New Years Project!

Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

Bought a semi junk rig on ebay for 160. (2100+,256mb ddr400,dvdrom, ati 8500, water cooled). Thought this might be a fun project to fix it up and make it look nice. I need to sand and completely repaint the case, and find a new face for it (broke during shipping).All the hardware is still in good form. Heres some pics.

plan on keeping it for a work horse when im done, or selling it to a friend. any suggestions or comments?

(when its all done im definately gonna see how high this baby will oc)

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Hoedizzy · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:33 pm Post subject:

If that watercooling setup works, thats a sweet deal!!! Great find!!!

Silver_Panther · TweakNOOB Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 54

Looks like you got some work cut out for ya... Good luck with it!

Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

yep, i tinkered with the water cooler. works great. its really quiet and the cpu only ran at about 35c, I hope to finish playing with this rig in maybe 2-3 weeks and ill post up some after pix0rs.

[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 12:14 pm Post subject:

that was a very good buy!! You should have fun getting your feet wet with the watercooling set-up. The radiator looks to be a quality early unit, as for the other parts I cant make out what they are though. But like I said it should be fun.
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JayDubya · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:11 pm Post subject:

Looking purdy. Are you planning on overclocking any more with the watercooling? Have you considered it? =P
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Zero_Fresh · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:40 am Post subject:

Ever think about putting that water cooling on you rmain machine?
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Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

yeah, but id have to dremel my case just to make the radiator fit inside.

Zero_Fresh · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:24 pm Post subject:

Ok... whats your point? You're a damn tweaker aren't you? =]
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Ham_fisT · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:41 pm Post subject:

^^^^Agreed^^^

Dremmel + Tweaker = Radiator that fits

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Josh · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

Hoedizzy · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject:

Nothing beats custom. Hey at least it makes your case a little bit different than everyone else! I say do it!

Sally · UberTweaker Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 1158 Location: WA

in the pictures, it looks like whoever had that b4 painted it or touched it up with fingernail polish. Good-luck sanding that thing. Make it pretty!

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Xal · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:11 am Post subject:

Sweet find Yosh!

Do it

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Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

finished this rig up earlier today. the water cooler usually kept the cpu (amd 2100+) around 31c-34c. Sadly i didnt have time to take pics when it was powered up and running but here are some i took after i finished putting it together.

didnt i do a great job sanding that case? lol jk i broke down and bought a new one.

front of the case.

I sold it to my friend for 245, this is his jump from an old 350mhz pII

Zero_Fresh · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:32 am Post subject:

Looks good. I thought for sure we were going to convince you to put the water cooling in your rig though. Either way... great job.
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Yoshida · UberTweaker Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 1219

im actually just gonna save up 200 after i buy my 6800gt, and buy a much nicer one from xoxide.com