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This was a package going from China to Canada, and somehow in Alaska, it decided to go to Kentucky, where it got my name on the box...somehow. lol There are 101 boxes with 6 iPod Nano 7th generations inside, for 606 iPods, at $150 each is... a lot of money. I first called Amazon to tell them they screwed up, but turns out, it was UPS.
 
For those wondering, I am contacting people to get it straightened out and no, I'm not "keeping" any of them, I'm giving it back to them as it was given to me, with the box slightly opened, because I thought it was for me.
 
Edit: I'm aware my address is visible in one of the pictures. I'm moving to a different part of the same town, so it's not a concern.
 
Edit again: Went ahead and removed the address.

Honestly, if I could, I would shake your hand for getting this straithened out and not just keeping them. You are a good man. It's nice to see not all people in our society are evil and greedy.

EK shared this build on their facebook , congratz mate  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=572117866175582&set=a.288479541206084.77684.182927101761329&type=1&theater

So this was originally a build I started early last year. (original project) Which unfortunately came to a halt due to various set backs. Anyway I am picking it back up, with a whole new direction as too where I want to take it with (hopefully) current generation hardware if I finally get round to finishing it this time. 
 
With that said, lets begin...
 
Checklist of parts and Hardware I am yet to require. None of which are set in stone as I have the tendency to change my mind as I go:
 
 
Hardware-
 
Case: Silverstone TJ07 (aquired)
Motherboard: MSI Z87 GD65 Gaming (aquired)
CPU: i5 4670K (aquired)
RAM: Ballistix Tracers (aquired)
Boot Drive:  Samsung 840 Pro
Storage: -
Graphics Cards: 2x Saphire R9 290x 
Sound Card: Asus Xonar Essence
Power Supply: Corsair RM 850W (aquired)
 
Water Cooling-
 
Pump:  Laing D5 Vario (aquired)
Radiator 1: Swiftech QP 480mm (aquired)
Rad Mount: XSPC 120 Rad Mount (aquired)
Radiator 2?: 
CPU Block: Swiftech Apogee HD (aquired)
GPU Blocks: - Swiftech Komodo R9-LE (aquired)
Reservoir:  Swiftech MCRES (aquired)
Reservoir 2: - Bitspower Red Res (aquired)
Res Mount: Alphacool Cape Cyclone 60mm (aquired)
Tubing: - PrimoFlex Advanced LRT 3/8" ID - 5/8" OD (aquired)
Fittings: Swiftech Black Compression Fittings (aquired)
Fans: Noctua NFP12's (aquired)
 
"Go-Faster" Stuff-
 
Sleeving: MDPC-X Color X and Shade 19. Anthracite Heat shrink. (aquired)
Screws: MDPC-X Black-Oxide buttonheads, Phobya Mainboard Screw Kit Black Edition (aquired)
Lighting: Bitfenix Alchemy Red LED strips
 
 
 
As you can see I don't have much acquired in terms of hardware. So I thought I would start by sharing some of the prep work my case has undergone.
 

 
 
Starting to sand down the case internals ready for painting.
 
 
 
Some of my dodgy Dremel work for my cable management, and fan brackets on the top mesh have been removed as well.   :wacko:
 

 
 

Previously...
 

 
Cooler Master Storm Enforcer.
 
INTO THIS:
 

 
Hi, sorry if i do not have lots of pictures to show the swapping of case to the beautiful Corsair Carbide Air 540. No fancy watercool goodness here, just AIR cooled system, for a while. Saving up cash to do a proper setup, a new motherboard and cpu. I will constantly update it in here. Not much of an introduction, but here it is.
 
