03-17-2007, 09:37 AM
And now for some pics...
We have here the cavernous shell that is the body of Death Vader; the giant tower stands....well, I'm sitting down and it's taller by a few inches than my bent legs.
![[Image: Phase1.jpg]](http://rblm1a2tanker.com/Other/Phase1.jpg)
Next is the motherboard, CPU, and fancy blue colored and lighted CPU heatsink and fan. Heavy thing, especially once the CPU heatsink was put on.
![[Image: Phase2.jpg]](http://rblm1a2tanker.com/Other/Phase2.jpg)
Here the mobo combo is being tinkered with by my buddy, who did quite a bit of the work but certainly helped me learn quite a bit.
![[Image: Phase3.jpg]](http://rblm1a2tanker.com/Other/Phase3.jpg)
Here is with the mobo, video card, audio, and power supply installed. All that was needed at this point was to attach another fan (at the top), install the hard drive, and the two disk drives, and then connect all the cables.
![[Image: Phase4.jpg]](http://rblm1a2tanker.com/Other/Phase4.jpg)
And this is a fuzzy, badly taken picture of the end result. Death Vader, standing happily beside me, and finally almost completely updated with drivers and other fun stuff.
![[Image: FinalPhase.jpg]](http://rblm1a2tanker.com/Other/FinalPhase.jpg)
Big fan in the middle there isn't it?
We have here the cavernous shell that is the body of Death Vader; the giant tower stands....well, I'm sitting down and it's taller by a few inches than my bent legs.
Next is the motherboard, CPU, and fancy blue colored and lighted CPU heatsink and fan. Heavy thing, especially once the CPU heatsink was put on.
Here the mobo combo is being tinkered with by my buddy, who did quite a bit of the work but certainly helped me learn quite a bit.
Here is with the mobo, video card, audio, and power supply installed. All that was needed at this point was to attach another fan (at the top), install the hard drive, and the two disk drives, and then connect all the cables.
And this is a fuzzy, badly taken picture of the end result. Death Vader, standing happily beside me, and finally almost completely updated with drivers and other fun stuff.
Big fan in the middle there isn't it?
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Tanker (tangk'er)n. 1. A dusty, crusty, grease-covered, dirty, sweaty, bright eyed, fuzzy faced, haircut-needing, beer-drinking, underrated, over-worked, underpaid, oversexed, little s%#* who can take a Tank and do more battlefield damage in ten minutes than a grunt squad can do all day.
Tanker (tangk'er)n. 1. A dusty, crusty, grease-covered, dirty, sweaty, bright eyed, fuzzy faced, haircut-needing, beer-drinking, underrated, over-worked, underpaid, oversexed, little s%#* who can take a Tank and do more battlefield damage in ten minutes than a grunt squad can do all day.