I mounted the AIO on the back of the hard disk cage I already had, the case having so much available space I was able to macgyver something and fix it.Ĭable management is always an issue, the cases back in those days didn't offer any good solution.
I got the Corsair H100i Pro because it was the best deal when I was looking for it, but I ended up to sell it to a friend of mine shortly after (switching to NZXT). The next step was to get an AIO, because I like the look. I spare the details, because it's about the mod and not the build.
So, in september I made a list the parts I wanted with a budget of around 1000$ canadian dollars: I upgraded the video card (to a Geforce 8800GT) and the ram (to 4gb) over the years, but the computer was unused since 2012, when the CPU fan broke. Pentium D 950 (I don't know why I didn't go AMD.and the Core 2 Duo was launched 2 months later.) Here is a picture of it when I got it in May of 2006 (ft. I just thought it would be a cool project. After many year, I decided to build up a new computer, but wanted to re-use my old case: the huge and heavy Thermaltake Armor VA8000BWS.