Project: Renati Niveus

Spangles said:
Dude! It is looking bang tidy as Mr Lemon would say. Cable management is superb! I cannot say any cables anywhere! Fantastic ;)

I like the colour schemes you chose too, white, black & blue, looking good. Once those braided cables are in too, it will look mega. I like how it was 4am, you got the itch and just couldn't sleep so had to build it there and then lol.
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Thanks Spangles :D

I suspect that the reason you can't see any cables yet may be down to the fact nothing is plugged in haha, but i'll keep the visible cables to a minimum once my braided extensions are here.
I wouldnt go as far as to say it's superb, but thankyou :) I feel that it could definitely be a bit better, and i'm terrified of the prospect of trying to keep it as neat once I have a load of 30 - 45CM braided extensions and some SATA/molex power cables in. :(

I'm going to try and hide the SSD round the back as well, not quite sure on how to do that yet. Any suggestions welcome. :)

fantasticCG said:
Lovely and clean! Get some WC and blue fluid in there :D
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That is the long term plan my friend. :)
I have an EK Supreme LTX nickel/plexi, and some black EK compressions in the cupboard. Once I have the cash, i'll stick a 240 in the top, a 200 in the front, get a new GPU and watercool the GPU and CPU :)
I'll probably use Pastel Blueberry coolant and transparent 7/16" tubing. But this is a long way off.
 
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Look what came in the mail this morning :eek:
My braided extensions and lighting. (minus the PCI-E extension)
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My sound card that I forgot to mention existed - an Asus Xonar DS. Not the best in the world, but enough to be a massive improvement over on-board audio. :cool:
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Another HDD. This one will be used for OSX, which is funny as it is out of a Mac (as you can see from the little Apple logo) :p
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Cable management round the back, not the best, but then again, not the worst either. I can't tell if the side panel is bulging or not. Which I suppose is as good as it not bulging. :p

All cable extensions, power cables etc plugged in. Dont mind the random SATA cable strewn accross the back, thats for the storage drive which is currently still in the PC i'm using now. It will go in the top HDD tray. :)
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Where I have mounted the SSD, behind the 5.25" drive cage. I used a molex to SATA power adapter so that I could plug in the SSD and the fan controller with one PSU cable. If anyone thinks this could be a problem, let me know!
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This is how the SSD is attached. The strap I am using was the one that came with my XFX PSU to hold the cables together in the box. :p
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There she is, as done as can be at the moment, still waiting on the GPU power extension though.
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First power on, with the GPU removed due to having no cable for it yet. Nothing caught fire which is always good, and the only error light I have is the boot device one, which is fine as the boot drive is not configured yet. ;)
As you can see I have installed the lighting too. :D
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Side panel on :cool:
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And the mess I was left with :D
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Final pics will be up once the braided extension is here, the last HDD is in, and I have stolen my mates SLR :D

Stay tuned :)
 
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Antony101 said:
Looks awesome mate, can I ask why you didn't get a sabertooth board though?
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Cheers :)

Partially because they only come in P67 and Z77 flavours and I wanted a Z68 board because apparently Z68 is better for overclocking Sandybridge than Z77, and also partially because this board in mint condition with all the original accessories, documents, packaging etcetera only cost me £60 inc postage :D
 
I found a 'before' shot for you all. :p
When I took it apart it looked almost exactly like this. The only differences were that the GTX480 had been replaced by the GTX660, the fans on the rad had been replaced with bright yellow Venom Vipers, and I took the label off of the remaining PCI-E cable. :rolleyes:
I'm not sure when this was taken... Looks like the date in the corner of the screen says 2012 though. Maybe 04/06/2012?
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