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10-25-2009
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| I Just Wanna Let it Go   | Project PC3 - PC in a PS3! - I'm a Moron   Yeah, we all know how the last project ended up. Poor time management and, erm, college, left is mothballed for 3 months. While my heart bleeds for my beloved black beauty, it's really hard for these hands of mine to stay idle. I moved to a bigger, nicer room at university this year, and of course, the ****** in me promptly began thinking of ways to screw it. "Hey! Why not fill it with plastic dust and leave saws and screwdrivers all over the place so that my roommates can bleed all over the carpets?" "Great!" So I decided to hit eBay looking for some stuff to begin a SFF mod. The idea was simple - stuff a relatively powerful PC into a console shell. I toyed with the idea of an Ion board inside an XBox 360 shell for a while but then dropped the idea for two reasons. One - it wouldn't be messy enough to cause injury to people in the room, and two, it wasn't going to be powerful enough. Upsizing the board to a Zotac LGA775 with 9300 IGP was the next logical step, and upsizing the console had to follow. That pretty much left me with the retro look (original XBox anyone?) which I am not a particular fan of, and the PS3. So I took the plunge and began designing the rig inside a PS3 in Sketchup. The components I've chosen are as follows, but subject to change: E5300 Zotac GeForce 9300 HDMI Wi-Fi Mini ITX 2x1GB Patriot DDR2 RAM, or maybe even 4GB if I happen to make money playing pool this quarter  Sparkle/FSP 300W 1U server power supply PS3 console shell Sony/NEC Blu-ray slot-loading slim optical drive With these in mind, I raided the excellent Sketchup Components Collection maintained by Jeremey McKean (jezmck) for the PC bits, and google's 3DWarehouse for the PS3 shell model (yes, I'm lazy). These two concepts are what I came up with: Concept 1 - all was going well until I realized the optical drive was trying to make babies with the Intel heatsink. Can't have unprotected intercourse in a college dorm room, so I had to drop it. Still, it was a useful exercise in getting an idea of how things would fit.    So on we move to Concept 2 - juggle components around, play around with orientations (o_0) to get something like this:    This looks acceptable, so next stop - eBay, to order the console shell and the power supply. Everything else I plan on mocking up with cardboard (thanks John) before buying, just in case something goes wrong. So yeah, here's the stuff.      I got right down to butchering it. I don't know the rules on power tools in the dorms, but I'm not risking anything. One of my roomies is on probation (for bleeding all over the carpet, I think), so I'm not making life harder for him. I'm trying to this with hand tools as far as possible. I'm hunting for a fret saw on eBay, because those look mighty useful for something like this  Anyway, more pics: The tool of the day:  Took care of one of these little plastic posts that I think are supposed to take screws that hold the top cover in place:  Leaving me with this little nub of plastic:  Now to see if the PSU fits... ... and it does!   But does it close?  Er, sort of. Something inside is obviously pushing down on it. We'll take of that tomorrow, the Coffee Bean beckons and I need my caffeine fix  LIST OF UPDATES: 1. The PSU has a home, and after a little work, so does the motherboard 2. I tried to take apart the PSU to fix the wiring - no joy 3. Small hardware update 4. HDD mounted up! 5. Some sleeving 6. Small Wonder (that's the motherboard, not my willy) 7. Got a new heatsink! 8. Small, smaller and smaller-er. This new PSU is _TINY_! 9. Quick teaser with all the hardware 10. IT LIVES! 11. Logo brainstorming 12. IT LIVES! (again  )
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| フリーラジカル  | Re: Mini-ITX Mod (Untitled as Usual)
you've been saying it for a long time of getting that ps3 mod done, and i've been repeating it for the same time, wait for westmere agent didn't post my news. the clarkdale es are hitting 4.7ghz on air. they would simply rock the world baby!
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| フリーラジカル | Re: Mini-ITX Mod (Untitled as Usual)
I had posted the news day before yesterday, before it was posted on techpowerup. been following coolaler on twitter. sadly its all stale news now. its everywhere (but not on [E] ) 
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| Jason Bourne  Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Look back, Look in the front, Look at the sides ! Aww Shucks you just missed me.
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  iTrader: (2) | Re: Mini-ITX Mod (Untitled as Usual)
I will be following this very eagerly, this will be inspiring to see. @ FR so till now your news wasnt okayed?
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| I Just Wanna Let it Go | Re: Mini-ITX Mod (Untitled as Usual)
Couldn't help but scratch the itch
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| I Just Wanna Let it Go | Re: Mini-ITX Mod (Untitled as Usual)
EDIT: And please gents, suggest some names!
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| I Just Wanna Let it Go | Re: Mini-ITX Mod (Untitled as Usual)
Heh, I was so busy replying, I forgot to post an update So today I finalized the PSU location and ripped a lot of annoying plastic nubs and mounts off so that the PSU could sit nice and snug where it's supposed to. This also gave me an opportunity to mock up my motherboard and HDD from cardboard and do a test fit. Tore out some nubs and plastic mounts on this corner:  And some near the front of the shell:  Now the PSU sits flat and stable on the base  With that out of the way, I mocked up the motherboard with a 170mmx170mm square of cardboard. First hitch of the day. It doesn't fit! Two of these posts that are supposed to take the screws that hold the top of the shell down are in the way:  Clearer shot of the problem:  Now, since those posts are held to the casing both at the base and by a little piece of plastic on the side, I figured it wouldn't be too bad if I could somehow take off the part attached to the base and leave the post itself attached to the side of the case. A lot swearing, sweat and sawing resulted in this:  And the board fits perfectly now!   Also, since these mods make it obvious that Sketchup I made wasn't 100% accurate, I needed to find a spot for the HDD. This is what I came up with:  Of course, it won't be taped there, I'll be screwing it onto some mounts that I have yet to make. Oh, and here are the remains of the butchering (minus the tons of plastic dust that's now found a home in my carpet):  More soon (hopefully cleaning up the piss-poor wire management inside the PSU).
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