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elm669
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This case has been with me since my start in computers, was also the first home made build I did, Mid 2001 after reading too much [H] 
I gutted my old emachines to build it, started off as a 600mhz celeron with 128mb ram, S3 Savage 4 and an ancient cd burner and ended up as it is today, 1ghz PIII 256mb ram, radeon 7500 and the same ancient cd burner which for some reason along the way I decided should be blue I actively used this case from 2001 up to 2005 as my main computer and up until recently as a legacy box. I figured its time to retire the PIII and use the case for something better as it has gotten pretty ragged along the way and not to mention virtual-box kind of made it redundant.
The reason for the name is that my late gf was in love with this case, she kept bugging me and bugging me to give it to her but I loved the case too, after I wouldn't give it to her she kept bugging me to mod it and clean it up, I never got around to it, feb 2009 I lost my gf erica to a car wreck. I never did get around to modding the case. So we come to now, it just crossed the three year mark since I lost her and I never messed with the case, time to do something with it.
Trip down memory lane:
Note the Ecs heat sink hot glued to the North bridge mobo is a Procomp Bvc3a
ATI Radeon 7500 64mb, hits a whopping 1711 3d marks with 3dmark 2001
Old Zalman copper heatsink:
the old green monster:
Case gutted:
Don't quite think 120MM fans will fit..
$45 for this case back then, got it at a little place called Microseconds
Now for the modding:
The good stuff from home depot:
washed and sand blasted:
window mod fun:
freshly cut out before squaring the edges:
Finishing the case to a smooth paintable surface
Just chillin
window:
decided on a industrial look for the window mounting, stainless 1/4-20 bolts and wingnuts for quick removal
quick picture before deburring the holes
Stopped last night at the top blowhole:
I gutted my old emachines to build it, started off as a 600mhz celeron with 128mb ram, S3 Savage 4 and an ancient cd burner and ended up as it is today, 1ghz PIII 256mb ram, radeon 7500 and the same ancient cd burner which for some reason along the way I decided should be blue I actively used this case from 2001 up to 2005 as my main computer and up until recently as a legacy box. I figured its time to retire the PIII and use the case for something better as it has gotten pretty ragged along the way and not to mention virtual-box kind of made it redundant. The reason for the name is that my late gf was in love with this case, she kept bugging me and bugging me to give it to her but I loved the case too, after I wouldn't give it to her she kept bugging me to mod it and clean it up, I never got around to it, feb 2009 I lost my gf erica to a car wreck. I never did get around to modding the case. So we come to now, it just crossed the three year mark since I lost her and I never messed with the case, time to do something with it.
Trip down memory lane:
Note the Ecs heat sink hot glued to the North bridge
mobo is a Procomp Bvc3a
ATI Radeon 7500 64mb, hits a whopping 1711 3d marks with 3dmark 2001
Old Zalman copper heatsink:
the old green monster:
Case gutted:
Don't quite think 120MM fans will fit..
$45 for this case back then, got it at a little place called Microseconds
Now for the modding:
The good stuff from home depot:
washed and sand blasted:
window mod fun:
freshly cut out before squaring the edges:
Finishing the case to a smooth paintable surface
Just chillin
window:
decided on a industrial look for the window mounting, stainless 1/4-20 bolts and wingnuts for quick removal
quick picture before deburring the holes
Stopped last night at the top blowhole:
