adi518

The butthurt is strong with this thread.

The butthurt is strong with this thread.

The butthurt is strong with this thread.

The butthurt is strong with this thread.

The butthurt is strong with this thread.

Good on you doing the right thing and returning them. Clear conscience > money.

*makes some popcorn*  :rolleyes:

Very good job buddy! subbed.

I've set my eye on that bequiet heatsink.. very nice looking with the black plate on top.

Well hello there guys!   Experiment Nr. 5
 
  Thought it would be time to finally get this thing lifted. I have had the case since last year, and have been playing around with it and brainstormed about what to do with it.   It is going to be my fift proper CaseMod (1: DnA, 2: PC-Beto, 3: Project M8, 4: Project N.V), and will include a lot of techniques that I learned trough these mods. The case is a CaseLabs S3 mini itx case that CaseLabs was kind enough to ship me when it first came out.   The case is around the same size as the popular Bitfenix prodigy, and I have gotten a pedestal shipped too, that I will use for most of the cooling compartments.   But lets start off with a parts list:   Motherboard: ASUS Impact CPU: Intel I7 4770K GPU: ASUS GTX780 RAM: Corsair Dominator 16 gb SSD: 2xCorsair Neutron GTX 256gb HDD: WD 2tb green PSU: Corsair RM1000   Watercooling will be all EK, exept for the fittings which is provided by Bitspower.   But no one reads these intro´s anyways, so lets dive into it!       First of all, the case:               And here it is on my desk, along with a bitfenix prodigy M.   Motherboard tray     Here you see the ASUS Impact Motherboard on the tray. It really is a nice and tidy little card!     I am going to connect 3 drives to the build. Two ssd´s, and a hdd. Everyone knows that sata cables can be a pain in the bum to route trough a build, so I wanted to hide these as much as possible.       The cables goes directly under the motherboard, and will connect to the ssd´s which I plan on mounting beneath the motherboard tray.     Ram and one of the SSD´s from Corsair!     This is how I planned on mounting them. Wires will go under the motherboard to get as much of it out of the way as possible.     Milling the holes. Ohh the joy of a manual mill!     And how the cables will run.     Both of them semi installed.       Now, I wanted to mount the one HDD to the side of the centerrail of the case, and doing so in a stealthy way. So a cover was made for the harddrive. Please ignore the two pumps, this was from an earlier concept.       3D printed a prototype of the hdd cover. The final version will be milled from aluminum.     Printed out a drawing of the sidepanel modifications.     Double checking that the harddrive fits:D     After drilling, forward to filling.     And done! Rubber grommets installed.     And harddisk installed!   That was it for now! I am preparing a few renders of the concept, and working on the pedestal on the moment, so that will be the next updates!

A side project, from my main (near finished) Define project, is in hand!

I got this new case from a Lutro0-Customs & Bitfenix giveaway, which I will soon write my review on. I decided to work with the case and put in my temp mitx spec, until new parts arrive. In fact, I didn't think of making a project just soon, I wanted to throw in all my gear, but I love doing custom work nowadays, I dislike using the stock psu cables which never fit correctly into a case, in the Phenom it's made especially hard, if you use a modular psu like a Seasonic X.

So again, this is a side project. My Define project will soon be up with finished photos. I know some are 'disappointed' it wasn't done yet, before this one, but this was an opportunity that fell onto me and I decided to take it.


This project will be held in two main phases and perhaps a third one:

- Phase 1: temp spec in, no sleeving in most of the case
- Phase 2: temp spec out, all is sleeved/modded + additional new components to be added
- Phase 3 (not confirmed): water cooling the build !









First thing I like to do is, removing everything that won't be utilized in the build:

- 5.25" bay removed
- 2.5" HDD/SSD side panel mount removed
- Big HDD cage removed
- Lower hdd cage rail for top cage removed


Looks clean...



Improving... had to offset the psu back. Edit: I noticed that now Bitfenix has further opened the psu cage so cables can come out between the two pillars of the phase facing the psu sockets!





SATA crimp that went bad (one wing fell off because of dirt in my crimper). Soldered the one wing crimp and all is as well!



Can't go without removing those Seasonic stickers:



Since I'm using a temporary board, and in most enthusiast boards the 24-pin is located on another edge, I decided not to use my precious wire stock, but sacrifice a malfunctioning Chieftech I had laying around. Of course, I added some wires and crimps and it's all goood:



The dead Chieftech:



Ready:



Seems legit:





Starting to place everything in the case:



Rog scheme, custom cpu, hdd, ssd and sleeved SATA cables (the red one was actually sleeved using MDPC Color-X):



Close up:





Stock front panel looks like it needs that MDPC treatment:



Say bye bye to AC'97.. no idea why they keep supplying this one...



