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That heatshrink looks very good 
Project: TJ uh-oh
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I have had to stop working on this for a few weeks but time for an update 
I am going to try and complete this as soon as possible so I can get my rig transferred into it as no computer makes me sad.
First Little update, I have finished rebraiding my 24 pin extension, still got to re do my 8 pin and 2 x 6 pins though. I think you will agree it is much better than the first ones above though still a couple of heat shrinks that aren't perfect.
I knew I wanted the front of my 5.25" HDD cage black so it didn't stand out behind the mesh but I finally decided I wanted the rest white to contrast the black case so painted it up Went down the local car shop for some paint but couldn't find a white I liked as they all seemed to be tinted slightly when I wanted a perfect white. In the end I bought some 'appliance white' paint which gave me the perfect white
I also painted the hdd trays that slot in even though you wont see them
Mr Postman then brought me a nice box but what could it be .....
A nice shiney new horrible hole free motherboard tray
As perfect and beautifully hole free it was it needed to be cut
So out came the dremel and I masacred some holes into for cable management. The bottom right is for my 8 pin, bottom left 24 pin, top left for sata and front panel and top is for my usb headers. Not perfect cuts but I made sure that they are behind the motherboard tray so will only be seen when the back panel is off which once built should be never. I forgot to take a picture before i painted it so here is one of the paint drying Sorry about the quality it was getting dark so bit grainy.
While the paint was drying on the motherboard tray, I got my 480 rad set up in the case. This was just a test run to make the holes in the bottom of the case and make sure the side panel slot tab things didn't foul the fans - hence only 2 fans on the rad.
I also marked up and test fitted the 240 too I think the blue paint for the fans is a good choice too, light enough to contrast well against black but not too light.
Now the rads are mocked up, I can see the challenge ahead of me. How to get tubing to these rads in such a small amount of space.
Not in any particular order, the rest of my to do list:
-Finish painting the motherboard tray
-Rivet it back together
-Find something to raise the rads up about 5mm so the fans are more in the middle of
the mesh. Also gives me access to take them off so I can swap them out for the
akasa vipers once I have them painted.
-Cut up the mesh 5.25" covers for the hdd holder
-Braid my sata cables and rebraid my 8 pin, 2 x 6 pins, fan controller, pump power
-Mount the rads finally with tubing in place
-Work out the mounting position for the pump
-Put the case back together to mark up where I need my bulkhead pass throughs in the
mid plate.
-Find somewhere to mount my ssd as I am going to try to keep my drive bay hdd's as
my 2 x 2 Tb and 1 x 1tb. This is a bit play it be ear though.
-Re work the spacing on the sata power cable and braid it
-Build the rest of the loop in the case
Think that is everything, I will keep you all updated as I cross things off the list
I am going to try and complete this as soon as possible so I can get my rig transferred into it as no computer makes me sad.First Little update, I have finished rebraiding my 24 pin extension, still got to re do my 8 pin and 2 x 6 pins though. I think you will agree it is much better than the first ones above though still a couple of heat shrinks that aren't perfect.
I knew I wanted the front of my 5.25" HDD cage black so it didn't stand out behind the mesh but I finally decided I wanted the rest white to contrast the black case so painted it up
Went down the local car shop for some paint but couldn't find a white I liked as they all seemed to be tinted slightly when I wanted a perfect white. In the end I bought some 'appliance white' paint which gave me the perfect white
I also painted the hdd trays that slot in even though you wont see them
Mr Postman then brought me a nice box but what could it be .....
A nice shiney new horrible hole free motherboard tray
As perfect and beautifully hole free it was it needed to be cut
So out came the dremel and I masacred some holes into for cable management. The bottom right is for my 8 pin, bottom left 24 pin, top left for sata and front panel and top is for my usb headers. Not perfect cuts but I made sure that they are behind the motherboard tray so will only be seen when the back panel is off which once built should be never. I forgot to take a picture before i painted it so here is one of the paint drying Sorry about the quality it was getting dark so bit grainy.
