Murdermod Zeus style

[trfnj74]

Impressive sleeving...I had a hard time getting all the heat shrink and sleeving the same lenth

I can't tell you how glad i was when i was done. The result is rewarding indeed.



Too much credit man. I'm only a novice trying to make most out of it. But thanks for the bunch of flowers, your work is at least as awesome.



Thanks bud, i know. I use to say: Pain is temporary, pride is forever.




Thanks shazza, the build is coming along nicely now. I've just been putting in the PSU and am working on cable management.

Because i've been thinking 10 steps ahead it was simply putting the cables the way i had though out when i could not sleep and most cables are already in position now.

The molex cable is gonna be a bit hard to route cause it has to run in between the rads at the bottom part.

I'm sure i'll get it done before i hit the bed tonite.

Here are the cables connected to the Silverstone powerhouse:



More pics to come (probably tomorrow).

[sharing]

Im supossed to get my sleeving in the next few days..
Hope I can do as good a job as you have!
Hungry for more pictures ^^

[dreamaxx]

so how DID you measure your sleeving on the wire? Did you stretch the sleeving much? Could you give me an approximation? (i.e. measure it from the beginning of the wire to 1inch from end and stretch the rest etc.)?

I wanna get my job as perfect as yours

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

so how DID you measure your sleeving on the wire? Did you stretch the sleeving much? Could you give me an approximation? (i.e. measure it from the beginning of the wire to 1inch from end and stretch the rest etc.)?

I wanna get my job as perfect as yours

You dont measure it with a ruler, you slide the sleeve onto the wire as far as you need and the cut it then slide the rest on... not the best description but there is a lot of information over at the wire sleeving guide.

[dualbrain]

Fantastic job - no complaints on my end

[Zeus]

Im supossed to get my sleeving in the next few days..
Hope I can do as good a job as you have!
Hungry for more pictures ^^

Be prepared for some sore fingers buddy.

so how DID you measure your sleeving on the wire? Did you stretch the sleeving much? Could you give me an approximation? (i.e. measure it from the beginning of the wire to 1inch from end and stretch the rest etc.)?

I wanna get my job as perfect as yours

Pretty much as Snipe says, it's best to read Dangals' sleeving guide in the computer cases section of this board. It's not so easy to explain in a few words.

Today i got me some new RAM as the Cellshocks kept annoying me with coldboot problems, i never got it to boot first attempt.

This afternoon i had enough of that and bought some very nice new Corsair Dominators PC8500.

It booted right up, no problems and seems stable as well, what more could i ask for?

This evening i've planned to get the mobo in and have everything connected to do the bleeding/leaktesting.
It's gonna be a long night i think, let's hope my string of bad luck has ended by now.

Took a quick snap just to show how cable management turned out even though it's far from finished of course.



Please excuse the bad quality, the light was already fading but i wanted to show some progress. (Can you spot picachu in the background? )

[Oli4v]

yes I can spot pikachu in the background

and a nice mod offcourse, picture's quality isn't that bad at all

[tomb18]

Nice job! I've read all of these MM threads so far but the one thing I haven't found out yet, is how much does powder coating cost? In particular, I notice that you powdercoated all of the non painted TJ07 parts. How much did this cost?
Also, I guess all of the compnents in the TJ07 are riveted? These are drilled out with a 1/8" drill? How do you re-rivet the parts? Any special tool?

Thanks!

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Nice job! I've read all of these MM threads so far but the one thing I haven't found out yet, is how much does powder coating cost? In particular, I notice that you powdercoated all of the non painted TJ07 parts. How much did this cost?
Also, I guess all of the compnents in the TJ07 are riveted? These are drilled out with a 1/8" drill? How do you re-rivet the parts? Any special tool?

Thanks!

flat black is 150-200 for most places/people who can get it done for you.

[quattro_]

its getting along very nicely indeed, best of luck Zeus.

[sharing]

Thats a nice looking picture from the backside Zeus!

Did you extend the molex thats running from the top 2 fans?
What's that cable thats running from the top, through your small PSU port?

Didnt know you could run a cable through, since the motherboard is sliding in and closing off the backside..

How are you going to route the sata cable to your motherboard?

Im thinking of cutting another hole next to the sata ports on the mobo..

So many questions.. arrrgh.

Curious to see how sexy and sleek its going to look when its installed ^^

"Nothing that's worth having comes easy"

[jpm804]

Cable management is looking good... looks like hopefully you're in the home stretch .. can't wait to see this thing finished up.

[Zeus]

Fantastic job - no complaints on my end

Thanks Nils.

yes I can spot pikachu in the background

and a nice mod offcourse, picture's quality isn't that bad at all

Thanks. I had to take the pics when the light was already fading. I have to work during the daylight hours so i'm forced to take pics with crappy light.

I will try to make some better ones though.

its getting along very nicely indeed, best of luck Zeus.

Thanks Saud.

Thats a nice looking picture from the backside Zeus!

Did you extend the molex thats running from the top 2 fans?
What's that cable thats running from the top, through your small PSU port?

Didnt know you could run a cable through, since the motherboard is sliding in and closing off the backside..

How are you going to route the sata cable to your motherboard?

Im thinking of cutting another hole next to the sata ports on the mobo..

So many questions.. arrrgh.

Curious to see how sexy and sleek its going to look when its installed ^^

"Nothing that's worth having comes easy"

Thanks bro.

