LCD mod idea

[JavaIsRobust]

I've seen the mods of a small lcd mounted on the front of some computers. Has anyone thought of mounting a bigger lcd on the side of their case. I was thinking something like a 17 inch wide lcd. The ones found in the sony or dell laptops, w the glossy surface. That would be kool for lan parties. One less thing to drag around.

 

[ninethreeeleven]

Only problem would be the heat generated by the LCD. My Dell 2005fpw generates heat, not scorch the earth heat, but I wouldn't wan't that much extra going into my case.

 

[jpmkm]

Yes, people have thought of it and yes, people have done it.

 

[JavaIsRobust]

Could somone post links to where people have done this before? I've searched online and I can't find anything on how to do this.

 

[buzzard34]

No links, but I was thinking you could do what I was planning, which is to attach a LCD with a hinge to the side of the case and then have it fold in for portability.

 

[xBuddhax]

Here you go. This guy has an lcd attached to the side panel that swings open. He's also got a wallpaper pic of the actual internals of his pc so when he closes it, it looks like the internals of his pc.

 

[JavaIsRobust]

That is exactly what I want to do. He did a really good job. I wanted to do it w/ a 17 glossy screen like the ones found in the some of the laptops. I guess I can settle for a normal desktop LCD. I wish he wrote a review on how to do this. Any ideas on how I should get started?

 

[ratbird]

sony has some of those shineyy lcds, i saw 19" for 499$

 

[JavaIsRobust]

ok.. I think this is what I'm going to do. I"m going to take a 17' 8ms sony LCD and place it in a Kingwin Case.

KINGWIN KT-424-BK Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Sony 17" Flat-Panel LCD Monitor - Black
Model: SDM-HS75P/B

How do you guys think this would work? Any ideas?

 

[Sobek]

There are also a few people who have taken an iMac shell and installed an LCD in the front and regular PC components and it appears almost identical to the iMac.