Hi all, I just wanted to share a sneak peek picture of my (almost) finished computer. There are a few things left to do but I've been too lazy to fix those lately.

I'm at work right now but if people are interested of seeing more I will borrow a digital camera and post more pictures.

The specs:
P4 2.8 GHz 800MHz HT
SLK-900U w/ 92mm Panaflo
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro w/ Artic Cooling VGA silencer
DFI PS83-BL (Intel 865PE) motherboard
512 Mb PC3200 TwinMOS
Nexus 3000
2x panaflo 80mm for exhaust

Definately post pictures of the inside!

The DVD-ROM would look much better integrated in the case somehow, is that one of the things you plan to fix when you stop being lazy?

I most definetely will try to install that DVD+/-RW in the topmost slot in the front. Problem is that there is a hard drive right about there. (A Samsung spinpoint 160 Gb SATA). The other small things I want to do is to install one white LED for the power on (that lights up the station selector) and a green LED that lights up the small white area on the selector.

I will be taking pictures of the inside as soon as I get a digital camera... I warn you though. It is not pretty and my cable routing skills are not very good.

The three knobs in the front are:
Left: Turn counterclockwise->Reset and clockwise->power on.
Middle: Attached to a fanmate controlling CPU fan.
Right: Attached to a fanmate controlling both exhaust fans.

Since the box isn't that big there are no intake fans. The measurements are: 40cm wide, 24cm high and 22 cm deep. The exhaust fans are probably at ~5-6 volts and the cpu fan about the same... I haven't measured...

I find the computer quiet not silent. I can still hear it but I am satisfied for the time being.

I do have a picture of the back.

Oh..that's schweet!

Nice Job

Well done!

Beautiful work!

What did you use as a case?

At first I thought it was a metal box with wood-grain contact paper on it. Then the rear view made me think it might have started out as a small microwave oven. Then I noticed that the wood-grain has chips and wear on it in some places, so now I think that you might have started with a real wood veneered radio box.

What's the display (it looks like a display to me) on the left side in the front?

Thank you for giving me a distraction from my current fantasy of building a David Hays-style folding farm. Now I'm fantasizing about building a PC that looks like an old radio. Maybe I could figure out how to use a tuning dial to crank the clock speed up and down for overclocking...


Scott

Thank you, thank you all for your kind comments It took me most of my summer vacation to make the thing.

The box is a real old radio box. I had to make the back myself since I couldn't fit a normal sized ATX board inside. The DFI board is a bit smaller than usual ATX ones (30.5cm (12.05") x 21cm (8.26")). The whole trick was to keep the old radio look for that WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). There's not a whole lot of room inside but it's larger than, say, a shuttle.

The display is the old frequency selector thingy. It has a lot of markings on it such as FM/AM frequency and radio Luxemburg and such. It has no use other than that of making it look like an old radio.

Good news btw! I've managed to borrow a digital camera so I will take some pictures of the inside during the weekend and post them. I just wish I would have had a camera earlier so I could have documented the whole process...