Project: SpeLL7

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[LogAn'sRun]

Sweet! I love a thread with good pics! This one looks like it'll be killer, I'll stay informed. 20 month old? Talk to me about it, my boy is 18mos and I have no time for modding (hence the 7mo old thread LOL). Let's see what the new pappa's can do!

BTW TV Party Tonight :up:

[OdinEidolon]

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[Kibbler]

Everything looks awesome except that Enzotech sink won't fit your Rampage southbridge. Holes don't line up :(

I like the EK northbridge, great to see comp fittings fit I might have to get one myself!

[CCC]

Everything looks awesome except that Enzotech sink won't fit your Rampage southbridge. Holes don't line up :(

I like the EK northbridge, great to see comp fittings fit I might have to get one myself!

i have that enzotech sink on my rampage formula and it works fine, you just have to angle the push pins in a little but works fine

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[Pellepel]

Nice hardware, looking forward to it :)

[BlueAqua]

Good pictures, good parts. This is going to be one hell of a modding project, one to watch.

[Eddie3dfx]

Oh wow, this is going to look good

[dho]

Recipe looks awesome so far. Great pics - love the compression fitting "BF" :ROTF:

One thing I'd mention is that it's worth checking running temps on the southbridge with that enzotech cooler before you get everything else mounted. In my last build I found that I needed active cooling after mounting everything. It was a pain in the rear to swap for the active-cooling model (Enzotech SLF-1) - wish I'd tested that out first! Of course your SB might just run cooler or if you have another fan blowing near it, it'll be fine, but it's worth checking.

Keep the build going.. :up:

[MomijiTMO]

YAY another build log. We got kinda stagnate for a bit so it's good to see the new projects this week.

[BNDMOD]

suscribed!! i want to see this

[darkorb]

subscribed!! lookin good!

[twwen2]

Excellent, this is gonna be good! Awesome hardware, awesome pics, can't ask for much more now can we? :up:

This has gotta be one of my fav cases ever, so versatile. Looks even better with a horizontal mobo tray.:cool:

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[Extigy]

nice build mate, looking foward to seeing how your horizontal mounting turns out. Reading your pm (bit of a forum noob :P took me a while to figure it out) i unfortunately do not have the CAD file for my backplate. It's easy enough to work out though. Measure the mobo backplate cutout and the hole locations, and draw it out. If you need a cad program, google sketchup will do! just make sure the laser cutters / machine shop accepts the format.

FYI, if you attatch the mobo to the drive bay columns like virtual rain or me, it is sturdy enough to not need supports. Also, when cutting out the existing back panel and metal work, i would reccomend using a nibbler or dremel as a hacksaw or jigsaw can catch the aluminium and buckle the case (see my build log).

Any other questions let me know.

[mpower1001]

Nice choice of hardware :up:

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[Razor_Blade]

Recipe looks awesome so far. Great pics - love the compression fitting "BF" :ROTF:

One thing I'd mention is that it's worth checking running temps on the southbridge with that enzotech cooler before you get everything else mounted. In my last build I found that I needed active cooling after mounting everything. It was a pain in the rear to swap for the active-cooling model (Enzotech SLF-1) - wish I'd tested that out first! Of course your SB might just run cooler or if you have another fan blowing near it, it'll be fine, but it's worth checking.

Keep the build going.. :up:

This is only an issue with nShidia SB chips. My x38 SB is so cool. It just isnt fair...

[.Logic]

Nice pictures :up:

'tis good to see another 343 build around and I cannot wait to see what you have in store for us :)

[Rise]

are you going to be painting the aluminum? it looks like you might be set for a black-out build... lookin good man, can't wait to see the finished product!

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[Lagaaja]

That ram cooler is super sweet!

[Kibbler]

http://www.fury-pc.com/blackflag/fanmod2.jpg
Does this have standard 5.75" mounting holes (like your typical optical drive), or holes specific to LiLi cases?

[Extigy]

Lian Li drive bays are slightly oversized. they might fit standard bays, but will be very tight,

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

you really should check the triple rad mount you've drawn with the spec sheet from HWlabs, in my experience with swiftech rads the ACryan radgrillz are not correctly drilled to the right spacing and sometimes need heavy modding to fit the rad hole spacing to the radgrill spacing

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[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Yeah, I thought about that. It should be okay. In the past I've used BIX rads and AC Ryan grills with good success. If anything all it would require is an enlarged hole on the grill.

i have a feeling HWlabs is a bit more stringent in the QC and accurate to their manufacturing standards than swiftech, Ive had swiftech mcr320's that don't actually lie flat against the case and one of the 220's i had had such messed up fan spacing that it didn't even fit a standard 120mm fan with the screws straight

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[affiliate13]

Sub'd. Love everything youve done with this so far. :up:

[elite.ire]

love what you did with the dominator ram cooler :D

[zlojack]

Great job on this. Looking forward to more updates!

I use black/red lighting on mine and I think I might have to borrow your Dominator AirFlow design...it looks great!

