Project: Soul Junky and a BIG Thank You :')

Jay85

Jay85

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WOOOP Okay so today made a little trip and got the things that i have been on about getting for the past few weeks! As some of you know, i've had problems with power supplies and cooling and at one point wanted to go a water cooling system but after some good advice from you guys and some persuading :'P i decided to go for the new case and aswel as PSU and fans etc :').

So heres what i bought today:

Antec Mini P180 (Gun metal)
Corsair HXUK 650W modular
2 x Sharkoon SE modular fans
Coollaboratory Liquid Pro (Came in a syringe)
White Cable Braid
White Heatshrink
Anti-Static Wrist strap

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So here begins the transformation, i started this build at 3pm in the afternoon today and didnt finish till roughly about 10pm!!! It is my first build though so be gentle aha!

Theres quite a few pictures so please be patient and let them load if you have a slow connection.

A pic of my old case and current build: Very messy and just looks sorry for itself tbh!

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Started out with stripping the PSU out first to release some space aswel as removing the CPU cooler.

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All components stripped out of my old case and ready to be cleaned and dusted off.

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I was going to take pictures of the new thermal paste/gel stuff but i got carried away and totally forgot to do so! Heres a pic of what it looked like after though anyway. I changed the direction of the CPU fan so it blows out of the case instead of blowing in since my old setup was to blow into the case and out the front.

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With that done and the parts dusted off, its time to put the board into the new case. I struggled abit here and had to remove the rear fan for more work space, don't know if anyone out there with the same case had to do so aswel but it saved me a lot of time i think.

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Hard Drive goes into the top bay and at the same time i did some cable braiding with any that needed doing so it looks all tidy and neat :'). White Cable braid looks lush tbh!

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With that done it was time to install the fans! NOW, i bought 2 fans today in hopes of replacing both the antec ones but as i found out when i looked inside the case the existing fan is wired into the fan control at the rear so i can't remove it completely! So i decided to mount 2 fans together, the old one and the new one and set the rear fan on medium to help the inner fan. Not sure if this even works or if its a good idea but i didnt want it to go to waste :').

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At this point i still had the PSU you to go in and the GFX card which had been cleaned up and dusted off aswel.

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MODULAR!! and its CORSAIR!! YUM!

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PSU is in and so is the gfx card, all thats left to do is to do some cable management! I suppose out of everything, this took the longest... purely because my fingers were actually really achey by now! But hey we pressed on and got the job done!

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Finally the finished product, all new and shiney and tidy aswel! After god knows how long and much blood and sweat i reckon i did an okayish job but still not bad for a first timer :').

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Whats next?

ATI 5850 and hopefully a new bigger and better cooler at some point so i can overclock further without having to worry about heat problems at a later date but right now i am dead happy that everythings gone well today!

Thanks for the advice and help guys these past few weeks, you've cleared up a lot of questions for me and i'm happy to be part of the forums.

Cheers OC'ers
Jay
 
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Sweet little case, personally I think I would have the 2 x 120mm (front and back) fans drawing air in and letting that huge roof mounted fan exhaust hot air upwards. Possibly orient the CPU cooler upwards aswell.

Nice work, your first build did you say? Well done mate.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
very nice clean looks :cool:
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Thanks man, glad you like it :')
JCBeastie said:
Sweet little case, personally I think I would have the 2 x 120mm (front and back) fans drawing air in and letting that huge roof mounted fan exhaust hot air upwards. Possibly orient the CPU cooler upwards aswell.

Nice work, your first build did you say? Well done mate.
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Thats what i've done, the front fan draws air in and the rear and top fans exhaust it out so it should be fairly efficient i think.

It is my first build, i had to make sure everything was right before i started and did as much research as i could before i bought stuff to minimise build problems. Think its paid off pretty well :').

Thank you JCBeastie :')
 
Well u can actually remove that old fan just gonna involve a bit of rewiring. Just so u know red wire is power,yellow is the rpm speed( is only a outbound data connection), and the negative wire. So if u want to swap them over its quite easy just unclip ur red wire from ur silent eagle fan (i find a staple is good enough to use) and insert the one thats connected into the old fan. If there is no connector on the end ull need to buy a new pin (cant post link but u can buy them from a uk watercooling site). Mind u not sure how ur fan controller set up. If u can post me a pic of ur fan controller ill be able to give u a better idea what to do.

but hey if ur not bothered about cutting wires u could just slice them together (i've had to do this a lot my BigNG was a pain in the arse with all the fan wires).
Good choice on fan ver 2 is a little overpriced but its as good as the original silent eagle fan (i have two of them myself). But anyway gratz on ur first build looking pretty damm good. yea white braid looks damm good wait till u do all ur cables and indvidually briading each cable looks even better :D.
 
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I dont have any sort of fan controller at all ION, i was going to get one but i opted to get modular cables instead with the silent eagle fans. Got them running on standard at the moment and the rear fan that is sandwiched to the OEM rear fan is connected to the motherboard.

ION whats the tool called for removing the pins from the molex plugs and power connectors etc?

Thanks man, i worked pretty hard on this and i'm glad its paid off well :'D
 
Aha! This should be fun then lol, i'll practice on the broken psu first then i guess before i go diving into the deep end lol.

BTW! will removing the pins and braiding the wires void my warranty on the corsair?
 
Great job, I've built over a hundred by now probably and the closest I got to cable management still looked messier than yours, I often just CBA with cable management myself too much work and a massive pain in the a to later modify again. Good job though :). I'll probably never make myself work 7 hours (!!) just to make the inside of my pc look a little tidier and the only reason I bought a more expensive than peanuts costing case is for extra space/size and something easier to filter for dust.
 
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crisbduck said:
Extremely nice!
just get a blue graphics card in there and itll be perfect!
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Any suggestions :'P, £250 is my budget.
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Someone else who colour coordinates their parts, yay! :P
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lol thinkin about it now, i wish my motherboard was black!

snowdog said:
Great job, I've built over a hundred by now probably and the closest I got to cable management still looked messier than yours, I often just CBA with cable management myself too much work and a massive pain in the a to later modify again. Good job though :). I'll probably never make myself work 7 hours (!!) just to make the inside of my pc look a little tidier and the only reason I bought a more expensive than peanuts costing case is for extra space/size and something easier to filter for dust.
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Thanks man, thats a nice compliment :'D. I can't stand untidyness inside a case, it makes it easier to clean aswel if there aren't cables hanging everywhere. But like you said though, if you've got a big case messy cables usually dont affect airflow much and cooling efficiency.

I was going to stop when my fingers started to ache but i wanted it done asap so i dont have to think about it tomorrow :') lol, less pain!
 
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