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Orange is the new Black

is this real life?...

is this real life?...

Just going to throw up some pictures of what icemodz hoked me up with, as well as an image on the computer ...
will be working all day with the last things to be done.

Have a nice Sunday!
 


For those who do not know what Cablox is, its help you to get your desktop and cables cleaner.

If they do it to maxwell as well I will never buy a nvidia product ever again. Trust will be ZERO for me and even if amd has less performance at least they keep their cards relevant for longer. However that's only if nvidia fucks me over along with maxwell users. I believe the 980 isonly 5-10% faster yet it takes SLI titan blacks with super-clocks and it still doesn't match one 980. Hell my 970 in my second rig did better.

what I've learned from building these space efficient cases is you should use reference (blower style) GFX card, or watercooled cards
due to the so limited intake/exhaust fan slots it's hard to keep the internal fed with enough fresh air, and/or evac the hot air fast enough, so if the GPU gets hot, the entire case also heats up with it
This is my case that I build Inspiring by the Nova which have the similar layout, currently have 3 intake fans (bottom and front) and 2 exhausts including the PSU fan, and I gotta tell you it's not nearly enough. My 7950 @ 1100 with 1.17V gets to 80C gaming in the 30C evening
my case doesn't have fan slots on the top but the Nova has fan slots all around so that may not be the case... :unsure:

***UPDATE***
Switched the PSU to Antec TP-650C 80 Plus Gold and PSU cover, also flip the PSU fan around so it can get fresh air (I don't want all the hot exhaust from the card to go through the PSU)
Decided not to make a backplate for the card bc with the 1150 core 1500 mem OC the board gets quite hot and I can only work with acrylic
// Damn squeezing all that cables to the tiny other side panel is so frustrating and cable-ties-consuming

 

 

 
Hope you enjoy

***UPDATE***
Switched the PSU to Antec TP-650C 80 Plus Gold and PSU cover, also flip the PSU fan around so it can get fresh air (I don't want all the hot exhaust from the card to go through the PSU)
Decided not to make a backplate for the card bc with the 1150 core 1500 mem OC the board gets quite hot and I can only work with acrylic
// Damn squeezing all that cables to the tiny other side panel is so frustrating and cable-ties-consuming

 

 

 
Hope you enjoy

***UPDATE***
Switched the PSU to Antec TP-650C 80 Plus Gold and PSU cover, also flip the PSU fan around so it can get fresh air (I don't want all the hot exhaust from the card to go through the PSU)
Decided not to make a backplate for the card bc with the 1150 core 1500 mem OC the board gets quite hot and I can only work with acrylic
// Damn squeezing all that cables to the tiny other side panel is so frustrating and cable-ties-consuming

 

 

 
Hope you enjoy

***UPDATE***
The final build
The HDD have to change position due to all the hot air from all that GFX card exhaust

 

 

 

 

 
Thank you for watching

***UPDATE***
The reason it took me so long is that there's an update on the video card, so I planned to post the final build after the new card is in
But that's such a waste so I'm posting the pics anyway
(These pics are taken with my phone)
The old R9 270 with custom bacplate:
 

 

 

 
The new arrival, Gigabyte 7970 Ghz (got this one brand new for 105$ so it's a steal)
 

 

 
Still thinking if I should make a custom backplate for this one bc it is HOT (not the GPU, the card overall) so I'm afraid the backplate will shorten it's lifespan somehow

My ghetto box a while ago  (jan/2012)
 

 

will upgrade to r9 290 when feel needed
but for now the 270 still going strong on my 1080 panel

90% conplete, will update very soon 
sneakpeek

Unit 00 will always be blue to me.
 
Blue + white FTW!
 
And some teaser phone shots of the 1st coat of blue.

Power supply, I had to buy this to get moving on the custom cable sleeving. I know its overkill for this but I wanted something modular for my first attempt at full custom sleeving.

Scratch that power supply, I went and bought a G2 1000W because... just because.

