The Dragon Case - A Thideras Modded 830 Stacker

thideras · 03-27-11, 11:04 PM

Made some custom cables tonight. I got a few left to do, but I'm very close to having this done. The first cable was a 6pin to dual 6/8pin GPU cables. The second cable was three SATA power cables, spaced for my SSD and DVD/BR drives up top.

This is the 6pin to dual 6/8pin GPU breakout cable. Made to run around the back of the motherboard tray and up under the video card.

Close-up of the 6/8pin end that plugs into the video card. It has the option to be either, in case I decide to upgrade video cards.

Internal shot with no stock cables or SATA cables. Front panel and USB cables are held down with an anchor.

Internal shot with no stock cables or SATA cables. This look close to what the end product will be.

Please excuse the lighting, this was the only way I could show the cables. You can see two anchors on the "L" bracket in the back. This will eventually be used to tie down cables once they are all made.

Shot of the back side. Very clean.

Panel fits!

Here are the two cables for the front hard drive cages. They go through holes and are completely invisible from the front. Breakout cable goes from the fan controller, through the case itself (PITA...), through an anchor and finally to the fan connectors.

thideras · 03-28-11, 04:10 PM

I'm debating whether to do punch down type SATA cables for the hard drive bays or using crimp style. The difference is that the punch down will be flat against the hard drives, which looks cleaner. The problem I ran into was that the connection was flaky. The upside is that the parts are substantially cheaper, easier to make and look cleaner.

thideras · 04-01-11, 11:06 AM

I made an order last night for the SATA connectors. I'm going to try and make my own!

Data corruption, here I come.

Sommelier · 04-05-11, 01:53 PM

Great case BTW. I've had a hard time finding SATA cables of the right length for my last build. Didn't have the guts to build a set though...

goose90proof · 04-08-11, 04:27 PM

This case is some serious badasserie!

JonSimonzi · 04-09-11, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by thideras

I made an order last night for the SATA connectors. I'm going to try and make my own!

Data corruption, here I come.

Let me know how this comes out for you. I've been looking for someone I can pay to make me some customer length SATA cables. I tried shortening a few of mine, cutting a chunk out of the middle and soldering the ends back together, but my soldering skills aren't up to the task

thideras · 04-09-11, 11:10 AM

Absolutely. This will be the thread that gets updated.

I have materials for 5 cables on hand, just to try it out. They are incredibly small and I'm not sure how easy it is going to be to do this; but I'll try. I may have to order solid core cable, though. The strands could make this difficult.

capitalfear · 01-25-12, 08:47 AM

NAME HER KOS-MOS....red LEDs for the eyes, and blue inside...sexc thid

thideras · 01-25-12, 08:55 AM

Thanks.

I need to buy some wax for the case and do a proper cleaning. It has been long time since I've done anything with it and it is a bit dirty. I'm hoping to hold off until I upgrade, but I'm not sure I can wait that long.

capitalfear · 01-25-12, 09:26 AM

Yea, my rig is less than a year old. I took apart my 6850 to put some arctic silver on there, and man...I was disappointed. Needed my trusty can o' air already.

thideras · 04-21-12, 02:17 PM

Here are the final pictures, right before I boxed it up to sell it. I used Meguiar's car wax and gave it a good cleaning. I've gutted all my custom wires, fans, and hard drive cages.

