Project: Aquasidian (Corsair 800D)

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Muel said:
Love it! That's proper modding, a black stick. :P
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It does the job, haha! I'm no modder, clearly, :)

JaseUK said:
I am getting one of these cases off Mr Santa Claus and have a quick question.

Are SSD's able to use those special power/sata fittings on the hard drive cage?
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They certainly are. I've got one in mine as the OS drive :) There are holes already drilled in the drive caddys to fit them in.

One point to mention tho is to make sure you fit the caddy back in perfectly straight. Mine were somehow lifting up and the drive was missing the connector at the back and not working of course. Took me a long time to work out why.
 
Muel said:
Love it! That's proper modding, a black stick. :P
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It's now 'modded' :D ...

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That made me laugh very very hard. :P

I want watercooling now. :(

I'm gonna get meself modding soon, I have a sleeve kit on the way! Got it off here nice and cheap.
 
Hello mate lovely build you have!! Did you require any modding to fit the XSPC RX360 in there ? Im looking to get the same case and the XSPC RS360 rad, does it need to be the new 15mm spacing or will that be ok ?

Cheers
 
The XSPC 360 rad went straight in mate, was ordered from OCUK if that matters.

The very quick update is that I now have a 500mm x 500mm piece of plexiglass to replace the scratched window. But instead of being a clear panel it's a smoked tint which I think will work very well. Just need to cut it down slightly and then drilling to be fitted.

I've also got a pair of the Lian Li black alu drive bezels to cover the dvd drives. They need a bit of modding but they basically fit very well. They need the rear trimming off of each side and then some new way to mount and secure it.

Will get on with that this week and get some pice up of the progress.

Also, I'm not really liking the Skythe fan controler any more so thinking of replacing it with one of the Aqua Computer Aquaero ones in black alu finish with the blue and white display. Just need to find some money to buy one now tho. :)
 
So the Lian Li drive bezel covers are now fitted:

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Took about an hour to complete, used a dremel with standard cut off disc to trim down the mounting on each side, and then just some thick "no more nails" double sided tape to stick them in place.

I've also managed to fit the new side window after my scratch disaster last week. Took a while to trim the new panel down from 50cm x 50cm to the required size, but found the jigsaw worked fine. Then fixed the old panel to the new one and drilled the holes using the old panel as a guide.

Too my time with it as I wanted to avoid making a hash of the new panel having never worked with perspex before. I only had to make one hole slight larger to get it all to fit very easily in fact.

I like the crisper look to the case now with the smoked panel, but it does loose some of the colour of the aqua pipes and sleeving inside and I'm not sure if thats what I wanted to do. But I think for £10 for the panel I can always change it again if I needed to.

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I'm still hoping to get the fan controller replaced soon with one of the Aqua Computer ones, the Skythe one really doesn't match the black alu of the rest of the front now at all and I'm hoping the Aquero one will do. Apart from that I think it's complete.

Nick
 
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Looks stunning mate!! Got a PC to be proud of there! Front looks nice a clean there, the Lian Li alu matches the Corsair stuff almost perfectly! I often wonder if there would be a noticable difference between the different manufacturers but seems not :D
 
Love that panel! I think I'm sold on the smoked perspex for my mod now. I have a brown motherboard with bright blue bits on it, I reckon if I had a smoked panel it'd make the brown less obvious whilst still making the blue stand out.

The only thing I don't like here is the straight pipe from the CPU to the CPU, looks out of place IMO.
 
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Kick a$$ :)
Looks very good mate, good lighting too the smaller cathodes seem much better than the overpowering & awkward 30cm ones.

Great photography too what camera did this?, detail looks perfect & I can't see any noise in dark areas, the shots look perfect, my current hand me down camera takes terrible indoor pics full of noise in dark areas and want to get around to buying a decent camera but have no idea which 1 to get :confused:.
 
waynio said:
Kick a$$ :)
Looks very good mate, good lighting too the smaller cathodes seem much better than the overpowering & awkward 30cm ones.

Great photography too what camera did this?, detail looks perfect & I can't see any noise in dark areas, the shots look perfect, my current hand me down camera takes terrible indoor pics full of noise in dark areas and want to get around to buying a decent camera but have no idea which 1 to get :confused:.
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Thanks!

The camera is a Canon 40D with the standard kit lense for all of these shots I think. Certainly helps having a nice bit of kit to use to make the most of the lighting and components used in the build.
 
Right, well this is probably the last actual build update as all the parts are now in place. Just need to take some decent photos to show it all off now.

So the last part was to replace the fan controller with one of the Aqua Computer Aquaero 4.0 ones. This unit has a much cleaner look than the Skythe one and fits the colour scheme perfectly. The only thing it's missing is a brushed alu look to the panel to match the rest of the case front, but what I might do is to modify one of the unused drive bay covers and use that instead as the covers on the Aquaero are swapable. But where the Skythe unit was jet black this is much more charcoal like the matt aluminium finish so is 99% perfect anyway.

The actual fitting of the unit is also not that great, it seems the screws provided won't fit into the threadded hole and I've now got two screws half stuck in and I can't get them out. So somehow I've got to dremel them out and then replace them with a normal nut and bolt. So once thats done it will fit better in the front panel of the case as it's currently sat a couple of mm from being lined up perfectly.

Anyway, last pics for now untill I get some final ones done...

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Thanks for all of the positive comments throughout the build :cool:
 
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