Project Corsair 900D

Alasdairhurst · 23 Jun 2013 at 23:59

Deathjester said:
And how much do you think I'll need?

Depends on your preferences. they are very strong lights, so either one hidden in the top front of the case, or one in the top and one in the bottom to balance the light. Pick up one strip at first and test it out and see what effect you get from it and if you need more you can pick up another

Deathjester · 24 Jun 2013 at 07:52

So just a couple of 15cm lengths?

Alasdairhurst · 24 Jun 2013 at 10:39

15cm may be a bit small for the 900D, but they aren't that expensive, and they are quite bright so that may be all that is needed. See if anyone else has any opinions on it first though as I don't want to be wasting you any money if you need different sizes

Deathjester · 24 Jun 2013 at 11:27

OCUK has a 14 day satisfaction guarentee....

So I can always get my money back.

Alasdairhurst · 24 Jun 2013 at 11:28

Very true. Go for it then

Deathjester · 24 Jun 2013 at 18:00

Picked up 2x 30cm lengths to see what it looks like.
Hopefully should arrive tomorrow!

Also my nzxt internal hub (take 2) should arrive then too!

Deathjester · 26 Jun 2013 at 00:28

Ok so I got the 2 30cm lengths of LED's and no adheasive... SUCKS! Anyway I'll figure something out on that count, at the moment I'm using sellotape.... (shhhh)

Anyway onwards with the photos!

I forgot to clean the CPU loop drain tap until after I looked at this photo....

The Front GPU loop Drain port:

Sleeved cables coming out of the PSU:

And going into stuff:

An overall view of the board:

GPU Blocks:

Reservoirs:

The motherboard blocks:

Stepping back slightly

With my mouse and Keyboard:

The whole rig (minus 2 monitors)
The windows gives quite a bit of glare off the LEDs, however in Real Life it's nothing like as bad...

I will post some OC / cooling setup pics tomorrow once I've had a bit of time to work on them...

Thanks for looking all!!!!

(EDIT: And yes before anyone mentions it, I'm perfectly aware that the fan's need spraying still... thank you)

Alasdairhurst · 26 Jun 2013 at 01:17

Looks great! I'm sure the LED strips are self adhesive though, have you tried peeling the paper off the back of them?

Deathjester · 26 Jun 2013 at 01:22

There isn't any paper...

SymTax · 26 Jun 2013 at 01:47

Looking really nice. Loving the combination of different fluid colours.

Antony101 · 26 Jun 2013 at 03:09

Now all you need is a desk... Haha

Spook187 · 26 Jun 2013 at 05:50

Alasdairhurst said:
Looks great! I'm sure the LED strips are self adhesive though, have you tried peeling the paper off the back of them?

I've yet to see an LED strip that will stick, even the BitFenix ones just fall off, super glue them on i do now.

Deathjester · 26 Jun 2013 at 06:56

Antony101 said:
Now all you need is a desk... Haha

Haha, I did it all in the kitchen / dining room as it's the only place with:
A) enough space for this monster
B) floors that will survive pastel coolant spilt on them...

JCX50 · 26 Jun 2013 at 15:51

I am glad you made the most of the 900D's space. Changed my mind about the case a little more. Still think it looks like an old sony tv from the side IMO.

Alasdairhurst · 26 Jun 2013 at 18:14

Spook187 said:
I've yet to see an LED strip that will stick, even the BitFenix ones just fall off, super glue them on i do now.

That's strange :S I looked back at my order history to see if i ordered something different but no...
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CM-051-BX
that's what i have. i just peeled off the backing and stuck it to my case.

Although I did get it in April last year so my memory could be deceiving me and I may have used double sided tape (which is a good solution)

Deathjester · 26 Jun 2013 at 20:24

Reminder to self...

450rpm is NOT enough to keep 2 titan's cool playing Metro Last Light....

They did only go up to 58c but my rads were hot to the touch...

Whacking all the fans onto full dragged all the temps back down in just under 2 mins tho....

Deathjester · 30 Jun 2013 at 21:24

Deathjester said:
Reminder to self...

450rpm is NOT enough to keep 2 titan's cool playing Metro Last Light....

They did only go up to 58c but my rads were hot to the touch...

Whacking all the fans onto full dragged all the temps back down in just under 2 mins tho....

After setting up my Aquaero, and removing the bottom side panels to improve air flow:

I'm not getting anything above 50c. Which is awesome.

Gaming Metro Last Light cpu - 37c, GPU's 49c & 44c seems pretty good to me

Fans still running under 1000rpm so still super quiet.

subbytna · 1 Jul 2013 at 10:19

Why do you need 32 gig of 2133 Ram? Do you need it for work or something...that's a whole pile of fast ram for Metro

paulstung · 1 Jul 2013 at 16:19

Oh it's pretty. How you getting on with the Strike ? I've been tempted a few times to splash out is that the 5 or 7 ?

Deathjester · 1 Jul 2013 at 18:52

subbytna said:
Why do you need 32 gig of 2133 Ram? Do you need it for work or something...that's a whole pile of fast ram for Metro

I have 32GB of RAM for 1 real reason, 16GB of ram with the Ram blocks on just didn't look right.

And I didn't really want to use 8x2gb sticks.

paulstung said:
Oh it's pretty. How you getting on with the Strike ? I've been tempted a few times to splash out is that the 5 or 7 ?

It's the Strike 7.

It has really nice tactile feel (for a rubber dome keyboard).

I also like the fact that I can drop the Arrorw keys & num pad off it, so I can game "narrower".

But still have them easily available to use.

(I also have a Razer Orbweaver Stealth, an MMO 7 & a corsair m65).

(I just can't use the MMO7 for FPSs