Completed WWII Online case

[saxxon]

Here is the final assembly stages which took a few days:

It is getting really busy in here:

not easy to get the monitor in there but it fits great:

the left side:

this view really looks sweet:

the back side, I have Nanboshi connectors instead of C13 and USB:

the left side showing wide angle diffuser air intake, speaker and lifting handle:

Lots of info avaliable on the front bezel:

time to get this thing to breath some fire:

the gauges from the game look great with the front panel

compared to the concept drawing it turned out quite well:

The specs are:
Saxon Computers Hemmed LCD Case with Keyboard Slide
GIGABYTE GA-965QM-DS2 LGA Q965 Express Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Superclocked PCI Express Video Card
Western Digital Raptor X WD150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
HIPER HPU-4B580 12V v2.2 580W Power Supply
OCZ Platinum 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (loaner chip employee benefit)
ViewSonic's 20.1" VX2025wm widescreen LCD
HIPER HCK-1S18- Silver Slim Clavier Keyboard
Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVDSATA Model AWG170S-B2
AeroCool TURBINE 1000 120mm Fan
LINKSYS WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router
HAWKING HWUG1 USB 2.0 Wireless-G Adapter with Removable Antenna
ALTEC LANSING Speakers
Logitech 931379-0403 Cordless Notebook Mouse
Fieon Digital HYN104-BLU 4-Port Hub


Thanks to:
Barry Sharp &
Shawn Erickson for endless questions and listening to verbal updates
Slaymate and Hardware Hell for sporting my worklog and questions
Logan Goodenough for sacrificing dad playtime for PC building time.
Charlie FM 97.1
Donna Essenburg for her great customer service

 

[nodle]

Excellent work sir!

 

[saxxon]

I got around to getting some lighted shots.

You can see alot of what is going on with the lights on:

I like the lights on those fans, for one I could not get thtem to be switchable, and they glow very faint diffused LED's, not bright like some fans.

I was a little worried the diffuser would make noise as it does it's work, but it is dead quiet and you can tell it is drawing air very even.

Here is a 1/2 dark shot so you can see the body too.

I may go back in and add a regular 2.0 amp, oh man that will be sweet to have this baby crank some good tunes too. It goes plenty loud for gaming and youtube, but not for a party PC 7.2 surround

 

[kelim]

Temps?

 

[shadowlord]

awesome work !!

 

[saxxon]

Thanks shadowlord. The warmest running items in this build were the HDD and the monitor. The PSU is running with both stock fans removed. And the input fan replaced with a honeycomb flow straightener, and the output is one of the 120mm fans. I am going to add another smaller diffuser and settling chamber below the one that I have, but it runs fine. I will collect and post all temps and flow velocities soon.

There is a pic of the PSU honeycomb, and a pic of it's purpose

The two request for photos I have recieved of course were from Shawn and Barry, the folks I thanked for many electronics Q: they wanted to see more pics of the connector to the ouside world, and Barry wanted to see something on the monitor more interesting than WWII Online (Yaaaaawn) He was bored on that game. So here is some other screen shots, anyone got tips on filming the LCD?

And the connector to the outside world. Only the 3 pin AC, rated at 10amp, and the 5 pin for gaming joystick. I may order another 5 pin and hook it USB, but I rarely use USB 'cept for the camera. These Nanaboshi connectors are from Kinetic Technologies of Ohio. They are a great vendor and really helped me ascertain the right configurations.

I also meant to post this pic of the LCD cover being removed.

And it was noted that the last pics I posted the wires look pretty messy.
Considering is has all the PC wires and wires usually running behind the desk I think it turned out OK for 2 days of soldering. Here is how the wires look before the monitor goes in.

And one pic of the top which was not posted.

 

[Dethred]

Awesome work on the case!

On a side note, does anyone play that game anymore?

 

[saxxon]

Sometimes on the game I look around for someone to shoot and I wonder the same thing. I have been with WWII Online since it came out. Sure it's a snail race, but it has held my interest for a while.

 

[ITSTHINKING]

Wow, thats actually pretty damn nice, what did you do to make the monitor fit besides take off the base?

 

[mark660]

thats awsome looks very profesional

 

[koopaGG]

Wow, that is very nice!

 

[infect0]

Awesome work on the case!

On a side note, does anyone play that game anymore?

I jump on when I have time. Still a lot of fun imo. They have done a lot of work to the graphics looks much much better then it did 3-4yrs ago.

 

[The Null]

its almost like u've made a full tower into a mobile gaming rig, its all in once piece.

 

[saxxon]

To get the monitor in there I took off the back panel, then removed the silver ring it had around it, and drilled out 17 holes in this silver frame. Through each of these holes it mounts to the front plexiglass. I also put a bead of silicon around the black LCD frame so it would not let in air at that point.

 

[Johnx64]

"Work is dedicated to Lyn Hofhine, my mother, *who lost her hard drive to breast cancer June 18th*"



wtf?

 

[saxxon]

It was a nicer way of saying she passed away.

 

[terminalbmx55]

wow man that is just OMG!!! lol

 

[saxxon]

 

[Droc]

Looks like a fun mod. Well done.