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Lets see what the guts of your puter look like.

Here's my stuff:

(Hi Res)

(Low Res)

In there i've got:

Chenming 601a Tower w/ 400 PSU
AMD XP2500 @ 2700
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev 2.0
1gig Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR (Dual channel)
MSI G4 TI4400
Creative Audigy Gamer
80gig WD 7200 SE HDD
30gig WD 7200 HDD
4 case fans - 1 blowing on my hdds, the other 1 bottom of case, taking in air
other 2 blowing exhaust (the lighted ones)

It's all messy like that because I couldn't find my bag of zip ties, and was too damn lazy to run over to radio shack to buy more.

You don't understand what "Cable Management: means Tri?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

http://fs.myftp.biz:88/AcePix/Picture%20044.jpg


not exactly upto date, i will get a pic thats more current, that one is about 7 months old


DUDE!!!! Stress, were did you get that Clear Case HDD? thats tight as hell and your case is friggin awesome


Defender, whats that extra AT Power Plug for? and you might wanna tie up that P-4 AUX Connector so it doesnt cause any problems.

(Updated 10-17-04)

Ohhhh Stress!!!! BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

/me wax off

Linky dinky ...

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Case look familiar, Krom? That Radeon 8500 has been subsequently replaced by a GF4Ti4600 MSI

<img src="http://www.anvil.members.sonic.net/casepic1.JPG" />
<img src="http://www.anvil.members.sonic.net/casepic2.JPG" />

Yes, stand back and marvel at this feat of cable management.

Get this thread back on track


More on the way



Specs
Antec PLUSVIEW 1000 AMG SOHO File Server Case
Antec TruePower True 430 PSU

Intel Pentium 4 2.53MHz 533Bus
Intel D845PEBT2 Motherboard W/SATA
512MB PC2700 DDR333Mhz
Ge-Force4 TI4200 w/128MB DDR Ram
SB Audigy 2 Platnium W/1394

LiteOn 16X DVD ROM
LiteOn 52X/24X/52X CD±R/±RW
SONY DRU500AX DVD ±R/±RW

Promise ATA 100 Controller card
80G WD ATA100 HD SE w/8MB cache
120G WD ATA100 HD SE w/8MB cache

Keytronics Lifetime LT Classic II-B Series Keyboard
Logitech MX500 Optical Mouse 800Dpi

Viewsonic A90 19"
Klipsch Pro Media 4.1 Speakers (Orginally a v2-400)
Upgraded via Pro Media CP-1 PreaAmp

Toshiba 1100u Cable Modem
3000/300 connect

Wacom Graphire Tablet
CH Products USB Pro Throttle
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Wheel
Microsoft Strategic Commander
Plantronics HS-1 Headset

<a href=http://pushrod.home.mchsi.com/mybox/cas ... PG>w00t</a>

I might be ditching the Koolance for conventional air cooling soon, but heres how it stands as of 10 minutes ago.

Specs:
Asus A7N8X Deluxe w/ghetto southbridge heatsink mod
XP1700 @ 2.2ghz
Radeon 9700 non-pro
Koolance Exos
Maxtor 120gb primary HD, WD 30gb secondary
1 gb Corsair PC3200
Enhance 350w PSU
CD burner, DVD drive, a few low-speed fans, etc.
All wrapped up in a heavy yet pimpin Chieftec case, which seems to be the case du jour around here.

here is my rig: (me and vindi might have initiated a 1337ness race)

Asus A7n8X Deluxe,rev 2
AThlon XP Barton 2500+ @ 1.8Ghz (stock)
with a Cooler Master Aero 7
Radeon 9800 pro
Maxtor 120GB
512 Corsair PC3200
Antec 400 Watt PSU
CD Burner
blue led fans, and i got a ALUMINUM chieftec case( grins at Vindi)

** soon to be upgrading to 1GB ram, and DVD burner, also contemplating wether to install a SB Live 5.1 Platinum, (which i already have)

First things first ..... we need to teach you how to rotate your pictures right side up

Still with the Twine and now you have gobs of electrical tape all over! Damn MD! cant you afford zip-ties!!!

Talk about jerry-rigged fan....again!

I have yet to do any elite cable management on my box, just the basics, as you can tell below (shame on BUBBA)

Pic #1 http://fs.myftp.biz:88/AcePix/Chassis%2 ... 20Duct.JPG

Pic #2 http://fs.myftp.biz:88/AcePix/Chassis%2 ... 20Duct.JPG

Pic #3 http://fs.myftp.biz:88/AcePix/CPU%20-%20Northbridge.JPG

Pic #4 http://fs.myftp.biz:88/AcePix/CPU-HS%20 ... bridge.JPG

-broken picture here

Screw cable management.

