After finally finishing Morrowind (if you can ever consider it "finished") and finalizing my story, I'm finally building the new PC that'll be used for Silent Hunter IV, The Witcher, and Oblivion.
The Whole Thing
Start with one case
Front
There is nothing as beautiful as virgin territory, right guys?? 
500 watt PS BTW, the only thing holding that up are the 4 screws on the back of this case. Really. That case is 1/4 inch thick, so I guess it'll hold the thing.
The Mother of All Boards
And locked in place.
Brains.........
And in place.....
Big A** Fan
This was the hard part. Not installing the harddrives, but getting the ribbon cable to wrap around the corner to the plugs. This case turns the harddrives sideways (the front fans blow on them).
300 gig HD on top (Western Digital), and 80 gig on bottom (Maxtor). BTW, those ribbon cables were replaced later with round EDI cables for better air flow.
Two DVD drives (burners, one is lightscribe)
Yes, that's a cassette deck for a computer! No, really!! I've got 99 cassettes that I've been wanting to burn to CD's for years. Now, it can be done!
GeForce 7800 GT OC, 256 megs
Replaced ribbon cables with round IDE cables. I really need to go back in there and clean up those power connections. I was trying to keep everything neat, but the video card needs power here for the fan, the two front fans needed power, the night-lights around the power/reset buttons needed power, and now it looks like a major interchange in Los Angeles. The "neat" stuff was the three drives at the top of the PC.
"It's Alive.....IT'S ALIVE!!!"
----Baron Von Frankenstein
On Sunday, June 22, 2008, at 12:04 PM EDT, engine was test fired successfully, no smoke leaked out from anywhere. CMOS recognized everyone that it needed to see. Started loading Win XP Home on it on June 23. It's a process.
I tell you, nothing makes you feel as good as when you put one of these together successfully. Sort of like watching a child being born.
Almost brings a tear to my eyes.