Jolly's Tech Bench 2010

Jolly's Tech Bench 2010

This is going to be a Redo - Total Revamp of an Old Project had a few years back and originally was one of my first SmoothWall Firewalls wooden case build

The Old




I am going to make from the Old and Recycle some of the Wood Case to make the New Jolly's Tech bench, for general Testing and Benching in my Workshop Garage

Also will be Incorporating some NMC style to it even though I am not in the Competition as I am one of the Competition Judge;s,

First Anniversary NMC Themed Case Mod Contest

Contest Details can be Found in this Tread
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=630285

Official NMC Contest Web Page - Rules and Information


I just needed something to do, kinda getting to Quiet and bored round here so, with a little Time up my sleeve and No Money for Real Case Modding
The only outlay here is for some Paint, as everything else is from scraps left over in garage from other Mods!


Materials List
The Old wood case, and extra wood (already have)
Some wood Screws (already have)
Some Plexi (left over pieces from The Sled Project)
HDD cage/CD-DVD drive cage ( left over from old case)
Spray Paint Cans Matt Black x 2 - Purple x1 - Sandpaper (cost $15.00AU)
Spray Clear Coat Satin x 1.5cans(already Have)


Recycling at it Best!

So stay Tuned as More to come soon!
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So I Have Started on the Recycle/Revamp of the old Wooden Case to be Now used as Jolly's Tech-Bench 2010,

First I pulled the Back off and the base that housed the Motherboard + HDD ( Had already previously been Removed and stored)

Now the Old Top has become the Base and added 2 Rails Across the Back Top & Bottom



Made 120mm Intake Opening for PSU Air intake on Bottom Base Plate



Cut out CD Drive /Removable HDD Caddy Bay and Front Window Cutout (Plexi Panels will go on these two areas)



Made Right Side Panel with Mounting Cutout for PSU (Recycled from old Case panels)





Made Left Side Panel with 120mm Intake vent and Inspection Opening ( for getting access to CD Drive Cage)
Also cut 120mm hole (was 80mm before) and access slot in wooden case side.





Made Plexi Cover Panel for CD Drive/HDD Caddy Bay



Cut Top Deck which will also be hinged at rear, and Front Plexi Window Panel ( will also have PWR/RST SW and LED.s PWR/HDD activity ect on it)




Made HDD Drive Bay with 80mm Cooling Fan Plate



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Things to Do
Finish cutting Side Panel slots in 120mm Side Intake vent
Cut Cable Management Slots in Top Deck for M/B access
Make Mounting for M/B PCI Brackets ( GPU ect)
Sand and fill old holes
Paint main Frame and Side Panels, also Top Deck (Special Paint effects)
Paint CD Drive Bay Cage and HDD Drive Bay Cage
Mount Rubber Feet to Base

NOTE - May Have a Little Hold Up as my Power Drill Blew up
Has lasted me quite a good time 10yrs so guess is time for New one, but will have to wait couple weeks maybe, as NO Money at this time for New One! :beg:

Time Spent 10hrs
Money Spent = $15.00AU (spray paint cans x3, sandpaper, non-slip matt)

That's all for Now Stay Tuned for More soon!
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Finished off Cutting slots in Side Panel 120mmFan intake,
Made side Panel inspection Cover,
Finished Drilling and Cutting Slots in Top Deck for Cable Routing,
Made strengthening Bracket for Drive cage, added 10mm alu angle for mounting to main frame,
Gave everything its first Base Coat of Matt Black Paint

Top Deck Painted Base Coat


Main Frame Painted Base Coat


Drive Cages & Side Panels Painted Base Coat


Things To Do
Make Mounting for M/B PCI Brackets ( GPU ect)
Second Coat Paint and special Effects
Mount Rubber Feet to Base ( need to get these)
Mount M/B Standoffs
PWR + RS Switches (need to get)
HDD + PWR LED (have these)


Time Spent 6hrs
Money Spent = $.00
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Total Money Spent =$15.00AU



Here are some Pics of the Paint effect I am using on the Side Panels

Side Panel for PSU Mount


Side Panel 120mm Fan intake and inspection Panel


Inspection Panel


Also have made plate to go on HDD Cage to hold 80mm Cooling Fan

HDD Cage with 80mm fan holder




Just small update still have to do second coat Main Frame and Top Deck and Special effect to Front of Main Frame, then Mount Side panels.

