Weißgold - Silverstone Sponsored ITX

First of all, a big thanks to Karin at Silverstone and Rich at Overclockers for organising this!

I have some pictures for you!, although all I've had time to do as far is get the parts in the case (just!) and test them. Happy to report they are working a treat :D

First of all, some boxes:

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They are all so small! The power supply box is stupendously small, when I first saw it I wondered how the hell they got a 600w PSU in there...

Anyway, at this point, I sort of forgot to do the "meet and greet" with the parts and had to put them together like an excited child. :p

After MUCH cramming, it all went in. Somehow.

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Here's it opened up. I haven't spent any time organising it, this was just to check everything works.

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It NEEDS a mention of hard it was to get that 770 in... had to be the first thing in, and had to go in on the other side IO end first, backplate facing the floor of the case. Then be twisted round above the motherboard, and finally coerced into place. :p

Lovely 600w PSU... IMO the star of the show here, solely for it being the absolute best SFX PSU about as far as I know :)

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Semi-passive, gold rated, midget, modular... You get the idea :)

Here's a few pics showing the rest of the internals; the TD03, being such a thick rad, takes up SO much room!! I like it though, and it feels solid as anything.

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The SSDs are ghetto mounted for now :p

Another top shot.

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Showing the radiator from the inside; it really does dominate the case.

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The other side; where I've shoved the currently unsleeved cables and SSDs.

My plans are obviously to sleeve the cables, with the colours I've put before. I'll have to think long and hard about management; James at Pexon can make them to custom length as he makes Silverstone cables from scratch, so that will help no end. The only real places I can see to practically route the cables are above the rad (for PCI-e) and below the rad (for... well, everything else :p)

Also the window; not giving any details on this yet, but this will be the highlight I tell you now :D

Then there's the painting of the interior/rear, the repainting of pretty much everything :p (the backplate is poorly finished and scratched, the IO shield is scratched, etc.), and the consideration of where I'll be putting this black/gold pattern.

Until next time. :D
 
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Nice nice nice. Looks so similar to my SG05 with the Titan in it. Good that you didn't have to cut the case to get your 770 in though - chopping the hole for the Titan meant I lost a clip for the fan dust filter.

The ghetto SSD made me chuckle, but if you look around there's actually a number of places you can squeeze in a 2.5" drive (but wiring it all up would be a pain).

I never got round to doing custom cables for my ST45SF-G but I'm mindful of the capacitor I have on my 24pin.

Little suggestion for you, and this is what I did on mine: flip the PSU so the intake fan is pointing outside the case. It does make things a touch louder when the fan kicks in, but it leaves you a perfect blank space to mount an SSD under the PSU. I got one of those Akasa dual 2.5" mounts and literally stuck it to the PSU - perfect fit - and just used ultra short SATA cables.

Best of luck painting the inside, you can only get away with a couple of very thin coats before it becomes tricky to put the lid back on.
 
LePhuronn said:
Nice nice nice. Looks so similar to my SG05 with the Titan in it. Good that you didn't have to cut the case to get your 770 in though - chopping the hole for the Titan meant I lost a clip for the fan dust filter.

The ghetto SSD made me chuckle, but if you look around there's actually a number of places you can squeeze in a 2.5" drive (but wiring it all up would be a pain).

I never got round to doing custom cables for my ST45SF-G but I'm mindful of the capacitor I have on my 24pin.

Little suggestion for you, and this is what I did on mine: flip the PSU so the intake fan is pointing outside the case. It does make things a touch louder when the fan kicks in, but it leaves you a perfect blank space to mount an SSD under the PSU. I got one of those Akasa dual 2.5" mounts and literally stuck it to the PSU - perfect fit - and just used ultra short SATA cables.

Best of luck painting the inside, you can only get away with a couple of very thin coats before it becomes tricky to put the lid back on.
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Thanks for the comments, much appreciated! :)

I was considering flipping the PSU over anyway as then, a short 24 pin cable wouldn't have to twist to reach the motherboard (if that makes any sense). I even have one of those adapters so I'll try mounting it tonight :D

What do you use, just some super strong glue?

As for painting the inside, I might just mask off the bits that contact the side panel and leave them as is. They would look worse all scratched up.
 
Once I'd crammed everything into mine, I couldn't see any of the inside so it was a bit of a wasted effort to paint if I'm honest, but I guess I knew it was there so I had to do it. In hindsight I should've (as you've said) masked off any bits where the case parts touch and then just painted the inside of the lid - none of the other interior shows. So really all I needed to do was the rear exterior and the I/O shield.

As for the Akasa adapter, it came out at no more than 300 grams with an SSD and HDD in it, so I used a No More Nails adhesive pad and sliced up into 4 and stuck to the corner edges - more than enough support ( i actually positioned mine slightly wrong but it's such a strong bond I can't shift it to re-position :P) and easy to slice off with a sharp blade.

