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Thank you! Video stages of the Wolfenstein PC theme Power Supply YouTube - Wolfenstein Case Mod: Part 1, "Power Supply" (mnpctech.com)

Paint commenced yesterday on the chassis, or what I refer to as the mid section of the Panzerbox, it's welded together as one piece. We painted over the drive covers, just because it's easier to do it this way. Theme was inspired by this screen shot of the bad guy in the new Wolfenstein game The vinyl stencil is applied to the chassis before painting camo pattern over it.

 

 Panzerbox Case Video Review

If you recall I installed a green led 250mm fan in the top earlier. Red leds will be in the final version. I

120mm Honeycomb Mesh Fan Grill for the front of the fan.

The honeycomb grill is made from 22 gauge steel and powder coated Black.

We are pleased to announce that AMD/ATI has joined in and is sponsoring our Project Panzerbox. They had been blown away by the work done so far and felt it was a great opportunity for their products to be shown off.  We are sure that these components will help us create an extremely fast gaming PC!




To help us bring this together, they were kind enough to provide us with both a CPU and a GPU.  I took a few pictures of the components.

The CPU they provided is the AMD Phenom™ II X3 720


Specs:
Socket - AM3
Stock Clock - 2800 mhz
Cores: 3
L3 Cache - 6mb

The GPU they provided is the ATI Radeon™ HD 4890


Specs:
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Core Clock - 850MHz
Stream Processors - 800 Stream Processing Units
Memory Clock - 3.9 Gbps
Memory Size - 1GB
Memory Type - DDR5

The 250mm cooling fan in the front of the Panzerbox

I was just wondering, are you going to have any custom designs inside the case? I've never seen it done before, but I think it would be really nice if you found very visible places to put it.

Congrats on the ATI/AMD sponsorship!

With the kind of airflow the case looks like it will have, I imagine you can get some killer overclocking out of that Phenom II X3 720...

Keep up the great work!

Cheers,
Paul

wyldstallyn:

Congrats on the ATI/AMD sponsorship!

With the kind of airflow the case looks like it will have, I imagine you can get some killer overclocking out of that Phenom II X3 720...

Keep up the great work!

Cheers,
Paul

Thanks man!  We are very excited to get them on board for this project.  It really shows how much they care about the enthusiast market.

And sorry for the lack of updates.  Cooler Master contacted Bill about doing a case mod for the upcoming Computex show in Taipei, so that has been taking our time the last couple weeks.  If anyone is interested, here is a worklog for that project:  http://www.cmstorm.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1441

But, that one is completed now, so there should be a renewed effort on the Panzerbox mod.

We've finished Cooler Master's Scout PC for Computex, now we can get back to this project, Yay! We are pleased to announce our new sponsor for the Wolfenstein PC Project! 2x 2GB sticks (4 gig total) XMS3 DHX DDR3 1600 mhz! Thank you Corsair Memory, You're the best!

NZXT told me mid June. I've been a huge fan of Thermalright since the release of their XP-120 Heat sink. I would preach that heat sink paired with the 120mm Panaflo L1A I've been deep in product developement from mnpctech over the past week, so Wolfy project was on the side line till the Radeon shroud arrived from Nate. I've always wanted to have a kick a** mural airbrushed onto a gpu shroud. I love it when Modders go beyond the viewer's expectations. Add those small details you have to look hard to find. This imho is what makes the best mods!

Using Red Scotch brite to scuff the plastic

Using "SEM brand" Black Flexible primer for plastics

Applied Krylon Flat Black Enamel What will be airbrushed on the shroud. .....stay tuned!

Ok, another big announcement!



We are pleased to announce that Thermalright is sponsoring the Project Panzerbox Mod!  They are providing us with one of their high quality CPU heat sinks & fan.


Ultra 120 Extreme Revision A (AMD CPU Version)




This is a stock photo, some of the accesories might be different for the AMD version.


Thank you Thermalright!

ATI Radeon 4890 shroud being airbrushed by Brad with Tesla gun

from new Wolfenstein game (releasing this summer!)

The 4890's fan shroud came out great! the most killa paint work by Brad! I just need to clear coat it.

Our sponsership package from Corsair arrived!

Oh my!! it's the new 1600MHz CAS 6 Dominator GTs

Dominator GT product page



The heat sinks are removable, to allow upcoming cooling options from Corsair



Thank you Corsair!

Here is a link to a new Wolfenstein trailer

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZX7Heo3WH4

 

 

and a big Thank you! to Motherboards.org for sponsering the Wolfenstein PC Project with a new Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P Motherboard! Gigabyte's Product Spec page http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3007

Here are a couple photos of the HSF that Thermalright sent us.


They sent us one of their silent fans and fan clips.


Here you can see the fan clipped to the Heat Sink.


Thanks again to Thermalright for providing such a great cooler for this system.

The top handle for the Panzerbox is finished and ready for paint. From concept to reality.

Instead of masking off 56 holes with tape and cutting them with exacto knife, to save time we made a sheet of 3/8" circle vinyl appliques last night to cover the cross drill holes before painting the top carry handle

I got the Matte Black finish for the top carry handle done today.

I really like the contrast of aluminum with Matte Black.  

We just got confirmation Razer is onboard as our new sponser! Thank you Razer! We'll be using the Lycosa keyboard and new Mamba wireless gaming mouse. I really look forward to trying out the Mamba! Razer always goes above and beyond with their ultra cool packaging We're already thinking about what to painting on the kb & mouse. Considering this dude from the new Wolfenstein. It will be the "Mwhahaha Mamba" mouse!

Heres the airbrushed shadowing on the center bezel for the fatality X-fi, next we're gonna add a tint of blue, for more of a steel look