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So here is our case right out of the box. The armor case
gets its name from the 2 hinged metal flaps in the front. I use these cases
exclusively at the company of my employment as well as personally and since
switching I have had lots of near misses but no one kicking in the front of
there system by accident. Any how the point is it’s a great case. |
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So step one in this assembly is to remove all the crap we
won’t need in this case. No extra fans, drive caddies, or cross
supports in the drivebays. Also we will remove the
tool drawer in the bottom of the case. Basically we will strip it down to
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Next we will install the power supply. This is a straightforward process, but we did hit one snag. The large heat pipe housing protruding
from the rear of the power supply is square. The hole for cut out for a
normal fanned power supply was circular. Not a big deal to fix, we just got
our tin snips and cut a small quarter inch notch and it fit like a dream. |
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Next up is assembling the core. Mount the CPU in the
motherboard per the manufacturer’s instructions. But don’t install
the standard heatsink it came with. If you are using some spare or used parts
in your assembly it is strongly recommended that you use some 99% rubbing
alcohol to clean the surface of the CPU so you can get a good new thermal
bond with the new heatsink. |
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Using some artic silver thermal paste and the appropriate application
technique for the CPU we're using, mount the fanless heatsink to the motherboard.
One place here we deviated from the instructions is we mounted the heatsink
90 degrees. The reason we did this is the case will be a lower air flow case
and we want to direct the air out the back of the case. If we had installed
it normally we would have created a barrier right in front of the air outlet
on the back of the case. |
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