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[barfastic]

Greetings From Greece


Another journey begins for Barf (and as usual it starts when another project is in the works!). I seem to have a problem:facepalm:... I need two projects going on or else i get restless and start modding household items... you will soon see what i mean...

Having not bought into the 1155 P67/Z68 chipset, i feel left out being stuck with an x58 board and i7 920 (3 years old almost:thumbdown, and as such i decided to buy myself a present (many presents to be honest).



Sponsored by:

Big shout out to Freddy from Highflow for the sponsorship!

The Hardware:
Gigabyte X79 UD7
Intel Core i7 3930K
Corsair DDR3-2133 16GB Quad Kit
2X HD 6970 Crossfire
2X 120GB SSD Raid0 (Intel 510's)
Corsair AX1200 Power Supply
Case: LD PC-V8 Black/Orange

The Cooling:
2X Koolance 30 FPI 120.4
1X Koolance 30 FPI 120.3
2X Laing DDC Ultra
EK Dual Laing Top
2X Bitspower Dual Ram Blocks
EK Block for X79 UD7
2X EK FC 6970 Nickel
XSPC Rasa CPU Block
80mm Koolance Cylinder Reservoir
Cougar 120mm Fans
Enzotech (1/2 - 3/4) Compression
Tygon Tubing
Mayhems Orange Pastel Liquid

So may i present to you.... A few pictures of the star of this build.










The board is an absolute BEAUTY:hail:.

Until next time

Happy Modding!

[paulbagz]

Knew you'd go for the orange UD7 <3 <3

-PB

[barfastic]

Knew you'd go for the orange UD7 <3 <3

-PB

am i that predictable?!

Best Holiday present though was these...





Such beautiful fans.... i cant stop staring at them!

and my Powerhouse!... mr i7 3930K...





Batch# 3133B469

a 3133Β464 batch got to 4.5 with 1.2vcore..... Hopefully mine will be close! hehe

Thats it for now!

Until next year!

Happy New Year, and Happy Modding!

[SoMBrA]

Keep it up my friend
Nice parts...

[barfastic]

Update

Sponsored by:

Big shout out to Freddy from Highflow for the sponsorship![/CENTER]








This case is really a monster!

My Motherboard put on her swimsuit... EK VRM block, XSPC Raystorm, and Bitspower Ram coolers... Sexy






Here she is with her 2 7970's. Unfortunately the bridge i purchased was too small, and i reordered another...


Enzotech Stop plugs!


I have an idea for the Waterblocks, but i am unsure if i will go through with it...


The beast... Little Devil PC-V8


Panel Off! (after way too many screws...)


Plugs for the panel screws.


PSU Fan hole in the midplate


Cable Management? I think it has enough... hehehe...


Grill for the quad radiator


The trunk of the case.... This will eventually become a freezer


Amazing quality finish on the case...


Radiator stands and the PSU support bracket.


Storage Warehouse


So lets put the motherboard in place.








Cougar fans, ive heard good things about them, so im hoping i will get the results i am after


Test fitting one of the rads... Its going to be a tight fit, but i think i can make it work


And an overall body shot of the case with a radiator and the motherboard in place.


I think ive given you enough food for thought

Until next time,

Happy Modding

Sponsored by:

Big shout out to Freddy from Highflow for the sponsorship![/CENTER]

[pcaddict]

Paint that metal plate on the gpu-waterblock orange!

[barfastic]

Paint that metal plate on the gpu-waterblock orange!

i think i might wrap it in vinyl...


Update time

I put together a test system to check for leaks... But ill get to that soon!

Fans spinning


i was a little bummed out when i found out i cant have push pull on my top rad, i got 60mm of rad and 25 per fan... Total of 110, and i think the clearance is 95mm no worries though, installed the fans and the rad...


I also received some new lamptron buttons, they arent the usual round ones, instead they are sort of like crosses and triangles, a clearer picture when done will help you understand!


Sat and figured out the best tubing route... Im not sure if its going to stay like this because i am having a problem locating a decent location for my reservoir...




