GibChingu Hardware / 2018-10-21 13:09:35

GibChingu is housed in an Evo X500 case, which is probably the nicest looking case ever for an Amiga .

 

Original Hardware

The naked truth...

 

Empty Evo X500 Case

Here are some photos of the case:

 Bottom Top
Inside Bottom with Keyboard Keyboard Details
Inside Bottom Inside Top
Side  Bottom Underneath

 

Finished Fitting

And here are some photos with an Amiga 1200 board and other accessories fitting in the Evo X500 case: 

Inside
Inside bottom
Inside top-left corner
Inside top-right corner
More on the inside top-right corner
Back-plate

 

Completely Finished Fitting

I completed the installation by building a "power" cable dedicated to connecting my Amiga to a regular, external, PC PSU. At first, I used a regular serial cable, to benefit from its DB9.

The problem: My Amiga would not start anymore!

The cause: the seriabl cable had too thin wires, which could not transmit enough power from the PSU to the Amiga .

The solution: build my own cable using wires from another, broken PSU (i.e., the cable connecting the Molex connectors to the PSU). These wires are actually quite think and have no problem transmitting the required power .

Also, to increase the stability of my Amiga, I relocated and fastened securely three fans, in addition to the fan already present on the Blizzard:

  • One fan atop of Alice (DMA and ChipR RAM), using thermal tape.
  • One fan atop of Lisa (actually, atop the Indivision AGA , using the ground connector of the Indivision.
  • One fan on the side of the motherboard to push air through.

Since installing these fans, my Amiga can run hours without any problem, running AmiModRadio and Myzar constantly .

 

Other Hardware

Other Accessories fitting into the case include: