João Severino

A Copper Face Plate for the Lamptron FC5V2
While I really like the brushed alu look on the FC5V2, it doesn't really fit all that
well into the rough powder coat on the Caselabs case. So instead of having two
black things which are not the same sort of black I thought I'd turn the fan controller
into an element of contrast and make a polished copper face plate for it.
Taking Things Apart
First I took the fan controller apart to see how everything fits together and get
access to its existing face plate so that I could fit the new one to it.
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Sketching Things Out
The new plate will be made from a 1~1.2 mm (not sure anymore) piece of copper
sheet I had laying around. First: Use the old plate as a stencil and sketch the outlines
of the new plate onto the sheet of copper.
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Raw Cut
After some Dremel work it looked like this:
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Current Status
After lots and lots of filing, sanding and polishing (~5 hours), it currently looks like
this. It is not yet completely flawless, but I'll save the rest of the work for when the
build is in its closing stages. Since the surface is very finicky I don't want to spend
lots of time making it absolutely perfect now only to possibly damage it in a mishap
during the build and then have to redo the whole thing.
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The new plate is simply taped to the stock plate. It's a lot easier (and cleaner) than
having to drill holes for the screws into the new plate.
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That's it for today. As always, thanks for stopping by.

You should. Creating my unique lighting is one of the best things I could have done to personalize my computer Update
The GPU backplate has been cut, filed, and sanded. Next thing to do is to attach some white plexiglass and LED's to the plate, modify the LED RGB cable to take a 4 pin fan connection, then I can easily connect and disconnect the GPU's LED cable if I need to remove my graphic card from the PC.
So, without further delay, here come some pictures. I do apologize for the cell phone quality, I am doing this at work after all ;)








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MetallicAcid

Here you go.
 

Wow guys! With my entire heart, I thank you guys for the kind comments. This is just adding more fuel to the modding fire ;) Update
SO, I am going to reward you with a design update of sorts :D Today's work day has been spent on designing a GPU backplate. I am really happy with this design so far! I will be able to implement my design on the graphic card, and be able to cover over that green logo which will clash with the red lighting. Here, take a look:




What is everybody's opinion about this design?
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MetallicAcid

Neither, I'd go with the Vengence Pros and get one set of blue and one set of silver, would make the accents on the board really pop. 
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233524
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233529
 
Example;
 
http://youtu.be/jtJJTo7OM1k?t=9m1s

If you can find a USB port to replace and if you are comfortable with a soldering iron is just a matter of desoldering a soldering a new one
I've done it before and it worked out well

The closest thing I could remember is this HDMI to VGA adapter that has an audio adapter

What about something like this.
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Check this video

It's for making a pop-up window on a footer but it can be modified to your needs

You could look into NZXT Internal USB Expansion Board
I believe it is perfect for what you need

Note: Been using Windows since Win 3.11, and Linux since ~ 2005. Not a programmer by trade,
but I do use my machine to code quite a bit when I get the time (mostly C/C++, PHP, Perl at
the moment). Current main distro is Arch Linux.
 

The one main benefit I have come to love about GNU/Linux and other similar UNIX-like
operating systems is that they are inherently designed with tinkering and writing
software in mind. They are operating systems by developers for developers.
The thing that gets on my nerves the most about Windows is that while I don't
necessarily consider it to be a bad product it has so obviously been designed
with average Joe in mind that it's been dumbed down a lot and lots of choices
and options have either been removed completely or made extremely cumbersome
to achieve/set/change.
Now, that in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing, and a completely
legitimate strategy (tbh I think it's a much more viable strategy for broad
marketing and getting computers to the masses), but it does make Windows and
its underlying philosophy less suited to my personal preferences and tastes.
The major example about this would be the extremely tight integration between
the operating system and the graphical shell (the overall Windows GUI) in Windows.
In Linux and similar operating systems the command line interface carries a much
greater importance than the GUI, and in fact you are not even required to run
a GUI.
And when you do, you have a plethora of different desktop environments and window
managers to choose from, and most of them can be quite extensively configured to
suit your individual tastes (personally, I usually prefer a tiling window manager
for work, for example).
While you do of course have the powershell in Windows, the fact that it's more
of an add-on to the GUI than the other way around clearly shows, and makes live
quite a bit more complicated for a CLI lover like myself.
Another thing which I much prefer in Linux than Windows is that configuring the O/S
and its components is much more transparent; usually it's achieved by editing pure
text files rather than ticking boxes in a dialog window. Of course, many prefer the
latter way of doing things, but personally I find it very convenient to be able to
edit a machine's configuration in a text editor on another machine and then configure
a system simply by copy-pasting a few text files onto it.
Anyway, as for programming itself, here's what I personally appreciate about coding
on Linux/UNIX-like systems:
Since the system is very configurable and those configurations are very easily portable, I can set up a machine exactly the way I like it and port that config
to other machines on which I'm doing work. This results in better work flow and
higher productivity.
The inherent design principle that the system is supposed to be easily tinkered with also adds to that flexibility.
The open source culture makes acquiring and modifying existing code, whether that be for satisfying personal curiosity or to actually achieve something
productive, easy and dependable.
In the years I've been running both Windows 7 and Linux on our household machines, I have found Linux to be more stable. I wouldn't consider Win 7
to be an unstable system (at least not for me), but I have had noticeably
more issues with it than with any of my Linux setups. Not that Linux is 100%
stable or completely free of other issues, of course. This is just a personal
observation from a very small test sample though.
Centralized software repositories with signed packages. No downloading software from different websites. It's all right there, verified and secure.
I'm sure there are others, but that's what comes to mind at the moment.  

I'd say this very much depends on what aspect of the O/S you look at. Desktop
environments and integration with other devices is definitely easier on
Windows, but from what I've used myself, that has often been more of an issue
of vendors not properly supporting Linux rather than an inherent fault of Linux
itself (getting pictures off my Canon Eos 600D is quite a bit more convenient
in Win than in Linux, and don't get me started about scanners and printers...).
Same thing with office documents. The open document standards are quite mature
at this point, the problems I've seen in my personal use have almost exclusively
been related to Microsoft's proprietary document standards not being properly
translated/converted.
But for programming, I have found Linux to be much more polished and convenient
than Windows, at least for the languages in which I've written software. And the
fact that I encounter many fewer stability issues with my Linux machines than with
their Windows counterparts makes me think much more highly of its kernel than of
the Win kernel.
Overall I do agree that there are many small niggles in Linux that still need
to be fixed. But I wouldn't call the O/S unpolished in its entirety, just certain
parts of it.
 

Indeed a very valid point. Vendor lock-in is one my my major pet-peeves when
it comes to using MS or other proprietary products. And the power of the
command line is really something I've come to appreciate.
Overall, it's maybe not so much about which O/S is inherently and objectively
superior in its entirety, but it depends a lot on your personal preferences
and what language you write software in. For somebody who's scared of the
command line, programming on Linux is probably not really something I'd
recommend, but then again, such a person maybe shouldn't be programming in the
first place. :lol:
EDIT: Ninja'd :lol:.
Spartan's opinions seem to follow a similar pattern though, I agree with his
post.

Ahm, they are basically the same CPU, the 8350 is slightly higher binned. You can OC the 8320 to the 8350s clockspeed [-> Heatdifference].
 
If you have the budget, go for a 8350 as you can potentially get a better overclock out of it.
 
If you plan for a normal oc [4.2-4.5ish] both will be about equal and make no difference in gaming. Go with what you feel is the right one for you.

Your hard work paid off, the cable management is perfect and makes your rig look great and clean.