Project QSI (QPack-SI)

I'm a bit tired from all this work so... I'll write more stuff tomorow. It's very difficult to get a "real" heatsink in these things so I decided to give a whirl and try to get a good heatsink in there. I will break the project up in 3 parts... here is what is done from part one so far.
Look here...http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1049272





Time for some cutting action!!!





Okay, so you have an idea what's up.



I know, dirty. That's why... http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1047419





This is the frame in the background





I had to figure out a way to put the opticals + stuff without removing the disk area.









I messed up my DVD burner trying to mod it so I'm waitng on new one.

why not make a duct of some kind to use the rear 120 as the CPU fan and exaust... so you only have 1 120 in there...

Wouldn't removing that cross brace take almost all the strength out of the Q-Pack? You might want to figure out a way to support it at that same angle without the crosspiece, or you may run into problems.

For now there is a metal bar holding it. When I have more time I'll put something nicer.

Even thought the SI fits there, I'm planning on putting an XP there. Much more room and it fits nicely.

I have a bit more to go...

What a mess is there... time to clean up.







Almost done with part 1