Computer modding inside and outside with your own hands. Modding: History. Sophisticated way from the case to flash drive Computer body modding sketches

Good day! I wanted to tell you a little about a personal computer, or rather about your passion, modding, and more specifically how to make modding system block Various option.

Currently, the computer is used in all sectors such as production, trade, health, education and many others. If the first computers could afford solid organizations and wealthy people, now this miracle of technology can be seen in each apartment. It is impossible to present a person without a PC, but many specialists working on a computer do not even represent that is in the system unit.

Modding system block do it yourself.

I will write for those who still do not know or just begins to know computer technique, summary.

Personal computer consists of:

System Block (Computer Heart or Brain)
Monitor (eyes)
Keyboard I. computer mouse (hands)
Headphones and columns (ears)
And many more peripheral equipment.

The PC system unit is responsible for the full vitality of the entire computer.

It has main components:

Motherboard (platform for other components)
Cooler processor (main computing center)
Video card (video processing board)
RAM
Power supply (Socular power unit)
The housing with fans (hangar in which is located above these components)
Optical drive (media installation)

Many suits the appearance of the case, the main thing that everything worked. But there is a category of people who wish to change system unit, make it more beautiful, enter into the interior of the desktop like something unusual and original. So such a direction was born as modding.

Modding applies to the change in configuration and appearance personal computerMore than the system case. Most often, enthusiasts are engaged in modernizing, bringing their PC to perfection. If you make an analytical comparison, then the car tuning can be called a similar occupation.

Manufacturers of buildings (giants of their business) try to highlight some of their rules, giving them all sorts of forms, decorating all sorts of inserts, transparent windows In the side walls, filling with neon light.

But there are still modding studios where you can order a hundred percent exclusive computer case. Which will not only one of its kind, but also fully comply with your requirements. Such corps are usually much more expensive than factory. Since made to order.

But I want to tell you that you can from the usual factory case, if you turn on the imagination and attach hands. Create a work of art in the world of moding.

On this I finish scientific theory and turn to practice, my practice.

I didn't become interested in modding, my first systemist stood under the table with a black box. Accidentally having heard about such art, I climbed on the Internet and was simply admired seen. A little reflection armed with a grinder saw a window in the side wall, covered with the plexiglass and tightly sharply. Then bought a vinyl film and pasted an intricate ornament. In addition to everything sticked brand stickers. And I got a simple, a little rude, but still pleasing the eye modding system unit.

I will not paint all the delights of the water, you can find a lot of information on the Internet. But for myself I decided to promote this direction. I will say right away, pleasure is expensive, and therefore some components I acquired ex-in use.

The first water cooling system was modular. Separately for the processor (Corsair) and for video cards (THERMALTAKE). ThermalTake module is three in one: radiator, pump and capacity. And all this is compactly located on the frame, which must be installed in two compartments 5.25. Since thermaltake is designed to cool one processor (central or graphic), and I had SLI, for efficient cooling of the liquid, I had to buy a second radiator.

The SilverStone case is not designed for water cooling, so I had to apply the smelter to place all components. Tubes have decorated under one style, and here is ready. It turned out original, but still not perfect.

When funds appeared, water cooling modules were changed to separate components. In this regard, the inner decoration of the systemist, heavily transformed.

Video - water cooling in the computer case.

But in my hands hit the system unit with an acrylic case and my imagination played with a new force.

The unspoken wires in an absolutely transparent body looked terribly, so I placed them in a water cooling tube and added neon backlight. It became much better.

At the beginning, I cut the holes for hoses and the passage of the air flow from the housing through the radiator. Three 120 fans with blue illumination, color wires were installed on the radiator, and the optical drive was wrapped in black tape.

120 cotton BP were taken, as two vidyuhi require more power blocks. Improved by replacing the braid of all wires.

If someone of you decides to intertwine BP warning. You need to purchase new terminals, possibly connectors, braid. Special tool for seizure terminals from connector, forceps for crimping, thermal insulating tubes. And the most important thing is to gain patience and put the goal to finish to end the intention.

Well, the BP is completed, you can collect everything else. Due to the limited space in the housing I had to pursar a little. But I was satisfied with the result and the modding of the system unit was able to fame.

Video - modding computer enclosure. Acrylic PC Case.

