THE MODGET

[jacob russon]

my goal is to do best i can with what i heve wich is a modest tower a dremel and skill with building things

first i will say how i came up with the name it is very simple it is a MOD but on a budget so i put tham togther to make MODGET

 

ok now on to plans

give my gray PSU a nice paint job

custum cable sleeving (not that cheap so it might not be done)

RGB led lighting with a homemade controller out of arduino, Propeller, or a picaxe

make a backplat for my GPU (what 750Ti dose not need a backplat )

give it a good dusting

and much more

 

 

my case a CM storm scout (original)

 

my GPU a EVGA 750Ti FTW

 

my storage a 120GB ssd and 2 WD blacks in raid1

 

 

my CPU AMD phenom ii X4 955

my motherboard a ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3

my cooler corsair h60

 

my RAM 12GB (2x2GB) and (2x4GB) hyperX blu

 

my PSU a 550W antec bp550 plus

[jacob russon]

i stared with a plan of what it would look like here it is 

 

 

next i went to go get the parts i would need like pant

 

now for the fun part doing it

[jacob russon]

now to make my PSU look good

 

a PSU thats not that good looking

 

whats this a sicker that says warranty void if removed what!!!! now i cant do this

 

just kiding it was gone before this anyway

just look at then insides

 

after a coat of black pant on the PSU

[jacob russon]

now to take the case apart but i seem to have missplaed the photos of that

 

 

painting the IO shield

 

painting the side panel and testing out the paint

 

 

painting the other side panel

 

after being masked and before paint

 

after the first paint

 

[jacob russon]

now to make the RGB lighting

 

makeing the led strip at the bottom of the case

 

 

makeing the controller

 

and the back plate for the GPU (i thout i had more of this too)

[jacob russon]

now for the cable channel

 

i started out makeing a paper plan

 

now i have it on a peice of metel

 

after cuting it with my dremel i then bened them

 

and it is done for the molst part

 

 

[jacob russon]

painting the rest of it

 

and the painting is done

[jacob russon]

starting to put sfuff back togeher

 

the PSU

 

eveything

 

 

 

 

[jacob russon]

after geting it all togeter my LEDs stared not working right so now to debug

[jacob russon]

after a long debug session i got it working and it is now done