Saturday. Bored as fuck. What-to-do? I turn on my obnoxiously loud media/secondary PC for some music, without blowing the fuses and using my gaming rig. Then it hit me. I take use of the nice-size drawer boxes in my workbench. I took a spare backplate I scavenged from an old 90's chassis, removed the rear wall of the box and stuck it in. With a PSU on the side, it was an almost perfect fit.
Overview
I didn't do any cable management, as it wouldn't improve airflow, and this computer isn't intended to be seen by anyone.
Another angle
An old Pentium 2 backplate keeping the PSU in place
The DVDRW drive does come out all the way!
Power button
HD attached with blu-tack. Non-conductive and noise killing, what more to ask?
Integrated wireless mouse/kb reciever
Mounted in the bench
(Moved the fan controller to the inside of the case)
Gonna fix that front and get rid of that horrible text I put there when I was 12...
**UPDATE**
Text removed, and holes for LEDs drilled.
Specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Socket A @ 1150MHz-2300MHz, depending on usage (Music/Gaming/Movies)
nVidia GeForce 6600AGP 256MB DDR
1.5GB DDR400@333 3-4-4-9 (Thank you, nForce!)
ASUS A7N8X-X mobo
SoundBlaster Live!
200GB ATA100 HD
Not a super machine, but it does what it's intended for, which is being quiet and playing music. F7P fan on 50%, 120mm on PSU fan control that's placed to rather be quiet than hot, one 80mm on 5v, Intel S423 fan on the graphics card on 5v and a silent HD does the job. 720p plays fine, haven't tried 1080p. It's main use is for music, though.
This was done using only a screw driver, a hammer, a nail and two screws as tools. I don't have any power tools
The whole thing (Making a layout, removing box side, placing everything, solving problems, ounmounting the stuff from the old case and installing it) took about four hours.
Overview
I didn't do any cable management, as it wouldn't improve airflow, and this computer isn't intended to be seen by anyone.
Another angle
An old Pentium 2 backplate keeping the PSU in place
The DVDRW drive does come out all the way!
Power button
HD attached with blu-tack. Non-conductive and noise killing, what more to ask?
Integrated wireless mouse/kb reciever
Mounted in the bench
(Moved the fan controller to the inside of the case)
Gonna fix that front and get rid of that horrible text I put there when I was 12...
**UPDATE**
Text removed, and holes for LEDs drilled.
Specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Socket A @ 1150MHz-2300MHz, depending on usage (Music/Gaming/Movies)
nVidia GeForce 6600AGP 256MB DDR
1.5GB DDR400@333 3-4-4-9 (Thank you, nForce!)
ASUS A7N8X-X mobo
SoundBlaster Live!
200GB ATA100 HD
Not a super machine, but it does what it's intended for, which is being quiet and playing music. F7P fan on 50%, 120mm on PSU fan control that's placed to rather be quiet than hot, one 80mm on 5v, Intel S423 fan on the graphics card on 5v and a silent HD does the job. 720p plays fine, haven't tried 1080p. It's main use is for music, though.
This was done using only a screw driver, a hammer, a nail and two screws as tools. I don't have any power tools
The whole thing (Making a layout, removing box side, placing everything, solving problems, ounmounting the stuff from the old case and installing it) took about four hours.
Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2008-05-21 12:54:58)
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
