GoldTouch - Lian Li PC-A60C CU edition

[Shuper' Luu']

Hi guys

Pararell to our showtables, i will start a project in a case i won on a modding contest 7 months ago. Because of the value it has for me, and not only (€€ ) i will not do nothing tooooo extreme.

Photos of the victim:




GoldTouch: The main ideia is add more gold details, lighting etc etc etc, to the case.


Mods i think to do:

• Create acrilyc "false roof" and wall (black or gold, i'm searching it);
  If i use WC use gold conector and black tube, if WC use black cooler and paint the fan gold (i'm thinking if i cut or not the roof to a 240mm radiator;
  Acrylic plates for GFs and memorys gold;
  Looking for the interior see just the cuts for hdds, PSU cables etc, on the acrylic;
  Use black and gold sleeve;
  Bottom inside acrylic;
  Things like satas cables, screws use them in the same color (black or gold);
  Play a little with the lightning job, maybe some board lightning job :rock:

Worklog:
Hardware 1#
Cooling 1 - Vídeo Teaser


Sponsor:

Thanks to Aquatuning for help me with WC material to this project




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[Aaronharmon]

That looks pretty sweet right off the rip. Are those parts painted or anodized?

[Shuper' Luu']

That looks pretty sweet right off the rip. Are those parts painted or anodized?

Hi,

I think the case is anodized and them brushed, I thinks that the normal of the Lian Li. This case is special because of the copper parts, really beautifull

Hope you like it

[Shuper' Luu']

Here i come with some material i will use on the project

Photos








List
Exceleram Rippler ERB301A Trial-Channel 12800
Biostar Tpower x58
i7 950
Huntkey X7 900W
MSI GTX 460 Cyclone 1Gb
2* Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB - Raid0

Thanks to Exceleram, Biostar and Huntkey

Hope you like

[guilleguillaume]

I always liked this case.

Subscribed.

You can look for the TRUE copper version.

[aerial]

this is really cool and original case indeed, a real value these days

[Shuper' Luu']

I always liked this case.

Subscribed.

You can look for the TRUE copper version.

Thanks,

I have a friend with one, but i will mount a WC system on this. But just for fun maybe i ask him to take some photos

this is really cool and original case indeed, a real value these days

Thanks aerial

[Shuper' Luu']

Hi,

While i take some photos of the WC material and edit some videos with Zander, i put here a small and fast teaser we made

Vídeo
Goldtouch - Cooling - Teaser


More photos Monday night

[Shuper' Luu']

Hi all,

Because of my university and modding team background job, i'm not having a looot of free time, I'm editing some videos too, but i manage to take some photos, i will post them when i found some time before weekend Hope you like them


Photos





Apologies for only 3 photos

[guilleguillaume]

Nice looking CPU Block.

those fittings look so rare to me.

[Shuper' Luu']

Nice looking CPU Block.

those fittings look so rare to me.

Thanks, i really love it

All the fittings are "copper" color, will be so clean and harmonious

[Patriote]

Subscribed!

The case aaannnndd the CPU block looks great!

[Shuper' Luu']

Subscribed!

The case aaannnndd the CPU block looks great!

Thanks a lot


Here i'm with more photos
I'm drawing the rad supports, but it take a lot of measure, you will understand when you see the size of them

The ideia is hide everything the most, let's see how it evolue


Photos







Beautifull isn't it?

Objectives finished:
Search for the best tube-connector-block combination;
Use copper blocks;

More photos after i finish the modelation of the acrylic parts

[barfastic]

nice.... im thinking of bronze internals for my enxt case aswell!!!

[Shuper' Luu']

nice.... im thinking of bronze internals for my enxt case aswell!!!

Thanks yep, do it! Bronze or copper touch on it

Well,

Since last update a lot happened, like i can’t miss the opportunity to go the the Pombal edition of XL LAN PARTY, the biggest lan party on Portugal, and even will glossy acrylic i manage to create a temporally, fast and simple interior, and won the 2nd place of the modding contest with it
Will be a lot of photos so please read the text above them so you get in touch will the ideas

Photos






Everything start like this, aircooling only.








Let’s get started with the acrylic. Pump and reservoir support, and bottom cover. The beautifull PSU, frontal fan and sleeving used





Sleeving Phobya pump!














More and more interior work. Thing on position of the 120mm Rad, that fit perfectly with almost no empty space, take off the HDD cage and put them on 3,5”. Lucky I ask for Phobya data and power cables for HDD, because after put the acrylic the tolerance if really small


Photo of templates of the acrylic, made of parchment paper (I use google tradutor on that work, hope it’s the right)





Work on the acrylic with my “blade cutter” (really I’m not remember the English name for it buhh)



Mount for reservoir for use on the 80mm back fan


















Time to watercooling and try the acrylics. The big piece was made in 3 parts and glue with liquid super glue.







