Friday, October 07, 2005
Suckerpunch!
Just because that is the song currently stuck in my head. Five Iron Frenzy is good stuff. I'm just glad I was able to catch thier Farewell tour before I totally missed out, much like I did with Stryper back in the early '90's. I really don't have anything to update here, nothing real exciting has gone on since last post.
Gamewise, I've been up to a good mix of Battlefield 2, NFS:U2, and FlatOut. Throw in a pinch of Half-Life 2 (still not finished, kinda lost) and GTLegends the demo and there you have it.
I looked into the cost of having a auto body shop give that big Inwin Q500 case of mine a quality paintjob, but everyone local doesn't think they could do that. It's metal, you sand it, then paint it! I will do it myself sometime, I was just trying to save myself hours of hand sanding the case down. I will probably paint it a nice high-gloss black, but have also considered Yellow, Orange (like my Mustang was), a flat Olive Drab, or even camoflage. I was also looking into getting a hole saw to cut a few openings to mount 120mm fans in places where there should be 80mm's. But the approprite bit is $36, so that won't happen anytime soon. I could see if my dad has the hole saw bit I need... hmmm. The painting can wait, but for some reason I really want to transfer my main system into this big, heavy case. But not until it can breathe properly through the 120mm's I wish to install. I test fit the 120 that I have, and it fits properly in the front but I need to open up some more ventilation for it. In the back, however, it will be mounted above the power supply facing out the back. Yes, there is that much room above the PSU. Barely. It fits pretty tightly between the PSU and the top of the case.
In case you wonder why I want to do all this to put in 120mm fans, it's because I want to :P . And because they can run slower yet still push more air than the 4 80's in my current case, and slower fan speed means less noise.
In other news: bring on the cooler October weather! Enough of the 80's already!
Oh, and Jocelyn, I got the 2 Friday w00t's on the same post 'cuz I didn't think this one up fast enough to not get 2 w00ts :p
Gamewise, I've been up to a good mix of Battlefield 2, NFS:U2, and FlatOut. Throw in a pinch of Half-Life 2 (still not finished, kinda lost) and GTLegends the demo and there you have it.
I looked into the cost of having a auto body shop give that big Inwin Q500 case of mine a quality paintjob, but everyone local doesn't think they could do that. It's metal, you sand it, then paint it! I will do it myself sometime, I was just trying to save myself hours of hand sanding the case down. I will probably paint it a nice high-gloss black, but have also considered Yellow, Orange (like my Mustang was), a flat Olive Drab, or even camoflage. I was also looking into getting a hole saw to cut a few openings to mount 120mm fans in places where there should be 80mm's. But the approprite bit is $36, so that won't happen anytime soon. I could see if my dad has the hole saw bit I need... hmmm. The painting can wait, but for some reason I really want to transfer my main system into this big, heavy case. But not until it can breathe properly through the 120mm's I wish to install. I test fit the 120 that I have, and it fits properly in the front but I need to open up some more ventilation for it. In the back, however, it will be mounted above the power supply facing out the back. Yes, there is that much room above the PSU. Barely. It fits pretty tightly between the PSU and the top of the case.
In case you wonder why I want to do all this to put in 120mm fans, it's because I want to :P . And because they can run slower yet still push more air than the 4 80's in my current case, and slower fan speed means less noise.
In other news: bring on the cooler October weather! Enough of the 80's already!
Oh, and Jocelyn, I got the 2 Friday w00t's on the same post 'cuz I didn't think this one up fast enough to not get 2 w00ts :p
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