Also, the pads are about 4mm thick so it gives the perfect space between caddy and PSU to accommodate the slight lip under the PSU on the back wall of the case - I was originally looking at needing a spacer of some kind to create that gap, but the pads do it fine on their own.
 
LePhuronn said:
Once I'd crammed everything into mine, I couldn't see any of the inside so it was a bit of a wasted effort to paint if I'm honest, but I guess I knew it was there so I had to do it. In hindsight I should've (as you've said) masked off any bits where the case parts touch and then just painted the inside of the lid - none of the other interior shows. So really all I needed to do was the rear exterior and the I/O shield.

As for the Akasa adapter, it came out at no more than 300 grams with an SSD and HDD in it, so I used a No More Nails adhesive pad and sliced up into 4 and stuck to the corner edges - more than enough support ( i actually positioned mine slightly wrong but it's such a strong bond I can't shift it to re-position :P) and easy to slice off with a sharp blade.

Also, the pads are about 4mm thick so it gives the perfect space between caddy and PSU to accommodate the slight lip under the PSU on the back wall of the case - I was originally looking at needing a spacer of some kind to create that gap, but the pads do it fine on their own.
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I've flipped the PSU over - but couldn't find any appropriate adhesive :p

I took a few pics with it out, to better show the block and internals. Left the wires in.

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Also sorted out the tubing a bit...

That's what this is for!

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One done!

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And finished!

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While I think this looks pretty good, I need to redo it as the tubing doesn't quite fit. I also currently have just taken it off as it makes them way thicker and inflexible, and hard to fit the PSU etc.
 
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ooooo what could it be :)

Be here in two to three weeks though :(
 
not a knock on you personally but in general every painted motherboard ive seen including davido labidos h2orange just looks like someones threw talc over it. i think the boards look so much better without paint. if i couldnt match the finish of the inside of the case i wouldnt do anything with it, but everyone has different opinions on what looks good to them. so if youre happy with the result thats all that matters.
 
Damo667 said:
not a knock on you personally but in general every painted motherboard ive seen including davido labidos h2orange just looks like someones threw talc over it. i think the boards look so much better without paint. if i couldnt match the finish of the inside of the case i wouldnt do anything with it, but everyone has different opinions on what looks good to them. so if youre happy with the result thats all that matters.
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I don't quite know if it's user error (not enough coats) or whether that plastidip is just crap but every board I've seen looks awful and should have been left alone.

It's certainly not making me want to use it.
 
I could remove it without too much effort, but I think it really does need to be white...

Ideally I'd make a cover of sorts (like a Sabertooth) but I don't have the facilities to do so, combined with how awkward it would be to leave ports for fans etc. I'd have to pay someone else to cut me some metal or acrylic.

Maybe I could do it but it would be difficult.
 
ALXAndy said:
I don't quite know if it's user error (not enough coats) or whether that plastidip is just crap but every board I've seen looks awful and should have been left alone.

It's certainly not making me want to use it.
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Damo667 said:
not a knock on you personally but in general every painted motherboard ive seen including davido labidos h2orange just looks like someones threw talc over it. i think the boards look so much better without paint. if i couldnt match the finish of the inside of the case i wouldnt do anything with it, but everyone has different opinions on what looks good to them. so if youre happy with the result thats all that matters.
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This seems to be the general concensus, so I've decided I'll be removing it.

If possible I'll be making a cover of sorts, or perhaps actually using a sheet of cut vinyl and coating it like that would be better. I would leave the PCB components such as caps and chips uncovered if I went this route.

Also, I've got some adhesive to properly mount the SSDs so I'll be doing this once back home.
 
I think you've made the right decision. To be honest though with all the components in place and the lid on you're not going to see much of the motherboard anyway, so for cooling and airflow purposes I'd not put a cover on the mobo because it's cramped in there.

If I look into my SG05 from any vent I can see the Titan, the PSU with the SSD caddy slung underneath, the pump for the H60, the RAM and that's about it - mobo totally obscured.
 
LePhuronn said:
I think you've made the right decision. To be honest though with all the components in place and the lid on you're not going to see much of the motherboard anyway, so for cooling and airflow purposes I'd not put a cover on the mobo because it's cramped in there.

If I look into my SG05 from any vent I can see the Titan, the PSU with the SSD caddy slung underneath, the pump for the H60, the RAM and that's about it - mobo totally obscured.
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It's true but I'll know it's there, horribly the wrong colour :(

Although, perhaps a bit of contrast wont be so bad.

Next week I'll get going on this more, have been waiting on that order and still am. Will sort the board, repaint some stuff and paint new stuff, and sort the drive mounting.
 
Right, kick me into gear!

I haven't been painting yet as my paint station (old table outside) is being rained on :( , and unbelievably, I lost the damn adhesive tape!!

Got some more coming though...
 
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