HTPC Project [Build Log]

[Brockoli]

It is looking good

Also did you find it difficult to rewire your fans as per your diagram above?

 

[Deathjester]

Looking really nice!

Thanks

It is looking good

Also did you find it difficult to rewire your fans as per your diagram above?

Actually with a bit of soldering experience and a soldering iron stand it was surprisingly easy.

Just trim down an ATX wire and solder 3 male fan wires to it, twice

Then a single female -> male fan wire will serve as the RPM wire

And a female to 3 male fan wire will do the PWM.

I measured them up to the same length as the wires to the same connecter and then soldered them all together.

It was the sleeving that I had issues with... but that's all done (except I need 1 more black 4 pin fan header....)

I also realised I could run my slimline Blu-Ray power connector off the same ATX connector

 

[Deathjester]

There haven't been any updates in a while because I've had a lot going on with everything else...

Well my crimps have finally turned up:

This allowed me to shorten the cables on the last fan without soldering it...

And install it:

I might have done some of the cabling a little short, and now I've got the tools to do so I might redo it properly.
This is a top down view, showing the new cabling and the new fan installed at the front of the case.

I removed the 6 wire combs and replaced them with 12's

And I started crimping some wires:

And did my first dual wire ATX cable:

That took me until about 2am, so I decided to get some sleep...

There are 2 photos which are not playing ball, Photobucket doesn't want to let me resize AND rotate, it's one or the other.
I'll retake them later.

 

[psykix]

On your parts list you have 2 PCIe components (GPU and SSD) but have specced a mini-itx motherboard?

 

[Telecaster]

On your parts list you have 2 PCIe components (GPU and SSD) but have specced a mini-itx motherboard?

His board has an M.2 slot so I guess he will just remove the drive from the PCIe adapter and fit it straight to the board.

 

[Deathjester]

On your parts list you have 2 PCIe components (GPU and SSD) but have specced a mini-itx motherboard?

I think I put the wrong Kingston drive on the parts list. It was meant to be the m2 one

 

[psykix]

Ah hehe! That makes sense

 

[Deathjester]

Ah hehe! That makes sense

Following the release of:

Samsung SM951

I think this will replace the Kingston drive anyway.

 

[Deathjester]

I bought some new spray paint and re-sprayed the RAM last night.

 

[FL630]

Ram looks great. I'm intrigued about that spray gun, any info on it?

 

[Deathjester]

Ram looks great. I'm intrigued about that spray gun, any info on it?

Thanks

It's just a handle for a spray can; but gives much finer control than just using the push on the top of the can.

 

[FL630]

Thanks, but any idea where I could purchase said handle? Have googled, can only see stuff from USA...

 

[Deathjester]

It was like £4 in Halfords

 

[FL630]

Even better, thanks, I'll go get one of them.

 

[Deathjester]

Since I haven't had much chance to work on this in the last few days, I thought I could at least upload an updated spec sheet for it:

Main Build
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £199.99
1 x Asus Maximus VII Impact Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £179.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2A1600C9) £64.99
1 x Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 PCI-e Gen3 8Gbps x 4 Solid State Drive (MZHPV128HDGM-00000) £89.99
1 x SilverStone NightJar 520W Zero dBA "80+ Plus Platinum" Fanless Power Supply (SST-NJ520) £109.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian Series 250D Mini ITX Compact Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011047-WW) £75.95
1 x Silverstone 5.25" Slim ODD Bay with Internal 2.5" Bay - Black (SST-FP58B) £12.49
1 x LiteOn DL-4ETS Slimline Blu-ray Burner SATA Slot Loading - Black £59.99

GPU
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (04G-P4-2974-KR) £289.99
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC970 GTX Backplate - Nickel £20.99
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC970 GTX - Nickel £79.99

Water Cooling
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-FB ASUS M6I - Acetal+Nickel (Original CSQ) £49.99
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-D5 Vario X-RES 100 (incl. pump) £105.95
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GT Stealth 240 - XFlow £36.98
8 x EK Water Blocks EK-HDC Fitting 12mm G1/4 - Blue £5.45 (£43.60)
1 x Corsair Fan, SP120 PWM High Pressure Fan 4 pin, Dual Pack (CO-9050014-WW) £25.00
1 x Be Quiet! Shadow Wings Fan PWM - 92mm £8.99

5 x E22 Ultra Clear 12/10 Hard Acrylic Tubing 500mm Length £4.99 (£24.95)

Liquid
1 x Mayhems Pastel - Ice White Coolant 1L £14.99
1 x Mayhems Dye Ocean Blue 15ml £5.48

Total : £1,500.28


Main Build


GPU


Water Cooling Loop


Liquid

 

[Deathjester]

Sorry real life got in the way of this build unfortunately.

Well after repeatedly getting fed up with not being able to bend the acrylic nicely I finally decided to switch manufacturer / distributer.

I bought 2m of EKHD Acrylic tubing, which arrived yesterday, and finished off the build last night.

I just need to colour match the liquid now, I will upload some photos once I get home tonight.

 

[Keechy]

hey relly cool little water cooled pc love it

 

[Deathjester]

A little later than promised...

I'm going to redo a little of the cabling because it's a little messy, and I still need to work on colour matching the coolant.

I also want to take some shots with better lighting and a deacent camera in a few days and get them uploaded...

 

[colinmcr]

Well done on the bends I'm there myself finding it very difficult to get right. Yours look very neat considering some of the bends look very tight.

 

[TechMinerUK]

It looks very neat and precise, excellent job
Also the colour scheme has been implemented perfectly