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Assembled system from left side.
Date: 07/03/2011
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Assembled system from back.
Date: 07/03/2011
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First incarnation of the system from front.
Date: 12/08/2007
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The front with fan grille removed for cleaning.
Date: 07/14/2011
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Close-up of the hub of one of the Scythe fans used as case fans.
Date: 12/17/2007
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This is where we are heading: the parts ready to be installed to the case
Date: 07/03/2011
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p4_001_0a
In SG03 height of the CPU cooler is limited but motherboard is regular µATX in size, so short but wide Scythe Big Shuriken is pretty much for this build.
Date: 07/15/2011
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In SG03 height of the CPU cooler is limited but motherboard is regular µATX in size, so short but wide Scythe Big Shuriken is pretty much for this build.
Date: 07/15/2011
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The stock fan of Big Shuriken is really, really shin: just 10mm.
Date: 07/15/2011
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The Big Shuriken wire clips, however, should work on any open-cornered 120mm fan, so if your case permits, you can swap to thicker fan. I think SG03 could accept 15-20mm, if not 25mm, fans with Big Shuriken. So if the miniscular back pressure of an 10mm f
Date: 07/15/2011
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Scythe Big Shuriken installed on the motherboard.
Date: 07/03/2011
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Scythe Big Shuriken installed on the motherboard. As you can see, standard memory modules and power delivery components are easily cleared, but memories with tall heat spreaders need not apply. But considering the size of the chassis, this is pretty much
Date: 07/03/2011
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IMG_23307_0
The graphics card is AMD Radeon HD3850 cooled by Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 with two 92mm Nexus fans installed on it. As we anyway need to strip the whole machine to pieces, I swap the fans and clean the heatsink.
Date: 05/21/2011
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Turns out the cleaning and swapping was indeed a good idea. In conditions like this the fan bearings will break over time, however good fans you use.
Date: 05/21/2011
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The Accelero S1 leans to the graphics card PCB with plastic standoffs seen in the middle, we need to clear then when mounting fans.
Date: 05/30/2011
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To run both VGA fans from a single Zalman Fanmate 2 I soldered together an Y splitter.
Date: 05/30/2011
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The fans are mounted by two layers (remember, we need to clear the plastic standoffs) of double-sided tape on each four corners and zip ties on two opposite corners.
Date: 07/03/2011
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The fans are mounted by two layers (remember, we need to clear the plastic standoffs) of double-sided tape on each four corners and zip ties on two opposite corners.
Date: 07/03/2011
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Graphics card cooler with Y splitter but with not zip ties yet.
Date: 07/03/2011
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Graphics card cooler with Y splitter but with not zip ties yet.
Date: 07/03/2011
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The Accelero S1 overhangs the graphics card PCB by hefty amount. Luckily this is the direction where we have plenty of space in SG03.
Date: 07/03/2011
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The Accelero S1 overhangs the graphics card PCB by hefty amount. Luckily this is the direction where we have plenty of space in SG03.
Date: 07/03/2011
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These are the built-in controller knobs of the Scythe chassis fans. They are set to minimum speed and taped into upper front corner out of the way.
Date: 07/03/2011
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Assembling the parts starts with routing the front panel connector cables properly. They will be sandwiched between motherboard and motherboard tray, so rerouting them pretty much means detaching the motherboard.
Date: 07/03/2011
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Motherboard and the hard drive installed. As you can see, the chassis is just high enough that motherboard clears ODD on top and HDD on bottom.
Date: 07/03/2011
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Motherboard and the hard drive installed. The hard drive clears the motherboard by just few millimeters.
Date: 07/03/2011
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Hard drive mounts to aluminium sled with plastic rails. The two aluminium sleds also double as case bottom and feet.
Date: 07/03/2011
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The SATA cable for ODD is routed under the motherboard like front panel connectors. The SATA cable needs to do a tight turn - needed to be very careful here to not place too much stress to motherboard SATA header.
Date: 07/03/2011
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IMG_25086_0
Opening the right side panel we see that there's not much there. No space for anything, and thus no holes either.
Date: 07/03/2011
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IMG_25089_0
Except this one, for screwing ODD in place. Notice also the steel inserts for motherboard standoffs - this is a quality case, and it shows. Aluminium is not good for screw threads, it breaks too easily and it has lot of friction. Steel inserts make sure t
Date: 07/03/2011
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