You wanted to see my rig...

[talldude]

Well...you wanted it, so I'll let you have it ;)

Made the pics small enough for ye 56k'ers too.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid65/pc90c75bbc4e4833f17f92f0ff7be6cc6/fbe5f351.jpg
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http://home.cfl.rr.com/ssandman/side.jpg
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http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid65/p1f6432966308501685ea0b53aae1cfa4/fbe5f317.jpg
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http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid65/p88e7615e56df040cc90843a249265360/fbe5f314.jpg
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http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid65/p1a3d99d8bf3265de33c5222c669704de/fbe5f313.jpg


That's it. I'm pretty happy with how the ring turned out. Took me about 4 hours total to make it from 2 pieces of silver. As for the comp mods, I've always been much more performance than "cool looking" oriented so i really haven't put much effort into making it all look awesome. I just want the thing to work the best it can.

[nolekid86]

At least turn them the right way man. ;)

http://home.cfl.rr.com/ssandman/side.jpg

Looks like a good performance computer! :D

[talldude]

Originally posted by nolekid86
At least turn them the right way man. ;)


Naw...i'm too lazy :p

But hey, thanks for doing it for me ;)

And as you can see, i have cut off the entire front bezel, put on mosquito netting and reinforced the power button thing with a couple of bars of the acrylic of the bezel. Behind that it's almost all cut away also. I have the option of mounting 4 intake fans right there, but they don't do much for temps so I just let there be a gaping hole :p

[TAZTG]

Whats that on the Desk to the right of your monitor? Looks like a small puter or stereo?

[talldude]

yeah, it's a stereo. I got my computer hooked up to my stereo. I used to have crappy inspires (i had no money to buy a good system) so I decided to just use my stereo instead. I kept the sub from the inspires to give some more low frequency response. It sounds OK...definitely a million times better than any low end multimedia system.

[mjg]

hey man, I dig the ring... How did you make it?? You used sheet silver? I don't know much about that stuff.

[njdevs95]

Lmao the pc sitting on the books reminds me of a redneck with his car up on cinder blocks in the front yard. Nice looking rig though.

[talldude]

I dremeled out those front intake fan slots completely. I didn't do a good job of it, as my case is a POS anyways (looks wise, i don't really care). I just wanted to clean those up and get a little bit of a feel for my new toy.

As for the ring, it took me about 4-5 hours to make. I used a piece of 1/32" silver sheet for the wavy pattern. The inside ring is made out of silver band. Basically, I fabricated the inside ring first into it's final shape. Then I cut out the wave pattern using a hand jigsaw (also referred to as a jeweler's saw). I filed it down a little bit. Then I proceeded to silver solder the wave patter onto the inside ring (using the blowtorch is fun!). Once that was done, I used a dremel to roughly sand the ring. Then I moved on to a fine tooth jeweler's file and finally 1600 grit wet/dry paper. After the sanding was done, I buffed the entire ring using a large buffing machine. Then I oxidised the ring using some chemicals. After that, I went back to the dremel and used the buffing wheel on it to remove the oxidised layer on the topmost wavy ring. Presto - one cool ring done. :)

[talldude]

Originally posted by njdevs95
Lmao the pc sitting on the books reminds me of a redneck with his car up on cinder blocks in the front yard. Nice looking rig though.

I got carpet...so if I don't raise the case, it'd be sucking dust like no other.

[gkline]

Officer Cartman: Is that a gun case I see to the right of the desk?:eek:

[talldude]

No...lol. It's the case for my fender stratocaster texas special. ;)

[|_053|2]

Originally posted by talldude


I got carpet...so if I don't raise the case, it'd be sucking dust like no other.

it looks like you have plenty of room on your desk so you could put your case on top of your desk instead of the floor, it's easier to work on up there also (atleast for me)

[commanderkeen]

Originally posted by |_053|2


it looks like you have plenty of room on your desk so you could put your case on top of your desk instead of the floor, it's easier to work on up there also (atleast for me)

To me atleast, that would look too cluttered. I like the case nearer to the floor. That way it is out of sight, and out of mind.

[talldude]

Originally posted by |_053|2


it looks like you have plenty of room on your desk so you could put your case on top of your desk instead of the floor, it's easier to work on up there also (atleast for me)

I could do that, but then I'd lose my work area on the right side of the stereo...I like it the way it is. It doesn't bother me to have to crawl down there on the floor when i'm tweaking.

[Spartan WK]

I like it a lot. I had to look at it from a non-stylish point of view, where it rocks :D


BTW, very nice guitar man :)
All I've got is this crappy Squire that I still need to learn to play, my dad has some hellza guitars though :eek:

[talldude]

Yeah...For me it hasn't been about making the thing look cool, but just to make it functional. The first "cool" piece that i've made is the fan grill for the 120mm. You can head on over to cases+cooling and check it out. The pic is on page 2. :)

[Figgaz]

i like the ring, better job than i could do on the case mod. It does what its needs to do, nothing more good work.