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How to Make an Awesome Midplate

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Holy crap! THAT'S AWESOME!!! *thumbs up*

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You have an awesome midplate and exceptional skills, but your mouse sucks :)

i had to rma my m65 :) this is just a random mouse that i found in a draw.

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Duuuuuude this is great - thanks for posting!

Slick if you are going to do this , PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO SERIES I SWEAR I WILL GET ALL MY FRIENDS TO LIKE AND FAVORITE THE VIDS AND IF THEY DONT WANT TO DO THAT I WILL KILL THEM 

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Would you guys be willing to pay £130 + shipping for one of these midplates with your custom design on it? perhaps £100 + shipping for a smaller size? or £60 + shipping for a less complicated design? really the larger and more complicated the design the more expensive it will be but just show me your interest and i may start producing them.

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Just another design idea for you guys:

 

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I should think @Slick would like this one. :)

 

i'll try and release more if i get the time

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A part of me wants to give you money since I'm lazy, but than I remember I have no money.

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I would love to do this, but I would be able to see under the midplate in my build because big windows.

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:o

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Would you guys be willing to pay £130 + shipping for one of these midplates with your custom design on it? perhaps £100 + shipping for a smaller size? or £60 + shipping for a less complicated design? really the larger and more complicated the design the more expensive it will be but just show me your interest and i may start producing them.

I'd probally pay around 150ish USD,

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Remembered seeing this on the WAN show I think. I'm starting to gather the tools and materials for this, but have been wondering, did you cut the spaces for the radiator and PCI slots after having it engraved, or did you have it cut when getting the design done?

 

At first I thought I would have a problem with seeing the sheet with the LEDs on, but I'm planning on getting a bigger sheet for the top one and bending it so it sort of becomes a PSU cover type thing too. Might even put another design on the side so that it's not just a sheet of black plastic. 

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Remembered seeing this on the WAN show I think. I'm starting to gather the tools and materials for this, but have been wondering, did you cut the spaces for the radiator and PCI slots after having it engraved, or did you have it cut when getting the design done?

 

At first I thought I would have a problem with seeing the sheet with the LEDs on, but I'm planning on getting a bigger sheet for the top one and bending it so it sort of becomes a PSU cover type thing too. Might even put another design on the side so that it's not just a sheet of black plastic. 

yeah i used a jigsaw to cut the radiator space out afterwards because i changed my mind on the radiator placement after cutting the midplate, if i had known it was going to be mounted on the front i would have laser cut it out.  GL and if you have any other questions drop me a pm.

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Dude, one day im going to use this tutorial and im gonna make the coolest midplate ever :D Itll never be as good or as pretty as yours but im willing to try when i have the money :D

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Thanks for the post man :D, my PC has been fairly stock for quite some time now, and has started to look a bit bland... after reading this post, I realized how readily available the parts i needed were at my school DT classroom. 

 

since i had the corsair c70 army green edition, i decided to make the mid-plate the same color, and since i already had the nzxt hue, the lighting was already covered.

 

some pics of it done (i forgot to take pics along the way... ):

 

(ps sorry for the grainy pics, these were off my phone xD)

 

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Thanks for the post man :D, my PC has been fairly stock for quite some time now, and has started to look a bit bland... after reading this post, I realized how readily available the parts i needed were at my school DT classroom. 

 

since i had the corsair c70 army green edition, i decided to make the mid-plate the same color, and since i already had the nzxt hue, the lighting was already covered.

 

some pics of it done (i forgot to take pics along the way... ):

 

(ps sorry for the grainy pics, these were off my phone xD)

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Thanks for the post man :D, my PC has been fairly stock for quite some time now, and has started to look a bit bland... after reading this post, I realized how readily available the parts i needed were at my school DT classroom. 

 

since i had the corsair c70 army green edition, i decided to make the mid-plate the same color, and since i already had the nzxt hue, the lighting was already covered.

 

some pics of it done (i forgot to take pics along the way... ):

 

(ps sorry for the grainy pics, these were off my phone xD)

Very nice!

PC Builder, Engineer... BACON    Project Cobalt: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/38058-project-cobalt-copper-piping-laser-etching-and-more/#entry489258

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If I use 10mm clear acrylic how deep does the engrave need to be?

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Would you guys be willing to pay £130 + shipping for one of these midplates with your custom design on it? perhaps £100 + shipping for a smaller size? or £60 + shipping for a less complicated design? really the larger and more complicated the design the more expensive it will be but just show me your interest and i may start producing them.

 YES I WOULD BUY ONE

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I would be interested, but it would depend on price for me. 

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