Project Stealthlow

waynio · 6 Sep 2011 at 15:58

Diggsy said:
Work of art

Thank you Diggsy, purely accidental if it seems like art

honestly I've just been on a mission to get good at making cases since my first case but this time had big functionality in mind & wanted it to look good also, I think I achieved this, took me a flipping long time though lol

end of November up until now (life stuff/waiting for bits/materials/remaking bits) but learnt heaps of new fabrication tricks & now have an awesome looking/sounding pc so jobsagooden hehe

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Tealc said:
Sorry to hear about your RGB troubles. I've had no such trouble with either of my generic eBay strips that I bought. Mine don't come with those 4 pin plugs and has a larger and more comprehensive keypad but the control box looks similar. I think Phobya source a lot of different products and stick their name on them.

What does the inside of the control box look like? One of mine seems to oscillate a touch on the slow side so might be opening it to see if I can fix that.

Wish I went for the ones you pointed out mate

was quite a big waste of money on the rgb strips, everything of phobya brand that I've tried has been good except for the rgb strips so the plain single colour led strips from them are fine & far better wired. Inside the control box it's well packed into it & the excess wire helps further to keep it all in place but I had to make a custom one so it would fit where I wanted it to because of it being a pretty tall box for what's inside it.

Anyway I installed just a 30cm white led strip but it was way to bright & I didn't fancy more waiting around for delivery of tinting film so just sleeved it with the mdpc sata sleeve

& now it is perfect, not too bright & not too dim :cool:

I added some white led's to the fan holders also to give the stick bars a little more kick & I believe I can finally call this case completed now :eek:

so just need to do completed photos, could take me a couple of days, the rest of today I'll be tidying & cleaning where I've messed up my room is an absolute mess with modding stuff everywhere

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waynio · 7 Sep 2011 at 22:09

Nice to see ocuk have dropped the limit of how many photos can be shown at once :cool:

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Got to work on a photo finish outside, flipping english weather it started raining so had to rush it into the garage

I have a load of black cloth though from when I did the photo-shoot on air cube so got a board of chipboard & threw the black cloth on it & pegged it up lifting & turning as I went but I started too late in the day as it started getting dark plus I totally forgot about the white foam mounting tape I resorted to using for the rgb strip on the cable side so another photo-shoot is definitely needed with that ugly white foam tape removed

so this is the first photo-shoot of 2 or 3, probably 3 because of me not removing the white tape & 1 of the photo-shoots will be night shots.

On with the show

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This is final photo-shoot 1 of 2 or 3.

So is this good?

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King Damager · 7 Sep 2011 at 22:39

That's bloody amazing! Nice to see it has all come together!

Now get some temp checks running!

kd

Dandaman · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:01

oh my goodnes....that thing is absolutely stunning!

Awesome work

panyan · 8 Sep 2011 at 00:06

the design isnt to my taste, but the quality of the workmanship is just incredible!

randal · 8 Sep 2011 at 00:25

This is totally award worthy, if this doesn't get something at Christmas I'll eat my cat.

Any judge, mod or deciding party reading this with a sick sense of humour who is thinking about not awarding it just to see a grown man eat a cat... please don't

waynio · 8 Sep 2011 at 02:09

King Damager said:
That's bloody amazing! Nice to see it has all come together!

Now get some temp checks running!

kd

Thank you KD already done temp checks & alls good even when the room temp is 32c which is a bit of a rarity here

so now temps are falling back to normal it really handles well which is brilliant considering it's an air cooled virtually silent gaming/media rig

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Dandaman said:
oh my goodnes....that thing is absolutely stunning!

Awesome work

Thank you Dandaman

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panyan said:
the design isnt to my taste, but the quality of the workmanship is just incredible!

Thanks panyan yeah not to everyones taste & wouldn't expect it to be

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randal24 said:
This is totally award worthy, if this doesn't get something at Christmas I'll eat my cat.