By Necrodead
 
HARDWARE:
Case: Corsair Air 240 (purchased) M-ITX mobo: ASrock z97E (purchased) Ram: 16 GB Gskill Trident X (Already own) GPU: R9 295x2! (purchased) CPU: i5 4690k (purchased) PS: EVGA G2 1000W (purchased) COOLING:
Full PETG custom loop, 12mm OD (purchased) Radiators: 2x Darkside 240mm (purchased) CPU: Phobya acrylic clear waterblock (purchased) GPU: EK acrylic clear waterblock Aquacomputer acrylic block Fittings: Barrow silver fittings, (exactly the same as Bitspower hard tube compressions) (purchased) Res: Barrow 65mm diameter 120mm long acrylic res  Pump: SC600 pump (purchased) Fans: 4x Enermax Vegas blue 120mm + 2x Corsair AF 120mm PLAN:
Wrapping exterior of case in white carbon fiber vinyl  Acrylic panels for interior wrapped or painted Painting frame and grills of air 240 in blue Fan controller + temp gauge modded into case Fan frames painted white, blades of AF fans in blue Painting Rads either white or blue Laser Cut acrylic radiator/fan shrouds Vinyl logos keeping with the Unit 00 theme Custom blue and white sleeved cables with darkside sleeving This is a weekend project for me, so it may take a while to get this build underway, however I have the case already and the vinyl is on the way. No corners are being cut in this build, since I have a working PC already and I don't need to get this done right away. More updates will be posted as I get things done.
 
Please take a look at my other build, here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/339642-a-custom-water-cooled-amd-build-autocad-update-inc/?p=4630313
 
 

***UPDATE***
 
Reapply mx-4 for the R9 270
          Dem shiny PCI slots cover        There she is... so beautiful :      Intake fans     2 black lines are case feet / dampening pads    NOTE: currently I don't have a proper camera, all the pictures are taken with the One Plus One. After the sleeved cables arrives tomorrow I'll try to borrow a camera and post the full completed build

Clear sheets
the color is all hand-painted

***UPDATE***
 
Reapply mx-4 for the R9 270
          Dem shiny PCI slots cover        There she is... so beautiful :      Intake fans     2 black lines are case feet / dampening pads    NOTE: currently I don't have a proper camera, all the pictures are taken with the One Plus One. After the sleeved cables arrives tomorrow I'll try to borrow a camera and post the full completed build

always wanted to do a Blue and White build
super nice man, especially the blue painting

Update 04

 CPU:               -i5 4690k or Broadwell i5 (purchased)
PS:                  -EVGA B2 850 - EVGA G2 1000W (purchased)
Cooling:         -PETG water cooling w/ 2x 240mm Black Ice Sealth Darkside thin rads, Bitspower Barrow silver fittings and res, D5 pump SC600 pump (purchased)
 
So I've got the i5 on the way and I just ordered all my sleeving tools and remaining watercooling parts from Dazmode.com. They are away so it won't be shipped till after the 11th. I changed my rads to the darkside ones for 2 reasons, firstly they are about 50% less than I would spend on performance-pcs.com after tax and shipping, and I'm not sure the black ice ones would actually fit in the air 240. The darkside ones are the smallest I could find. However they are flat black and I will have to mod them. Also I was going to go with a bitspower cpu block, but I got a phobya one that I think will match the build better for only $40 CAD from Dazmode.
 
OK on to progress; I had need for a fan or 2 for exhaust and so I've painted a couple of the AF fans that came with the case. I found out you can take them apart which made them way easier to paint.


 
Here is the paint on the case finished and ready to be built in. I will sleeve the I/O wires as well when I get materials.

 
OVERKILL power supply. Any size supply fits in this case which is great. I was thinking of painting it white but I don't really want to void the 10 year warranty.

 
And here is the first finished side panel. Actually I'm going to put some blue carbon fiber in between the white bars where I couldn't get the vinyl to strech. Ordered and it should be here soon.

I got both the X6 and 4460
if you can OC the X6 to 3.5-3.8ghz then it's not worth to go for the I5, I've only test some game (GTA V 4460 = 50FPS, X6 3.5Ghz = 60FPS, BF4 same same. watchdogs same same)
X6 with OC is still a BEAST  B)