holy mother of bling! I am not exactly a huge fan of case lighting but damn...got to love the attention to detail and all the hard work you obviously put into this build.. and props for the remote... very cool
amazing work... and great pics to do it justice... many thanks for sharing them
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How do you like the mounting of those EK mosfet blocks? Are they stable and solid using the mounting mechanism they come with or ???
Originally Posted by mjassbong
Thx
It was all hand held shots with the 24-70 lens, which has no IS. I may have gotten better results using a tripod with a little longer exposure.
24-70 major $$$...very nice glass...and a great camera...still great pics..
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I have a previous generation (actually second generation) 3007WFP S-IPS LG panel, as does my wife. There's this huge anxiety about Dell switching over to the cheaper Samsung panel... and I heard about the ghosting horrors with the PVA panel. I'm in the market for another one (my third) because my son wants one.
Mjassbong,
Do you use a Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L lens ? Its great for portraits. I know 24-70 isn't a common Nikkor AFS platform.. wife's hobby is photographs...
Very nice build. Looks awesome and I'm sure its awesome too!
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.
mjassbong,
Just for your future reference, this is a nifty device to extend the platform for an optical bay. thus allowing one to install an optical drive and a rad together, except of course you cannot access the optical from the front.
Now.. think about it... perhaps the opticals can be mounted in front and the rad behind a few of those ....Opens up new possibilities
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...oducts_id=2491
Man...I am stunned. Have nothing else to say! What a freaking great work!
This is Xtreme!
Enjoy!
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If you on the northern East Coast, I'll buy you some dinner to celebrate your beautiful machine
That is an amazing build.
Thanks for that remote control link, I am definately using that in my build for the UVs. Thanks!
For the record I am not sick, nor am I a gamer, nor am I a sick gamer. That name just sounds really cool to me but dont put me under that stereotype at all.
nevermind... addicted to COD4 and Free Online Games baby!
Dude,
Where did you buy the Akasa sound absorption foam ?
Many thanksholy mother of bling! I am not exactly a huge fan of case lighting but damn...got to love the attention to detail and all the hard work you obviously put into this build.. and props for the remote... very cool
amazing work... and great pics to do it justice... many thanks for sharing them
That's the beauty of the remote. If I get tired of the bling or about to go blind from all these lights, I can just turn it off with one click
Last edited by mjassbong; 07-11-2007 at 09:02 PM.
mjassbong,
as you can see, we are all amazed by this this quality piece of work, beauty and one hell of machine,
this Lian-Li case is a marvelous thing to work with and you filled 100% with great stuff
I like the detail even in such a huge system,
congratz on this marvelous CUBE man
Sometimes a good slap in the face is all you need
Bios my arss.....
I can fix this problem with a hardware mod....Hipro5
"Overclock till death. Overclocking is life." Hipro5
Mounting the mosfet blocks is very stable and feel solid. However, on the Striker, I ended up adding thermal pad on a few mosfetts because once tighten, the mobo bowed just a little around the area, creating gaps.
Canon L glasses are big $$$. But they have excellent resale value. I got the 24-70 barely 2 months ago. It is heavy but excellent lens for fast low light shots such as at weddings or portrait. It is on my 5D 90% of the time.
IanY:
Dinner! That sounds very good about now. Too bad am in the Westcoast. I used to go to NYC and Boston alot before my ex and I are separated.
About the new Dell 30HC, you can probably rest assured and am almost 100% sure that will always be an IPS panel. Even the previous generations are great monitor. The first time I saw a 30" LCD was Apple's at their store in SOHO and absolutely fell in love with it.
And wow! You got 2 already. Have you tried pairing them together? Talk about screen real-estate...
Last edited by mjassbong; 07-11-2007 at 11:13 PM.
That's the one I have. I had the 24-105 f/4L IS prior (an excellent walk-around lens with great range) but I find myself shooting more in low light and needed something faster. I ended up almost breaking even by selling the 24-105 to buy the 24-70. Getting into dslr photography is a very expensive hobby, especially if you're shooting a Nikon or Canon. There is a tendency or urge to collect assortment of lenses which will make a HUGE dent on the checkbook. The upside is these quality glasses don't depreciate much, unlike our other expensive hobby - the PC and the constant upgrades
Great find on the optical bay extension. I bought most of the stuffs for this build from PPCS and missed this one.
