Although I employed some help. I enlisted the help of Legodudes Inc. I contracted
them to perform the installation of the mainboard and all associated parts,
since my fingers are too fat for jumpers, plus I figured it'd be entertaining.
Well, it was until I started to get real tired and wanted to hurry up and get
done. Of course they were a little on the slow side, tensions erupted, and they
quit. But up until that point I got some neat shots.
Before anyone gets any further, please note that this idea isin't mine, but
borrowed from "The story of Andy's Computer".
Thanks Andy for being creative and giving us copycats something to think about.
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So here's the team. A nice intrepid group of young men. |
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The team scoping out the situation. |
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I didn't need to do anything, except take pictures. They even
opened up the stuff themselves. |
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Bluepants: No green! Don't touch that button. It'll blow everything up!
I guess onboard power/reset buttons do have their disadvantages.
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Viking guy playing hide and seek in the HUGE northbridge heatsink.
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Bustin' out the power tools to open the CPU. |
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OK - careful guys! This part's delicate. |
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Movin' the CPU over to the board. |
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Gently placing the CPU in its appropriate location |
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Poor tuxedo guy couldn't get the lever down, he didn't weigh
enough. |
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Teamwork works! |
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It went down a little too fast, resulting in a nasty fall.
Luckily, everyone was okay. |
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Viking guy: Geesh, this is heavy! What do I do with this stuff.
What is it anyways? |
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Tropical dude: Wow, look how shiny and polished the bottom
of this Thermalright SK-900 heatsink is. I can see my reflection and everything!
I'm sure it'll be great for thermal transfer so Garry can overclock the
shit out of his CPU! |
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Viking dude carefully placing the clips for the heat sink.
Garry: Don't scratch any traces, it's been done before!
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Tropical dude: "This thing's too heavy, we need reinforcements!" |
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Reinforcements arrive... |
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And the fan is set in place.
Blueman: "This is a big fan Tropical Dude!"
Tropical Dude: "Yeah, I know. It's a 92MM Panaflo medium output
fan. It pushes over 57 cubic feet per minute of air at lower than 35 decibals.
With this, I bet Garry will be able to overclock the shit out of his CPU,
and not only that, but it overhangs the northbridge effectively turning
the passive heatsink into an active one!"
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Blueman: "All you ever talk about is Garry overclocking
the shit out of his CPU, Tropical Dude. I'm going to go use some power tools!" |
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Tropical Dude: "Wow! A crucial PC3200 512MB DDR SDRAM module! I
bet with this Garry will be able to overclock the..."
Viking Dude: "SHUT UP TROPICAL DUDE"
Tropical Dude: "out of his FSB"
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Green Dude: "Just don't drop it!" |
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They slam the RAM chip into place. I don't know how they managed
to push it down all by themselves, but they did. |
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Blue Dude: "OK Boys, on to the case!" |
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Blue Pants: "It's big" |
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Undaunted, they begin their task.
Viking Dude: "We won't be needing this anymore, since the DFI Lanparty
NFII ultra has 2 LAN, 4 USB, and 3 sound ports on the back it doesen't
follow the standard ATX form factor."
Good thing he knows what he's talking about.
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This is where things started to go awry. A hot game of hide and seek
ensued inside my case.
Bluepants: "Ready or not here I come!"
Whitepants: "He'll never find me here!"
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Green dude was doing his duty however, inserting the studs
to mount the mainboard. |
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Viking dude was also busy putting electrical tape over the
studs so nothing grounds out. |
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The guys doing one final inspection, now that the board is
mounted in the tray. |
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Tropical Dude: "Wow, a Zalman 400W Power supply. I'll
bet you it's real quiet. And, with 400W of clean power it'll let Garry overclock
the shit out of his CPU!" |
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Tropical Dude: "Wow, this is a lot of wires!" |
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And that was the end of it, shortly thereafter a riot ensued
wich left, unfortunately many dead or wounded. But I pressed on. Here's
a picture of the fan right in front of the HDD bay. Good idea for cooling,
that's for sure. |
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The power supply installed. |
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You can't see the dragon laser cut grill, but it's there. |
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Here's the aftermath of the riot. It wasn't pretty. |
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Got everything mounted, making a few final modifications.
Used the Frontx ports from the mobo to connect to the built on ports on
the front(no cables going out the back and then back in) |
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Here's a nother mod. I put an extra headphone jack and microhpone
jack in the front, along with a separate power switch for the UV lighting
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So that's the end of my computer construction story. I will be posting pictures
of the finished product very soon!
