Project: Golden Oldie

[Rale]

 

 

 

 

   I've been looking around on the forums at all the great builds, and have been inspired to put something together.  So I started looking around my parts room and came up with something i thought would be sort of cool and a little retro.  Anyway on with the specs i suppose.

 

- CPU: Pentium II 400

- Mobo: Abit AB - BH6

- Ram: 3 random sticks 320m

- 2d GPU: ATI Rage 32mb

- 3d Gpu: (2)Voodoo 2 8mb

- Hdd: Samsung 40 gig

- PSU: Some random 600w

- Case: Coolermaster el cheapo case.

 

^ Voodoo#1 and board

 

^ Parts

 

^ Cpu's, fairly sure that top heatsink is stuck on that cpu...

 

Should have some more stuff to come tomorrow.

[Thunderjolt]

But can it play Crysis? :P

[NinjaStyle013]

This is gunna be cool

[Dunhamrobbie]

This build will be a folding beast! :p

[TechTheWorld]

This is going to be epic.

[jscho]

I love it when people bring old hardware back to life :D

[Lord Pantaloons]

awesome, but super nasty

[Rale]

awesome, but super nasty

Indeed!  Bath time!

 

^ Voodoo 2 getting clean

 

^ Drying

 

^ Mobo getting a scrub down

 

   Still have yet to find my SB live.. have some things to do around here for a couple hr's then i'll go look in the garage for it and some other spare parts.  pretty sure i have an old dell out there than can have some parts robbed off it.

 

Thanks for the comments guys, i'll post some more pics when they are dry, but they cleaned up fairly well... just need to let them set for a day or 2 to let them dry.

[Lord Pantaloons]

Saw the pics, crapped my pants. Can someone explain why doing that isn't an incredibly insanely horrible idea.

[Rale]

Saw the pics, crapped my pants. Can someone explain why doing that isn't an incredibly insanely horrible idea.

Its fine as long as it has not been plugged in for a while and let it dry out, rice helps.

[Wferr]

Its fine as long as it has not been plugged in for a while and let it dry out, rice helps.

What about all the caps? and rust?

[Rale]

What about all the caps? and rust?

Dont think rust would be an issue with just washing it.  Could be tho, well see.

 

So i was thinking about making a war torn type case, and before taring up the case i'm going to use, thought i'd try out a scrap one first.  So, on with the case modding!

 

^ M&P 15-22

 

^ Other side

 

^ Ok the ram was not part of the idea but it wouldn't work in the system anyway so..

 

^ First couple little too close to the edge for the side panel to go back on.

 

^ Little more spread out, ignore the paint just a test to see what it will look like.

 

Oh yeah sorry about the crappy pictures, they where taken with my phone.  Anyway let me know what you guys think.

[W3lshm4n]

What about all the caps? and rust?

Its not going to be exposed to water for that long for rust to occur.

[Lord Pantaloons]

Love the idea of a battle scarred case, like the old school components have weathered the assault of newer hardware and survived.

[Rale]

I started to mod out the case a little but, quick tip cutting case plastic with a saber saw is not a great idea... it cuts it fast but wields it right back together when u get past the part you cut..  So after about an hr of cutting and re cutting i had to go back to the coping saw, which is slow and a pain in the ass to use.

 

^ Coolermaster something or other, case i'm starting out with.

 

^ Inside without the 5.25 or 3.5 racks

 

^ Front cut out

 

^ The metal flexed a little too much while cutting and got a booboo in it.

 

^ After an hr of attempts with a saber saw..

 

^ Melted/cut out finally!

 

^ Making sure the insert is wide enough

 

^ You can see the case behind the mesh right now but its going to be flat black when painted so should not be too noticeable.

 

^ Set in

 

^ Trying to fit it to the curve

 

^ Same shut but focused on the top

 

^ Mostly done fitting the mesh

 

^ All done fitting it

 

Only thing left to do with that front panel is to either glue or bondo the mesh to it and paint it.  Still not sure if i'm gonna fill it with holes or not.

[Lord Pantaloons]

It's looking awesome Rale, I can't wait to see more.

[Shrubpig]

pretty cool!

[ilovetechno]

Subbed, enough said!

[megadarkwood]

Oh my this is AWESOME!

Shooting a case with a gun? Wow!

[Rale]

Thanks for the comments guys.  Pretty much only sanding this update.

 

^ Sanded down the front panel thing

 

^ Two front pices together

 

^ Bottom of the case prepped for paint

 

^ Back of the mobo tray prepped

 

^ Back of the case prepped

 

^ Inside prepped for paint

 

^ Back side panel getting sanded

 

^ Ended up using glue, well see how it works out.  Also pinched those pices hanging over down into the glue to give it some more support.

 

^ Top inside of the front panel, those chucks of steel are C clamps using them to just weigh it down and hold the mesh in place.

 

   Well that's all for today, may do some tomorrow after work, probably need to put another layer of glue on the inside of that front panel for good measure.  Maybe some paint, oh i'm going with a flat black on the inside and a sand on the outside for the main color..  I do have some flat green for the outside, may do a little bit of camo.. not that great at it but.

 

^ Shitty camo job on an old AR

[Rale]

Little modding and some painting.

 

^ Placing the HDD to mount it.

 

^ Clamping the plexi

 

^ Another shot of clamping it

 

^ Mounted

 

^ Up close

 

^ Reflevtion

 

^ Some masking tape over the the important bits so you can see through the plexi after painting

 

^ Hdd rack thing

 

^ Inside of the side pannels

 

^ Front panel and side of the case.

 

   Probably go back out and put another coat on them in a couple hr's.

[Shrubpig]

Looking good so far!

[Lord Pantaloons]

awesome, this is going to be so cool(well it already is but you know what I mean)

[Hoppa]

Speed holes will make it go faster  :rolleyes:

 

Shouldn't you have taken off the heatsink of the GPU etc before washing? The paste / pads would have created a barrier that would of prevented any of the suds from clean it.

[Rale]

bla bla bla here's some more pix

 

^ Hdd plate

 

^ Another shot

 

^ And more

 

^ Back side

 

^ Main part of the case

 

^ Front bay, back is covered with masking tape

 

^ Side panel

 

^ Inside of the same side panel

 

 

^ "Hammered Copper" paint on a test page

 

^ Diff shot of the same test page

 

   About the copper paint stuff.. i bough this on a whim and what its sprayed on it just a piece of masking paper, sprayed pretty thick in the middle.  Seems to have some sort of reactive properties when its sprayed to congeal together in a pattern, i dunno it looks really cool , and 3d-ish up close.  appears to have highlights and shadows built in..  I dunno thought i would share it, may turn up in another build.

 

   About the front panel, i'm not so sure painting it all sand is working all that well.  I'm thinking painting the mesh part black and having the ring stay sand?  I dunno let me know what you guys think..

 

   Thanks for the comments guys.