Here it is, now that I finally had it open, and felt like taking pictures, at the same time:



(1) The heatsink likes to eat my fingers. Each one has collided with either the fan or the copper edges at least once.

(2) This is the biggest sham ever. I got two of these heat sensors for the case fans, so they’d self adjust according to temperature. One didn’t even power the fans, and the other started the alarm failsafe after about 2 minutes. If you like getting the shaft I can tell you the brand.

(3) This is the most quiet fan ever invented by mankind. It’s like a skillion rpm but its like 0.0001 dB. Notice the remainder of the soundproofing material found a good home on that airduct.

(4) The case puts the power supply down there, and the cables and everything run either up out of there (in the hole by (2)), or through the back of the case (which now looks like a scattered mess with all the wiring, but better there than in here).

(5) This is some soundproof foam I got off EBay, and also some PAX.MATE is used around in places. It takes the total sound down about a decibel. Worth the time, money, effort, and risk of frying delicate parts with vapors from a spray-on adhesive for just that? Ehh…

(6) A UV light stick. Essential hardware. It ups the teraflops about 20%, 30% AT NIGHT.

(7) Oh man look at those wires. Somebody should clean up this mess.

(8) You wouldn’t believe the stupidity of this fan placement. It’s right next to not only where all the wires are from the power source, but also, right along side the maybe 1/2 inch you got for the power and data connector for the hard drive. So, if you string everything up and get not a single one jamming this fan, you should retire a philosopher or something.

(9) The worst part, even worse than that HD cooling fan in (8), is this cage for hard drives. Great idea in theory, not so much in practice. If you need to pull this out for something, you have about a 20% chance the power connector is going to fall out, and 50% odds that the serial ATA cable will either be disconnected, or snap clean off the connector. I loathe the day I’m going to install another drive: twice as many wires to possibly get jammed in that HD fan!