A lot of new pics! - Project Snowflake [scratch build]

[HellaflushMcSwaggins]

Lian Li offer off the shelf motherboard tray's, that's what I did for my G5

http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio_category/motherboard-tray/

I know, but the shipping costs would be really high, already thought about just buying one

[spwath]

I know, but the shipping costs would be really high, already thought about just buying one

Frozencpu.com sells the Lian li mb trays

[Rale]

Design is lookin good, cant wait to see how it turns out!

[cesrai]

Design is lookin good, cant wait to see how it turns out!

So you also have a build called snowflake, this will be awkward imagine a conversation between both of you:  

 

 Nerdwall :" You know m8 snowflake is turning really good "  

You:" But I already finished it and I'm using it now "

 Nerdwall: " Not your snowflake m8 my snowflake " 

You " you what m8? you couldn't get a better name than copying me "

 Nerdwall: " I didn't know yours was called snowflake "

You: " What m8? you didn't even know what it was called do you even care about me"

 Nerdwall :" Chill m8 I'm sorry "

You: " I'm done I'm so done "

 

*walks out of the rooms and goes somewhere else with awkward silence left behind.

[BuntzenB]

You sir are an awesome person.

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[Rale]

So you also have a build called snowflake, this will be awkward imagine a conversation between both of you:  

 

 Nerdwall :" You know m8 snowflake is turning really good "  

You:" But I already finished it and I'm using it now "

 Nerdwall: " Not your snowflake m8 my snowflake " 

You " you what m8? you couldn't get a better name than copying me "

 Nerdwall: " I didn't know yours was called snowflake "

You: " What m8? you didn't even know what it was called do you even care about me"

 Nerdwall :" Chill m8 I'm sorry "

You: " I'm done I'm so done "

 

*walks out of the rooms and goes somewhere else with awkward silence left behind.

lol nah man, i just threw some parts together, designing your own case is way better!

 

f- the cad letts see some pix.  lookin good so far

[Nerdwall]

Hi everyone!

 

It’s been a while since my last update, I’m sorry about that! I announced this project just a few weeks before Christmas and that happen to be really bad timing… I had a lot to do in school the last days before Christmas and it appeared to be almost impossible to find a company with the equipment to help me cut out the parts I needed. Because of all these unfortunate happenings I have decided to change the idea to something I could do better on my own, but I think that’s a part of doing a project in this scale. I realize that my plan might have been a bit unrealistic and more expensive than I can afford as a student. 

 

When I went to my parents to celebrate Christmas I spent the long hours on the train to find a new way to reach my goal, to create a custom case from scratch that would look good, be compact and fit powerful enough components for heavy gaming and some light video editing and rendering. I figured that, as I failed to find a workshop who had time to help me before the holidays and as I was eager to get started and use all the extra time I had during my Christmas break, I had to find a way to do this mostly on my own.

 

I picked up some 3mm sheets of Plexiglas, both white and transparent, at a store close to my parents. Furthermore I chanced the drawings I had done to better suite the new conditions. This included removing most of the bends and the single middle part, as well as making the case a bit smaller to fit just a mITX board with a single graphics card. I borrowed my dad’s jigsaw and his garage to roughly cut out the parts I need. This is where I am right now.

 

My plan now is to continue to cut out the more tricky parts like the Mobo, GPU and PSU cut out with my dremel. I will also try to sell some of the parts that I don’t need to have more money to spend on this new build! During the Christmas sales all over the internet I managed to pick up some of the new components I need to this new case, including white Primochill fittings, white 10/13mm tubing, an Aquacomputer res and also sleeving for the PSU. I have also decided to reuse a lot of the parts of my last build. As of right now, this will be the setup:

 

Intel i7 4770K (delidded)

Asus z87 Maximus VI Impact

Gigabyte GTX 780 Ghz edition with EK-WB block and backplate

XFX XTR 650W PSU

120+240mm HW-Labs Black Ice GTS radiators 

Koolance CPU-380I CPU Block

Laning DDC Pump with EK top and heatsink

Aquacomputer aqualis 450 reservoir

 

I have still to choose RAM, fans and some other smaller things. Also I might try to change the GTX 780 to a GTX 970 that is a bit shorter.

That’s all for now I guess, I promise to write updates more often in the future. Here are some pics of what it looks like this far, remember that it is far from finished!  

 

 

 

 

[cesrai]

Don't worry about it m8 we can wait.

[Nerdwall]

Don't worry about it m8 we can wait.

 

Thanks! I think that the final result will be just as good as my original idea!

[Nerdwall]

I just came back from the post office with a lot of new parts for the water loop. I'll take some photos and write a small update tomorrow!

 

/Axel

[Nerdwall]

Okey guys, it's time for a new update! As I wrote yetarday, most of the stuff I ordered during the christmas sale has arrived so I thought it was time for a small photo shoot! 

 

First a pic of my small "studio"

 

One of the two packages I got yesterday was from ModDIY. Mainly some nice white sleeved cables for my XFX XTR power supply, but also some random screws and standoffs for the custom case. 

 

 

 

 

I did also get some of the cooling parts I ordered from Specialtech in the UK. White tubing, Primochill fittings and a Aquacomputer res! The waterblock you can see in the pics are from my last build but I will reuse it for this one too, it's the Koolance CPU-380i which I think look really cool

 

 

 

 

And finally some of the other parts I will bu using. The ssds are Seagate 600 480GB and I will run them in Raid 0 and the GPU is a GTX 780 from GIgabyte with a EK-Block. 

 

 

 

I will keep on working with the case and hopefully do an update about it this weekend! 

