Phantom: Antique Noctua

[Father Fuzzy]

some good modding and love the lamp

 

cool project

[ivhyn]

I was thinking of a similar build quite some time ago but I was unsure how it would work out with the beige, brown and the other colors.

Yours looks really nice and I'm looking forward to seeing the finished build!

Keep it up.

[Kiwiandapple]

I was thinking of a similar build quite some time ago but I was unsure how it would work out with the beige, brown and the other colors.

Yours looks really nice and I'm looking forward to seeing the finished build!

Keep it up.

 

Yeah, I can't wait either. I am having a big struggle with the fan controller LEDs to be honest. It's not going well. I spend 2 days and so far I only managed to get 1 LED out and that's about it. The anoying part is, the tin is stuck in one of the holes where my lead has to go in for the new LED. So I can't get the new LED in it. Will struggle a little more tomorrow. 

 

Aside from that, well i'm waiting for parts to arrive. Mostly the paint and cables with some small accessories. 

After I have those I will have to go work on my door and the fan holder. After that, I will get pretty close to the end. 

[Rheinwasser]

this is the best build idea ive seen in a while!

[Kiwiandapple]

this is the best build idea ive seen in a while!

 

Ow wow, thanks for that. Always great to hear this. 

 

I honestly can't wait to get some more updates for you guys, especially the paint jobs. Once the painting is done it should bring the whole build more alive and in the state that I want it to be. 

Then it's the cables, LEDs and front door mod left to do. 

I am very much in a strugle with the LEDs it's kinda sad... today was not a good day either and I left the battle field with a little bit of anger. Will try a more brute and hopefully better working technique tomorrow if I have the time for it. 

[NerdNinja]

Dat SATA cable. :wub:

[Kiwiandapple]

Update time!

 

So I found my old, lost soldering iron wich worked a bunch better and with a little bit of brute force. I managed to desolder the LEDs! 
I sadly did not make to many pictures of the whole process. But to be fair, I allready did upload that. Only got 1 picture now, suprisingly enough.. my phone gets the color much better then my camera. It is still not like correct, again it looks much better in real life then on a picture. Here it is. ..this was the whole battle! /worth! 

 

 

Now for the way more interesting part.. I finally got paint. Because my sister could not make me the correct color that I asked for she never made anything. So I just ordered the same paint I used for the grill. Got here in 2 days and I instantly went for it. I made pictures on my phone as well.. wich made me forget to make them with my good camera, but hopefully you can enjoy it! 
As well, the colors are not 100% correctly pictured. They match slightly better irl then here. 

 

Supervisor cat having a look. 

Used the box of my monitor to use as underground. It was very windy outside so I moved into our shed... I don't know why I did not do this before! 

After 2 layers, this is how it looks. 

And this is the part where I made a bunch of pictures with my phone and forgot to make some with this good camera. So stealthy armor here! (sorry!)

And here is me swapping out the fans from the NH-D14 to 2 times a N-F12.

And the whole board with all dust covers on or well.. almost all, I forgot to paint the RAM dust covers... woops! Will do this later. 

On the picture below the color is actually quiet accurate. 

Cat always making sure I am doing the right thing! Yes yes, static - I did not touch him and if I had to, I would just grab something metal and tada! 

GPU installed. 

 

Ow and little extra bit. I removed my cd drive! 

 

I actually do realize that I did not make a nice shot of the rig installed with the cables, yet.. So I will make this tomorrow and post it here again! 
Now, the last part was to put the backplate on my Classy! 

 

Yes this backplate looks way to good to paint it. So I decided to not paint it. I will paint the GPU itself later tho, when I get my cables. 
So this was it for now, no idea when I can give the next update. 

 

I am very happy about the result. Let me know what you think of it.

[CJPowell27]

That motherboard matches perfectly  :wub:

Truly sexy

[TheRuke]

@Linus secretly faps to this daily.

[Kiwiandapple]

That motherboard matches perfectly  :wub:

Truly sexy

 

Hah, I am so happy with how it came out, looks amazing in real life. I really hope to be able to make good pictures with correct lightning and all to get the best and 

 

@Linus secretly faps to this daily.

 

Lol.. I am not to sure how to put this, but.. I would not mind! 

[Marco Martinho]

Well, it seems that the only way to make noctua fans "fit" in a build, is to paint the whole rig with the same color.

 

Looks good

[TheProfosist]

Well, it seems that the only way to make noctua fans "fit" in a build, is to paint the whole rig with the same color.

Looks good

I disagree. Also for me that's too much noctua color.

[alpenwasser]

Well, it seems that the only way to make noctua fans "fit" in a build, is to paint the whole rig with the same color.

 

Looks good

 

You could also go with black.

 

I disagree. Also for me that's too much noctua color.

 

I actually rather like it, but I can see that for some it might be a bit much vanilla/sand. The

graphics card will hide quite a bit of it though.

[Lays]

I disagree. Also for me that's too much noctua color.

 

 

I like it and all, but after my experience with nf-f12's I'd rather do something else.  Although it is unique.