Dual 2.4 xeons @ 2.93 (fast)
1gb DDR
Iwill DP533-S
15.3k rpm 36gb seagate scsi hdd (fast)
radeon 9800 pro retail (fast)

and a TBSC, 16x pioneer slot-load DVD rom drive, and the lite-on 4x/40x DVD/CDrw combo drive.

it does have HT, becuase im running a HT CPU @ 3.06 GHz.

i have a picture somewere of before i installed the fan. ill look for it in my folders.


and LSD, what really got to me was your bashing on a system that gives you absolutely no problems with upgrading and still being a prebuilt system. my father had a gateway and it wouldnt accept a NIC card. then wouldnt reconize a ATAPI 40X CD-ROM. now he has a HP system and its working like a dream even with all the extra stuff he bought. plus the prices are really not that bad.

next time think alittle before you bash on something when there are plenty of other things that are worse than what your bashing on. my HP, is hardly even stock anymore as ive said many times previously and on other threads. Compaq's, Gateway's, Dell's, IBM's and whatever else names that are proprietary out there give you a whole buncha hell just trying to do something as simple as add Networking to it.

other than that, i want to drop that subject and go back to looking at peoples puters

UPDATE!!..... http://fs.myftp.biz:88/AcePix/NBridge.jpg

.............that LSD, is the HS before i added the fan. notice the difference between the two,. of the mobo's you suggested are mine.

Im done discussing my motherboard, move on.

Thought I'd try my hand at case modding. Had an older one piece cover case which I cut off at the top, cut the window, cut a hole in the top for exhaust fan and cut hole in front cover for blue orb fan. Installed switches in front panel to control blue orb fans and two blue cold cathode tubes. Box has total of 11 fans. With wings this puppy might take off.

Asus A7V333
AMD XP2100+ o/c'd to 2300
512mb PC2700
400w power supply
ATI 9500Pro (Bios flashed to 9700Pro w/cooling mods)
SBLive! 5.1 X-Gamer
WD 60gb HDD
Lite-on 52x24x52 CD-RW

Outside
Inside

This isn't actually mine, it's my brothers but I built it and I feel I did a better job with the cabling here than with my PC:

http://members.westnet.com.au/gweber/br ... CF0001.JPG
http://members.westnet.com.au/gweber/br ... CF0002.JPG
http://members.westnet.com.au/gweber/br ... CF0003.JPG
http://members.westnet.com.au/gweber/br ... CF0004.JPG

What yer lookin at 'ere:

• AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU
• Generic POS CoolerMaster CPU cooler (only a marginal step up from the stock HSF)
• Asus A7N266-VM nForce(1) 220D motherboard
• 512Mb (minus 32 for the onboard video) generic RAM
• Integrated GeForce2 MX graphics
• Creative Dxr3 MPEG decoder
• 20Gb Seagate HDD
• Creative 5X DVD-ROM
• Sony I think, 3.5" floppy drive
• 1x generic 80mm fan (I want to put another one at the front eventually)
• Integrated nVidia LAN and SoundStorm audio (same basic setup as my nForce2 board)

all packed into some cheap and nasty case we picked up for AUD$35. Not a case I would have bought but it serves the purpose.

Yay stickies!



also here

Ditched the Koolance for a Vantec Aeroflow, and got an Abit NF7-S for my bday so I sold the A7N8X. Also picked up another 120gb hard drive, a sweet new aluminum case, and a Vantec Nexus to slow down the CPU fan. I've cleaned up the wires a bit since this pic was taken.

My el cheapo HTPC in the living room. The absence of a HDD activity light bugged me, so I fixed it with a red LED.

where to start

My System

GigaByte 7NNXP
XP2500
1GB Corsair
FX5900
SB Aug2
Intel GigaBit NIC


The DPS Card


Sys 2
MSI (cant rember number)
XP2000
768MB
GF3 Ti500
SBLive
Linksys GigaBit NIC


Server
Dell PowerEdge 2300
Dual P2 400
1GB
4 Scsi Cards (2 on MB 2 Cards)
2 9.2gb Quantium HotSwap Drives (had 6 but 4 of got killed in the lightning strike
soon to have a Gigabit card. the current one wont run at 1000 with this switch



Servers CDRom Array


Dual Drive Array not in pix cause i dont have the key to the closet but they both have 7 181gb scsi drives array 1 mirrors array 2 (fathers map data)

Thanx J for hosting me images

Updated see page 2

These are a couple of weeks old, since they've been sitting around at school until I gathered the initiative to burn them.

