Long term project - Osborne Executive Mod

Larger is better?

I thought size didn't matter. Anyway, I'll get some more pictures tonight after I get cracking on the front panel a bit. There's lots of Dremeling to do, for the 5.25" devices and the power / reset switches.

It sure was fun gaming last night. This machine runs excellent. It's pretty quiet too, with that Artic Cooler GPU cooler in there. The stock nVidia fan was twice as loud.:beer:

 

haha, the desk is like really ready to break.

If we had wireless everything u would see maybe power arcs where the wireless connection is

hey ross i have a suggestion for ur things, get a placic box, u can buy them from crazy clark, and shove everyting in there and mount the power supply in it i have a 550 watt u could have, i think it still pushes out 12volt but no guartee on it working well

 

OR, I could not.

 

Who told you size didn't matter? Oh yeah, that's right, you're married... I guess after a while it doesn't seem to matter anymore.

 

? ftw is modfather being on about.

 

He said size doesn't matter.

9 times out of 10 if a chick tells you that she's lieing.

 

But....

...my chick doesn't tell me that at all. Why do you think they call me "Big Al"?

By the way, no pictures yet. I had to buy my oldest son a new 2006 Toyota Corolla "S" last night, as his old 1991 Honda Accord finally died.

 

1991 honda accord. man 1991, that car is younger then me, it should still be living, my sister has a old 1082 Nissian BLUEBIRD :| :| and it still works well, its ready to go bye bye though :|

hehe Modfather u do have a point but i have never heard those words from a chick before. Or anyone bar u for a fact

 

1082? I get the feeling that should probably be 1982 Oh yeah? Well I can beat that: My uncle has a 1906 Reo that still runs

And BigAl, you "had to" buy your son a brand spankin' new car? Why? Parents aren't supposed to buy their kids a car EVER, it just spoils them. I knew a guy who got given a Porsche 911 Turbo by his parents, just for graduating Year 12 at school. He crashed it three times within a year, and his dumbass parents paid for the repairs every time.

 

It is DONE!!!!! On time, before the end of 2005!!!

Oh boy. What a ride this has been. I finished the machine about an hour ago. I am using it right now in my basement, and it is lovely. I think I shall kiss it. Smack. Yep, tastes great, and less filling than a Pentium IV.

On the car issue, this is an early college graduation gift. He still has 2 years to go, but the old Honda died. We had to do something, and I really don't like buying used cars.

Oh, you want some pictures??? Here you go....and there's one of my son's new 2006 Corolla S.:beer:

 

cool man. whats replacing the big square hole

 

Well....

You know, I considered many things. You saw that lumin disc in there (the green lightening display), and I was almost going to start some cutting to make it fit better, but then I stopped. It just didn't look right, fitting a round disk in a rectangular hole. Besides, it was going to block airflow and a good viewing angle to the Zalman CPU cooler fan. I also considered that small Einstein laser-etched window that Hyperkore included with my custom laser-etched window order. I was going to mount that to a indented frame of wire mesh, so it would hang about one inch within the case, and air would be able to flow around it. But putting sufficient light on that was only possible with a big white light module that I had, since I was out of 4" or 6" cold cathodes. LED lighting did not work, as you only got small spot beams and it still wasn't enough light. So that was out too. My ideal solution is an LCD panel, one that can plug right into the VGA port of the built-in graphics. Then, if this works, I would have it display different information than the main screen which is run off the Geforce 7800 GT. I have not found the right LCD for the right price, and so I decided that a nice wire mesh isn't a bad solution at all. At least, it works for now, and I like looking into the case.

Were you guys surprised by the Cooler Master Musketeer II device? I did a lot of Dremel work to make that fit with the DVD burner. The most work came with the media reader panel. I cut it into two sections, one for the flash media cards, and the second for the USB / firewire ports. You can see the flash media panel in the lower-left corner. My custom brackets took a while to make for this installation. The USB / firewire ports are in the keyboard tray, on the left side. I like this solution quite a bit. Here are some more pictures:

 

Nah i was more surprised u still have that monitor on a bowing desk :|

*Snap*... *Loud roaring and glass smashing*.... *Monitor Flys out the window*

U know what sucks, i have nothing to mod ATM. i was thinking of making a box computer that sits on my Bedside table and has a portable screen(LCD),

Oh yer al if u want a LCD, 5" Sony Psone are pretty simple to convert if they are NSTC. or u can just run it through a tvout connection

 

Nothing to mod? Go and buy another computer, buy a big wooden armoire thing, and wedge computers bits in it. Bolt them to the top and walls, stick neons in it, and you're done

 

Yes, add some lighting effects...

..and you're halfway there. Include an AMD processor, and your 4/5th's there. Include some custom laser-etched windows, and you're totally there dude.:top:

 

nah i am thinking of Fridge Mod... or Server Fridge Mod, were there some sort of quad Compressor like action

Say does anyone know if fridges condensate when theres nothing in them? (the old ones do i know that)

i think i might just Mod up that lan case i was going to to

 

That thing is freakin' sweet Al. I love it. It's got that perfect look of being something from a missle silo or a portible nuke thingy or whaever. You gotta get some nuclear warning stickers or something for the outside of the case now. Or paint 'em on there. I'd paint the outside a nice olive drab or gunmetal gray and slap a nuke sticker on it or something.

 

Hmm....

I'm not sure I want to change the appearance of the Osborne theme. I think it would need the addition of those covered toggle switches, or ideally something that looks like the missle launch switches you see in the movies.

You know what though? It runs games real nice and purty like. I reacon it is gonna be a right nice gaming machine for the LAN parties!:driver: :mrgreen:

 

Sounds and looks like it'd do a good job for that

 

its got a 7800 in it of course its a gaming machine with a amd x2 to push ti further