Project: Angel

[Ic3man]

Haha, sorry m8. This thread would be useless without pics

[dreamaxx]

Haha, people from the UK and USA don't know what "capped" means. Stupid crap internet in Australia *shakes fist*

[Ic3man]

I'll swap my bandwidth for the weather you get down under.

[dreamaxx]

Not right now you wouldn't Perth has been stormy recently. It's awesome actually lol I LIKE the rain! I think because it is a rare occurence. I don't like cold too much though. Thank god I'm from Australia hey? Half English actually but I've never lived in the UK, only visited rellies.

BTW, do you still have your Tiger Style case? I really love it, you did a great job. Great ambassador for Mountain Mods

[matsjuw]

I'm liking what I see, but I'm a bit afraid of it turning out to white.
We'll see how it turns out, you're on the right way

[Brad8988]

Looking nice as always duder.

[Ic3man]

Not right now you wouldn't Perth has been stormy recently. It's awesome actually lol I LIKE the rain! I think because it is a rare occurence. I don't like cold too much though. Thank god I'm from Australia hey? Half English actually but I've never lived in the UK, only visited rellies.

BTW, do you still have your Tiger Style case? I really love it, you did a great job. Great ambassador for Mountain Mods

English weather is the most unpredictable in the world. Snowing one day, sunny the next. Ideal for some bench runs though when temps hit sub-zero

I moved on from the Tiger a while ago and turned to the 'dark side' (LianLI V2000) but regretted the move and came back to Mountainmods \o/.

I'm liking what I see, but I'm a bit afraid of it turning out to white.
We'll see how it turns out, you're on the right way

I'm hoping to make it like a bit of a gradient, white in the bottom section rising to blue up top. White tubing is a must for this build though.

Looking nice as always duder.

Haha, didn't know you were also on here m8, it's like CPC all over again except I can't ban you now

[Brad8988]

lol i didnt know u were. Whats with the name? Top gun wannabe eh?

[Ic3man]

Lol, I did ask mods to change it but meh.

[MomijiTMO]

Not right now you wouldn't Perth has been stormy recently. It's awesome actually lol I LIKE the rain! I think because it is a rare occurence. I don't like cold too much though. Thank god I'm from Australia hey?

Ha ha, would you like our rain? Glad it's gone and terrorised upper NSW.

Haha, sorry m8. This thread would be useless without pics

Who cares about me. More pics =D It's worth the wait xD

[ILikeCosmosS]

i like it but why are there so many of those corsair fan airflow ram things
i might rethink on getting enermax fans

[dreamaxx]

Enermax fans look AWESOME, really liking their look. This build is gonna be super sweet when finished, can't wait.

[No1451]

Haha, people from the UK and USA don't know what "capped" means. Stupid crap internet in Australia *shakes fist*

As Canucks do though, my old cap was 40Gb a month, I used it up in the first week getting Steam games and spent the rest of the month with 1/5 of my regular speed

@Ic3man: Great looking build, like what you did with the rad(that I still need to do with mine).

[Ic3man]

i like it but why are there so many of those corsair fan airflow ram things
i might rethink on getting enermax fans

Enermax fans look AWESOME, really liking their look. This build is gonna be super sweet when finished, can't wait.

Aye the enermax Cluster really are a sweet bit of kit. Expensive but worth it imo.

As Canucks do though, my old cap was 40Gb a month, I used it up in the first week getting Steam games and spent the rest of the month with 1/5 of my regular speed

@Ic3man: Great looking build, like what you did with the rad(that I still need to do with mine).

I got another (possibly two) PA120.3's to add to the two I already have, should keep things cool enough.

[Ic3man]

Ok, here's some snaps I took during my first battle with the PSU which might I add is pretty damn gorgeous to begin with. Sadly the black/yellow braid just dosn't hold with the theme of this build. Here's the PSU (Enermax 85+):











Time to do some braiding...