Case:



Specs:

Antec TruPower 430W
ASUS P4P800 Deluxe w/Abit-manufactured chipset fan-heatsink with Abit sticker peeled off
Pentium 4 HT C-M0 2.8GHz @ 3.0 w/Vantec AeroFlow VP4-C7040
Kingston Hyper-X PC3500 512MB
MSI Geforce FX 5950 Ultra
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound
3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940)
WD SATA Raptor 10000RPM 37 Gig (2x) in RAID0 (all hail Intel's ICH5R)
WD PATA 7200RPM 80 Gig
LiteOn 48x24x48x16 Combo

More of the good stuff:



A crude mod to get the 5950 Ultra to fit nicely:



Tight fit? It's supposed to work fine without the back heatsink, but I wasn't about to take it off.

Ok finally got round to updating my site (was just plain lazy)

So here is the inside of my PC not anything fancy and screw cable management



And you're looking at:

Intel Pentium 4 ~ 1.6 @ 2.13 gHz
256MB PC133 SDRAM
GeForce 4 Ti4200 @ 285/585
Maxtor 80gig HDD @ 7200 RPM
CoolerMaster Musketeer
24x 2x 2x HP CD-Writer
16x A-Open DVD-Rom
Rockwell HCF 56k Modem
Genius LAN GF100TXRIII
SB Live Value

Linky

Got pics of my other computers. My main rig is posted above.



Mom's computer, made mostly with leftover parts from my rig. It doesnt get that hot, so I'm not too worried about cable management.

XP1500
Shuttle KT333 board
GF3 Ti200
256mb RAM
40gb HD



Mom's computer underneath her desk, next to my HP. I use the HP for Folding@Home and basic file server purposes. I would have taken pics of the inside of it but its put together like a piece of origami so I passed.

Celeron 700
192mb RAM
20gb HD

Next up is my BlingFS, which nominally is a LAN party file server/showoff piece. Seeing as how I havent been to any LAN parties lately, its just sitting in my brother's empty room, running Folding@Home. Its an old Dell Dimension that I modded.



Celeron 700
512mb RAM
30gb HD

Last up is the most recent addition to my stable of crap computers. Its a system that was given to me by a friend for building him a new computer. It needed some fixing, but I patched it up and gave it a new case (an old IBM desktop I had laying around, originally was a P166) and its also running Folding@Home.

Duron 700 (quite a bit faster than my Celeron 700's in Folding)
Tyan Trinity mobo
384mb RAM
30gb HD



I had to be a little creative since this case was never designed for ATX boards. The mobo is only attached to the case with one screw, but I never move it so its alright. I cut the space out of the side panel for the back panel, and also got a low-profile TNT2 so I could put the cover on it.





I dont have any plans to add any more systems, but you never know.

(Click on a thumbnail to see a big image)




-> See the complete gallery with more images, descriptions, how-tos, etc.

Punisher wanted to see this...



see more:

http://stresstest.2y.net/images/desk/desk.html

Just built a computer for a guy at work. Pretty nice system, it has a green X-Superalien case (link), ECS 755-A2 mobo, Athlon64 3200, Radeon 9800 pro, and a gig of Mushkin RAM. I know the wires are a mess; I plan to clean them up once the system is fully tested.




The 6 included blue LED fans, plus the 2 in the PSU, create a rather striking effect in the dark. I'm almost inspired to go grab some for my system, if not for the noise.

Speaking of which...


An updated pic of mine. Ditched the Vantec Aeroflow for a Swiftech MCX462 and a 92mm Vantec Stealth fan (much quieter and less vibration). My 9700 also died, so I got a HighTech 9800 Pro with the big 2-slot cooler that blows the hot air outside the case. My northbridge fan started to go out too, so I got a passive Zalman replacement (works great).

managed to borrow a camera at last,
heres the home-made cpu water block

http://www.geocities.com/wheelsmith2000/cpu1.JPG

heres the rad and res

http://www.geocities.com/wheelsmith2000 ... e-res1.JPG

and lastly a proto-type via chipset waterblock, looks ugly on the outside but the sweet stuff is all hiddern inside.

http://www.geocities.com/wheelsmith2000 ... proto1.JPG

just started to make a nvidia waterblock which will cover gpu and mem in one go, pics to follow when done.

