Looks very very nice!
I hope to do something like this in the next year.
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Looks very very nice!
I hope to do something like this in the next year.
Well, its been a while! my un-documented stuff is ive added in a second HDD, and changed out my mobo from an abit to a DFI!
Since my last update, iver ordered a new modular PSU (Cossair 750W), new keyboard (razer tarantula) and Murdermod's finest green and blue sleeving, here are my pictures! excuse the quality, my new hardware was taken with a crappy point and shoot camera, and the pictures of the braided cables where taken on a piece of paper without my studio lights, more picture will follow next week when i have my lights, and its in my case!
New hardware!
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_8970.jpg
i wonder....
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_8972.jpg
The personal touch!
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_8973.jpg
the finest heatshrink and braid ive ever used!
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_8974.jpg
24 pins all sleeved indivudually!
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_8984.jpg
the case should be done within 3 weeks, still to do:
new tubing, new compression fittings on the radiator, install PSU, Cable management and acrylic inlays for my side panels as well as Lights!
hope u enjoyed!
colored sleeving looks fantastic...i may have to get some myself from across the "pond" :yepp:
nice job on the 24 pin :D
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Originally Posted by exemay
looking forward to it :up:
@pradaG Thanks, i did my best! it was my first ever sleeving attempt on a 24pin and ATX stuff, i think it went well! And your in luck, i have had some reasonable weather and manged to set my temporary studio up outside! without lights, but i just used the light of the sun!
hope you enjoy!
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_9008.jpg
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_9010.jpg
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_9011.jpg
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_9021.jpg
And my favorite picture!
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_9012.jpg
awesome sleeve job :)
that last picture is a real killer... great!
that i am...looks awesome :D - you have to be happy w/ the end result.Quote:
Originally Posted by exemay
& i noted that you got another PS (a good one too) which will work perfect w/ the hole you cut in the mid plate :yepp:
the only thing that looks like it needs something is where all the conenctions go into the PS...maybe a large (diameter) piece of sleeving & a some shrink (in either color) to cover all of the wires going into the PS gromet (which should help w/ the transition) & keep all the wires hidden. I know this prob will result in you having to take apart the 24 pin again...but just a thought :shrug:
more pics....i need to see this stuff in "the nameless V" ;)
Very nice, exemay. I saw your sleeving pics in another thread, and am quite impressed with the way you combined the green and blue.
To follow up on PradaG's comment, it will help show off your nice sleeving job to put a piece of heatshrink at the entrance to the PSU (but, maybe not needed if you won't see this part in your build). I've found that large heatshrink will go over the 24-pin connector - you just have to wrestle with it, taking it over one end first. If you use a 3:1 heatshrink it will end up snug. I can imagine you would not be excited about removing every pin again!
illadin, prada, shazza, thanks for the kinds words!
@prada yeah, ive not actually tryed the PSU in my case yet, but im 99.9% sure that it will fit in the hole i cut! i just had to go for another cossair PSU, after my 650W has served me and my computer soo well! a and i promise, more pics will follow up of the other stuff in my case after everything is sleeved!
@shazza+prada
What im planning on doing, is once ive sleeved up my SATA stuff, im planning on using some of the heathshrink that will be left over (i hope) and im going to take out 6 pins at a time, and put the shrink over 6 pins at the entrance, so i will still have alternating blue/green even at the entrance of the PSU! im going to check if the SATA stuff shrinks over 6 pins, or wether ill need to do just two SAtA bits of shrink over 12 pins each!
At first i was going to take the case off my PSU and run the sleeve and braid into the housing, but then i saw the warnty void sticker....knowing my luck if i had of taken the casing off, then it would blow up when i plug it in, so yeah, hopefully if i have some bits of the SATA shrink left over ill do more blue/green alternating at the entrance of the PSU!
i dont mind taking out the pins that much with the tool! it makes it sooo god dam easy!!! they slide out like a dream, the only thing i had trouble with was my PCIE pins....they didnt go so well :(
Ive still got to order my acrylic and fans....i cant find anywhere in the UK with either 1450 or 1850 rpm gentle typhoons :confused:
Any ideas of what colour acrylic i can use on my side pannels??
thanks!
Excellent work!
