Ghosts TJ07 Murdermod

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Hi guys, this going to be a quick worklog as its already finished. I've copied this from my thread at Xtreme system

This build was basically me moving from my mountain mods horizon to the TJ07 and trying to get a cleaner look than of the horizon. Some photos can be found here of the horizon http://s24.photobucket.com/albums/c34/metal_bassist88/Horizon i7/

Hardware in the build:
Intel I7 940 @ 4GHz
Asus Rampage II Extreme
Corsair Dominator 12GB
ATI HD 4870x2
Enermax Galaxy 1000W
Creative Xfi Xtreme gamer
Compro E900 TV card
Vertex 120Gb SSD
2x 500GB Samsung F1
1x 1TB Samsung F1

Water cooling:
TFC 120.4 & 120.2
2x Laing D5 with x-top
Swiftech GTZ
EK 4870x2 & RE2 Blocks
XSPC black tubing

Please excuse the poor photography, and bad camera.

The victim already half stripped out

Enermax Galaxy fully sleeved. That was a fun week… Also painted the fans and grills black to match. Why enermax use gold I will never know

Extended and sleeved the front panel board

Made a sata power connector to get the right length and connector locations.

And a molex extension for the hidden fan controller.

Of course all of this sleeving couldn't have been done without a few packages from Nils

After running for nearly a year the copper blocks were looking a little dirty so they had a nice lemonade bath.

This was in preparation for the nickel plating I had done. The 4870x2 block didn't come out that well with a few marks over it

Lots of bitspower fittings for this build, there were a few tight bends to plumb compared to my last build.

Went for xspc black tubing. Looks great and has quite a good bend radius but I didn't enjoy the bleeding.

Got rid of my old 25mm thermochill 120.3 & 120.2 and replaced them with these

Fitting these into the lower section was fun

Scythe s-flex fans. Only 3 for the 120.4, not enough room for the last one.

Two D5's with EK X-top

Res and pump mounting

 

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Was looking forward to this package for a while, would like to thank Charles again the parts are brilliant quality :up: The res instructions made me laugh

After receiving the murdermod parts I did a quick build of the system to get the final cuts and wire lengths in place. Including getting the tubing holes ready, this was the cleanest way to get the two loops through the midplate.

After that all the parts went off to the powdercoaters, who did a brilliant job on it.

My blu-ray drive couldn't be powdercoated because of a sealed plastic part inside so they wet painted it to match for no extra

I got all the io plates for the cards done at well, would have look really out of place

Case all ready. Part of me wanted to keep it empty the murdermod parts really compliment the TJ07 perfectly.

Time to start fitting all the parts in! First to fill up the lower section with the rads and PSU.

I did buy some radiator stands to get the height right but due to the radiators being so close to the front curve they didn't sit right. I found a nice solution though, DVD cases, I taped two to the base and they are the perfect height.

PSU squeezed in. There are a couple of non modular cables I don't need which will be strapped to the top off the radiators.

Lower section done. Was dark by now so sorry for the photos

Under the midsection plumbing

I wanted the hard drives to blend in with the case so I put them in scythe blocks. This would also help with the mounting for the res's. Had to modify the murdermod res holders a little bit to get the positioning right sorry charles

 

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Next was to get the motherboard ready.

I was really lucky with the spacing between the two mosfet blocks

 

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After this I pretty much stopped taking photos and put it all together…

SSD Mounted out of the way

The hidden fan controller and power for the lighting.

Ooops a balloon creeped into the photo - was my 21st recently.

The lighting is controlled from in here. I didn't need the front ports and they added a lot of extra wires into the case.

Where it sits now. About killed me carrying this upstairs to my room!

Quick room shot

More photos from the build with stuff I was testing and ones I left out can be found here http://s24.photobucket.com/albums/c34/metal_bassist88/TJ07 Murdermod/

Thanks for looking in, comments welcome

 

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BEAUTIFUL build man. Looks absolutely top trumps!

amazing looking build. Very clean and tidy

how much did the mudermods set you back?

