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pgi947 said:
Looks fantastic! Really makes me want to stop cheaping out by buying pre-braided extensions!!

What size cutting discs do dremmels take? If its something I stock at work I'll grab a few boxes for aspiring modders, will be more durable then the discs Dremmel are likely to send you ;)
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Yeah sleeving is pretty easy most of the time (except those pesky double wires!) and cheap too. 300ft of paracord cost me £15 ;)

The discs are 38mm x 1mm, if you happen to find any suitable discs then fire me a PM and we can sort something out :cool:
 
I'll have a look in our store on monday, if we do we're likely to have ones rated for cutting stainless steel, which won't insta-turn into powder as I hear the Dremmel ones do :)
 
I'm buying PC bits as and when I can, here's a small selection I received yesturday and today.

2 x 120GB Sandisk Extreme SSD's
The first HD7950
16GB (4 x 4GB) Samsung Green 1600Mhz DDR3
Arctic Cooling MX-4 for the GPU's

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The first HD7950 I ordered was a HIS reference card, but unfortunately it has a green PCB and although the backplate covers most of it you can still see some of the PCB near the crossfire fingers. I'll be returning it under DSR.

The HIS card:

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The MSI Card: (Brown PCB will have to do :p )

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A look at how the card looks with the backplate, I like it :)

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This Samsung green RAM is TINY!:

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I also bought a Antec PSU tester to make sure I didn't mess up the wire layout or soldering, all seems good :)

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I've not just been shopping ;) I've also been painting, all the priming is done, I will need to sand everything before the gloss black goes on, it's going quite well so far

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I've given my GTX480 to a friend as he was using a HD5450 so now I'm using the MSI HD7950. I couldn't resist a little overclocking :D
Turns out its pretty good, 1100Mhz with 1.060V Unigine Heaven stable, I'll continue testing tomorrow.

Thanks for looking :cool:
 
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pgi947 said:
I'll have a look in our store on monday, if we do we're likely to have ones rated for cutting stainless steel, which won't insta-turn into powder as I hear the Dremmel ones do :)
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The disks that are made of like a sandpaper type construct do work, but wear very quickly. Dremel do a range called the "Speedclic" range, and in that range (model SC456B for a pack of 12) they do Metal cutting disks. These are basically mini (38mm) angle grinder disks. They cut steel (my Corsair 700D) fine, and don't only last 5 mins...

You will need a new collet to use/attach these to your Dremel/rotary tool. Definitely worth investing in if you have lots of cuts to do...
 
Ah I meant to get back to you on this!

We don't stock 38mm discs unfortunately, smallest we have is 50mm with a mounting centre of ~6mm. If they sound like they may fit (I don't know how the balance of the tool will react with the extra 12mm) let me know and I'll grab a few for you to test.

I'm surprised Dremel's are relatively well built, they're owned by Bosch who make absolutely terrible power tools - Which isn't something you can say about many German manufacturers :)
 
pgi947 said:
Ah I meant to get back to you on this!

We don't stock 38mm discs unfortunately, smallest we have is 50mm with a mounting centre of ~6mm. If they sound like they may fit (I don't know how the balance of the tool will react with the extra 12mm) let me know and I'll grab a few for you to test.

I'm surprised Dremel's are relatively well built, they're owned by Bosch who make absolutely terrible power tools - Which isn't something you can say about many German manufacturers :)
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Ah ok mate no worries, I don't think discs with a mounting centre of 6mm would work.

I've got a set of dremels discs now and they are much better than the cheap discs that are included with the dremel, though they are quite expensive (£20 for 12 discs).
 
Just so you know, stock cost of a box of 25 discs cost around £3+vat for retailers, the mark up on them is incredible!
 
Thanks HenryParry

The top panel has been cut and will be with me on Thursday, I'm very excited to see it! :D

Unfortunately I'll be poor for about a month :/ so apart from this Thursday there won't be any updates for awhile.

Anyway thanks for looking as always :)
 
Hey guys,

Top panel has arrived! I'm very happy with the results, Obviously massive thanks to Tom at Pulsemodding who's done an excellent job I'm sure you'll agree. :D
I was very relieved to find that my dimensions were correct and the radiator fits (tested with my 240 rad).

Pic's:

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Thanks for looking :)
 
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Anox said:
Oh cool! That custom top looks pretty damn awesome.
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Thanks mate, I really like it too ;)
euf0ria said:
May i ask how you mounted the backplate to the PCB? It looks really nice!
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It wasn't actually mounted on the card when I took the pic, just placed ontop, I will most likely be using thermal pads or Velcro to secure the backplates.
coolamasta said:
Nice design there, that back PCB board is something special though :)
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:)
 
Very nice build, I've been meaning to check that Asrock board out, and it looks fantastic. I have the Asrock 970 extreme3 and had a few issues with it, so was wondering how that board has run for you, as I would eventually want to use it in my build myself?
 
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