Hi all.
This is my first post on this forum... Please be gentle with me.
This worklog I'm afraid starts morethan half way through the build. But as it is a fairly unique (please correct me if its been seen before) mod, I thought it may be of interest to peeps.
Now to the story.
This is a lesson how "That seems a simple idea" turns into "How many of those things have I trashed now"
First of all lets start with a simple idea.
For my living room I wished a silent HTPC. It had to be silent as I intended it to run 24/7 and I like my piece and quiet. I also play some gentle jazz from time to time and the whine of a fan ruins the effect. So a plan was born.
Make a 100% passive HTPC.
On reflection this turned out to be the easier aspect of this machine.
Inside
2100XP palamino Undervolted 10 1.4v and underclocked to 1133mhz. Cooled by a modded typhoon.
Abit NF7 mobo. Modded with a 6cm CPU copper cooler, running the NB passive. The power regulators are heatsinked with a cut up PII heatsink. The SB has a PII heatsink shaped and added. The thing runs stable with no forced cooling
2x512mb DDR 400 ram heatsinked with nexus memory sinks. Running in dual channel mode.
Silverstone 30NF 300w power supply. 100% passive piece of alu gorgeousness!
ATI 9600 pro AIW (tuner now no longer required)
Asus 7131 DVBT card
V-Stream/K-World DVB-T100
So I thought take a standardish cheapo ATX Midi tower case. Stripped out the bays, cut out the front, panels at the rear and rear sides. Make a new front panel I have a cover made which is meshed at the rear as well. More of that to follow...
I then thought (and this is where I have to say a lesson could be learned about how dangerous thoughts are!) There is space in their for other stuff, what else could I fit in there. The answer was staring me in the face. My playstation 2.
This was the killer. Or to put it more exactly I became a playstation Killer....
I stripped the first PS2 down. I seem to recall it was a V7. Worked out a placement, built brackets. Removed its own power supply, Soldered a molex onto it and tried it out. Bingo, power and it worked. Now all I had to do was
1. Extend the controllers and Mem cards to the side of the new case.
2. Extend the graphics output to the back of the new case.
3. Work out how to get the power and eject buttons to the front of the case.
4. Add drive bays to the (at this time non existant) front facia panel
Easy?
I searched the web, but noone seemed to have done this mod before.
Now the piccies...
I will be stripping the thing down for painting and further filling. When I do I can take some photos of the playstation conversion to give an idea on whats involved.
I would also welcome positive suggestions on how to take this case further.
Justblair