Project: LEXA

[calumc]

At a guess i'd say the middle one is ground, so yes you would just splice the red wire. But i'd check the datasheet for it. Or to test just wire it and see what happens!

[The boy 4rm oz]

I don't have a datasheet for these switches cos they just came in a plastic bad, no manufacturer marking what so ever. I will try splicing the red wires today and will let you know how it goes.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Another update guys.
I put the switches on hold today but hope to play with them tomorrow .

Instead today I did some painting.
I went to my local hardware store and got a can of flat black enamel paint, was just expecting to find matte black but anyway tell me what you think.
Here are the two painted side panels:

The smudge on the top left of the windowed panel isn't visible, the camera flash just picked it up.
Here is the panel with all the plastic stuff and lock installed from the inside:

And the outside:

I also primed and painted the PCI covers:

I also changed the plate on my Swiftech MCW-60 to fit my 8800GTX, here is a step by step tutorial.
Here is the standard block:

A pic of the adapter plate:

The dismantled water block, you pretty much just remove the 4 allen bolts and it falls apart:

The old plate on the left, and the new one on the right:

The block reassembled with the new adapter plate:

Complete with all the screws and barbs ready for mounting:

Well that's all for now, hopefully another update tomorrow. Until then...

Happy Modding.

[p0Pe]

Haha, originally I didn't have a fan on my HDD but I touched it once by accident and burnt my hand, it's amazing what difference a fan can make.

if i may suggest it its worth to use watercooled hdd´s:p you could do a setup as i did in my sandwitch mod... very effective

since you already have watercooling why not go for watercooled gfx, and hdd? or is that already the plan?

edit:

the panels could be a bit more shiny IMO :p

[The boy 4rm oz]

I didn't really want to go for a water cooled HDD cos it just meant extra work for me and the fan works great, wait and see how I set it up . I do have a GPU block, sorry i posted half the pics and u didn't get to see it.

EDIT: I didn't want to use gloss paint in the interior because I think the matte black would contrast better with the bright UV colors that are scattered across my components.

[p0Pe]

why not go for the stealth block... thats sooooo much cooler :p

[The boy 4rm oz]

The MCW-60 is cheaper (even after buying the RAM and mosfet sinks + the adapter plate) and the Stealth doesn't give me any room to upgrade, it is solely for the 8800GTX. After seeing that the MCW-60 can outperform the full Danger Den block by 1-2 degrees, this was the better option, even over the Stealth. You can't go past a better performing product that's cheaper and leaves you room to upgrade in the future with very few extra costs attached.

[The boy 4rm oz]

No more painting today guys, I decided to finish my PSU cover.

I gave you a glimpse of the cover a few posts back and as you can see there wasn't really much done.

It was basically just a piece of cut plexi but a lot has changed.
This morning I went down to the hardware store and got the required bolts and domed nuts that I will be using to mount my plastic bits, as you can see there aren't many there, I will need at least two more packs of each before this mod is done.

Now onto the PSU cover.
Here's the cover with the holes drilled for the mounting bolts:

These are what I will be using to mount some of my plastic bits. I got these from an old Meccano kit that I had when I was younger. For those of you that don't know what Meccano is, it's basically like LEGO but instead of using plastic blocks it uses nuts, bolts and metal panels.
Here is a pic:

Here is the plastic piece wet sanded and with the mounting brackets installed using those cool domed nuts:

A side on view:

And a view from the back:

You guys remember that dust trap cover I made a while back? Well today I also mounted that with the new screws and domed nuts.
Here's a pic:

Sorry about that first pic, I uploaded with the wrong resolution but you get the idea .

Well I don't know how much modding I will get done tomorrow cos I was kinda hoping to do some of the homework I have that's due at the start of the new term which is Monday. I hope to at least get those switches sorted out if I have the time. Until then...

Happy Modding.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Sorry about the lack of posts guys. Damn homework takes forever and with the new school term starting tomorrow I really want to get it all finished. I hope to get the rest of the work done over this week with water cooling on the weekend or over the next two weeks and water cooling in a fortnight. Until then...

Happy Modding.

[The boy 4rm oz]

First update of the new school term yay lol.

Well I have already been swamped with homework (year 11 blows!!) so I haven't been able to do much but I had a free 10 mins and decided to mount my two switches that I will be using to turn the CCFL's off. They are the same switches ! was having the problem with the LED's and no I haven't had a chance to fix that problem yet.

Ok enough talking, on to the pics.
I am mounting these switches on a FDD drive fascia so firstly I masked one up and marked for cutting:

I started by drilling two holes:

Because dad didn't have a big enough drill bit I had to use my Sontax rotary tool and a grinding attachment to make the holes bigger:

Here is the completed hole with a switch installed:

The other hole is drilled and the second switch installed:

Finally here is a pic of the switch lit up so you can see what it looks like in the on position:

Sorry about the bad pics guys.

This part of the mod took about 10 mins with the longest part being marking the holes up.

I want to get the majority of the plastic work (mounting and cutting mesh) done during the week and a little bit more on the weekend. Until then...

Happy Modding.