I must admit, i thought this case was big, but now that most things are in, im runnin out of space!

Also, my test system consisted of a quad rad with fans, and a 360 witout fans, my cpu idled at 30c when it was 24degrees ambient. With an extra quad rad im guessing my temps are Going to be even better!! happy happy barf

Furthermore, while looking at my case and thought there was a bit too much orange...

So i changed it :P


Coffee


Hot air gun


3M car vinyl (Black Matte)


Cut to size


Before


After




I was quite pleased with the result, even though its not perfect, that will change because i am going to re-apply it

After iw as done, i looked at my mouse...

and i thought that was too black... Time to change things :P



Also had the chance to do some more vinyl work on my GPUS...

Black matte PCI brackets


And the crossfire Bridge


Thats it for now guys

Until next time

[arkadur]

what about pics of the whole system?
i had stay with the orange MB tray.

anyway,
that looks great!

[Edited]

vinyl xfire bridge makes me drool.

[Lu(ky]

Great job.. I have been been looking for the mobo forever here in the US.. Subscribed

[barfastic]

what about pics of the whole system?
i had stay with the orange MB tray.
anyway,
that looks great!

Thanks! Pictures of the whole system will be posted soon enough... still ahve a long way to go
Im not too sold on the black motherboard tray either, im 50/50... Ill see what i am going to do.

vinyl xfire bridge makes me drool.

Hehe... theres going to be more too it in a few days

Great job.. I have been been looking for the mobo forever here in the US.. Subscribed

Yeah, i was trying to find it since its release and when i got it, the next day it was declared EOL! hehe..

[barfastic]

So today i got a small envelope from the USA


Very strange and hard envelope!

but inside i found a little suprise


Made a quick cup of Joe, and got to work






X-fire bridge = Perfectly the way i wanted it!

Next was the stickers amde for the GPU backplates


and an Overall shot of the GPU +Bridge, and ribbon!


Next up my HDDS


The reason for labelling was in case of Failure of one of the disks in the RAID, locating it will be easier than having to search through sata cables!

And lastly the Memory sticks....

Because of the complicated design of the stickers it was seperaed into 3 different stickers!


The first sticker was to cover a weird bump/scrape all my dimms have on both sides, while at the same time allowing for the glossy stickers that will go above it to POP



Second part is the usual Dominator three line logo, with a new font to match the build in gloss orange


And the last part was the white glossy letters!




And this is the final outcome!






I ahve atleast another 30sets so i can re-seat any that may come out wrong.

Right now i want to say a HUUUUUUGE thank you to Mr. Ben Lavigne, for helping me design, customize and actually cut these stickers and ship them to me all the way over from the USA to Greece! Without him these stickers would of never been possible!

Unfortunately these photos will have to do for now, as i am without my DSLR. (Finally after 2 months of waiting my upgrade is coming on saturday!)

Hope you enjoyed this update!

More to come over the next couple of days!

[theseeker]

Beautiful work as usual!

[Edited]

Where did you DL the font? Or has your helper made them for you?

Good work!

[barfastic]

Thanks!

The font was found on DaFont.com i think the name is batman something...

on another note I finally got the parts i ordered from the waterjet!







They are exactly how i wanted them!!!

can anyone guess what they are?




They are leftovers :P The real peices are these!



Drilled for M4 tap, and then countersunk...






Screwing in each screw on opposite sides lock the reservoir into place.


Ignore the length of the actual screws, according to my calculations if i use M4 x 20mm screws, they will sit flush and be tight enough to hold the reservoir!



This is how i think i will stack them


The peices that ahve a small triangle are the ones that will be bolted to the motherboard plate using M4 or M5 screws.




Heres a general shot...


I also weighed them
4 rings


5 rings


They are each about ~200 grams...

and a quick test i did jssut to see if it fits!....

voila!





I hope you enjoyed... I will be taking them to be powder coated tomorrow, so i hope everything turns out good

Until next time,

Happy modding!

[Edited]

Wow, thats a cool res-thingy! Hope it doesnt get too bold in the case.