In the released SilverStone case, I installed a new iron, and again with water cooling. True, cooling chipset and RAM was added to the configuration of the water.

In the future, water cooling from the acrylic hull was sold, replaced SLI on one video card. But with such a configuration, the system unit looks beautiful.

There were experiments Computer iron from acrylic place on the wall. In my opinion, there is also nothing.

On the this moment I have a new idea in my head, create a new one, different from other my modding modding projects. But while I build drawings in my mind and collect need material. Full story with photos I will write here in the next article when I complete the conceived.

So far, to new meetings!

The decision to coherent the case is accepted. The question arises: how?

I liked the idea of \u200b\u200bthe stove, because in our time the stoves are quite small. It was decided to form a rust.

So, the old stove. How should she look like? Door with casing, extractor, old loops, etc. Ideas arose one after another. But there is one big "but". Window, tell me which window can be in the old stove? Is that from the explosion.

Most of the improvements occurred during the implementation, so I will describe them along the way.

Note: Mod was first, and we got rushed for its implementation, instead of trying to first draw and calculate. For what and paid. I had to solve problems as they occur. So this case has been created, from the problem to the problem.

Search for materials. First metamorphosis

It all started with the search for the hull, how long, briefly, the case was found and delivered at the destination.

That's what he was. White highlighted a plot that will be ruthlessly cut off in the future. Black highlighted protruding parts of the housing, which will also be deleted. And then we faced the first problem. Window…

We understood that it was impossible to leave the side wall without ventilation, but I did not work out to be cut. The solution was found: we just changed the walls in some places. Now we had a wall with which you can do anything. But what to do with the grid, why is it on the other side? One of the options assumed to place the LED behind the grid, but later we decided to simply cut this piece (marked on the black picture) and put the latch. But how to fix it? Glue? Welding? Or maybe rivets? That's exactly how rivets and became part of this fashion.

After the Latca, we decided to cry and the hull itself. To do this, it was necessary to drill holes. Make it did not work. The basic drills were not the diameter, and the acquired drill walked strongly and, in general, behaved "badly", therefore drilled drills (the diameter of large rivets is 4.8 mm, small - 3.2 mm).

On the left side of the sidewalls were drawn, and then the hole was cut out (after which its edges were bent) and a hole for ventilation. Later it was closed with a standard grill painted black.

Rivets were set by the usual river who can be found in any construction store.

And so new problem - The door stopped closing. To eliminate this lack, it was necessary to shorten the rivets with the help of a drenel. It turned out about the following.

On the right, the usual riveting, on the left - shortened.

Well, one sidewall and ready (the grill is also on rivets)

Note: In some cases, in particular in our, it may be necessary to make rivets with a hole. I can not report to universal relief that you don't have to drill. Everything is very simple: after "shorting" rivets, it is enough to push her core "inside".

The second side is prepared for installing loops, all unnecessary parts are removed from the front panel.

Then followed clock wandering big store Build materials in search of suitable loops, plex and metal.

Note: Plex and aluminum, as picked up, sell 1x2 m sheets. Therefore, it is better to clarify and consider it in advance whether you can cut it and how you will behave. In our case, the Plex had to cut in the store 40 minutes to cut with a hacksaw in the metal.) With aluminum, they did easier - lay down several times.

When finally all the details were purchased, we realized the need for preliminary drawing. Therefore, the front panel first appeared on Watman.

Facial panel

Why i highlighted it in separate section? Because it is for us - a separate mod. It took the same time for its development as the rest of the body.

When creating the front panel, we proceeded from what we have:

Top for CD drive. She was decided to turn the furnace to the damper and put on the loop.
Centre. There, as a rule, there are indicators and switches. We decided not to change anything, only replace the work indicator hard disk on a voltmeter who in general Concept Must be a temperature sensor. It was also decided to replace POWER on the toggle switch without fixing, and RESET is on the button.

For buttons made a special lining.

The first toggle switch was more rude, they refused it, since it required considerable efforts. And as a result, it would have to strengthen the front panel.

Note: I will not tell about the HDD indicator, there is a separate article on this topic. But this is what the complications caused, so this is the fact that there were quite a few contacts on the toggle switch, and there were no schemes. And here as we did, remembering the school lessons of physics: collected a chain of a bed, batteries from a flashlight and a voltmeter. So we found a couple of contacts we need.

