Project: Inverse by StevenG - Updated 29th April

StevenG

StevenG

StevenG

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Okay so most of you will know i had to put a hold on my previous project due to me losing my job.

i had then sold all my gear to pay some bills for the time i was without any income. now im back working again it calls for a new project.

i think most of you will know its a Lian Li Case with some pretty decent watercooling in there.

i chose the name because its the opposite of what i would usually do with projects but i have a mac mini at the moment and quite like the silver/white sleek look.

i'll leave it at that for now and let you try and guess what i'll be doing.

Budget is around 1.8-2.0K
its now going to be I7 (since i found a nice board)
it IS going to have a 4870x2

the case at the moment is being bought which will then be ripped apart and and have the internals powdercoated and a few light mods to accomodate my rads.

thats all for now. keep an eye out for any updates.

StevenG
 
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Update:

Case, Mods and Powder ordered. should be going out to powder monday / tuesday.

the case is a Lian Li PC-A70a (silver) but will be coming out a totally different colour. both the insides and out are being coated but the colours i'll leave that as a surprise.

im currently waiting on some more money coming in with which i'll be buying the Feser Quad & Dual rad to go into the case along with all the other watercooling parts.

after that i'll be looking at about the 2nd week in march to get the rest of my gear so should be finished by the end of march i would have thought.

i'll keep the updates coming once i have them.

StevenG
 
Small Update.

Some parts arrived so i thought id give them a test...

believe it or not this is the £300+ P6T6 WS REVOLUTION motherboard, 3x2GB Dominator 1600 and the i7 920 CPU.

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The board cpu and ram all work fine. waiting on the PSU and HDD coming today so i can get my 4870x2 in there aswell and get some testing done on that :D

my case is on its way to the powder company so should have it back within a week or so.

i'll keep you updated of my progress :D

StevenG
 
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No real update. just to say ive done some testing. with 2x 4870x2's im getting 25,000 3DMARKS in 06 with a 3.7 OC on stock air (not advised lol)

should have my case back soon so i can start/continue the project.

2x 500gb 7200.12 single platter drives in a 160gb formatted partition for my vista install.
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StevenG
 
just got some of my case back so thought id upload some pics...

still waiting on some blocks from germany for my board before i can start building.

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should have some more pics / updates next week.

StevenG
 
Another small update.

fitted the block to one of my gfx cards and got a pic of the triple chip block for my board (NB SB Link)

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should have some more updates later this week, also got the Mosfet coolers for my board but left them at work.

StevenG
 
triple block is for my P6T6 cools the NB SB and Link chip which gives me 3x 16 speed lanes. over the other boards which only have 2.

granted i'll never use the 3rd lane but i got the board cos it looked nice ;)

i've got some more pics to upload tonight got the other MIPS blocks for my mosfets. very nicely made blocks and im shocked they arent more popular.

StevenG
 
MIPS P6T6 TRIPLE CHIP POM is the block you need. be sitting down when you find out how much its going to be. works out around £140 for all the blocks i paid for mine.

damn Euro - £ rate is shocking.

StevenG
 
Finally managed to get a pic of the 3 blocks for my board..

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im still waiting on some heatshrink, mght go get some from ******s and pay over the odds for it just so i can start getting some wiring sorted. ive got fans to join together to use with the BIG NG fan controller.

ive just also realised i havent provided you guys with a list of definitive specs yet so here it is.

PC-A70a (white outside black inside, awesom rad cut in the roof) for a quad Feser radiator and customised to take a 240 rad in the front.
Silverstone ST1000 100% modular PSU - braided black (single wires)
ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution fully watercooled by the MIPS blocks above.
i7 920 under a Swiftech GTZ block
2x 4870x2's with XSPC Blocks
3x 500GB 7200.12 Seagate's in RAID0 providing me with 370+ MB/s Read
1x 1TB Samsung for storage
7x Yate Loon high speed fans running on a BIG NG automatic fan controller @ 4v
LG Blu-ray and HD DVD Rom
24" BenQ Screen.

well thats about everything i can think of.

be sure to watch for updates, should have some soon.

StevenG
 
Okay ive got some panels so thought id show you the case.

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Let me know what you think. the window is actually clear. but the insides of the case make it look black. some blue cathodes should sort that out once i come to getting it all finished up.

StevenG
 
Had a day off today so thought i would try and get as much done as possible.

got a start on the braid as my psu should be back from RMA shortly so i can get cracking on that.

i had some questions about airflow so did some test with a piece of paper to see if it would "float"

anyway here are the pics.

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this is where i'll have the BIG NG mounted to control my fans and hide the wires as best i can.

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let me know what you think i should have most of the wiring done before the psu gets back so thats all i have left to do.. after braiding that i can finally start getting some of my components in there.

Thanks for reading.
StevenG
 
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not much of an update but ive done some more braiding, got most of my wires and psu done so just got my molex, 2nd sata and 2nd pcie cable to do but im running low on braid so im going to have to order some more. (went through 32m of it)

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should have this finished next week just waiting on my delivery of the rest of my braid.

StevenG
 
Geckovich said:
Million dollar pc anyone?

Looking good, lots of care and time put into that braiding.
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well i attempted to get onto there with my last pc but it wasnt good enough so im spending that little extra time with this one in the hope that i'll get on the site along with some other really nice pc's.

thanks for the comment about my braiding (glad someone noticed ;))

you dont realise how much time things like that take. took 1 hour to do a PCIE cable today and another hour to do the sata cables for the hdd rack.

anyway i think its coming along nicely so far, please feel free to comment.

StevenG
 
Okay so another update getting closer to completion now.

so in this update i got pretty much everything fitted apart from my 2 dvd drives and mycathodes which i still need to braid.

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Another update to follow after this one.

please feel free to comment as its comments on my previous builds that make me improve on future ones.

StevenG
 
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