The Main Frame and Top Deck will also get Clear Estapol Clear Coat along with the HDD Cage and Drive Bay Cage

Time Spent = 3hrs
Money Spent $0
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Total Money Spent = $15.00AU

Other To Do,s
Make Mounting for M/B PCI Brackets ( GPU ect)
Mount Rubber Feet to Base ( need to get these)
Mount M/B Standoffs
PWR + RS Switches (need to get)
HDD + PWR LED (have these)

Also need to Get M/B Header plugs and leads for PWR/RST and HDD/PWR Leds.

Having trouble tracking down the Headers, if anyone has some spare or know where can get much appreciated!






That's all for Now Stay Tuned for More soon!
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This Update I have done some more Clear Satin Estapol Coats to main Frame and Side panels, and Gave the Top Deck a Coat of Wattyl Clear Estapol ,
as I still had half a can of and more robust than the Spray can Clear.

Also made and Mounted PCI Mounting Post, from Alu 12mm Rod and 12mm angle
Monted HDD Cage with 80mm Cooling Fan,
Mounted Motherboard Stand off's to Top Deck and made slot for PCI Brckets to sit in when mounted on post.
Found some chrome handles in drawer so also mounted them to sides of Panels on Case.

Mounted Feet to base and also some Black Alu Fly-wire screen to Back with Velcro Tabs for easy removal (Couldn't get any black Velcro so just had to use what I had)

Mounted PWR/RS Switches and LED's to Plexi Front Panel

So up to date I,m 98% Finished

Front Tech Bench View


Side View PSU Side Panel (handles Mounted)


Side View Intake vent and Inspection cover Side Panel (also Mounted other handle)


Internal View HDD Cage Drive Bay and 120mmFan (also mounted some stick on Vibration strip to Main Frame)


Bottom View (Case Feet Mounted)


PCI Bracket Mounting Post (No its not a Set of Soccer Goals)



Time Spent = 6hrs
Money Spent $13.80 ( PWR/RS Push Switches $9.00AU and Case Feet $4.80AU )
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Money Spent Total = $28.80.00AU
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Other Still To Do,s
Also need to wire up M/B Header plugs and leads for PWR/RST and HDD/PWR Leds.


I was able to get some of the Header M/B Plugs from Local R/C Hobby Shop these are almost identical so should work find, and he just gave me them for Free too!


More Pics will be Taken later as to see the Painted effect better in Natural Light, but will have to Wait til Camera Batteries are recharged, so will take some Outdoor Pics then too!!



That's all for Now Stay Tuned for More soon!

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Today I have Finished Front Panel wiring for PWR/RS Switches and LED,s, also added Banana Sockets for Testing Purposes.
I have three installed Black - Negative Post, Yellow - 12 Volt Post , Red - 5 Volt Post
These are wired to Molex Socket Plug and also have corresponding LED,s to show Powered State.
Have also a Molex 4 pin Plug with some Banana Plugs that can be used for Testing ect.

Front Panel Finished


Close-Up Front Panel




Wiring Loom Finished


All Done Finished


Outdoor Pics






Time Spent = 6hrs
Money Spent + $0
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Money Spent Total = $28.80.00AU
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Things To Do!

- Make Video
- Take some more Pics when Cooler Weather Been to Hot here at Moment
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That's all for Now Stay Tuned for More soon!


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Jolly's Tech Bench Video



That's all for Now Stay Tuned for More soon!
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After the very Hot weather we have had the Stick-on Velcro isnt sticking as well as it should,
so have decided to make an aluminium frame to hold the Flywire Mesh in place on the Rear of Tech Bench and also for the Bottom PSU Intake.

Finished Rear Screen


Bottom PSU Intake Filter




Time Spent = 3hrs
Money Spent + $8.20 (25mm x 2.5mm x 3000mm Flat Alu )
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Money Spent Total = $37.00.00AU
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That's all for Now Stay Tuned for More soon!
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Update Fri 19 March 2010


Made some Additions to Jolly's Tech bench 2010,

have now included a Cooling Gantry to help aide in cooling GPU area or could move/add for Ram too,

Also have it currently loaded up with Hardware from my Main Rig CM-690, as this one is going through a Total Revamp/Upgrade at the moment,
So will post log up shortly on that one too!

Cooling Gantry








All Up Running a back Folding again too!


