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Project Ricer has begun! (Ronbo's Whore Thread)

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Thanks to Josh for these wheels/Tires.(I believe Tom was the original owner of these and they've floated around the community since!) Bought them like 14 months ago and finally put them on. Powder coated 18" Special wheels in Titanium Metallic.







Need to install the "new" door/fender as shown in this picture! That'll happen later this week.


Worked on rewiring the stereo and installing new amps today. Love the Plug-N-Play PAC LOC that I installed and replaced the original crap spliced in LOC. Got to say the original installer was a "Hack"! All that's left is to clean up and bundle the wiring.

Started on the "Hybrid" interior swap. Installed a set of Light Taupe Special seats today. Thanks to Josh for the great deal on the seats. Swapped out the Slate Center Console/Side Panels along with the Glove Box Door and Drivers Dash Knee Bolster for the Light Taupe Items. Removed the Agate leather Intrepid seats which are now for sale. I've got a complete 300m Taupe/Light Taupe dash and Door panels with California wood trim to go in. The 300m Dark Slate dash and door panels with rears modded for an Intrepid will be for sale after that. Faux carbon fiber trim on those pieces.

Before:





After/Now:







Here's the Taupe/Light Taupe dash with real wood trim....ready to go in.



The amplifier components and 12" sub:



 
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#6,857 ·
Don't ever convert any of your Hard Disk Partitions/Volumes to "Dynamic"....you'll regret it!
 
#6,859 ·
If one major provider does it...you can be sure the rest will jump on the bandwagon!
 
#6,863 ·
My latest case. This thing is a monster! Typical Cooler Master quality which is good. Replacing my old Antec tower with a Q6600 quad core in it. Moving up to an i5 Haswell with a Gigabyte G1 Sniper Mobo and 8gb of DDR3. Will be posting the Antec soon FS with everything in it ready to run CHEAP! Stay tuned.

 
#6,865 · (Edited)
Motherboards with on board mSATA slots are the shizznit! Especially if it's a Mini-ITX Form Factor.

An mSATA drive is around a 1/8 the size of your typical 2.5" SSD. About the same size as your typical full height WiFi card.

That's a 120gb mSATA SSD on the upper left. Check out it's size compared to the CPU Heatsink/Fan!

 
#6,867 ·
Mini-ITX form factor MoBos have been around for at least a couple of years. I'm currently using one in my Windows Home Server with 5 hard drives. PCI-E slot is used for an expansion card for an external "NAS" storage tower that holds an additional 8 hard drives. I've got every Video, Music I've ever downloaded on there with room to spare. Not to mention the WHS backs up all my PCs including laptops.
 
#6,870 ·
The Haswell Build is coming along nicely. Transferred my settings/programs from the old tower and getting things together.

This thing is Cool/Quiet with the on board Intel HD graphics. Once I've got all my software installed and setup where I want it....I might run a couple of AMD video cards in CrossFire!
 
#6,871 ·
Have you given thought to a dedicated computer for home audio? with a few speakers and right software, you could have one heck of a system. nothing booming or super loud, pure listening heaven.
 
#6,875 ·
Most Motherboards are notorious for injecting noise into audio. Especially on board audio Not sure if a dedicated sound card would really help. Then there would be an Amplifier involved or amplified speakers.

What did you have in mind for components when you suggested it? I'm not much of an Audiophile for cars. I'm a little better versed in Home audio though.

Polk FTW!
 
#6,874 ·
I've got an AMD Kabini Quad Core APU with a TDP of 25 watts that I'm testing out. 2.05ghz. Recording 4 HDTV shows simultaneously right now and it's not even breaking a sweat. This will make an awesome ultra low power Media Center PC with some Ballz! Unlike the Intel Atom crap, etc. . Just played a recorded HDTV show while the other 4 are being recording and it didn't hiccup. Integrated AMD HD 8400 Graphics. w00t!
 
#6,876 ·
About to do some final testing on a Client's PC. Triple Monitor Display with AMD "Eyefinity" technology! w00t!
 
#6,878 ·
Think I'll go out and buy a Kia Rondo....So I can refer to it as Ronbo's Rondo!
 
#6,880 ·
I'm working on it Dave.....you'll see progress this evening....honest!

The airport has been kicking my ass with calls for the last 4 days!
 
#6,881 ·
Hmmm....should I go with water cooling on my new Haswell build?

Naww....doesn't make sense right now as the CPU I have isn't capable of overclocking.

I could always replace it with one that I can overclock...but then that would cost me another $200+

I'll wait until Hank gets his up to 6ghz! LOL!
 
#6,882 ·
Doing some hard drive cloning right now. Once that's done....the triple display Mammer-Jammer will get fired up and check out. Charging the batteries on the Old Olympus Digital camera to take pictures. w00t!
 
#6,885 ·
Still cloning! Can't move your system into place until that's done.
 
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