New worklog.

It's called Jaws coz it's a Thermaltake Shark case n it's watercooled. Here's sum pix of the rig n case b4 mods.


Nice looooooooooooooooooooovely hardware in there eh? Just needs a new Lanparty Ultra D mobo which will b going in. Just a quick list of sum of the nice hardware in there. AMD X2 3800+, Corsair XMS Expert RAMs, OCZ 520W psu, ATi X850XT PE, Raptor 150gb.







A butt naked Jaws after stripping it down.









Major updates 2moro when I start cutting up Jaws into sum nice sushi.

This post has been edited by ianho: May 2 2007, 01:03 AM

Lin lau hia, some mods havent finish mod new one d.... u need to go to rehab lar..

What mod haven't finished? All finished d wat. Only my own King Kong not done mar.

wow, another new project, wondering what you gonna do with this little shark, stripping it's fins for your shark fin indulgence?

Yalar own gaming rig havent finish oredi move on becoming loan shark.

Wow, damn nice case... Bro, u got two rig to mod, so Geng~

alright - you're having too much time and $$$ to spare.

1. what's the objective of this mod?
2. who will be using this rig? (i offer my service to use your rig)

my god you haven't even finished king kong la brother and now you start on |JAWS| what the hell

when wil |KONG| ever be finished

Lol, i know who owner this casing. Must need doing wiring management...

dangg, this is the best service i ever seen in Moding section


this guy always knew everything in this forum

@ianho - so much fRee time doing moding. dya runnin' own/ family bussines??

This post has been edited by gengstapo: Oct 11 2006, 08:36 AM

Lol, last Saturday i see him at Curve, One Utama. I see somebody pass this casing to him.

Another mod, impressive.. I can't wait how you're going to mod this baby..

New powerful baby cant wait la

neeext time, u know what to do. rob him terus. dont give face.

wah this casing very familiar one i know the owner lol.
he ask taiko ianho to mod blowhole at the top casing and whatever else i din remember.huhu

any update taiko ianho? excited seeing the mod result.

Haih................ everyday hujan lar. disturbing my work oni. Everytime rain hafta stop cutting n come inside.

Make own workshop la bro especially for modding jobs.

one more MASTERPIECE by master ianho!!
cant wait to see what he will do to feed the shark...

whoooooooooo shark.
Interesting...

Waiting for shark fin... lol...

Ian, with all the work that you do here, you should be like this guy who started this company here. I can guarantee that you make/mod better cases than this dude does.

http://www.savrow.co.uk/

bro ianho realy gegng !!!

we will be waiting for updates.....

hujan again in PJ this afternoon, duno uncle ian got progress or bo ?

Yeah I know about Savrow PCs. Coz I buy Custom PC every month n they're always in it.

But this is just my hobby n I do it purely coz I love doing it. There's no point in going commercial coz I'm already retired. I retired to enjoy life mar. Not to go n start new business again.

How I wish the pictures could be put up all at once.

Then it wont make me that anxious to click this link everytime to check for updates.

U think I genie meh? 1 shot just say abacadabra..................kachiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing! 1 modded PC suddenly appear.

This post has been edited by ianho: Oct 11 2006, 07:33 PM

But you have a pair of genie hands, you have the ability to mod case that nobody can do, I wanna chop off your hands

You're retired? Cool, din know uncle was so old adi.

hahahahahahahah.. I've seen him before, he's not that old la... u say him old, he dunwan mod ur pc for u then u kno.

I'm not old lar. I just retired early.....................very, very, very, very early.

Anyway, am eating dinner now. Updates will b up later.

This post has been edited by ianho: Oct 11 2006, 09:34 PM

He's lying.. he's 62 yrs old d... nyek nyek nyek nyek nyek....

hahaha.. so bad la u all

If 62 I really salute man...
Still can do modding...

bow to uncle

If 62 i think his hand shake until the cutting same as superdav no energy to sleeve liao have to use masking tape

Ngiahahaha...
Superdav pawned!!!

yaww uncle ianho

finish oledi ka?? juz chat wif owner, 2morrow will come to collect em'

wah...if wanna retire early hoh...mz have a lot of $$$ leh...

Mayb strike 4D first prize thats y retire early



Uncle, where is the updates u promise?? Sudah turn the shark 2 sushi liao kah

Oh, uncle oledi 60 some? Appreciate yi ji bang

waa bro where the update
courious how its look

Haven't slept since Tuesday night. Gonna pengsan d. Owner wants the rig back by noon today. Had to work all night on the hardware install n water cooling set up. After that I'm gonna sleep all day. Updates will only b up very late at night after I wake up.

wow...ganbatte to uncle...
don't forget to update for us

yeah. faster faster~ remember take pics

Wah uncle u truly is a vampire

hmm....eager to see the before after image of it..

thx bro..like it so much nice jaws i hv caught huhu mayb later can make jaws icon on the other sidewindow thx alot..nice mod..nice person..nice family

oit kawan, kasi PIMP sket la ur rig
dont wrap wif clothes like u tell me lastime

the casing is nice enough before modding >_< dont know mod liao become how? :D gogo updates!

