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With what screws you bolted on rad grill on sidewall?
Speaking about front, imho it would be lovely to see single piece cut out for everything (aquaero/reservoir/slot for cdrom) - like in some murdermod TJ07s. Preferably of same finish as rest of case / door of hotswap disk bay of course.
+1 ^
1 piece front would look the best , in carbon, of course :up:
maybe hide some of the excess powerbooster bolt heads, just have the 4 cnrs same as the aq and res
or even better stealth mount, no bolts visible :D
i dont see the point of the AQ buttons, thats AQsuites job, set it and forget it i say.
i have mounted my AQ off centre so the buttons are hidden when the side panel is on, but available when its open.
i wanted to have the buttons gone and the screen centred with the res....
mmmmm just the res and the AQ screen centred, stealth mounted in a 1 piece carbon front panel *drool*
whats that panel down the bottom again??
edit: crystal fontz? whats it going to do that the AQ wont?
AC centred
RES
CF LCD
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dvd in the trash with floppies where it belongs! :)
They are Fan screws painted Gloss black. They are just sitting there for pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by churchy
I will have to talk to Bill Owens from MNPCTECH since he helped me by making the rest of my plates for me. I tell him what I want and puff there it is.
I don't know about them though still need CPU and Hard drives and new feet Idea for case coming soon :D I do like the stealth Idea :up:
Creekin LCD 1. looks cool. 2. sports scores-email alerts-stock reports 3. CPU readings . and any stupid thing I want it to say :yep:
Hate to tell you But Blue ray Cd is there its stealthed behind a Lan li cover painted to Match the rest. I guess the stealth works :clap:
not knocking the CF LCD, just wondering what your plans are :)
i see the blu ray :p: ..obsolete gimmick! optical discs were a stupid idea for a storage medium from day 1 :shakes:
if Bill could make you a 1 piece front that would look incredible!!! :eek:
whats on the inside of the front cover?
can you move the CF up to "sandwich" the res between it and the AQ?
just think it might look cool...
im sure you have ideas of your own :D
optical discs were FAR from obsolete during cdrom era if that's good starting point to be called as day 1. 650MB capacity - rather good, recalling first cdroms for PCs (mostly scsi and of 1x-4x speed :D) in on average 40-100MB hard disk era. Rise of multimedia programs imho can be atributed to wide introduction of cdroms as well, after all finally it was possible to fit lot of data on cheap media. These days, yes, more and more people turn to buying movies and music online, but at least for installations some dvd drive still makes sense.
today i do all my OS installs from USB ( i run a pc shop and build pcs for customers daily)
the only time I use a disc is for low level access, like dos and ghost etc
i just always found optical to be such a bad idea,
you scratch it, datas gone, you break it, datas gone, you leave it in the car, datas gone, if the drive decided to close as you were inserting/removing the disc, datas gone.... :(
they had their era, late 90s to early 2000s, but thats a REALLY short run compared to tape for eg.
Even flash has been useful longer than optical ever was.
and how many variations are there now, cd,cdr,cdrw,+/-,dvd+/-/r/rw,laser disc, mini disc, etc etc etc.....
glad to see the back of it i say! :D
sorry Slotrod, back to Carbon :)
I painted the control and tes plates to match. Only one coat to see how they look. will take out later and wet sand - clear coat and polish.
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looks good :up:
problem solved :)
CREEKIN I missed your question on whats behind the hotswap door. I cut out the top two bays to make room for a pump on top and planned on putting LCD inside door . It did not look right so I moved it to bottom front and stealthed the front and I am putting vandal switches inside door. I will be backing up a bit and fixing little things I dont like and upgrading the paint by wet sanding and clear and othe small things then back to serious building
Getting ready to start the good stuff.
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Aqua blocks are always so sexy, especially the nickel plated ones you have :slobber:
Populating all mem slots with Dominator GTs... totally good stuff!
can't wait to see this done..
