Project : LV-426 an Alien inspired build ( a Jonsbo MOD5 build )

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The MOD5 from Jonsbo.



Total marmite case, so if you are looking for effecient airflow and understated - the door is over there.

'Project' is a bit grand for this, it'll be a simple build log giving a closer look at this case for the curious.

My last project was also a Jonsbo, the MOD1, which is linked in my sig. I tend to go for the more unusual cases in my modding history over the years.

As with all my projects, i have an idea in my head, but nothing on paper, so i'll just see where it ends up.

We'll start with the obligatory ' pile of bits '



All tucked away in the cupboard waiting for the 7800X3D, i'll be moving the psu and RTX3080 over from the other case.

I'm getting too old for water-cooling now, so this will be a simple air-cooled build

 

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First thing i wanted to do was change the colour, didn't want the black version and wasn't sold on silver, so i picked a colour somewhere in the middle.



Vinyl wrap, the lazy mans painting.

Test piece :

Original silver


Wrapped


Never used wrap before, so a little rough in places, but far better than anything i could have done with paint.

And a little more from this afternoon:



I plan to wrap the inner 'frame' in matte black

TBC.

 

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11/04/23 - Little bit more done.

Had some Phanteks Halo aluminium frames from a build ages back that i found in my parts bin ( it's literally a bin ), and bought some suitable mesh from eBay.



Fits the theme/colour pretty well.

Back side of case wrapped now also.

 

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Small update 21/4/23

Mostly little details, but things that were bugging me.

Sprayed the liitle Deepcool logo inserts from the original teal/bluey colour to silver on the CPU cooler:



Changed the memory sticks Z from red to black:


And changed all the red detail lines on the mobo to black :

( Ignore the bright pink STRIX heatsink, that will not be used, as i have a WDSN850X with black heatsink going there. )

All small things, but it keeps the mobo area all in 'theme' - Black,Grey+Silver.





Still plenty left to do, so thanks for looking in.

 

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Like the case design. Where does the PSU go? - At the bottom near the front, or in that white box at the top (or is that just padding/packaging)?

PSU goes in the base area, kinda central. And yes, that white box is packaging i forgot to remove.

 

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small update added

 

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Small update added

 

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Small Update

Change of plan, the air cooler has gone. It just took up so much room, and didn't look right to me with the vertical gfx card.

AIO time, EK Nucleus 240mm ( push/pull config with the Arctic P12 PWM PST fans i've used throughout the case )



Snagged a bargain RTX4070 new for £375 from eBay, and the colour is a perfect match for the build.


and started on a small display screen for the case side




still a mountain of fan/rgb cable spaghetti to route and sort yet.

Thanks for looking in.

 

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11 fans all connected up and wires hidden, RGB cables next

 

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Looking good! Where did you pick up the aluminium cable routing clamp doohickeys?

AliExpress - they are for sparkplug leads / oil pipes etc. AN4 size is a good fit for 8 sleeved cables.

I thought they looked a little different form the usual. Going for a futuristic / machiney type look.

 

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More cable management, almost done with the cabling now. And fitted the mini-screen ( need to finish the bezel for it ).

 

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Question @Brizzles - those black plastic clips holding the fan cables, they come with the case or did you source them separately? I’m already gonna be ordering some of those spark plug clips as they look bloody good but some of those black clips and a drill bit would tidy my own boring rig up no end.

Amazon - dirt cheap adhesive foam pad backed

 

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Update.

Had to replace the EK AIO due to a noisey pump, so most of my cable routing had to be stripped out and will need redoing again.

Gave me time to finish the mini-screen ( bezel needs finishing still ) but all the AIDA64 side and my design is done ( until i change it for the 6th time! ).

Started sorting/testing the RGB, so this is how it looks atm.

Getting there

 

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Couple more pics.

Switched the AIO to 'pipes at top' as it was very tight and would be a complete pain to swap out graphics cards.

Vertical GPU bracket installed and tubing re-done.

Now the main hardware is positioned how i want it, i can move on to cable tidying the back again.

Still some 'things' to add to give it a futuristicy look, so not done yet

SPEC :

CASE : Jonsbo MOD 5
CPU : AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz
GPU : Asus GeForce RTX 4070 Dual 12GB
MOBO : Asus ROG Strix B650E-E Gaming WIFI
RAM : Corsair Dominator Platinum Black 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 6000MHz C30
PSU : Seasonic Prime PX-850 850W 80 Plus Platinum Modular
SSD : 2 x 1TB WD Black SN850X NVME PCI-E Gen4 / 1 x 2TB WD Black SN770 NVME PCI-E Gen4
COOLING : Arctic Liquid Freezer II A-RGB - 360mm AIO
FANS : 12 x Arctic P12 Static Pressure 120mm PWM PST A-RGB 0dB Fan

CableMod Vertical PCI-e Bracket PCI-e 4.0 Edition
CableMod Classic ModMesh RT-Series Cable Kit - Carbon
Phanteks Halo fan surrounds
Elecrow 5" HDMI Monitor

 

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Another small update.

Managed to squeeze in a new gfx card - Gainward Phoenix RTX 4080

a lot of the rear cabling is sorted, but i wanted to make a 'feature' of it to keep up a futuristic/machiney type theme, so started work on some graphics i had printed.
Going to try and make ' metal plaque effect ' pieces for various places on the build.

More to come

 

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2 more, 1 for fan hub and the other for RGB hub.

 

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Looks awesome hows the cable management like? Looks like it would be a real pain.

Thanks, surprisingly there is a decent amount of spaces to hide cables, well there was before i stuck the 4080 in it.

A little creativity and it'll be fine

 

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Thanks all.

Bit more to add, started on the cabling at the back. I could have hid it away, but that would have been too easy- so i decided to make it a part of the build in a machiney type way. And nothing says machiney more than CONDUIT !!!!! ( well there are probably better examples )

Looks OK i think ( i hope ) needs a little tidying.

Ran out of conduit at this point, so need to order some more.

And remember, a tidy workplace is a safe workpl.................Forget it.

Thanks for popping in.

 

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Thank you all, wasn't sure about it at first but the idea came to me so i ran with it.

The problem is size - this stuff is the smallest i could find at 6mm diameter, so shower hosing would have been far too big, and yes would have preferred black metal hosing but then its a question of sourcing it etc., this stuff is £4 for 2metres from Amazon - so nice and easy to obtain.

Finished the fan cables and hub earlier ( matt black vinyl on the plastic hub so it blends in more ) ;

All 12 fans hidden away.

RGB next which will be a pain.