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Ok so this evening I stripped down my rig and planned a few mods.
-Mounting a tripple rad in the roof / front
-Mounting a dual rad in the floor
-Powedercoated Case
-Mesh side panels replaced with perspex
Came across one big issue with this plan though lol, anyone got any ideas on how i can get a tripple rad mounted in the front, and still be able to fit a dvd drive and a couple of hard drives in there?
A pic of the problem, and my new fans on the tripple rad for giggles:
err i'm not sure, IIRC you can fit a 120.3 rad in the roof, with some modding.
For coolermaster cases, check coolercases forum Paul is the man :up:
Thinking of using a slimline laptop dvd drive in the space above the rad and fitting the hdd's in the void between the top of the inside and the very top of the case on custom brackets, all on custom made brackets :)
Have now completely stripped down the case, which was easier than i expected, no rivets holding things on just screws. Was a bit of a pain getting the front panel off but managed it in the end and now i know how it goes, should be easier putting it back together.
Next job is to get hold of a slimline drive, and sort out some brackets to hold everything in place, am in the workshops at work next week so will be able to get hold of some sheet metal, a guillotine and a bender so should all be ok :)
After that I'll be hunting down some orange LED's to change over the hdd and power lights on the front panel from their standard blue.
I'll be sending the insides of the case away for powder coating, but im unsure if I should send the external pannels away too, as they're annodised alluminium it'll be a pain in the arse to sand down to bare metal, so I may just leave them seeing as they're black already.
A good place for LEDs, molex/sata connectors and laptop DVD drives ...... Kustompcs
Pictures please....:)
Theres some thubmnails attached to click on, are they not working?
they werent there b4 m8.:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam
Strange, I attached them before i posted originally.
I could see them earlier :up:
Good good, only orange LED's ive found are part of a set of molex connectors on kustom pc, will give them more a of a look see if its worth taking the led out of them for use on the front panel.
Found some more from RS, might be useful for you too yamo:
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/s...duct&R=2622955 - 5mm
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/s...duct&R=2622933 - 3mm
Apparently they're ***kingbright :rofl:
did you see the molex lights - Sunbeam Molex Lights i thought that was a cool idea
Ive got x4 orange leds, just normal ones. probs not bright enough. ..do you need a resistor for the voltage?
if you're just replacing an led to begin with then i dont think you need a resistor, as it should already be set up for the leds
So its taken a little while, but my case is now away with Marcus at Watercooling UK, being prepped and powder coated, have a quick sneaky peaky for you :)
Nice :D
If you dont mind me asking - how much do they charge to powder coat ?
Internals and externals in two seperate colours is setting me back £99.99 :)
Nice im considering the inside of my 832 (and mobo tray ) in black :D
Didnt think it was that much....you could buy a case for that. will look good tho. Mine cost £6.00 ...but a lot of prep work and time. Looks so much better black.
Thats my 832 in bits there, so you'll get to see what it looks like sometime soon before you make your mind up :P
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Started the oh so laborious task of re-sleeving my psu yesterday, the corsair sleeving isn't as dense as it could be and shows the cables inside, then there's the finish at either end....glue has seeped out everywhere and the sleeving doesnt go far enough along the cablesm, wasn't what I was expecting from them I must say, my HX620 was miles better!
So after stripping off the rubbish effort by corsair and removing all of the wires from the 24 pin connector, sorting them by number as I went, I then placed the ends of the wires into a piece of foam from the psu's box. Unfortunately I didn't have any sleeving big enough to take all 24 wires at once, so I instead split them down into two sets of 12, down to the last 8" or so where they will eventually all be sleeved individually. My thumb was hurting a fair bit after this from using the lighter so much!
I need more pics. :)
Very nice mate, but as Yamo says - more pics !!
;)
Will get some more up at the weekend, it's only half done so I'll finish it off friday night/saturday as I'm away at college at the moment for work :(
Anything in particular you want to see about it?
The sleeving saga continues!
Tried working on the psu some more today but things just weren't going my way so I've left it for a bit. Managed to get half of the wires sleeved and secured in the plug, all in the right place, but took some doing. I didn't really check when I was sleeving and shrinking down how far the pins would make it into the plug once sleeved, should have done really as it meant I had to re-shrink all 12 of the blighters, but its meant that the sleeving has had to be pushed further back up each wire, leaving it a bit looser than I would have liked, oh well...
Can see what it looks like from the pics, can see the burnt bit at the psu end of the cable too :(
Some goodies arrived in the week, mixed emotions really!
