Tristanjh

I dont think it should just be about the games but yeah i would have gone for a 7870 or a 7950. Especially the 7950, overclocks very well and could potentially outperform a 660ti PE had u overclocked it.

The Plan: The plan of the build is a completely black build with accents of blue and dark purple. When done it should be a silent stealthy build that you couldn't see coming from the shadows. The reason I choose the theme shadows is as a tribute to my WOW Guild The Cult of Shadows (Im the GM). Don't let the black on black on black fool you when complete there will be lots going on inside of this case mostly done with artistic methods airbrushing and laser cut panels. I plan to do all the water cooling tubes In flat black painted copper. I choose a NZXT hue for the lighting as it is the only light that can get the hues I want pun intended.

Any comments feedback needed and wanted!

So the question on everyone's mind the components! I will underline the components as I get them.

NZXT Swicth 810 se matte black
Sabertooth z77
Ivy i5 3570k
Vengence ram 16gb 4 x 4 - 8gb at the moment but wrong color
Wd blue single platter 1tb- Ended up just throwing some drives I had around into a raid array for now until I decide how to handle the hdd situation
Samsung 830 128gb
Samsung 830 128gb (raid0)(have one of 2)
GTX 670 FTW
GTX 670 FTW (second card in sli)
Corsair AX 850 (Went with the new xfx 850 back edition instead)
Raystorm cpu block
Alphacool UT45 420
Xspc ex 240
phyoba gchanger 120mm
D5 water pump
Xspc in bay rez
Black tubing
compression fitting black(monsoon)
compression elbows black(monsoon)
Some kind of fan controller suggestions?
Nzxt Hue
Razer death adder
Razer blackwidow Sadly Not stealth because I got a great deal on a regular one.
Razer nostromos Now they come with a new one darn it lol but its green anyway so ya.
Razer Electra
Ill ad more as i think of it
 
Glossary
Gotta start somewhere
Accent painting
Front panel design
Front panel Painted
NZXT Hue and more paint
Last Air pics ~DAY~
Last Air pics ~NIGHT~
Preparing for Water
Whole Lot of Hot Air

Decided to make a computer desk, it seems to be the up and coming style of case modding.
There are so many Rectangular desk out there i wanted to do something outside of the box.
Almost Completed Desk Build.
First I started with a idea of making a Hex sided desk in order to house my computer. After days of designing and researching what goes into a desk build created list of all that was needed inorder to make my idea become reality. The idea then evovled into much more. I then looked to Google Sketchup to design all the componets of the desk.
 
 



Used Google Sketchup to Plan out the build

Render Using Keyshot

A few days of Welding and a Plasma Cutter

http://www.youtube.com/embed/aY_94Qwx20I
 
 
Check out My Website for more Pics and Vids
http://Liquid-Helix.com

Firstly though, Big thank you to my sponsors

Performance PCS

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Mayhems Coolant

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Computer Lounge

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Table of Contents
Update One Here
Update Two  Here
Update Three Here
Update Four Here
Update Five Here
Update Six Here
Update Seven Here
Update Eight Here
Update Nine Here
Update Ten Here
Update Eleven Here
Update Twelve Here
Update Thirteen Here
Update Fourteen Here


 
So it begins!!
 
  For those who wish to have a look at the sketchup model for this desk,
 
I have uploaded it to here
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97695353/desk%20final.skp
 
You can download Sketchup here if you do not have it 
http://www.sketchup.com/download
 
Conceptual design

 
 
 
Here is what the timber looks like. Is native NZ Rimu. Please excuse the end one with the bird poo, that will be sanded off in due course. bloody sparrows in the shed >.<

 
 
 
Cut some of the pieces to length of 650, after everything has been glued together will refine the length to 600 

 
 
 
Tools for the job. PVA glue, biscuits. annnd a... Biscuit cutter? (who cares about its real name biscuit cutter sounds cool)

 

 

 
 
 
As you can see, there is some light inbetween the boards, so a nice plane on areas will help close those gaps up

 
 
 
Some fellow putting the biscuits into their grooves after a nice layers of PVA Glue.

