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#1
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Chicago
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My new comp, what do yall think?
My new comp, what do yall think?
http://abefroman.com/computer.jpg
Asus MB
Crucial Ram 4GB
AMD Athlon 2 CPU
3 1TB Drives
Raid 1
4 switches
4 case fans
3 cold cathodes
4 black lights
2 skull black lights
4 sets of leds
UV reactive wiring, sata cables, molex connectors and heat shrink
I soldered most of the wires together to reduce clutter
Oh, and Kubuntu OS
#2
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Roodepoort, South Africa
Distribution: Slackware 10.1/10.2/12, Ubuntu 10.04, Crunchbang Statler
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Not my style, but enjoy it.
PS how do you solder wires together to prevent clutter without making shorts
#3
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Laptop: Slackware 13.37 // Desktop: Slackware64 13.37 // Netbook: Slackware 13.37
Posts: 5,476
It's...uh...colourful?
#4
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Registered: Oct 2005
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Not my style either, too many lights.
#5
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Registered: May 2001
Posts: 21,570
Looks like something from The Abyss ;-p
#6
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Registered: May 2009
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Distribution: LMDE Gnome with Awesome WM + Kernel 3.3.0-1 amd64
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It glows.....
#7
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Location: Norway
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I used to have some lights in my computer before (some years ago), but in the end, its just annoying. A part from the fact that it is light in the room when you want it to be dark, some manufacturers have a hard time getting the lights to be stable. I don't know why, but several of my LED-products started to blink and become a serious pain in the ass. Anyway, I got tired (Or old? :P) and snipped the wires.
#8
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Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
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You can't beat a plain matt black box.
#9
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brianL
You can't beat a plain matt black box.
LOL ... Ditto ... flat black and stuck in a corner ... Dont need any purdy lights ...
#10
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I've got a Logitech Illuminated keyboard, but that's useful rather than decorative.
#11
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Wim Sturkenboom
PS how do you solder wires together to prevent clutter without making shorts
Electrical tape around each group of wires that are the same color, and then heat shrink over them all.
#12
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Not my style either, too many lights.
That's what the switches are for, I don't keep the lights on all the time.
#13
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Registered: Dec 2006
Location: underground
Distribution: Slackware64
Posts: 7,594
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Originally Posted by
unSpawn
Looks like something from The Abyss ;-p
PRECISELY the first thought that entered my mind
when I looked at the pic.
I agree: very colorful, but I prefer the 'sleeper' look, and would be more interested with the real guts of it, than the colors.
Nice work though, very nice!
Sasha
#14
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Originally Posted by
abefroman
Electrical tape around each group of wires that are the same color, and then heat shrink over them all.
That's not soldering. You're cheating
#15
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Originally Posted by
Wim Sturkenboom
That's not soldering. You're cheating
The electrical tape went over the soldered wires of course. It proboably wouldn't hold if I didn't use the solder.
Last edited by abefroman; 10-31-2009 at 10:15 AM .
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