Quoting myself from the other thread:
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Originally Posted by CptDreadFlint
wow, that sleeving looks insane XD
I gather you are based in england.... got any good powder-coating links? :)
Oh, and is that molex tool worth it?
Hey, i dont know where your based, but here are the guys i used:
http://www.fullrangefinishing.co.uk/
15 mins away from me, the guys in there are unbelievably helpful they fitted me while they where extremely busy, the turn around was a week! they do wet spraying aswell!
The molex remover is very very good, as long as you read how to use it(when you order it nills sends you a nice helpful email!) you slip it into the pin and the wires just slip right out, i had a problem on 2 of the PCiE pins, i just pulled a bit harder and they eventually came out! very good buy
thanks! i like it alot
anymore pics?
Loving the work so far
Great job with the sleeving exemay,nice pictures aswell :up:
where are the pics :shrug:....still have not seen the above item placed in its new home :rolleyes:
pics!:D
well, ya see, i was going to dig out that old 650W PSU and place in my nice new Modular 750! but then i thought......im gunna have to move a ton of stuff about in my case to get it in, then put it all back.........then next week when i get my new tubing and a few fittings, take the stuff out, aswell as my motherboard again! and THEN put it in again! so....im affraid you will just have to be patient and wait My friend!!! i promise, i will try and make it worth the wait :p::p::p: .......... im trying to figure out weather or not to take the res-tops off my pumps, and mount the pumps in the HDD bays and put two nice big cylinder res's in my case, but i dont know where or how! any ideas? ive been looking for inspiration!Quote:
Originally Posted by PradaG
Thanks every 1 for the kind words! gives me incentive to progress through the build faster and put pictures up! :yepp:
Right, tonight i was looking at my case thinking how on earth can i fit two multi-option res's in my case??? :confused::confused: then it came to me! i saw a solution a while ago, i just didnt know where! i found the build and realized it was in a tj07 build that id seen, so i got out my calipers, dug up some dimensions and saw if it would all fit!
So, tonight i have orderd:
2 x EK- Multioption 150 Res's
1 x EK-Mosfet DFI UT
1 x EK-NB/SB 5 - Plexi
2 x EK Anti Cyclon Plate
2 x Spare 50mm Reservoir Holders - 50mm (Set of Two)
1 x TFC - 50mm Laing DDC O-Ring - Blue (TFC-BL-ORING)
1 x TFC - 50mm Laing DDC O-Ring - Green (TFC-GR-ORIN)
2 x (UN)Designs Absolute Pump Bracket Rev. 3
2 x Laing DDC Acrylic Pump Top V3 (XSPC)
The UN brackets are so i can put my pumps in the bottom of my case with the radiators
i was also thinking about what else i could add to that beautiful DFI board of mine! i then looked at snipe's amazing permafrost build and saw the Mosfet and NB block..so if your reading this snipe, many thanks you are an inspiration! (i also loved your colour scheme! so im going to flow with a green and blue vibe in my case)
i also got some Feser 3/8-ID 1/2-OD Acid green and UV blue tubing with corresponding colored liquids!......so my build will be a lil more colour co-ordinated! (oh yeah, im planning to run the 3/8 ID 1/2OD stuff without kinky coils, but ill have to see how it goes)
Still to order....some fittings.....but i cant figure out them right now.....my head is in a different place- rather a good weekend:yepp: and i figured that it would be easier to figure the fittings out once i had the res's in my hands!
Anywho, i know prada wont be happy if i dont upload at least one picture! so here, my cables in the Dark under UV! so here ya go :ROTF:
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_9035.jpg
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_9033.jpg
The delivery should all be here tuesday, along with my new shoes! some supra skytops....
:) I was doing the exact same thing last night - i decided on just about the same thing - i'm going to use either the OEM EK mounts or something a little custom. either way...they will be mounted to the rear 5.25 drive bay cover that gets made for my TJQuote:
Originally Posted by exemay
:shakes: that pic will not do...i was looking for something w/ more progress than the above :shakes: :p:
i await some NEW pics :D
Have u got pictures of the mounts you are going to be using to mount you Ek res???? what size are you going for?
Im going for this kind of layout of my res's:
http://www.million-dollar-pc.com/gal...rderbox-03.jpg
Thanks charles h, very inspirational build there!