[Ic3man]

I originally planned on all white for the braid:



However the braid I got was not the best and showed alot of the colour of the cables through the braid. I should have gone for murdermod braid but meh. I could have gone the easy route and chosen black but every man and his dog is doing black so opted for blue.

For the ATX I opted to sleeve each cable individually in blue with the ends (the bit nearest the PSU split into 6x4 cables and braid them in blue which gave a neater, easier to manage bundle rather than the PSU exit looking like a rats nest of cables.

Heres the 3mm braid used:



Unclasping the cables from the ATX block was a total PITA. Forget about using the pre-made tools, they snap after about four pins. Bring on the ghetto ATX pin remover



Each pin was painstakingly numbered so I knew which pin went where come rebuild time:



Then I comenced the braiding:



A whole lot of mess!



Note some of the cables are frayed at the ends. These were trimmed before sealing with heatshrink.

[Ic3man]

Here was the tricky part as I needed to judge how far up the pin to put the heatshrink so's not to interefere with putting the pin back in the block but also not to have any pesky cable colour showing. Here's the 'best fit' that worked for me:



Once braidied up I then had the tedius job of realigning the barb on the pins (24x2!)



Getting there....



Done (although need to trim some heatshrink to level it all out a little).



Rinse and repeat for 8 Pin 12v:



You can still see some colour through the cabling but it's not as bad under normal light, camera flash seems to have brought it out much more than you can see. Either way it's a helluva alot better than the white looked!.

Thats about it for now, still got alot of braiding to do, molex, SATA then all the misc wiring in the PC. I'll crack on with that once I get the feeling back in my fingers....sigh

[xaxis]

Again I would like to say how much I love your build... but as far as the sleeving, in my humble opinion my friend, you most certainly need to go back and change over all the wires to blue, or some other alternative... trust me, I can relate, I was sleeving for nearly 12 hours straight last night... it can become a tedious wretched blood spewing hell (har... least for me)... but with a build as exceptional as yours is / and will be, every detail is paramount.

Just my 3 or 4 cents.

[dreamaxx]

Shoulda got Murdermod blue sleeving, then you wouldn't have been able to see ANY cable.

[millertime359]

Shoulda got Murdermod blue sleeving, then you wouldn't have been able to see ANY cable.

+1 on that, love my Murdermod sleeving.

Great looking build though. I can't wait for more

[sirheck]

Damn, Shazza,s may not look so good after you get finished with this.

Looking good man.

[SoulsCollective]

While I greatly dislike the MM boxes, much admiration for the clean and quality job you're doing, and love your accy work.

[Ic3man]

Cheers for the kind comments guys.

As I said, I know the MM sleeving would have been better but I can't seem to find any in blue, only black. Does anyone have a link?

[dr-]

you should drop nils a PM or something. i am sure he can hook you up...

[Ic3man]

Once again, sorry for the (very) long break between updating this project. Sorry to both my sponsors and just as importantly, the members of this forum who have been so kind with their comments thus far. I'm not the type to give up on anything and intend to complete this rig if it kills me! Anyway, I've finally sorted most of whats been going on in my life so it's time to get this project back on track.

You may remember that I fitted two Thermochill PA 120.3's to the front panel and those more astute among you may also remember that there is actually room for four PA 120.3's. Well I went and did it, I fitted four .

Having a bit of spare time on my hands this week, I sprayed up the remaining two rads and fitted them to the case complete with 6 enermax twisters and colour coded fan grills:



The first one was fitted above the other two but due to clearance issues come tubing time, this one was not fitted with a shroud. The front fans on the rads attached to the case will be working as intakes, sucking cold air from outside the case over the rads.



The fourth rad is positioned low down to the rear of the case. While this rad will not recieve clean cold air (sucking air from inside the case, acting as an exhaust) it should still prove cool enough to keep the chipset cool....and it would have been rude not to make use of the space for another rad .



Starting to look a little cramped in the bottom half of the case so I think that'll do for the cooling capacity of the 'Angel'.

Next up - Pump mounts.