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my temporary, slapped together in one evening, Efika case
  • Cocoon
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    fairlanefastback
    Posts: 54 from 2007/2/6
    Its in a 27 slice frozen cheese pizza box (minus the pizza and no longer a frozen box). The pizza was pretty good, even though its a store brand. :)

    I digress...

    I put two fans in the box, it really does not likely need it. But I put one intake in the front and an exhaust in the top. I have a hard mental time with passive cooling I guess. :) I ordered a Club 3D Graphics Radeon 9250 256MB half height card for it and thats what is installed. I had to fashion a strap out of cardboard to hold the video card evenly with the board. I have motherboard mounts screwed into the box bottom. They were longer than the width of the cardboard so I made a base out of the video card box so that the metal from the mounts would not contact anything.

    I still need to install the 2.5 inch hard drive and a USB keyboard and the power and reset buttons too. When I have that together I hope to get going on a Linux install.

    My digital camera needed a charge so I took these with my camera phone, hence the quality is not too good, my apologies in advance on that.

    http://fordfastback.50megs.com/efika1.jpg
    http://fordfastback.50megs.com/efika2.jpg
    http://fordfastback.50megs.com/efika3.jpg
    http://fordfastback.50megs.com/efika4.jpg
    http://fordfastback.50megs.com/efika5.jpg

    (In pic #4 the green plastic above the board is just something that had good tension to hold down one flap of the box and also to help re-inforce it a bit.)

    [ Edited by fairlanefastback on 2007/2/23 1:56 ]
  • »23.02.07 - 05:53
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    That is just fcking priceless. 8-)

    The logos are just too much.. lol.

    I thought Bigfoot had the monopoly on pizza box computers.

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    hooligan
    Posts: 1948 from 2003/2/23
    From: Lahti, Finland
    Haha.. you one crazy mother... :lol:
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    wolfe
    Posts: 118 from 2003/8/8
    From: Somewhere Some...
    I'll have mine with extra cheese and no anchovies, please . . . ;-)
  • »23.02.07 - 12:54
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  • Cocoon
    Cocoon
    fairlanefastback
    Posts: 54 from 2007/2/6
    @magnetic

    hehe

    I had an amused fun time. lol The strap I made to help keep the video card level was taped to the outside of the box and looked horrible. Coupled with being amused at having a video card brand that dosen't exist over here I just thought it would be funny to start taping logos from the Efika stuff I had already printed out that was nearby.

    Pizza Box version 2.0 I suppose! :)

    [ Edited by fairlanefastback on 2007/2/23 9:39 ]
  • »23.02.07 - 13:37
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  • Cocoon
    Cocoon
    fairlanefastback
    Posts: 54 from 2007/2/6
    Quote:


    hooligan wrote:
    Haha.. you one crazy mother... :lol:


    I try!

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  • »23.02.07 - 13:38
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  • Cocoon
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    fairlanefastback
    Posts: 54 from 2007/2/6
    Quote:


    wolfe wrote:
    I'll have mine with extra cheese and no anchovies, please . . . ;-)


    It only comes with onions and jalapeno peppers for the moment. :lol:
  • »23.02.07 - 13:40
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Velcro_SP
    Posts: 929 from 2003/7/13
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    [ Edited by Velcro_SP 20.09.2011 - 21:00 ]
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  • »23.02.07 - 23:19
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    Acill
    Posts: 1928 from 2003/10/19
    From: Port Hueneme, Ca.
    That is the cheesiest case I have ever seen! ;)
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  • Cocoon
    Cocoon
    fairlanefastback
    Posts: 54 from 2007/2/6
    Quote:


    Velcro_SP wrote:
    Very horrible, try some tupperware next time. ;)


    Don't tempt me!! lol
  • »24.02.07 - 03:58
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