While the paint was drying on the motherboard tray, I got my 480 rad set up in the case. This was just a test run to make the holes in the bottom of the case and make sure the side panel slot tab things didn't foul the fans - hence only 2 fans on the rad.
I also marked up and test fitted the 240 too
I think the blue paint for the fans is a good choice too, light enough to contrast well against black but not too light.
Now the rads are mocked up, I can see the challenge ahead of me. How to get tubing to these rads in such a small amount of space.
Not in any particular order, the rest of my to do list:
-Finish painting the motherboard tray
-Rivet it back together
-Find something to raise the rads up about 5mm so the fans are more in the middle of
the mesh. Also gives me access to take them off so I can swap them out for the
akasa vipers once I have them painted.
-Cut up the mesh 5.25" covers for the hdd holder
-Braid my sata cables and rebraid my 8 pin, 2 x 6 pins, fan controller, pump power
-Mount the rads finally with tubing in place
-Work out the mounting position for the pump
-Put the case back together to mark up where I need my bulkhead pass throughs in the
mid plate.
-Find somewhere to mount my ssd as I am going to try to keep my drive bay hdd's as
my 2 x 2 Tb and 1 x 1tb. This is a bit play it be ear though.
-Re work the spacing on the sata power cable and braid it
-Build the rest of the loop in the case
Think that is everything, I will keep you all updated as I cross things off the list
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Not much left to do then
I've always admired your braiding BTW. Love doing it myself so know how addictive/annoying it can be.
Sort of a love hate thing.
I've always admired your braiding BTW. Love doing it myself so know how addictive/annoying it can be.
Sort of a love hate thing.
Thanks for the comments
Haha no not that much left to do, but then I am on 2 weeks leave so should give me plenty of time to do it all. Hmm my braiding skills are not all that lol. You are right though braiding is horribly annoying and horribly addictive. Since the update I have rebraided the 8 pin and 1 of my 6 pins so nearly done it all.
@ Duesix: I used an XSPC Universal radiator mount You can see it on the first picture of the 480.
Haha no not that much left to do, but then I am on 2 weeks leave so should give me plenty of time to do it all. Hmm my braiding skills are not all that lol. You are right though braiding is horribly annoying and horribly addictive. Since the update I have rebraided the 8 pin and 1 of my 6 pins so nearly done it all.
@ Duesix: I used an XSPC Universal radiator mount
You can see it on the first picture of the 480.
Looking good Greboth, I didn't even try getting rads that thick in mine, I went with the Swiftech range as performance was within a gnats doobrie of the bigger rads but they are a more manageable size.
But as I said I didn't try with thicker rads, looks like you have just enough room there
But as I said I didn't try with thicker rads, looks like you have just enough room there
Biffa: Reading other people's build I saw most people didn't use 2 think rads but I worked it out that they would fit and who doesn't like a challenge haha. Also I couldn't find any slim low fpi rads so I have had to go with thick ones.
Update time again
I have re-braided my 8 pin and one of my 6 pin's but no pictures yet until I find the time to braid the remaining 6 pin.
I am using a solid midplate so the existing bit needed to go as it will be in the way come tubing so begone foul midplate thingy.
I have also finished painting the motherboard tray and got it riveted back together. Even with my horribly cut holes I think it looks better than having the big holes of the now standard one, even with my grubby fingerprints all over it haha.
Annoyingly though, I can't get 2 of the rivets back in as I can't get my rivet gun into the corner Anyone got any tips? It isn't the end of the world though there is still 1 of that line in, 4 on the end and the brackets at the top and bottom so it is secure enough.
I also managed to get my sleeving braided up too. I did them to match but now they are done I love the look of them too. This braiding business it taking over my life
All my sata cables together
As these are the red sata cables posted above, I used electrical tape on them. I couldn't get any blue though so used black under the blue braid and white under the white braid.
Now onto another box of goodies that got delivered earlier today Can you guess what it's there
Opening the box to find green bags of air
Oh wait there is something under that, any more guesses before the big reveal?
