Well, I've had this one planned for over a year now, and finally got around to doing it. I wanted to build another cow for my herd of PC's that I run FaD on. Problem is, I'm running out of desk space. I don't like keeping my PC on the floor, so I came up with this little mod. I had lots of spare parts laying around. I had to order an MSI K7N2G-L mobo and an XP 2500+ Barton from Newegg, but I had pretty much everything else. I wanted it to be uncluttered inside, that's why I like this mobo. It has on-board everything. I have no PCI cards or AGP card in it. I use external floppy and optical drives, when I need them. Since it's a cow, really I don't need any of that stuff once it was up and running. Anyway, on to the photo's...
Here is the finished PC. Yes, that picture frame is mounted flush against the wall! I had to cut a hole in the drywall between the studs, then I made a case from scratch out of plexiglass. I drilled and tapped holes to mount some stuff. Other stuff, I drilled holes and used nuts and bolts.
Here is a close-up. I used a PSU that has two 80mm UV LED fans. I cut off all the Molex connectors except for two. One is for the HDD and the other is for the four 120mm fans. I also cut off the connector for Pentium mobo's. As I said, I wanted it to look uncluttered. I wrapped all the wires with UV sensitive green Flex-o-pet expandable sleeving from SVC.com. I used a combination of heat shrink tubing and flourescent yellow wire ties to finish off the ends.
Here it is at night. Unfortunately, the UV effect really doesn't photograph well. The LED lights that you see at the bottom are for the MSI D-Bracket. It has four diagnostic LED's that tells you if anything is wrong with the PC. I can tell you, it works, too. I have the 2500+ running at 3200+ speeds already. Once, when I pushed the memory too hard, the PC wouldn't even POST. I looked up at the LED's and looked up the code in the book. Sure enough, there was a problem with the memory. Of course, I kinda figured that since I had just increased the DRAM clock frequency. lol. But you can see where that D-Bracket can come in handy!
Here is the side view of the PC. As you can see, the frame is mounted flush to the wall. You can also see that I got inspired while doing this mod. I had a 5.6" LCD laying around since last X-mas, just begging to be modded. I did the same thing as I did with the PC. I put it on a different wall. I let the Windows XP slide show screen saver run on it. That way it keeps scrolling through different pictures. When I leave the computer room door open, you can see it from the living room. It really gets peoples' attention with the ever-changing picture! I'm not sure if I'm more proud of the LCD mod or the PC mod!
Here's another view of the LCD mod.
Another view of both mods.
Okay, one more picture.
So what do you guys think? Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
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