Regarding the font, it's the same Asus uses for the ROG-series of products also. Funny it comes from a batman title, lol.

[barfastic]

Well, the good thing is i can make it less prominent by removing rings... :P But the sheer size of this case allows you to get away with monstrositys like my res holder :P

Oh wow! i jsut saw that! hahahaha.... shame im not using ANYTHING asus on this build :P http://www.dafont.com/batman-forever.font

while staring at the case I realised i did not have a way to route cables from the rads to the drive bays in a stealthy fashion, so i went ahead and made some holes...



But because 1 is never enough, i made two!



Hopefully these 2 will be enough for me to route through all the cables needed for the card reader, and the fans flowmeters etc etc.

[Pinwmpires]

Damn.. this Orange is freaking awesome!

[barfastic]

So ive been pretty busy getting things sorted today...
got my res holders back from paint shop. They arent perfect, but i did manage to get them painted for free... so im not complaining






At the moment i am lining them up and trying to get all the bolts to sit flush.



It was ahrder than i thought it was going to be, i have to individually file each screw to size because although i calculated the design for it to fit with 20mm screws, each screw is a little off, ranging from 19.3mm to 21 mm, so 2mm off makes the head stand out.

on another note i took care of my hidden lighting idea. We recently renovated our kitchen and replaced our old fluorescent ligts with led strips. and we placed them inside some sort of holder.

This is angled at 45 degrees


here is the panel that gets mounted so you can clip it in to position.


then you can either place see through or white plexiglass, i went with white plexi


12V Led strip 14,4W, this thing is pretty bright... iw asnt expecting it to be sooo bright D:


The Led strip goes into the profile and stays in place with double sided sticky tape.




Slide in the plexiglass




And we have the completed lighting setup!


Total = ~15-20 euros for 1M of lighting.

Now i have to cut it to length and figure out where i want to put them

[Pinwmpires]

I think its the best Value for Money result i ve ever seen Now.. regarding the "Where to put them.." issue.. haha.. just kidding! Why dont you place them somewhere that noone can see them..!

[barfastic]

I will john, Well you will be able to see them, but they wont blind you :P


So i wasnt very pleased with the outcome of my res holder rings...

So i started re-designing by hand...



the idea is to cnc rings that would do this, and depending the radius of the reservoir i can tighten so the plate would touch the reservoir with mybe some sort of elastic material for grip...

The problem is i want the bolt of the screw to remain stationary so it is always flush....


Something like this.... Maybe have two seperate rings a top and bottom so screws can be easily replaced and fixed incase of error/problem.

I made up a few digital versions using illustrator too...

My design consists of 4 peices. Top and bottom ring, bolt, and pressure plate...









By turning the screw, this is the outcome i wanted to acheive...


So after that was done and i checked and double checked my dimensions etc,

i designed a section in autocad, so that i can send to companies to get price offers.

so this is where i am at the moment...









still need to create the pressure plate, but it may take a while, because i am useless when it comes to autocad!

hehe...

until next time,

Happy Modding

[barfastic]

So i placed the EK reservoir for now... and i cant say i dont like it, but its not my "vision" either.

What do you think?


I added a fitting to loop a tube to the rear so i can fill up the loop easier.


I also connected the radiators to the loop, and placed my drain valve.


Thats it for today, tomorrow i will most likely put the pump in, and then its cable management time :/

[Klimpen]

This looks great. I'm impressed by your tank holder. Have you got any one to fabricate it yet?

[barfastic]

thank you! no unfortunately i cant find anyone yet

[barfastic]

So as i have been spammin i need te system running by monday, and right now im leak testing!

But here are some photos so you guys can see...



















The coolant that will be used





The color was a little bit too pale for my likings, so i went ahead and added some red dye to get it the color i want...





I think the shade turned out quite well, and the coolant matches the rest of the parts.

Right now its bleeding, and there are no leaks

Once the bleeding finishes and im sure its leak proof, ill take some complete photos

Untill then have a nice day