Red Nineteen Project Log 23 - 30th June 2006 The last log for this month - I'll see you all next month! [img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/23/DSC02144.JPG[/img] ^ From the spare piece of acrylic, I cut-out a false-floor. Here it is being test-fitted with the fan cable going underneath too. [img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/23/DSC02145.JPG[/img] ^ Here's a shot from the back. Hopefully it will clear the motherboard easily enough - not sure whether to have it fully see-through, or frost it... [img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/23/DSC02146.JPG[/img] ^ You may remember the original HDD shelf I made and how badly it ended up. So I cut a second... [img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/23/DSC02152.JPG[/img] ^ I also cut a piece of acrylic to fill the spare PCI slots. This could still end up as a fan... [img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/23/DSC02154.JPG[/img] ^ HDD mount MKI didn't prove successful, so for MKII I decided to use self-adhesive pads, cut-to-size. [img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/23/DSC02155.JPG[/img] ^ The SpinPoint in position... [img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/23/DSC02156.JPG[/img] ^ And mounted in place. The shelf is a fraction of a mm too big, so that it wedges in and doesn't move about. [img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/23/DSC02157.JPG[/img] ^ The pads aren't noticable unless you peer around the drive-cage. It should allow for some form of vibration dampening too? Don't worry about the drive getting damaged, it is firmly attached to the shelf, which can only be moved by tilting it upwards. [img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/23/DSC02158.JPG[/img] ^ The new Foxconn nForce 590 SLi board, along with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro. [img]http://dump.slickhouse.com/lazlow/pc/blue/23/DSC02161.JPG[/img] ^ And the AMD AM2 4000+ X2 (2 x 1mb L2 Cache), OEM version arrived too. Next week is Payday, so I'll purchase some Corsair TwinX XMS2 DDR2 PC6400 (2gb), CAS 4-4-4-12, which should work well with the SLi memory benefits of the board and the AM2 4000. Then it's just a case of painting everything, sorting out the electrics, putting it altogether and overclocking/benchmarking the thing... Expect another update within a week hopefully.