Any judge, mod or deciding party reading this with a sick sense of humour who is thinking about not awarding it just to see a grown man eat a cat... please don't

lol Thanks randal24

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Night shots & removed the white foam mounting tape

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Ahhh night shots done

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Specs are.
Corsair AX 850
MSI P67A-GD65 B3 rev
Intel I5-2500K @ 4.5ghz
Prolimatech Megahalems with push pull fans
Enermax T.B.Silence fans all modded
Enermax apollish white led
Nvidia GTX 580
Auzentech prelude x-fi
Corsair force series 3 120GB SSD
DVD optical drive
6 HDD
Temps are nice & noise is almost completely silent, just the 580 I can hear.

Dimensions
393mm deep
235mm wide
769mm high
26KG weight when fully loaded

Still 1 more photo-shoot to come

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beejjacobs · 8 Sep 2011 at 12:11

Can't believe I didn't see this before, just read the whole thing last night and this morning. I'm speechless. Absolutely amazing

waynio · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:28

beejjacobs said:
Can't believe I didn't see this before, just read the whole thing last night and this morning. I'm speechless. Absolutely amazing

Thank you beejjacobs

it's just been featured on casemodblog here :cool:

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Again Thank you to all who commented which helps give a moral boost to keep pushing forward & gave tips, the mod wouldn't have been the same without them so cheers

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gary996 · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:48

Absolutely amazing mate. The dogs danglies

waynio · 9 Sep 2011 at 01:21

gary996 said:
Absolutely amazing mate. The dogs danglies

Cheers Gary, rather than jumping straight into another mod I'm going to start making some components & templates to speed things up for future projects

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Tokin · 9 Sep 2011 at 14:34

Im really surprised,I really didn't think i would like it but what can i say apart from i was very wrong,Great job!

waynio · 9 Sep 2011 at 14:53

Tokin said:
Im really surprised,I really didn't think i would like it but what can i say apart from i was very wrong,Great job!

Thanks Tokin I can appreciate not everyone would like it but it's nice to know it's not only me who likes it

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Temps at 28c ambient, like I said good healthy temps considering how quiet it is, would be interesting to see how cool it runs with good CFM fans inside this

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Now I'll go & do the final photo-shoot

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waynio · 9 Sep 2011 at 20:05

Final shots, my bro says pictures just aren't doing this justice though.

Time for some gaming

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shahpor · 10 Sep 2011 at 13:29

Mate, you do realise it is no long a computer case, right?

It is a work of art.

Although if I might suggest one thing? Perhaps a bit more light for the photos?

There is still enough light to see the awesomeness though.

waynio · 11 Sep 2011 at 04:57

shahpor said:
Mate, you do realise it is no long a computer case, right?

It is a work of art.

Although if I might suggest one thing? Perhaps a bit more light for the photos?

There is still enough light to see the awesomeness though.

Thanks shahpor could do with buying more cloth so I can set up an ok photo booth really (I don't mess with the photos after taking them other than resizing them for smaller file size), they are pretty dark shots for a final photo-shoot, need a cheap version of photoshop really so I could correct the light in them, maybe that's all I need do.

If it's art it wasn't intentional because I'm not an artist, just put a lot of effort into the looks this time so it could try to hold it's head up with some of the best case mods

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Not saying there will be but there might be another photo-shoot & if there is I won't rush the shots & build them up over a week or 2 to get the best ones

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ReU_VOoDOo · 11 Sep 2011 at 05:43

That is a beautiful computer you have there wayino!!!

waynio · 11 Sep 2011 at 11:02

ReU_VOoDOo said:
That is a beautiful computer you have there wayino!!!

Thanks VOoDOo

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Group photo I said I'd do

just it isn't a good photo, there are quite a few things I need to make before starting another project & a small photo booth is 1 of them, tried taking a few more but they were no better than the ones I already posted.

Judgeneo · 11 Sep 2011 at 14:32

Wow, comparing this case to your older ones really highlights the quality of the build. Do you have any off the shelf cases to compare it too?

Great work btw

Tribune · 11 Sep 2011 at 14:54

Just read through the thread. Congratulations. that's an awesome achievement.