Bottom part. We went by the model. In the housings, the bottom is often used to accommodate a cooler or just for ventilation. In the furnaces for this, a special door is also provided. We made it, cutting into two parts (one should be a little more different, for bend) the usual exhaust damper.

The upper part be fed from the cut side.

The retainer is made of two aluminum strips and "sticks out" to the flap and the case. Thus, the handle can rotate.

Here we have parts, but there is no front panel. The choice is small. We remove the measurements and cut out the lining and the upper door (the last bent around the perimeter), we clean everything.

Note: Cutting parts from a solid metal sheet Personal business. But we did it like this: you first need to draw the item on dense paper or cardboard, cut, around the perimeter to smoke with painting tape, select the cut line with a pencil and proceed to the cutting process.

After all the above operations, we did the following (hereinafter just drilling holes for rivets, weighed. All - the case is ready for painting).

Painting

So painting. It began with the search for a way to paint under rzavchin. We are known two. The first is to apply several layers of different colors with their subsequent "rubbing" (the method is very expensive). The second, namely, we chose it, I'll describe now.

Selection of paints

Painful topic. We just went out into the street, found the first rusty piece of iron and 20 minutes to do it, trying to determine the colors. Frankly: it turned out not immediately, but the main desire.

Outdoor painting

Step first - background.

Note: On the example, there is a piece of plex (from the back of it orange, sorry, there was nothing more to paint).

The first thing to be done is to apply a texture gel. We went over several options. And in general, this is a matter of taste.

But we apply it is not just like that, but pre-mixing with paint, in our case - with brown. Ferrario Apa Color "16" BURNT SIENNA).

Note: As the basis, you can also use a black metallic (we have Ferrario Apa Color "46" Wrougt Iron Gray). The end result does not change from this.

Note: If you first apply just a gel, give it to dry and after that, in places to wear out the sandpaper, you can achieve an interesting effect.

Our brown was very light, so we added some black (Louvre).

Note: Add black need very carefully, plus-minus a few drops and shade changes greatly. If you move, you can easily get a lot of black.

Now we take foam rubber, "Maca" him in paint ...

... and cutting the surface with the surface.

It is desirable to apply several layers thus. (The paint applied in this way will dry quickly, but you can speed up this process with a hairdryer.)

The next step. We apply the color to remind dim the redhead (we have Ferrario APA Color "15" Raw Sienna)

In order to get not large stains, but a small scatter, you need to put on the "working" surface, "McClock" foam rubbed several times about something solid. After that, you need to apply another 3 to 5-6 different shades. It all depends on what rust you want to get. More dark tones and you get the cast iron, more red - and now you have copper. If you have the opportunity, it is better to purchase all the necessary shades if not - you can mix different paints, only you need to mix so much to have enough for the entire surface. Re-mix in the same proportions is very difficult.

After applying all the layers, sliding the surface and cover it with varnish.

Note: A little about varnish, or do not repeat our mistakes. Glossy varnish greatly glitter. Matte - what is needed. Paint a few hours after applying (if the layer is enough "thick" can pass to 10-11 hours) changes color. Varnish (and especially glossy) refreshes it (the effect of wet stones). Therefore, consider this fact when painting.

We got the desired color about the 8th time. Here our "greenness" said. But ultimately the result satisfied us:

Inner painting

There were a lot of ideas: from a simple monophonic painting, to a gradient, with the calculation of different degree of reflection of light. But we stopped on this:

To obtain such an effect, it is necessary: \u200b\u200bred (poisonous) paint (we have Ferrario APA COLOR "05" Vermilion) and a special spray.

You need to apply from 2 to 4 layers of paint to the surface. The paint should not dry hard, and the last layer should be completely fresh. The layers need to be applied carefully - the cross will, otherwise, in the end, something terrible may turn out (too believe me, I know). After applying the surface you need to handle the spread (we have - Ferrario Effetti Decorativi 304 Crackle Nero)

Greetings! Today I will have a rather unusual article for you, but I hope for many of my readers she will interest. This post is recommended for reading, first of all, "computer maniacs" who love to reconnect over their PCs in order to improve it appearance and functionality. So, below you will get acquainted with the project called "Black and White" - this is modding the system unit with their own hands. This miracle created my friend Anatoly Vasilenko and asked me to publish this review on my blog that I would be happy and doing. Below, its text without edit and change.