03-27-11, 11:04 PM	Thread Starter #241
thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	Made some custom cables tonight. I got a few left to do, but I'm very close to having this done. The first cable was a 6pin to dual 6/8pin GPU cables. The second cable was three SATA power cables, spaced for my SSD and DVD/BR drives up top. This is the 6pin to dual 6/8pin GPU breakout cable. Made to run around the back of the motherboard tray and up under the video card. Close-up of the 6/8pin end that plugs into the video card. It has the option to be either, in case I decide to upgrade video cards. Internal shot with no stock cables or SATA cables. Front panel and USB cables are held down with an anchor. Internal shot with no stock cables or SATA cables. This look close to what the end product will be. Please excuse the lighting, this was the only way I could show the cables. You can see two anchors on the "L" bracket in the back. This will eventually be used to tie down cables once they are all made. Shot of the back side. Very clean. Panel fits! Here are the two cables for the front hard drive cages. They go through holes and are completely invisible from the front. Breakout cable goes from the fan controller, through the case itself (PITA...), through an anchor and finally to the fan connectors. __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 37 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 48 GB RAM \| LSI 8708EM2 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server 1: Dell R510 \| 2x E5645 \| 128 GB RAM \| 4x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) VM Server 2: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!** Last edited by thideras; 03-28-11 at 01:07 AM.
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03-28-11, 04:10 PM	Thread Starter #242
thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	I'm debating whether to do punch down type SATA cables for the hard drive bays or using crimp style. The difference is that the punch down will be flat against the hard drives, which looks cleaner. The problem I ran into was that the connection was flaky. The upside is that the parts are substantially cheaper, easier to make and look cleaner. __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 37 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 48 GB RAM \| LSI 8708EM2 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server 1: Dell R510 \| 2x E5645 \| 128 GB RAM \| 4x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) VM Server 2: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!**
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04-01-11, 11:06 AM	Thread Starter #243
thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	I made an order last night for the SATA connectors. I'm going to try and make my own! Data corruption, here I come. __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 37 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 48 GB RAM \| LSI 8708EM2 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server 1: Dell R510 \| 2x E5645 \| 128 GB RAM \| 4x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) VM Server 2: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!**
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04-05-11, 01:53 PM	#244
Sommelier Join Date: Mar 2010	Great case BTW. I've had a hard time finding SATA cables of the right length for my last build. Didn't have the guts to build a set though... __________________
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04-08-11, 04:27 PM	#245
goose90proof Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Deep South	This case is some serious badasserie! __________________ Gaming/PT Folding: ASRock Z77 Pro4 \|\| Intel i7-3770k (stock atm) \|\| Swiftech H220 (eventually) Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x8GB \|\| Kingwin LZP-850W \|\| SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 7970 3GB Folding: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P \|\| Intel i7-950 @ 3.6GHz \|\| Corsair H50 ASUS 6950 (flashed 6970) DCUII \|\| 3 X 2GB Corsair XMS3 DRAM \|\| Corsair CMPSU-750TX
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04-09-11, 11:10 AM	Thread Starter #247
thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	Absolutely. This will be the thread that gets updated. I have materials for 5 cables on hand, just to try it out. They are incredibly small and I'm not sure how easy it is going to be to do this; but I'll try. I may have to order solid core cable, though. The strands could make this difficult. __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 37 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 48 GB RAM \| LSI 8708EM2 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server 1: Dell R510 \| 2x E5645 \| 128 GB RAM \| 4x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) VM Server 2: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!**
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01-25-12, 08:47 AM	#248
capitalfear Registered Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: FL	NAME HER KOS-MOS....red LEDs for the eyes, and blue inside...sexc thid __________________ Apevia X-plorer ATX-Mid Tower Case 8Gb 1033 Geil RAM, ASUS M4A88TD-V Mobo OCZ StealthXStream 800 Watt Power Supply + 600 Watt CoolMax Power Supply outside my case XFX HD-6850 OC at 840Mhz 250gb x3 HDD for gaming 3TB for server AMD Phenom II X4 945 @ 3.4ghz Phone: ZTE Warp Running Unitology 1.0c and the Glitch Kernel "I'll show ya the 'I just made a high dollar paperweight' handshake later. Welcome to the club bro!" ~ clash http://wefixcomputers.net/
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01-25-12, 08:55 AM	Thread Starter #249
thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	Thanks. I need to buy some wax for the case and do a proper cleaning. It has been long time since I've done anything with it and it is a bit dirty. I'm hoping to hold off until I upgrade, but I'm not sure I can wait that long. __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 37 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 48 GB RAM \| LSI 8708EM2 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server 1: Dell R510 \| 2x E5645 \| 128 GB RAM \| 4x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) VM Server 2: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!**
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01-25-12, 09:26 AM	#250
capitalfear Registered Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: FL	Yea, my rig is less than a year old. I took apart my 6850 to put some arctic silver on there, and man...I was disappointed. Needed my trusty can o' air already. __________________ Apevia X-plorer ATX-Mid Tower Case 8Gb 1033 Geil RAM, ASUS M4A88TD-V Mobo OCZ StealthXStream 800 Watt Power Supply + 600 Watt CoolMax Power Supply outside my case XFX HD-6850 OC at 840Mhz 250gb x3 HDD for gaming 3TB for server AMD Phenom II X4 945 @ 3.4ghz Phone: ZTE Warp Running Unitology 1.0c and the Glitch Kernel "I'll show ya the 'I just made a high dollar paperweight' handshake later. Welcome to the club bro!" ~ clash http://wefixcomputers.net/
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04-21-12, 02:17 PM	Thread Starter #251
thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	Here are the final pictures, right before I boxed it up to sell it. I used Meguiar's car wax and gave it a good cleaning. I've gutted all my custom wires, fans, and hard drive cages. __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 37 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 48 GB RAM \| LSI 8708EM2 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server 1: Dell R510 \| 2x E5645 \| 128 GB RAM \| 4x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) VM Server 2: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!**
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