Here are my Pics.
http://www.teamnub.game-host.org/nub_photos/fusion.htm (Thx RB for ur website)
My Mac is a G4 400mhz upgraded to a 1.4ghz
1.12 gigs of Ram
ATI Radeon 8500 Mac Edition 64 megs DDR Ram.
Mac OS 9.2.2 and 10.3.3
DVD Rom
Romulus/Remus Mac serial expansion card
The Monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster174v LCD monitor now
multiple External USB and Firewire devices

Max's Win Brain is a P3 566
128megs Ram
52x cdrom
3.5 disk drive
OS Win98, ver 1
He can do multiple tricks, but usualy only have my headset plugged in for TS.
Fusion

Just finished migrating my comp into a new case (needed better cooling).

Old case w/ older GF/X card
New case
Outside view..

Edit: It's work in progress -- the MCH was getting kinda hot so I added another block: click.

Waiting for the Gainward CoolFX Ultra 2600 GS to hit the market..

Edit2: The specs for the above machine are here. Meanwhile I upgraded my LAN box too:

outside view
inside view 1
inside view 2

Yes, I know -- cable management. But hey, it's a really small case..

heres my action



btw..Stress = teh winnar
Im all about ambient lighting. And stress dude...you got it goin on...

/me loves the battlestar galactica command center aka bills home office

Grendel wrote:Just finished migrating my comp into a new case (needed better cooling).

Old case w/ older GF/X card
New case
Outside view..

Edit: It's work in progress -- the MCH was getting kinda hot so I added another block: click.

Waiting for the Gainward CoolFX Ultra 2600 GS to hit the market..

Edit2: The specs for the above machine are here. Meanwhile I upgraded my LAN box too:

outside view
inside view 1
inside view 2

Yes, I know -- cable management. But hey, it's a really small case..

Finally I got my CoolFX

*click*
detail

Man, that thing kicks..

http://www.webinfractions.com/misc/pute ... _09012004/ <-- new stuff

Thanks for reminding me that my glasses were off.

Defender wrote:http://www.webinfractions.com/misc/pute ... _09012004/ <-- new stuff

http://www.webinfractions.com/misc/pute ... 0_0279.JPG <-- what is that?


you still have that Extra AT Power cord hanging and that ATX AUX12VDC plug hanging.


can Anyone tell me what a D.P.S. Card is?

ACE, USE GOOGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GigaByte 7NNXP 2nd hit

AceCombat wrote:


http://www.webinfractions.com/misc/pute ... 0_0279.JPG <-- what is that?

it's part of the heatsink under the blower.

STRESSTEST wrote:ACE, USE GOOGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GigaByte 7NNXP 2nd hit

ahhhhh.....Dual Power Supply.

AceCombat wrote:

Defender wrote:http://www.webinfractions.com/misc/pute ... _09012004/ <-- new stuff

http://www.webinfractions.com/misc/pute ... 0_0279.JPG <-- what is that?


you still have that Extra AT Power cord hanging and that ATX AUX12VDC plug hanging.


can Anyone tell me what a D.P.S. Card is?

That's an example of my excellent photography skills...

Specifically, it's my Gigabyte GFX 5950 Ultra.
You can see it better in the other pics.

Instead of being smart and removing the card to take pics (or being truly brilliant and taking them BEFORE installation ) I tried to take an upside-down pic after install.

Oh, and product link for the vid card:
http://tw.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Pr ... 95U-GT.htm

Stresstest, that is the most beautiful thing i have ever seen.

Grendel wrote:

Grendel wrote:Just finished migrating my comp into a new case (needed better cooling).

Old case w/ older GF/X card
New case
Outside view..

Edit: It's work in progress -- the MCH was getting kinda hot so I added another block: click.

Waiting for the Gainward CoolFX Ultra 2600 GS to hit the market..

Edit2: The specs for the above machine are here. Meanwhile I upgraded my LAN box too:

outside view
inside view 1
inside view 2

Yes, I know -- cable management. But hey, it's a really small case..

Finally I got my CoolFX

*click*
detail

Man, that thing kicks..

Let's see..

Updated my LAN box:

overview
detail

Build another one, a soon-to-be D3 server

*click*
*click*

Also did some minor work on my game box, I'll try to make a pic.