I was getting pretty bored a few days ago, it was about the time I
started to build my latest computer.
I was in the middle of cleaning & dusting out my main video server and
TV Recorder. When I got the bug to do a few little modifications to it.
After all the temps inside were just a little too intolerable. The system
was newly rebuilt with an Athlon XP 1800+ and as I said the temps were
high; system airflow was at a near stand still since the case was really
designed for an old Pentium 133. The heat inside was running around
120F - 140F depending on when it was folding, Transcoding or serving
my videos.
Here is a quick shot of just before I started on the case, (the only pic
I have since I dismantled it before I did any photos of the case itself.
the outside panels are just a single shell like this one:
A quick pic of the insides; 5 Hard drives of 200GB or more & 1 SATA DVD ROM
(barely seen at the very top of the picture) all totaled the computer is
capable of storing nearly 900 video files of about 1.4GB in size. Thats
a lot of TV & movies!
So anyway, The first thing I did was to remove the front panel, and Empty
slot covers. There is also a vertical slide panel that covers all the drive
bays that needed removal.
Another shot of much the same thing:
