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  1. You can try a couple things. Put a piece of acrylic in front of the leds and frost it. Or paint the acrylic white. You can also sand the leds down a little, or spray them with a frost. This build is gorgeous! can't wait to see it done!
  2. Welp... need to buy new memory. Tested two Asus Impact mobos today and getting the same 01 error from both boards.
  3. Spent a few days painting, heres the results. Tell me what you think. Did I hit G1 Soundwaves color palette?
  4. Interior mods today: Acrylic cut to fit inside case, and holes marked out roughly. Bondoed and filled the fan shroud pieces with resin for a more solid part. I need one more coat to get the last pinholes on the big piece, the small one is ready for paint. All interior panels cut and ready for paint tomorrow. I still don't have my cable extensions, so can't put it together until I get those. And did some painting. I might get some vinyl and do one or two of the blue ribs a different color than blue.
  5. Awesome and clean build! The stock stickers look good. If you do change them, I would just see if you could get new windows/intel badges, as a hint at whats inside maybe, but nothing else.
  6. Search for 10" x 13" shadow boxes for your wall, or 10" x 13" display cases for your desk at whatever online store you prefer. I'm seeing the correct size shadow boxes on Amazon for 20$
  7. Some watercooling stuffs: This was my first horrible idea to setup a drain valve. The colors are bad, it would have required a run of hardline, just weird looking... This is what I decided to go with instead. Much cleaner, more symmetrical, and a shorter assembly. The gpu is connected to the ram block using an extendable multilink adaptor. I measured, planned and cut for this, but I'm still shocked I got it dead on like that. I am using 1/8" acrylic to make interior panels. You can see a 140mm TT riing installed on the backside of the mobo tray. This is where the exhaust fan is going to be... And this is where the fan shroud/cable race will be. These are two paper mockups to get dimensions and fit. I put these together with cardstock and a roll of masking tape that was handy. My original intention was to get the shape laid out in paper, then make it out of acrylic. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment. Using a table router is levels of dust and noise I can't really deal with. Trying to cut 45* edges on my scrollsaw was too problematic. But I had some fiberglass and resin laying around, so I made a final cardstock version, this time using rubber cement instead of masking tape. I saturated the whole thing in resin, applied fiberglass and more resin, then one final layer of resin. The assembely is the main shroud, a cosmetic insert (will be painted different color), and the small piece will have a notch cut out so it can hole the 24pin, and 8pin coming off the mobo. I'm currently applying bondo and sanding these pieces to get them ready for paint. I'm also cutting holes in the mobo tray and acrylic panel for the fan. It'll be a week until my next couple of days off though, so more coming soon. I also cleaned my radiators and old blocks with a Mayhems 2 part kit. A LOT of red came off my old blocks haha.
  8. Whoa buddy, whos this "we" you're talking about? Seriously though, that looks better, and is probably way more comfortable that most of these gaming chairs available. *sent from my patio chair*
  9. More: So I only needed one hdd slot, and I realized I could mount a 120mm fan inside the cage and have it aimed at the back of the motherboard. So thats what I did. Super simple, cut the side of the hdd cage with the dremel, and drilled screw holes for the fan. But that was a little thing, the big mod I want to cover in this post is how I recessed my radiator. This is how close the back of the gpu sat to the fans with the front panel stock. I wanted a little more room. This is the stock fan/ radiator mount. The entire assembely is about 3 inches tall. I cut out the fan mount, then made my own brackets. The new assembly comes in at a bit over 2 1/2 inches. Oceans of room, lol. I also mounted the pump/res and cut holes for that. Not to many pictures of that process though. Thats all for tonight. Let me know what you think.