That all for now Stay Tuned!​

Update 26 May 2010

Had some Corsair Dominator's sent to me from a Forum buddy Deadlysyn so I have installed them in Jolly's tech Bench

Have also used Deb's old XFX-7600GT XXX edition GPU for now!

Also added Custom Ram Colling Fan and mount

Corsair Dominator's





Installed on Tech Bench



Custom Cooling Fan & Mount



XFX-7600GT & Cooling Fans



Jollys Tech Bench Garage desk



Since the weather here has cooled down some what, the Q6600 OC'd easily to 3.6 Ghz with these Dominator's,
But for 24/7 running 3.2 Ghz is enough on the Power consumption for Folding and the Temps are awesome 23C 20C 22C 20C idle,
and 43C 42C 40C 40C @ Load while Folding SMP2 on four Cores and a PDD of over 7000 !

Folding PDD


Folding Temps @ LOAD


Thats all for this New Update! ​

CoolIT VANTAGE ALC



Received my Package from CoolIT Systems, containing 2 x CoolIT VANTAGE-ALC Cooler's









Now looking forward to Installing and Testing on a Couple of my Rigs,

One will go into Jolly's CM-690 Case Mod v2.0 and the other will be Tested on Jolly's Tech Bench 2010

Then one will eventually find its home in my Wife's Storm Scout Rig

A very Big Thank You to Barry Reicker (CoolIT Systems)
For supplying these Wonderful Cooling Systems

Also mdcomp has one of these too so will be hopefully seeing some results from him in the Cooling Thread Post!



Update Wed 18th August 2010


Installing the CoolIT VANTAGE ALC




Current Set-Up on Jolly's Tech Bench 2010 with the Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz and cooled with Vendetta 2 HSF,



There are some Screen shots in above Post for Core Temps ect, and also since being so cold here lately the Temp,s are even better than above with Q6600 @ Full Load sitting nice @ 30C -35C across all 4 cores


So on to Dismantling Jolly's Tech Bench to make ready fro CoolIT VANTAGE ALC Installation


Dismantling Jolly's Tech Bench






With Mobo off and Vendetta 2 Removed, just leaving the HR-05 NB HSF, it was now onto making another Fan Shroud for the Coolit VANTAGE ALC

Now the last one was simple , but this one needed some modding to be done to it, as where the screw holes go it was the solid closed type,
As seen in pice below, with one corner done




Now with the 120mm Fan shroud made its on to installing them on the CoolIT VANTAGE ALC with a second 120mm x 25mm Antec Tri-Cool Fan

So the configuration will be Push Pull,,, ( <<<< Airflow) Drawing cool air
<<<< | Antec 120mm x 25mm Fan |120mmx 20mm Shroud |CoolIT RAD|120mm x 25mm Shroud |120mm PWM Fan | Black fan grill <<<<








Close-Up of the Shroud Set-Up



Then made a Bracket to mount the CoolIT VANTAGE ALC on the Cooling Gantry of Jolly's Tech Bench,




Installation to Jolly's Tech Bench





CoolIT VANTAGE ALC Coolant Temp Alarm @ 17C





All installed Ready for some testing and Loading Newly Replaced HDD with Win7 Pro x64 OS



Installing Wn 7 Pro x64



Testing and OC

CPU-z Validation




CPU-z & CoreTemp



Folding@Home SMP -4



Very Happy with the Results of Temps on Par with the Vendetta 2 HSF,
The only Quibble I have is that it took some time for the Dam Beeping Alarm on the CoolIT VANTAGE ALC to stop as when the Coolant is below 19C it beeps,
So when the system was Idle Coolant Temp was @ 15C then after a while Folding @ 100% Coolant slowly raised to above 21.5C Beeping Alarm stopped

Q6600 Cores Temps were around 25C-29C but have since settled to 22C-25C across the Cores

So overall the Set-up Configuration I have is Pretty good and fairly Quiet too!

Impressed!

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Update Tue 24th August

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Jolly's Tech Bench
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Ran Prime95 for a few hrs as a Torture Test to see the Max Temps of the cores using the CoolIT VANTAGE ALC

Also see CoreTemp running too showing Max Temp @ 42C - 44C - 45C - 46C 100% load @ 3.20Ghz

CoolIT VANTAGE coolant Temp @ 25.2C

Prime95 Screenshot



Tests were conducted with an Ambient Temp @ 15C in the Garage Room​