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    BerserkBear404 reacted to p0Pe in Project Rhino - A HEX GEAR R80 prototype build   
    Thanks man!
     
     
    Bottom fans will pull air in, top fans will blow out. I already removed the sticker:D
     
     
    Thanks man! I think you will enjoy the final pictures as well then:D
     
     
     
     
     
    It really is the material price that is jacking up the MSRP. For example, the alu profiles is almost 4 kilo´s alone. Most other cases are sheetmetal of very thin metal, and then some injection molded plastic. 
     
    Grab a snickers instead!
     
    Final pictures almost ready! Small teaser!
     

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    BerserkBear404 got a reaction from legopc in Buying laptop for school in July   
    Will you use it for school only? Because, if you just use it for writing and presentations a 970m or better would seem to be a bit overkill (and a small 13inch ultrabook would be more practical, too)
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    BerserkBear404 reacted to HylkeDW in Buying laptop for school in July   
    I forgot to explain: I wanna do some 3d modeling and making and playing games beside my study. I dont know what software yet but i wanna have a laptop that is capable of all those things
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    BerserkBear404 reacted to p0Pe in Project Rhino - A HEX GEAR R80 prototype build   
    Here you go man. I have no idea how that compares to other scores though, as I am unfamiliar with the benchmark
     
     
    As wished! See below:D
     
     
    Thanks. I think:)
     
    As stated in the reply to you, just simply subscribe to this thread. If you want to see more stuff like this, you can also give my facebook and youtube page a like/subscribe.
     
    Update time again! This time a quite big one. Or at least there went a LOT of hours into the preparations for this. As well as a LOT of cable. All in all I think I used abou 70-80 meters of cables for this thing! All in all there is a bit over 115 individually sleeved wires in this build!
     

     
    When I make wires for builds where I want a specific length of cables, I always start out by making the end that plugs into the components first. Then I route the cables the way I want them, and figure out what length they circa needs to be, and adds around 5 cm.
     

     
    I actually had to take out the 6 pin that goes into the motherboard and suply's extra power to the graphic cards because I had no room in the PSU for it Oo.
     

     
    Almost too bad as I quite liked how it ran over the graphic cards.
     

     
    But such is life. Testing showed that there was no performance or stability loss by taking this out, and no extra overclock to earn from it (when not running LN2 or other crazy voltmods, which is what I think this power plug is meant for)
     

     
    Closeup of how the pumps are sleeved. It works great, but it was a major pain in the bum to sleeve.
     

     
    Rear side with everything routed how I wanted it. Aquaero is not mounted in this picture, so I had to take that into considderation.
     

     
    With the first few cables finished. As you saw in the previous pictures, I start out by making all the ends in one end, and then route the cables. I then cut the other end so it fits with the PSU, and the length the cables needs to be, crimp it, and put them into the connector.
     

     
    And BOOM! A few hours later, the rest of the cables got connectors on the other ends as well. You have to be careful not to switch some of the wires this way as it is not super easy to see what wire is going where. But I have almost sleeved enough corsair power supply's by now to know the pin layout of the different ones in my sleep.
     

     
    Really like this quad comb. The thing is a beast!
     

     
    From the rear. Do not mind the zip ties, they are only in there to keep the different bunches of wires together for when I put connectors on them, and to keep the wires in the "route" I want them to go.
     

     
    All the wires out of the build for testing with a PSU tester.
     

     
    Proud to say that everything worked the first time around! So no magic smoke in this build!
     

    I also managed to almost completely fill out the PSU with plugs! The only ones available now is the sata/moles plugs which is kinda scary!
    Next up is piping!
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    BerserkBear404 reacted to p0Pe in Project Rhino - A HEX GEAR R80 prototype build   
    Update time! Lets get some cables on the table(s)!
     

     
    Obviously the four Titan X's is going to draw a bit of power, so a 1500W PSU.
     

     
    I have estimated that each GPU will use around 280W with overclock on them, so that is 1120W, leaving 380 for the rest of the system, which should be plenty.
     

     
    This thing is BIG!
     

     
    Nothing the case can't handle though. With this setup, the pumps gets quite close to the PSU, but with more "normal" setups, there will be plenty of space.
     

     
    Sleeving time! I am reusing the concept of the 180 degree cable combs I used in the engineering station, but this time with quad power!
     

     
    General color scheme!
     

     
    Just for fun, showing how I took the previous picture.
     

     
    24 pin mounted. I will put a 180 degree cable comb on this as well.
     

     
    And with everything mounted on the motherboard.
    More coming soon!
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    BerserkBear404 reacted to Senzelian in PC Upgrade - April 2016 - Time to end the bottleneck!   
    It's finally time to upgrade my PC. And probably also time to clean it.
    Using two GTX 980s in a Z97 board with an i5-4670 is a little awkward, so instead of just buying an i7-4790K I'll go crazy and got a whole new platform.

    Here is my current build:
    Today I got the new parts and I can finally start working on it tomorrow or maybe even today.
    Here is a little preview  (More pictures soon)






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    BerserkBear404 reacted to p0Pe in Project Rhino - A HEX GEAR R80 prototype build   
    Got some goodies from Intel! But I messed up. I thought I could just throw the PCIe ssd in between the two top graphic cards and be done with it, but after testing it out, the heatsink gets VERY hot during use, and I would not be comfortable with having it sanwitched in between two cards. The other option would be to watercool it, but it would require a special made SLI bridge, and would put the ssd out of the rear of the case. All in all, no really good solutions. I even tried messing around with a X4 extender cable, but could not really find an alternative that I liked.
     
