HARDWARE SETUP
All the bits:
The Silverstone case in bits. Need to take it completely apart before installing anything into it.
The drives in the hard drive caddies. These make the the floor of the case. The third drive I am mounting where the floppy would normally live. I then need to fathom out where to put the fourth hard drive I want in there. The Maxtor is a temporary drive pending the return of a 400Gb Seagate drive from RMA.
The 2nd hand board, CPU and memory. Note the lapped CPU...guess it's seen some action then
Also shame the cooler's never going to fit in this case.
Install pics with the Zalman cooler
Adding the PSU makes it a tight squeeze ! The PSU can be mounted either with the fan facing into or out of the case. Aas the Zalman cooler points up towards the PSU rather than out of the back of the case I decided to mount the PSU with the fan facing outwards.
Adding the hard drives back in which make the floor of the case. The drives clip into the caddies and the caddies seem to be heatsinks (lots of aluminium)
and with the other hard drive mounted where the floppy would be. It's now getting very tight.
The temps were a bit worrying with the front and sides off, especially the hard drives, but when I put it together and installed the front of the case which includes a 12cm fan the temps came right down. I am running the front fan at 7v (using a "volt mod" by butchering the fan cable as shown
here) and the CPU fan is on a Zalman fanmate turned right down to about 1300rpm.
The finished article !
The DVD drive looks a bit odd in the photo but it's just the reflection from the flash.