Computer Mod

Step 2 The Window cont....

Now start filing the rought edges and round the corners, for those of you that totaly ignored that step you can get some 1/4 inch tubeing and run a slit the legnth of one side of the tube. Run the tube around your window. If you feel safe that nothing will get into your computer (pets, little brother, liquids of any kind) then you can leave it open otherwise continue on.

Take your plexi-glass and cut it to fit you window with about 1 1/2 inches extra on each side. carfuly drill a hole in your door that is slightly bigger than your screw, now center you plexi-glass over you window, you should be able to see the hole in the door that you just drilled. Carfuly (don't push to hard on the plexi-glass) drill a hole that lines up with the hole in the door (make sure the hole is smaller than your screw). repeat this untill your plexi-glass is secure. TA-DA you have a window.

If my directions were a little unclear you can check these two sites, I found they helped my a lot http://www.instructables.com/id/E0TPGA73GTEP287FTT/
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ComputingSolutions/0,,30_288_13265_13295%5E13330,00.html

Comments

[Mario1]

again we drop silent "e" so it's tubing not tubeing

[LetsExplodeSomething]

 give him a break doush

[The Compiler]

I wouldn't leave it open because of the dust and the air circulation inside the pc, it's really a bad idea. Flo

[bowmaster]

If its open it's way easier to clean out the dust.

[DrCoolSanta]

PCs get dusty anyway. Second, your hardware stays cooler, trust me.

[The Compiler]

Sure, but much less dusty. And the hardware doesn't stay cooler. Normally, one fan sucks cold air into the pc, another one gets hot air out. So if you open it, that air-circulation is interrupted, making your fans non-operational. Flo

[DrCoolSanta]

Nope . . . I have had stuff that would heat up fast, opening the cabinet keeps it a little cool. Like so many of my hardware, especially GPUs that heat up fat work when the cabinet is open but not when closed.

[keethrax]

A good case will keep your important bits cooler while closed. Because it will be designed to channel air appropriately. A overloaded, or just plain bad case will be cooler while open.

[Gamersunited22]

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[DrCoolSanta]

Noob just because my GPU would get heated up if I don't open my case? I have proof since it happened to me. STFU please.

[polird]

I agree. when I open up my case, all the temperatures go up because the air flow stops. In a good case, air moves from the front to the back, but with no side, there is no air movement and therefore the air just sits there. The only time your components will cool with an open case is if it is very cheap. DrCoolSanta is wrong.

[DrCoolSanta]

Asus NVIDIA EN7300GS is cheap hardware, yeah lol. I may be wrong, but by quoting a situation, I just telling what happened to me and how I fixed it. If you can infer something else do that. And anyway, I am talking about the cabinet I got on my HP PC, yeah I know its not an uber rig, but something from HP can't really be a sucky case.

[johnathon007]

any oem pc is a sucky case, none of the big companies like hp, dell, or gateway use anything that is even good enough for using as a garbage can.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119194 thats the one i use and if i take the sides off my temps go up 20c

[Grmgunner]

Go to your local Hardware store and go and pick up some 3M Adhesive Tape its red usually its super sticky double sided tape and you put one side down inside the case and make sure the plexi glass is big enough to go over the hole and then peal the red side of the tape off and it should be clear and sticky on that side. and all you do is put your peice of plexi glass on the tape and push down on the corners inside the case pannel to make sure the tape is secure. This tape holds masive amount of weight amost 40-50 lbs from what i hear

[easycom89]

in genius, i went through a ton of plexi glass b/c it cracked

[Grmgunner]

Check out http://www.MNPCtech.com they've got supplies for every kind of modder :)