I'll primarily be doing video and photo editing. I got deals on the Gigabyte OC-FORCE motherboard, 4790K and two 980Tis from friends upgrading their hardware. The rest of the components were bought on sale or Ebay. I don't need the latest and greatest hardware as I rarely have time for gaming anymore. I've performed a lot of custom modifications to this PC build. The theme was inspired by legendary PORSCHE 917. The only Gulf Porsche 917 to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans was the one driven in Steve McQueen's "Le Mans" movie. If you're a motorsports enthusiast, I highly recommend seeing this movie for vintage racing footage alone. The story line stinks, but it's really about the event and cars. There is an HD version on YouTube. Many innovations in cinematography were created while filming this movie. Steve's production company welded brackets to the front frame work of the 917, so they could mount a camera to shoot him, and the other drivers, in the cockpit.
The OC-FORCE motherboard has north and south bridge water block by EK. The EVGA 960Ti cards have Koolance water blocks with back plates. The black acetal block tops and back plates were painted the Gulf Racing blue. The Bitspower dress-up pump cover was painted orange. The four Corsair Vengeance DDR (32GB) heat spreaders were painted to match later the theme later. A lot of people asked how I painted them, so I created a video guide for dismantling and painting your own DDR heat spreaders here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVXsvd-5QE
Staying with the race car theme, I chose 1/2" O.D. Stainless Steel tubing was inspired by the fuel and brake lines of a race car. I used 316 Marine Grade Stainless, so corrosion isn't an issue. Working with Stainless Steel tubing requires a Mandrel bender and lots of practice. It takes a great deal of practice to get the perfect bends. I always keep my water loops simple for easy maintenance. I only use distilled water and change it every 6 – 8 months. I may use Mayhems Dyes when using clear PETG tubing to accent a color theme in other builds. I’ve been DIY liquid cooling for past decade and find most cooling additives or radiator cleaners are gimmicks and a waste of your money. Just use distilled water and be diligent about cleaning your loop. The water pump is an Alphacool VPP655 with adjustable speed. It has a Bitspower dress-up kit. The pump cover was painted to match the exterior paint. Did you notice that my loop has no reservoir? I like my builds simple and clean. I have a Koolance bleed valve on top of the SLI bridge for filling the loop. I fill the loop through a Koolance 3-way splitter fitting with fill port on the top of the 360mm radiator. Beneath the PC is a Koolance Drain Valve. All I have to do is connect tubing to the drain valve and drain the loop into a bucket next to my workbench.
The front grill is 1/8” thick cast acrylic that was laser cut into honeycomb. The top of the case has a smoked acrylic "moonroof" window. The clear side panel has embedded magnets. Both of these window panels are made by Mnpctech. It allows you to look into the PC from above. It has a machined aluminum 120mm ring / fan grill that emulates a fuel fill port on a race car. The ring has blue anodized washer with socket head screws. The rear fan grill is machined aluminum 120mm "Overkill" Ring. All of the fans are Scythe Gentle Typhoons AP-15. Part# D1225C12B5AP-15, 1,850 rpm, 28 dBA @ 57.68062 CFM. Unfortunately these cooling fans are no longer made by NIDEC SERVO, but there is still some available from online retailers. Dazmode sells similar version called the “DarkSide Gentle Typhoon Performance Radiator Fan” They have good static pressure and under volt nicely. You can easily dismantle them for custom paint.
You don't often see pastel colors used on custom PC builds, but it was important that the GULF RACING / PORSCHE LIVERY paint be authentic. We traced down the factory paint codes for the 1970 Porsche 917. The paint colors were mixed by Jim at "Auto Plus" in Bloomington, Minnesota. The EK XTX 360mm Radiator was painted the Gulf Racing Orange. The orange stripe is mirrored onto the chassis. The circle number five represents "Mastercase 5"
The gauge is a VDO 12 volt gauge from an old VW to indicate power. The main power switch is a momentary toggle switch with red safety cover which is used for ignition switch in the Porsche 917. The reset switch is Blue anodized aluminum push button. Both switches are mounted in machined aluminum mounting plate. The PSU shroud has embedded magnets, so it’s easy to remove and re-install. The paracord sleeving for the 24 pin and video card cables is “Graphite Grey” from Ensourced.net . The paracord PC cable combs are machined aluminum designed for the Ensourced cables.
I didn't like the Cooler Master Mastercase 5 case at first. I feel the engineer missed a lot of opportunities that could have made the case even better. Especially since CM marketed it as "modular" and it’s designed for DIY liquid cooling. The Mastercase falls 40% from it's marketing pitch, but the overall build quality and finish is outstanding. It eventually won me over after dismantling and re-assembling the case. Here is my final thoughts about the Mastercase 5 case, keeping in mind that I look at cases from perspective as DIY liquid cooler and modder.
