jedihobbit
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 Posted: Sat, 10 May 2008 10:57:03 Post Subject: |
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Slow in moving on this thing, but I did manage to mount the front 80mm, FDD, and the two optical drives. Also modded the HDD carrier so I could mount the HDD cooler. The tabs have to be bent up a little to allow for the extra thickness of the cooler and one needs to be cut to miss a mounting screw. Here is a good example how everything is the same but different, made the cut base on the one in DreamCatcher and it ended up be a little “too big”. I will always be a fan of this particular cooler by Vantec. I’m using them on YsSMN’s Raptor X and the 74GB Raptor in BHrDx.
  
While mounting the mobo to the mobo tray came across something, to me anyway, rather different. The Biostar 6100-939s I used in YsSMN and BHrDx are 24.5cm square and so are my two abit NF-M2 nViews. However the Tf7025 for this build is supposedly 24.3cm x 24.4cm and so this is what I ended up with when mounting the mobo…..
 
This must have been part of the design and one of the reasons the PSU power connector was moved to where it is. Don’t want to remove the standoffs incase this case gets another board that will “fit”. So guess I’ll just tape them up to avoid any potential of shorting something.
The expansion slots on the mobo tray have guide “dimples” to help anchor cards when mounted. This is cool except when mounting something like a dual slot GPU. So did a quick and dirty mod for that.
 
On the honey dos and will get back to this as I can.
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