This is the prototype of the 200503 Eclipse, doing it’s burn-in test. It’s the first production system I’ve designed to use the nForce 4 SLI chipset (although the system only has one GeForce 6600GT in it at the moment). The mainboard is an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe.
I’m particularly happy with how elegantly the layout and the cabling turned out.
The loom is used more to keep the cables stiff so they don’t move around, than it is for looks. The pair of Molex connectors in the center are left there to provide auxiliary power to the pair of Geforce 6800Ultras the system’s owner might put in one day 
Those in the know will notice a pair of red SATA cables leading to the back of the case. No, you’re not seeing things, that’s a pair of external SATA connectors. Very cool.
External SATA…nice. I have some external SATA drives on my rig at home, but it’s pretty ghetto looking, just longer cables going from one chassis to another through the back holes.
I am quite enjoying my NF4 setup. I still have to clean up my wiring a tiny bit (going to wrap everything with some ultra-violet reactive plastic spiral, or something like that…). My rig currently consists of…
Thermaltake Xaser III Blue/window/480watt PSU
DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D (currently not modded to full SLI. I’ll do that later)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.6GHz (Zalman 7700cu)
2x512MB OCZ PC3200 Gold VX
Leadtek Winfast 6600GT (stock speeds)
2x200GB WD SATA (not in RAID. I’ll do that after I back everything up…..maybe)
ASUS TV/FM Tuner
etc…
This is of course my only high performing PC so I keep it up to date for the most part.
The external SATA is a cool touch. Supposedly SATA is also capable of hot connection and disconnection, but unfortunately the connector and the controller don’t seem to support it. Still, a fast way to get another HDD onto the box. They even include a double-headed SATA power cable that hooks up to the panel.
DFI Lanparty. . . I know about those boards. Those suckers glow in the dark! With a flashy case like an Xaser III that’s going to be quite the eye catcher. UV loom is definately the way to go there.
I’d love to get into doing and selling that stuff more but there is practically no market in the Stratford area. Maybe one day.
I wish i could build more of this kind of PC as well. Unfortunately, this area doesn’t have much of a market for anything elaborate. And whoever wants a nice attractive system can usually put it together themselves. I’ve got a friend in Toronto, though, who has been putting together these kind of systems for over 4 years. It seems he has a constant flow of work to do. In fact, the cases he uses start off as any average ATX case and he just modify’s them into some of the most attractive, unique, cases that can be found. Alas, I don’t think New Hamburg, or Stratford, will be growing to the size of Toronto at any time soon.
SATA does indeed do hot connections. My raid card supports it. I added a drive without downing the machine. Very nice.