Front panel wiring reorganized and sleeved
(separated the led and button wires so they make 4 wires instead of 2):



Great thing about Lutro's Teleios sleeving is that you don't have to worry about stretching the sleeve for a non-see through look, great feature!





Part of the mess...



Hardcore USB 3 modding (TO BE COMPLETED):



PWM cable I sleeved:



Managing cables for the GPU:





Wrapping it up for now...



To be continued...

Yes, it will be windowed eventually. I'm adding some new pictures in the first post soon. I also plan on re-doing the gpu cable. In the meantime, I made and added the following:




Also obtained this highly necessary tool:

And also turns out I need the following crimper, which is a smaller crimper than the great ATX crimpers of MDPC and Lutro's, and the reason for that, is because it's a 2.0mm dupont crimper! it's for all of those tiny miny mo terminals for usb 3 / fan controller headers / gpu fan connectors etc'. Very handy stuff if you want to mod those wires, especially the big bulky USB 3!
The crimper:

What USB 3 will look like in the end:

Sorry for the bunch of crappy pictures. I'll upload high quality ones soon enough!

A side project, from my main (near finished) Define project, is in hand!

I got this new case from a Lutro0-Customs & Bitfenix giveaway, which I will soon write my review on. I decided to work with the case and put in my temp mitx spec, until new parts arrive. In fact, I didn't think of making a project just soon, I wanted to throw in all my gear, but I love doing custom work nowadays, I dislike using the stock psu cables which never fit correctly into a case, in the Phenom it's made especially hard, if you use a modular psu like a Seasonic X.

So again, this is a side project. My Define project will soon be up with finished photos. I know some are 'disappointed' it wasn't done yet, before this one, but this was an opportunity that fell onto me and I decided to take it.


This project will be held in two main phases and perhaps a third one:

- Phase 1: temp spec in, no sleeving in most of the case
- Phase 2: temp spec out, all is sleeved/modded + additional new components to be added
- Phase 3 (not confirmed): water cooling the build !









First thing I like to do is, removing everything that won't be utilized in the build:

- 5.25" bay removed
- 2.5" HDD/SSD side panel mount removed
- Big HDD cage removed
- Lower hdd cage rail for top cage removed


Looks clean...



Improving... had to offset the psu back. Edit: I noticed that now Bitfenix has further opened the psu cage so cables can come out between the two pillars of the phase facing the psu sockets!





SATA crimp that went bad (one wing fell off because of dirt in my crimper). Soldered the one wing crimp and all is as well!



Can't go without removing those Seasonic stickers:



Since I'm using a temporary board, and in most enthusiast boards the 24-pin is located on another edge, I decided not to use my precious wire stock, but sacrifice a malfunctioning Chieftech I had laying around. Of course, I added some wires and crimps and it's all goood:



The dead Chieftech:



Ready:



Seems legit:





Starting to place everything in the case:



Rog scheme, custom cpu, hdd, ssd and sleeved SATA cables (the red one was actually sleeved using MDPC Color-X):



Close up:





Stock front panel looks like it needs that MDPC treatment:



Say bye bye to AC'97.. no idea why they keep supplying this one...



Front panel wiring reorganized and sleeved
(separated the led and button wires so they make 4 wires instead of 2):



Great thing about Lutro's Teleios sleeving is that you don't have to worry about stretching the sleeve for a non-see through look, great feature!





Part of the mess...



Hardcore USB 3 modding (TO BE COMPLETED):



PWM cable I sleeved:



Managing cables for the GPU:





Wrapping it up for now...



To be continued...

A side project, from my main (near finished) Define project, is in hand!

I got this new case from a Lutro0-Customs & Bitfenix giveaway, which I will soon write my review on. I decided to work with the case and put in my temp mitx spec, until new parts arrive. In fact, I didn't think of making a project just soon, I wanted to throw in all my gear, but I love doing custom work nowadays, I dislike using the stock psu cables which never fit correctly into a case, in the Phenom it's made especially hard, if you use a modular psu like a Seasonic X.

So again, this is a side project. My Define project will soon be up with finished photos. I know some are 'disappointed' it wasn't done yet, before this one, but this was an opportunity that fell onto me and I decided to take it.


This project will be held in two main phases and perhaps a third one:

- Phase 1: temp spec in, no sleeving in most of the case
- Phase 2: temp spec out, all is sleeved/modded + additional new components to be added
- Phase 3 (not confirmed): water cooling the build !









