Project: Shiny N Clean

stiv121

stiv121

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Hey guys! :D

This is going to be my first bulid log, well second because i kind of mucked up my last one (SKINT) so i have come up with a new name Shiney N Clean mainly because i want a nice clean bulid and i love shiney shiney nickle :D

The main tower without the watercooling has already been bulit and is all working besides a few problems i have had :(. I have not really had time to redo this project wich i never even started because of school and such and the lack of trying to find parts in stock anywhere :(.

Well Anyways here is a list of all the parts that wil be used in this bulid.

Hardware:

i7 920
ASUS P6X58D-E
SLI POV 470's
6Gb Corsair Dom's RAM (1600 8-8-8-24)
1tb F3
ASUS D2X sound card
Coarsair AX1200
Sony DVD drive
Silverstone TJ07-B with window

Watercooling:

EK supreme HF full nickel
EK 470 GTX Full Cover Nickel Plexi + EK nickel backplate
EK 470 GTX Full Cover Nickel Plexi + EK nickel backplate
EK D5 REV 2 pump top
EK Multioption Reservoir X2 250 Advanced
EK PCI Brackets for 470
D5 pump
Thermochill TA 120.4
Thermochill TA 120.2
Thermochill EC6 UV blue cooling fluid
2x 1m Tygon Clear 7/16" ID - 5/8" OD
1m Masterkleer Hi-Flex Clear 7/16" ID - 5/8" OD (Backup)
6x Silent Eagles 1000 RPM
20x Bitspower 7/16 ID 5/8 OD Compression fittings silver shining
4x Bitspower Stop Fittings ( All that was instock :( )
8x Feser 45 rotary fittings
2x Feser Passthrough Fittings
1x Feser 1/4 SLI 3PACK

Other:

MX-3
Scythe HDD Stabilizer
TJ07 Window Panel Black Tint
TJ07 Replacement back Panel Fanless
400x400x3mm White Acrylic
500x500x1.5mm Sheet aluminium
Pulse Modding Quad Radiator Stand 480mm
Pulse Modding doubble Radiator Stand 240mm
Sunbeam Molex Extractor Kit and Sleeving Tool
MDPC-X Sleeving Kit Black
MDPC-X 10m Grand Blue Sleeving + 1m of black HS


Well i think thats everything :D i recived a big order and now ive got everything apart from the fans and the tubing :(.

Heres some fuzzy pics to keep you guys amused for the mean time...



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First post with air cooling :D

I had to replace the stock cooler with a nocta because i was hitting 100 C with it :(


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Got most of the watercooling and little bits now =D



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Heres some P0rn for all you Shiney fanboys out there, haha :D



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I dont have a very good camara and i lack the skills to use one :(



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Not got anymore time to upload any more photos today but ill add some more tomorrow this is just a teaser :D
 
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G-Dubs said:
What's a POV card?

OP, can I ask will this just be an out of the box and into the case build or will there be any modding involved???
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Yes there will be a little modding :D this is my first bulid and i dont want to be going over my head on making a lot of different things but i will be making a cover for the 5.25" drive bays and a white acrylic midplate and some other bits and bobs along the way, we will see what happens but i only have a cheap old rotary tool so i will see how it fares when it comes to cutting steel with it.
 
Ye its a only a 22" but i should be getting a dell Ultrasharp and a corsair C300 around Christmas time we will see because i need to save up for a motorbike for next year.
 
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Some more close ups of the watercooling :D



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Ek Rez, very nice looking IRL dont think the picture does much justice on how good it looks.



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Thermochills new TA rads, nice looking but there was a few bent pins on the 420 and and a little bit of the paint was flaking off.



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Hehe :D



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The earlyest i can start this bulid is next weekend :( my power supply is being RMA'D and Im hoping to get a refund on it so i can buy an Enermax 1200 or 1050 because all of the cables on this corsair are very short and have to be streached across the front of the case :( so can anyone recommend me a 1kw + PSU which has good long cables for cable managment? :P
 
PSU has been picked up but it wont be for another week or so till i see another one so ive started taking apart the computer :D. Going to make the bottom white acrylic panel, fit most of the waterblocks and add a few other parts. I will be taking pictures along the way so i will update later with some nice fuzzy pictures :D
 
Sorry for no updates during the weekend guys, I worked flat out on friday and sunday for hours on end and im nearly done most of the modding (Midplate, stealth drive, cable managment holes, pass through holes, putting on the new backplate and mounting the pump & EK rez). I took loads of pictures along the way so I will get them on my laptop and upload them after school before i go to work on making the 5.25" drive cover. I've ended up with a lot of metal fillings getting into my throat so when i start cutting again I need to invest in a proper facemask rather than a tea towel wrapped around my face.

The blocks, brackets and backplate for the graphics cards are also mounted, never stripted one screw :D but i maby mishandled the cards and motherboard quite a lot :( hope dive no passed on and static electricity or overtightend the graphics card block. We will see in time.

I left vinegar in the rads for a good few hours then ran the tap through them to wash them out the put that dionatised water stuff in and let them soak overnight and when I went to check them in the morning I seen that if i looked at the fins i could see some rust in between the fins :(? How would i clean this off? I poured more of that water stuff over them and left them ill check it when i get home.

