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Last 2 Pictures as they wouldn't upload for some reason


 
Sorry for the size but like i said a noob to forums and picture editing
 
 

More updates 1:
 
Some new Vector Desk build by our customers:
 

GUNDAM fan

Simple old to new case transplant
 

Two tone UV Green Build
 
 
More updates 2:
 
Just to share a recently setup dual system unit for NVIDIA & ASUS event:
 

 
Identical specs to highlight the performance of Poseidon card hybrid cooling vs air cooling.

 

 


 
 
 
Some other recent client Desk PC:


 
 
 
 
 
More info out our page:
https://www.facebook.com/vectorvhwl

Hello to the Build Logs,
 
About a year ago I had an Idea for an Orange and Black Build.  I started thinking about different shades of Orange, what parts to have color and what would remain black.
I had an old Antec DF-85 that was Empty and collecting dust, and so it began.  I few ideas and many hours later "Electric Orange" was Born.
 
 
 
Lets start at the Beginning.  There is Definitely some potential here with this case. At this stage I really don't know how much yet. :unsure:
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
I don't do Sketch work or Create Renders for Mods.  Everything with this Project is off the Hip and very spontaneous..
 
Windows Paint is about as High tech as it gets for me.
 
 

 
 
 
Well, That looks good, lets rip it apart..
 
 

 
 
 
Now that its in Pieces,  I needed a Color.  Searches for Electric Orange Paint really didn't lead to the right shade for me.  So, I decided on a shade of Orange called Omaha.
This Shot of a 69 Mopar in Omaha Orange Inspired me.
 

 
 
A Quick trip to my friends at Napa and Presto..  Omaha Custom Mixed to Aerosol..
 

 
 
 
So I Started spraying panels and fans and You name it.  But in the End, I just wasn't happy with the Final Product.  Lots of Orange Peel.. :blink:
 

 

 

 
 
 
There has to Be a Better Way to paint this.. At this point in the Project is it too late to start over?  Nope.
 
Quick Trip to the Acid Tanks at my Powdercoater and Wah-La.. All Better..  Oh,, Why not Build a Paint Booth in my Basement and get a Full Blown HVLP set up and teach myself how to paint Professionally while I'm at it..
So I Did.
 
 
 

 

 

 

 
 
Now that I set myself up with Pro Hardware.  Lets Paint. :lol:
 
 
Much Smoother and controlled Surface Now.  Rattle cans are a thing of the Past for me.
Here is an Example of the Surface top Coat I can Produce now with my HVLP Gun.  Color is "Burma Black Pearl" and "Omaha Orange"  Front Panel Shot here.
 
 

 
 
 
 
Enough about the Painting..  Lets talk some Hardware.
 
Instead of listing all this Out.. Lets take a Picture Tour ..   More Fun than Reading..
 
 
Gtx 360's and Gt's.. Bought Rads Third hand for great price  .  Stripped and painted 
 

 

 
Intel 3770k
 

 
Msi Z77 MPower and Seasonic 1000w
 

 

 
Engraved Block from DT
 

 

 
Koolance PMP-500
 

 
Evga Gtx 670 FTW's and Bits Power VG-NGTX680's
 

 

 
Bits Power 250ml Clear Res
 

 
Samsung 840 Pro's
 

 
G.Skill Ares 2133
 

 

 
Case Feet.  Custom.
 

 
Front Panel. Custom.
 

 
Primochill Acrylic and Revolvers
 

 
Lamptron CW611's
 

 
MDPC Sleeve
 

 

 

 
Evga Sli Bridge
 

 
 
 
This is where the Build stands today.  Still Working on it,  Would have been nice to have it done today , being Halloween 
 
 
Still Bending the Acrylic.. which has proven to be more challenging than Expected..
 
Still running Electrical, but have wrapped up the PSU for the most part.
 
Working on an Idea for a cover for that top area to conceal the backside of top panel.  Forgive some of my Wrinkle Backdrop shots,
Still working on my photo Studio :blush:
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
To Be Continued... 
 
 
Complete....
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Quick thanks list...
 
Craig - we owe this one to you mate.
Gary - for the cheaps cooler.
 
So I started off by unpacking some parts. We've just moved into our new flat.
 

 
And got out the motherboard.
 

 
And the CPU
 

 
Nekkid !
 

 
Kewlar !
 

 

 
Shiny.
 

 
In goes the CPU
 

 
Time for some TIM. I wanted something cheap. I was poking around the OCUK classifieds and saw some one selling some Cool labs Liquid Pro for £5 delivered. I was a bit worried about it given it sort of sets and ruins the warranty, but this rig is for my lady so will be staying as is.
 

 
One small blob, one big step for cooling.
 

