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[dietje1908]

looks amazing , a very unique g5

[paulbagz]

Ahhh I wondered if you were going to hide the PSU and now you have!

Perfection!

To the Case Gallery with you!

-PB

[Shaw]

looks amazing , a very unique g5

Ahhh I wondered if you were going to hide the PSU and now you have!

Perfection!

To the Case Gallery with you!

-PB

Thanks guys!

I wanted to have a cover for the PSU which still showed the tubing, but that wasn't going to happen with a single sheet of metal so in the end I just covered it all up. I'm still looking at ways to clean up the rest of the build if anyone has any ideas? I tried to remove the copper sticker from the rad (if only it was silver) and it brought some of the powdercoating off with it, so that still needs sorting out and I'm not sure how I feel about the cover over the rad and fans..

[Shaw]

Some benchmarks for those interested:

3Dmark 11

• P Score: 17,852
• X Score: 6,972

Latest 3Dmark:

• Ice Storm 185,874
• Cloud Gate 30,535
• Fire Strike 11,4181

Heaven:

• FPS 102.8
• Scores 2590
• Min FPS 42.9
• Max FPS 260.9

Cinebench:

• CPU 9.22
• CPU (Single Core) 1.91
• OpenGL 62.01 FPS

Super Pi:

• 16K 0.100s
• 32K 0.170s
• 64K 0.360s
• 128K 0.780s
• 256K 1.680s
• 512K 3.670s
• 1M 7.920s
• 2M 17.990s
• 4M 40.521s
• 8M 1m 30.410s
• 16M 3m 17.770s
• 32M 7m 19.811s

CPU temperatures under IBT is range from 52?C to 60?C (~30?C idle 22?C ambient)
GPU temperatures under Furmark reach 45-49?C (~30?C idle 22?C ambient)

All in all I'm really happy with the temps. I knocked the CPU down from 4.75GHz to 4.625GHz just because of the voltage, the temperatures were well under control.

[Shaw]

I know I've said this build was finished.. BUT.. It finally is! I had a little trouble with the acrylic window but I'm happy to say that everything is now sorted!

I'm just going to leave this little gif here for now, more pics should follow soon...


And a still of the cleaned up insides - removed Alphacool logo (and ended up vinyl wrapping the radiator after the paint chipped off), made a cover for the top compartment, and fixed the GPU cables:

[Shaw]

Here's a little gif showing how the 2 way mirror works:


If it's lighter outside the case, the acrylic is mirrored, if it's lighter inside the case then the acrylic is transparent. It looks amazing in the dark, the exposure in the gif doesn't really do it justice.

[Elder]

The idea of the acrylic glass I like
I'm curious about how to perform the mount ...

[Shaw]

Thanks. Here's a better picture of how it looks in the dark.


As for mounting it, there's a 1mm thick tab along the bottom of the window which slots into the case, and then the mounting frame with locking holes from the original door has been glued to the acrylic.

[Shaw]

Here's a couple more shots of the build in the dark. Believe it or not these are all taken with the mirrored side panel on.