There is not much left to do really, I've got through quite a lot this weekend and when the tubing and fans arrive i can test out for any leaks then all i have to do is wait on my PSU coming back, sleeving it then get the internals powdercoated :D So far im over the moon because to me the quality so far is very good :D.
 
Sorry guys for no updates in the last few months, Ive just been busy finishing off the bulid and my prelims :( .

Ive had quite my share of problems when trying to finish this bulid off, like the top of the rad sticks out a bit and I cant get the side panel on properly :( wihich is the only thing that looks bad and spoils it :(

Here is some pictures of the finished bulid... there is some dust in some of the pics which looks like marks but there not :P




















I have been running it with the side panel on and off because there is no airflow so the mosfets and nb,sb gets hot too touch and ive not overclocked the cpu yet because of that reason :( will i be alright and it wont get much hotter im looking to hit 4 - 4.2 GHz will that be alright? with the no airflow issue?.

but Ive managed too get 850 on both cards maxing out at 35 C if i remember correctly :D


Over alli am very pleased because this is my first computer bulid and my age :P but i have to give out a big thanks to rjkoneill for inspiring me :D
 
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Thanks guys :D

Well im thinking of adding a few new things to this system because after Christmas I bought a new tv with the money ive saved since finishing this bulid so i have around £500 to spend Max but would like to keep things to a minimum because Im also saving for somthing els... :D I have a weeks hoilday from school next month so i have a month to decide but i need YOUR guys help :D, I want to do more modding if possable and try and make this bulid much cooler and professional.

Im thinking of getting rid of the drive cover i made because its made a lot of problems trying to fit the pump, DVD drive and HD :( and also I cant screw in three of the bay covers without taking mostly the whole PC apart :( but i need somthing to cover the bay left side because I put a big dent on it when it way lying on the floor and I dropped a baking tray onto it :-S

Things I am thinking of doing atm...

Getting a waterblock for my motherboard + MOSFETS so that
I can overclock the CPU safley.

Finding a way to cover or sleeve that ugly SLI bridge.

Getting the Corsair PSU replaced again because that high pich whine is getting worse and anoying, any ideas?

Maby taking out the DVD or getting it replaced drive because it makes some not very good noises and I dont know if OCUK will replace it :D

Getting 2 90 D bitspower fitting for the top of the rads so that I can move the rads closer togither without the daft angle so that I can put my case window on !!! properly! :D

Getting some Liquid metal for the screws for my top window because the holes are stripped ??? (Don't know why) so that will stay on with out tape :(

I dont know if i will Sleeve the cables on the PSU with my MDPC-X blue and black stuff or just leaving it and seling on the sleeving ? what do you think?

Painting my MB backplate thingy, GFX PCI plates and the normal PCI plates because I forgot to send them off when i was getting the rest dont :(!!

Maby changing some of the tygon with some other clear tubing because its soft nd gets very soft and kinks easly as mensiond by thegoon plus ive also think it has staned.

Doing some kind of window mod or some kind of laser cutting design, maby mounting the window on the inside?

Placing one or two white LED strips on the bottom of the case to illuminate the white arcrylic abd to make things look more shiney :D

Some how remove the orange LED in my sound card but i have no idea on how to do this ? :(

Thats all I can think of the now anyway but I want you to feel free to post your OWN ideas :D thanks!
 
Yeah you've proberly got a new batch where the fault has been fixed because i got one of the first ones and got it replaced a month later (proberly with the same batch) Ive just been waiting a few months until I can get a properly working replacement

I have it sidey ways but i also tryed it before out of the case flat with the same problem (high pich whine). Great PSU tho
 
yeah 11th to 17th :D haha

When i first RMA'd the PSU they couldn't refund me because it was 29 days old and the cut off was 28 days :P good psu tho cables ect...

Just trying to figure out how to make and easly removeable drive cover bay atm... oh well, ive got a month to think about it :D
 
Yeah the fluid looks really good but i think it has staned the tubing as you may see in the photos :( proberly just because that tubing is soo soft :( i will be replacing it with somthing els anyway.

I should has took cent's advice and go all masteleek or whatever :D
 
TheCenturion said:
Weird thing is, that's how both me and the op funded our builds...
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Haha :D Ive been saving for 2 years to be able to do this... my dream :D Worked every day of my summer holidays doing buckshee joinery jobs with my grandpa including bulding a childs play park which only took 4 days and i made £150.

Long story about the gf thing, she though i was cheating on her because I wasnt texting her while doing this bulid because I was so focust :D I ended up telling her to leave me alone because all the constant txt'in got too much :D

Back to the main topic now... :D I have been thinking about getting that dell 24" which paired with the MB blocks will take up all of my funds which I don't want to do because I have to start saving for somthing els :P so i was thinking more on the side of upgrading my X-530's with some Z5500's and getting all the stuff to make my bulid that much more special :D.
 
yeah EK do the blocks BUT not full cover :( *cry so the nb+sb one is £60 and the MOSFETS are £60 im not getting the blocks because i want that extra overclock its just because there is no airflow at all in the case :(

The NB, SB + mosfets are very hot to touch when on idle and i dont want to blow them when it comes to overclocking, im not sure :(
 
Erm :P I don't know :D how do i check my MB temps, in BIOS ? A fan will not fit in the front because of the tubing and I bought that fanless backpanel because i didnt ant any fans :P
 
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