Specs:
Processor
Intel Core i5-3470 3.2 Ghz with a Coolermaster V8   Mainboard Asrock H77 Pro4/MVP   Graphics Card Leadtek 780 3GB (Reference Card)   Memory G-Skill RipJaw Series X CL9 (4gb x 4) 1600mhz   Storage Drive Seagate 3.5" SATA 7200rpm 1TB, Hitachi 3.5" SATA 7200rpm 1TB, Plextor MSP 128GB SSD   Display Crossover 27Q-Pivot 2560x1440 WQHD   Audio Creative T3 2.1, StyleAudio Carat D-1 DAC, Asus Xonar Essence STX   Optical Drive LG Optical Drive SATA 24x   Power Supply Unit Seasonic X Series 650W 80+ Gold (Modular)   Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit)   Miscellaneous Stuffs:   Corsair AF140 Quiet Edition X5 NZXT Sleeved Extensions Cable NZXT HUE RGB LED               THANK YOU. Feel free to comment and i'm open for suggestions.

Here we go guys,
after thinking about building a black/yellow MPower+Lightning rig I have decided to save some bucks und go the less colourful path with my machine.
 
Here is what I have ordered today:
 
Corsair Carbide Series Air 540
ASRock Z87 Extreme6
Intel Core i7-4770K Corsair XMS3 Dominator Platinum 2x8GB DDR3-2133, CL9
2x Samsung SSD 840 Evo Series 250GB for RAID-0
 
EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Classified ACX Cooler
 
 
I will use this topic for my personal log. Suggestions are very welcome.
 
Other parts, that are not listed will be reused from my current machine: Corsair 760i Power Supply, some Noiseblocker Fans and, for some time until I manage to watercool, my H80 Hydro Series Cooler. Also HDDs and 2 more SSDs for storage.

Good man!!!! The world is a better place with women happy!
 
Nice build/project!

Hey all, so a few people know i had a build planned in my tj11 and a custom loop, well some un for seen changes have come up and i find myself having to do something a little different i needed to get some monitors budgeted in and get a much smaller case. I really wanted to keep my plan for triple 770 lightnings in sli and so i have kind of a "ghetto" setup plan with some arctic accelero hybrid gpu coolers that ive had laying around for ever, Im testing one on my 770 lightning thats in the system now in my sig and with it running at 1.283 volts constantly im able to hit 1411mhz core speeds and the gpu, vrm and memory never break 60 degrees, with that being said ill show you the parts list i have planned and try and explain a little bit as to whats going on.
 
Cpu - I7 4770K
Mobo - G1 Sniper 5, sabertooth z87 or msi x power
(considering ivy-e depending on boards availeble and such)
Cpu cooling - Corsair h100 (have) may just toss in an h110 for slightly better cpu cooling
Gpu's - 3x 770 Lightning (have 1 right now 2 more are going to be picked up from a local shop within a week or so)
Gpu coolers as mention above
Ram - Thinking crucial ballistix tactical tracer if not that then some adata xpg v2 dual channel 16gb @ 1866mhz other suggestions welcome
Case - Corsair Carbide series Air 540 will be the new smaller case that im switching to and still able to hold the rads i need it to
Sound card - Creative Soundblaster Zxr (already ordered, early bday present from family)
Speakers - There was a bit of debate over these but i have the edifier s550's on order with the sound card
All cables with be black bitfenix alchemy for a cleaner look
Monitors - 3x asus VE278Q, Currently own one and will run a triple display setup (already own 1)
Laptop (expecting some hate for this but oh well) - Alienware m17x r4, near perfect condition for $800 from a friend running a 7970m and 3610qm cpu, pretty tough deal to beat
 
So basically ill have my plasma tv wall mounted probably by sunday evening and 2 more monitors purchased as well by then, sound card and speakers should be here end of next week and the rest is going to be roughly a month away and all purchased at once at which time ill update this thread with the actual build and pics of everything happening. I will be updating this thread as much as is possible throughout this process.
 
Quick explanation of why the plan changed so drastically so quickly is basically school.
 
