Joey's FIRST Work Log - HELP GREATLY APPRICIATED
Hello TBCS!!!,
I would like to start this off my saying thank you to everyone here! what an excellent forum with a wealth of info in case modding. I have made 1 post so far, and everyone has been friendly. I am looking forward to becoming an active member here and am thankful for everyone's courtesy.
STORY
- Let's me start the story with some background about myself. I have always been savy with computers, however I have NEVER built a computer myself, or build my own case. My father is excellent at overclocking and computer building, but I don't believe he has much interest in case modding. Anyway what started me off was he had a ton of very good parts just laying around his office he said I could have...They are not top of the line, but they are free! So I decided to build my own computer with his help. Now I was planning on just getting a cool looking case, (I would love to case mod myself, but I didn't feel I had the necessary skills for it), so I was very close to buying an NZXT Lexa S until I saw it in stores and knowing it was a Mid size i was still pretty surprised how small it was, especially compared to my dad's CM 830. It also kind of seemed cheap and the plastic would break easy...So i kind of dropped the subject for a while.
- Now my college application will need to be submitted in a few months, and I was looking for a little more "umph" behind my engineering portfolio, as well as strengthen extra-curricular. As well as doing some upcoming projects in the NASA/physics club i started, I though an excellent way to demonstrate my AutoCAD, Inventor skills would be to design, draft-up, and make a computer case, and computer...I need to make one anyway right! So the main purpose of the case was going to be used for SOME type of computer distributing project, and since my dad already is an avid Folder, I decided to go with that. Now I'm not going to lie I really wanted just the full Silverstone Raven 01, but the price was wayyy out of what I would allow myself to spend, and lets be honest here...Does a first time builder even deserve such a run way? So anyway I wanted to make my own designed shell and Loved the 90 degree MB on the Raven So I called Silverstone up told them my situation and asked if they had any chassis laying around, and what do ya know! ((( One a side note SilverStone is an excellent company, who are honest, very friendly, and provide excellent products))) So the chassis came yesterday, and it was a little more beat up than I had initially expected. I was not mad at all because the guy had told me there was no "damage" but it did have scratches from removing parts, etc., however they were a little more extensive that I had anticipated. Anyway I have been looking for some sponsorships for the project in past week, and if I didn't have to invest a lot of money, i was going to donated the rig to the University. However I had real trouble with finding any sponsorships, even though EVGA said they would provide a "TRIAL" GPU, and Crucial though about it, but didn't have anything to provide in the end :\ This was kind of a disappointing set back, but oh well. It looks like this build will be staying at home with me
but I still plan to do some major folding.
- Currently I am still drafting up my designs, figuring out exactly what I am going to do, and now I plan to powder coat the case. Anyway right now I am trying to figure out how to organize this work log into subjects, so I can start showing you IDEAS, INSPIRATION, DRAFTING DESIGNS, etc. but I can't figure out how to make separate pages for this, and have a Table of Contents on this post, but I'll figure it out shortly and post everything up.
***NOTE: I apologize for the very wordy Story above, but I am very new here and just wanted everyone to know where I was coming from on this project. I promise I will keep this log short and to the point for you guys, as well as try my best to keep it organized.
One thing I want to make VERY clear. I am NEW... I want, and would GREATLY appreciate, ANY constructive criticism, ideas, comments, etc. I am going to do the project how I would like to do it, but you guys are SO creative and have so many out-of-the-box concepts I would be happy to look into your ideas, if you would be interested in sharing.
Thanks again everyone for all your help, and I look forward to learning from all of you, as well as hearing your feedback!!! I hope you enjoy my work log, and I hope you guys stick with it because I feel I have some great ideas,
-Joey
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