 
And after a lot of trying to spread it with a Q tip...
 

 
The megabitch squashed my head ! the bitch !
 

 
Thanks for the memories.
 

 
In she goes.
 

 
And on with the fan.
 

 
The door bell goes, a gift from my lady..
 

 
The SSD.
 

 
The exhaust.
 

 
35 hernia causing kilos of case. I tested the power supply a couple of days back and it seems to be OK. Phew.
 

 
Time to remove the mask.
 

 
Bit more..
 

 
And done.
 

 
It's rocking the new plexi window I put in. It's UV reactive neon pink.
 

 
Duct fans.
 

 
IO
 

 
Uh O.
 

 
Interlude.. Basically the front panel header was not wired correctly for the board. This caused me a two hour pause and tons of stress. Basically the header is critical to the running of the case. If it's not wired correctly not only can you not turn the PC on, but nothing works as the HD LED is wired to the control board. In the end I had to get the manual for my old Asrock board, draw out a plan, figure out the colours (they're like an OEM car stereo, all weird and nonsensical) and then break them out and shrink wrap them before fitting them individually..
 
Back on with the build...
 

 
GPUs.
 

 
And done..
 

 
It..Is...Alive...
 

 
And time for some fun
 

 
Sadly the Ninja isn't good enough to LinX at 4.4ghz, though the board was fine with it. In the end I settled for the obligatory 4.2ghz and temps remained in check
 
I did benchmark it but I can't get to the scores right now.. Will add them later. What I did finally get was 30 mins alone with my rig and managed to fit the GPU.

lol Did that with my friend's old computer. We upgraded it to a P4 Extreme Edition and 4GB of RAM, with a 9800GT, and it came with a 2.8GHz Prescott, 512MB of RAM, and integrated graphics.

Little update
After received a lot of mail and mp about black and yellow sticker

And everyone was right , a way better now

HI
Snef's Purple Chimera is Complete
some Final Pics

ah!... not closed
 
anyway,  no led

With Leds
 
 
 
now stop talking and place to Pics

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
and the last one, the Snef's Caselabs Family

 
 
already planning for my next Project
a bench test,

some pics

 

 

just finished, I really like it, I think its my best Caselabs case,



 
 
some test fit
I have 3 option for now
first

a dual Bitspower pump top, feet and mod kit will be white
second

an EK dual d5 pump top and X2 res (pump, pump top and res ends will be white)
and third

pump top in pedestal and only 2 EK X3 250mm with white ends
 
 
UPDATE:
want to try something and found the exact same color paint as Daz's Yellow sand sleeving
I painted some fan and install it in my S5
I really like the result
 
some pics of Corsair Fan

 

 

 


 
both res are just for testing, res will be EK with white cap
all fan screw will be gold (brass)
need to sleeve all fan cable
still a lot of job to do
 
 
next update really soon

UPDATE4

So it turns out school is using most of my free time and I dont have much free time left to work on my pc..

I made some custom case feet from some thick tube I found. I think it they did work just fine.

second sets of feet was made by using some washers and some rubber things. I didnt liked them











I also found some foam sheets that I would be use to cover the PSU cover. got 2 pieces for 1€




Started planning and gluing it on the psu cover. toooooo much glue!








Testing and it looks good

I've been looking at this from my own personal situation: I'm getting the R9-290X
 
When I first built my custom PC back in 2007, I went all-out AMD. It was the perfect time to do it too since AMD's market share was rising quickly due to Phenom's evolution. ATI/AMD cards at the time were awesome and competitive. Nvidia cards seemed generally more expensive for the same relative performance at the time, and still tend to be to this day. Albeit, about 18 months ago I caught the EVGA GTX580 Ultra Classified on a supersale for $250 and immediately jumped ship from my HD5770 to that. Huge performance gain, I will not deny. However, I've noticed since I got it, and configured it, and with every Nvidia graphics card I've used in every client build; there is a somewhat noticeable difference in overall image quality between Nvidia and AMD. I've had a slight buyer's remorse since then, and felt I should've just got the HD7870 I saw on sale for the same price. Sure it wasn't as high a performer, but I do miss that image quality. Frankly, I find Nvidia's focus on FXAA and TXAA rather insulting. Both look like poo compared to MSAA or SSAA, especially with AMD's edge-detection. In truth, TXAA is pretty much the same proported quality as AMD's MSAA with edge-detection. It's just lower quality since it's using a post-process effect. I have every reason to leave Nvidia behind because of these key image quality points from my personal experience. I will never deny their performance, but I'ld gladly sacrifice a few FPS for a sharper image. Yes, I've also configured the Nvidia control panel to not use FXAA, but the difference in quality is still very much noticeable for me. I've even swapped in the occasional client-build AMD card just to affirm I'm not imagining it.
 