Hello everybody! I recently acquired new computer And everything is cool, he satisfied me, everything was like on top, but still something lacked ... After a long rage, I came to the conclusion that I was not satisfied with his appearance! :)) Corpus Cooler Master K280.. The design will go, but only at first, I decided, and after a couple of days I took up his modernization ... And then the body looked so much cheaply, not seriously, boring and as an ordinary "stamping".

And so that the body had a less neat and balanced appearance, I decided to fulfill the whole thing in black and white colors. I miss the design stage and immediately start to the practical part!

Here is a boring, default look has a systemist now:

We change the factory front panel

Unfortunately, not all photos that I did in the process of work were preserved, and did not always imagine to take off some stages.

In a nutshell: used for the front panel 2 sheet of transparent org glasswhich were bought in the process of improper drilling, which led them to a rough, unsuitable look ... But fools, as they say, learn from their own mistakes and the panel came to cut "from scratch", but already using sheet ghetynakfrom. Lord, why didn't I think about him right away? .. \u003d) Unlike Org-glass, Getinax is much more refractory, durable and not so brittle!

Drilling a sheet here's a drill, the seller called him: "Ballerinka")), using sheet getinaks 5 mm thick:

Drill the type of crown, only crowns are fixed sizes, and the diameter of this drill can be adjusted from 30 to 125 mm! Very profitable acquisition in my opinion.

The drill perfectly coped with his task, I was pleasantly surprised by the result:

Further clean and degrease the inner side of the panelFor gluing fasteners of the coolers (sticking did not fall out, but the fastener will be visible at the stage of painting), well, and, accordingly, glue with flexible glue: TYTAN PROFESSIONAL CLASSIC FIX. Next Painting panels black matte enamel newton. Applied 5-6 layers for funny confidence:

In the photo you can see "lock" to fix the panel in the case frame:

While I painted came the long-awaited package with braid MDPC-X. Guess what colors? Right! Black (30 m) and white (10 m):

Enamel dried, you can install the valves. Solder them to 12 Volt Molek, We are tightening the wires with black braid, otherwise we do not need incomprehensible multicolored wiring in the case:

The factory-quality panel came out, and the body looks pretty good:

Take a braid

With the front panel finished! But we have a nearly 30m black braid, and the white is not at all touched! It's time to let them in the case ... So, a new power supply arrived AERO COOL 650 W, disassemble it and begin the braid of each wire separately:

One day I was enough to cover only 24 Pin cable !! The occupation is incredibly routine, but at the beginning interesting:

The peculiarity of this power supply is that the power cables of video cards are doubled, so it was necessary to split them so that in one braid there was only one wire, if there is 2 or more, the braid will be thicker against the rest of the rest, and we do not need it:

Total I had enough patience to cover only those wires that I will use, and unused to blow a motherboard from the eye from the eye:

Trial launch. I was convinced that we did not confuse anything and that all the nodes work:

In order to avoid unnecessary bends 24 PIN cable to us it is necessary to prolong down the factory hole in the housing Under this cable, and cut down the rubber:

Strip the remaining minor wiring into the braid:

We mount a new braided power supply and customize cables in its place:

(Click on the picture to enlarge)

We look at what happened:

Enjoyed, rested, now go to the acrylic window!

Installing an acrylic window

We go to the building material store and buy everything you need:

transparent acrylic sheet - 300x300mm,
molding ribbon - 1 meter,
cutting engraver
lED tape
dimmer to adjust the backlight.

Plisted cover housing paper scotchThis will protect the paint from scratches and any damage during cutting:

Turn on engraver and cut out the cutting circle our window. And do not forget to give Himself to relax! In the meantime, Engraver rests, we cut acryl in parallel. We carry out a finishing cutting of the cut, spin on the bends and remove the unnecessary protective tape. Scotch was not fully cleaned, but not trouble, if there is a wet cloth:

As we can see, it turned out very neatly, without scratches and irregularities:

Remove the protective layer on the one hand acrylic and glue it from the inside of the wall of the case and leave all this "case" as you can dry. Having leaving the night, glue drying and voila - we have a decent type of acrylic window:

Installing LED backlight

So we have: FEMALE 4PIN, Molex-Male 4Pin - Male 4Pin (needed to connect to power supply), dimmer with a remote control, a piece of white lED ribbon And dumb wires in order to connect all this.

