Shiny - Streacom DA6XL

Mysterae_ · 11 Jan 2024 at 19:37

Very nice build mate, you should be over the moon with the result.

I'm loving these compact open air vertical builds and cases at the moment, hope the trend continues.

Stelly · 12 Jan 2024 at 00:06

absolutely fantastic, looking at upgrading soon... not sure what I'm going to do but this might have inspired me a bit, just not sure when I'm going to start it

Stelly

AlSki · 13 Jan 2024 at 11:51

mercyless said:
Very nice, well done mate, looks fantastic

Thank you.

AlSki · 13 Jan 2024 at 11:53

Mysterae_ said:
Very nice build mate, you should be over the moon with the result.

I am. It's quite a distraction sitting there all shiny.

Mysterae_ said:
I'm loving these compact open air vertical builds and cases at the moment, hope the trend continues.

Me too, while they aren't as tiny as pure SFF, they don't take up much room and use all the free vertical space for something better than just a showbox. Not that I'm changing, but I quite like that new Cooler Master NCore 100 design.

AlSki · 13 Jan 2024 at 11:54

Stelly said:
absolutely fantastic, looking at upgrading soon... not sure what I'm going to do but this might have inspired me a bit, just not sure when I'm going to start it

Stelly

Take your time. While it's not in this log, I've actually learned a lot about what wouldn't work and where I wanted things routed, through about 4 prebuilds.

It started this poorly

Mysterae_ · 13 Jan 2024 at 16:09

AlSki said:
Take your time. While it's not in this log, I've actually learned a lot about what wouldn't work and where I wanted things routed, through about 4 prebuilds.

I agree, it's only by doing something and seeing it for real that'll you'll know if it works.

Jay85 · 17 Jan 2024 at 16:36

Cracking job so far, trying to hide any cabling would have been a nightmare but luckily you've managed to get all the cables to the correct length so should keep that to a minimum.

BeeP · 19 Jan 2024 at 10:24

I love this kind of thing, just so different.

KeizzerSoze · 28 Jan 2024 at 11:31

Looks absolutely incredible mate

Guardsmon · 8 Feb 2024 at 10:37

I always enjoy a build log. Today I learnt I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort if I'd thought to terminate my pump directly into the PSU rather than crimping sata terminals... it's so simple... why has it taken so long to realise.
Great job btw and thanks for sharing.

LePhuronn · 8 Feb 2024 at 23:34

Guardsmon said:
I always enjoy a build log. Today I learnt I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort if I'd thought to terminate my pump directly into the PSU rather than crimping sata terminals... it's so simple... why has it taken so long to realise.
Great job btw and thanks for sharing.

it's hilarious when this realisation hits. I literally stood aghast for about 30 seconds at how I'd missed something so obvious, especially as I have less than zero room for anything in my never-ending project.

Guardsmon · 9 Feb 2024 at 14:50

LePhuronn said:
it's hilarious when this realisation hits. I literally stood aghast for about 30 seconds at how I'd missed something so obvious, especially as I have less than zero room for anything in my never-ending project.

Yup the back of my PC-Q37 doesn't have much room in it with PSU, pump/res, Quadro and for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to put a Aquacomputer filter in as well. It's all been quite a squeeze that a few less SATA connectors would have helped with.