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...

Wow,dat's damn nice .sk8roy,can u plz make 1 detailed worklog so dat anyone can use it as a guide should they wanna try d same thing?

wow
very nice casing
the wooden colour very kewl

I will be redoing the front of the case next week hopefully (waiting on some more wood). When I do I will take some more pics and try explaining more in detail what I did with the rest of the case as well as the new front...

lolz..... NICE CASE! imma build one myself also! xD recycle old wood and furniture old part!

fuhhh....really nice done...really look like a drawer xD...u guys really have the cr8tivity..i wish i hve one

Thnx man.ur work IMO is really outstanding n unique.i hope u can make it easy n noob frenly (yours truly ).surely a lot will make it as guidance.looking forward to it

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Added on March 19, 2010, 12:01 amOh,n plz include d reasons why u choose each hardware.u know,mybe cuz low heat,energy efficien or whatever.thnx.

This post has been edited by Arool: Mar 19 2010, 12:01 AM

Don't you wanna try woodcase with transparent sidepanel or something? So we can see your rig inside and put CCFL some more

when I do my next pc, I think I will make it out of wood again. If I do then yes will do some windows and what not to show off the inside. This build however sits in my entertainment stand and cannot be seen except for the front. Also the insides are sorta plain, no sleeving, lights, or even attractive components worth showing off or highlighting with a window.

Another update, will be another week before I can reveal my facelift. Seems the piece of wood I ordered is 1/4 inch too short. I guess that's why its best to measure instead of trying to go by memory, I was too lazy to find a tape measure.....

Make sure you post the picture of your progress. Really like to see

and mod the optical drive front panel ooo.... not yet right?? really looking forward....

Ok, finally received my wood. Here is the start of my facelift. To start I had to cut the african padauk board down to size and also cut the oak 1" square down to size.





Here is the apple dvd drive door that I will be using to accomplish this mod. I will be adding a piece of oak veneer to the face of this so it blends with the rest of the wood.



Shot of it all to give an idea of how it will go together. Of course the backside will be routed out 1/2 -3/4 inch so the dvd drive door will sit much closer to the face, almost flush.



And now glued together, I'll have to wait a day for it to dry completely. Will give another update Saturday. I plan on doing the rear panel Saturday also, so hopefully I can share that too...

TS, r u a carpenter?? or u do home furniture reno???

walao.. sibeh nice weh. are you making another one for sales? i'm interested

@valtai30
u quoted ALL those pictures just to ask a simple question??? at least spoiler them la aiyo...


TS...hows about some updates? ur glue would have dried by now

ya,update,update!!

Yes the glue has dried...lol....Sorry I have not had a chance to update, will get something up tomorrow. Been busy with work, put 14 hours in yesterday. Off tomorrow so will get this updated.

And yes you could say I am a carpenter/furniture builder. It is not my job but a hobby of mine. I built every cabinet in my kitchen when I remodeled it and a couple entertainment stands and a few other odds and ends.

just go laminate the dvd rom door to wood pattern then all be done.

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1160674

This post has been edited by easyzuddin: Apr 2 2010, 08:59 PM

MAMAMIA... this is great piece of work there

Read my mind, that is what I did. Here is an update.
After gluing the wood, I started routing a groove for the dvd door to sit in the face. I said I would post detail of this part but there was just too much dust and my Nikon is my baby, I did not want to expose it to all the dust. So here are a few more shots of it finished and tomorrow I will open the case and get some shots of the inside of the front and explain what I did.

Here is a shot of the PC in its spot on the entertainment stand. Excuse all the mess....should have cleaned it up a bit before the pic..Also this is the best TV show ever...Any Dexter fans out there.



And now a close up of the new facelift. The wood stripe doesn't quite flow together pefectly, the grain is a tad off but this looks so much better than the ugly DVD drive.



As you can see there is no eject button or power buttons on the PC. Everything is controlled from the remote you see on the top in the picture above. Pc is running a custom mod of win 7 32bit done by AMC over at Project Alchemist called DeepBlue7. Takes about 7 seconds to start and automatically starts in XBMC.



For those that do not know how the Apple G5 drive door works....A few pics...When the drive opens it runs into 2 curved tabs on the apple door that push and slide the door down and then the dvd tray slides out. It is spring loaded so when the drive closes it just pops back up.







Thanks for taking a peek and commenting. I will get some more shots from the inside so anyone that wants to do something similar can have a better idea of how it all goes together.

Nice modding + nice photos

Bro, How much the total you use on this monster? and the temperature should be higher in malaysia since here is warm weather

very nice...look like classic design...good job TS...

thats what we call back2basic..

I assume you mean $$..If I remember right it was probably around 450 USD...I do not remember the price of the wood it was a little high I do know that much, so it might have been a little more. As for temps I am thinking of what else I could do to lower them. I live in FLorida so it gets pretty hot here also and I do not run the AC much. Just yesterday when I walked by the case I could feel the heat and when I checked the temps they were:
GPU 68c
CPU 52c - average of 2 cores
My best bet is probably to just ditch the video card, I think it is causing most of the heat build up. I also have to open it up and fix my dvd drive. somehow it got cocked to the side and no longer opens. Been really busy but when I do begin to sort it out I will put up some photos explaining some of the case like I said I would a while back.

Thanks

This case Has now led me to the need of a new project. I think a media server will be built in the near future. Running out of room on my G5 mod. Got 1.5TB of movies and tv shows, and another 2TB of anime.

Thanks again for all the comments