I've been watching AMD's product line, and wanted an HD7970GE to replace it for some time now. However, I haven't had the means to replace my current with something better, and won't until soon in the next few months. So it's rather perfect timing considering. I will admit, I was expecting the HD8000-series. Every freaking rumor-mill was expecting the HD9000-series, just like they had with every prior generation (5000-series predicted, 4000-series launched, 6000-series predicted, 5000-series launched, etc). I'm glad to see the rumor-mill was wrong yet again, and wish people would take notice and stop giving these parasites free hits and ad revenue for reporting lies. If they really knew, they'ld have been breaking NDA and lost their partnership for reviews. Anyway, the rebranding is no different from what Nvidia has done, so it's not a big deal in hindsight. If you've been involved in PC tech for 5+ years, you'ld know Intel and Nvidia were workstation-centric and came with a premium for that purpose while AMD/ATI was gaming-centric. Not sure when that concept changed among the general PC community, but it's really always been true with exceptions and caveats along the way of course. Consider for a moment my GTX580. Guess what it scores in Firestrike. Just over 6000. Know where the GTX680 is? Just over 7000. And Nvidia was saying the GTX680 alone could do the same framerates as 3-way SLI GTX580s. Top this off with significantly reduced double-precision CUDA-core counts in the GTX600 series compared to not only the GTX500 series, but also the GTX400 series. They were made solely for gaming with single-precision CUDA-cores, and left all notion of budget 3D rendering behind. Now OpenCL is also a thing and performs best on AMD. Yeah, I've completely lost interest in supporting Nvidia. What exactly are they doing right now? Pushing their precious Shield and GTX600/700 series cards in tandem with eachother. How is that helping move PC gaming forward? AMD is doing that now and always has been.
 
Sorry for the long-winded response to this, just wanted to point out all my reasons and rational behind this. Just eager to get back on an AMD GPU.

Well, you live in switzerland and pay around 16-17 euro cent's per kWh, we in germany pay 28 cents! :D So don't complain xD But that sounds like a balling machine...
 
 
Because i just finished ME 3 (meeeh, i hate the ending) :D

Last Update for this week, need return working on the road for a couple of weeks
 
i know, no rad are installed but wnat to do a leak test becaus i splited all waterblock and want to be sure no block leak
 

 

 

 
next steps,
painting 9 more fans
painting 2 x 360 rad
cable management
installing fan and rad
real leak test and done

DNA - Home Server 2.0 [build Log] 003

All my parts are brand new from NCIX Canada
 
Hi again guys and girls
 
This is my new Home Server 2.0 with Case change and more looking like a server and said good buy to the Cooler Master Haf XB
I have pictures already so please take and let me know what you think of my 2.0
Please find all parts with direct links to the hardware to NCIX!
 
Case - Corsair Air 540
CPU - Intel Core i7 3770K
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-H77N-Wifi
Ram - Patriot Intel Extreme Master 16GB 2X8GB
Os Drive - Seagate Momentus XT 500GB
Storage Drive - 10 x Westen Digital 4 TB Reds 40 TBs
Stroage enclosure - 2 x Star Tech 4 Drive 3.5in & Vantec EZ Swap 4
Raid Cards - Adaptec Raid 6805E 8 Port
Power Supply - Corsair 650 AX
Fans - 9 x Corsair AF 120 LED Blue
 
Here we go
 

 

 

 

 
Red Sata Cables Was A Temporary Solution Till I Got The Raid Card
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 
So what do you guys think

It's very bad...

Never give up on cables.
Cable management is life.

Oh cable management you say? Easily my favourite thing to do to my build at the end!
 
These are a few of my personal builds I have done over the last couple of years
 
 
 

 

 
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Don't have a great straight on picture, but you get a decent idea there, internet audio is the only cable that I consider not clean. Gotta get a sound card.
 

I think I win. No cables visible at all, only when plugged in.

Ps Linus said he dint like the Lanboy and it was overrated so here is my Tonka toy!
 