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/9...0229cys.th.jpg
The Bitspower fittings look awesome, as does the EK block, but the Enzotech cpu block seems a bit off what I was expecting, its a lot darker, akin to the bitspower black sparkle fittings rather than the shiney silver I was expecting it to be. It also is going to cause me some issues I was hoping to avoid, its just not quite big enough to take 1/2" ID compression fittings, so its going to have to be barbs, was hoping to be able to keep everything the same throughout, but it seems some things just weren't mean to be!
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8...c00230t.th.jpg
Test fitted both the shining silver and the black sparkle bitspower barbs to the Ek block to check out which I preferred.
Shining silver:
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9291/dsc00231vqk.th.jpg
Black Sparkle:
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7500/dsc00232sur.th.jpg
Won't be fitting the block to the 4870x2 until I've had the card running on air, just to check it works before messing with it, also need to decide wether to go for shining silver or black sparkle fittings, and find some more suitable fittings for the cpu block, thinking of primochil ghost barbs but I'm really not certain on them.
Case is almost finished over with the guys at watercooling uk, it was ready for posting back to me but I requested some last minute changes, figured I'd need a new plate for the bottom of the case to fit a 240mm rad without leaving a gap in the bottom of the case. I've not had any more photos from them yet and their connection is being messed around by bt from what I can gather.
Should have just about everything back and ready by the end of next month, just going to need a cpu and some ram to get the rig running after then. Going to be a bit of tweaking and tuning after then, still on the look out for some bitspower blocks for the p6t deluxe, and no where has any 250mm EK multi option reservoirs in stock which could hold things up, fingers crossed!
Appologies for the enourmous photos when full size, have just got home after a long drive and am not feeling all that grand lol
Very nice mate, keep the updates coming :)
:up::up2:;)
nice graphics block....shame about the cpu block.
A little bit of an update at last!
Recieved a tasty package on Monday containing most of the parts remaining for my build, just the water cooling and a few fiddly tidying up jobs left to go now :)
So heres the main hardware:
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/2...0272djx.th.jpg
A stack of drives, 2x 250gb, 1x 1tb and a dvd drive:
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/5677/dsc00273erq.th.jpg
CAS 7 Dominator DDR3:
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1678/dsc00275bhb.th.jpg
Also recieved my case back from the guys at watercooling uk last week, looks stunning in person, pics dont do it justice:
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/20/dsc00267yek.th.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4103/dsc00271jtz.th.jpg
Motherboard tray:
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4117/dsc00269s.th.jpg
Also finished sleeving the 24pin atx cable on my psu and de-stickering it at the weekend:
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6...0278xtf.th.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4270/dsc00277mfw.th.jpg
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3...0279pzj.th.jpg
Bringing everything together:
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5...c00280f.th.jpg
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/182...0281fiz.th.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2183/...2osgbvm.th.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/818/dsc00283sey.th.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4028/dsc00285waz.th.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3956/dsc00284ikr.th.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1332/dsc00286i.th.jpg
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/3...0287qtz.th.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1326/dsc00288heh.th.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9263/dsc00289yvq.th.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9500/dsc00291pyp.th.jpg
Got some more photos of a few of the other changes I made to the case, namely the LED mod on the front panel, and with the case lit up from the fans, but they are on the laptop at the moment so shall upload them soon.
Just waiting on a few bits for the watercooling and all will be finished, also got to order some clear and some black plastic to replace the mesh side panels, and decide weather to attempt to fit a slimline dvd drive from a laptop or just open the side up and plug one in once watercooling goes in, as the 360 rad will take up all of the front drive bays.
Final water loop:
Watercool HK 3.0 LC
Black Ice SR1 360 and 240
EK 4870x2 nickel plated vga block
Bitspower Mosfet, NB/SB blocks
Laing DDC ultra with EK acetal top
EK multi option 250 reservoir
Plenty of bitspower shining silver fittings (1/2" ID, 3/4" OD) and xiggy fans, and a few uv's for good luck
Im currently undecided on tubing and fluid, so am going to order clear, black and uv orange tubing, as well as black and uv orange coils, fluid could end up being pure water from work with a little antifreeze and biocide, or could be a feser or primochill uv orange coolant, any suggestions would be welcome!
Could take a while to get it all in though, I'm feeling like getting a new car...
Looking good mate :up:
Some nice kit you got there sam....looking forward to the watercooling bit. :up2:
Little update, still no water cooling installed, but I have now got an SSD raid array installed. Other things in my life have taken over the money I was going to spend on the water loop, such as buying a new car :(
Did you ever finish this sam?