Greetings all ....
its been a while since ive been active here ...
working in a hotel doesnt leave u much free time ... and then i managed to get hooked on wow (big mistake)
but now since i got buggered in that job (hotel politics and a shift in management) i moved back to the motherland (KL malaysia) . In Search of a new job ... a gd friend of mine asked me to mod his server rack and the 2 4u cases hes putting in them ..... and being the nutjob i am ... i accepted willingly ...

anyhows on to the mod ......

firstly ill give a basic run down on the specs of each casing ....

the first 4u....(formally a gaming rig and will be a file and media server once the new one is built)
this is my friends old gaming rig....
specs are sommat like this
opteron 146
asus A8n-sli
2gb kingston value ram
2 x 1tb western digital Hdd 16mb green power
1 x 320gb
2 x 120gb pata
lg dvd-rw
2x 6600gts sli
680w psu (i think)
Coolermaster Aquagate

The second 4u ...
2x intel Xeon quad cores ( not sure which one yet but there will be 2)
Asus serverboard (will update the model wen i find out)
8gb unbuffered ram (mayb 16gb)
2x 4870 or g250 either sli or crossfire .. not sure as of yet though .....
at least 2tb hdd
and mayb 70gb ssd hdd


ok with the internals covered ....

heres a basic idea of whats planned.....
for the rack
1. strip the rack down and repaint it .... a blood red outside ... with a darker red inside... the trays prob a diff shade of red or maybe black ......
2. cut out a evil inside design in the rack side panels plus flames and others ....
3. windows and vinyl designs for the rack ....
4. if i can find a airbrush artists mayb a fancy paintjob ....

For the server 4u
1. paintjob
2. windows
3. sleeving
4. mod the watercooler
5. custom led hdd monitor

for the gaming 4u
1. paintjob
2. custom windows
3. custom watercooler
4. custom from panel

mounting a wireless router
custom mounting - read drillin holes

gonna try and do a sketchup for everything soon .... and ill post it up .....
pics coming soon ...

till the nxt update

DM signing off

ok with the dull part done and said ....
here are some pics



the victim .... 48u rack ...with the side panels removed.....

well my friend, Husein as seen in the pic above ... had the sudden urge to mount his wireless router to the rack ...
and our luck the mounting holes of the dlink router didnt match up with the racks .....
so wat do we do .... drill new holes



the victim ..... dlink wireless router....

heres where we intended to mount it ....




after opening here up .....


the mounting holes marked ....

now i tried sommat stupid .... trying to make the holes with a screw and screwdriver .....
not exactly the easiest thing to do .....( my rtx (dremel) was at hme )



this is wat it looks like after bout 20 mins of screwing .... not so good ....

well a trip hme and 30 seconds with the dremel and a drill bit .....


and here it is mounted nicely perfect fit



hooked up and ready to go

well prob extend the antenna with a cable so we can route it out the back ....or mayb a bigger antenna....

with dremel in hand i turned to hussein's first 4u rack ....


his coolermaster aquagate fan had fried .... and so seeing he had a huge delta like fan lying around ... thought we might as well stick it in .... with a bit of hacking and slashing


premoded coolermaster aquagate.......


and it opened up ... nuffin special inside ... the rad is hardwired to the resevoir...... and a weird looking pump setup

anyhows out comes the dremel



with the fan removed


after removing one of the mounts for the fan


both removed....



the cuts ... not to bad lucky the right was straighter ...cause we decided to scrap the left hand side one.....


after ripping the left one off



with the new fan in place ....


rear view ... the fans cables will b routed through that blowhole....


with casing back in place ... it hold the fan in place nice and tightly ....


fan power cables .....


mounted back in the case



hussein rewiring the watercooler .......


remounted in the rack

ok it looks a bit ghetto now .... but needed to get the server back up and running .... hussein had bought his 2 1tb hdd hard drives and wanted to consolidate his media ... like a kid on christmas ...had to play with the new toys .....

i plan to build a new face plate .... give it nice clean look .... prob either black acrylic with red mesh .....

till the nxt update
Dirty Moogler signing off ....