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ninty · 08-31-2007, 04:58 PM

I decided on the hard drives in their normal spot so I could leave the bay converter solely for intake.

What I did want to do on the drives was flip them so I could run the cables at the back, not across the gpu fan in the front. So I marked out a couple holes and drilled and countersunk them. Didn't want to leave it with just 1 screw on either side, even though they fit nice and tight in the cage with the weather stripping.

[img]http://aycu39.webshots.com/image/25438/2000076112961728587_rs.jpg[/img]

Nice and clean on the windowed side
[img]http://aycu16.webshots.com/image/23135/2001460714637513274_rs.jpg[/img]

back side
[img]http://aycu20.webshots.com/image/25659/2001409370135935287_rs.jpg[/img]

Power supply was next just to get it in there.

[img]http://aycu16.webshots.com/image/26295/2004717706039053192_rs.jpg[/img]

And then started work on the mobo tray.

[img]http://aycu02.webshots.com/image/26841/2004779072372476352_rs.jpg[/img]

Didn't really take many pictures of my adventures with the mobo, but I probably screwed that thing down and took it back off 8 or so times because I found something I wanted to do each time after I had screwed it down that required it to be unscrewed.

Took me a little while to get the placement of fan wires and such under the mobo, and the one thing i didn't realize is that the thermalright 120 required the backplate to go underneath the mobo, so that required me to unscrew the whole thing again and unplug everything to get that on there. The last after market heatsink I installed was on an AMD 3500+ and that just clipped onto the top side. So thats how I was thinking it would go in my head, but I really should have looked first. This is actually a much better way to do it rather than trying to force that clip down being afraid you're going to slip and smash a hole through the mobo.

I installed the CPU heatsink while the tray was in the case because I had heard some people could fit and some couldn't, so I didn't really want to do the whole thing outside the case and then have to take it off again.

Here you can see the top of the case where I ran the 8 pin power and the top 2 case fans and the rear case fan. The 8 pin has just enough slack from the corsair 620 to go behind the mobo tray. I would like to kind of tidy up the fan wires, but I think it looks pretty decent. With the window on you probably wouldn't notice.

[img]http://aycu28.webshots.com/image/27987/2003724127541932341_rs.jpg[/img]

And with that all done I plugged in the SATA cables for the hard drives. I have to wait a while for the black ones I ordered, but the red look kind of cool there. Not sure why I didn't plug one in for the SATA DVD drive.

Video card is like a brick and the EVGA lettering on the side won't stay on. Maybe when it gets hot they'll stick.

[img]http://aycu12.webshots.com/image/24411/2003765012793777684_rs.jpg[/img]

I kind of plugged everything in to see the amount of wires i'd have in there. Not that big of a deal. I can run most of them behind the gpu fan because of the way I oriented things, which is nice. Should really only have the one main 24 pin power and the vid card power running up the case where it's visible. All the rest will go right behind. (I know the USB is in the wrong plug. Not sure why i put it there, just to see if it would reach that general area. Not sure if they all will fit nicely. Will have to wait and see)

[img]http://aycu05.webshots.com/image/26644/2003773516652819294_rs.jpg[/img]

With most everything installed i'll just tidy up the cabling and wait for my sata cables to come in and it should be good to go. Maybe load up the OS this weekend and see what she can do.

[img]http://aycu25.webshots.com/image/25184/2003734395809455775_rs.jpg[/img]

I'll post pics when shes all wrapped up.

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ninty is Offline Major General Posts: 12,683 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary	08-31-2007, 04:58 PM I decided on the hard drives in their normal spot so I could leave the bay converter solely for intake. What I did want to do on the drives was flip them so I could run the cables at the back, not across the gpu fan in the front. So I marked out a couple holes and drilled and countersunk them. Didn't want to leave it with just 1 screw on either side, even though they fit nice and tight in the cage with the weather stripping. [img]http://aycu39.webshots.com/image/25438/2000076112961728587_rs.jpg[/img] Nice and clean on the windowed side [img]http://aycu16.webshots.com/image/23135/2001460714637513274_rs.jpg[/img] back side [img]http://aycu20.webshots.com/image/25659/2001409370135935287_rs.jpg[/img] Power supply was next just to get it in there. [img]http://aycu16.webshots.com/image/26295/2004717706039053192_rs.jpg[/img] And then started work on the mobo tray. [img]http://aycu02.webshots.com/image/26841/2004779072372476352_rs.jpg[/img] Didn't really take many pictures of my adventures with the mobo, but I probably screwed that thing down and took it back off 8 or so times because I found something I wanted to do each time after I had screwed it down that required it to be unscrewed. Took me a little while to get the placement of fan wires and such under the mobo, and the one thing i didn't realize is that the thermalright 120 required the backplate to go underneath the mobo, so that required me to unscrew the whole thing again and unplug everything to get that on there. The last after market heatsink I installed was on an AMD 3500+ and that just clipped onto the top side. So thats how I was thinking it would go in my head, but I really should have looked first. This is actually a much better way to do it rather than trying to force that clip down being afraid you're going to slip and smash a hole through the mobo. I installed the CPU heatsink while the tray was in the case because I had heard some people could fit and some couldn't, so I didn't really want to do the whole thing outside the case and then have to take it off again. Here you can see the top of the case where I ran the 8 pin power and the top 2 case fans and the rear case fan. The 8 pin has just enough slack from the corsair 620 to go behind the mobo tray. I would like to kind of tidy up the fan wires, but I think it looks pretty decent. With the window on you probably wouldn't notice. [img]http://aycu28.webshots.com/image/27987/2003724127541932341_rs.jpg[/img] And with that all done I plugged in the SATA cables for the hard drives. I have to wait a while for the black ones I ordered, but the red look kind of cool there. Not sure why I didn't plug one in for the SATA DVD drive. Video card is like a brick and the EVGA lettering on the side won't stay on. Maybe when it gets hot they'll stick. [img]http://aycu12.webshots.com/image/24411/2003765012793777684_rs.jpg[/img] I kind of plugged everything in to see the amount of wires i'd have in there. Not that big of a deal. I can run most of them behind the gpu fan because of the way I oriented things, which is nice. Should really only have the one main 24 pin power and the vid card power running up the case where it's visible. All the rest will go right behind. (I know the USB is in the wrong plug. Not sure why i put it there, just to see if it would reach that general area. Not sure if they all will fit nicely. Will have to wait and see) [img]http://aycu05.webshots.com/image/26644/2003773516652819294_rs.jpg[/img] With most everything installed i'll just tidy up the cabling and wait for my sata cables to come in and it should be good to go. Maybe load up the OS this weekend and see what she can do. [img]http://aycu25.webshots.com/image/25184/2003734395809455775_rs.jpg[/img] I'll post pics when shes all wrapped up.