[Eddie3dfx]

Lian Li drive bays are slightly oversized. they might fit standard bays, but will be very tight,

This explains why the alphacool bay resevoirs don't fully cover the hole.
Interesting.

[Racerman]

More pics , dude!! Love your work!!
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[Zw_Roodbaard]

Nice work man :) I've subscribed since you modded your ram cooler.

Hoping to see some new pics soon :up:

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[bianco]

that is an awesome window!
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[sniperbob]

this looks great! nice work on the fan controller mod. I never thought of doing something like that...

[MomijiTMO]

Lol can't you just take off the knobs on the Zalman faceplate and then mount it oh your LiLi face plate? Well that is what I did with my Rheobus but I guess it might be different.

I also gently bent back the LEDs because I don't like headlights in my room.

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[MomijiTMO]

Ahh I see.

What are you going to do next?

[philbrown23]

wow man, what camera do you use?

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[SNiiPE_DoGG]

looking very good man, I think the reason I never saw that first update was XS being screwy and removing things from my subscribed list and not marking new posts :doh:

What sized heatshrink did you use over the 1/8" non fray sleeve, I have a 100' spool of it and the 1/8" glue lined heatshrink doesn't fit over :(

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[zlojack]

It looks good man.

I'm getting ready to start the "sleeving everything" stage myself.

I like what you did with the 24-pin cable :D

[Dangals]

great job on the sleeving and the build! Looks awesome :up:

Looking forward to more pics :yepp:

[BlueAqua]

Very nice sleeving job. I really like the two colors on the 24 pin, great idea. Where did you find the 3:1 heat shrink? I'm having problems finding some quality stuff.

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[SNiiPE_DoGG]

also buyheatshrink.com is a very good source for many types of sleeving and heatshrink

[illidan]

great build!!

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[zlojack]

Nice work! :up:

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[zlojack]

Nice sleeving on the SATA cables.

I'm dreading that moment...

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[dopestuff]

great stuff man :up:

[pcaddict]

I like those black memory coolers!

[j.almonte]

Good job, keep it coming...

[emoners]

wow mixing up the cable sleeves is interesting & very unique! :up:

[skinnee]

How the crap did I miss this build log!!!

Excellent work, nice photos of the steps too. Also, nice touch with the one wire being sleeved in a different color, very nice and something you don't see often. It really helps add an accent color as well.

I'll be watching for future updates! :up:

[anubis_is_evil]

really love that Q9550 ES :D

hard to find that...

nice work, keep it going, wanna see more, more and more :D

[Extigy]

Very nice build mate. I admire your patience for sleeving. I never realised there was non fray braiding, would of made sleeving my stuff SOOO much easier! I also feel your pain with the dremel, they are utter crap nower days. I brought a 2nd hand air powered nibbler off ebay and that rips through sheets of metal very accurately and leaves few burrs.

I must admit, like you said, the 343b is actually very small in the horizontal configuration!

One question: what size wire did you use for splicing/extending your wires?

Nice job, keep it up!

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[skinnee]

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Its probably in the mailbox, it was in St. Paul on Saturday.

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[sniperbob]

did u ever consider maybe getting your L-shaped cable duct tig welded together. Depending on the look you are going for it would provide a very smooth surface after grinding and polishing. It could then get powdercoated and would appear to be a one-piece unit. Just a suggestion...

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[Extigy]

those case feet, you need to drill new holes to mount them or do some holes from the old casters line up?

nice cable management though! very smart.

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[breathemetal]

Nice work!

[skinnee]

I've had some 3 into 1 or 4 into 1 solder jobs go smooth and some just turn out awful. I think it has to do with a waxing or waining moon personally.

However...we need more pics!!!

[exe163]

Where do you take picture with white background? And very nice sleeving job so far.

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[shazza]

Anyway, in case anyone still cares...

I care!!! Really enjoying your attention to detail. Eager to see more pics.

[exe163]

Nice, do you mind take couple shots of the light box, I would really want to get an idea of how to build one if it's not too diffricult :p:.

[twwen2]

Looking great!
Everytime i see a horizontal 343 i wish i could do it myself, it's gotta be my fav case in the best layout.:yepp:

Keep it up!

[inCore]

The mockup looks great, can't wait to see the finished product.

exe163, if you have a white bathtub, you can use that. I'm not a good photographer but the picture in my avatar was taken in my bathtub and it looks like any other photo studio. :p:

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[armeniandave]

The build is looking good. I like the way you used my bracket to mount the pump to the aluminum. When your all finished I want a pic for website. I like the idea of using the aluminum channel to hide the wires, it's definitely something I would consider when I go to a bigger case. I'm surprised more people haven't done that, but I'm sure once they see your build log they will.
Also I have that power supply and it is awesome. You wouldn't believe how much stuff I have running on it without any problem.

[exe163]

Thanks for the quick tutorial:up:! Your shot looks very professional, I love the shadows!

Keep updating it, really want to see how it turn out.

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[Oli4v]

UBER work !

keep it up ;) :up:

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[darkorb]

lookin good

[exe163]

Moar moar moar!

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[MomijiTMO]

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I'd rather not have to go to Bit-Tech to check up on this awesome build XD.

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[MomijiTMO]

Yay. [the only reason I don't want to go to the Bit Tech forums is because I'll spend like an hour going through all the logs on the first page. . . .. ]

Good luck with the wiring!

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[skinnee]

This didn't show up in my UserCP as subscribed threads until now... :(

How many connectors are in that one SATA cable?

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[skinnee]

That must be a special connector on the end towards the camera then...got it. :up:

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[emoners]

Yeah, it's a multilane breakout cable... one connector splits into 4 SATA cables. Makes cable management a lot easier with big RAID arrays.:D

wow nice find on the cable! :up: & great sleeving job...i always find it hard to sleeve SATA cables...maybe i just i couldn't find the right shrink tubes in my area. :(

[N3it1]

I still havent figured it out how to sleeve those sneaky bastards. Thats impressive sleeving right there!

[Salad Fingers]

Yeah, it's a multilane breakout cable... one connector splits into 4 SATA cables. Makes cable management a lot easier with big RAID arrays.:D

I find these cables to be completely phucked.
Because your drives are going to be different distances from the raid card, you will have lots of slack that you can't really do anything with, pic:

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj121/Player1_WP/Random/Cable.jpg

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

just zip tie the cables together at the top hard drive split wire, that should solve any length issues

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[twwen2]

It's coming together really nicely mate. :)

Keep at it, this will be worth it when ur all done!

[MomijiTMO]

Amazing as always :up:

[trust7]

I have always found that the raid cable issue is best solved by putting the slack between the two drives you cant see the sides of the drives anyhow and it makes the cable one long nice neat cable all the way up to the drives, if you dont know what I'm talking about let me know and ill draw something.

nice to meet you all by the way I read ALOT but dont ever post been a pro modder for a long time just dont openly discuss my builds.


Chris

[trust7]

Excellent work BF, also as a jibe, what do YOU know about some black flag mang!


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[SAE]

Hey, amazing build so far. *subscribed*

BTW, hope you don't mind, but I found the idea of soldering triple rad fans to one wire so exciting - I kind of stole it from you. :D
Makes things much easier as my 3/4" tubing was nearly too much for those pre-drilled Lan Li tubing holes. 2 sleeved wires are better than four (that also have to fit hat holes), I would say. ;)

[skinnee]

looking good.

I like the tape on the bottom, with the reminder note. I get a chuckle everytime I see it, but I'm guilty of the same habits.

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[SGwillis]

the PC-343B is on my list of cases to use next, a lot of room to have plenty of WC in there and still have room inside

[trust7]

A> pics/links etc I have been building before there were blogs/worklogs beleive it or not, back from the dawg/mashi, etc days 1997+ pics etc reside on hard drives and you can oh so often find pics and things of my stuff in the first case mod competitions ever held one of my builds won first in the very first one :) yellow, B> I am of the age that I know and have listened to bf for a long time actually, I was running around dj'ing in the 80s/90s with some of the stuff from them, met them a couple times also during sessions of remixing. as a side note not to crap but if you get a chance look for this CD/Album you might like it:

1989 - WELCOME TO THE TECHNODROME

CD/LP ZYX 20141 GE

Robotiko Rejekto - Umsturz Jetzt (Razormaid! Mix)
Cetu Javu - Situations (Razormaid! Mix)
Pluuto - Isn't It Crazy (Razormaid! Mix)
The Invisible Limit - Push
Axodry - You (Razormaid! Mix)
Tribantura - Lack Of Sense (Razormaid! Mix)
Robotiko Rejekto - Rejekto!
Bigod 20 - America
Bigod 20 - Acid To Body
Technodrome Megamix
Bigod 20 - Body To Body (Razormaid! Mix)
Vomito Negro - Feel The Heat
Typis Belgis - Aimless

[SAE]

SAE: Be my guest, glad that the 3-->1 works for you. It made a ton of sense for me to do it that way.

Yeah, far cleaner look + just one 3pin molex to reduce the voltages for all 3 fans. :up:

[exe163]

More updates please :).

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[armeniandave]

I'm following you man!
I'm sorry to hear of all your woes over the last month.
Personal life is more important than computers.
When your ready to hit it again well all be here checking
your build out.

[Hennels]

Wow, this is looking A+. I am hoping to do something similar in the next school holidays.

Although not as quite a high budget as you.

[skinnee]

I can't wait to see this one start coming together!!!

Sorry to hear about the bumps in the road for you, hopefully everything with your Father in Law has a happy conclusion!

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[NysoO]

Very neat, very neat indeed :)

[Eddie3dfx]

Very nice idea, but aren't you concerned about the water going through aluminum? (What I did was used bitspower fillports from level to level)

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[Snyxxx]

I am for the first time looking at your thread. All i can say is great work and thanks for taking the time to post all the pictures.

I like how you made a custom back panel out of aluminum.

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