  10. My TT Core V1 build was fun, but it's too much trouble to maintain, and my loop didn't really drain or fill properly because of where I had to install components in the case. I decided to rebuild in a Corsair Air240 because I liked the blocky look and thought it would be a good base for the rebuild. Old parts: Asus Impact VIII EK M8I monoblock i7 7700k 32gb Ripjaws V 3200mhz EK Monarch block + ram modules MSI Seahawk EK 1070 500 gb Samsung ssd 3tb Seagate hdd Corsair 650sf PSU EK D5 pwm pump New Parts: a ton of blue/gold fittings Monsoon MMRS parts for res/pump combo Hardware labs 240 extreme profile radiator TT Riing+ premium rgb 120mm fans Haven't bought parts: Cable mod extensions (having trouble deciding color pattern) NZXT internal usb hub Razer HDK (its on the shopping list, but the riings will probably be more than enough light) Test fitting parts and getting an idea for what I want to do with the build. This was about the time I got the idea to do a soundwave theme. Up until I started the build I was picturing Devestators purple/green theme in my head. What cinched the deal was seeing my old res/pump laying on top. I knew before I even ordered the Air240 that my 1070 would not fit in the stock position so the plan from the start was for a vertical GPU. I ordered a pci bracket that was meant for some other case. I decided the best way to do this would be to create my own backplate. I de-riveted the entire case, then I marked out where I would make my cuts, and cut the pci bracket down to dual slot. I cut out the back panel with a dremel and a cutoff wheel. The steel plate was cut out with electric metal shears (fun tool!) and all holes were drilled with a drill press. I then riveted the back panel together with washers between the pci bracket and the steel plate to create a slot for the card bracket to sit in. You can also see the new Monsoon pump/res with purple fittings on (I returned them for blue). The white plastic cover is from the Core V1. And the finished gpu mod. Thats a Thermal Take riser cable on the 1070. Got a lot more pics of this build coming, so stay tuned.
  11. No. 1: You can buy n64 extender cables, plug them into the 64, then install the other end on the side/top/wherever on your case. Install wouldn't be too difficult, drill a hole and then epoxy. You could make it look clean with maybe an accent ring, or bondo/paint. No. 2: I had to look up pics of the n64 psu... yikes. Maybe see if you can power it thru your computers psu? No. 3: I don't see any reason you couldn't connect your av/usb converter to an internal port, just remember that its a bad idea to hot plug/unplug from internal ports. Only plug/unplug while the system is powered off. If its a question of needing more internal usb ports, NZXT makes a pretty popular internal hub, I have one heading to me now. No. 4: You are talking about building a pretty custom component there. There are probably very few people who could give you advise on how to move the cartridge slot off the mainboard and put it somewhere else. It would honestly be easier to mount the main board in the top of the case and cut a slot to put cartridges in, but it looks like you're wanting to put it in the bottom. How are your soldering skills? It might (BIG might here) be able to desolder the cartridge port, then solder wires from the port to the mainboard to extend it... but the delay added by the wires could also just make carts unreadable, or just break the whole thing. No. 5: Same as 4 really. Have you considered painting the memory module, or maybe just covering it up with an acrylic plate or something? No. 6: Buttons and switches are pretty easy to desolder and move (compared to what you would need to do for No. 4/5). Go to a radioshack, or hobby electronics shop and you should find single pole switch (for power), contact switch (for reset), as well as brackets, passthrus, and other mounting hardware so you can have it on the front of your case. Looks like an awesome project, gonna be a difficult one though.
  12. If you have access to a drill press, this is easy peezy. If you're trying to do this with a hand drill/dremel, maybe do a practice run first, but it still shouldn't be difficult. As for material, acrylic, steel, or aluminium. Whatever you feel most comfortable working with really. The material will hold, it's not like the cables are putting insane amounts of pressure on the holes.
  13. This is great advice, and I'm not knocking it! But as someone who got tired of skinning his knuckles maintaining my custom loop mITX build, there is a lot of awesome in using an mITX board in an mATX case I'm transplanting my build from a TT core V1 into a Corsair air 240, and its just oceans of room to build in.
  14. Have you tried new rubber o-rings? You might be able to find a replacement metal ring somewhere like mcmasters. If you can measure the ring and post dimensions it could help.
  15. *le cough* (corsair air 240, and gpu bracket from some other case) Also cut a piece of acrylic as a brace for the back of the gpu after these pictures were taken.
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