Murdermod Zeus style

[Jokester_wild]

Zeus get the Nickle plated with the Acetal top! I love how mine looks. Can't see the water but it looks slick

[Zeus]

Looking good, I'm sure you will make the best/right choice for you build Zeus, my opinion I think the Full Cover Aceatl(black one) would look good.

Ninja

Thanks.

Yeah, the copper acetal is the one i'm thinking of but now i have my OCZ platinum with silver heatspreaders there's a tad more chrome now...

I've been real busy Zeus, (sleeving is a b*** ^^)

By God... Your rig looks wicked!
It's everything I anticipated and more! Job well done sir.

The upgrade to an 4870 is an obvious choice. I'd go for the EK-acetal.
The copper look will blend in nicely with your motherboard cooling indeed.

Nice touch with the switch! You've convinced me to remove the frontpanel aswell.
There are far better uses for it i've been thinking of..

Your daughter is adorible. Such a sweet and innocent face

(nitpicking: Wish there would be a way to remove the Zalman logo from the fancontroller..)

Many thanks my friend. The sleeving isn't the nicest of jobs indeed but once you're finished the looks are really rewarding.

So, that makes another vote for the acetal...

If you need help with your build just give me a shout ok?

The Zalman logo kinda stinks but it looks like i have to deal with it, just like the alphacool logo.

Zeus get the Nickle plated with the Acetal top! I love how mine looks. Can't see the water but it looks slick

Thanks Jesse, just when i started making up my mind, haha.

I guess it will be the one that will take my fancy at the day of clicking the order button, so it will be a surprise for me too.

I've been messing with the board and cpu, tying to get a decent overclock out of it and was able to run 3D mark 06 at 3.9GHz (18K marks) but a day after that run i tried again and it was barely stable in windows.

I flashed numbers of bios' but ended up with the very first one.

I picked the new ram up today, OCZ Platinum PC 8500 2x1GB and after some playing around i got 'm stable, running memtest 3.7 for half an hour without errors.

The new videocard is on it's way so i still have some work ahead.

edit: Just ordered the block after asking the wifes opinion on which would look better. (surprise! )

[Zeus]

Oh noes!!



Now i have two.

Let's hope the videocard and block will follow soon.

[dingdong555]

Oh noes! You gave a spare PSU for me! THanks man


haha, joking :P

[The[R]eaper]

lookin' very nice.

[jpm804]

Oh noes!!



Now i have two.

Let's hope the videocard and block will follow soon.

Those looks like two suitcases and your going on vacation.... Those things look big.

Does that mean your going to build another computer now Can't wait to see your new GPU block for your new videocard

[Zeus]

Oh noes! You gave a spare PSU for me! THanks man


haha, joking :P

You give me the money, i'll give you the PSU.

lookin' very nice.

Thanks.

Those looks like two suitcases and your going on vacation.... Those things look big.

Does that mean your going to build another computer now Can't wait to see your new GPU block for your new videocard

Vacation is gonna have to wait, no funds left.

I had to rma my psu but it took so long i douldn't wait and bought a new one.

Have to sell this one off now.

The videocard and block will be here today or monday i think.

edit: Videocard is here, the block was here as well but nobody was home. Monday it will be. Got 17K 3d mark 06 stock with the new card.

[Zeus]

More bad news.

Today a very handsome block came in...





Not bad eh?

But now the problem:



I have a HD4870, not a HD4850, i ordered the right one but got the wrong one.

More delays.

The black sata cables still aren't here, the owner of the shop i ordered them at has been sick all week.

Oh well...

The videocard seems nice though but the stock cooler is extremely noisy with the fan over ~35%.

[dualbrain]

Zeus: You know what's good!!! Congrats for good stuff in your hands!

[Zeus]

Thanks Nils but now read the post, the block looks gorgeous but unfortunately it's not the right one. I think the only difference between the 4870 and 4850 block is the black anodised alu Vreg cooler though.

[dualbrain]

Just keep it as decoration

[ILikeCosmosS]

KEEP GOING you know if your going to want to power mutliple video cards just get a thermaltake Vga psu they give two 30 amp 12v rails and fit in 5.25 in bay
they pretty much get the risk of supplementry psu's failing

[oggie]

Great looking case, inspiration for my next build. Those cable clips you used, what sizes did you use for single and multi wire runthroughs ?

[Zeus]

Just keep it as decoration

Hehe, too expensive for a decoration, i want it to decorate my 4870!

Yesterday i got an email from EK telling me the block itself is exactly the same. The only difference is the Vreg cooler. Now let's pray Aquatuning will cooperate and just send me that little thingie.

Great looking case, inspiration for my next build. Those cable clips you used, what sizes did you use for single and multi wire runthroughs ?

Thanks.

The small clips are 1/8" , the bigger ones are 3/8".

[Jokester_wild]

I'm pretty sure on ek's website they sell those separate so the supplier you deal with shouldn't have a problem doing so if there decent at all

[Zeus]

Since a number of post as missing since the last downtime of XS i'll repost the pics of my videocard.









Videocard is a Sapphire HD4870 1GB and seems to be 3d mark stable at 870/1180 and temp never exceed 38ºC.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Great stuff zeus I still have one FC4870 nickel at my house that never got sold, man its a sweet block

[JaccoW]

Looks very nice Zeus, gonna keep an eye on your build.

[Marvin54]

nice. very very nice !

[erickwok]

Wow! very tidy
great mode

[WeeMaan]

Excellent build, I am truly impressed.
Is that 5/8 OD or 1/2 OD tubing?

[Zeus]

Looks very nice Zeus, gonna keep an eye on your build.

nice. very very nice !

Wow! very tidy
great mode

Thanks guys! It's nice to see this thread's been brought up again.

Excellent build, I am truly impressed.
Is that 5/8 OD or 1/2 OD tubing?

Thanks, it's only 1/2"OD.

The case has undergone some minor changes, it's inhabited by an Asus Crossfire III and a Phenom II 955 Black Edition now.

I already have another fullcover Nickle GPU block for a second videocard to run crossfire in the near future.

I will post some pics when it's done.

[shazza]

Looking forward to updates ... how do you like the 955 system?

[Zeus]

Looking forward to updates ... how do you like the 955 system?

955BE works great, i like it a lot, this CPU overclocks better than my former 940BE. It´s running 3.8GHz 24-7 with 1.36Vcore.

Today i finally made the window in the sidepanel.

After months of pondering and trying to orget about it i bit the bullet and decided to make a window just by hand.

So i only used a stepped drill, a dremel, a file and some sanding paper but i have to say i'm pretty damn happy with the result

Here's a quick photo i took:



I still have to paint the bare alu edges and get the lexan window in place but you get the idea.

More pics when it's done.

[Expat GriZ]

Very nice Zeus!! Absolutely beautiful!! Not to be critical......but......how bout making that top left fan center flat black like the ram fans?