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Project - Air Cube v2
- Thread starter waynio
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Back on track? after 3 posts? FAIL! Your just brown nosing so you get the prize! 
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Oh WOW... an Amstrad
Sorry Waynio... will stop now
PS: Is it called 'curvysilentcasecubethingy'?
Sorry Waynio... will stop now
PS: Is it called 'curvysilentcasecubethingy'?
Soldato
Posting in epic thread.*
*Positive presumption.
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What's all this about prizes lol 
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Question to you all, been scratching my head big time over which front/top to do after making an easier plan b for the top/front, so want to know what you all think about this possible v2 top/front.
Original would look great but I feel it could be a nightmare to add grills that don't look a mess without CNC for new air to get inside the case, I'll possibly make both though just to be sure.
New version would be awesome for ventilation, the bars could either be shaped nicely on top of the side bars or flush fitting with the main side bars.
Try to ignore the colouring as it's completely undecided for what colours it will be.
Also I'm very close to starting this thing.
.Question to you all
, been scratching my head big time over which front/top to do after making an easier plan b for the top/front, so want to know what you all think about this possible v2 top/front.Original would look great but I feel it could be a nightmare to add grills that don't look a mess without CNC for new air to get inside the case, I'll possibly make both though just to be sure.
New version would be awesome for ventilation, the bars could either be shaped nicely on top of the side bars or flush fitting with the main side bars.
Try to ignore the colouring as it's completely undecided for what colours it will be.
Also I'm very close to starting this thing
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like both but agree that v1 would be hard
looking at v2 i had the thought that you could give the slats depth kinda like a louvre or venitian blind effect. i dont mean they would have to move, just that they would give the impression of solidity but when viewed from head on would look open for air flow
looking at v2 i had the thought that you could give the slats depth kinda like a louvre or venitian blind effect. i dont mean they would have to move, just that they would give the impression of solidity but when viewed from head on would look open for air flow
Thanks for feedback/ideas mate's .
Here's another alternative, I'm unable to cut out shapes in curved models in sketchup so did a rough drawing instead lol.
What this will do is with the fans being a bit of distance from the cover it should enable it to catch plenty of ambient air while keeping the look clean, could even put some mesh as suggested by Diggsy in these side vents.
PSU has been decided & will be the corsair 850W AX 100% modular psu so I don't need to void the warranty, been looking at MDPC sleeving, their sleeving is just the best imo, even though hardly any wires will be seen except the pci express power, the wire work will be seen from the other side so it's going to be super neat with precise length cables so will be my first proper go at doing good sleeving 
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27 nov
Updated the model with basic vents, I can't do shape cut outs on curved surfaces.
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Lols I've been spending like a crazy fool after seeing through some eBay sales, was split between a corsair 100% modular psu & MDPC sleeving start-up, just made my first order with Nils for some of that super awesome sleeving, I had to buy a good crimping tool & a Molex extractor, nearly bought the ATX extractor but looked up the pins method which looks easy enough after plenty of practice, loads of cable fasteners of all sizes, sata connectors for custom length cables, 10 metres of sata sleeving, 40 metres of small sleeving & the relevant heat shrink.
Going with plain black for my first go at good sleeving, was going to buy a corsair 100% modular psu but when I seen how much it's going to cost to start doing quality sleeving I thought my enermax galaxy 1kw is doing fine so I'll just sleeve that instead & replace the noisy fans on it.
Anyway this will let me find out roughly how much of whatever I need to do a full psu & fans, headers etc so my future orders with them should hopefully be lower cost.
Got all the case fans, replacement psu fans ordered, a GTX 580 so I'll be selling my gigabyte hd 5870 1gb soon, some basics like low tack masking tape, digital callipers, m3 inserts.
One thing I do know is if I have to stick with my gigabyte p45-dq6 for another build I'm going to make a casing for it so it's mostly hidden but so it still gets plenty of air flow, in fact if I do do that I'll try to make it highly focused air flow, the colours are just way to discombobulated for this build.
Still waiting for fine tip permanent markers
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Was looking at the wire work on cases at MDPC & Charles Harwood is the main uber slick type sleeving type I want to try & match on my next, I noticed he does a shape in the wire work so I'll do my own version, a W if possible but yeah the sheer slickness of the wire work he does is what I'm gonna try to achieve, it looks a fine art & he has it absolutely nailed, it'll be tough to match though with 11 case fans, 6 HDD, 1 SSD & 1 optical.
Glad I had a big space of time to think things through before diving in, should help the course of the log quite a lot.
.Here's another alternative, I'm unable to cut out shapes in curved models in sketchup so did a rough drawing instead lol.
What this will do is with the fans being a bit of distance from the cover it should enable it to catch plenty of ambient air while keeping the look clean, could even put some mesh as suggested by Diggsy in these side vents.
PSU has been decided & will be the corsair 850W AX 100% modular psu so I don't need to void the warranty
, been looking at MDPC sleeving, their sleeving is just the best imo, even though hardly any wires will be seen except the pci express power, the wire work will be seen from the other side so it's going to be super neat with precise length cables so will be my first proper go at doing good sleeving .-----------
27 nov
Updated the model with basic vents, I can't do shape cut outs on curved surfaces.
------------
Lols I've been spending like a crazy fool after seeing through some eBay sales
, was split between a corsair 100% modular psu & MDPC sleeving start-up, just made my first order with Nils for some of that super awesome sleeving, I had to buy a good crimping tool & a Molex extractor, nearly bought the ATX extractor but looked up the pins method which looks easy enough after plenty of practice, loads of cable fasteners of all sizes, sata connectors for custom length cables, 10 metres of sata sleeving, 40 metres of small sleeving & the relevant heat shrink.Going with plain black for my first go at good sleeving, was going to buy a corsair 100% modular psu but when I seen how much it's going to cost to start doing quality sleeving I thought my enermax galaxy 1kw is doing fine so I'll just sleeve that instead & replace the noisy fans on it
.Anyway this will let me find out roughly how much of whatever I need to do a full psu & fans, headers etc so my future orders with them should hopefully be lower cost.
Got all the case fans, replacement psu fans ordered, a GTX 580 so I'll be selling my gigabyte hd 5870 1gb soon, some basics like low tack masking tape, digital callipers, m3 inserts.
One thing I do know is if I have to stick with my gigabyte p45-dq6 for another build I'm going to make a casing for it so it's mostly hidden but so it still gets plenty of air flow, in fact if I do do that I'll try to make it highly focused air flow, the colours are just way to discombobulated for this build
.Still waiting for fine tip permanent markers
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Was looking at the wire work on cases at MDPC & Charles Harwood is the main uber slick type sleeving type I want to try & match on my next, I noticed he does a shape in the wire work so I'll do my own version, a W if possible but yeah the sheer slickness of the wire work he does is what I'm gonna try to achieve, it looks a fine art & he has it absolutely nailed, it'll be tough to match though with 11 case fans, 6 HDD, 1 SSD & 1 optical.
Glad I had a big space of time to think things through before diving in, should help the course of the log quite a lot.
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