Geral aspect








Photos on XL Lan PArty
Sorry for not have better photos, but the dSLR I used before is from my neighbor.
Attention that this is only a provisory phase. The WC will have the 240mm Rad too, I’m searching for a store where I can buy a top and side panels to go more extreme on this project more extreme but simple and minimalist
Hope you all like it, comment and follow more photos will come and better quality

[josk1]

awesome look dude! i love it !!

[RCG_Bex]

Super smexy! I always loved copper + black! Sadly EK just don't seem to do enough acetal + copper blocks any more

[dmtry]

Hah, really cool. I have the same case with WC, but it looks ugly near your project. I using Black Ice GTX 560 on a floor near the case.

[Shuper' Luu']

awesome look dude! i love it !!

Thanks Hope you like the next developments and photos

Super smexy! I always loved copper + black! Sadly EK just don't seem to do enough acetal + copper blocks any more

Yeah, a SUpreme copper will be perfect, this block have the connectors too close, i'd to use a 90º elbow. Lucky alphacool + aquatuning send me this awesome block lovely copper

Hah, really cool. I have the same case with WC, but it looks ugly near your project. I using Black Ice GTX 560 on a floor near the case.

This really make my day, wow is really nice to see a sister of my case but more extreme A case like this never look ugly dimitry

We are only 10000

[Shuper' Luu']

Hi,

Here i come with final photos of the phase 1 of this project. I've more material on the way to this project to start the phase 2. But some parts i didn't find yet

Hope you like the photos


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I'm still young with my new dSLR so don't push to much hehe

P.S: Yeap, during the travel back from a Lan Party the reservoir support broke and i had replace it with a bootlace, for now it works and have use it to travel and didn't move

Thanks to everyone, hope you enjoy it

[m_jones_]

Very nice build i just love copper!
Currently in your build your build water is being pumped into the res.

[Shuper' Luu']

Very nice build i just love copper!
Currently in your build your build water is being pumped into the res.

Thanks

Yes, i'd think that pumping by the tube make a good waterfall and it makes (i don't really take care about the direction of it if it work good, i can fill it easy not really a big problem), but the pump have too much "force" and the effect is too fast. When i resemble it i will rotate it Have to take of the glue for neoprene on the base of the pump.

I take 4 hours to mod the case to this point, so it was really a fast mounting

Hope yoy enjoy it

[Beriphent]

Beautiful balance between black and copper and like that you did not go overboard with modding/cutting the case. Maybe paint the IO Shield on the rear copper (if that's even possible)?

[Shuper' Luu']

Beautiful balance between black and copper and like that you did not go overboard with modding/cutting the case. Maybe paint the IO Shield on the rear copper (if that's even possible)?

Hi,

Yes, thats the type of details i'm searching now. I think on copper plate pieces, i don't really know of it's possible on this metal, but the ideia is copper plate the i/o shield and backplates for GPU and the heatshinks of the memories, and maybe the socket too and screws, i've to searching companies near me that do that.

Thanks for your kind word, hope you're enjoy it

[Shuper' Luu']

Hello all,

After some long time without news, here i come update everything in one post, now that the board will continue to phase 2 with a golden board.

Some ideas and decisions:
# Board ECS Z77H2-AX Golden Board for this project!
# Convert to inverted ATX
# Grill and metal sheets with copper finish (paiting or anod)
# Restyle the internal black acrylic to the new layout
# Do golden backplates (that cooper color) for memory and GPU

As you can see the project with suffer some changes, hardware some of it will go for AVAREZA project, and this one will be to mine little brother as him personal computer. As i can let the project finish with just a phase 1, i will work with mine brother to achive a look he like and mount there the Z77 board for all he needs.

Suppper dubbber ubber RAW sketches from SketchUP:




Orange=copper, black=aluminium and brown=mate acrylic
Not a deep draw, just a sketch with no chamfer or fillet, and working on the pump + rad + reservoir in middle air. What do you think?

Unboxing of Z77 here: ECS Z77 Golden [Unboxing & SneakPeak!]


Photos of day 3, when i try some layouts and place of cooling. I will wait for inversion to comfirm the places of everything, mainly after tube routing.




What do you think of the cooling this way? I will use Phobya Nano-G 12 Silent 1500rpm, in a total of 5, i like that red and was the first ones i tried on the phase 1 and love them. Will import to this project mine ZM-MFC1 Plus too.


Hope you like! I will continue improving the visual