Also for the kingdom hearts fans out there this system is sort of a reference to it in a very minor way, on the window side panel of the case in each corner i will be creating a "sandblasted" logo in each corner that relates to kingdom hearts, Organization xiii's logo, soras crown, heartless logo and nobodies logo also going to try and find a relatively small metal crown of sora's to use as a case badge to go over the corsair logo on the front of the case x3 so why am i doing this you may ask? Just cause i feel like it and itll look pretty cool
 
Feedback would be great and provided youve actually read this post youll know whats already ordered and on its way and what can be talked about and possibly changed for better uses

Well, this is not a new build but I´ve upgraded my rig to Crossfire with another Asus Matrix HD 7970 Platinum. 
 
I´ve been looking at the GTX 780 a while but I love my Matrix Platinum,so when I found this used card on Tradera(Ebay) the other day I decided to go for Crossfire.
After some intence bidding I got the card without exceeding the max price I had decided. 
 
It was a bit of a thight fit but the soundcard is there! I was a bit worried about the psu but it´s fine with about 650 watts out of the socket on full load. Without OC that is. It´s 35´C in the room anyway!
 
The specs.
 
motherboard Asus Rampage IV Extreme
CPU              Intel i7 3930K
CPU cooler   Corsair H100i
RAM             16GB 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Quad 1600 CL8
GPU             2 Asus Matrix HD7970 Platinum
soundcard    Asus Xonar Xense
SSD             Samsung 840 PRO 256GB
HDD             3 WD Green 2TB
PSU             Corsair TX850W
case             Corsair 600T White
monitor         Asus VG248QE 144Hz
keyboard      Corsair K60
mouse          Logitech G500
headphones Sennheiser PC350
OS               Windows 8 pro
RAM cache Fancy Cache beta
 

 
 
 
 
 
   
 

Hi guys,
I build myself my first Pc ever maybe 9 - 10 months ago and made some mistakes back then when buying the components. So I decided to slowly upgrade my Pc, first starting off with the case..
 
My current rig:
Cpu: Intel i7 3770k
Mb: Asus P8B75-M
Ram: G.Skill Ripjaws 16Gb @1600Mhz
Psu: 530 Watt Thermaltake
HDD: Some random I found laying around
Fans: Same here
SSD: Adata Premiere Pro S900 128Gb
Gpu: Zotac Gtx 670 Overclocked
Case: Aerocool XPredator X1
 
The performance of this rig ain't bad, but i don't like the little details, for example the horrible cabel management in the X1, also I will prepare for SLI: I need a new Psu, Mb and a second gtx, even though i will buy that one in the end, hoping for some more price drop. Further, I will add a 1Tb HDD and another SSD for Raid0, as some better fans. 
 
To buy list:
Mb: Gigabyte Z77X-DH3
Psu: Corsair HX850
HDD: WD Blue 1Tb
SSD: Adata Premiere Pro S900 128Gb
Gpu: Zotac Gtx 670
Fans: 3x AF120
Case: Corsair 540 Air
RAM: G.Skill Ares 16Gb 1600Mhz
 
Update 1:
Today I bought myself the 540 Air, it's kinda strange to get it here in Germay..
My trusted retailers won't start shipping until October, so I was looking for some sites. It will be shipped in 6 Days, so i hope to get it in 10 days.
I will give you guys some pics of my current rig before putting everything in the new case
 
Update2:
 
I think the next I'm going to do is the sleeving:
I thought of going for black/blue Theme, since my case is black and the Mb i want to buy is main blue.
I'll order them this evening, hopefully they arrive in the next two days!

