Sorry for the long interlude since my last update.

My wife's family is in the middle of a crysis that started Tuesday. I've been comforting her through this, so getting online wasn't a priority over the last few days.

Carlos did arrive Wed afternoon to install the system. Carlos and I had Davanni's Hoagies for dinner around 6:30pm. Carlos is diabetic and had a severe reaction to the Mayo. He experienced severe food poisoning throughout the evening. He also arrived from Sunny Miami to a Frigid Minnesota to perform this work under a massive deadline. The man deserves a medal!

AMD sent us the PCP&C Silencer 750W PSU. This PSU doesn't have modular connectors, I modified the SwordM in manner that it's entire shell now opens up, this leaves very little space to hide your cables, so cabling this system to hide everything is was a real challenge. This endeavor proved to be a major time drain. After everything was installed we fired up the system and couldn't get any video output. We troubleshooted into the early morning. Remember that Carlos is still contending with food poisoning and I'm getting reports from my wife about her situation. We also lacked the alternative hardware to test in the system loop to pin point the trouble area. We were both mentally drained at this point. I told Carlos to email AMD we were having problems and would miss Thursday's shipping window for CeBit in Hannover, Germany next week. I brought Carlos back to the hotel so he could find rest before his 5am wake-up call to prepare for flight home. AMD responded that they could slate it for WCG in Colonge, Germany

Last night I was able to get back to the shop with Tom (Owlbot), uninstall the system, break it down into it's most basic config on the workbench and re-install everything with clear heads.. It POSTED! and everything is working now.

I emailed my AMD contact this morning to see if it's not too late to ship this over to CeBit on Monday. I have no idea if he reads his company email on the weekends. It would miss CeBit's opening days, but maybe make it time for the peek weekend crowd.

I haven't had a chance to take decent pics. Bare with me through this situation, it will be worth the wait!

Can't wait for the next update...
I'm sorry your family is having a tuff time of it at the moment Bill!
Life has a nasty habbit of jumping up and biting you in the ass at times,
I hope things work themselves out soon!
Poor Carlos, it's not nice going through something like that especially when your doing something like this with a tight schedual, Kudoz to the man

Anyway, I hope things improve for you really soon and I'm glad AMD are
playin' ball.

My thoughts are with your family, your friend, Paul

You really have brought new meaning to the word "MOD". Just awsome work, Best work I have seen yet.

The case is finished! My goal was to present something original with a Sci-Fi theme that oozed hi-tech. I also wanted a hint of something Biomechanical without the gore element.

The swordM's best asset is that you can't always distinguish the front from the back. You find yourself walking around it to study everything.








My favorite angle.. subtle biomechanical cues in the rear door





AMD Phenom 9900, 2.6 GHz
2x 3870 HD Radeons

WOW!

Look out Discovery Channel.

That looks freakin great. Nice, very nice.

D.

Quote: Originally Posted by dooglo WOW! Look out Discovery Channel. That looks freakin great. Nice, very nice.

Thank you! funny you should mention that, I'm organizing a meeting to brainstorm a pitch to Discovery Channel

Geez!!! what i want to see are some benchmarks of that system at stock and then see what it posts after some tweeking!

Dude...I think I need a new keyboard...

You're an artist man, that's awesome, awesome work. Now, if only I lived in the US and I could get you to mod my gigabyte 3D aurora...

I'm sitting in stunned silience at the craftsmanship of this project and the level that you have just raised the modding bar to. .

Discovery Channel , hell this should be prime time ABC , NBC , CBS and all the BBC's . I'm talking superbowl type coverage

This is THE mod to top all mods before it! I don't think any amount of comments from anyone can actually describe this level of awesome you have accomplished!

Quote: Originally Posted by mnpctech Thank you! funny you should mention that, I'm organizing a meeting to brainstorm a pitch to Discovery Channel

Well heck, if discovery channel has a show called American Beauty Salon(or is it Shop), then why cant you have American OverClocker(or PC). It would be pretty cool

So awesome it made it to Engadget.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/07/p...at-any-moment/

Congrats!

Hey guys, Thank you for all of your replies! I really appreciate it!

They are going to freak at CeBit Bill. The thing looks like it's getting ready to transform and roll out.

Quote: Originally Posted by AntiM They are going to freak at CeBit Bill. The thing looks like it's getting ready to transform and roll out.

It didn't make because of a personal crysis that came up. No worries tho, it's slated to go on tour with AMD over the coming months. Plus, I get to play on it longer

We set up a mini studio in the warehouse freight elevator. The diamond plate floor adds a cool industrial atmosphere. I'll have some low light photos up soon.
In the next shot Toms installing his Mustang photo for the desktop on a new 27" Dell Ultra Sharp one of my customers loaned to us for demos.

Tom sent me the first batch of pics from photo session over the weekend. I love the 2nd pic!

Damn Fine Craftsmanship. It looks like it's ready for a Transformer's 2 audition. It's definitely got the Glamour for the part :-)

Outstanding work Bill, Just outstanding!
AMD were very lucky to have you do the build for them
The photography keeps getting better,
You're showing us new ideas and skillz all the time!
And as I said to you in an earlier post, I think its really great how
you have a pool of different talents working with you
I can't understand some of the lame comments from members on engadget
Yes, we're all entitled to our opinions, But can't they see awesome talent when it's right in front
of their eyes??
All I can say is they're either jealous or they're the kind of peepz that think one of jeantech's
first ever pre-mod cases is the definition of sexy. No taste at all.
But I know you and I know idiots like that won't phaze you in the slightest.

Keep up the awesome work bro, and I look forward to seeing your next finished project!

Paul