That jaws is going to die without water, haha, that's why there's a water cooling system in it.

yayayyayayayyaa ~ ~ ~

uncle ianho still in his bed aaa?
waaa ~ so long cover his sleep...

i think this one of a worklog that onli have a lil bit intro and everything in the end...
very eager to see the outcome

every1 here spamming only... wonder really wanna see finish product or wanna increase number of post...

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This post has been edited by mfcm: Oct 12 2006, 08:05 PM

yeah,
i second tat..wheres ur beutiful rig.show to other lor since taiko ianho stil sleeping

jk jk

adehhh so trouble my net
hmm plz refer this link for the pic..or myb bro ianho will upload his pic later

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=88145&st=1320

This post has been edited by mfcm: Oct 12 2006, 08:15 PM

aiya only pictures at the side... the window is just like the previous shark windows.. hmm...

Uncle, like this not called retire to relax... like this is retire to suffer hahahahahaha

Whooooooooooooo. Finally woke up from my deep slumber. Updates will b up after breakfast.

woooo finally uncle has awaken from his deep slumber

pics ! pics ! pics !

pics ! pics ! pics !

pics ! pics ! pics !

Uncle taking breakfast so long ar..

lol... relax la.. he will update them son , dun 4get he has not been sleeping for days

Enjoying a nice long sedap breakfast mar. 2 days din sleep tired man.





Ya lor. I relaxing mar. Went for stomach spa treatment.






Anyway...................... Just came back from Dim Sum breakfast. Now I am fully recharged n back. Editing the 100+ photos now to cut down on all the unwanted pix n will upload. After uploading to Photobucket, full updates with story will b up by noon.

hahahaha.. stomach spa? nvr heard of it..
yeah yeah updates updates

Wokeh, here's the story on Jaws. Phewwwwwwww what a rush job. Fastest complete build project I ever did. 2 days kau tim. Trust me, u fellas wont wanna do a complete mod build in 2 days. It's very, very, very, very tiring. Even after building so many rigs, to finish a rig in 2 days is extremely hard.



On to the story of jaws. 1st thing I did after stripping out all the hardware was to strip the chassis.










After that I stripped the parts off the side panel, Masked n marked it for cutting.










Time to chop chop chop.









Side window rough cut is done.








Marked out the acrylic for cutting.

After detailed work on the side panel it's now ready for the acrylic mounting.










After that I moved on to the top panel blowhole. At 1st the plan was to cut a top window. Then we had a change of plans coz this rig is placed next to the bed in the room n it was deemed that a top window wud allow too much light out from the top. It wudn b too pleasant to sleep with so much light at night. So all I'm doing for the top is a blowhole. It's all the way back near the PSU coz there's no space for it in the middle. The top ROM slot is occupied by the water cooling reservoir, pump, radiator unit n that is a really long unit which extends all the way back to the middle of the top panel.

Marked out the top for the blowhole.






Top panel is done.









The case is now ready for everything to be put back together.

another great mod done by the mod of master himself

Not finished updating yet lar.
Going out for stomach spa again. Will update completely after lunch.
I'll b bak!

wahhh apa la ni half way update

damn want to see the whole thing

wow uncle your stomach damn terror man just finish dim sum breakfast not that long ago still can go for lunch

salute you man

hahahaha.. i know.
go for stomach spa again!?!?! walau er....
now u make every1 suspense.. haha

uncle just eat so so la..wan to see mooooore update!! haha..

Wah uncle another new project will wait patiently for more updates

wah uncle after your sotmach spa you go for relaxation therapy also is it

Aiyooooooo be patient a bit lar guys. My stomach no spa treatment then I got no inspiration n mood to edit pix, upload n write story 1 lar.


Here we go with the latest story.



Mobo, HDD n the extra radiator installed. Note the radiator is installed the same way it was when I received the rig.







This is the way I received the rig remember? Look at the extra radiator down there. The fan is blowing air onto the side panel. Not very efficient way of cooling down the radiator.









This is the final layout I decided on. The radiator is mounted on the HDD cage n it's tied to the cage for a proper solid mount. Previously it was just jammed into the HDD cage. Any hard knock cud haf knocked out the radiator n it'll start bouncing around in there. The new position of the radiator is also much better now coz it sucks air from the front intake fan n blows it out to the back instead of blowing sideways.