Thats right Akasa viper 120mm fans. Well 9 of them to be exact So much fanny goodness (Oh Matron! )
While I love the vipers as fans the yellow really doesn't fit my design so the first one has been masking taped up and given a coat of primer. Just 8 more to go
Update time again
I have re-braided my 8 pin and one of my 6 pin's but no pictures yet until I find the time to braid the remaining 6 pin.
I am using a solid midplate so the existing bit needed to go as it will be in the way come tubing so begone foul midplate thingy.
I have also finished painting the motherboard tray and got it riveted back together. Even with my horribly cut holes I think it looks better than having the big holes of the now standard one, even with my grubby fingerprints all over it haha.
Annoyingly though, I can't get 2 of the rivets back in as I can't get my rivet gun into the corner
Anyone got any tips? It isn't the end of the world though there is still 1 of that line in, 4 on the end and the brackets at the top and bottom so it is secure enough.
I also managed to get my sleeving braided up too. I did them to match but now they are done I love the look of them too. This braiding business it taking over my life
All my sata cables together
As these are the red sata cables posted above, I used electrical tape on them. I couldn't get any blue though so used black under the blue braid and white under the white braid.
Now onto another box of goodies that got delivered earlier today
Can you guess what it's there
Opening the box to find green bags of air
Oh wait there is something under that, any more guesses before the big reveal?
Thats right Akasa viper 120mm fans. Well 9 of them to be exact
So much fanny goodness (Oh Matron! )
While I love the vipers as fans the yellow really doesn't fit my design so the first one has been masking taped up and given a coat of primer. Just 8 more to go
Haha thanks zoomee but there are much better project around than mine.
I have this log on a couple of fourms which I know some of you are on too, one I can't mention because it's a competitor and the other I just can't mention (the first rule of fight club is you're not allowed to talk about fight club - ok that's 1 tv and 2 film references I have made on this forum tonight, I will stop now) Usually I try to keep each one updated to the same level but differently but as my rig is down I am posted this on an old (old old old old) athlon 3200+ with a huge 1gb of ram rig which struggles to cope with a forum and photobucket open so while this is an update (yey!) it is a simple copy paste job from another form (boo!)
Haha well if people haven't heard of them then that could explain the lack of use. Well let me spread the word of the vipers to the family then
Time for my another update
Firstly a proper shot of the fans, I finally managed to get a picture that captures the metallic / flakes that are in the paint in this one. Still haven't found the time to do the others though they can be done one by one once the system is built as I would rather have a built system running yellow fans than blue fans but no rig.
It was then time to take apart the current loop and drain it. By this photo I had taken out everything I could and the loop wad draining away.
I took the oppurtunity while the loop was apart to check over my waterblocks due to EK's nickel plating problems. I didn't think there was any problems with mine but better to be safe than sorry. Checking block over it is all nice and shiney still
This picture doesn't really show much but it is the first piece of tubing going in Feels like I am getting somewhere with it all now.
I worked out where I would need the pass throughs for the midplate, so away I went and cut the holes into the solid midplate I had. Feeling happy about my manly drilling skills I came to install the pass throughs are realised that the standard midplate got in the way. Using my trusted pink pencil I marked where the overlap was
I then preceeded to forget to take a progress picture of the dremeled piece
The next step was to carry on installing the tubing in the bottom for the rads I took out the 480 rad to gain access to the 240 so I could do up the compression fitting at the front of the case.
And tubing in place
The next should have been to put the 480 rad back into the case and screw it to the rad mounts. However while the xspc rad mounts perfectly fit the xspc rad it didn't like being screwed to BlackIce rad. It seemed the problem was that the black ice rad mounting holes are slightly concave so the actual threaded part is too far away for the short screws to reach and properly grip. I knew the fans mounted via M4 screws so quick trip to the local hardware store and I returned with some 18mm M4 screws, while 18mm is short it is waaaaaaaaaaaaay to long for what I needed, so a quick mark up and back to the dremel and ta-da shortened screws.