 

Best regards

/Axel

[cesrai]

 

Okey guys, it's time for a new update! As I wrote yetarday, most of the stuff I ordered during the christmas sale has arrived so I thought it was time for a small photo shoot! 

 

First a pic of my small "studio"

 

 

One of the two packages I got yesterday was from ModDIY. Mainly some nice white sleeved cables for my XFX XTR power supply, but also some random screws and standoffs for the custom case. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did also get some of the cooling parts I ordered from Specialtech in the UK. White tubing, Primochill fittings and a Aquacomputer res! The waterblock you can see in the pics are from my last build but I will reuse it for this one too, it's the Koolance CPU-380i which I think look really cool

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally some of the other parts I will bu using. The ssds are Seagate 600 480GB and I will run them in Raid 0 and the GPU is a GTX 780 from GIgabyte with a EK-Block. 

 

 

 

 

 

I will keep on working with the case and hopefully do an update about it this weekend! 

 

Best regards

/Axel

 

amazing

[Nerdwall]

amazing

 Thanks!

[d33g33]

Love the Koolance 380i, IMO its the best looking block on the market

[Nerdwall]

Hi everyone!

 

It's been a while since my last post, whih I am really sorry about. I hope there still someone following this project even if it have had a slow start to say the least. The biggest reason´is that school takes a lot of my time and I have had exams both before and after christmas. A second thing is that I really want this project to turn out as good as possible so I won't rush it at all. The good thing is that the I have had some time during the last two weeks or so to get thing going for real, so I finally have something to write post about... YEY!

 

I've chnged a few thing about the Component since last post. here are the main changes:

 

*Motherboard changed from Asus z87 Impact to the new MSI z97I ACK, mainly because of the colors of the RAM and PCI-E slots of the Asus board. I will do some modding of the MSI board so stay tuned for photos of that!

 

*The Aquacomputer res I originally wanted was larger than i expected and even if it did fit in the case, the cable management and tubing runs would have been really bad. I will change it for the EK X-RES DDC 100.

 

*The tubing will be changed from white to black and the coolant will change the other way around, from Mayhems Pastel Black to the Pastel Ice White!

 

*The RAM will also be water cooled and I have ordered EK Monarch block for that, sadly they have not showed up yet....

 

Now for the actuall update!

I've been trying my best to take photos of the whole process but sadly I often do thing late at night so the lighting isn't the best, so keep that in mind...

The most of the core components have arrived so I started with a boot test to chack that ecerything was working Before modding anything. i dont want to end up with a painted mobo that was DOA... During the process I did change the TIM between the CPU and IHS of my delided 4770K (I use CLU), and I also had to run down to the local computershop to pick up a cheep air cooler. Finally I removed the heatsinks from the RAM sticks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thats all for this time. I have also painted the mobo and some other parts, update will be up tomorrow! (for real this time, the photos are alredy uploaded....)

[d33g33]

CLU and lapped, nice. im doing the same for my 4790k.

 

Did you take stats before delidding so you could compare?

[Nerdwall]

CLU and lapped, nice. im doing the same for my 4790k.

 

Did you take stats before delidding so you could compare?

 

The delidding acually took place this summer, I just changed the CLU now. Though it really made alot of different when I did it, my chip ran veeeery hot before delidding and now its about normal. In the same rebuild as I did the delidding last summer I also changed the rads and components of the water loop so I have no exact numbers but i would say the temps dropped about 10-15c....

[Nerdwall]

CLU and lapped, nice. im doing the same for my 4790k.

 

Did you take stats before delidding so you could compare?

 

Oh and just so that you know, I dont think you should delid your 4970K. If I remember correctly it has the IHS soldered on... Look that up before you start trying to get it of1  

[d33g33]

Oh and just so that you know, I dont think you should delid your 4970K. If I remember correctly it has the IHS soldered on... Look that up before you start trying to get it of1

TIM is 'better' but still not soldered on 4790k

 

 

The delidding acually took place this summer, I just changed the CLU now. Though it really made alot of different when I did it, my chip ran veeeery hot before delidding and now its about normal. In the same rebuild as I did the delidding last summer I also changed the rads and components of the water loop so I have no exact numbers but i would say the temps dropped about 10-15c.... 

When I did my 3770k without changing anything but delidding I had a 16degree average drop over all cores. Amazing.

[Nerdwall]

TIM is 'better' but still not soldered on 4790k

 

 

 

When I did my 3770k without changing anything but delidding I had a 16degree average drop over all cores. Amazing.

 

Ah ok, my bad!

[Nerdwall]

Ok, let's do some painting?

 

I want EVERYTHING to be either black or white, preferably both...

 

First of I'm painting the mobo heatsinks. Step one, removal...

 

 

 

 

I also painted the silver part of the Koolance CPU-380I block, both radiators and the RAM heatsinks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

After drying over night I'm really happy with the results, hope you like it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Think it looks really stunning!

 

What do you guys think that I should put on the white spot where the dragon logo were before?

Im not a huge fan of the MSI gaming logo so I would prefere something els, or do you think I sould leave it white?

[d33g33]

I like it man. If you could get some sort of branding to stick back in the mobo heat sink that'd be cool. Plain white looks a bit... Plain.

[Nerdwall]

I like it man. If you could get some sort of branding to stick back in the mobo heat sink that'd be cool. Plain white looks a bit... Plain.

I totally agree! Maby I'll put a snowflake logo there or somthing...

[Magic Puffin]

Yay white ;D

[Stadiz]

Really nice finish on the radiators.