M-Low Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Hey all - I wanted to share with y'all the case I put together for my eGPU. For the longest time I've been simply leaving all the components out in the open and it looked awful. I then started to house them in my desk drawer and made sure the drawer was open while it was turned on for heat dissipation - kind of annoying. I finally came across an old Commodore 5.25" floppy drive, took the guts out, painted it black and here we go! I'm powering my GTX670 with the 150w "Jasper" XBox 360 PSU, which provides more than enough power for my card. I've seen people try to hook up the 175W and 203W versions, but that's just a waste - I've done full testing on this and have found zero power bottleneck. Yes - some soldering was involved in order to cut down on cords and power everything directly. In the end, the PSU powers the GPU with 2x 6-pins and the TH05 with a floppy molex directly. The switch is connected so that when turned off, the PSU goes into standby (orange light) and cuts power to all the 12v cables. When the switch is turned on (green light), 12v returns to the cables, powering the GPU and TH05. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator angerthosenear Posted October 4, 2013 Moderator Share Posted October 4, 2013 Wow, that is very nice. I thought mine turned out really nice, but you got me beat by a longshot lol.How did you mount the card / psu in there? I can't really tell from the pictures. I used some steel pipe hangar and rubber stoppers to hold mine. Same with the PSU.Lucky for you, you managed to get a TH05. I envy that removable cable (plus the bandwidth).Very clean build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M-Low Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 How did you mount the card / psu in there? I can't really tell from the pictures. I used some steel pipe hangar and rubber stoppers to hold mine. Same with the PSU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapytopy Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Awesome! I don't suppose you could upload more/larger pictures?That is pretty much exactly what I would like my end result to look like. I don't suppose you could post a wiring diagram? I know there are heaps aroundbut it would be awesome to know how you did the light too. Did you end up using a SWEX (ATX Power Supply Power-On Switch)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriano Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Nice, i also still have a Commodore 5.25" floppy drive. Please post more picz and part numbers. I want todo this exactly the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M-Low Posted October 22, 2013 Author Share Posted October 22, 2013 Thanks guys - If you can wait a couple weeks, I'll be able to do this a little more thoroughly. I recently ordered another XBox psu from China and have another Commodore 5.25" floppy drive lying around. I'll post photo-by-photo instructions and a wiring diagram. This next version will be slightly different, as mentioned above, I'm going to use the 203w version of the XBox psu: 1 - With the extra yellow (12v) and black (ground) lines, I'll be wiring up two ambient fans to increase air-flow for over-clocking. As an aside, I don't know much about over-clocking, but what I do know is that keeping the cpu and/or gpu cool during increased load is usually better... hence the additional fans. a) One fan will simply be fixed to the under-side of the "lid", where the vents are located - sucking air directly down on to the gpu fan. I'm going to try my hand at carving out a bit of the box to have the second fan placed at the back where the switch is located. The two placements should suck air in from the top and back to blow out the front (with lots of air going through the gpu). This should also reduce any ambient heat given off by the already low heat psu. 2 - I'll be wiring this one differently. Instead of wiring everything directly to the power source, I'll be creating intermediary connections to simplify, improve soldering quality, and adaptability to divergent power pin requirements of differing gpu's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeRRickz Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 This is great! Can you show me your 150w "Jasper" XBox 360 PSU wiring diagram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pasport Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Hello! I made near the same egpu case inspirated by you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyClocker Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Hello,your solution looks pretty cool.Can you help me about wiring Xbox 360 PSU? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbadbad Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 I'm pretty sure that these are the right pics. It uses the 203W version though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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