We sleep all the elements in a bunch and get something like a cord with backlight. Breeping "Cord with backlight" to the wall and connect the meals:

New metal legs

One good friend working at one plant, I drew me new legs from a solid rod stainless steel. The visible part of the leg was polished, and on the bottom pasted the layer of rubber, you know why. Mix on the screws sweaty.

Good day! I wanted to tell you a little about a personal computer, or rather about my passion, modding.

I will write for those who still do not know or just begins to know computer technique, summary. Personal computer consists of:

System Block (Computer Heart or Brain)
Monitor (eyes)
Keyboard and Computer Mouse (Hands)
Headphones and columns (ears)
And many more peripheral equipment.

The PC system unit is responsible for the full vitality of the entire computer. It has main components:

Motherboard (platform for other components)
Cooler processor (main computing center)
Video card (video processing board)
RAM
Power supply (Socular power unit)
The housing with fans (hangar in which is located above these components)
Optical drive (media installation)

The PC body is usually a non-weld iron rectangular box mostly white or black. The main functions of the body, protect the components from external influences, mechanical damage, maintain the temperature regime by ventilation. Many suits the appearance of the case, the main thing that everything worked. But there is a category of people who wish to change the system unit, make it more beautiful, enter into the interior of the desktop as something unusual and original. So such a direction was born as modding.

Modding under itself involves changing the configuration and external appearance of a personal computer, to a greater degree of the system case. Most often, enthusiasts are engaged in modernizing, bringing their PC to perfection. If you make an analytical comparison, then the car can be called a similar occupation.

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Manufacturers of buildings (giants of their business) try to highlight some of their own rules, giving them all sorts of forms, decorating with all sorts of inserts, transparent windows in the side walls, filling with neon light.

But I want to tell you that you can from the usual factory case, if you turn on the imagination and attach hands. Create a work of art in the world of moding.

On this I finish scientific theory and turn to practice, my practice.

I didn't become interested in modding, my first systemist stood under the table with a black box. Accidentally having heard about such art, I climbed on the Internet and was simply admired seen. A little reflection armed with a grinder saw a window in the side wall, covered with the plexiglass and tightly sharply. Then bought a vinyl film and pasted an intricate ornament. In addition to everything sticked brand stickers. And here I got a simple, a little rude, but still a rejoicing eye modding.

After a while my PC passed a full upgrade. The new iron was placed in the SilverStone case, the case is simply super and refinement did not require. But the thoughts do not give the hands of rest, it seems so they say. And I went on another line, water cooling. I will not paint all the delights of the water, you can find a lot of information on the Internet. But for myself I decided to promote this direction. I will say right away, pleasure is expensive, and therefore some components I acquired ex-in use. The first water cooling system was modular. Separately for the processor (Corsair) and for video cards (THERMALTAKE). ThermalTake module is three in one: radiator, pump and capacity. And all this is compactly located on the frame, which must be installed in two compartments 5.25. Since thermaltake is designed to cool one processor (central or graphic), and I had SLI, for efficient cooling of the liquid, I had to buy a second radiator. The SilverStone case is not designed for water cooling, so I had to apply the smelter to place all components. Tubes have decorated under one style, and here is ready. It turned out original, but still not perfect.

When funds appeared, water cooling modules were changed to individual components. In this regard, the inner decoration of the systemist, heavily transformed.

But in my hands hit the system unit with an acrylic case and my imagination played with a new force.

The unspoken wires in an absolutely transparent body looked terribly, so I placed them in a water cooling tube and added neon backlight. It became much better.

But on this I did not stop. After thinking and attracting what, he decided to transfer the motherboard with a water from Silverstone to acrylic. The picture was not quite rosy. In the first time, the limited space did not allow to place all the elements of water cooling in the housing (the radiator W) and the large amount of wires spilled the total gamut. At the beginning, in the upper cover of the body, the holes for the shlands and the passage of the air flow from the housing through the radiator were cut. Three 120 fans with blue illumination, color wires were installed on the radiator, and the optical drive was wrapped in black tape.

