my deep black Silverstone with "power rails"

Originally Posted by belmicah

Did you simply route all the cabling through them and solder to the board or what?

no, these ARE the cables. each rail provides on of the main voltages. i.e. 12v, 5v, 3.3v and ground. you could actually run a fan or whatever by simply touching the right rail with its cables.

all supporting ATX lines like -12v oder standby are soldered directly to the back of the mobo. also the connectors for the power switch, reset, case leds are soldered to the board





the reservoir can be found here, dunno if it has a name
http://www.alphacool.de/xt/product_i...ttachment.html

Doesn't that shock you if you touch it? I know these questions sound stupid, but I have never seen this before. So if you touch it with the cables, it'll run? How do the positive and negative terminals run through one piece of copper?

Originally Posted by belmicah

How do the positive and negative terminals run through one piece of copper?

If you look closely at the picture just above, you will notice that there are 4 copper pipes, one for each of the 4 different wires of a 4 pin molex connector

That is amazing, truly amazing.

One thing though,



Aren't the green rubber fan silencers supposed to be on the inside of the case to keep the fans from vibrating? Seems like right now they are only keeping the grills from rattling?

thanks for the other pics. by whole picture i meant take a regular photo instead of your hot rod glamour shot angles(which i do love)

Originally Posted by GigantoR

That is amazing, truly amazing.

One thing though,

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Aren't the green rubber fan silencers supposed to be on the inside of the case to keep the fans from vibrating?

thats absolutely right, at least, thats where they were supposed to be. but they didn't fit on the papst fans, but they looked cool so i put them on the back to accent the back a bit. but the fans dont' vibrate much anyway..

the most noise comes from the front, because of all the air that is sucked through the frontgrill and this one has very sharp edges. sharp edges = more noise


EDIT: @belmica: no that cannot happen, probably if i had very wet hands of saline solution but uhm.. that doesnt happen very often

usually you won't get shocked up to voltages of 40volts because the resistance of the skin is to high.

nice idea with that rails but that would be too dangerous for me .. it's not the voltage but the current can make nice lighteffects ... why not putting a cover over them?

ill mod my tagan psu too, that cables dont fit my needs

Interesting power cable. Did that come with the psu?

Originally Posted by Apallohadas

Interesting power cable. Did that come with the psu?

yup, those power cords come with tagan psu's

Originally Posted by frenzy

thats absolutely right, at least, thats where they were supposed to be. but they didn't fit on the papst fans, but they looked cool so i put them on the back to accent the back a bit. but the fans dont' vibrate much anyway..

the most noise comes from the front, because of all the air that is sucked through the frontgrill and this one has very sharp edges. sharp edges = more noise


EDIT: @belmica: no that cannot happen, probably if i had very wet hands of saline solution but uhm.. that doesnt happen very often

usually you won't get shocked up to voltages of 40volts because the resistance of the skin is to high.

But they hold thier charge right?

If you where to accidently touch them would you get shocked?

Also, do they get hot at all?

no, you can touch them where you want, nothing would happen


and no, they dont get hot, there's way too little current running through them to actually heat up a 4mm copper bar..


the more i watch them, i think my images look like crap. i'll try to make some new ones with better lightning. it looks like -unlike me- my camera doesn't really like the darkness

usually you won't get shocked up to voltages of 40volts because the resistance of the skin is to high

Didn't know that tidbit. Thanks

very slick machine

and thats an amazing display of pc boxes you have, plenty of classics

Someone help me, I can't leave this thread!

You DO realize that a HOWTO or Worklog on the rails is in order, right?

Originally Posted by Angry Bear

very slick machine

and thats an amazing display of pc boxes you have, plenty of classics

thx man, and thats only about a third of my fps collection - but i can tell you that its a bad idea to collect us-games over here.. they have a long and expensive way to travel



@masterofthehat: sorry, cant offer a worklog for that, didnt take any pictures at all during the making
but i could tell you how they work in detail if that is what you wanted

I would love to have a how do guide for that.

I've had ideas about doing something similar using titanium tubing I have access too from work, but running the wires inside the tubes. I couldn't forsee just how incredible it would actually look though. Great job!

wow very nice

Originally Posted by belmicah

usually you won't get shocked up to voltages of 40volts because the resistance of the skin is to high


Didn't know that tidbit. Thanks

Voltage has absoultly nothing to do with getting shocked. Current is everything. 1.0v with enough current could kill you. Static discharges are normally ~ 10000v - 40000v but the current is SO low that it wont kill you.