    So the end of it will be that I will be taking out one of the Titan X's after thermal testing and benchmarking is done, and then I will put this baby in the rig and shoot some more pictures!
     
    One a bright side, I have the Klevv Urbane ssd that I can use as a main OS drive until the Intel one can be put in.
     

     
    A 1.2 tb PCIe ssd, and a i7 5960x!
     

     
    This disk is just INSANE in every way. 
     

     
    One thing I quickly noticed compared to standard ssd's or M.2 ssd's is the huge heatsink.
     

     
    Also, the backplate is a nice touch!
     

     
    It is actually suprisingly small. CPU for scale. But even though it is not huge, it is actually quite heavy because of the heatsink.
     

     
    Not much to say. Lots of dots.
     

     
    Just messing around with the macro lense.
     

     
    I again opted for the dedicated X99 waterblock. This one just makes life so much easier if you know you will only be using it for X99 setups.
     

     
    The polishing on these waterblocks are quite alright:D
     

     
    Almost to the point of stupidity.
     

     
    It looks good, but will never be seen again.
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    BerserkBear404 got a reaction from Senzelian in pimping a old case   
    mini update:
    acrylic and the vinyl for it arrived. now waiting for the led strip and the wood casing for the infinity mirror
     
    have a nice day! 
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    BerserkBear404 got a reaction from ApolloX75 in pimping a old case   
    Update:
    Painting is complete! The other two panels turned out much better as well.
    Some Pics:

    The fully assembled case

    The left side panel (with a minor scratch that my dear mother put into it)

    the top
     
    Next step is the assembly of the infinity mirrors for the gaping holes in the front of the case. Sadly, non of the parts made it to my evil hideout so I´ll have to wait one to two weeks until I can continue the project. And on this bombshell it´s time to end the show.
     
    Have a nice day
     
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    BerserkBear404 reacted to TheCamba in pimping a old case   
    Just even painting is a good mod.   Never stop modding.
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    BerserkBear404 got a reaction from rodrosenberg in pimping a old case   
    Update:
    Painting is complete! The other two panels turned out much better as well.
    Some Pics:

    The fully assembled case

    The left side panel (with a minor scratch that my dear mother put into it)

    the top
     
    Next step is the assembly of the infinity mirrors for the gaping holes in the front of the case. Sadly, non of the parts made it to my evil hideout so I´ll have to wait one to two weeks until I can continue the project. And on this bombshell it´s time to end the show.
     
    Have a nice day
     
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    BerserkBear404 got a reaction from ApolloX75 in pimping a old case   
    I did use a primer (not a good one though)
    I didn´t want to spend any money on the case as I´m saving up for a proper system. The only things I´ll buy for this have to be reusable and primer, coat and the color I would need would set me back around 35€ which I neither have or want to spend. If this would be my main system I would´ve made a lot more effort than I did with this project.
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    BerserkBear404 got a reaction from Senzelian in pimping a old case   
    Update:
    Painting is complete! The other two panels turned out much better as well.
    Some Pics:

    The fully assembled case

    The left side panel (with a minor scratch that my dear mother put into it)

    the top
     
    Next step is the assembly of the infinity mirrors for the gaping holes in the front of the case. Sadly, non of the parts made it to my evil hideout so I´ll have to wait one to two weeks until I can continue the project. And on this bombshell it´s time to end the show.
     
    Have a nice day
     
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    BerserkBear404 reacted to ApolloX75 in pimping a old case   
    Sand it gently with some very fine 800 grit. Then go buy a can of filler primer. Heavy primers are used for auto body restoration to fill in dips in body fill, you just sand it til it's smooth.
     
    Did you use a primer on any of the case panels or did you paint over the original coating? You need a good base to have good adhesion and a chip resistant finish. Might be a good idea to get a can of clear coat too.
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    BerserkBear404 reacted to rodrosenberg in pimping a old case   
    Nice job! It will only get better the more you do. 
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    BerserkBear404 reacted to Senzelian in pimping a old case   
    Doesn't look too bad for your first time painting a case.
    My first paint job looked pretty similar to this.

    Next time it'll look definitly better tho
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    BerserkBear404 got a reaction from Senzelian in pimping a old case   
    the problem is that this piece is made from plastic and sandpaper would probably scratch it even more. the scratches are also quite deep inside of it. I´ll try to even it a bit by spraying over some more layers of paint though
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    BerserkBear404 got a reaction from Senzelian in pimping a old case   
    Hi everybody, quick update:
    woke up at 10 AM instead of the planned 6 AM because my alarm clock failed on me...
    nevertheless, i ordered the materials for the infinity mirror as well as the led strips. i also ripped the case apart and will start painting now. hope the cans are enough
    also, have some pics:
    the pc´s inner guts with non-optimal cable management

    the panels I´ll paint
     
    Have a nice day! 
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    BerserkBear404 reacted to Big-G in LED Strip Recommendation?   
    Also consider CableMod
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    BerserkBear404 got a reaction from rodrosenberg in pimping a old case   
    Thanks!
    I really hope that this is going to look as good as it does in my mind
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    BerserkBear404 got a reaction from Big-G in LED Strip Recommendation?   
    I was also thinking of CableMod´s wide beams for the desk as they light up a bigger area
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