[Project] No-Name (Obsidian)

[NAM_killer]

My Antec 1200 just isnt cutting it any more so I've decided to upgrade my case to the obsidian which I will mod... Along with my entire water loop and PSU and I will also braid my PSU. (Long road ahead of me!)

I plan on getting:
- Bitspower Mosfet and NB/SB blocks for my P6T deluxe v2
- Swiftech Apogee XT for my 920@4.4Ghz
- When GT300 comes out I'm gonna buy either the 360 or 380 but most likely the 380 and then slap a waterblock straight on that baby!
- Upgrade my 850W Galaxy to a Corsair HX850 and braid that with MDPC cable braid
- A quad rad to put in the top of my obsidian and a bitspower mesh radgrill (a great idea that I got from noeru doing it in his obsidian)
- Noiseblocker 120mm silent fans (transparent blue blades with a black shroud)
- A Bitspower 250ml res

My build right now:
- 920@4.4Ghz
- P6T deluxe v2 cross flashed to v1 BIOS 0006
- 6Gb G.Skill Trident @ 1678Mhz@6-7-7-20-1T
- EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 SSC @ 750/2580/1575 (will get gt300 and a waterblock later)
- Crucial 64Gb SSD (might get a 2nd one if they release firmware for trim in RAID)
- WD Black 640Gb
- Enermax Galaxy 850W (changing to a HX850 fully braided)

- Swiftech Apogee GTZ (changing to a Swiftech Apogee XT)
- Laing MCP655 vario (keeping)
- Masterkleer clear 7/16" tubing (changing to PrimoFlex Pro LRT Black Tubing 7/16")
- Thermochill triple 120mm rad (changing to Termochill quad)
- Feser double 120mm rad (keeping)
- Dangerden fatboy 1/2" barbs (keeping)
- EK multioption 100 (changing to Bitspower 250)


My PC right now (I know the cable management is a mess!!):


I have taken the HDD racks out and am STILL waiting for the quad rad grill to come in stock on performance-pcs!
Which means I will have to wait even longer to cut the hole in the top of my case to fit my quad rad





Cable braid arrived with a cool picture from Nils at MDPC


I am going to be doing the 1st layer of my 24 pin and 8 pin with black braid/blue shrink and then the 2nd layer will be blue braid/black shrink for contrast. Hopefully when the cables fan out they will look good alternating black and blue


This is currently how far I am with my 24 pin


And my SATA cable

[NAM_killer]

My Bitspower blocks have arrived!! (29/12/2009)

All together with the boxes only just opened


NB/SB full cover (very difficult to take nice pics of!!!)





Mosfet #1




Mosfet #2

[NAM_killer]

Quad Thermochill rad arrived today! Woop woop! Just gotta flush it now...

[NAM_killer]

This should do it.. Now to start uploading pics!

[Defiant83]

Nice pictures nick, looking forward to some more updates. looking forward to seeing some pics of your bitspower blocks. (notice the use of punctuation!)

[rjkoneill]

lets see these bitspower blocks!

[NAM_killer]

lets see these bitspower blocks!

Here they are

[Defiant83]

Good work!

So when are you planning to fit the blocks (they look very tasty btw)

Also are you planning to do any mods to your obsidian case?

Oh and finally good work on the cable management on the Oc3D system!

[NAM_killer]

Good work!

So when are you planning to fit the blocks (they look very tasty btw)

Also are you planning to do any mods to your obsidian case?

Oh and finally good work on the cable management on the Oc3D system!

Thanks

Well I might as well wait until I move everything into my Obsidian, so maybe a couple of weeks?
I'm going to have to take pics of the board with these and whichever waterblock I choose for my CPU out of the case of course!

I will be removing the hot-swap bay and the lower HDD rack from it.
Then I will be cutting the top of the case to fit a quad rad in the top with a black Bitspower mesh grill on, and finally cut a hole in the bottom so I can put a double rad in the bottom section!
Pics will come soon!!!

And thanks again haha!

[NAM_killer]

Sorry for only one pic of my case and rad but my camera is taking really grainy pics...

I am getting a tripod soon so more pics to come!

[hale88]

Hopefully to see it runs soon

[NAM_killer]

Bought my block, more DD fatboys and BP Silver Shining 3/8"-1/4" adapters!

[NAM_killer]

Finished braiding 24 pin!

[NAM_killer]

Well then, after a hell of a long time of waiting, buying, picture taking, braiding (my fingers got covered in callouses) and building, I now have some pics of a very nearly completed computer!

And yes, I have decided to go with matt black bitspower barbs and rotary angle fittings!

Nano fluid!


Board in and tubes on it


GPU block



Bitspower 250 multioption


Quad rad in the top


Decided to get a mod kit (black sparkle) and a mod top for my pump




More pics to come with the fluid and cables in!


The quad rad grill that i ordered was a silver aluminium bitspower mesh grill and I am wondering if anyone has any ideas on what I can paint it.

I have some matt black spray but I am not sure whether I could do its frame in matt black and maybe the mesh in either matt black aswell or a dark blue.. What do you guys think?