These were then used to properly attach the 480 rad into place, due to the 240 rad being in the way I can only use three of the 4 mount points but it is enough to hold the rad in place.
Skipped a couple steps here again due to me forgetting to take pictures and it was just me fitting the last piece of tubing.
This should complete all the work I need to do in the lower part of the case but it doesn't, more on that in a minute.
The last picture I want to show you is a simple idea I had for a pump mod. I saw the bitspower pump case which looks beautiful but from everything I read about it you can't fit the ek pump top as well so it ruled out me using it. This left my with an ugly back of the pump showing with a big silver sticker on with pump information. Solution - a strip of black paper wrapped round and selotaped into place. Not particularly fancy but it looks 10x better than standard and blends well with the rest of the case
Now onto the problems of today
Firstly, as all the rads and tubing was in place I thought I might as well fit my PSU into place - wrong! When I worked out whether I could fit my psu and a thick rad in the bottom (which you can) I did not realise due to the uprights at the back of the case move the psu in towards the middle. This means that while my psu does fit in the bottom I can't screw it into place.
There is no particular reason for the psu to be screw into place and as I don't move my pc around there shouldn't be any problems with leaving it loose for now. If the psu vibrates too much though I will either place it on a foam mat to insulate it from the case of make an adapter place to I can screw it to the case.
Problem 2:
As a quick sneak peak for myself I plugged the cables into the my motherboard and put it into place and hit a problem. No pictures though as I don't want to reveal to early the 'completed' rig. The problem is that the holes in the midplate have to be in the middle to fit between the two rads so I mounted the pump as close to the motherbraid tray rail as I could to keep the tubing in the same plane as it would look better. The problem is the pump then sits exactly where my 24 pin wires come round from behind the motherboard tray to plug in. My initial thought was to move it away from the motherboard tray and closer to the drive bays but the it would cover the hole I cut for the sata cables to pass through, so the only solution I have is to move the pump forwards (away from the motherboard tray) so that the 24 pin can sit freely behind the pump. Not the ideal solution but I have no where else to mount the pump. I will take some photo's once it is back in place. This also means that I have to take the midplate out to drill new mounting holes meaning I have to take the fittings off that connect to the underside of the midplate
Problem 3: This is only a minor problem but still a PITA as I didn't see it coming. Due to the case being inverted atx now the cpu is really close to the midplate which means every possible idea I had for fittings from cpu block to midplate don't work. The two solutions to this I have thought of is using a 45 degree fittings with a 45 degree compression fitting on the the end as this extends away from the board and almost inline with the hole for the midplate, downside of this is that it will leave me with only about 25mm of tubing between the fittings which is going to be really really difficult to fit. The other option is use some extensions and a 90 degree fitting as it will almost get it inline with the midplate hole but give me more tubing to play with. Either way I have order bother the extension and 45 fitting so I can see which is best.
Finally, problem 4. My nice braided sata cables don't fit! Being a tight fit with the pump where it is going the hole for the sata cables to go under the midplate had to be close to the drive bays. Turns out it is too close for the straight ended sata cables to curve and go through so I have ordered some sata cables with one end being 90 degrees which will fix this problem. I will have to re-tape the sata cables which is a pain but luckily I should be able to cut of the heat shrink of the current cables and re-use it on the 90 degree sata cables as I don't have enough sata braid to do 5 more.
I have this log on a couple of fourms which I know some of you are on too, one I can't mention because it's a competitor and the other I just can't mention (the first rule of fight club is you're not allowed to talk about fight club - ok that's 1 tv and 2 film references I have made on this forum tonight, I will stop now) Usually I try to keep each one updated to the same level but differently but as my rig is down I am posted this on an old (old old old old) athlon 3200+ with a huge 1gb of ram rig which struggles to cope with a forum and photobucket open so while this is an update (yey!) it is a simple copy paste job from another form (boo!)
