Sleeping Beauty
As a few of you may know, I have been meaning to build a new PC prior to going to University. A few things stood in the way though, waiting for products to be released and waiting for manufacturers to update their products to work out some niggles.
However, the time is here. I have named the project "Sleeping Beauty" because since I will be staying in a shoe size boxed room at University, I would like it to be silent, but powerful and amazing to look at as well, so I think the name works.
Build Spec:
Case: Corsair 650D
CPU: Intel i7 2600K
Motherboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2 Z68
Graphics Card: EVGA Geforce 580GTX DS
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4x4Gb
PSU: Corsair AX 850W
SSD: Corsair Force 120Gb
HDD: Samsung F3
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100
Braid: MDPC
Fans: Akasa Apache Black
HDD Silencer/Cooler: Grow Up Japan Smart Drive
The first job to be done was to remove the front mesh on the Corsair 650D case. The reason behind this is that the mesh created positive pressure behind the mesh and created a whine, so it had to go in order to keep it quiet.
Corsair 650D prior to modding
Corsair 650D stripped
Items placed aside
Front view, prior to grinding
The weapon of choice
Little test cut
OcUK had to be in here somewhere
Grinding, need a pretty picture too!
Nearly done
Done!
Front view
Front/side view
Now it was time to put the bits and pieces back in it, but there was a lot of little bits of metal floating around the case, and I didn't have any cans of compressed air lying around. So I had a scout around the farm and came back with this. needless to say, it did a fantastic job.
Everything back in, and edges touched up
Link To Photo Album: https://picasaweb.google.com/revans...authkey=Gv1sRgCIKD7-uopI-MgQE&feat=directlink
As a few of you may know, I have been meaning to build a new PC prior to going to University. A few things stood in the way though, waiting for products to be released and waiting for manufacturers to update their products to work out some niggles.
However, the time is here. I have named the project "Sleeping Beauty" because since I will be staying in a shoe size boxed room at University, I would like it to be silent, but powerful and amazing to look at as well, so I think the name works.
Build Spec:
Case: Corsair 650D
CPU: Intel i7 2600K
Motherboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2 Z68
Graphics Card: EVGA Geforce 580GTX DS
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4x4Gb
PSU: Corsair AX 850W
SSD: Corsair Force 120Gb
HDD: Samsung F3
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100
Braid: MDPC
Fans: Akasa Apache Black
HDD Silencer/Cooler: Grow Up Japan Smart Drive
The first job to be done was to remove the front mesh on the Corsair 650D case. The reason behind this is that the mesh created positive pressure behind the mesh and created a whine, so it had to go in order to keep it quiet.
Corsair 650D prior to modding
Corsair 650D stripped
Items placed aside
Front view, prior to grinding
The weapon of choice
Little test cut
OcUK had to be in here somewhere
Grinding, need a pretty picture too!
Nearly done
Done!
Front view
Front/side view
Now it was time to put the bits and pieces back in it, but there was a lot of little bits of metal floating around the case, and I didn't have any cans of compressed air lying around. So I had a scout around the farm and came back with this. needless to say, it did a fantastic job.
Everything back in, and edges touched up
Link To Photo Album: https://picasaweb.google.com/revans...authkey=Gv1sRgCIKD7-uopI-MgQE&feat=directlink
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need more pics soon 
