Project Log: Industrial Strength Velcro (no case)

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Hi. This is my first post. Enjoy.

Hardware:
Motherboard: DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D
Processor: AMD Opteron 165
Video Card: nVidia 6800gs
Memory: Nanya Technology DDR400 512MB (x2)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM
Power Supply: Enermax Whisper 350W
Heatsink: Scythe Ninja
Optical: Unknown CD-R/W
Monitor: ViewSonic G810 25"
Case: The Underside of a Really Old Drafting Table

It all started when friend and OC Forum member p|astic purchased the above motherboard for me for Christmas. I was then obligated to buy the rest of my computer, and if I was going to do that, I wanted to make sure it was as close as I could get to top of the line that I could afford.

I'm pretty sure that the pictures will do most of the talking. But if you guys have any questions please ask and I will answer each and every one of them.

Not a bad box.

Whats better is what is inside.

Here's the before shot - a computer from two years ago and a laptop from about 6 months ago.

The underside of the desk.

Turning it around so we can work on it.

After getting the table onto the ground, preliminary positioning of the elements.

Sweet, sexy Industrial Strength Velcro. What am i gonna use this for?

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After cleaning the PSU and table with Rubbing Alcohol (VERY important), sticking the velcro sides to each and securing very tightly. It won't budge!

Power supply is now seated.

Running wires to the motherboard and future positions of hard drive and optical drive.

There's the optical, and my round IDE cable ran to it.

The video card.

What a monster of a heatsink.

Heatsink, video card, and the processor.

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Processor vital information.

WD Raptor mounted to the table with velcro - no, it doesnt make any vibrations, the velcro absorbs it.

What a mess...

The Scythe Ninja Heatsink.

No need to run a fan on this (Really!) but...

We are gonna see how fast we can get my Opteron 165 to run.

We were concerned about the video card falling out of the PCI-e slots, so I used some fishing wire to fasten it in place.

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Here is the far side, looped around a screw...

And the near side was a bit tricky. Wrapping the fishing wire around the loosened screw clockwise and pulling it taught, then tightening the screw into place will make the fishing line stretch tight enough to hold the graphics card in place.

Another picture of the whole thing, almost finished.

Putting the table back into place... very carefully...

And there we are. One fan here, we'll see how temperatures are and add more as needed.

Another shot...

And another.

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17" Samtron piece-o-crap on the left, 25" ViewSonic on the right.

And there is another almost finished shot.

 

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Here are the pictures of the finished (for now) computer:

Here's a picture of some fans i picked up about 6 months ago for a car audio installation that i never got around to. They are silent and they assist airflow to the processor fan. They are affixed on the top by velcro.

Here is my hard drive fan. It, as well as the processor fan, is a Delta tri-blade. Pretty quiet even at 12v. It is affixed at the top by velcro and you can probably see a fishing wire attached to the near corner of the fan, that loops up and around the top right corner of the hard drive, into a screw in the side of the hard drive, using the same clockwise rotation trick mentioned before.

And here's the whole thing from the floor.

 

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Performance:

Max Stable CPU Frequency: 2.75 GHz (1.62v) (HTT = 305)
*Ran Stress Prime 2004 on both cores (one priority 9, one priority 10) for 14 hours
Max Bootable CPU Frequency: 3.006 GHz (1.65v) (HTT = 325)
Ram Speed: 150MHz
Ram Timings: 2-3-2-5
Best Stable AquaMark score: 85,100
Best Bootable AquaMark score: 86,xxx
CS:S Stress Test (all max settings, vsync off, antialiasing: 4x and filtering: anisotropic 4x): 165.1 fps

Idle temperatures:
CPU: 28C
NB: 40C (going to re-seat)
HD: 24C

I havent seen the CPU above 41 yet.

Keyboard: Logitech wired standard
Mouse: Logitech MX518 with Steelpad and teflon pads


LOL i think i covered everything.

 

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Oh and I almost forgot. my 3GHz club is validated here:
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=63888

 

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Does anyone have any input?

 

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Welcome to the forums ^_^

Cool idea - original. Does it heat your legs to hell and back? I'd be afraid of kicking it =p.

 

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vonkaar said:

Welcome to the forums ^_^

Cool idea - original. Does it heat your legs to hell and back? I'd be afraid of kicking it =p.

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Thanks. No actually I havent noticed any heat billowing off of it yet, but i havent really paid attention to it. The fans are situated to blow toward the back though so I dont know.

Yeah sometimes I put my feet up on the computer case and every 1 out of 10 times i tap the heatsink, but never really hard.

Thanks for your input

 

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I'd be afraid of getting chopped up by the fans , maybe make a ghetto cardboard case for it with some grills?

 

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yeah, its pretty awsome but I too would be afraid to hit it
Its pretty awsome though

 

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I would be completely terrified of knocking it off, being that I allways have my feet up.

Nice idea and seems like flawless execution of it!

Congrats!

 

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Interesting idea. Definately not something you see everyday

 

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Very nice!

 

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Very very very niceee!

i'd definately do that with my rig, but i'd be scared of the heatsink falling. How heavy is the scythe?

 

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Welcome! Wicked cool idea. I too would be scared of braking someing off or the velcro not holding very well, but I think you did a good job and it's original, so more props to you!