Haha well if people haven't heard of them then that could explain the lack of use. Well let me spread the word of the vipers to the family then
Time for my another update
Firstly a proper shot of the fans, I finally managed to get a picture that captures the metallic / flakes that are in the paint in this one. Still haven't found the time to do the others though they can be done one by one once the system is built as I would rather have a built system running yellow fans than blue fans but no rig.
It was then time to take apart the current loop and drain it. By this photo I had taken out everything I could and the loop wad draining away.
I took the oppurtunity while the loop was apart to check over my waterblocks due to EK's nickel plating problems. I didn't think there was any problems with mine but better to be safe than sorry. Checking block over it is all nice and shiney still
This picture doesn't really show much but it is the first piece of tubing going in
Feels like I am getting somewhere with it all now.
I worked out where I would need the pass throughs for the midplate, so away I went and cut the holes into the solid midplate I had. Feeling happy about my manly drilling skills I came to install the pass throughs are realised that the standard midplate got in the way. Using my trusted pink pencil I marked where the overlap was
I then preceeded to forget to take a progress picture of the dremeled piece
The next step was to carry on installing the tubing in the bottom for the rads
I took out the 480 rad to gain access to the 240 so I could do up the compression fitting at the front of the case.
And tubing in place
The next should have been to put the 480 rad back into the case and screw it to the rad mounts. However while the xspc rad mounts perfectly fit the xspc rad it didn't like being screwed to BlackIce rad. It seemed the problem was that the black ice rad mounting holes are slightly concave so the actual threaded part is too far away for the short screws to reach and properly grip. I knew the fans mounted via M4 screws so quick trip to the local hardware store and I returned with some 18mm M4 screws, while 18mm is short it is waaaaaaaaaaaaay to long for what I needed, so a quick mark up and back to the dremel and ta-da shortened screws.
These were then used to properly attach the 480 rad into place, due to the 240 rad being in the way I can only use three of the 4 mount points but it is enough to hold the rad in place.
Skipped a couple steps here again due to me forgetting to take pictures and it was just me fitting the last piece of tubing.
This should complete all the work I need to do in the lower part of the case but it doesn't, more on that in a minute.
The last picture I want to show you is a simple idea I had for a pump mod. I saw the bitspower pump case which looks beautiful but from everything I read about it you can't fit the ek pump top as well so it ruled out me using it. This left my with an ugly back of the pump showing with a big silver sticker on with pump information. Solution - a strip of black paper wrapped round and selotaped into place. Not particularly fancy but it looks 10x better than standard and blends well with the rest of the case
Now onto the problems of today
Firstly, as all the rads and tubing was in place I thought I might as well fit my PSU into place - wrong! When I worked out whether I could fit my psu and a thick rad in the bottom (which you can) I did not realise due to the uprights at the back of the case move the psu in towards the middle. This means that while my psu does fit in the bottom I can't screw it into place.
There is no particular reason for the psu to be screw into place and as I don't move my pc around there shouldn't be any problems with leaving it loose for now. If the psu vibrates too much though I will either place it on a foam mat to insulate it from the case of make an adapter place to I can screw it to the case.
Problem 2:
As a quick sneak peak for myself I plugged the cables into the my motherboard and put it into place and hit a problem. No pictures though as I don't want to reveal to early the 'completed' rig. The problem is that the holes in the midplate have to be in the middle to fit between the two rads so I mounted the pump as close to the motherbraid tray rail as I could to keep the tubing in the same plane as it would look better. The problem is the pump then sits exactly where my 24 pin wires come round from behind the motherboard tray to plug in. My initial thought was to move it away from the motherboard tray and closer to the drive bays but the it would cover the hole I cut for the sata cables to pass through, so the only solution I have is to move the pump forwards (away from the motherboard tray) so that the 24 pin can sit freely behind the pump. Not the ideal solution but I have no where else to mount the pump. I will take some photo's once it is back in place. This also means that I have to take the midplate out to drill new mounting holes meaning I have to take the fittings off that connect to the underside of the midplate
Problem 3: This is only a minor problem but still a PITA as I didn't see it coming. Due to the case being inverted atx now the cpu is really close to the midplate which means every possible idea I had for fittings from cpu block to midplate don't work. The two solutions to this I have thought of is using a 45 degree fittings with a 45 degree compression fitting on the the end as this extends away from the board and almost inline with the hole for the midplate, downside of this is that it will leave me with only about 25mm of tubing between the fittings which is going to be really really difficult to fit. The other option is use some extensions and a 90 degree fitting as it will almost get it inline with the midplate hole but give me more tubing to play with. Either way I have order bother the extension and 45 fitting so I can see which is best.