Im going to put my first res where the SATA cables enter/exit the board and rap them round the res like chales has.....the other res is going to be attached on the rear of the case, above the exhaust fan....you know, next to the PCIE ports.....im going to fit a 90 onto my 4870X2 and have it fill the loop! it will make for a very nice short tubing run!
sorry about the pic!! hehe, you will get some on tuesday when my parts arive :yepp:
i'll let it pass;) t-2 days:DQuote:
Originally Posted by exemay
no pic yet for the mounts..i need to get one of those res's in hand first...more than likely they will be something like those w/ a very minimalist approach
the sleeving is very pretty - i really like the colors, nice job! :up:
Update! at last :yepp:
Thanks rise, im trying my best to make this build aesthetically pleasing as possible
Right, i had to wait till 4 PM today for my packages :( UPS man hates me :shakes:
I got my stuff tho!
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_9065.jpg
Mosfet madness
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_9070.jpg
Northbridge block, but two compression fittings wont fit on the damn thing :( im gunna have to get a barb of something.....whats best for 3/8 tubing??? a 1/2 barb?
http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...0/IMG_9071.jpg
:eek: what on earth is happening to me!! im using a proper backround and eveyrthing for my pictures nower days!, unlike pradaG and his Ghetto studio setup thing :p::p:
Tomorrow will probs see the demise of my current messy setup, which looks pretty awful tbh, if everything goes to plan and nothing un-expected comes up then there should be some pictures of a board with thoes beautiful blocks on!
and maybe i will have figured out how to fit in my pump down the bottom with my PA 120.3's.....currently i cant see a way of doing it :( .......I dont know weather or not to put the pumps directly below the res, or have them down by the radiators and have them draw water from them :shrug:
If i have them below the res's then ill have to fit in like another foot of tubing, but apparently its a bad thing to have the pumps feed from the radiator.....
Anyway, tomorrow when i take my computer apart im gunna order my Green tubing and some 90's!
hope ur happy with the pics prada :p::p:
why not get one of those 120mm mounting brackets for the ddc and mount them on that 120mm fan in the front? Then maybe some 90s from the res into the pump, then pump to radiator, then radiator to your blocks?
like this?
http://www.petrastechshop.com/uzbrf12fanmo.html - or you could even mount them on the sides of your radiators if there's room with 90s and then straight barbs to feed into the radiator.
The second could also be mounted at the back 120mm exhaust fan. This way, you also get air moving over the bottom of the ddcs which get pretty hot.
Also, I'm planning a build with this same case when I get back to school. Could you measure the side to side space between the side panels for me? Like the width of the floor? Planning to throw a gtx480 with sanyo denkis and shrouds down there. :D
i have thought about doing what you said, getting the UN bracket to mount it to my fan, but the thing is i have 2 loops.....where would the second pump go??
If i do put the pump in the loop after the rad then im gunna mount the two pumps side by side on my current UN brackets and have male to male nipples feeding from the radiator into the pump, i think there is just enough room....not entirely sure tho,
but that is only if i decide to put the pumps after the rads....
i can see where your coming from, but i think with that UN bracket u suggested that holds onto a 120mm, it wouldnt give me enough room at the bottom for the rads and pump :(
ill get the measurements for you 2morrow when my case is empty! i should think u can fit that in the bottom....
good luck!
I understand that but from my perspective I would think that bracket gives you extra room to fab your own mounting system - possibly just an L bracket with some of that super strong 3m tape, that would certainly cut down on the height of the thing - and from what I've seen in the earlier pictures - you could push the rads back to accommodate some extra room if necessary?
Edit: I forgot about your sidepanel designs but, seeing as you've moved the other 120mm back into the front of the case, I should think the UN 120mm barcket and a modified L bracket or something to that effect would let you put your XSPC top in front of the rads.
The second pump could be mounted to the exhaust fan by the CPU? I mean if you were going to run from the rad, you could flip the orientation, drill a hole in the middle plate connect to the pump and go from the pump to the CPU directly and it would then become a pretty short loop. There may be enough room to either side of the PS to accommodate this from what I can remember on my case or maybe just in front of the PS - I have no idea how long your PS though.