My build from a few years ago ,
Has not changed in a little while lack of fun's 
 
When you are into 3000$ into your build and have no limit or setprice it can get costly ,
 
Future list ,
nzxt ' 3.0 card reader  (No onboard usb 3.0 on my Formula iv)
Better cooling Cpu  Replace V8 cooler master , possible liquid cool
Crossfire it !
Upgrade Faster ram mobo with newer asus model , more ram  
Better fan management cooling, fan controllers ,
 
maybe if I get to it or get the courage or skills to get rid of the mesh and make some custom plexi ,


Was going to go with a v10 cooler but was just not sure about room issues with few items so went with the v8

There might be some Other misc items added as i find the need for other items ,
Specs

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Thuban 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo Socket AM3 125W Six-Core
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders - OEM

Corsair 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
COOLER MASTER V8 CPU Cooler
 
First Got a 5870 at a price I could not pass up later to sell it right after and
Upgraded Sapphire HD6970 2GB GDDR5,  My goal was to get top quality


Antec Lanboy air yellow Black / yellow Computer Modular Case
Corsair Professional Gold AX850 850W ATX Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold Psu
OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive       Died
Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F120GBGT-BK 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5

LG WH10LS30 10X Blu-ray Burner
ASUS USB 2.0 Mini Bluetooth Dongle



The mobo is SEXXXXY


 
 
 
Took a little bit of time and re doing some items and changing up things around
as i made the build

Few spacing issues inquired With the rig and v8
as expected

original plan Top Mounted power supply + side panel and fans = NO
Had to re change the Psu to the bottom now i have the stock side fans being able to cool near my video card ,

Top Fans i had originally planed might not even fit for the top vent's might have to look into slim profile fans now

Now a couple hours of Doing some nice wire management , it looks clean for now but i am not about done on the rig and misc other items might come in

Now some pictures :0
Look Close to the cooler and side panel / space
 
 








 



 
Time for a rebuild v.2 of the pc

the colour theme begins now...
 
choice of colour fluorescent pink as requested by her

 
 

 

 
the end result..... well shes pleased with the colour.....

hehe

I had to :D
ROFLAMO

They would have a big competitor for that kind of stuff over in Sweden
 
 
Edit: Come to think of it, I need to move to Sweden.
 
Fractal design
IKEA
Volvo
 
Sorted.

Hello guys, 
 
I spent some time rebuilding my system recently and I made a video about it and took some pictures. 
 
Corsair Obsidian 650D
Intel Core i7 3770K
MSI Big Bang Z77 MPOWER
16GB Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 2133 MHz
MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr
Corsair AX850
Samsung 840 Series 250GB
Noctua NH-D14
Noctua NF-P12's
 
 
 

 
 
Here are a few pictures.
 
                Jump to page 7 for more pictures.

Ok the corsair ram has come finally :D the rig is pretty much complete and fully benched for now. I have put it back in the case but these are the last few pics of the benchmarks with the new ram and back in the case at last.
 

 
2X512MB of the finest, corsair XMS platinum ddr ram. it matches the paint on the outside of the case  B) .
 

 
The new scores with the xms ram which can overclocks to a massive 260+mhz (520mhz). It got a extra 0.02 points because of the faster ram when doing multi-threaded rendering.
 

 
it also improved the single threaded score.
 

 
i did manage to get the cpu to boot at 3.81ghz, but with 1.8v going though the cpu and the ram bottleneck gone, it still wasn't stable enough to cinebench and the heatsink was getting rather warm as you can imagine, so i didn't want to push to any higher voltage. the highest i manage to cinebench the cpu was 3.76ghz but it seemed to perform better at 3.72ghz because the screen was flickering at 3.76ghz.
 

 

 

 
It is now back in the case ready to be used for gaming. i am keeping the cpu at 3.6ghz in the case because its not very practical to keep the cpu at 1.7v when gaming because there is a lot of heat being dumped out with not much performance increase. 
 

 
finally i overclocked the gpu back to some sensible clock speeds and i'm currently playing through gta san andreas with all the settings at the max. the gpu is running well and hasn't missed a beat.   
 
I have also been doing some more case modding so that the case can 1) get more air flowing through it and 2) put some positive prussure in the case to prevent the collection of dust, to reduce temperatures and maintenance.
 

 
first i took the front i/o and switches off and separated the front panel because it can be split into 2 pieces.
 

 
i then drilled a few rough holes around where i was going to be mounting the new 120mm bitfinix case fan from my shinobi, which now has a corsair af 140mm instead.
 

 
i then screwed the new fan in with 2 screws, in opposite corners.
 

 
This is what the fan looks like on the back of the front panel.
 

 

 
I then replaced the front i/o and restart switch, but not the power button because the new fan sits in the way. I am planning on installing the switch in a different location at a later date.
 

 
Finally i tied down the front i/o wires that go off to the motherboard, so that they did not obstruct the airflow or get court up in the fan.
 
I may change the set up at the front in future to make the case look nicer by replacing the drilled plastic with some steel mesh as well as spraying the inside of the case and maybe putting a window in. 
 
This may be the last on this pc for a while though because i'm already starting and gathering parts for the next 2 builds: a socket 462 athlon xp rig in the next few weeks and a socket 775 rig which i am hoping to start well before christmas.