 
 
 
All clamped up, with some weights on the timber to stop it from setting wonky 
This here is ONE side to the draw unit
 


 
 
Had to take the pieces to school and use the planer to make the edges all smooth, and to take any imperfections out
 

 

 
 
 
Here are the two horizontal supports for the desk, which the one on the left will be at the front as it has the toe bit on it. Sanded down with lovely wet and dry sandpaper to give it a baby smooth finish 
 

 

 

 

 


 
 
This is what happens once you get a nice plane
 


 
 
drilling out the holes for the dowels to go in, 1mm larger then the dowel so that the glue sets better
 

 

 
 
Once all holes drilled its time to start gluing them in place, and setting everything up to be cramped together
 


 

 
 
 
Now she is cramped, the draw body is setting, and now it is time to make the draws them selves 
 


 

 

 

 
 

 
Here are the draw fronts cut a little oversize just to be safe, not sanded or thicknessed or anything yet

 

 
My small wee thicknesser working its magic on the draw fronts, boy does this puppy make a mess!!

 

 

 
currently have two racks installed at the moment, start from the bottom and work your way up. Doing one at a time to make sure everything fits perfectly on the first time!

 

 

 
These are the draw sides, just some MDF which I will be painting matte black. Think it is somewhere around 12-13mm thick.

 
The box of which the draws will be just sitting there for a test fit, have to make sure that it sits on the sliders properly 

 

 
And here are the sides and front/back for the two bottom draws going to school to get everything cut to length properly and use that lovely big planner (note to self, buy one of those big planners as they make life so much easier)

 
Bruce one of the pet lambs thought he would come up and see what's up. Was more interested in sticking his head in boxes around the shed though lol

 
Since the thicknesser I used at school had a few chips in the blade (GRRR) spent about an hour belt sanding the sides to make all the imperfections go away, belt was a 'used' 120 grit piece

 
Time to smoothen the sides up and then further make sure there are no ridges because you can certainly feel if there is anything wrong with a certain spot if the rest is smooth! This was I think around a 80 grit on a circular sander

 
After happy with the piece of timber, it was time to move to the 240 grit wet/dry. After 5 minutes of nice, slow and steady sanding. I can assure you that there was much pleasure in rubbing my hand around the timber... my GOD it is smooth.

 
So this is what it looked like before sanding

 
And this is what a few minutes of 240 grit wet/dry does 

 
All the pieces have now been sanded down to get rid of all imperfections that I could

 
Sam and I discussing what to do next.

 
GOOD MAN SAM! That's right, have to have the aluminium rods for the 'files' to sit on

 
All cut to length and the ends filed down

 
All is well 

 
both ends in, and the file fits. Looks like my measuring was correct 

 
Sam now bored and reflecting on life as it is 

 
Predrilling holes for the sides to be nailed to the Side of the FRONT/BACK

 
Both sides done

 
Add a line of glue for extra support

 
Straightened it up and nailed em all in!

 
Now to do the next side 

 
Can't forget to add the rails in when putting the other side on!!

 
Predrilled the holes and put the nails in ready to smack em along the bottom. 

 
 
Here is the draw unit in some decent light Still have to get the draw front on too.

 
Time to screw the rail sliders for the draw on. Firstly I pre drilled the hole with a very small drill bit, just to prevent any cracking of the MDF then in the screw goes!

 
Here is the bottom draw front, and after some 360 wet/dry. You can see the shiny'ness, it is so smooth 

 
Since I cannot do any more draws till I get some more custom wood, thought I would be useful and get the other sides legs sorted. So found some nice pieces of more Rimu, which will be thicknessed down a bit, and will router the edges too

 
Ran them through the thicknesser, got hit in the face by a few flying chips. Lucky my safety glasses protected my eyes 

 

 

 
 
So now both pieces are lovely and square/flat/straight

 

 
 
Time to clean up the mess made by thicknessing...