Sapphire FTW  :wub:

IT BEGINS
 

well i ran into a problem today, the asus sabertooth i ordere came in today and came doa. The box was pretty messed up and once i got inside i found a capacitor floating around in the box so thats getting sent back. So being my impatient self i went out to my local frys electronics and save myself some money and bought a msi z87-gd65 so that will be the mother board for this build. I guess its kind of s good thing that i have to return the sabertooth because it will be saving me a bit of money. well i have some pics for you guys since i installed the new motherboard just a few minuits ago
 
here is the fractal arc midi r2 in all of its glory
 

 
now the empty case
 

 
now this is the one thing that bugs me with this case, im probably going to use some black plastidip on the wires and a portion of the plug
 

 
here is the new motherboard sitting in its place. you can also see that i painted the slot covers and i also did the hard drive cages
 

 
Time for cable management. One thing i always do when i work on high end audio systems for my job is i always plan out where everything will be going which i also have done here
 

 
here are a couple pictures of cable management in progress
 

 
first set of zipties cut
 

 
all case wires routed and zipties cut
 

 
so here is where i am at as of now
 

 

Where can I get one of those stickers ? ;)

Haha, I can hear something cooking :lol:

Boring as hell empty 900D photos.  Just fyi its hard to make interesting photos with an empty case.     Shown in the layout I plan to use with only 1 HDD cage.  Plan is to mount the pump on top of that support bracket then have the reservoir attached to it with a male to male rotary fitting.  Not exactly sure if I'm going to mount it on the back or forwards yet.  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Btw if you are wondering where the Titan is its currently being bottlenecked by a 2600k in my current pc, once I get to the point when I need to take it out I'll do some glamor shots of it.  Also tomorrow at the very least I'll be putting the new fans in along with the motherboard.  All my fittings, tubing, and res won't be here till tuesday so I can't get started on the loop quite yet.

So , why do you have a case ?  :lol:

More to come tonight!

The joys of a 3-way parallel loop. Bleeding this thing is an absolute nightmare. It makes me wonder how bad it was before my plexi waterblocks.

Ok, this is my system!  Granted, it is a little dated, but I have now finished everything I've needed to do since July of 2011.  It is now worthy of Build Logs!
 
Specifications:
 
Corsair 800D
ASUS ROG Rampage III Extreme X58 Motherboard
Intel 990x Extreme Edition CPU @ 3.47GHz
24GB Corsair Dominator 1600MHz RAM
EVGA GTX 560Ti 2GB in SLI
Corsair AX1200 1200W Power Supply
Intel 520 Series 240GB Drives RAID0
Western Digital WD Black 4TB Drives
Corsair Force GT 120GB
Western Digital 2.5in. Black 750GB
SilverStone AP141s
SilverStone AP121s
Blu-Ray Burner Drive
DVD-ROM Drive
OR2200PFCRT2U 1350W UPS
Blue Snowball Microphone
Logitech X-530 5.1 (2.1) Speakers
Corsair K90 Keyboard
Corsair M95 Mouse
Mionix Ensis 320 Mousepad
Dell U2412M 1920x1200 IPS Monitor
Dell 3130cn Color Laser Printer
Cisco Linksys E4200v2
Asus Xonar DGX Soundcard
Logitech G27 Racing Wheel
Shure SM58 Vocal Microphone
Intel Stock Cooler
Motorola Surfboard 6121 Modem
 
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Some of the Pics below are a little outdated with relation to the specs above.  Went back to change a few things.
 




































 

