So a big LAN Party is coming up locally and LANtastic is past due for some work. I'm contemplating doing the Choppers mod on a completely different case, the one I have now is *very* diffucult to work with and the window, well, you guys know about all the Bondo work I have been doing, it is anything but easy and clearly out of my realm for sculpture. I think I made the cut too big on the Choppers Mod now that I think about it and it would be *much* easier not to mention 100% cleaner to do it on a canvas with enough real estate for such a huge cut.

In the mean time, after feedback from the Gallery I will rebuild my Gateway mod and do it right this time. A lot has been added to it since I posted it in the Gallery so here is the first titillating pic of what's been done.

This is the motherboard and processor and memory out of the Gateway mod. Full specs:

DFI AZ-30 TL
XP2400 2.0ghz
1gb SuperTalent DDR400
GeForce4 Ti4600 64mb

Like I said, nothing special, but it gets the job done well and I have a 9600 Pro waiting to be installed once the Choppers Mod gets a 6600GT.

Here you can see a Northbridge and Southbridge mod. Because the Gateway case is small and cramped I have done some extreme air-cooling mods to the board. Epoxy is Loctite 387. Supersocket 7 cooler on the VIA KM266 NB and a passive blue heatsink on the south bridge, which has a 120mm Panaflo H1A intake fan blowing cool air over it.

Tomorrow I'll get started on the twin-60mm exhaust fans, if I have enough Dremel wheels left to do it.

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Why such a hardcore cooler on the 2400+...that thing can almost be passive cooled...

The space in the Gateway mod is *very* tight and the PSU sits just above the CPU, this is a case intended for a Celeron 366. It's roughly the equivalent of taking a Toyota Corolla and stuffing a Corvette LS7 crate motor inside without any hood clearance modifications.

Plus I have all these machines in my room folding so they heat the room up. CPU load temps are 52*C

If any of you are curious as to the cooler, I'll be straight up honest, it's a CompUSA Pro Gamer cooler with a 60mm Tornado fan and AS5. The fan is on a Coolermaster Cooldrive 4. I do know that the heatsink used is almost identical to one that GK did a review on, and CompUSA has a habit of slapping their name on other manufacturer's products.

Okay, I'm about 90% certain I ****ed this one up. When I cut the fanholes I didnt take into account the power-supply fan and how low it sits over the cpu.....

So basically I cut fan holes and the fans will have to be located on the exterior of the case. This is good and bad, good because it will pull more hot air out since the intake for the fans is right on the edge.

Bad because the cut is *very* close to the mounting holes.

Sorry this is just my $0.02..............j/k

Quote: Originally Posted by THRASHER2 Sorry this is just my $0.02..............j/k

i dunno if you wanna see the ones I took, they *really* look like ****.

Well they look better than the ones we see right now

Whoops I forgot to take one of the first hole, got rained out and had to put everything away in a hurry.

Here is a shot I did of the pilot crosses I started with the Dremel. the first one was the lower 60mm. The problem is that with many mATX systems with these PSU's, the PSU fan doubles as a CPU cooling fan. Yeah, great idea blowing hot air all over your processor.

The fan protrudes fan enough to where a 60mm fan will have to be on the outside, tomorrow I'll actually finish the cut and sand it down. The fan hole was cut with a 64mm hole saw.

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I will pimp smack you if you continue making work logs with like 3 pictures total.

Quote: Originally Posted by Spectrum I will pimp smack you if you continue making work logs with like 3 pictures total.

And I will rise you three More if he doesn't Listen

Actually I took like 7 or 8 of the back before I modded those fans, but I guess you're right, I should post more pics, so post has been edited accordingly.

Fan holes cut, first pic is the cut, then I sanded around the edges and drilled the mounting holes, and now it looks like the 2nd pic. CPU load temps dropped 5*C. Fans are 2.3w Sunon 60mm. I have a pair of Zalman fans manufactured my Sunon that have more airflow but I need a fan splitter to run them.

I also peeled off the ATX backplate sticker that came from Gateway, as I plan on completely repainting this one. I'm not sure if I should go black or white on the case itself. The shell will be redone in the same cow scheme except done right.

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Look at theses.....Some 60mm fan grills....Would look sweeet on the project.
Grill

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I've considered actually making my own, there's a tut somewhere on this site on how to do it.

And for those of you wondering the temps I'm gettin at the die on this 2400, here you go.

This is what happens when you go to ends of the world just to have a cool system. It will probably get cooler when I cut the inlets on the front of the case for the 120mm intake fan. I have been playing with different fans and I think I got it the hardware setup they way I want it, minus a GeForce 4 Ti4600. I have a GTS 32mb DDR with FULL modification, a P3 cooler on the GPU and monster RAMsinks. There's more aluminum on the graphics card than there is on my Sting-Ray

EDIT: Performance PCs is located about 3 buildings down from where I work, they're located in the same industrial zone as MC Assembly, where I work.

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