Batiatus Is there anything else. The only thing left is SSD's Looking at Corsair F series But not sure yet. I want to use one at least for system files 60G-120G. Oops I have been holding off on CPU also since prices are coming down some. The 950 at micro center for $200 is a bit hard to resist.
yeah cpu prices are dropping here also, the 950 is down 10% this week! :up:
but so are SSDs, OCZs are down 30% :shocked:
I want at least a 120 for a boot drive, and there still a bit too much for what they are, will wait another few months,
but 60s are at a "reasonable" (by XS standards :D ) price
OCZ seems to be the better brand from what i can see
The way I look at pricing is take the price of a 60g and double, if the 120g is cheaper you are doing good. In the past there was a big difference in prices the SSD's got bigger, that has changed. I really would like to Raid 0, 2 120's and add a 10,000 rpm WD 300G for junk drawer. I messed up I put a 300G in my wishlist Sunday night and planned on doing more shopping in the morning. It went from $99 to $179 over night.:rolleyes:
I read the reviews and read thoughts posted here BUT!!! I tend to be brand loyal. Not just here but with most things. I have had great success with my Corsair Items and have also had great customer support. I would rather pay a little more and have the support. Now dont get me wrong I do not have a bottomless pocket and need to watch my costs. I have a bundle in this build as you can tell.
RAID is a waste of time for desktop use, more so with ssds, no real world speed diff and twice the chance of losing your data. :down:
i too am an unashamed fanboi....asus,ati,seagate,corsair,intel,lian li,
i understand that, its about reliability, but don't think that just cause u like corsair ram and psus that u will like there hdds.....no company can do everything well...jack of all trades, master of none.
the birth of a fanoi starts with taking a gamble on a new to you manufacturer, based on research and reviews, then u try it, like it, and threaten to kill anyone who disagrees... metamorphosis complete :D
I too would buy a corsair ssd over another brand, if i didnt know better, but in my research OCZ is ssd king :up:
+1 :)Quote:
I read the reviews and read thoughts posted here BUT!!! I tend to be brand loyal. Not just here but with most things. I have had great success with my Corsair Items and have also had great customer support. I would rather pay a little more and have the support
Good company with top notch support is always a turn on.... Slot is speaking from his own exceptional experience ;)
tbh, if you're planning to use the SSD just for the OS, then go with the 60 - it is more than enough for that purpose... I'd have to agree with Creekin on raiding SSDs, performance gain is very minimal... better off raiding those HDDs, just a thought.
Anyway, keep it up slot, you're doing an awesome job on this build. :up:
I had to take a breather on the build. My wife had surgry and needed to be with her. she is home and doing well so I will now regroup and get moving again. I am starting to sleeve for the first time this could take awhile .
very nice,2 pumps in series,same with me, i chose that way,one loop,two laing ultra.
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Originally Posted by mit78
Speaking of those pump tops They were just a tad to bright to go with the Carbon Theme. I put 20% auto glass Tint on top of the pump tops.:cool: What I am looking at is getting a little light explosion out the sides and tone down the top so it doesn't stick out so much. I can always go back and cover the whole thing.
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about time you updated ya lazy old fart! :D (hope the Mrs is feeling better mate :) )
great idea with the light leak out the side only :up:
what colour leds? white?
Thanks Young Punk :rofl::ROTF: Back to work on the build. I am waiting for my new feet for the case to show up. I don't want to add to much since I have to turn it over to drill holes for them. I am trying something a bit different that I think will look cool but you will have to suffer and wait till they get here .:shrug:
They will raise the case up more then standard feet and allow for some extra cool air through the bottom. I am thinking of putting a fan underneath forcing air into the bottom.:up:
Either white or Purple
Got My Crystal Fontz 4x26 LCD mounted today. looks even better then I thought.:cool:
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White LEDs would be nice and subtle... btw, what kind of case feet did you get?
Crystalfontz LCD looks nice too :)