120 cotton BP were taken, as two vidyuhi require more power blocks. Improved by replacing the braid of all wires.

Well, the BP is completed, you can collect everything else. Due to the limited space in the housing I had to pursar a little. But I was satisfied with the result.

Order

One fine summer day of 2010, my phone rang. This was he. Order that you usually wait for the ruging of the routine mountains. "You need to embed a computer in the cast car disk."

It sounded like a challenge.
This is not asked every day. I, without a second, not thinking, agreed to take up work.
And then the customer disappeared. He just did not call me anymore. I had his number, but I never impose, so all joyful experiences associated with the upcoming work on an interesting project quietly smalleled and forgotten.

Passed year.
Call customer. It turns out that he lost my number. And a year later, I found!
And boiled work!

Modding

Finally, after the overall concept of work, I was sent to the cast disk - Diablo 18 "chrome.

And we started working with a partner.
The endless fittings of the components in different positions did not give the answer, how can we place everything inside a small cast disc.
Before us at that time were tasks:

In the central part of the disk, you must put an optical drive, the tray of which will be moved along with the disk cap. You need to come up with a fastening system, simple and reliable.

Place your motherboard, video card, power supply and hDD In the remaining space, which disastrously lacked.
Find a rational way to give a stable vertical position to a circular cast disc.

Regarding accommodation optical drive - Everything is clear, but it is somehow necessary to put it!
A rectangular grooves with a narrow pass-through part were chosen on the milling machine - under the tray.

Init. Standing, the tray is extended.
New problem - how not to give the drive to "fall out"?

I love studs, ordinary steel stiletto. With their help, we secured the drive.

Wiring on the "EJECT" button, connected the power and played, were played for a long time. The extended and stabbed tray of the disk fascinated and captured our views.

In the future, the wiring was brought to a special button, which was accurately in the factory hole for nipple.

The remaining free space did not allow us to install a full-sized ATX motherboard (305 × 244 mm). Only trimmed in FlexATX sizes (229 x 191 mm).

It was at this moment that the client began to dictate his conditions. On Flexatx, he did not agree, insisted on the installation of a full-sized ATX, and, along with other components, he promised to send us.
Potted months. We were waiting. The disk lay.

Every client coming to the workshop admired, but we did not move in work.
We got the components already in the fall.

He had a hefty ATX motherboard with words: "Put it somehow."
She only became sideways and drank off the edges of the disk on good 50 mm.

Prepared for motherboard Pallet, made fasteners to it. Attached. Stripping from the position of the motherboard, began to make a basket of fastening the power supply and hard disk. Two in one.

The video card could be located only on the side of the drive on the regional extension. The carrier base for the video card served acrylic.

All the manufactured parts of the inner frame were painted with a powder in a black matte color.
The legs suitable for the design were found in the bins of the homeland, finalized and installed.

Between the legs drilled a hole - output for wires.
In this project, legs - fundamentally important momentbecause There is no legs in any such case, instead of the legs, some ridiculous pedestals are used or at all the sides of the sides - so that the disk does not roll.
Started preliminary assembly.

Along the way, made of decorative grids bent on the template, which close the space between the knitting needles.
On the edge of the disk, 8 holes under the M3 stands were twisted, on which we decided to install an acrylic shield that performs the role of the rear panel.
Initially, according to the project with the use of FlexATX motherboard, it was assumed that the acrylic shield would be tightly on the edge of the disk, but our 50mm fee is wider. I had to get out and wise with racks.

Computer management needed to make some panel. The panel was made of acrylic. A decorative speedometer was made for the control panel. Decorative because for the functional no one was going to pay, and yes, it was no longer enough.

Decorative design - Drawing of carbon, inscriptions and the Speedometer jackal itself were applied to acrylic with ultraviolet printing.
The button with a beautiful blue backlight is responsible for turning on the computer, the first toggle switch in the backlight of the disk internally, the second for the backlight of the speedometer. The ability to convenient disabling almost all luminous element is the basis of the comfort of further operation.
The control panel fastened on chrome-plated curved tubes.

In front of the final assembly, equipped the disk with the backlit using the LED tape of the blue glow.
Case assembled. Time photo shoot.