PSU & Pump Mount, Making the 24 Pin Cable
Wow, it seems like ages ago that there was some progress on this. However, my hands have not been idle. Since ZEUS is finally more or less done (finishing touches, testing and then I'll post the last part of the log) I finally found some time this week to proceed with HELIOS, namely with mounting the PSU, the pumps and making the 24 pin wire.
As mentioned before, I will be using mostly 16 AWG Silicone wires, which have a few advantages over normal PVC wires, as well as one major disadvantage and one minor one. The minor one is cost; it is actually quite expensive. 10 meters of 16 AWG wire cost ~ 7.75 GBP (~12 USD).
The PSU
Not much to say here, it's just an absolute stunner.
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This is how it's mounted to the plate. There's also a cutout to fit the 230 V connector through and to access the ON/OFF button.
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The pumps are bolted to the same plate. Makes for a nice and compact unit. :)
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And inside the case:
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Making the 24 Pin Cable
Advantages of Silicone wire: It's extremely flexible and can tolerate much higher temperatures (this one is rated to 200 C). The temperature thing might sound a bit silly for a PC, but it actually came in very handy during making the wires.
The tools I used:
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Stripping the wire in preparation for crimping. You can clearly see that there are an insane amount of strands, which is the other aspect that makes this wire so much more flexible than PVC coated one (besides the Silicone, obviously). The disadvantage of this is that the wire itself is substantially thicker than its PVC counterpart, coming in at a bulky 3.1 mm diameter for a 16 AWG wire. The 16 AWG PVC wires that came with my PSU measure about 2.0 mm in comparison.
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The thickness of the wire requires me to press the crimp terminal onto the wire and then insert that assembly into the crimper, instead of first fixing the terminal inside the crimper, inserting the wire into that and then pressing down.
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Luckily, Silicone is very soft, meaning it compresses nicely under the crimping terminal's wings. Be careful though: There are (at least) two versions of this terminal floating around: One with longer wings and one with shorter wings. The short winged version is completely unusable for this setup. As you can see, this is not a flawless crimp, but the insulation does not come below the second pair of wings, which I deem good enough for my purposes (otherwise I'd have an insane amount of wasted crimp terminals ;)). Still, despite all this, the rate of failed crimps does noticeably rise when using such a thick wire. The most common fault I encounter is that one of the rear wings breaks of (the ones which are supposed to crimp down on the insulation).
Fortunately the core's large thickness due to the many strands makes most of these still perfectly usable since the forward pair of wings hold the wire in place quite tightly (much more tightly than if you had a rear wing failure with a PVC wire), in fact it takes an enormous amount of force to rip off the crimp terminal (I've tried a few times to test the blemished crimps).
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The indispensable sleeving tool:
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And with the paracord sleeve. Note that I haven't melted the ends, which is on purpose. Melted paracord becomes quite hard, which doesn't work for what I'm doing here.
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Distance gauge for what comes below.
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And here we have the trick to the problem of thick wires. Since the wires are much too thick to fit into the connector with a sleeve on them (they do fit easily without one), I had to come up with another solution than the usual one of melting the sleeve onto the crimp terminal.
Since I absolutely wanted to avoid using heat shrink I came up with this solution. If you have a look above at all the things I used for this, you will notice a roll of 0.25 mm Nylon thread. I took that thread and wound it around the wire's ends, making sure to have the right distance from the crimp connector's end to the Nylon thread and that each Nylon piece had the exact same number of windings (20). This is also why the paracord is not melted before; keeping it unmelted and soft makes it possible to tighten down the Nylon thread much more firmly.
The advantages of this technique are that it looks much better than heat shrink (at least to me, which is what matters :lol: ), and since you can tighten it down very nicely, it also holds the paracord sleeve in place much better than an equal length piece of heat shrink. Also, this nicely avoids those "steps" one often has to have when using heat shrink. The downside of this approach is that it takes an absolutely ridiculous amount of time to do. Doing this one wire you see here took me 30 minutes (including taking the pics). Without taking pictures I usually need around 15~20 minutes for one wire, and up to 45 minutes for a doubly crimped one (of which there are five in the 24 pin cable, an absolute nightmare).
All in all, the 24 pin cable has taken me around 12 hours of work so far. What I still need to do is lace it so that all wires run as parallel as possible, but that will only be done once I have it inside the case and can see where to best place the lacing bridges.
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This is where the heat resistance of Silicone comes in handy. Taking the extra paracord off with a heated box cutter nicely terminates the whole thing and secures it to the wire, while leaving the Silicone undamaged. I've tried this with PVC and the hot blade easily melts through the insulation if I do things identically to this.
However, one needs to be careful not to accidentally touch the Nylon cord with the heated blade, or else the Nylon will come undone and has to be redone (happened four times during the 24 pin assembly).
This is where I was presented with another problem: No matter how perfectly well placed the sleeve's ends are, there will always be a bit of unwanted colour at the end. Therefore, this needs to be painted (well, needs is a relative term :lol: ).
Oh, and in case anyone's wondering: They didn't have black wire in 16 AWG in stock and I really didn't feel like waiting a few weeks for that. Since you can't see through paracord this isn't hugely important.
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Also see here:
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Another wire in its painted state, this time with black sleeving. The black is a bit more forgiving of errors (sand colour is not at all), however it's also quite a bit trickier to see what's going on. I apologize for the blurry picture, it's quite a heavy magnification so I didn't realize this until it was too late.
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And finally, the 24 pin in its current state.
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Now it's on to do the remaining cables. :)

