Talon’s (Micah) Blog

I finished building the case, after over 5 strait hours of working on it and ending up getting a migrane from lack of eating and sitting on the concrete floor for that long, its finished. I did run into a problem, the CPU was ideling at 60C and booting at 80C, a big problem, so I did not know the problem at the time, so i removed the custom case and put it back in its standard case, only to discover it was the Heatsink was not on all the way (musta gotten bumped during the custom build).

I had a few things that could not be accessable.  The bottom PCI slot on Motherboard is blocked by the motherboard post holding it to the construx structure, and 2 USB slots on motherboard are unusable by the back I/O construx supporting structure.

Below are a quite a few pics of the computer throughout the process. Click on each to enlarge to the full 3Mega pixel image (2000×1500 about 1.25mbs a piece to opens in same page).

Hard Drive Mount

Hard Drive Mount Plus 80mm Cooling fan

Both Hard Drives connected together each with a seperate fan.

Optical Drive Mount

Optical Drive (Back View)

Dual Optical Drives Stacked in mounts

Power Supply Unit Mount

Motherboard Mount (in 4 pin locations, on each courner)

Back of Motherboard and its mounts

Up Close to motherboard post and how it holds motherboard

Expansion and GFX card and the way to hold them without screws or metal

Close look at expansion Mounts

Front part of computer is built

HDD/Optical cage with Motherboard attached

HDD/Optical cage and Motherboard moved closer (realized to far apart) with increased integrity (was kinda flimsy about to fall over)

Case plus the back I/O Section

Case plus PSU attached above of Motherboard

Case plus side (otherside of conventional side window side thingy, yeah)

Side Completed

Entire comp except 1 side

Complete case with Side on hinges open (including CPU funnel)

All done, with cpu exast funnel

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