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Oops! There goes another Mountain Juke Box! (*05/04/2009*) Update
Franco B:
Cools 8)
You can't have too much of a good thing :)
Are you planning on building it to the 'mountain bible' or are you making any changes?
drawfull:
Wow! There's loads of these popping up!
Good luck with the build, hope it turns out awesome ;D
DaOld Man:
Thanks!
I plan to keep it as close to Mountains as I can, but I lack the skills that he has, so we shall see.
DaOld Man:
Ok, I am working 6 12 hour shifts in a row this weekend and next week, so jukebox work has temporarily come to a halt.
I have been taking some pictures of my work up till now, so I will try to catch up a bit on the project status.
here is the Gx260 MB laying beside the monitor, for size comparison:
I was thinking that it looks like a perfect fit!
The motherboard is attached to a metal backplane. I removed the motherboard from this back plane for now.
On the back of the monitor, I laid out a piece of paper. I then traced the vesa mounting holes with by rubbing a pencil over the holes.
I then laid the motherboard backplane on top of the monitor's back, and positioned it where I wanted it. I then taped the paper to the backboard. I now had a drilling guide:
(Sorry about the quality of the last pic, sometimes they turn out good, sometimes not. Maybe when I have some free time I can learn to use the camera).
Here is a pic of the motherboard laying where it will be mounted to the monitor:
Notice one screw in the monitor housing lined up with a slot in the backplane. It's the only one that lined up. I used it to hold the backplane steady while I measured.
I removed the backplane from the monitor, stencil still attached with scotch tape.
I punched each vesa hole in the stencil with a center punch, then removed the stencil and drilled the holes in the backplane. Here it is drilled and positioned on the back of the monitor:
Notice the bright area in upper left corner of the last pic?
This is where a plate on the motherboard attaches to the backplane. I dont know what the plate is called, but it raises the motherboard off the backplane about a quarter inch, and the CPU heat sink attaches through the motherboard to this plate. I could see right away that this plate was going to interfere with one of the mounting holes I had drilled.
I removed the plate from the motherboard and attached it to the backplane. I then marked the drilled hole on the plate by sticking a pencil through the hole form the backside of the backplane.
I then marked an oval on the plate so that it can have room to slide back and forth on the backplane. The plate is attached to the backplane by sliding the motherboard towards the front of the backplane. I then drilled and cut the oval out of the plate with a drill and dremel tool:
A better shot of the modified heat sink plate:
And here is the plate test fitted to the backplane:
You can see that the vesa mounting bolt head will clear the motherboard because of the raised mounting holes on the plate, and the plate will clear the bolt. The plate will be able to move to lock it in place on the backplane.
*More to follow when I have more time. *
DaOld Man:
CPU Heatsink/Fan modification.
This motherboard has a fan that mounts to the back of the computer case. A plastic cowl makes a 90 degree turn towards the CPU heat sink. This allows the fan to suck air across the CPU heatsink and exhaust out the rear of the case. That is in a normal situation.
But this aint normal.
I wanted the fan to suck air across the heatsink, but I needed the fan to exhaust at a 0 degree angle to the heatsink, not 90 degrees as father Dell intended.
So I mounted the fan directly on top of the heatsink.
I used piices of 1 inch aluminum angle iron to attach the fan:
I used one piece of angle on each side of the heatsink, and fastened heatsink and fan with some sheet metal screws.
Heres the other side and teh bottom of the heatsink:
Here is fan/heatsink mounted to CPU
I may use a spacer between the fan and heatsink, Im worried about the fan being to close, maybe not drawing the volume of air it needs to. But with MB on the bench, the CPU is not getting hot at all.
Ok, here is motherboard attached to the backplane, and the whole works attached to the monitor. I used 4 mm bolts with 1/4" spacers to separate the MB from the monitor.
The motherboard wont be covering any air vents in the monitor, but I thought it sure wouldnt hurt to allow a little air space between the two.
See the brilliant way of propping the whole works up at 90 degrees for test purposes?
(Patent is pending):
And here is the rig being tested. XLobby is installed, but not done tweaking it yet.
The Griffin Powermate is also hooked up. (It dont like me, probably why it is frowning in the picture):
* Stayed tuned for more updates *
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