Worklog: Project King Kong II, Silverstone TJ07

[ianho]

King Kong's sponsors :-

















Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Look what I just picked up today. It's a looooooooooooooooooooooovely new cage for King Kong. I will call this worklog King Kong II. This will now be my main Gaming rig. I'd like to say a big thank you to my generous sponsors, Silverstone-Inter Asia Technology Sdn. Bhd, Team Xtreem RAM, Arctic Cooling, E-Devices Technology Sdn. Bhd.


Here's sum pix of how the stock standard Silverstone TJ07. I'll start modding it in the next few days after I finish off the mods on Casemod MiniMe.
Look at how big the box is. It's humongous! :flex: It's as tall as my kitchen counter if u look carefully at the pix. How tall is that? Just go to ure kitchen n imagine the box is as tall as ure kitchen cabinets.









Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, King Kong's new cage is coming out. Even just peeking out like that, u can see just how lovely that aluminum chassis is.









Here's the list of hardware going into King Kong.
AMD X2 4200+ @2.7Ghz|| Arctic Cooling Freezer64 Pro|| Arctic Cooling MX-1 thermal paste|| Asus A8N32SLi-Deluxe|| 2X Nvidia 8800GTX SLi|| 2X1Gb Team Xtreem Cronus DDR500mhz|| 150Gb Raptor + 250Gb Caviar WD HDD|| 1000W Silverstone Olympia PSU|| Silverstone TJ07.

[ianho]

OK. The pix editing is done. Here comes more pix of the case.

Front 3 quarters view. That's the most beautiful part of this case. That front panel is actually 1 whole piece of aluminum starting from the top to the front to the bottom. The case consists of that single piece n the 2 side panels. Looooooovely. Just lovely.












Left side view.









Right side view.











Top of the case. It's got a really nice exhaust with 2x120mm fans up there. I can install a really nice 2x120mm radiator there if I ever get back into watercooling.














Rear view. Look at the bottom section. It can take 2 PSUs. :thumbs:











Internal pix.

[ianho]

Stripped the case down to study the structure n construction of the case. This will allow me to get more ideas on what to mod n how to mod it later. There's a lot of things to study b4 really getting down to modding it coz this case is really modular. It's like a box of Lego blocks. practically the whole case can be stripped down n removed to individual parts. So far I've only seen 3 rivets. The rest r all screws. Anyway, here's a pic of the mobo tray removed.





I've been studying the structure n also checking out some mods on the net for ideas. I started a part of the major mods today. I'm gonna strip out everything, n I mean EVERYTHING. Remember I told u guys this case is like a box of Lego blocks? Well, it really is. :thumbs: Check out the stripping work below.





Started by removing the mobo tray, tray rails n the top exhaust fans n mesh mounting.










View from the top.











Sum pix of the chassis mounting joints. They're all screwed together. This 1 is a pic of the lower part of the ROM cage.









Side view of the ROM cage.











Top of the ROM cage.













After removing all those screws, the entire ROM cage structure comes out just like that.










It's now time to remove that divider plate between the mobo n PSU sections of the case. I hafta remove the USB ports at the front n sum screws on the sides b4 I can remove the divider plate.

[ianho]

Here's a pic to give u guys an idea of the pure build quality of the TJ07 case. Many ppl have asked me y on earth a PC case like the TJ07 can be sold at rm1200. This is a good example of y it is so. Look at the pic below n check out the thickness of the aluminum Unibody.

The main unibody section(the U shaped part which makes up the top, front n bottom) itself is 4mm thick in the mid section n 8mm thick on the rim section.





The Unibody section is made using automotive stamping machinery like how they stamp car body panels. Now, is that pure quality or what?






Got down to more stripping work. In fact I stripped it down totally until nothing left. :hehe:


After removing the USB ports, I removed the divider plate. Here's how it looks like without the divider.














It's already pretty bare but there's more stuff to remove. The HDD cages.














Everything is now removed except for the PSU mounting plate at the back. Look at all those parts that have been removed! It's my loooooooooovely box of Lego blocks.












Here's how the chassis looks like now. Absolutely bare except for the PSU plate. I left it on coz it doesn't affect my work on the case. Actually the 2 bars at the back n the PSU plate can b removed too. Then all u'll b left with is the main Aluminum Unibody(the U shaped part).

[ianho]

Time to remove everything. Absolutely everything! :hehe:


1st thing I did was to remove the rivets holding the mobo tray's rail on the divider plate. U can c the rail on the divider here.









Turned it over so I can access teh rivets from the back.









drill drill drill n it's almost out.











:hyper: :hyper: :hyper: The dreaded rivets r out! Begone u evil rivets. I sentence u to Ian's Dungeon of Obsolescence forever!













Now it's time to remove everything from the Unibody chassis. Removing the screws holding the rear alu pipes to the Unibody in this pix.








Closer view of the rear pipes.









The rear section is now completely removed.

[ianho]

Now u can c y the unibody chassis is so strong. C how the thing is actually expanding outwards instead of the normal square shape. It's pretensioned like a spring. That gives the chassis extra strength.















Wokeh, the stripping is done.
Have any of u guys ever seen a case stripped down to this extent? :hehe: Now, that's what I call a really cool case. :thumbs:

[empire23]

CUT CUT CUT lol. So what are your plans for this casing? Damn seeing it makes me hard lah, the beauty of brushed aluminium and spanking new anodization...just pure sweetness. Well atleast i ain't as bad as snipe who gets his rocks of by going to Osim showrooms

[ianho]

Originally Posted by empire23

CUT CUT CUT lol. So what are your plans for this casing? Damn seeing it makes me hard lah, the beauty of brushed aluminium and spanking new anodization...just pure sweetness. Well atleast i ain't as bad as snipe who gets his rocks of by going to Osim showrooms

LOL! Sniper's next rig will haf an Osim horsie incorporated into it. A rocking horsie case.

[Chai]

Too bad, this case doesn't really fits my needs.

[s p r a n k i k o]

That case is already sweet as is!! But I'm sure it'll be sweeter when you're done with it!