
Here’s the Asus motherboard with the Pentium chip and heatsink/fan already installed. I didn’t think of taking one without the heatsink until it was already on and I didn’t want to take it off for no reason. As you can see, there is an AGP 4/8x slot and 5 expansion slots.

Here’s the case all nice and neat before I got into it to mess around. You can see here there are 3 cages for harddrives. Each holds 2 for a total of six hard drives. Of course, that would mean 2 SATA and 4 PATA, leaving me without the ability to have a DVD-ROM.

Here I have finally set the motherboard. This was a pain in the butt as the holes didn’t line up with the spots to connect it to the case.

Here I have connected the front controls and lights to their locations on the motherboard.

Here’s a shot of the hard drive cage out of the case so that I could attach the screws that hold the hard drive in place. This makes it a LOT easier than having to screw it in while it’s in the case.

I put the hard drive back in, but haven’t connected it up yet.

The hard drive is all connected up.

Here it is from the front all LEDs glowing, but you can’t tell with the flash from the camera going off. I tried to take a shot without the flash and it came out too blurry. However, as you’ll see below, I got a side shot without the flash and it came out just fine.

And here is the aftermath on the operating table:

And that’s how the computer was build. Except, of course, with a lot more time in between shots getting the cables FIRMLY connected and trying to find screws that had fallen in. It was a lot of fun and I’d love to do it again.
3 responses to “Building the computer”
Dude! Congrats on the tricked-out box!
As for the motherboard mismatched-screwholes-to-case problem: once when I had that, I cut a few pieces of cardboard to the shape of the mobo. Two layers of cardboard I screwed into the case. The motherboard and a few more layers were then screwed into the cardboard. It worked – but I was careful not to jolt it!
Awww… your case is prettier than mine…
Yo man nice rig just made one myself asus-a8v-vm se 2.2ghz AMD 2gb ram 400gb harddrive