Project: World of Warships

Holy **** Colin, you had a busy day yesterday! Case looks great, especially like the port/starboard lighting concept along the top of the case.

That anchor though, that is a serious piece of work!
 
Brian18741 said:
Can't wait to see how the anchor turns out, enjoy the filing! Also, nice kitchen! ;)
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Haha thanks for the kitchen comment, been renovating this place since last year, pretty much the reason I am so behind with my modding !
Yeah the damn aluminum keeps blocking my files up so its a slog and I don't have a proper file brush, just using a wire brush.

Luggs said:
Holy **** Colin, you had a busy day yesterday! Case looks great, especially like the port/starboard lighting concept along the top of the case.

That anchor though, that is a serious piece of work!
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You wouldn't believe the hours to get to that point, I had to go buy a proper bench vice and my Stanley hobby one just couldn't grip the anchor properly. I also had to buy a Engineers triangle + half-round + 2nd cut files, I really could have done with a smallish square file but I got by. I'm off to source some led strips for the top after I finish typing this. I was trying to get Avexir to supply me with red+green ddr4 for the port/stbd look inside but I think it'll be too much. I think blue would be better.

My other dilemma atm is the camo, I have two samples but tbh they look crap on the outside of the case. The case is just too nice in gunmetal to spoil it with vinyl....hmm

If I have time today I might try getting the parts I have running to make sure they are all working. Thanks for following :D

UPDATE: LED Strips ordered from Icemodz as need custom length of 40cm. I removed the top panel and discovered the mesh for the vents is actually glued in place, I did think to remove it for painting red+green but I'll see how it looks once the leds arrive.

Testing the hardware, all working as far as I can see. Just using these 970's for testing btw ;)

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Yeah, I did wonder if the external modding of the case may become an issue, when something looks as good as the evolve, i don't know if i'd want to do anything to it (but then again, i don't have the skills to pull it off lol)

I dont know about the wrap either, especially without seeing it, but if you could replicate something like the above, imho i think that would work really well. How do you build up a camo pattern? mask off diff areas and build up the layers of paint? Then I guess you'd want to 'weather' it a little?
 
colinmcr said:
Just using these 970's for testing btw ;)
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Yeah, just a couple of £300 gpu's that were laying around lol ;)

glad to hear all components are up and running and look forward to more updates. Agree with you on the ram colour too btw. Thanks for the updates & good luck!
 
Luggs said:
Yeah, just a couple of £300 gpu's that were laying around lol ;)

glad to hear all components are up and running and look forward to more updates. Agree with you on the ram colour too btw. Thanks for the updates & good luck!
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Sounds bad when I say it like that (frivolous even), considering i have 2 780ti's sat in Midas also. Well my spending days are gonna be over for a while. This will be my last one for a long time I think because I'll probably be out of a job in the new year. I usually donate my old stuff to family and friends, but for some reason I've been hanging onto it all lately. Maybe MM will get a look in.
 
colinmcr said:
Sounds bad when I say it like that (frivolous even), considering i have 2 780ti's sat in Midas also. Well my spending days are gonna be over for a while. This will be my last one for a long time I think because I'll probably be out of a job in the new year. I usually donate my old stuff to family and friends, but for some reason I've been hanging onto it all lately. Maybe MM will get a look in.
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I was only joking mate (and a little jealous!)

Sorry to hear about the work situation, fingers crossed something will change / come up before that happens! If it comes to it, i'll try to get my 1k posts for access to MM ;)
 
So started the chamfering of the anchor...OMG I must be mad ! I ended up going an buying some cutting bits for my Dremel as I've seriously worn out my arms !! But even with the Dremel helping to remove material its all painfully slow. Here is progress from today...

Needs a lot of touching up once I've got the rough shape sorted ;)

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I really must stop going on project logs because I just end up wanting to buy things, loving that case and mobo also cracking job so far on the anchor.
 
Hukkel said:
Good work Colin!

I guess no front reservoir then :D
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Ah Tim I got some pics to upload, but there isn't much room (well that's the way I feel) I've been totally spoiled by the Primo. I can't even picture mounting a res that we discussed. However I could do something else instead...I'll pm you. Let me go upload some pics of the test build I've done just to see how it all "works".

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Ok some pics of my test build, wanted to get a feel for it.

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johnnyrotten665 said:
subbed, looks like its going to be awesome.
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Thanks for looking I really like your build, if I'd gone Skylake that Hero board would be great.

Just to let you know guys unfortunately I'm back abroad again :( So no updates for a wee while. More bad news is my company just had another contract terminated early so things aren't looking good at all.

With this in mind and with heavy heart I've decided I can't spend any more money on this project for the foreseeable future, this basically means there will be no water cooling added for now.

I've just informed Tim over at Diamond Cooling and he's such a great guy and understands the situation, thanks mate you've been a great advisor to me and taking time to answer all my questions etc.

I will continue doing what I can and also take time to finish Midas.

I'm so sorry about this guys but its the way it has to be for now, I'll gladly update you all as time goes on it just won't be quite what I envisaged for now. Maybe if my employment situation is more certain then Plan A will be back on the cards.
 
how do you find the performance of Team Vulcan memory kit? Have you tried overclocking CPU with it using XMP profile @ 3000mhz? Interested to know how it performs.
 
faheemrazzaq said:
how do you find the performance of Team Vulcan memory kit? Have you tried overclocking CPU with it using XMP profile @ 3000mhz? Interested to know how it performs.
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I haven't tried an OC yet I'm afraid, I just put it in enabled xmp and had cpu on turbo of 3.7Ghz. But if you can wait a few weeks I'll do some when I get back to UK.
 
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