Pandoras Purple Box (ooh, er)

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!!

Drunkenmassacre · 2 Apr 2015 at 20:29

Davido, great look looking build!

What riser did you use for the pcie? I need to source one but all I keep finding look....pants.

Drunkenmassacre · 2 Apr 2015 at 20:31

Having re-read the earlier post, I feel I may have misunderstood what you've done... can you elaborate for me? Being a bit thick atm

Unicorn · 4 Apr 2015 at 14:52

Saw your build on ocuk stand at iseries davido its lovely!
Id pop and say hi but im not in eon lounge :')

Flymo23 · 5 Apr 2015 at 19:41

davido_labido said:
Be careful where you grab the crimping tools from, some won't work with atx pins, I can't tell from that pic on rapid online (the crimps are the same, just not sure about the teeth which is what matters)

If you want to be sure look at e22.biz they have crimping tools regularly that are pre set for atx pins for sure!

Thank you!

theMilitant · 5 Apr 2015 at 20:18

Looks great. Would love to have the skill to put together something like this myself.

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

Confused · 7 Apr 2015 at 17:08

Looks pretty!

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

Tonester0011 · 7 Apr 2015 at 17:46

Looks gorge.
Looking forward to your next project

Nickolp1974 · 7 Apr 2015 at 18:52

Lovely looking build dave, i'm liking the colour scheme very much. Good job.

Kidge · 7 Apr 2015 at 20:02

Latest pictures look epic!

Just ordered another hyper x SSD in the insomnia sale ready for when i'm home to paint

j.col · 7 Apr 2015 at 20:23

Hi David, i was at i54, on the row in-front of you on H, You helped build my mates Case for him, Seeing your build has made me want to water cool. IF you dont mind me asking How did you hook yours up in this set up? From Rad to Gpu --> Cpu --> Res/ Pump then back to Rad?

Drunkenmassacre · 7 Apr 2015 at 21:31

So how did you get the angle on the gpu?

ChugNorris · 7 Apr 2015 at 21:48

Saw this in the flesh at i54, I'd go as far as to say one of the best custom builds I've ever seen. Excellent job mate.

Confused · 8 Apr 2015 at 10:57

Drunkenmassacre said:
So how did you get the angle on the gpu?

A flexible PCI-E riser card to connect it to the motherboard, and then secured to the back panel by drilling some holes to support it.

Drunkenmassacre · 8 Apr 2015 at 12:31

Thanks confused, what was the re-soldering needed for?

Confused · 8 Apr 2015 at 13:51

I was attempting to add an angle to the PCI-E riser cable, but 1) I failed miserably, then 2) davido_labido did some more tweaking once I'd left, and he didn't need to modify the riser cable as we'd first thought.

fiveub · 8 Apr 2015 at 14:17

It was great to have this on our booth, to see it in the flesh, it also grabbed a lot of attention from the crowds going past our stand!