It doesn't run windows? The screen shot of the disk benchmark looks like windows. Fair enough of its running Mac OS then. You said you built it for yourself, but you've put photos on a public forum. To that end, I don't see a problem with what I said. I didn't mean too much hardware; there is a lot of acrylic in there hiding away the components.
My rigs.
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Oh I see, the old public forum chestnut, I can say whatever I like because you posted it on the internet.
That's your call. Seeing as you've done that (seems the armchair brigade are strong on this one) then I'm now entitled to think what I think of you.
As I said before, looks are subjective. If you don't like it then that's fine, but why you feel the need to point it out is beyond me. If I see something I don't particularly like on the Internet I usually mumble to myself and leave it there. Glad to know you build custom rigs though and feel like you are in a position to criticise. Once you've shown me yours as it were I may consider taking your points onboard.
But why would I care?
Any way regarding the look. It's funny you see because NZXT made a case with a PSU shroud and it sold in bucketloads. Why? Because people want to hide it. I hid everything I felt like hiding and now I've hidden too much.
TBF? It's hard enough keeping those nearest and dearest to me happy so you'll have to excuse me for making what I wanted and not really caring what 'te folks on 'te internet think.
You show too much people complain. You hide it away people still complain.
/shrug. The world needs more happy pills.
Remember - just one man, a hobby,a dremel and a heat gun with no sponsors. I think you'd find your criticism more worthy elsewhere.
Nice build. Not sure about that double height PSU shroud myself or the apple stickers 
, however I can see why it's been done the way you've done it . I like the ssd mounts , might have mounted them all verticlly so could get all 3 on show on the side but good modding either way.
, however I can see why it's been done the way you've done it . I like the ssd mounts , might have mounted them all verticlly so could get all 3 on show on the side but good modding either way.Nice build. Not sure about that double height PSU shroud myself or the apple stickers
They don't fit the other way sadly. They're a tiny bit too tall. The case is a lot smaller than people realise hence why the hardware is stuffed in. Remember, this case was £19. In total including all of the materials to make the case itself I've spent around £45.
The entire build cost me £450, that's for an 8 core 16 thread Xeon and a Radeon 290.
It's not a dual height PSU shroud, it's a PSU shroud and a GPU shroud. They're both separate entities.
39c idle on a 290. There is Apple branding but there's also Intel branding too. It's been called too plain, too fussy, etc. I think I've got the perfect balance. Any less branding and it would have looked like a doctor's surgery table
I mean I like clean, but there's clean and there's too clean.
I've never seen any one build a custom duct for a GPU either. Especially not one that holds the SSDs
Right, well X8 is now finished.
Three OSes installed all running lovely. So, ever onwards and upwards. If you thought X8 was tacky then God help you !
Better don your sunglasses, kid.
Here is what I have on order.
And
X2 in orange
And of course..
And yellow.. Check...
And these for the 480
Hardware.
Now I had a few ideas, and my media PC is now no longer needed thanks to a few set top boxes from pretty much every big supplier of movies. So, I was toying with the idea of using the AMD Kabini but then I got a small windfall from my lovely lady and went with this.
Board.
Which of course makes sense. I didn't realise it did this before I bought it, bonus !
Some ram. Didn't exactly want 2133 mad bugger ram but hey it's orange.
Cooler, so overclocking is most definitely in.
I'm using my Corsair 250D. Oh yeah, power supply.
Now I know 1250w is just stupid but I got it so cheap I could not say no (£69). A good 650w with enough PCIE power connectors was £65 so I'd have been crazy to pass it up. I doubt it will find a place in this rig, but no doubt I will swap it out with one from one of my other rigs and use something else.
Either a RM750 or EVGA G1000.
Total overkill but then I've always been careful with my power supplies.
Three OSes installed all running lovely. So, ever onwards and upwards. If you thought X8 was tacky then God help you !
Better don your sunglasses, kid.
Here is what I have on order.