First thing I like to do is, removing everything that won't be utilized in the build:

- 5.25" bay removed
- 2.5" HDD/SSD side panel mount removed
- Big HDD cage removed
- Lower hdd cage rail for top cage removed


Looks clean...



Improving... had to offset the psu back. Edit: I noticed that now Bitfenix has further opened the psu cage so cables can come out between the two pillars of the phase facing the psu sockets!





SATA crimp that went bad (one wing fell off because of dirt in my crimper). Soldered the one wing crimp and all is as well!



Can't go without removing those Seasonic stickers:



Since I'm using a temporary board, and in most enthusiast boards the 24-pin is located on another edge, I decided not to use my precious wire stock, but sacrifice a malfunctioning Chieftech I had laying around. Of course, I added some wires and crimps and it's all goood:



The dead Chieftech:



Ready:



Seems legit:





Starting to place everything in the case:



Rog scheme, custom cpu, hdd, ssd and sleeved SATA cables (the red one was actually sleeved using MDPC Color-X):



Close up:





Stock front panel looks like it needs that MDPC treatment:



Say bye bye to AC'97.. no idea why they keep supplying this one...



Front panel wiring reorganized and sleeved
(separated the led and button wires so they make 4 wires instead of 2):



Great thing about Lutro's Teleios sleeving is that you don't have to worry about stretching the sleeve for a non-see through look, great feature!





Part of the mess...



Hardcore USB 3 modding (TO BE COMPLETED):



PWM cable I sleeved:



Managing cables for the GPU:





Wrapping it up for now...



To be continued...

A side project, from my main (near finished) Define project, is in hand!

I got this new case from a Lutro0-Customs & Bitfenix giveaway, which I will soon write my review on. I decided to work with the case and put in my temp mitx spec, until new parts arrive. In fact, I didn't think of making a project just soon, I wanted to throw in all my gear, but I love doing custom work nowadays, I dislike using the stock psu cables which never fit correctly into a case, in the Phenom it's made especially hard, if you use a modular psu like a Seasonic X.

So again, this is a side project. My Define project will soon be up with finished photos. I know some are 'disappointed' it wasn't done yet, before this one, but this was an opportunity that fell onto me and I decided to take it.


This project will be held in two main phases and perhaps a third one:

- Phase 1: temp spec in, no sleeving in most of the case
- Phase 2: temp spec out, all is sleeved/modded + additional new components to be added
- Phase 3 (not confirmed): water cooling the build !









First thing I like to do is, removing everything that won't be utilized in the build:

- 5.25" bay removed
- 2.5" HDD/SSD side panel mount removed
- Big HDD cage removed
- Lower hdd cage rail for top cage removed


Looks clean...



Improving... had to offset the psu back. Edit: I noticed that now Bitfenix has further opened the psu cage so cables can come out between the two pillars of the phase facing the psu sockets!





SATA crimp that went bad (one wing fell off because of dirt in my crimper). Soldered the one wing crimp and all is as well!



Can't go without removing those Seasonic stickers:



Since I'm using a temporary board, and in most enthusiast boards the 24-pin is located on another edge, I decided not to use my precious wire stock, but sacrifice a malfunctioning Chieftech I had laying around. Of course, I added some wires and crimps and it's all goood:



The dead Chieftech:



Ready:



Seems legit:





Starting to place everything in the case:



Rog scheme, custom cpu, hdd, ssd and sleeved SATA cables (the red one was actually sleeved using MDPC Color-X):



Close up:





Stock front panel looks like it needs that MDPC treatment:



Say bye bye to AC'97.. no idea why they keep supplying this one...



Front panel wiring reorganized and sleeved
(separated the led and button wires so they make 4 wires instead of 2):



Great thing about Lutro's Teleios sleeving is that you don't have to worry about stretching the sleeve for a non-see through look, great feature!





Part of the mess...



Hardcore USB 3 modding (TO BE COMPLETED):



PWM cable I sleeved:



Managing cables for the GPU:





Wrapping it up for now...



To be continued...

Very, VERY nice.

sweet build, clean your mice

Switching the original blue led to a white one!
 





