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Luggs · 6 Mar 2015 at 08:35

damn, this build keeps getting better and better. Loving the copper pron, I think some gentle oxidisation could actually look really sweet??

B N3GATIVE · 8 Mar 2015 at 12:31

I spent the morning in the garden with quantities of HCL and peroxide,20 mins of stirring later and the test pieces are ready to look at.

Its about .015mm deep right now so the exposure time needs to go up to around an hour to get the effect im looking for.

Once I have achieved the depth I want then I can go on to the next step

dannywaugh1 · 8 Mar 2015 at 21:49

Clean, slick looking and powerful! Springs to mind straight away. Great build,

rentaspoon · 9 Mar 2015 at 19:46

All those be quiet fans! My favourite are the pure rock, great value for money.

So jealous mate

fantasticCG · 10 Mar 2015 at 00:40

Hey did you get someone to turn those panels into cooper?

Xyger · 10 Mar 2015 at 12:54

I love the hex designs, also love the copper hex panel!

zack1667 · 11 Mar 2015 at 12:43

It's quite nice to see someone using some of the Be-Quiet kit,

I love those fans mate, want them in my machine just can't justify £20 per fan...

B N3GATIVE · 11 Mar 2015 at 20:58

You know what your trouble is?... You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do something you never thought of.

WILLIAM GIBSON, Burning Chrome

The loop has arrived from the team at Bitspower,my gratitude to Lily and Vincent @ Bitspower for their continued assistance with what I do.

One of the reason i chose the GENE is for that really good looking 'full cover' mobo block they do.

Under pinning all that is the Summit Cpu block and a beastmode VRM block,very well finished in the usual Bitspower way.
That is to say,very well.

Now you cant have Bitspower and not talk fittings.

I went with the Carbon Black fittings and the Enhance compression fittings,to me the best looking fitting Bitspower makes,here is a selection of what Im using.
More eagle eyed members will no doubt question my use of angled fittings when I could easily bend it, recently I have come to like a mix of styles,not all bending and some strategically placed fittings works wonders for cleanliness.

And watercooling the ram,not a necessity but, coupled with that mobo block, should look pretty good.

Then we come to the GPU blocks,not a hard choice,a plain slabsided look makes a nice canvas to mod on,copper panels will be made to fold over and cover most of the plexi up,leaving space for the back light from the LED holes in the block to shine thru,a kind of evolution from the GPU block in CLOS3 IMPACT.

Finally! Discreet logo's!

They also come with backplates....

I have a pair of D5's going spare so......yeah.......

No 24v this time tho.....

Looks like my weekend just got full......

My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years’ time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop.

WILLIAM GIBSON, Distrust That Particular Flavor

B N3GATIVE · 14 Mar 2015 at 12:32

“Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after the explosion. Most of him, anyway.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero

Today is block the mobo day.

The bare board in all it glory!

You would not believe the effort required to get the chewing gum off of the SB.......

The VRM looks almost bare....but purposeful.

Blocks on!

Even without the cover block,it looks tidy and close fitting

If I can strip the nickel,or more likely,find someone else to do it (Nickel stripping is just toxic nasty) then the top cover may be left off. Otherwise all the nickel will be black painted except in the waterchannels for all the blocks,nickel is not going to work in the is build.

This panel will be laser cut in copper I think....

And with the distribution block fitted.....looks heavy....because it is. XD

Now Im torn on the decision to watercool the RAM,it looks really good as it is, a very good match to the block setup.

Post you own thoughts on that....

And back in the rig with the cards in.

The blocks themselves are easy to fit,no struggles nor mis-alignments to report.

There will be a copper shroud covering most of the top of that acrylic block covering the whole of the I/O,folded down both sides,cleaning up the silver ports out of the way.

“Take me home," she said, and the words hit me like a whip. I think I shook my head. "Take me home." There were levels of pain there, and subtlety, and an amazing cruelty. And I knew then that I'd never been hated, ever, as deeply or thoroughly as this wasted little girl hated me now, hated me for the way I'd looked, then looked away, beside Rubin's all-beer refrigerator.

So--if that's the word--I did one of those things you do and never find out why, even though something in you knows you could never have done anything else.

I took her home.”
― William Gibson

Kidge · 14 Mar 2015 at 13:26

Copper looks awesome! I personally think leave the RAM because it fits the build perfect already...I also like the cards with their standard air cooling

theMilitant · 14 Mar 2015 at 14:02

looks very good indeed.

fantasticCG · 14 Mar 2015 at 20:20

Looks Awesome dude looking forward to more, Is there much difference between matt and carbon? wish they did a better range of the new enhanced Bitspower fittings in the UK there pretty much non-existent here.
Anyone know why that is?

B N3GATIVE · 17 Mar 2015 at 17:35

theMilitant said:
looks very good indeed.

And its nowhere near finished!

fantasticCG said:
Looks Awesome dude looking forward to more, Is there much difference between matt and carbon? wish they did a better range of the new enhanced Bitspower fittings in the UK there pretty much non-existent here.
Anyone know why that is?

Day and night,The carbon finish is as matt as it gets while the matte finish is actually a gloss finish.

Availability is because to make it worthwhile importing,you need to buy a pallet load...which is expensive,very expensive....

B N3GATIVE · 8 Apr 2015 at 17:42

So....

I have been quiet...for a good reason tho!
The res has been machined and is back!
Its still in the polishing phase to get rid of the mill marks on the inside,im using Lowfats acrylic polishing guide for this,you can find it using OCN search.

I know you were all expecting pron pics but they will come when its finished.....anyway...TA DAAAAAAH!

The XSPC rads have been base coated,one was white and the other was black,couldnt get the silver ones I wanted with the bare core sadly.....

Everything fits just so,not much space wasted here!

Mads1 · 8 Apr 2015 at 18:43

looking good BNeg, you must like your flight sims with that controller in the background, i need something like that for Arma lol.

The Only Beardy · 9 Apr 2015 at 11:44

This is guna look EPIC!

mods1965 · 9 Apr 2015 at 12:31

Very nice looking case and well laid out. We are going to see some great future builds coming our way!

B N3GATIVE · 9 Apr 2015 at 17:15

I got the HOTAS for Elite,SC and ARMA mainly,no 'serious' flight sims.

skullen · 10 Apr 2015 at 16:33

Nice one Neg,looking good chap

B N3GATIVE · 10 Apr 2015 at 20:41

skullen said:
Nice one Neg,looking good chap

Skullylad?