ALXAndy

One = bios

Hope you don't have hard drive issues. Make sure you get the latest one on from an ssd as that board won't post with a lot of mechanicals.

Then it was time for the PCIE wiring. And finally in. Pic is crap as sunlight has gone now

I'm busy mate sorry. I thought if you looked at the spec list on page 1 you could sort it.. I will meet you on Teamspeak, but I still have a lot to do mate before I'll be ready.. Any way, postman came. I set to work..... And they're off... And then.... Nice ! Time to introduce some white... Done. Just taking a 30 min or so break, then I'll hit the PCIE wires.

I need a specific shopping list now dude. And I need orders to install things too. Though tbh? I don't mind effing it up and doing it a few times as I like to learn. Good news. Both the paracord and the last of the acrylic arrived this morning. So that's pretty much everything I need to complete the build... Scary ! Mr Skull is now complete with the LEDs fitted and tested. Am very happy with him, looks very clean and professional but will save him for a bit later

Dat backplate... Glad to see you having fun with the plotter. Hopefully I'll have the cash for mine soon BTW you seem to work as quickly as I do...

Ain't gonna lie, making this was really boring. It's fitted now. Glue is setting.

Centred and stuck. Few hours and I can fit the LEDs and light him up

Right, going back to this... So yesterday I found this guide.. http://www.macbreaker.com/2014/01/install-osx-mavericks-on-pc-with-niresh.html I managed to find the Niresh ISO and have now built that using the disk imager in the link... So, that's it right? I boot from that, install it and then I install Multibeast, the X79 kexts and so on? is that all there is? or am I missing something? The time is becoming nigh Mr Nicholas.....

I originally bought him for the BPM. But it didn't look right in chrome for that so I was meaning to order a black one but BPM has gone on the backburner for a bit. Should look rather B.A when lit up

Oops. forgot all about this lol. Today I decided to tidy up the bits and bobs. Everything was in a bit of a mess.. Any way, allow me to introduce you to Mr Skull. This part actually took me about an hour. What I did was stuck it down and then used the Dremel to carve around the edges. So that's my light blank. I've polished the edges since but the sun has gone in. Here is how they fit. They're now setting, so I got on with this. Mark. And... As I say, glue setting so that's it for now but this will become the centre piece of the front of the case. 5 white LEDs

Right well I don't think I can go that route so Niresh it is.

Gigabyte X79 UD3 with a Xeon 8 core.. It works on the UP4, Linus did one. The UD3 is identical it's just lesser specced on USB and phases.

Couple of questions if I may. This is to Nicholas too... Am I going to need a MAC to build the bootable USB installer? and if so, can I do it with Leopard? Ed. NVM I think I have everything I need? So far I've got the Nvidia drivers, Multibeast Mavericks ed 6.5.0 and am downloading Niresh 10.9 ISO. I also grabbed Windows Disk Imager, so I should be able to attempt to build a USB stick with that lot.

I've never taken a motherboard apart before. I've always left them alone... The SB core is very small and delidded, so very easy to damage. I had also not ran this RAM in this set up yet either... You gotta remember dude, everything was stripped down to absolutely nothing and quite heavily modded. One little slip or one screw done up too tight and it's game over. Still, at least I know she fires. Braiding the PSU shouldn't change anything so fingers crossed it will all work at the end. Edit. I also wasn't sure about the cooler contacting properly. I made it remember? it was never intended to be ran on this socket.. Just did some bios digging and thankfully the CPU fan is fully controllable so I have it set to silent. Phew x2. You should have heard the bloody thing roar before I changed it !

Today paranoia got the better of me so I did this. Memory. And the CPU. Now obviously I've never taken a motherboard apart before so I was pretty para. Turns out everything made it through and works fine. Phew !

Quick update. So a couple of Paypal refunds started coming in from dodgy sellers so I have ordered some paracord. Should be here within a couple of days

I don't agree. Many years ago I built a rig called "RadioMACtive" and painted it with both pink and yellow fluorescent paint. At first I just blew down the main colours over white primer. The finish was satin'ish'. As soon as I started blowing on the clear it was obvious that clear was the way to go. It gave the paint so much extra depth and brightness. Sure, the colours are very very bright but if that's where you're going you need to go big or go home IMO. Not going to be to everyone's taste of course, and that's fine. If you were an 80s kid like me and B-negs it'll make perfect sense. I still remember sitting around the house in my towelling flouro socks lol.

You are joking yes?