 
Much better than chinese labor!

awesome mod

Introduction:

I'm Adi, 28, rooting from Israel. Oh ye, we love the Tech Tips channel out here too ! :)

Like others, I'm a rather causal subscriber to the channel, I've been following it about 2 years after it's initiation and learned a lot from it. Linus has that spot on attitude for videos that are fun and easy to watch. :)

This project started back in October 2012, but I went through a Long-a$$ learning curve. I've never done such project before, but I looked at other people's work and knew what I want my project to look like. So I aimed high, but my skills are rather low-mediocre at best. Also, part of the learning curve was learning (and still learning) hardware and what stuff exactly to get... it's tough when you have such huge variety of pc parts, AND it's even harder when most of the project has to base on parts imported from over-seas (shippings costs, customs, delays, oos, etc'). So far though, I believe I've done it right with perhaps minimal mistakes. So far. ;)

* This log is also posted on various other forums, content may differ a little. My nickname is the same on all forums so you can look them up if you want. :)
** Some pictures may not depict colors as they are in real life. Well obviously, but my camera is extra crappy and has a broken screen display so I can't really see what I'm shooting.

Here's the official spec planned:

Board - MSI Z77 Mpower (former board was GB z68x-ud3h)
Cpu - i5 2500k
Gpu - Evga GTX 670 ftw (SLI planned once I hunt down another ftw).
Ram - 16gb G.skill Sniper 1866 CL9
Psu - Seasonic X-560 (this beast can carry a 2500k and two 670 ftws! prolly not the best idea, but for a fact, it can)
Case - Fractal Design Define R4 (well, obviously lol)

Water cooling equipment:

Pump - Swiftech 655 -B D5 w/Bitspower modkit in matte black.
Radiator - Black Ice GTS (2nd gen) 360mm
Tubing - Nickle plated copper tubings in conjunction with Bitspower Multi-link adapters
Coolant - Ice Dragon Nano Fluid
Cpu Block - EK Supreme LTx (nickle and plexi edition) or XSPC Raystorm
Gpu block - EK FC-680 (old style, also nickle and plexi edition, this one is from the last 2012 batch in October)
VRM & Chipset blocks - Liquid Extasy (should be here by April)
Res - Bitspower multi-z upgrade kit for D5 (also have 80 and 250mm versions)

Sleeving:

MDPC: Orange, Shade, Black, Aqua Blue MKII, White
Techflex Clean cut: Black & Grey (only colors available)

* The first post is gonna get updated from time to time so be sure to check it out for some new info.

Lets go:

Taken apart anything that won't be used, hdd/od cages & gromits.



My first interaction with sleeving was cleancut so I used that for the first sleeving tasks:

Black & grey cleancuts:



- mdpc yellow -



- mdpc b-magic -



Sleeved the front panel with clean cut:



Quick test assembled:



Gonna give the usb 3 wiring a special treatment which I like to call the "mdpc treatment", more on that later. :)

Sleeved some sata cables, some for practice and some for using in the actual build:



In black (mdpc):



And as an extra practice, these two short satas:



Sleeved one of my fans:



And various other fans:







Painting the i/o shield white is a must (all pci brackets are white):

Prepping:



Quick assembly review:



Got an acrylic piece that will cover the perforated floor of the R4:



Cut into size:



New board:





New ram:



Close up:



The stickerless G.skill Snipers:



Yellow covers removed and heatsinks cleaned from sticky residue:



IO area cleaned from stickers:



Assembled:



Close up:



A'right, water cooling parts started to arrive:

Black Ice GTS 280... it's nice and everything but gonna need a replacement since it's slightly defected. Edit: Black Ice were kinda enough to ship a new radiator to me, a GTS 360 and as a bonus another 120mm radiator + free shipping with Fedex. Brilliant customer service in my book.



The new radiator:



With eLoops attached:



First attempt at making an adapter plate for the radiator:







First attempt went ok, but not good enough. I will use my first attempt to make a new piece, this time using the first adapter as stencil and duplicating it (minus the defects) using my Router.



Good old' XSPC Raystorm:



Unboxed:



Another block I got off ebay, it's an EK Ltx Nickle/Plexi edition:



Arrived a bit dirty so cleaned it up:



Also had to get a proper backplate for it:



"Old style" FC-680:



I also plan on getting this set of blocks for the motherboard. It was just released by a German brand called "Liquid Extasy". It's not a popular brand, but it looks serious. Their shop is a bit weird as you have to wire-transfer your payment (no Paypal option atm). Anyway, it should be in stock around April so it may get added after the build is completed:



Bitspower multi-link adapters, some new sleeving (Mdpc orange):





Rest of the colors:



Close up (the blue is way way off, I promise better pictures later on):



First attempt at uni-sleeving:



Swiftech "uber" 655, -B model with BP modkit & v2 top:



BP 80mm multi-z res (tube only):



Complete res, 250mm



I also got the upgrade kit so I'm covered in both tube size (I've got 80, 150 and 250) and both variations, either attached to the pump top or separated because all parts are interchangeable! :)

Close up:



BP res brackets for 140mm radiators:



Unboxed:



Close up shot:



Lian Li case feet (also got the wheels, not sure which I'm going to use yet):


 
// Updates from May-June 2013
 
Psu cables wip pics:
 

 

 

 

 

Finally! the adapters are ready... I actually made TWO of them. Almost 40 holes per adapter! LOTS of work went into this. 
 