 
 
Clamping a bead across the front piece and the draw, to make sure that everything is lined up 

 

 

 
 
All lined up, happy with it. Now let us screw it on!

 
 
The final result

 
 
Time to sort out the spacing between each draw, found the right packers.

 

 
 
Everything has been cut up to length and sanded down for the middle draw unit.

 
 
Let us commence the building!

 

 
 
Time to get the runners aligned and sorted too...

 

 
 
Getting the spacing sorted with the new packer, and then clamping and screwing again

 

 
 
 
Same as before of how to do the attach the front piece to the box

 

 
 
Only one left to do!

 
 
Here is my beast and the box of bits

 
 
Time to router the edges of the legs! Here are the two bits that I will be using (note: the big one is for the legs, the small one is for a bevel around the outside of the draws)

 

 
 
I hadn't used a router before, so got mum to show me how to do it, 

 
 
We were left with a good result, nice smooth. lovely.

 
 
Now time to sand the edges down so that there isn't a "step" from the flat piece to the curve (above pic)

 
 
 
Routered the edge of the LEFT and RIGHT side of all the draws and the BOTTOM of the bottom draw. 

 
 
Once I finished sanding the saw marks, the curve had kinda disappeared, no problems. Will re-router it again 

 
 
The timber I am using is recycled stuff, so there are a few nail holes here and there. Clever trick, use the saw dust of the rimu that has been collected in the table saw bin and mix with PVA glue to make a nice formula that will fill in the holes, dry hard. and then be the most unnoticeable filler!

 
 
After the pva had dried, this is what we were left with

 

 
 
The chisel then got it off to a nice smooth finish that will get sanded down, it might not look perfect, but you can notice a hole in a timber from a mile away

 

 
 
Now it's time to get a piece of wood sorted for the side rail connecting the two legs together

 

 
 
Might as well get the back runner cut while I am here!

Keyboard and monitor are not off this computer, has razer death stalker ultimate on back order, there hard to get in Australia

Hello my fellow Kiwi's, thank you for the kind words :)

Alright guys figured I would do a build log on my NZXT Phantom 630 Case. This is going to be kind of a knight/dragon build using MSI's new gaming range for the Intel motherboard. Parts are not going to be here anytime soon as I am holding out for either Haswell or (If I can wait that long ) Ivy-E. Luckily for me I decided to actually use ChainMail for the back panel...
Alright a brief sketch-up documentation.


 
Which might for all intensive purposes be the death of me. Regardless I've started and thought I would show you the progress so far.
The beginning of the end. The roll of links...




To avoid mental injury I then began the next part of the design cutting out the side panel shield.
Cutting the template.


And now the real deal.




A little memento...

Meanwhile back in the land of chainmail...

Alright guys thats all I have at the moment though I'm still a long ways from completion.  So there will be updates to come.
 
Day 1 of the reveal:


 
Day 2 of the reveal:



 
Day 3 of the reveal:


 
Day 4 of the reveal:

this is my first mod ever besides my ps3 so tell me what you think of it if you have any ideas please tell me :)
 
specs:
CASE: ThermalTake level 10 GT
CPU: I7 950 bloomfeild
MOBO: MSI X58 PRO-E
RAM: 12 GB Hyper x blu
GPU: Gforce 320 GT soon GTX 480
HDD: Samsung 2TB
PSU: Be Quiet 1000 W

