Something different...

[jdbnsn]

Remember anytime you are cutting thicker metal, lay down a line of lubricating oil on the line you plan to cut and it will greatly reduce damage to your tools. I learned this the hard way, and it does make a difference.

[xmastree]

Yeah, I really ought to know that, having worked in a machine shop many years ago. I think it's down to cheap tools though. A cheap and nasty set of hole saws I bought for about $5. Initially bought (and used effectively) for making holes in plastic drums.
I know it's bad form, blaming the tools...

[xmastree]

Here it is, up and running. Makes a good footrest for now...

For the record, inside is an Athlon 2400+, 512MB, 80GB, Asus A7V8X-X, 300W PSU. And a blue LED.
the only problem is I'm missing the floppy eject button.
That CDROM is an old one I put in there to fill the hole. It will get a DVD/CDRW combo eventually. How cool would it be if I could use that 12x front panel on it?

[xmastree]

Hmm...
If you go back to post #10 and read the bit about my neighbour's 386.

I seem to have acquired it.

It'll take a little more work to do something with it, since the back panel isn't ATX unlike the one I just did.

[DaveW]

It would make a sweet mod though! Specially when people come around to catch you playing FEAR on what looks like a 20 year old computer. Just tell them you over clocked it mega-style

-Dave

[xmastree]

It would make a sweet mod though!

Notice there seems to be no power switch? I presume it was on the back of the PSU, which is missing. I'll bet I could do something with that 5.25 floppy's door handle...
Or maybe the ignigion key would be the way to go.
Keyboard connector on the front? I would have to keep that. Shouldn't be too difficult to wire up an extension, cut from an old AT mobo and mount it there.

I'm now looking at my computer desk. There's a shelf at foot level, with not much on it. This would be much nicer without that stickyout thing on one side holding my current setup.

Hmmmm...

[Canada's Own Falcon]

if you're still worried about cooling (I Noticed you don't have any intake fans) try adding one just behind where your power switch mount is. This will serve 2 purposes. First, it will help cool your HDD (Which I'm assuming is mounted below the floppy drive) and second it will provide a decent airstream over the whole Mobo.

[xmastree]

It seems to be ok now. There is one intake fan, that small one on the back near the CPU.

[DaveW]

Holy crapolla...a whole 4 MB of memory?

1988..so we can do a quick confirmation of moore's law then, which says that raw processing power doubles every 18 months.

so....
16MB in 1991...
64MB in 1994...
256MB in 1997...
1024MB in 2000...
Which is probably today's average. But somewhere in there you gotta factor in the move to DDR ram, higher speeds, dual channel memory mode...not to mention the fact that memory was held back by 32 bit CPU's...i'd say that Moore's law is actually pretty darn accurate. Appart from saying we should all have 16,384MB (or ~16GB) of RAM right now. Wouldn't that be sweet

I gotta see this mod finished man.

-Dave

[xmastree]

I gotta see this mod finished man.

Damn, I haven't even started it yet, too busy with the ATX desktop.

Here's the reason I can't put any vents in the top:

Although I do like Canada's Own Falcon's idea of an intake on the left side, behind the power switch. There are some vents along both sides, but just thin slots. It wouldn't take much to join some together to form a square.
I would mount the fan itself on the chassis, to ease on wiring and make the cover still easy to remove.

Yep, I think I'll do that.