Finally, problem 4. My nice braided sata cables don't fit!
Being a tight fit with the pump where it is going the hole for the sata cables to go under the midplate had to be close to the drive bays. Turns out it is too close for the straight ended sata cables to curve and go through so I have ordered some sata cables with one end being 90 degrees which will fix this problem. I will have to re-tape the sata cables which is a pain but luckily I should be able to cut of the heat shrink of the current cables and re-use it on the 90 degree sata cables as I don't have enough sata braid to do 5 more.
Right update time again Without going into detail, sometimes come up which cuts a deadline of mine by 4 days so effectively had to bring having this rig running again forward 4 days too. So a bit of a rush job it is now complete....sort of. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the actual build process due to the time constraints.
The problems from above
Problem 1 (PSU) I have left it sitting in the bottom of the case. It isn't perfect but the fan does not appear to be creating any vibrating so it looks like it will be ok.
Problem 2 (Pump fouling 24 pin) As I mused above, the pump has been moved forward. Not perfect as it doesn't create the nice clean lines I was going for but my choice was made long ago for the pump to be in the main section so it was the only solution.
Problem 3 (Running tubing for cpu block) This was sorted in the end with a rotary extender and a 90 degree fitting which means then that it was inline
Problem 4 (SATA cables not fitting) I was going to swap the braid from the straight ended sata to the straight / 90 degree ended ones. However having to do a quick build up was a blessing in disguise as the 90 ended ones wont fit in the blu ray or ssd I only need to go and transfer braid on 3 sata cables.
Front view showing all the drive bays in use and the sorted mesh covers for the hdd rack in the drive bays. Now it is all together with the other drive bays full, they do blend reasonably well I think.
Side shot, as you can see I got the all watercooling up and running. Took about 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 litres of water to fill up though.
For those of you with keen eyes will notice there is still some problems with this picture which is covered in my to do list.
So my list of things to do
- Take off the fans one by one and paint blue
- Take out sata cables and braid them
- Extend my front panel connector, the power/reset/hdd light can reach but only if I don't go behind the motherboard tray and the usb/audio just don't reach at all. The usb and switches/led I know how I am going to do that, the sound one it a bit more tricky though (and I may not actually do it as I so rarely use the front panel jacks)
- Braid the sata power cable - I still need to add a plug to this too for the ssd
- I have a blue led strip which I want to fit but need to order and fit a switch to it also. Depending on how it looks I might fit a second as they are not very long.
- Braid the fan splitter cables you can see tucked at the end of the rads
Once I have got that list of things done then Project TJ uh-oh will be complete. Thank you for the support and advice so far, I will try to get this finished as soon as possible and take some proper pictures of it all.
Without going into detail, sometimes come up which cuts a deadline of mine by 4 days so effectively had to bring having this rig running again forward 4 days too. So a bit of a rush job it is now complete....sort of. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the actual build process due to the time constraints.The problems from above
Problem 1 (PSU) I have left it sitting in the bottom of the case. It isn't perfect but the fan does not appear to be creating any vibrating so it looks like it will be ok.
Problem 2 (Pump fouling 24 pin) As I mused above, the pump has been moved forward. Not perfect as it doesn't create the nice clean lines I was going for but my choice was made long ago for the pump to be in the main section so it was the only solution.