WC SPECS:
CPU BLOCK: Koolance 360
TOP RAD: HW-Labs Black Ice - GTS Lite 240
BACK RAD: XSPC EX120-Black
PUMP: Alphacool VPP655 Single Edition (Laing D5)
FITTINGS: Koolance 19/13mm
RESERVOIR: Koolance top with custom made reservoir
TUBING: XSPC High Flex - 19/12,7mm - UV-Blue
COOLANT: Feser Aqua Ultra Pure Water
FANS:3xPhobya G-Silent 12 120mm - Blå LED-1x200mm Thermatake blue LED fan 1x230mm blue LED fan
Misc:
MONITOR: Sony 32"
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 8 Pro 64bit
KEYBOARD: Logitech MX 5000
MOUSE: AGK Laser

LIGHTING: blue LED under the mobo-Revoltec cold catode Kit UV 30cm-2 3mm blue LED in the res
 
 
 
this is my testbench

 
my new parts is here :)

 
uv blue tubing and silver fittings

my phobya fans



my first sleeving

 
mobo in place

radiators and reservoir starting my tube run :)

more tube run



My custom reservoir

UV lights

I upgraded from my old rig a couple months ago. Ive got a custom white 900D on the way. And there are many other small thing im working on too but here are the new specs;
Intel 3770K @ 4.8
Asus Maximus V Formula
Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB @ 2133mhz
Asus Directcu ii Top GTX 680
2x Samsung 840 pro 256GB ssd in raid0
3x WD Caviar Black 1TB in raid 0 (Storage)
1x WD Caviar Black 1TB (Steam/Origin)
Corsair AX1200i
Corsair H100i (for now)
HAF 932 (until the 900D is released)
I also got some new spectre pro fans, a bunch of black and urban camo paracord, sound dampening and filter material. the cable management is bad but its just temp until the new case and other things make it.






ohh yea i wanted to post this as well..
So i had these spikes laying around when i got my case and just decided to replace the plastic window pins with them.

Just a couple weeks ago i was install the h100i and had an idea.

I installed them on top with the rad in hopes of keeping this guy off the top of my computer. xD

A couple weeks after getting the first batch i got this in the mail...

and again please over look the cables; Its all temp until the new case and im working on custom sleeving.

this is an extension i practiced on first...

More updates to come. Ill show the progress on the 900D soon as well.

Big update guys, all my WC parts are here. All of them are by XSPC. The remaining components will be from Alphacool, EK and Koolance.
Items in the pic: XSPC D5 Vario, XSPC Dual 5.25inch Bayres, XSPC High FLX UV Clear tubing, XSPC Black Chrome fittings X6(probably need 1 more, will get soon) and lastly a XSPC EX360 19fpi radiator along with a XSPC 360mm gasket.

I'm Maine... Agent Maine. I'm currently working on turning my setup from an average gaming rig to an all out rig. I'm currently using a Corsair 600T White and will be going to water cooling my whole rig this year (Christmas time) and will be upgrading my Monitors into a triple 24 inch surround. I'll be posting my idea pictures for my rig and the neat stuff I'm building for my rig to rest on. Stay tune!
P.s - I'm not heavily modding my case, I'm doing some but not a lot of work.
P.s - This is not just my setup, I'm working on my whole Gaming room =D
Idea #1 - Water Blocking (water cooling setup)

Original title was:
Unusual Unboxing | Cooler Master Cosmos II Mod | Surprise Alert
I guess I really tricked a lot of people believing this was an unboxing thread, so I decided to change this title so people know this is a case mod build not a traditional unboxing, even when this is not traditional at all.
 
 
Original unboxing pictures from early October.






That's me measuring MB tray and planning this mod.

Been following this build for awhile now.Cant wait to see the final product.

Agreed my friend, agreed. I just wanted to see how it would look, and it was a cool
way to kill two afternoons with my Dremel. It does look a bit better with the mounting
bracket painted black, but I forgot to take pics of that.
Most likely I will paint the mounting bracket black and use the black decal plates, I
found out by accident that I quite like that look. But with the copper piece it's just
too much copper (especially with the copper RAM blocks right next to them).
The copper decal would probably look very neat on the standard Raystorm with the black
acetal top.