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post #61 of 85
12/17/07 at 3:01pm
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Will do throughout this week.
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post #62 of 85
12/17/07 at 3:07pm
Awesome build.... Nice mod ...

One question though:
When you put red LED on the front door, did you require any resistors put ?

I got quite a few LEDs at home and I need to put them into case however I am not sure about wiring... They were taken from old cases and were used to indicate HDD usage, System on/off. So they have wiring and stuff, so I guess I just plug them into motherboard sockets and that is it ? No additional components required ?

Thanks.
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post #63 of 85
12/17/07 at 3:41pm
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The LED on the front door didn't require any resistors on the socket (the resistor is located on the back of the door), it actually connects to one of the floppy drive wires on the power supply. The card reader took the other wire.

Only lights for illumination require resistors as far as I've seen.

Usually, lights for hard drive and power leds do not require any resistors. I've seen some old ones with resistors but they're usually attached to the LED itself or one of its wires.

If the LED has the motherboard plugs and nothing else that means you just simply plug it in to the motherboard connectors.
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post #64 of 85
12/23/07 at 10:27pm
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Benchies!!!

3D Mark 03
15155

3D Mark 05
9212

3D Mark 06
5008
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post #65 of 85
12/24/07 at 1:52am
Looks great, moidock!
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post #66 of 85
12/24/07 at 2:30pm
Looking Good! Thanks!
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post #67 of 85
12/30/07 at 12:28am
good job Dock!
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post #68 of 85
1/9/08 at 4:41pm
That is a nice job Moidock! May I suggest something? If you rip out your hard drive cage, you'll get exelent air-flow in from the front. Then depending on how many hard drives you install, you can get a little creative with getting them in there.


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post #69 of 85
1/9/08 at 4:51pm
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Ooohh. Nice.

I was thinking of doing something with the hard drive cage too, I´m still not sure how many hard drives I will need to add in the future (depends on how the business goes) but definitely will use something like you describe.

Currently only have two HDDs.
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post #70 of 85
1/9/08 at 5:03pm
I have three in there right now. The clear 150 Gig raptor I safety tied to that double air vent which seems to serve little to no purpose. It was the best place to put that one where as it runs the hottest. Plus, having it upright like that, help immensely with the hot air. The two green 80mm fans just sheer it off! The other 74 Gig raptor is on the floor and gets basicly the same effect. I have a heatsink attached to it to keep it from touching the bottom of the case. It's rasied up about 3/4ths of an inch and so air coming in can go under as well as over it. The last 74 gig raptor ( the OS drive) is in a Antec drive cooler up in the bottom 5-inch bay. Hope that helps you out. My temps went down all through out the case when I took the hard drive cage out because that cage blocks the incomming air way too much. Slows the flow. Which is a No-Go-Muchacho.
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post #71 of 85
1/12/08 at 8:13pm
Check out this hard drive rack from Mountain Mods. Slick and simple ... attaches to a 120mm fan, and you can put upto 3 drives in there.
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post #72 of 85
1/12/08 at 8:44pm
Shazz, I'm using a cooler master variant of what you posted, except it changes 3 x 5.25" to 4 x 3.5" with a 120mm in the front. It's a whole cage and it already put together and everything.
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post #73 of 85
4/23/08 at 5:26am
i want that case!!!!!!! omg i want it
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post #74 of 85
4/23/08 at 11:26am
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You can find AW cases and accessories on their eBay outlet in case you are interested:

http://stores.ebay.com/Alienware-Outlet
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post #75 of 85
4/25/08 at 8:22am
thanks
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post #76 of 85
8/11/08 at 2:32pm
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Bump.

I have a commissioned build which should start tomorrow or Thursday. Not as flashy as the AW case but I may post some pics.
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post #77 of 85
8/12/08 at 12:13pm
Look forward to seeing them Dock!
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post #78 of 85
8/30/08 at 11:17pm
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It's done!!!!

Ok, haven't been able to put this up until now. The process here is not as detailed as the previous one so as to not to bore you with details.

This build is quite a budget one but works modestly for modern programs and games:

- Standard midtower case with a side window
- Core2Duo E2180 CPU @ 2.0 Ghz
- MSI 945 motherboard
- DVD-ROM unit
- Lite-on DVD/RW unit w/Lightscribe
- 2GB Kingston RAM
- 14-in-1 card reader
- 250 GB Seagate HDD
- NVidia 8500 video card with 512MB DDR2 RAM.
- 550 w PSU.

So, without further ado here goes:

Here are some shots of the case:








Nothing flashy, just something that works.

Let's start with restraining some wires:



Interestingly, this case did not have the speaker glued or screwed to the case itself. It is a completely separate component.


Sparing you the boring deatails, the motherboard here is already placed, so I'm just getting ready to place the processor here:





Processor and heatsink already in place here:



PSU is already in place here so I'm just restraining some wires so as they do not tangle or interfere during the rest of the process, everything is pretty much in place here so I'm just doing the wire job:





A final look at the completed set up and wiring job before attempting to turn it on:



And now the moment of truth, of course, I stand a bit back just in case it explodes :



Aaaaaand...nothing happens. It didn't turn on, so, troubleshooting begins.

Silly me, after checking the connections I found out that I didn't put the switch on the back of the PSU in the "on" position. Yeah, I know, n00b.

And there she goes, all ready to work:


Hope you enjoyed watching the process.
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post #79 of 85
8/31/08 at 12:24am
Congrats Moidock! That is a nice looking rig.
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post #80 of 85
9/1/08 at 9:14pm
looks good Dock.
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