cuzza

[Ion]

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MKmods

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Cuzza

Cuzza

Necrofire

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p_o_s_pc

F@H&WCG addict

Cuzza

Cuzza

MKmods

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Cuzza

1Kurgan1

The Knife in your Back

Cuzza

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Cuzza

F2K

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