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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
What you have conceived and built is nothing short of phenomenal. It would never occur to me to boost an Intel chip's performance with parts from an old Bonneville. Kudos & Karma!
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Thanks tons but I didn't conceive of it; I was just short on money when I first started this (on a Prescott-core Pentium 4), and since there's nothing wrong with the hearter-core itself I just kept using it when I bought this new case. I didn't feel like paying more for parts to mount it inside so I just made a cardboard shroud and wrapped it with electrical tape. Mine is considered a ghetto approach but I prefer "go" over "show"; you should see some of the professionally done rigs:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...-8&sa=N&tab=wi
(Can't show the actual pics here, copyright issues etc.)
My last one was all inside the case which was a goal of mine:
Not bad for US$45 for an old beige server case, some black spray-paint, and a piece of plexiglass (I used the leftover scraps to make the fan shroud.)
My best custom job took the least effort: My stepdaughter's BatBox:
Black electrical tape, a Dremel, and a piece of plastic cut from an empty cat-litter jug. Wasn't finished when I took these, still had to straighten the fan and put the laptop DVD drive in.