Well I pretty much completed my second mod. There was too much dust from all the wood that I did not want to subject my Nikon to, so I do not have progress shots. Just the finished photos. The base of the case was made with just a 1/2" piece of sanded ply, The rest was made out of African Padauk and a piece of 1" hardwood. The finish is a wax buffed out by hand. Think it turned out very well, fairly close to what I had originally planned, didn't stay too far from plan like my G5 build.

Shot of the parts used







Running 2 320GB Scorpio Blacks in raid. System boots win 7 and automatically starts XBMC very quick.





Gigabyte HD5450 plays all my media flawlessly. Have not tried running any games on it, but it did score a 7.1 in win 7 for gaming graphics. So I might try a few games out later down the road.



This post has been edited by sk8roy: Mar 4 2010, 11:52 AM

Rest of the inside. Tried my best to eliminate some of the cables. Had to cut and re-solder a few (white sleeved cables). At first I was going to just keep all the cables their original lengths, but it was just a mess of wires. Had to desolder the USB connection on the Veris media station modify an extra USB cable to do away with the big external to internal adapter they provided.





This shows the clearance. There is no back on it as of now. I miss aligned the video card cut outs, so will have to redo.





Now for the overall shots.













And running XBMC.....

WOW

nice... but i wonder how are the temps in this chassis? since wood is a pretty good heat insulator... and u used pretty thick ones...

how much did you spend on those wood case?

no design more led on the case?

btw,nice case

just feel a little bit weird at the front

something needs to be done about that rom drive...

Thanks

well, I was concerned about temps when planning, I have ran it for about a day and a half straight and it pretty much runs between 44C-53C. I'm not concerned the only thing I might add a small fan on the side or just make a vent for the GPU.

got the African Padauk on ebay, was $40. The other piece of wood and aluminum used was just laying around the house.
Thought about some LED, but did not want a bright box while watching movies. Just the 2 blue LED. 1 on the veris (shows when remote is pressed) and then the other showing pc is on.
Yeah I'm not completly satisfied with the front either. Will upgrade to a blu-ray drive later and will most likely redesign the front. Most likely will try to conceal the drive as that is what bothers me.

how bout the back plate

will update that when I finish. Have to get another sheet of aluminum. Yes I screwed up. lol I didn't have the video outputs lined up correctly. So when I put it on I could not connect my hdmi cable.

hows the temp?
and the dvd drive is ugly
get a wood plate or alu plate to cover it

wow, very nice, i love the on/off button, look so clean the whole case, good job mate

wow..one of kind in msia i guess ..hows the heat?

44'c - 53'c is pretty good temp for wooden casing...... but really as madman said, the optical drive.........

u need to add water cooling setup on it ..

wahahaha..

Thanks guys...
After looking at it for some time now...I agree it was a poor choice for mounting the dvd drive. But I have a fix so I will update this next week or so when I get the piece I ordered to fix it...

errr.. WOW.. it still great. and nice wood job? made it urself?

Where you buy the modular psu?

he's from other country

TS,ur psu is micro 1 ??
ur cooler is original 1??

This post has been edited by lun1986: Mar 10 2010, 05:42 PM

I wonder how you do the on button?

the plastic dvd rom spoil the look lorh...