RAVES about the Cooler Master Mastercase:
Overall Build Quality, Fit & finish. Top panel / cover design options are nice. Modular HD/SSD tray design and mounting options are best to date. 240/360/280 radiator option for front is nice.
REVISIONS for the Cooler Master Mastercase
Top radiator mounting location should be offset, to clear DDR slots on some motherboards 100% Riveted chassis?! I understand using rivets over screws to save time in manufacturing, but at minimum, the mid section floor should be removable for better access. Lack of Water pump and reservoir mounting. CM's competitors started embracing DIY cooling market over year ago, by including mounting options for reservoirs and water pumps. Mastercase 5/ Pro window panel is very flimsy. The "smoked" poly window is bluish/purple and has very poor clarity for viewing inside the case.
In closing, I want to stress that you can create an awesome PC build without having the bleeding edge of hardware inside.
With the build now complete, I wanted to share it with the community. :) Specs: Chassis: Rebuilt Mac PowerPC G4 Quicksilver CPU: Intel i7- 4930k RAM: 32gb DDR3 2133Mhz C9 Corsair Platinum Motherboard: ASUS REPUBLIC OF GAMERS Rampage IV Gene Storage: Dual Intel 730 480GB SSD (Raid 0) GPU: Dual NVIDIA GeForce PNY GTX 980 Custom Liquid Loop: using Koolance Quick Disconnects, Bitspower (HK) Fittings, and XSPC Raystorm CPU Block Cooler Master Silent Po Gold 1200w PSU
This is about my 3 old lan laptops one of them is fairly new but the other 2 are from 1995-6 My first was a Compaq Lte 5100 then upgraded to a 5300 while my friend had a 5000 which had a broken screen, the cpu thermal control unit was damaged and his bios was corrupted over the few years he had it. i had given him my 5100 and stolen parts from the 5000 to make my 5300 better but his 5100 is not here at the moment because it's at his place so i am left with these 2. we use these machines for classic gaming and i use them for audio purposes as i want to do chiptune on these with AT2 and my machine works on the internet as i have a fax card and an Ethernet card to go on it. the machine can load google in under 2 seconds with a download speed of 74kbp/s with no problems just if i go to a page that has html5 only or uses java/adobe i can't use certain parts of it. just shows that Internet Explorer 5.5 can still work in some ways.
LTE 5000 Pentium 75mhz 256k cache 66mhz bus 16mb crucial edo ram 8mb on-board 2x4mb card 1mb vga cirrus logic res of 800x600 or xga of 1024x800 10.4" display Ess 688 8bit Opl3 (Sound Blaster Clone works with Sb Pro 2 ct1600 driver) 3.5" Floppy 95w power brick 810mb hdd
Lte 5100 Pentium 90mhz 256k cache 66mhz bus Kingston 24mb edo ram 2x8mb 1x8mb on-board 1mb pci cirrus logic svga res of 800x600 or xga or 1024x800 10.4" Display Ess 1688 16bit opl3 44.1khz (Sound Blaster Clone) 1.35gb hdd 3.5" Floppy 95w power brick
Lte 5300 Pentium 133mhz 256kb cache 66mhz bus speed 80mb crucial edo ram 16mb on-board 1mb cirrus logic svga 800x600 res 1024 xga 12.1" Display Ess 1688 16bit 44.1khz (Sound Blaster Clone) 2.16gb hdd 3.5" Floppy External Cd ROM Drive pcmcia interface Original Mouse Original Case 3com Ethernet card Original Fax card 95w power Brick
I used to make doom maps on this with doom builder and play them at a home lan as usual :P
Compaq R4000 Athlon 64 3200+ 1gb Crucial ddr 333mhz ram Max of 2gb ATI Radeon express 200m ddr 1280x800 60gb hdd 15.4" Screen
All of these photos are taken with a floppy drive camera lol
This is a catalog of all the upgrades my PC has gone through throughout the years. There will also be pictures of other PCs that I've built here as well.
I call the project Radiance. The inspiration is an item from DotA that when equipped causes your character to radiate a damaging aura. The item icon in DOTA2 is represented by a glowing blade and creates a visible aura around your character; it is this aura that I was trying to re-create with the lighting system installed in the computer. While this serves as the inspiration for the aesthetic I don’t want overt branding to alienate those who might appreciate a tasteful and elegant piece of art; this is what I hoped to achieve.
Powder Coated Case Labs SM8, I chose Prismatic Powders for the color.
PC Part Picker: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ultimatt/saved/7WRkcf
Pushes 4.98 stable at dangerous voltages without heat issues, but runs rock solid at 4.8GHz and 1.28V so that's where we keep it.
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