Project Marshlands: A Military Themed Build..

[keenan]

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Hello guys.

This is my first ever project, most from old and second hand stuff so it's not being build for performance.. It is however themed to be a military build so it'll be build around the following..

ASUS Sabertooth 990FX
AMD FX???
16GB Corsair Vengeance Memory
nVidia GTX470's (for place holders..)
Corsair TX850
Corsair Vengeance C70 (Military Green)

Everything will be watercooled apart from the Sabertooth to keep the color scheme..


First off all I'd like to give a massive thanks for all my sponsors. Akasa for sponsoring the superb Akasa Apache fans, Corsair for sponsoring one of their awesome TX850 power supplies and MNPCTECH for providing the stunning replacement side window for the C70..









Final Photos

 

[keenan]

First up is the cabling.

I got some 2.06mm 16awg Eco wire with a rating of 26/0.25..

Also, millions of molex crimps..

Some carefully picked out MDPC sleeving has got my name on it ..

 

[keenan]

I've done a few, but decided that it's just not gonna fit the build the way I wanted, so I'll start over using the new sleeving ..

 

[keenan]

Postman came with a handful of items..

Guess what this is




Something sharp..




Mmmm, another mystery item!!




Maybe the hobby knife can reveal....





Memory also came.. :crazy:




Looks good, but not good enough..




Seems my wife was right, nothing would ever get done without her... :rofl:




Some naked pics.




Ooooooo..




Some dirty pics...

 

[keenan]

Got the memory sinks all cleaned up and ready. The adhesive was so hard to get off I had to soak them in hot water and rub it off with a cloth. Took me about an hours worth of rubbing!!

One last shot of the before..




To go with the military theme I ordered a couple of cans of "desert sand" from Army Issue, which turned out to be the easiest spray paint I have ever used. No runs or smudges :lovely:




Busy on my self fabricated spray surface!




And the end result :drool:





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[keenan]

Having a quick look at the case...
















Buttons are a bit ........ :-/

But they'll grow on me!!






Oo la la, once again, Corsair :nod:




Good amount of space for cable routing and management!!

 

[keenan]

Tried my hand at SATA cable sleeving, used a lighter to shrink the heatshrink

 

[keenan]

Thanks guys, it's gonna be an ongoing project, but I hope to keep you all glued


Postman showed up with some packages ..

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Thanks Akasa for making awesome fans ...




Also, something special from far far away..




And a few of these funny fittings!!




Got some sleeving done last night

 

[keenan]

Looks nice so far!! Why didnt you got for the FX 8350 ?

Most of the hardware was bought second hand, I got the Sabertooth and FX4100 as a bundle, so couldn't really opt for anything else..

 

[keenan]

Thanks a lot guys, got a few more updates


Got the 24pin and the fans sleeved tonight using my brand new crimper ..!!

Thought to myself, "Damn this crimper makes me look like a crimping genius!!!"




Some beautiful Commando Green sleeving




Fans done




A very military style 24pin!






12mm copper tubing seems to be the rarest thing in the UK..

 

[keenan]

A tiny little update..

Packages in the post..




What could it possibly be????




A couple of second hand GTX470's maybe??










Some "camo" wrap ...






.. and a tasty beveridge




Back to business...

Radiator mounts




Vinyl wrapped radiator mounts..




Back on the radiator..




With the fans..

 

[keenan]

Very nice work, looking great so far.

One question. What's with the camo bull in the first post ?

Does he not look cool? Like a military bull..?

 

[keenan]

Tiny little teaser

 

[keenan]

Looking very good. Personally I'm not a fan of the brown braid. Might have been better with a darkgreen or even grey to match the camo wrap which btw is excellent.

Keep up the great work

When you see the end result I think you'll change your mind about the brown/copper sleeve

I hope so...

 

[keenan]

Got a bit of an update after a long weekend of way too much work..

Here we see two electronically camouflaged owls..




Connected up to see the "bigger" picture ....




......and trying to fool myself into thinking a £60 camera can take cool pics...





Have a relaxing Sunday everyone
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[keenan]

A mysterious package arrived in the post today...


What could it possibly be?




I'm gonna have to take a peek inside!!!!




It appears to be some lovely super cool stuff from Akasa..






All packed out..




But what does these boxes really say??








Inside the very informative boxes..







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I would like to thank Ivan and Alex at Akasa, for being an absolute pleasure to chat with and for sending me this amazing sponsors package!!

 

[keenan]

Just a quick question, How are you melting the sleeving onto the connectors ? It looks really clean.

Use a lighter and fingers ..

 

[keenan]

Still waiting on stuff to arrive from the US.. :weep:

Got all the cables done in the mean time..

 

[keenan]

I think I need some opinions now....

I'm waiting for some stuff from the US to finish the memory modules.. It's taking way too long so now I'm trying to decide on stuff I can get over here..

So these options involve "hydrodipping" but I'll leave it to you guys to decide which one looks "best"


Some photoshop skills on show...

Original (as they are now)




Digital Desert




Reaper




A-TACS




I've gotta say, I do like the ATACS..

Any thoughts from you guys?

 

[keenan]

ATACS for me.

Definitely feeling the same.. It just looks amazing with the distorted pattern..