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  1. It has been some time since my last update but over Christmas I managed to get a week or so of work complete. Over this time I worked on the fan mount, PSU mount, GPU mount and side panels. For the fan mount like with the motherboard tray I reused one from another case (the same one I got the motherboard tray from). This was cut into the same shape as the case so it slot into place and then was secured with self tapping screws before the ends of the screws were cut off and sanded. Next with the PSU mount this is made with some steel bars. I will be using a SFX PSU in this case due to the size restraints I have. As The mount for this only needs 3 screws which is quite nice and the treading is in the PSU which is less work for me. I added the mounting holes but I expect I might need to make the holes bigger in the future as I used the drill but I use before adding screw thread which in itself enlarges the hole a small bit. As for the graphics card mount It uses a piece of steel bar and aluminium angle. The aluminium is holding the graphics card in place whereas the steel is supporting it so it does not move. Both of these pieces are attached to the motherboard tray which is not ideal but my original plan to also attach them to the steel bars already in the case would not work due to other changes I have made since starting the build. It is still strong though I don't expect it should be a problem. Finally with the side panels I have only started this section. The panels are made up of 6 strips of aluminium sheet cut to size so there is one strip per side. I have only got to the point of cutting out the strips. I still have to prepare the case a small bit for the side panels (changing the direction some screws are attached), cut the strips down to size, attach the strips to the case. The strips will be attached to the case by either 2 or 4 thumb screws. That is it for this update. There is still a fair bit to do but the end is in sight. Once the case is built I will be painting it and then building a computer it in (cant wait).
  2. no improvements to games but much better load times e.g. booting up your computer will take seconds (probably around 20 - 30) instead of minutes. I felt much the same as you before I got one but now I cannot live without one.
  3. Best upgrade ATM would be a SSD (240GB or more would be my suggestion) and then wait until the next gen of CPU's are released before you make the big upgrade
  4. UPDATE! Its been some time and a lot of progress has been made on the case. This was all with the motherboard mount. To start this I had to attach a couple of steel bars to the case. Two of these were straight and therefore easy to add. The other two had 60 degree bends in them to allow them to be fitted to the case. Once these were made I could go ahead and make the motherboard tray. The original plan for this was to add two bars going across the inside of the case. This however would not have worked as during a test fit with paper cutouts I noticed the screw mounts on the motherboard were not lined up. This would have resulted in 3 out of 4 screws being fitted to the motherboard. The solution for this was to use a old case I had lying around and chop out the motherboard tray. This as much as it is wasting a computer case was a very good solution as it meant I would not have to drill the holes for the motherboard. With this I expected I would have had less than a millimeter margin for error. So with the motherboard cut out I prepared it and attached two pieces of aluminium angle to it to add strength and add the attachment points for it to be fitted to the case. That is all for this update. AS much as I have condensed it down into a small paragraph I found this part of the process very difficult and many times I would have to repeat some steps due to damage and errors. This also will be the last update for some time as I am at University and therefore cannot work on the case until I am home later on this year. Enjoy
  5. Update 2! Its been a while since my last update and as much as I have not achieved what I would have liked at this point progress has been made. If you go back and look at the top and bottom hexagon pieces you will notice there is a join on each piece which at that time still had to be attached to the other join. I've been attempting to join the two ends together for some time with an epoxy called JB weld. This is very strong but it does not match the metal it is attached to which resulted in it cracking and splitting many times. This would not be a problem but it takes 24h to dry and therefore each time it cracked it would halt production for 1 day. After about 1 week of trying to get a strong bond I started to look for an alternative. This ended up being adding a metal brace which I attached to each hexagon before using JB weld. The brace will stay on the pieces as it adds strength which I need. Once I had successfully glued the ends together it was time to sand everything down. This was hard in the corners but the result is very good. After this it was time to reconstruct the case which I dissembled for the gluing. This was mostly easy apart from one corner where I need to sand down the hexagon a bit more. That's it for this update. I will be back soon for more.
  6. If it is just between them two cards the 960 as 4GB of frame buffer is likely to be more beneficial. Otherwise if you can save up a little more money the rx480, gtx1060 or other similar performance card will be far better.
  7. Update! Ive now been working on the computer case for a short while and have made a lot of progress. I have also completed a video showing progress up until this point: materials used: 3x steel flat bar (20mm x 2mm x 1 meter) everything else from before The first step I made for this update was to lay down the steel and aluminium in the rough shape I plan it to go. This was just to see what the case would be like and it may inspire me or something like that. Nothing happened but I did get a picture to show you. Next I had to cut the steel bars down to 40cm pieces. All of these had to be exactly the same length. Something I expected but did not realize it would be this hard is steel is really hard to cut through. Matters were not made better by my hack saw being blunt but I managed and I had a good file so that made the fine adjustments good. Following this it was time to add holes to attach everything together. The plan was to have two holes in the top and bottom of each steel bar and these to match holes in the aluminium angle. I made the mistake of drilling these holes in the steel and then the aluminium resulting in some holes not lining up. I'm still working on a fix for this. I also had the plan of using self tapping screws but this did not work. The alternative which I went with was using a tap and die kit to add a screw thread to each hole and then screw everything together. This worked perfectly minus some holes not lining up perfectly. This brigs us to the last part which is the test fit of the case. As this is only a test fit half the final number of screws are attached and they are screwed in the outside instead of the inside like they will be then finished. I am happy with the result so far and in the next update I will be moving onto improvements and component mounts.
  8. your choice. I use backup but RAID 1 will work just as well if not better (as long as you don't accidentally delete your stuff)
  9. I would change the hard drive. 6TB is nice but you will probably do with 2-3TBs. I would recommend getting 2 x HDDs and then use one for a backup as losing data is not fun.
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