Hello everyone.

About 2 years ago I got my self a OEM PC from a local store. About half a year later I started to get really into computers and building them.

The computer that I originally bought had:

PSU - FSP 450W (80+ Bronze)
Motherboard - Foxconn P55M01
CPU - Intel Core i5 650
RAM - 3x2Gb Samsung 1333Mhz (DDR3)
GPU - GT330 -_-
HDD - WD Caviar Green 1TB

My actual PC specs:

Case - Fractal Design Arc Midi R2
PSU - Corsair GS600
Motherboard - Foxconn P55M01
CPU - Intel Core i5 650
RAM - 3x2Gb Samsung 1333Mhz (DDR3)
GPU - Sapphire 6870 Dirt3 Edition (Dual Fans)
SSD - 120GB Samsung 840
HDD - 1TB WD Green
Headset - Steelseries Siberia V2


In the summer of 2012 I bought a 6870 used , for 120€ and bough a GS600. It probably wasn't the best combination but at the time I was mind blown by the performance of this card. Here's a photo of my PC at that time :



In January of this I bought myself a Samsung 840 180GB SSD. My 3 minutes boot turned into a 30 second boot :D And here are some more photos :





About a month ago I finally bought what I wanted for a long time : a Fractal Design Midi R2 :)









So that's it ! For now. Give me your opinions on my build and what I should change.

It's very good looking , but that red RAM ....

Since being a goldsmith has not so much to do with making a computer, I have been busy making a piece of jewellery I could wear at the computex ;) . A silver keyboard ring with my initials on it. If you would like to see how I work as a goldsmith....again.... just scroll down ;) !

 

I made a wax ‘Ideal’ keyboard key and casted in brass. Then I made a rubber mould and made more wax keys.

These keys were casted in silver, so you can mass produce silver keys ;) !

 



 



 

Here you can see the casts. 

 

This is what I want to engrave.

 



 

First finish the keys.

 



 

My logo.

 



 



 

I still had 3 tiny diamonds which I will set in the ring.

 



 

Here you can see different surface techniques.

 



 

I have enneald the silver so I can bend the material easily

 



 

Then bend the silver and solder it together.

 



 



 

To make the ring round you have to hammer it.

To make the backside of the ring more interesting I have stamped my initials in the silver plate. 

 



 

First I started with drawing on my logo. I made a ‘light’ engraving with my milling tool (sort of dremel). 

 



 

To cut away the logo I used a engraving tool.

 



 

These 2 elements will be the frame of the ring, I will have to solder them together.

 



 



 

A silver plate that goes across the gap so the keys will stay in place when I lay them on, and solder them.

 



 

After you solder the silver there are a lot of oxides, so I always use a chemical to clean the material. It makes the silver look snow white.

 



 



 

Cut away the extra material.

 



 



 

One of the diamonds, they are so tiny!

 



 



 

Soldering everything together. 

 



 

I wanted the letters and my logo to stand out more, so I used a chemical which makes the silver go black. If you sand the material afterwards the lower parts will not be schratched so will stay black.

 



 



 

Now only finishing and than set the stones.

 



 



 



 



 

And the final result!!!!

 



 



 

Hope you like it!

 

I also made a few goodies with me to Taiwan to hand out to people there. It was a very interesting day ;) !

 



 



 

The lasercutter.

 



 

First a few testplates.

