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    Best way of cleaning up dust in case/room?

    One of the easiest (and least expensive) ways to reduce houshold dust is to use a high-quality filter in your furnace and change it every TWO months if you have pets. We recently switched to a 3M Filtrete Ultra Allergen filter and it seems to help keep the dust levels down. And it doesn't hurt...
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    The Dragon

    Thanks y'all. Yeah, this thing has been to hell and back and it's [H]ard as ever. I will be retiring the Dragon from road work in the Spring, though. I think this ancient beast will be a lot happier on my desk rather than choking on a fog machine or bouncing around a car trunk. Meanwhile, I...
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    Fanless Rig, anybody done this yet?

    This is an absolutely false statement. If all the energy produced by the power supply were converted to heat by you computer, it would be functionally equivalent to a toaster oven. The power supply produces ELECTRICAL energy. This energy is the flow of electrons through the circuits of your PC...
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    The Dragon

    I managed to gut, clean, repair, tune, reassemble, and test the Dragon case this weekend. I installed some new lights and repaired the CCFL that's been missing for months. I tried tail light repair tape to redden the light, but it is still pinkish. Has anyone tried LEDs for interior light? Seems...
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    The Dragon

    Dig those PC's a lot. I really want to try a desk PC and a coffee table PC. Maybe build the table with a glass top and have the monitor mounted underneath to shine up through the glass... might be cool to toss an emulator on it and play old nintendo games on it.. hell could even throw a TV card...
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    mdportal Elite

    This machine is built to run old games so the hardware is meant to be old; however we needed a little more performance than the Pentium 133 could muster. It now has a K6-2 450 CPU, 256MB RAM, 32MB Radeon AIW, and a Hecules Fortissimo II sound card. We wanted something that would be capable of...
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    mdportal Elite

    I finished running the data cables and installed Windows98. Everything seems to work well. My only problem right now is adding a NIC. ISA or PCI, every time I put one in, the SCSI card conflicts and refuses to let the machine even post- very odd. The rounded ribbon cable are, in fact, all...
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    The Dragon

    ** UPDATE ** I had to test some motherboards last month; I needed a CPU and some RAM so I ganked them from the dragon. Of course, this means disassembly and it's been sitting on a shelf negelcted ever since. I decided as long as it was in pieces I should finally get around to cleaning and...
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    The Dragon

    Yeah, boxy IS foxy, but every once in a while you have to go crazy. The weird shape is really a matter of function; I wanted as small a PC as possible using cheaper desktop parts and the broken DVD player. The CD-ROM and PSU really didn't fit inside so I had to make allowances for those bits. In...
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    Lakitu's Cardboard Box Case

    :rolleyes: What the hell? He did it for fun! What is wrong with fun?! Besides, does a minamally equipped e-Machines 533 Celeron really warrant much more that a cardboard box? It makes good sense from an enviromental standpoint as well; he is re-using a container and making sure one more quite...
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    mdportal Elite

    I suppose this is technically now a worklog as these are brand spankin' new pictures of work on the case. I spent the evening cleaning up wires. I tucked the power wires behind the motherboard tray and wrapped them in split loom, spiral wrap and electrical tape. The data cables are hand...
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    What to use for on/off switch on cardboard box computer?

    Only if you flip it on then off in rapid succession. Unless for some reason you have a momentary light switch on your hands... but that would seem to defeat the purpose of a lightswitch. ;)
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    mdportal Elite

    No sweat. These pics are old, but they should give you an idea of what the side panels look like. The cables are a nightmare and have been for the past few upgrades, but I am currently in the process of cleaning them up. I gutted the case last night and pulled apart the power supply. Once I get...
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    my first serious modding

    That window is slick- nice work. How much did the edge trim cost?
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    What to use for on/off switch on cardboard box computer?

    Hmm... I guess I lucked out with the Dell I turned into a box PC; it came with the front panel switch/LED module AND the USB/headphone jacks. The fire thing, yeah that will never happen. We're talking about 5 volts and a tiny amount of current. Putting your finger across the terminals of a 9...
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