Also modded the water kit with a complete change of all hoses to UV green hoses for more bling. The UV hoses r made for proper PC watercooling n r much better in quality n also adds sum bling bling. The hoses that came with the original kit was sum weird soft white rubber material. It was really, really soft n got squashed at 2 of the joints. Squashed joints=BAD flow, BAD flow=BAD water temps. The water loop is also more simplified now using less hoses for less clutter n better flow.

I also cleaned up the wiring. No more jungle of wires now. Unfortunately the OCZ PSU has an unusual layout n the wires come out from the side near the window. Although the PSU is modular, it's very difficult to do wire management with it coz the insulated wires r so, so, so hard. It's like overnight noodles gone dry n bad. They're very very hard n thick. Can hardly bend the PSU wires.


This post has been edited by ianho: Oct 13 2006, 06:19 PM

wow, clean and nice uncle

Here's a closeup of the internals. Nice RAMs eh? Look at that loooooooooooovely glow on the tubes.










Here's sum night shots. Whooooooooooooo, JAWs must haf had sum rotten meat for dinner. Sum dead cow that lived near a nuclear power station perhaps? Look at JAWs' intestines glowing from that rotten dinner.











With the side panel on.











N here we are at last with the final pictures of the complete rig. JAWs is now ready to eat all victims in it's path. Actually this JAWs is even more fearsome than dinosaurs. It's got a big huge Raptor 150 in it's stomach!









This post has been edited by ianho: Oct 13 2006, 06:37 PM

wow, great mod.
but wanna ask, the fan above the psu, how really effective is it to put there?

This post has been edited by nghj: Oct 13 2006, 06:51 PM

Very effective. Coz this Evercool water cooling kit, both the radiators r inside the case so there's lotsa hot air inside the case. N with 2x120 exhaust fans now, it's a lot cooler.

This post has been edited by ianho: Oct 13 2006, 07:06 PM

ohhhh...ok...cos i see the 12cm fan above the psu like no air to suck or hardly can suck any air, but forgot about the radiator in the casing
Thanks for the explaination

This post has been edited by nghj: Oct 13 2006, 07:28 PM

Bro, why did u put the 120MM far behind?
[I'm talking about the one on top of the PSU]

I think, it's better if u put it a little nearer to the 5.25 bay...

But, what to do, it's already there...

Haiyooooo i write all the long long nice story u all never read 1 ar?
Anyway there's a lot of space between teh fan n PSU.

May i know what tools u use to cut the acrylic?

I saw my old OCZ PSU there, hehehehee...

Did you by any chance remove any rivets while doing this mod?

No removal of rivets.

Ermm.. Sry to ask, but how did you cut the round hole on top of the casing. I thought after you cut the plastic still got the metal thing inside to cut?

what a nice rig there very good job

wow not bad just mod the side panel and mange the wires inside

if internal case black color will be very nice, (personal comment only)

no matter how i look, the side panel paling cun
jz curious, has anyone tried sleeving the water pipes before?

yea man.. i agree wiv you.
y would some1 want to do tat? water pipes are much more cooler and more bling than sleeves ler

Is the HDD bay there hotter than other area of the case?
Cuz with 2 hdd, n 1 is the raptor, would be hotter rite?

There's no plastic up there. Just aluminum. So I just cut the aluminum n voila a nice round blowhole.




TQ.





It's a full aluminum case including the internals. Full aluminum is totally bling bling enuf. I only paint the internals if it's a steel case with ugly grey internals.






Now, y wud anyone do that? I purposely changed the hoses to UV green hoses to highlight that the rig is watercooled. If u sleeve the hoses it'll just look like a bunch of wires. Also, with watercooling u always need to check on the hoses, joints n blocks every now n then to make sure no leaks r developing. If u cover it then there's no way to check on the watercooling system for leaks.





Not really. Y wud u say that? There's a big 120mm intake fan for the HDD cage n the Raptor actually runs cooler than most HDDs. Ppl think it runs hotter due to the higher speeds n performance. On the contrary, it runs cooler than most HDDs coz the build quality is so much better n the HDD casing is made of really heavy stuff with cooling fins on it too.
Like in my own King Kong rig. The Raptor is about 10C cooler than the Caviar at full load.

Hmm, newbie here...
Blowholes [is it the one on top of the casing ] really improves the cooling performance by a lot? Hmm...

The top blowhole improves case temperatures a whole lot. Hot air is trapped up there in that cavity. The top blowhole blows it all out. U can google it or read sum magazines on case temperatures. In 1 of my Custom PC magazines theres an article on case temps using a heat sensing FIR Camera like what the military uses. U can clearly c in those pics that the top of the case is all bright red with heat compared to the rest of the case.