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Amazing mod, Hardly recognizable.
I wish that was my HTPC.
Just finished reading through this entire thread. I must say, your work is incredible! I am very jealous of that badass case. Great Job!
I'm going to be doing a similar mod, but with a new matx case. For the floppy drive slot that was on your case, did you just fill that full of the body filler, then sand it? On mine I have to fill 2 3.5'' bay fronts and one 5.25'' front, just wondering how you did that. And where'd you get the power switch? One more question, did you use a hole saw to cut the metal? was it a "bi-metal" one? On amazon.com they have a nice kit that says bi-metal, but the teeth look too big to cut through metal without dulling. thanks!
What paint did you use for the green? Like primer, then paint or w/e and how many coats and stuff? Your pics are awesome and I want a green case now for the mod I am doing!
Just wondering, what's the little enclosure box thing for, with the DVD drive and the hot-swap hdd?
WTF train derailment... I thought my luck was bad.
Granted, I got hit by one once. Do not recommend.
I do love that it's in all caps and looks like everything else. Like this is somehow normal.
Hey man, first of all I just want to say I love your work on that case, it is AWESOME. I have an L800r as well and it's been stripped it down all the way just about but I have hit a snag. How do you take off the sliding thing at the top and the other side panel? I have tried forever to figure out how to take it off. Do you have to cut it and if so how did you put it all back together? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully I can mod this case the way I want to. I'm a little new to the idea of modding but I love taking throw away stuff and making it into something awesome. (Used to make a lot of Warhammer terrain out of garbage.) I'm thinking of doing a red and black scheme.
..... I just crapped my pants. Nice work dude. I would have never believed that it used to be an ugly Dell case.
Hey everyone.. Good and bad news. I was at Microcenter first thing this morning (35 degree F), standing in line at the front door, wait for them to open. At 10:00 am sharp, the doors opened and I made a B-Line to the BYOPC counter. There must have been 4-5 guys behind me. I told the sales assistant that I would like to purchase a Q6600. With less than 10 minutes before Microcenter closed last night, I called to ask how many they had in stock. After 4-5 minutes of being on hold, an associate picked the phone up and said that they had "3" in stock. Great I thought.. In all reality, the store was only going to be open for 2 more minutes. I asked the sales associate if she could put one of them "on-hold" for me but she said she would not be able to do that. So, fast forward to this morning.. When I asked for a Q6600, the sales associate said, "uhhhhh, we show to have -1 quanity".
What in the world??? NEGATIVE 1? I drove for hours this morning in weather that was close to freezing, only for an associate to tell me that they were out of stock. He kindly redirected my attention to their E4500. Guess what my reaction was.. LOL. I held the tears back and said no thank you. It was my lucky day however. The main store manager walked by and could see that my world had just been shattered.. LMAO! He asked if there was a problem and I told him my situation. As soon as I finished my sob story, I saw a small golden halo begin to appear above his head as he said that as a favor, he would be willing to use expedited shipping via FEDEX and ship me a Q6600 (as soon as their stock truck arrived with more Q6600's) if I paid the sale price of $199 today. With the quickness, I whipped out my Visa check card and gladly paid the sale price of $199. The manager said that if there was no Q6600's on this truck coming, he would FIND me a brand new retail boxed Q6600 regardless, if it meant keeping a returning customer happy.
Kudo's to Microcenter. That's just simply good customer service. They've earned my business on future purchases. (If any Microcenter employee reads this, THANK YOU)!
So, the good news: I have a Q6600 coming and it's already paid for.
The bad news: Microcenter in Richardson, Texas has NO stock on the Q6600 or E8400.
As for the parts laying around, I think I am not going to use my "old" 200gb Maxtor drive.. Instead I will need to buy atleast a 500gb Sata drive (Seagate 7200.10 perhaps.. $104). I also need to buy my mATX board. Since the rumored DFI mATX board is only speculation, I will probably end up buying the Asus P5E-VM HDMI board.
you must not go to Microcenter in NJ.
That place is run by fools
well very late, but very nice, good job