Title: Plague's LAN Box aka "Pandemic" Post by: Plague on October 11, 2013, 04:23:51 AM So I am building a LAN box so I am leave my Green Machine "Phoenix" at home. Wes' lunchbox showed me just how small things could get, but then he showed me the LIAN LI PC-TU100 and I was like that is what I am looking for.
Specs: AMD A10 6800K Black Edition 4.1GHz Quad-Core MSI A75IA-E53 Socket FM2 mITX AMD Motherboard Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 KINGSTON HyperX 120GB SSD WD BLACK SERIES WD5000BPKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s LG Super-Multi Notebook 8x DVD Rewriter SATA Model GT80N ASUS GTX670-DCMOC-2GD5 GeForce GTX 670 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 LIAN LI PC-TU100B Black Aluminum Mini-ITX Tower Case SILVERSTONE ST45SF-G 450W SFX12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular SO here are the pictures: I picked up this hardware a few weeks ago, and was using it as an upgrade to my cube mod "Ice-Phoenix" but decided I want to go full mATX in the cube. (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_1.jpg) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/1.jpg) This is the rest of the hardware that I needed to make this mini case work. Laptop 500Gb WD Black data drive, Asus DirectCU Mini 670 graphics card. And because I am going to be taking this with me to work during the week, I needed DVD ROM to rip DVDs with while I am there. (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_2.jpg) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/2.jpg) I was going to pull the SSD out of my laptop, but decided against that and got this Kingston HyperX 120Gb drive. (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_3.jpg) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/3.jpg) These 3 pictures are the LIAN LI PC-TU100 Black case opened up. (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_4.jpg) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/4.jpg) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_5.jpg) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/5.jpg) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_6.jpg) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/6.jpg) Well that is the first post, I have a second to do in just a moment with build pics. Title: Re: Plague's LAN Box aka "Pandemic" Post by: Plague on October 11, 2013, 04:33:22 AM Ok, so I started pulling things in the case First was the DVD-ROM.
Pictures shows it installed. (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_7.JPG) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/7.JPG) Second I mounted the 2 hard drives in the bottom of the case. (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_8.JPG) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/8.JPG) I pulled the motherboard from the cube, pictures show it with waterblock from the cube, but I don't think I can custom water cool in this small of case. I am trying to figure out a way, but I can't figure out how to put a normal pump in the case LOL and have it still get air flow of some kind. (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_9.JPG) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/9.JPG) I mounted the PSU just to figure out spacing (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_11.JPG) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/11.JPG) Then I mounted the graphics card, now this was out of order, and made it more difficult to get in with the PSU already in. (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_10.JPG) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/10.JPG) And just to show everything in without cables, here you go. (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_12.JPG) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/12.JPG) At this point it took awhile to figure out that custom watercooling wasn't going to be easy or cheap since the parts I had extra would not work. I decided to just buy a Corsair H60 watercooler (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_13.JPG) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/13.JPG) I got the fan and radiator mounted to the front wall, you can see I have just a little bit of room between the ram and the radiator. (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_14.JPG) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/14.JPG) Ok, so after figuring out/ fighting with the block/pump unit I got it mount and was able to get the PSU and wires all in. FRONT: (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_15.JPG) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/15.JPG) BACK: (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/normal_16.JPG) (http://houseofzan.com/gallery/albums/2013-10%20T100BBuild/16.JPG) sad the back looks cleaner then the front. LOL But it is working, and I am installing windows now. Going to try to figure out a window mod for front door before NexusLAN. Will post when I figure it out. |