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PogueMahon
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Well, me and a friend lost touch about 1.5 years ago, since i moved. A few days ago I was back in my old neighborhood and learned that he had passed away about a year ago (car accident).
I went to his home to tell him mom that I was sorry to hear what happened, she appreciated it, because she knew that we were friends for a long time. We practically grew up together, sleep-overs and camping trips in the boyscout, classmates, PC gaming, etc.
As I was about to leave she asked me if I wanted to take his old PC from the basement, as she said she had no use for it and would really like it gone. She explained that nobody had touched it for the whole time he has passed.
Unsure of what was there, I found a few boxes with parts and thought that was what she was talking about. I went upstairs with them to thank her and she said that wasn't the PC that was extra parts parts.
So she led me to the bottom of the stairs and pointed to a large black box in the corner, half covered with a tarp and a pair of jeans. I was like "oh, ok i will take any PC or parts that she wanted to get rid of," I think she was happy that someone could use them, also to get memories out of sight.
Well after uncovering the thing, I found a Mountain Mods Accession Case, and about 4 boxes of parts mostly parts to water-cooling. I called up my dad and said to come get me and bring the van, he came and saw the thing, I was putting in and he didn't believe me that the big case was a PC at all, and when I showed him the stuff inside, he was saying, "well it must be very very old and probably not worth the time to get it running."
It has:
a asus rampage ii mobo
8 hd's (4) 1 TB, (4) 500GB, (1) 500GB 10,000 drive
2 gtx 285's one watercooled other isnt, (separate WC loop) have block for other
cpu is a intel bloomfield i7, 3200mz (separate WC loop)
has 6Gb of ram
vista & xp 64 on it
While I was there (even though I know better) I did flip the power switch and it did start-up to the windows screen which was a shock to me.
Here are a few of the pics I took before bringing it home, sorry for the quality as it was from my cell phone.
I do plan on taking any info I find on the drives and put it onto DVD's of his mom he always liked taking pictures of everything. Oh the side panels are there as well one still unopened.
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I think I will stick with the black and red theme...
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He has about 20 of those inline flow inductors, but only one actually in the system
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Dust, dust, everywhere
Looks like he used those swivel connectors alot
Yeah, it is a double 360 on the top for the one video card, with 2 sets of fans.
He has about 20 of those inline flow indicators, but only one actually in the system
The right side
Yeah and that's where the power supply is (bottom) and also a spot for another 360 radiator on back behind the HD's
Well I am going to fix this case, and probally get a new panel for the front from MountainMods. I mean who neds 10 5.25 bays on the front of a PC, I use only 3.
Like I said I also have like 4 boxes of misc parts from her as well. So most of the things I need either I have or he had.
This is what I am planning on doing to the case, any thoughts about the new rebuild please post, also if anyone see's any flaws with this design please let me know before i get started.
I do plan on adding/replacing
1 Front panel
3 580 FTW Hydro video cards
6-9 Hard Drive's
12GB ram
1 mobo, I will probally get a Asus rampage III (he liked asus) case can fit 2 mobo's
2 1000W PSU he had both of them already (PC Power & Colling)
my copy of Win 7 Ultimate.
On google sketchup I did a rough idea of what I want to do to this thing. I did it in about an hour so everything is not perfect.
I was not sure if I was going to mount the fans on the (front) outside or inside the case. Cleaning the filters would be alot easier with them on the outside, who knows maybe with the reduced airflow from the dust filter's I might try and use inside and outside ones.
I hope that mounting those swiftech pumps in that orientation wont hurt them
I went to his home to tell him mom that I was sorry to hear what happened, she appreciated it, because she knew that we were friends for a long time. We practically grew up together, sleep-overs and camping trips in the boyscout, classmates, PC gaming, etc.
As I was about to leave she asked me if I wanted to take his old PC from the basement, as she said she had no use for it and would really like it gone. She explained that nobody had touched it for the whole time he has passed.
Unsure of what was there, I found a few boxes with parts and thought that was what she was talking about. I went upstairs with them to thank her and she said that wasn't the PC that was extra parts parts.
So she led me to the bottom of the stairs and pointed to a large black box in the corner, half covered with a tarp and a pair of jeans. I was like "oh, ok i will take any PC or parts that she wanted to get rid of," I think she was happy that someone could use them, also to get memories out of sight.
Well after uncovering the thing, I found a Mountain Mods Accession Case, and about 4 boxes of parts mostly parts to water-cooling. I called up my dad and said to come get me and bring the van, he came and saw the thing, I was putting in and he didn't believe me that the big case was a PC at all, and when I showed him the stuff inside, he was saying, "well it must be very very old and probably not worth the time to get it running."
It has:
a asus rampage ii mobo
8 hd's (4) 1 TB, (4) 500GB, (1) 500GB 10,000 drive
2 gtx 285's one watercooled other isnt, (separate WC loop) have block for other
cpu is a intel bloomfield i7, 3200mz (separate WC loop)
has 6Gb of ram
vista & xp 64 on it
While I was there (even though I know better) I did flip the power switch and it did start-up to the windows screen which was a shock to me.
Here are a few of the pics I took before bringing it home, sorry for the quality as it was from my cell phone.
I do plan on taking any info I find on the drives and put it onto DVD's of his mom he always liked taking pictures of everything. Oh the side panels are there as well one still unopened.
I think I will stick with the black and red theme...
He has about 20 of those inline flow inductors, but only one actually in the system
Dust, dust, everywhere
Looks like he used those swivel connectors alot
Yeah, it is a double 360 on the top for the one video card, with 2 sets of fans.
He has about 20 of those inline flow indicators, but only one actually in the system
The right side
Yeah and that's where the power supply is (bottom) and also a spot for another 360 radiator on back behind the HD's
Well I am going to fix this case, and probally get a new panel for the front from MountainMods. I mean who neds 10 5.25 bays on the front of a PC, I use only 3.
Like I said I also have like 4 boxes of misc parts from her as well. So most of the things I need either I have or he had.
This is what I am planning on doing to the case, any thoughts about the new rebuild please post, also if anyone see's any flaws with this design please let me know before i get started.
I do plan on adding/replacing
1 Front panel
3 580 FTW Hydro video cards
6-9 Hard Drive's
12GB ram
1 mobo, I will probally get a Asus rampage III (he liked asus) case can fit 2 mobo's
2 1000W PSU he had both of them already (PC Power & Colling)
my copy of Win 7 Ultimate.
On google sketchup I did a rough idea of what I want to do to this thing. I did it in about an hour so everything is not perfect.
I was not sure if I was going to mount the fans on the (front) outside or inside the case. Cleaning the filters would be alot easier with them on the outside, who knows maybe with the reduced airflow from the dust filter's I might try and use inside and outside ones.
I hope that mounting those swiftech pumps in that orientation wont hurt them