Problem 3 (Running tubing for cpu block) This was sorted in the end with a rotary extender and a 90 degree fitting which means then that it was inline
Problem 4 (SATA cables not fitting) I was going to swap the braid from the straight ended sata to the straight / 90 degree ended ones. However having to do a quick build up was a blessing in disguise as the 90 ended ones wont fit in the blu ray or ssd I only need to go and transfer braid on 3 sata cables.
Front view showing all the drive bays in use and the sorted mesh covers for the hdd rack in the drive bays. Now it is all together with the other drive bays full, they do blend reasonably well I think.
Side shot, as you can see I got the all watercooling up and running. Took about 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 litres of water to fill up though.
For those of you with keen eyes will notice there is still some problems with this picture which is covered in my to do list.
So my list of things to do
- Take off the fans one by one and paint blue
- Take out sata cables and braid them
- Extend my front panel connector, the power/reset/hdd light can reach but only if I don't go behind the motherboard tray and the usb/audio just don't reach at all. The usb and switches/led I know how I am going to do that, the sound one it a bit more tricky though (and I may not actually do it as I so rarely use the front panel jacks)
- Braid the sata power cable - I still need to add a plug to this too for the ssd
- I have a blue led strip which I want to fit but need to order and fit a switch to it also. Depending on how it looks I might fit a second as they are not very long.
- Braid the fan splitter cables you can see tucked at the end of the rads
Once I have got that list of things done then Project TJ uh-oh will be complete. Thank you for the support and advice so far, I will try to get this finished as soon as possible and take some proper pictures of it all.
Soldato
personally, I would just paint one more of the fans, the last one on the right as that looks pretty nice
Have managed to do some very small things on this since that update, being back at work sucks for pc modding lol.
I see where you are coming from but I am working on everything being black white or blue I did think halfway through I should have just used yellow in the colour scheme and then I wouldn't of needed to paint the fans.
I think that many is affecting my flow rates, however I am still using the d5 on 2 so could up it a bit to counteract the restriction but my temps are better than before (shocker lol) so I don't think any restriction is being detrimental.
I see where you are coming from but I am working on everything being black white or blue
I did think halfway through I should have just used yellow in the colour scheme and then I wouldn't of needed to paint the fans.I think that many is affecting my flow rates, however I am still using the d5 on 2 so could up it a bit to counteract the restriction but my temps are better than before (shocker lol) so I don't think any restriction is being detrimental.
Soldato
Black white and blue looks good. I'm using Blue black and Green and some streaks of white 
Excuse me sir, I think you will find that it is an SSD not a HDD lol, it is now in the case. I had it on top because I needed to add another sata power connector to the lead to be able to plug them all in.
lol, it is now in the case. I had it on top because I needed to add another sata power connector to the lead to be able to plug them all in.
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Do you think it would be possible to get a 480 (Large form factor, like XSPC), PSU 240 (Slim form factor though, like Swifty/Black ice) and a pump in the bottom compartment?
Soldato
Sweet rig. Got any more pics of it fully completed? (If you have finished it?)
So much has gone on I haven't had much time to use the pc nevermind finish building to how I want It is actually worse state than those pictures now lol, broke my fan controller so got wires everywhere and found with the side on my motherboard heatsinks were getting too hot for my liking so have the side off and a spare fan sat on the midplate now. Though picked up 2 80mm fans for the back but to cut the holes I need to take it apart again. Also weather is rubbish for painting in so probably sometime in spring I will take it all apart cut the holes, paint the fans and finish it properly, maybe even upgrade gpu too while I am at it.
It is actually worse state than those pictures now lol, broke my fan controller so got wires everywhere and found with the side on my motherboard heatsinks were getting too hot for my liking so have the side off and a spare fan sat on the midplate now. Though picked up 2 80mm fans for the back but to cut the holes I need to take it apart again. Also weather is rubbish for painting in so probably sometime in spring I will take it all apart cut the holes, paint the fans and finish it properly, maybe even upgrade gpu too while I am at it.
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Associate
looks good