Pandoras Purple Box (ooh, er)

davido_labido · 1 Apr 2015 at 01:23

skullen said:
Nice one Davido,will pop over to vote

rrmitko said:
Thanks! Brilliant work, my vote is yours !

thanks folks! its appreciated!! im not actually fussed about the prizes really, its just always nice to see that my build won something when i speak to my sponsors haha

Kidge said:
Cheers mate, i'm going to do the same with my hyper x SSD's when home in the summer.

Presumably taking them apart voids warranty?

yeah, you have to either remove or puncture the warranty sticker on the back. Its not a massive issue for me as they are sponsored products, so please do be careful, i wouldn't want to see my ideas have broken your SSDs =(!!

make sure you take some pics! I will send them to HyperX and show them your work!

davido_labido · 2 Apr 2015 at 08:58

For anyone that is attending i54, say hi to me!!!

this build will hopefully be on the OcUK stand there and i am also BYOC with H2Orange in the EON lounge!!

davido_labido · 7 Apr 2015 at 17:00

Weeeell, I had best post these last few pics of this build (its not the last update, as i do have the peripherals to do still yet!!!!)

Not much talking in this update, more of just putting all the pictures somewhere, and i will be posting another load of pics in the next few minutes too

What i will say though is if you have a Bit-Tech account and you like this build, please do vote for me here:

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=282671

I am currently in the lead, but only by 5 votes!

So, The PSU i sprayed white and shortened the cables to around 10mm so that i didnt have to worry about the cable management so much!

I also made this little nifty 8pin EPS cable sot hat i didnt have to use the stock cable for the PSU as well as the extension

I also made a backing plate out of some white acrylic that E22 gave to me, i ended up cutting it in half as i didnt like it after id cut out all the motherboard headers, so i just left it covering the PSU and GPU

I cut some holes out of the motherboard try, and made a place for my SSDs as well as filled the loop

Then i gave it all al ittle touch up and took some pics of it <3

davido_labido · 7 Apr 2015 at 17:22

As some of you know, OcUK help me a lot in a multitude of ways, so I offered to put my build on their stand for the weekend at i54 - the UK's biggest gaming festival.

Well, all the staff really liked it, particularly the big boss man (wooooohoooooo!!!) but these are some pics from teh stand.

A huge thanks to OcUK for allowing me to be part of your display, it really does mean a lot.

Before the masses arived.

It soon started to pull people into the stand.

Lots of people!

8-Pack spent a lot of time with me around this build, he really liked what I had done, which hearing so many good things from the biggest UK components retailer and the worlds number 1 overclocker is huge for me.

CS:GO was being run on my computer the whole weekend with a BenQ freesync monitor which was awesome. I wish i could have taken it home!!

It was awesome to see the ocuk stand so busy all the time, and to have my build on the "front line" was an honor.

A huge thanks to my sponsors!

and the final build

davido_labido · 7 Apr 2015 at 17:24

Confused said:
Looks pretty!

thanks dude

I think you will be happy next time you come for a hardware play date

I will hopefully be getting some rather nice goodies before august lan

davido_labido · 26 Apr 2015 at 11:56

hey guys, if you could, could you please give this build a "vote" over at bit-tech?

im neck and neck with another awesome build and there are only 2 more days to go

!

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=282671

Thanks!!!!

davido_labido · 29 Apr 2015 at 22:10

There wasn't anything white out for this really hehe...

Asus deluxe board or MSI Krait are both nice (and I have one of each! Both sexy!