***Bleedin Edge Case Mods***

**ALX_eater** · 02-09-2005, 07:24 AM

pretty sweet. custom made psu.......how did you come about that?

**Blueball** · 02-09-2005, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by ALX_eater

pretty sweet. custom made psu.......how did you come about that?

I design and build my own mods.

I was running a 72W TEC so I decided I needed Dual PSU. With a simple relay, I now have two 5V and 12V rails :>

***Snafu*** · 02-09-2005, 07:50 AM

Very nice

Sounds like it has some small business potential for cutoms builders

**ALX_eater** · 02-09-2005, 07:54 AM

AH I see I wasn't able to see the pic before hand. I was thinking you prototyped your own board. But it is a "sexy" idear.

**joeMan** · 02-09-2005, 07:59 AM

Blueball, was your wall mounted rig featured in CPU magazine? I think I've seen it before...

Anyway, it looks awesome man.

**Blueball** · 02-09-2005, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by joeMan

Blueball, was your wall mounted rig featured in CPU magazine? I think I've seen it before...

Anyway, it looks awesome man.

If its been in a magazine ... I want royalties

Nah .. I'm a member at OCForums and Bit-tech ... My full project log is at OCForums

I've made a few WBs ... heres a look or two

**Blueball** · 02-09-2005, 09:02 AM

Prototype I

**Blueball** · 02-09-2005, 09:04 AM

I won't clutter the Case Mod thread anymore ... here's the last pic for now.

These are my custom HDD coolers. They were probably the easiest.

**joeMan** · 02-09-2005, 04:14 PM

Holy Moly! Very cool stuff man.

**BB_One** · 02-09-2005, 04:38 PM

Like he said, holy moly....nice stuff u got there.

How do you work with this metal, u got machine shop in garage? Hard drive cooler is that solid aluminum block that was drilled to make water space or sheets welded together with..darn I suppose argon ??

I assume a hell of a lot of work to do all this..nicely done. Copper cpu water block is simply freaken scary...lol...I love it, nice design.

**Blueball** · 02-09-2005, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by BB_One

How do you work with this metal, u got machine shop in garage? Hard drive cooler is that solid aluminum block that was drilled to make water space or sheets welded together with..darn I suppose argon ??

I am a construction contractor by day ... Evil PC Modder at night.

My arch nemesis is Pyro

.. my weapon is Hydro (BOTH Electricity and Water)

ok ... nuf bs ..

The "Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler" is an easy mod. I'll describe more after you see this pic

**Blueball** · 02-09-2005, 04:59 PM

Remove everything so that you are left with the one piece of extruded aluminum.

Note the fans blow air through slots (long holes next to each other) and air comes out the other end. Here's the easy part... snap off EVERY OTHER piece of the dividing aluminum between slots. Cap the ends (except for the outer slots).

Select your water fittings so they fit in the outer slots. I used JB Weld to fasten the piece of aluminum on the ends.

Done.

The water will now zig-zag through the aluminum block.

FB · 02-13-2005, 07:25 PM

i have update my case, here it is now, i added a fan controller tonite (you will see from the pics) so my case has the fan controller, audio jacks, game port, USB2.0 ports, and a light switch, oh yeah and my custom paint job.

here are the pics, enjoy

**~~Android Vageta~~** · 02-13-2005, 07:33 PM

Looks good! I like the mass of melted plastic around the audio chip, real professional

FB · 02-13-2005, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by Android Vageta

Looks good! I like the mass of melted plastic around the audio chip, real professional

actually that is silicone that was painted, i have brackets that hold it in place,but they were too flimsy and i was too lazy to make new ones, so i filled it in good with silicon, then when i painted my case it got overspray on it.

or do you mean the black spot? where were USB and a Firewire port on that board as well, and i burnt the pcb trying to desolder them (they did a really really good job from the factory)