bman212121
[H]ard|Gawd
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i was pointing out the mangled plain ol grey ide cable
seriously though, that build look just like the numerous ones i put together back then. the round ide, the loom, the power wire routing, even the way you bundled up the front panel cables at the bottom. minus the external loop of course. we built that one for the shop use/display only.
That's not the same picture he quoted though. But yea I did notice that on Nebulous' build. I know exactly the feeling of that cable though! You get it all built then add in yet another HDD and that's what you end up with. It's funny to me because I'm sure he was swapping out parts like mad, so it was probably cleaned up at some point, just not in that particular picture. Not like you just pulled out your cellphone and snapped a pic during that time so you only have a few pictures to look through.
I think you did a great job Nebulous and I'm kind of glad I sparked the retro build pics. Like I said in mine I know how difficult it was to hide anything in that case, so you had to just kind of route it in a way that looked okay because there is no where you can tuck it into. I can also see where it looks like you also had to straddle the GPU with HDDs because it was going to hit otherwise. That's why that case looks great on the outside, but isn't really the most idea layout on the inside. I'd definitely take a modern version of the case with the same exterior, but have the interior reworked to be more modern. It would probably need to be a "retro" line, but I definitely like the look of that case.
Yeah those are DIY brackets to mount thin 60mm fans under the HHD's to keep them cool. I ran out of 80mm fans in the HDD cage so I had to make due with what I had
Holy cow that just made me remember something I totally forgot about. Yes there is a spot in the front of the bottom HDD cage to put an 80mm fan into, but the top cage you didn't have an adapter to put one in, and that lined up with the 3.5" bay anyway. So to cool the top drive in the cage at one point I had a dual fan cooler that you mounted to the bottom of the hdd. That worked with one HDD, but when I put in the second drive it wouldn't all fit.
It looked something like this, but the ones I had looked a bit nicer than these newer versions.
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