Project - Blueberry

Craterloads · 7 Apr 2011 at 20:49

Hey, new project started so thought i should share.

Any thoughts, inputs and recommendations welcome

Spec List: -

Lian Li PC-V354b
Intel i7 2500K
Antec Kuhler H20 620
Asus P8p67-M Pro
8GB Corsair Vengeance (Blue)
OCZ 120GB Vertex 2
1TB Samsung SpinPoint
Gigabyte GTX 480 SOC
Corsair HX1000W PSU
4 x 120mm Alpenfohn Fans
1 x 140mm Alpenfohn Fan

Heres some stuff i recieved a couple of day ago and some unboxing pics

and the SSD that was recieved a couple of days later, kind of regretting not waiting for the vertex 3 but at £140 cant really complain.

The heatsink on these are really tall, may be an issue with the larger coolers

A few shot of the board

With fans fitted, looks uber beastly

and the case itself

Sorry if i over done it with pics, got a little carried away!!

Craterloads · 7 Apr 2011 at 20:58

Avathar77 said:
Where's the pics with the GPU?

im sending it back under DSR, its a bit too power hungry and hot for this sytem i reakon. Im going to stick a 5850 Toxic in there insted, plus it matches my color scheme better.

Craterloads · 23 Apr 2011 at 18:18

Heres a few snaps of what was the finished project but some have taken apart now and got out the dremel!!

Craterloads · 23 Apr 2011 at 20:40

reeceLAV said:
Loving the fans, how quiet are they?

im sure theres most likely much better/quiter fans out there but they do there job nicely. Very quite and push a decent amount of air, keep the 2500k temps under 80c upto 1.4v in push/pull.

Craterloads · 23 Apr 2011 at 20:43

Only problem with it set up like this is that the antec kuhler 620 is blowing hot air directly onto my gpu raising temps in the high 90c's in furmark. So what im doing is cutting two 120mm blow holes dirctly underneath the graphics card @ the bottom of the case alowing the pgu to suck cold air into it.

I might also mount antec 620 into the rear with some slight modding but i think it looks better in the front, anyhow see it goes.

Craterloads · 24 Apr 2011 at 00:20

ok theres no going back now!!

Marked out

scored, went round about 8 times with a 409

Cut with the carbon fibre reinforced disk

quick sand and gone over edges with a black marker

Pritty pleased, didnt want to spend to long as this will be unseen. Little upset at cutting joles slightly too big. Used the outer ring of the fan grill to mark but on reflect the 2nd last would have been better.

Craterloads · 24 Apr 2011 at 12:48

Some edging in place

Then sprayed a couple of noctua black

Craterloads · 24 Apr 2011 at 20:38

LePhuronn said:
Nice work on the cutting, although I think you could've reversed the airflow in the case because I think Antec actually say that their all-in water units actually work better as exhaust (unlike the previous Corsair models).

But still, having the Kuhler up front looks better as you say.

I am switching it around and fitting it in the exhaust. Had to drill some holes for it to fit. Was just blowing in to much hot air. Working on it now so will update later on with pics

Could just swicth fans otherway but dont think having a back to fron airflow would be great when the GPU will be exhausting out of rear

Craterloads · 27 Apr 2011 at 10:26

Actualy ive switched again to a GTX 570 phantom!!