And
X2 in orange
And of course..
And yellow.. Check...
And these for the 480
Hardware.
Now I had a few ideas, and my media PC is now no longer needed thanks to a few set top boxes from pretty much every big supplier of movies. So, I was toying with the idea of using the AMD Kabini but then I got a small windfall from my lovely lady and went with this.
Board.
Which of course makes sense. I didn't realise it did this before I bought it, bonus !
Some ram. Didn't exactly want 2133 mad bugger ram but hey it's orange.
Cooler, so overclocking is most definitely in.
I'm using my Corsair 250D. Oh yeah, power supply.
Now I know 1250w is just stupid but I got it so cheap I could not say no (£69). A good 650w with enough PCIE power connectors was £65 so I'd have been crazy to pass it up. I doubt it will find a place in this rig, but no doubt I will swap it out with one from one of my other rigs and use something else.
Either a RM750 or EVGA G1000.
Total overkill but then I've always been careful with my power supplies.
Hey thanks man ! she's had a bit more work done since..
Now got a MNPCtech grille in the front and some carbon. I have a pair of black light cathodes I've been meaning to fit for ages too. Maybe I'll do that before I get started with the DFI build
Now got a MNPCtech grille in the front and some carbon. I have a pair of black light cathodes I've been meaning to fit for ages too. Maybe I'll do that before I get started with the DFI build
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Now its finished it looks good. Cant wait to see some more builds.
Wow crazy build. I don't know what to think of the Apple build, I absolutely love white builds but its something about the CPU cooler that just doesn't appeal to me. Saying that, I don't know of any other ways you could have done it aha.
Nice builds!.
Nice builds!.
The cooler was made to look like something they would make. The plate on the top was polished and the logo is right about where it would be on say a phone.
You also have to remember - it was free. Cost nada. That is usually the philosophy of my builds, to make things cheaply that look nice. Maybe some people missed the fact that for an 8 core 16 threaded monster with a R9 290 I spent £450 total and that included all of the materials?
One thing I can't stand is these ten grand build logs where the PC costs about ten grand. At that sort of money anyone can make something look nice. I'm the old fashioned modder who makes things with his £25 rotary tool and £9 heat gun.
All of my graphics up until this point have been hand cut, plotters are for the rich. Not that I'm rich by any means but I finally have one now. Won't stop me and my 'grass roots' modding though.
Years ago people used to post their builds no matter how much they cost. Now days? people are scared to, because there are people with ten grand lobbing money around. Modding has become extremely snobbish, and that's a shame.
The case for X8 cost me £19.
Any way, back to DFI. The power supply came. Crikey, it's very big and very heavy lol. Memory came also, rest is apparently coming soon. I will try and gret some pics later if I can get some decent light in here.
OK PSU got. Very large, very heavy unit. Nice though. And the ram.
What I was expecting.
What I actually got.
I'm not sure whether I am happy or annoyed. I like the look of it stock better than the stuff I actually wanted but the options for cutting graphics and having a place to stick them are far more limited
Still, ever onward and upwards.
What I was expecting.
What I actually got.
I'm not sure whether I am happy or annoyed. I like the look of it stock better than the stuff I actually wanted but the options for cutting graphics and having a place to stick them are far more limited
Still, ever onward and upwards.
They all looked the same dude. They've obviously updated the cooling on all of them. By updated I mean made it cheaper lol. Ah well, I still like it, just have to think a bit harder about branding it.
OK, cabling. So the PSU has a 24 pin built into it, as well as a couple of GPU runs and the EPS. The rest is modular. Now I don't want to commit myself to it being yellow and orange in case I ever decide to switch it out. So, what I've done is this.Bought a 4 pin extension (board is 4 pin)
And a 24 pin extension.
For a total of £3.50. This means that I can braid through acrylic (like I did with X8) and the PSU still be removable and that if I want I can simply remove the modular cables I braid and the PSU will remain stock (very important on a £250 PSU)