What top fans do you mean? I did not extend any cable.

The cable you see running to the top is the 8pin power cable.

I made a hole in the midplate, behind the mobotray, that's how i routed the cables.

Why don't ya come over to have look man?

Cable management is looking good... looks like hopefully you're in the home stretch .. can't wait to see this thing finished up.

Thanks you. No home stretch unfortunately, i have to do this in the evenings, after work.

Yesterday i got everything together but i ran into some nasty snags.

1) The pump is making a whining noise now-- i hope this will end when all the air is bled out.
2) My 100cm sleeved Revoltec sata cables are way too long, i used some ugly red ones now-- i have to replace and sleeve them.
3) The PCI-e cable i sleeved looked nice but my stupid videocard seems to make use of a 6 pin connection!--more sleeving ahead!
4) I did not have the right screws to mount the Nexus HDD silencers-- i will look for screws. (black ones of course)
5) The internal usb cable for the display broke--fixed that by soldering it again.
6) The CPU/NB clock frequency seems to degrade. At first i was able to run 2.8+GHz CPU/NB freq. at stock voltage, about a week ago it was only stable at 2.6GHz and now it has trouble to even reach 2.2GHz-- i'm hoping it will die rapidly so i can RMA the sucker.

The good part is that the CPU temp went from 50ºC idle (no joke!) to 29-30ºC idle with the fans turned down all the way!

How 's that for an improvement?

[Zeus]

Nice job! I've read all of these MM threads so far but the one thing I haven't found out yet, is how much does powder coating cost? In particular, I notice that you powdercoated all of the non painted TJ07 parts. How much did this cost?
Also, I guess all of the compnents in the TJ07 are riveted? These are drilled out with a 1/8" drill? How do you re-rivet the parts? Any special tool?

Thanks!

Powdercoating the internal parts has cost me €85,- but i have to say the powdercoating on the M|M parts looked better. It's still nice though.

Only the pci slots/io-shield part is riveted and the mobotray rail is rivited, you can drill them out with a 3mm drill.

Putting it back together is done with a rivet tool.

Here's a quick shot at how it looks now, you can see the hideous red sata cables and the unsleeved PCI-e powercable.



Gonna sleeve that cable tonite.

The display:



How's that for dedication?

[Yil]

LEIPE OUWE!!!!!

Great work..

Gr Yil

[SkanXtrem]

Nice Work ! So beautiful ! I love !!

[Zeus]

LEIPE OUWE!!!!!

Great work..

Gr Yil

Nice Work ! So beautiful ! I love !!

Thanks guys.

Fortunately i got a few things sorted now.

The whining noise seems to be gone for the best part, probably air in the loop.
The issue with the HDD mounting is fixed, the PCI-e cable is sleeved.

The problems with instabilty were caused by the new RAM.

I could not get the system stable, not even at stock speed!

I put the trusty old Cellshocks back in and it was running like a champ again, i guess i'll have to deal with the coldboot problems.

Here's a little bench i did this evening just to start with:



I think there is more left but i only just got started overclocking it for real, i think it has plenty left.

Hopefully tomorrow i can make some new pics.

[Jokester_wild]

Lookin good zeus! I should have my rig up and running tomorrow

[lazy]

wow.... that looks awesome Zeus

[Kozato]

The white led lighting sure looks pretty!

[jpm804]

It's great that you got your issues straightened out and its finally running... the Led lighting looks great...not too bright and not too dim.

One question I had was with your fan controller, how do you like it so far. I just ordered one but couldnt find any good reviews on it?

[ShoNuff]

Zeus, I recently stumbled upon your project and want to compliment you on a job well done. If I were you I would be extremely pleased and proud of what I accomplished. I really like your attention to detail. Your hard work shows up loud and clear in the final results. Great job!

[Zeus]

Lookin good zeus! I should have my rig up and running tomorrow

Thanks Jesse, i'll keep an eye on your buildlog, it looked very good the last time i checked.

wow.... that looks awesome Zeus

The white led lighting sure looks pretty!

Thanks guys.

It's great that you got your issues straightened out and its finally running... the Led lighting looks great...not too bright and not too dim.

One question I had was with your fan controller, how do you like it so far. I just ordered one but couldnt find any good reviews on it?

Well, the controller itself is nice but it needed a little modding, i spraypainted the side-mountingplates and i sleeved the molex cable. 1 knob (cover) came of and i had to glue it back in postion-- all fine now.

The brushing on the aluminium is horizontal where the brushin on the bezels is vertical but in all it looks fine and it works great, no crackling sounds like i once had with a fancontroller.

Zeus, I recently stumbled upon your project and want to compliment you on a job well done. If I were you I would be extremely pleased and proud of what I accomplished. I really like your attention to detail. Your hard work shows up loud and clear in the final results. Great job!

Thank you very much, i have to tell you it was a lot of hard work but it was worth it. Even though it ain't finished yet it looks nice.

I finally got rid of the whining noise of the pump-completely!

I used 2 these:



I tried to make pics today but it was an overcast rainy day so i broke out the 500watt halogen but it didn't look good-at all.

At least i can show the sleeved PCI-e cable now :



Gonna order the black sata cables tonight, i couldn't find them locally.

[shazza]

Really looking good, Zeus. You've done a nice job with all the detail, and your sleeving is top notch!

[Darkninja462]

Looks awesome Zeus I admire your build given me plans for my new case, but its not a Tenjim though :P

Ninja