Super Computer

[BigJohnson]

OK, so lets start with the false advertising. It wont really be super. Its too outdated.

I have been around for a little bit now, but I finally got the courage up to see what I can do. I own a dell. Its about 5 years old and it was the best when I bought it. However. I did a little customization inside. Added another dvd drive and another hd and now it doesnt cool at all. I leave the side off the tower when I have it on. I dont have any pics right now. but I did do a sketch of the mid tower I plan to use and what I plan to make it look like.

Here's what I want to do. The blue on the case is all acrylic. The right side almost looks like flower petals. The left side is just plain. This is no good.

First my old computer that has room for cooling:

Now what I want it to look like:
I want to take the acrylic off this side. I want to reshape the wholes to look like the insignia. Then I want to put blue modders mesh instead. The hole is for a fan that died long ago. I might put a new one in, but I might put a bigger one in. Budget is shallow right now. Im finally moving out of my parents house again.

The top has this vent. I want to make the opening a bit bigger. Accent it with yellow and perhaps a led fan. Its right behind the drives and I want to keep them cool.

With this plain left side I just want to paint. I want to make it look like the logo is breaking through the metal. I couldnt do this in sketchup so I left it like this.

I'll have some live shots when I get back home this weekend. I have the case apart and the left panel sanded, primered and taped.

Let me know what you think. Thanks for looking. Im also looking for a good way to to make the holes in the side. Since the holes I'm making will be slightly larger at points and smaller in others.
Adam

[p0Pe]

could look cool!
what are you going to make the logo with? red yellow, and blue acrylic xD! would be awesome

[BigJohnson]

could look cool!
what are you going to make the logo with? red yellow, and blue acrylic xD! would be awesome

I haven't really figured it out yet. I was going to paint it and see how it turned out. I might do it mostly out of sheet metal and then finish it off with acrylic to make it look like its floating. I figured a series of trials and errors will help me.

[Spawn-Inc]

going with the acrylic idea and steel sheet idea you could make the use sheet metal for the blue and red parts then put a sheet of acrylic behind the two and light it up with some yellow LED's. you can get cheap LED's at Lsdiodes, 45 cent LEDs! - $2 shipping to anywhere in the world!

[p0Pe]

I figured a series of trials and errors will help me.

yeah... nothing like a lot of errors is able to make a good result in the end but can be a royal pita if it takes to many trieys :/

[BigJohnson]

OK, so do I get clear acrylic and yellow LEDs or yellow acrylic and yellow LEDS? How many would I need to do the yellow? Keep in mind that the only yellow will be in the logo, the outside is going to be blue and silver.

[p0Pe]

yellow acrylic, that way the logo will shine out from rest of hte case

[Spawn-Inc]

if your going to a store to pick out the acrylic then rig up a little led flash light and see which looks better otherwise go with the yellow acrylic just to be safe.

[BigJohnson]

Ok, so here are some of the pics of what my case looked like before.

Yes, it has an atari sticker. It runs about as fast as the Atari 2800.

Here it is, all taped off.

I'm doing some paint right now, I want to see how it turns out before i start cutting it apart.


Can anyone tell me where I can find sheets of orange and yellow acrylic? I checked ACRyan and didnt see anything, but I have been pretty busy, so I didn't look long.

[Jim Beam]

whoa dude you gotta resize those pics to 600 x 800 or link them.