 



 



 

The real stuff ;) !

 



 



 



 

The lasercut goodies :)

 



 

Interesting day :D !

 

I’m very happy with how the build turned out! If I would have had more time and knowledge that I now have, I would have perfected it.

But I’m already thinking about my next project, so maybe soon there will be a new buildlog ;) !

After this I went on with the polycarbonate plates. I wanted these to sink into the frame nicely so I had to cut away the edges. which meant..... One big mess ;) !

I cut away on every side of the plates 1mm of material so the frame (which is 1mm thick) will fit exactly.

 



 



 



 

Here you can see that I’m cutting the poly carbonate plates. I fixed them so I can easily cut away a straight line. you won’t see the suface when the plate is fit into the frame. 

 



 



 

I gave both of the plates the same frosted texture. The light of the LED’s will spread nice and evenly because of this surface texture. It wil diffuse the light.

I used my diamantpowder tool to scratch the surface. It takes quite some time but I was really pleased with the results.

 



 

Difference in surface textures.

 



 



 

lots of work ;) ..

 



 

Takes a long time...

 



 

Also a small testplate of aluminium.

 



 

When I finished both of the plates I could glue them with 2 components glue.

 



 

On the backplate there will be the harddisk. This will be covered by another smaller plate. there will be a gap where the cables can enter and exit the harddisk. In this smaller plate I will also apply LED’s so it matches the design.

 



 



 



 



 

I made a harddisk holder from aluminium angled profile. 

Meanwhile my kitchen table looked like this... ;)

 



 

Here you can see the harddisk plate with the LED’s.

 



 

In the frontplate I will add some LED’s this makes the build more exciting when the computer is turned on. 

 



 



 



 

Here you can see 4 LED’s, soldered and (ofcourse) tested ;) !

 

These are the LED’s in the base of the Build.

 



 

I fixed the LED’s in the base with.... a lot !!! of glue.... Not so pretty but, it works ;).

 



 



 

Here you can see how I attached the adaptor to the base.

 



 

Anddd... its gone.

 



 

The poly carbonate front plate exists out of a lot of small pieces all put togeter. All of the key features on the motherboard have their own modified ‘sockets’.

 

Here you can see I disfigured a Pico PSU ;) . I wanted to make a case for the PSU and sleeve the cables with paracord to make it look really nice.

 



 



 

Here you can see where the cables are suppost to come out of.

 



 

This is the RAM- cooler I made. 2 small plates which cover up the RAM. The top is made of poly carbonate and I will add 2 LED’s there so the RAM will light up.

 



 



 



 

Finally the frontplate is coming together.

 

Ofcourse the Fan also had to go through a lot in this Build.

I took an old fan apart and made it shorter. Don’t worry... It will look nice in the end ;).

 



 



 



 



 

Taking the fan apart...

 



 



 



 

I made a small groove in the CPU cooler so the fan fits in perfectly.

 

Than finishing touches, spraypainting the fan.

 



 



 

This is the moment where I put all of the small components together to make the build complete.

 

Here you can see that the LED’s are in place and soldered.

 



 

First test run...

 



 



 



 

Luckily everything worked! Now I had to keep all of the cables in place because there is only limited space left on the sides of the case. (I used hot glue to secure some cables... I know.. not pretty ;) )

 



 



 



 

First time putting everyting together!!

 



 



 

Putting everything together with, glue ‘my-best-friend’ after this build ;). The cables haven’t got sleeves yet.

 



 



 



 



 



 

After fitting in the motherboard, I started building everything up.

 



 



 

Clicking everything together and sleeving the cables. I spraypainted the sata cable silver.

 



 

Here you can see the lack of space for the cabels ;). I was very happy that everything fitted !

 



 

The front and backplate of the build are attached to each other by 4 small screws. So the motherboard hangs in place in the build.

 

This build is especially very compact. It is 22cm high, and the case surrounding the motherboard is 19,5 x 19,5 cm and 2cm thick.