[Lord Pantaloons]

aww yiss

[Asgarth]

Looking awesome man!

[Kiwiandapple]

Well, it seems that the only way to make noctua fans "fit" in a build, is to paint the whole rig with the same color.

 

Looks good

 

Hah, was kinda where I went for. Instead of matching the Noctua's with the rest of a build. Match the rest of the build with the Noctua's. 

 

I disagree. Also for me that's too much noctua color.

 

I do know this, there are many people out here who don't like the colors of Noctua and I am fine with it. I personally love it so i'm very happy with the results so far. 

 

You could also go with black.

I actually rather like it, but I can see that for some it might be a bit much vanilla/sand. The

graphics card will hide quite a bit of it though.

 

Yes, I decided to keep the backplate as it is. It looks way to good anyway, so painting it would be to much color and just plain stupid because it looks amazing. 

As well, hurry up with the cables! (no pressure..) 

Be sure to check your PM, as you can see I managed to connect the cables directly to the fan controller and thus, don't need 3 to 4 pin fan cables anymore. 

 

 

I like it and all, but after my experience with nf-f12's I'd rather do something else.  Although it is unique.

 

What experience did you have? They broke? (warrenty!) Or did they not perform as you would want them? Or simply did not like the color? 

Unique is where I went for here. 

 

aww yiss

 

Looking awesome man!

 

Cheers! Really happy that others can enjoy this as well! 

[Lays]

SNIP

 

 

They weren't as quiet as people raved about them being, I replaced all of em with gentle typhoons, and have been much more happy with em.  I recently put 2 nf-f12's in the front for intakes, and even at 40% could still hear them with my ad900x's on, unplugged em and the noise was gone.

 

They're great performers don't get me wrong, but I don't think they're as great as their hype makes them out to be.

[TheProfosist]

They weren't as quiet as people raved about them being, I replaced all of em with gentle typhoons, and have been much more happy with em.  I recently put 2 nf-f12's in the front for intakes, and even at 40% could still hear them with my ad900x's on, unplugged em and the noise was gone.

 

They're great performers don't get me wrong, but I don't think they're as great as their hype makes them out to be.

I dont know you might be more sensitive to the tone the NF-F12's make and less to the gentle typhoons. From my experience Noctua's are pretty damn quiet. Either way I think their hyped too much and you might have fallen into that but the Scythe Gentle Typhoons are great fan their just not PWM.

[Lays]

I dont know you might be more sensitive to the tone the NF-F12's make and less to the gentle typhoons. From my experience Noctua's are pretty damn quiet. Either way I think their hyped too much and you might have fallen into that but the Scythe Gentle Typhoons are great fan their just not PWM.

 

 

Yeah I think they're WAY over hyped, they're great fans and all, I just think there's better options out there for some people.

[TheProfosist]

Yeah I think they're WAY over hyped, they're great fans and all, I just think there's better options out there for some people.

Well thats because people who dont even have them hype them. This happens with tons of stuff which is why there is a let down. I still think for most applications provided you pick the correct one its going to be hard to beat noctua's.

[Lays]

Well thats because people who dont even have them hype them. This happens with tons of stuff which is why there is a let down. I still think for most applications provided you pick the correct one its going to be hard to beat noctua's.

 

I wouldn't mind them if they weren't so loud above like.. 60%, but occasionally if I'm benchmarking or heavy overclocking for shits and giggles, I like turning the fans up, and the noctuas are like bang bang jet engine everywhere

[TheProfosist]

I wouldn't mind them if they weren't so loud above like.. 60%, but occasionally if I'm benchmarking or heavy overclocking for shits and giggles, I like turning the fans up, and the noctuas are like bang bang jet engine everywhere

There is a whole list of high end fans that are louder or if their quieter dont perform nearly as well. Also NF-F12's are generally louder than the rest of the Noctua fleet. I have a feeling this is because of the focus flow bits on the back straightening out the air. From my experience this makes them quieter on a rad than a fan without them because without the focused flow bit the rad is actually straitening the air out.

Gentle Typhoons are a bit of a exception. Also if yo look at the Gentle Typhoon High Speed those work weird As they require more RPM to hit the same performance as other comparable fans but are still quieter.

[Kiwiandapple]

Gentle Typhoons, Noiseblockers and Be Quiet!

Those 3 were on my list as well when I was looking for silent fans. I mostly went for Noctuas because many people hate the color and dont like it to much. While I agree that the colors are weird and hard to match in a build. I was like, well.. I'll just make them match my build.

I as well cant say much about the NF-F12 that is bad. Even when I turned them up to 100%. I could hear them, yes. But they were much more silent then the standard NZXT fan it replaced. Ofcourse, not the best comparison, but thats the only fans that I got.

I now swapped both of them on my NH-D14 and I cant hear the system at all. I do hear my classy when I game tho.

I do agree a little bit that they get hyped to much, they are not perfect. But they get the job done for me.

[Snef]

WOW!,  i really like the results

 

im not a fan of Noctua color but like this build, i love it

 

you give me a lot of idea to do a build with this color theme

 

keep us updated with a lot of pics, i want to see the final result