I got the Akasa Paxmate II here: http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/akpanorekit.html
sorry im really tired and im SURE this has been answered...
it appears you have overlooked one very important thing
where are your dvd/cd roms?
mentally confused and prone to wandering
No problem. Also you might want to pair the remote unit with this, which is what am using. It makes connections a lot easier.
http://www.xoxide.com/sunbeam-minibaybus.html
Or this, but more expensive.
http://www.xoxide.com/thermaltake-po...-mini-box.html
LOL!!! Good observation. Here's my CD/DVD-ROM. It's a Lian Li EX-127 USB2. Can take both IDE or SATA drive. Mine is a Plextor PX-755SA, which is SATA.
Last edited by mjassbong; 07-11-2007 at 11:10 PM.
Thank you all for the kind response and feedback. I've built a couple watercooling systems and this is my best one so far. Of course, I put in more time and alot more effort into it, not to mention a big dent in my bank account
Last edited by mjassbong; 07-11-2007 at 10:37 PM.
Dad-gum-it Mjassbong. You make me want to spend money! That case is phenominal! Like Iany, I would like to see two of them stacked. Would be a bit xtreme I know. But.....
Awesome job in separating the loops like you did, going in 1\2" & coming out 3/8" from your chipset block, & cooling your ram with those awesome blocks!
I use a Stacker case & as soon as I saw your HD's, I immediately thought you could have used the 4 in 3 HD cage.
I have been keeping up for 5 months. And it is good to see it finally completed. CONGRATS m8! Job superbly well done!
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very good finish. although it really does get cramped in there...
IanY how's that stacking of 2 cases plan of yours coming along...
Septim,
Unfortunately it hasn't gone very far so far. Hard H20 is hooking me up with a custom fabrication shop because I am not very satisfied with either MM or LL's solution. In fact, I find MM a little hard to work with. The custom shop will get me the case that I truly want, but that takes time. Incidently, Hard H20 has a 36 inch cube done already... yes, its four times the size of a typical MM or LL case. Forget stacking. This one's stacked and double wide, and also one piece, not joined together by some silly rivets. Its going to blow the doors off conventional thinking.
Last edited by IanY; 07-12-2007 at 05:33 AM.
That's the one I have. I had the 24-105 f/4L IS prior (an excellent walk-around lens with great range) but I find myself shooting more in low light and needed something faster. I ended up almost breaking even by selling the 24-105 to buy the 24-70. Getting into dslr photography is a very expensive hobby, especially if you're shooting a Nikon or Canon. There is a tendency or urge to collect assortment of lenses which will make a HUGE dent on the checkbook. The upside is these quality glasses don't depreciate much, unlike our other expensive hobby - the PC and the constant upgrades
Great find on the optical bay extension. I bought most of the stuffs for this build from PPCS and missed this one.
I got the Akasa Paxmate II here: http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/akpanorekit.html
mjassbong,
Yes, she's with the Shiite enemy (Nikon) lol That hobby is killing me, forget computers. Computers are downright cheap compared to camera stuff. And don't be fooled that lenses are "buy once" items... if you are heavily into it, every freaking lens that comes oout... you gotta have it. You know some simple Nikkor AF-S zoom lenses can cost like 8800 SLI (geeks dimension costs in terms of computer hardware lol), and that's not even a telephoto or macro. Silly thing like a tripod.. oh.. it *must* be carbon fiber !.. if its heavy, guess who gets to carry the damn thing around..
Hey.. did you use one or two orders of Akasa Paxmate in that case ? It says that its "extremely difficult" to remove, which worries me a little because I tend to over-do things and then find out that I would need to remove some lol
On your optical box, do you use an eSata, USB2 or 1394/2 connection to the computer ? I dig Plextors.
Where are you.. So Cal, S. Barbara, Monterey, SF/Valley, Sacramento/Reno, Portland, Seattle ?
Last edited by IanY; 07-12-2007 at 06:41 AM.
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