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post #1 of 23
1/23/06 at 7:13pm
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I decided to splurge and get something good to house my 1.5 Terabytes of storage. It is a monster! I thought the UPS guy was delivering a TV!!
Thermaltake XASER, Armor Series!!!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811133154
I will keep you posted.. I will be busy tonite relocating everything!




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post #2 of 23
1/23/06 at 7:14pm
Awesome.
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post #3 of 23
1/23/06 at 8:15pm
a kid down the hall has that case, its a bit big. And those stupid flap things on the firont become a nusance, he throw them out after a week.
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post #4 of 23
1/23/06 at 8:23pm
That's a lot of drive bays. How many disks are you planning to put in there and how will you drive them all?
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post #5 of 23
1/23/06 at 8:26pm
great question!

Freak
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post #6 of 23
1/23/06 at 9:36pm
Full towers are brill. Loads of room to move, plenty of air circulation and expansion space. I'm looking at the Coolermaster Stacker.
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post #7 of 23
1/24/06 at 1:16am
Looks familiar:


http://www.darthbeavis.com/DSC00324.JPG
http://www.darthbeavis.com/DSC00325.JPG
http://www.darthbeavis.com/DSC00326.JPG
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post #8 of 23
1/24/06 at 1:41am
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Well, Im done, with the exception of the round IDE cables and wire ties (that will be here in a few days) it is done.. for now. Lots of room and circulation.. temp of case dropped quite a bit.. I had a jumble before. no airspace in my last ATX Mid Tower.

Oh.. what do I have in it..

P4 3.0 (800FSB) slightly OCed to 3.15
ASUS P4P800Deluxe
1.5 GB RAM
ATI AIW 9600 Pro ( It does what I need, and I can play BF2 with it!)
1 DVD/CD-RW drive
1 DV-RW Drive
1 SATA 250 GB HD
1 SATA 120 GB HD
1 IDE 120 GB
1 IDE 250 GB
1 Card Read/Floppy
1 Kingwin System Monitor

External Storage
1- 250 GB HDhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817145656
1- 120 GB HD in the same case
1- Maxtor 120GB USB

Here are some pics of my old setup... I am ashamed to show it, but, it was with me for the year in Iraq, and made it through the good and bad times.. but I needed to retire it. it was in need of some air flow!



Here is the finished product...I turned off the flash so the lights would show. Houston, we have airflow! This thing has major fans and they are not loud at all!



THe wing things really serve no purpose, but they look cool to me..
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post #9 of 23
1/24/06 at 1:43am
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Very sexy in Silver! and the glowing water tubes!!!

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post #10 of 23
1/24/06 at 4:04pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by dellbert
That's a lot of drive bays. How many disks are you planning to put in there and how will you drive them all?
Yeah how can you run that many drives off one motherboard.I thought they ony could handle 4 ide devices.
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post #11 of 23
1/24/06 at 5:11pm
SATA motherboards now allow much more drives (I think) so you have the SATA plus the PATA controllers.
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post #12 of 23
1/24/06 at 7:04pm
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4 IDE devices (2 Optical Drives, 2 Hard drives)
2 SATA hard drives.
Think it has 2 more slots for SATA too.
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post #13 of 23
1/24/06 at 7:48pm
DB, I know it's already been posted but just in case you've changed something, what cooling kit did you end up using? The big water?
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post #14 of 23
1/24/06 at 8:31pm
I used:

- Thermaltake BigWater SE
- Thermaltake Aquabay Drive Bay Resevior
- Thermaltake Aquabay Drive Bay Radiator (for second resevior)
- Thermaltake Aquabay Drive Bay Flow Indicator
- Danger Den VGA Waterblock for Geforce 7800 GTX


Now, check this out: For my Alienware ALX, I am adding a second watercooling system consisting of:

Waterchill kit with integrated pump\resevoir (only using the chipset waterblock as all other blocks are either DangerDen or Thermaltake), DangerDen SLI block kit for my Geforce 7800 GTX 512s, Thermaltake CPU waterblock (which will go on the ALX Koolance line), Koolance RAM waterblocks on the ALX line. Each watercooling loop will be completely independent of eachother.
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post #15 of 23
1/24/06 at 8:32pm
Chrome you need to do some sleeving and wire management.
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post #16 of 23
1/24/06 at 9:25pm
yeah seriosuly dude, it look slike you rushed through it. Spend a little time fixing that up/ You will get better airflow too.
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post #17 of 23
1/25/06 at 6:36am
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Originally Posted by DarthBeavis
Chrome you need to do some sleeving and wire management.

Yeah, Im waiting on my round IDE cables and gonna pick up some sleeving.. I was in such a hurry to get done. I will clean it up hopefully this weekend.
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post #18 of 23
1/25/06 at 12:42pm
Remember, take your time and I will come out real sweet. You should go to www.hyperkore.com and see about getting a custom laser etched window or series of windows for you rig.
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post #19 of 23
1/25/06 at 2:04pm
hot stuff chromegalant!
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post #20 of 23
1/25/06 at 2:07pm
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