[DEAD] "Old Goat" The 775 Shuttle is reborn! - Nope, Bricked it. Project is Dead.

[atomicmonkey101]

really really nice. I wish that you would put something a little more powerful in terms of graphics horses though. A 760 or 770 maybe (if it fits of course). but nonetheless is looks fantastic. Im just all about that performance per square centimeter/inch depending on where you come from. 

 

Keep dem pics coming!

[joemc99]

I give you...

 

The Shuttle SG33G5 Motherboard - Black Edition, with a bit of yellow... and red... and white... stop judging me...

 

 

 

It's a bit rough, I just hit it hard with one thick coat of Armor All Invisible Shield (Plastidip) really it's just to take off the obvious harsh colours that this motherboard had, there's so much you won't see.

My face be like:

[d33g33]

 

Ah yeah, forgot about that, I've been working with fully modular PSUs
for so long now. 

Oh how I wish it were modular...

 

That sleeving looks really good.

Thanks, I don't like the bleed through but the cables are literally about 3 inches long so there wasn't much point in cutting and splicing in white wire. In hindsight I should have just shrink wrapped the entire wires but it will be right at the back of the motherboard and out of sight anyway.

 

That XSPC block on the GPU looks sick bro.

Thanks mate, bit of any interesting exercise, hopefully it doesn't leak  

 

Pretty sleeving.

Like I said to Raboo, I wish I had shrinked the wires to combat bleed through but the Molex, Sata and 6 pin PCI-E  are all getting custom length, white wired then sleeved so there will be no colour bleed through

 

really really nice. I wish that you would put something a little more powerful in terms of graphics horses though. A 760 or 770 maybe (if it fits of course). but nonetheless is looks fantastic. Im just all about that performance per square centimeter/inch depending on where you come from. 

 

Keep dem pics coming!

Totally understand where you are coming from. I do have a 780Ti in the main rig, this is a HTPC after all and with GameStream, the 780Ti can do all the hard work if I want it to. 

The concern with this build is I only have 250w to play with on this PSU, they aren't standard so I can just put in a bigger one. If I break down what I have now..

Q9550 = 95w

EVGA GTX 750Ti FTW = 41w idle - 119w peak!

Pump = 18w

 

So you can see, I'm already at 232w, throw in my SSD, some Lights and the fan controller, I really have 0 room to work with, a 760 or 770 would put me well over.

 

My face be like:

It certainly has changed the look of the board

 

On the sleeving I have sleeved all the 20pin, wiring in the IR start sensor and sleeving that as well, the 4pin is also done now, and I custom lengthed and sleeved a single molex. So just need to finish making up the 6pin PCI-E and sleeve the Sata cables and then this PSU should be able to be mounted. I also sleeved the 2x 40mms, much cleaner - even though they will be inside the PSU...

 

A big thanks to all the followers and comments so far, i'm glad the community can show appreciation for what is a small, unimpressive and old little box, just being glamoured up a bit

[d33g33]

So I almost finished the PSU.

 

I cut it down, originally it had

1x 20pin

1x 4pin

1x molex and 1x floppy on one strand

2x molex on 1 strand

2x sata on 1 strand

 

and now it has

1x 20pin

1x 4pin

1x molex on one strand

1x 6pin PCI-E on one strand

2x sata on 1 strand

And wired in the IR On/Off button.

 

I just heatshrinked the sata leads as sleeving them always seems to be messy, they will barely be seen anyways.

 

I need to cut out the PSU cover for all the sleeving to fit...

[acidydragon]

Getting me all excited.

[SAV1OUR]

you be rustling my jimmies with these images

[d33g33]

Getting me all excited.

It's getting close to all coming together!

 

you be rustling my jimmies with these images

Haha! It's nice seeing it finally looking like a PC again. There is some detail paint work I need done, i'm just trying to think if I should look at buying the stuff to do myself, or give it to someone to do for me...

[flibberdipper]

Looking gooooooooood.

[The Crazed Child]

I would have thought painting the motherboard would ruin the electronics. How did you do it?

[d33g33]

I would have thought painting the motherboard would ruin the electronics. How did you do it?

So normally yes this is the case, but not with 'Plasti-Dip' it basically is a spray on plastic, so it's an insulator, not a conductor.

 

I just got an email saying AutoBarn (if you have them in QLD?) now stock PlastiDip, I used a similar product called Armor-All Invisible Shield but its the same thing...

[Bagmup]

So normally yes this is the case, but not with 'Plasti-Dip' it basically is a spray on plastic, so it's an insulator, not a conductor.

I just got an email saying AutoBarn (if you have them in QLD?) now stock PlastiDip, I used a similar product called Armor-All Invisible Shield but its the same thing...

Thanks for the heads up.

[acidydragon]

So normally yes this is the case, but not with 'Plasti-Dip' it basically is a spray on plastic, so it's an insulator, not a conductor.

 

I just got an email saying AutoBarn (if you have them in QLD?) now stock PlastiDip, I used a similar product called Armor-All Invisible Shield but its the same thing...

It would generally be fine either way.

Spray Paint is non conductive, so it wouldn't carry a current anywhere on the board, and would have been fine.

Plasti-Dip, is also nice though, because it's easily removed.

[d33g33]

The band is back together!

 

I didn't get electrocuted and suprisingly, 12v on the 12v rail, 5v on the 5v rail and 3.3v on the 3.3v rail  voltage out is A-OK!

 

Quite the difference...

[Raboo]

That's a nice PSU.

[d33g33]

Its all going back together!

 

I didn't get nay photo's last night sadly, I will take some when I get home from work but I have the radiator, PSU, Motherboard with CPU block and Memory fitted in the case. I had to remove the SSD from where it was as there wasn't enough room. I'll find a new home for it.

 

Man its tight! The Radiator is touching the side of the PSU, and the the tubing off the CPU waterblock is also touching the PSU.

 

It's looking clean though! GPU will get fitted tonight and should be able to finish tubing up and start leak testing.

 

One thing i'm not sure about is where to put the IR Receiver. I'm not sure if it will register through a 4mm perspex panel I'm installing in the front...

 

Photos to come tonight!

[Bagmup]

Cool, be great to see some pics. If the IR receiver doesn't work through the perspex, you could always drill a tiny hole though it I guess and point the receiver out, it'd still be fairly inconspicuous.

[d33g33]

Some unplanned, badly laid out, badly taken photographs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SAV1OUR]

@d33g33 who did the little text in the bottom of your pictures?

[d33g33]

@d33g33 who did the little text in the bottom of your pictures?

Meeeeeeeeeee

[SAV1OUR]

Meeeeeeeeeee

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooice

[PhantomChevron]

That looks so cramped, but excellent job though, now how are you going to do the tubing for the GPU?

[d33g33]

That looks so cramped, but excellent job though, now how are you going to do the tubing for the GPU?

It is cramped. The case is teeny, water cooling it was a ridiculous idea. Tubing for the GPU won't actually be hard at all. It should flip over the card, if not I can flip the block and point the outlets to the front of the case for super easy tube runs.

[PhantomChevron]

It is cramped. The case is teeny, water cooling it was a ridiculous idea. Tubing for the GPU won't actually be hard at all. It should flip over the card, if not I can flip the block and point the outlets to the front of the case for super easy tube runs.

I see, can't wait to see the final product

[The Crazed Child]

Amazing! I love seeing this build progress into the finished product over time. 

[d33g33]

I see, can't wait to see the final product

I had to flip the waterblock