Iron Man - The Tony Stark on limited funds build :)

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Hi
Been wanting to do a Iron Man build for a while (currently have a coolermaster silencio 352 - mATX) and saw that Aerocool did an 'Avenger' case
Received the case on Thursday :)
Its very nice - over the coming days i will be putting in the components but also attempting to sleeve my cables Gold!
Here is a brief glimpse of the case
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Id like to take credit for the painting/spraying of this, but this is the colour of the case
Aerocool i think designed especially with iron man in mind but copyright probably meant they couldnt call it that. So they called it 'avenger'
I really like the colour, its has like a red speckled effect to the paint
My photos dont do the colour/paint any justice

Here is the only link i could find for the case in english:
http://www.aerocool.com.tw/chassis/pgs/pgs-b/917.html
 
just a bit more info:
received my gold (vanilla) sleeve from mdpc-x, i told the guy (Nils?) from mdpc-x that i was doing an iron man build and he put this on my packaging :)
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been let down badly on some gold paracord for PCI-e cable - so can only do the Sata cables with the sleeve from mdpc (should have just ordered it all through him)
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got my new motherboard which is the bigger brother of my Asrock Z77E-itx
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just trying how everything looks so far...
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Lego Iron Man looks very impressed so far :)
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Update 14/12/13

Sleeving is taking ages, not only that. It is killing the tips of my fingers
Want to get them sorted before i do the big unveil lol
Got red leds in the case now (custom made by myself - thanks to GRIMSBYLad) and connected up to the built in fan controller

Anyway been waiting on a decal i ordered, so here it is on the case
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Should get the sleeving done this week and hopefully Tony will be up and running just in time for christmas
 
Ok over the xmas period, had a bit of time to finally get my build finished
Took me longer than i thought, but i only get to do stuff at a night once my Daughter has gone to bed, and she is teething really bad at the moment and its fair to say her sleep routine as gone right out the window
Also had to wait for my gold paracord to turn up, which took longer than expected.

Anyway, full build is as follows:
Aerocool XPredator X3 Avenger Case
Intel i5 3570k (stock)
Asrock z77 Extreme 4 motherboard
2 x 4gb Corsair Dominator Memory
MSi Gaming GTX 780
Corsair H55 + 2 x SP120
2 x AF120 quiet edition
1 x 200m Coolermaster megaflow
(Fans controlled by built in Aerocool fan controller)
120gb Sandisk extreme SSD
320gb 2.5" WD HDD
1TB 3.5" WD HDD
EVGA Supernova 650w (its too noisy, needs replacing)
2 x 30cm Red LED strips (custom made) and controlled by the fan controller

Sorry in advance for pics, taken on iPhone 4s and lighting in my Kitchen is awful

Far too messy at the back, but no one will see it, well apart from you guys now lol
Ran out of cable ties, it was boxing day night, no shops open so used Red electrical tape
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This is inside the case, i cut a bit of black card and put it in between the hdd bays, to hide any cables
Hate the blue USB3 cable, tried to sleeve it but had no heatshrink nor sleeve big enough to!
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Bought, some 6pin and 8pin extension leads and put gold paracord on them
Paracord is awful to work with, its too loose and kept sliding when stretching it
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The front, replaced the aerocool fan and replaced with a coolermaster megaflow 200mm fan
Hate dvd drives etc with a passion (such old tech) so used the 5.25 bays for storing unused cables and to reduce longer cables, save having them in the side panel
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Just a closer look inside :)
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Did take one with the LEDs on, but it hasn't taken very well
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Oh well, thats my build done...
It won't win any awards, but i am happy with it (still got protective wrap on window-has been removed now)
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Thanks to whoever has taken the time to look at this thread and those who have commented
 
acme15 said:
In theory, dual-channel gives you twice the memory bandwidth and reduces latencies. It could make perhaps a 10% difference in benchmarks and some graphically/memory intensive applications.

The RAM is a dual channel kit, and the motherboard is designed to run RAM in dual channel mode, if you look in the manual that came with the motherboard it will probably state which slots to use for dual channel :)

Even for a marginal performance boost it cant be a bad thing to just move the right most RAM stick across one slot. :)
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Didnt know that.. Good info and good to know
Will check my motherboard tomorrow and move the ram accordingly
 
Bart_Hunt said:
I can understand that.
I want a second screen on my desk which is 1200x600 (L/W) and Corsair 540 takes so much space. So I bought this new BF mITX Colossus case and can't wait to work a bit with it :)
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You can do measurements etc
But until its built and on your desk you cannot appreciate the size of the damn thing
 
well my brother is having my aerocool avenger case off me
just placed my order for a new case with OCUK - along with a new PSU - sorry the mobo i wanted was far too expensive here
 
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