Thank you

I would say the total is around 4k after all the little bits that I had done

 

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very nice
why do you have two sound cards

Thanks again guys

I have two as it makes recording easier in games. Creative is for main sound and the asus just does the microphone. That way the 'what you hear' direct sound recording doesn't get disabled. It makes sense to me
Rjkoneill I liked your TJ07 build, loved the white and black.

 

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Thanks everyone for the comments

I love this build! Looks amazing, would you be able to do similar for me ?

If you pay me I would, was great fun building it.

Ghost, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm very envious of your setup!

Cracking build mate, really clean and simple.
Any chance of a picture of it in action?!

Yeah I will try and get some working pics later today. Gotta go work now

 

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Thanks so much, it means a lot
Deadman I hope it helps, a lot of the ideas are from the community.

4k! ouch..
looks great though
what does lemonade do?!

The lemonade is acidic so it cleans the grease and other rubbish off it. They were horrible before with fingerprints and patches of tim everywhere.

Which bitspower parts did you use to link the two mosfet blocks?

Ingenius!

@Deadman, it looks like 2 x 90 Degree dual rotarys with an extender to join them together.

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Ghost, how much did it cost you just for the Murdermod parts?

Nearly there DavyBoy, 2x90degree dual rotary, extender and a male to male connector. Ordered most of them from abroad as there are very few suppliers for bitspower in the UK. I'm glad it did work as plumbing that with tubing would have been hard.

After the conversion rate which is good from America around £270. I got the res holders for free as there are a few imperfections on them and Charles didn't think they were up to the murderMod standard. The marks are very slight so that was nice.

 

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Wouldn't coca cola be a better cleaning agent as it is even more acidic and a hrasher environment for germs, though it wouldn't leave behind that lemon-fresh scent

I like lemon Coke is just as good, any kinda fizzy pop we only had lemonade

Looks stunning!!! great use of the Bitspower fittings there, perfect fit with them in some places!!

Whats it like with the lighting on? What colour is that cathode behind the res's/hard drives?

The cathodes are white, I need to get take some decent photos when its dark. There is another cathode attached to the top behind the side panel rail.
This is the only one I've got at the moment. Not the best

 

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Looks good when light up. Perhaps another white cathode in there over the CPU?
I'm nit-picking

Yeah you are right, I've got some LED's to play around with too. The graphics card kinda blocks out most the light from the top cathode. Though again its not the best of photos.

 

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Thanks for the comments everyone

Awesome mod, i bet you had a lot of fun doing it and part of you wishes you could do it all again.

Yeah I had great fun, well I don't think I would call sleeving that psu fun but Jack Daniels and loud music helped

MDPC worthy IMO.
But man its gotta be god to be able to blurt 4k on a PC build.
Fair play to you for doing so mate

Thank you The murderBox by Charles (032) was one of my biggest inspirations for this build.
Well it wasn't all in one go, most of the hardware was just from my previous build. It was only the stuff to do with the case I really bought this time.

Thanks for that tip, I'll remember this when I have to clean my blocks next time, my EK GTX280 block was quite badly tarnished when I got it off the MM, and I used ketchup to clean it up, but it didn't really do that good of a job tbh, there are still some marks here and there..

£270 for all the Bitspower fittings and Murdermod parts, or just the Murdermod parts?

Yeah just left them in that tube over night and they came out nice and clean, I could actually see it working on the copper.
Just for the murderMod parts, don't want to even think about the cost of the bispower fittings.

 

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Cheers game4it

What do you think of the monitor?

The monitor is brilliant, I spent a long time looking at all the different 30" around. This was the only one that really fitted my needs, most of them have a scaler built in for all the different inputs which causes lag and ghosting even when using the native resolution.
The quality of this screen with the colour makes the dell 22" look rubbish.

 

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That build by Charles is stunning, I currently have a pic of that rig as my desktop wallpaper!!! (yes, I'm that sad!! )

They don't come cheap, luckily I have got most of the Bitspower fittings in my rig already, however I will be needing to order somemore for when I get my new rads and mobo blocks...

You aren't the only one Downloaded those sets of wallpapers by metric a few months ago and its still my wallpaper.
No defiantly not and its finding a decent suppliers too. Though you get what you pay for the inner diameter on most of their fittings is really wide. I found a old 45 rotary and it literally had a 3mm center!