Back from the dead (well nearly so). I had some nasty medical issues to take care of and now currently recovering from a surgery. This combined with the custom parts from Caselabs and the whole review website taking off pretty well resulted in this massive delay.
But here we are. Caselabs worked on this for a while, and I finally have a TX10 HPTX to XL-ATX conversion kit (which incidentally is now available for retail purchase also!):
Each kit comes with an XL-ATX motherboard tray, a backplate for the motherboard tray and the new divider section for the case itself. The reason I went for this is because the TX10 comes standard (well used to till now anyway) with HPTX which is more or less dead in the enthusiast segment now:
Having even an E-ATX board such as the RVE on it looked out of place:
Now with this on, and re-using the back section:
Ah much better. A few hours on the case and everything was in:
Of course it had to be done for both sides:
There were a few hiccups such as the ATX motherboard mounting holes being slightly offset for some reason but we worked through it, and Caselabs was amazing as always. New trays came in which were perfect.
Now with that taken care of, I had a few items come along which weren't for review:
This is a red plexi top for the EK Supremacy Evo, and they were good enough to send the badge separately. My original plan was to go replace the top on the standard plexi top version:
to the red plexi top:
I will have to see how this looks with something like a white pastel coolant through it, but as is it clashes a bit with the lighter colors on the motherboard. To further complicate things, I got this:
That nickel finish isn't exactly like how it is on the Corsair Dom Plats, but it gets close as you can see here:
Along with the red plexi top was this:
A strange no-name box? What could be inside?
Ah so it is a D5 pump top in their CSQ style. Or is it?
Now we are talking! I also got this:
But let's save that for the next update. Don't want to get ahead of myself again
