lowfat's Big Lian Li

[RCG_Bex]

Om nom nom nom! No Mobo cooling though?

[lowfat]

Om nom nom nom! No Mobo cooling though?

I've seen the thermals of the Z9PE-D8 WS online. Even while under load it doesn't throw a lot of heat. I also dislike the look of the new EK blocks and AFAIK no one else is making them. I think they look pretty decent stock anyways. To the point and useful.

More pics of the cable management so far.






All the cable management standoffs mounted.




The power/reset buttons.




Front panel. Seriously dislike these things. All I want is 2 USB3.0. The rest I will never use.

[lowfat]

Did a bit of work on the case. Finished off making all the retention bars. As you can see all the screws are too long.




Dremeled down the screws so they could fit. The retention bars will be getting a new paint job before the finished product.




The long standoffs are for the front shroud, which will cover those stupid so called cable management holes. It will also hide the USB & front panel cables.


Small cut I needed to make to one of the motherboard supports. Also for cable management. Not so great at cutting as you can see. :o


Changed the plumbing of the front radiator a bit. Seems a bit cleaner.
This is before:


And the after:


Reinstalled the motherboard tray and the hardware. The 24-pin + 8-pin in place on the case.




Ignore the blue splatter all over the fan, the fans were just place holders to see how it fits.


And I'll throw in these few pics of random hardware and tools I took.

My nibbler, one of my favourite case modding tools.


Heat gun, this thing has got a lot of use. Not so much now that I do shrinkless sleeving.


And my iPad keyboard.

[chaotic]

Awesome build!

[salucard]

holy S**T lowfat, I really love your photos, really nice macros. Another thing, how and where can I find tube sleeves? by the way goooooood work mate

[lowfat]

holy S**T lowfat, I really love your photos, really nice macros. Another thing, how and where can I find tube sleeves? by the way goooooood work mate

I am using ⅜” ID 1/2" OD (10mm / 13mm) tubing paired w/ MDPC-X SATA sleeving. The SATA sleeving will not fit over larger tubing though.

[lowfat]

Have been working on the cable management again the last few days. Thinking about ditching my top 2 x 140mm radiator. It is blocking my bauce sleeve job . But seriously, it is. I don't like how the radiator hides most of the sleeving up top. Not to mention the radiator putting tension on the connected because it is such a tight fit. Someone one another forum suggested for me to install a window up top. Might just do that.








And the bad. Going to have to adjust almost every one of these cable lengths while in the case. Too messy.

[lowfat]

Been working on cabling all weekend.








I worked on length and straightening out the 24-pin for probably 6-8 hours. . Still not quite perfect, will get the lengths 100% there once I finish the GPU and 8-pin cables.





Crimped the cables for the first video card. I ran out of 18-gauge wire last night and the store was closed today. Ended up using 16-gauge since that is what I have around. I already test fit to make sure the shrinkess method of sleeving works and it did perfectly. The stacked PCIe power connectors don't even look half bad IMO.





This is the finish on a Silverstone Strider 750W Gold. Looks pretty cool. Will take another pic when i get my reverse lens mount in the mail.


Just a random pic of a screw.


And some fittings.


Some rams.


Photobucket is being a POS currently. Some pics might not load properly.

[lowfat]

Changed the plumbing up a bit last night. Ditched all the 45˚s. Looks a lot better IMO.
Before:


After:








The ioXtreme. So bauce.

[lowfat]

Not really an update. Just took a bunch of pics.





























This is a macro of the finish on the power supply.

[paulbagz]

That. Iso.

<333333333333333333333333333333

-pb

[dr-]

*snip*

My nibbler, one of my favourite case modding tools.


*snip*

For a moment there I thought you used your skin as a canvas to take this shot! Far too much alcohol for me this weekend, and naughty you for for putting a disclaimer!

Great work btw - would love to see more!

[nksharp]

Had a bunch of those screw caps in my cart at PPCs, never thought of using them on my mobo. Time to order more :o

Also see a pic of a lonely molex pin. I ordered a bunch of pins since I planned on switching out the ones in my 1200w with some gold plated ones for extra bling.

To bad I can never take any pics as good as yours.

[lowfat]

Worked on the GPU sleeving today. Still a to work on their tightness and lengths.

A few more macro pics as well. :p

[Darkninja462]

Can you tell me what look like 3 wire black clips that your using in this picture, also roughly where there located:


Regards
-Ninja

[lowfat]

Can you tell me what look like 3 wire black clips that your using in this picture, also roughly where there located:


Regards
-Ninja

They are made by Mod/Smart.

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=31903

[lowfat]

Added some more curves.

[arkadur]

The bottom pipe look great,
Hot water?

[lowfat]

The bottom pipe look great,
Hot water?

Yes.

[gup133]

Looks impressive!!!
what kind of "holder" is the one for the "floating reservoir"? is it handmade or what?
Thx!

[lowfat]

The reservoir is being held on with the stock Koopance 140mm reservoir mount. But only the top piece. Nothing is holding it up from the bottom though.

[DoGMaN]

Incredible work lowfat, absolutely beautiful.

[Splave]

awesome build

[aussie-revhead]

Any updates on this?

[lowfat]

Any updates on this?

No

I don't have a lot of free time lately.