Finally! the adapters are ready... I actually made TWO of them. Almost 40 holes per adapter! LOTS of work went into this. 
 

Introduction:

I'm Adi, 28, rooting from Israel. Oh ye, we love the Tech Tips channel out here too ! :)

Like others, I'm a rather causal subscriber to the channel, I've been following it about 2 years after it's initiation and learned a lot from it. Linus has that spot on attitude for videos that are fun and easy to watch. :)

This project started back in October 2012, but I went through a Long-a$$ learning curve. I've never done such project before, but I looked at other people's work and knew what I want my project to look like. So I aimed high, but my skills are rather low-mediocre at best. Also, part of the learning curve was learning (and still learning) hardware and what stuff exactly to get... it's tough when you have such huge variety of pc parts, AND it's even harder when most of the project has to base on parts imported from over-seas (shippings costs, customs, delays, oos, etc'). So far though, I believe I've done it right with perhaps minimal mistakes. So far. ;)

* This log is also posted on various other forums, content may differ a little. My nickname is the same on all forums so you can look them up if you want. :)
** Some pictures may not depict colors as they are in real life. Well obviously, but my camera is extra crappy and has a broken screen display so I can't really see what I'm shooting.

Here's the official spec planned:

Board - MSI Z77 Mpower (former board was GB z68x-ud3h)
Cpu - i5 2500k
Gpu - Evga GTX 670 ftw (SLI planned once I hunt down another ftw).
Ram - 16gb G.skill Sniper 1866 CL9
Psu - Seasonic X-560 (this beast can carry a 2500k and two 670 ftws! prolly not the best idea, but for a fact, it can)
Case - Fractal Design Define R4 (well, obviously lol)

Water cooling equipment:

Pump - Swiftech 655 -B D5 w/Bitspower modkit in matte black.
Radiator - Black Ice GTS (2nd gen) 360mm
Tubing - Nickle plated copper tubings in conjunction with Bitspower Multi-link adapters
Coolant - Ice Dragon Nano Fluid
Cpu Block - EK Supreme LTx (nickle and plexi edition) or XSPC Raystorm
Gpu block - EK FC-680 (old style, also nickle and plexi edition, this one is from the last 2012 batch in October)
VRM & Chipset blocks - Liquid Extasy (should be here by April)
Res - Bitspower multi-z upgrade kit for D5 (also have 80 and 250mm versions)

Sleeving:

MDPC: Orange, Shade, Black, Aqua Blue MKII, White
Techflex Clean cut: Black & Grey (only colors available)

* The first post is gonna get updated from time to time so be sure to check it out for some new info.

Lets go:

Taken apart anything that won't be used, hdd/od cages & gromits.



My first interaction with sleeving was cleancut so I used that for the first sleeving tasks:

Black & grey cleancuts:



- mdpc yellow -



- mdpc b-magic -



Sleeved the front panel with clean cut:



Quick test assembled:



Gonna give the usb 3 wiring a special treatment which I like to call the "mdpc treatment", more on that later. :)

Sleeved some sata cables, some for practice and some for using in the actual build:



In black (mdpc):



And as an extra practice, these two short satas:



Sleeved one of my fans:



And various other fans:







Painting the i/o shield white is a must (all pci brackets are white):

Prepping:



Quick assembly review:



Got an acrylic piece that will cover the perforated floor of the R4:



Cut into size:



New board:





New ram:



Close up:



The stickerless G.skill Snipers:



Yellow covers removed and heatsinks cleaned from sticky residue:



IO area cleaned from stickers:



Assembled:



Close up:



A'right, water cooling parts started to arrive:

Black Ice GTS 280... it's nice and everything but gonna need a replacement since it's slightly defected. Edit: Black Ice were kinda enough to ship a new radiator to me, a GTS 360 and as a bonus another 120mm radiator + free shipping with Fedex. Brilliant customer service in my book.



The new radiator:



With eLoops attached:



First attempt at making an adapter plate for the radiator:







First attempt went ok, but not good enough. I will use my first attempt to make a new piece, this time using the first adapter as stencil and duplicating it (minus the defects) using my Router.



Good old' XSPC Raystorm:



Unboxed:



Another block I got off ebay, it's an EK Ltx Nickle/Plexi edition:



Arrived a bit dirty so cleaned it up:



Also had to get a proper backplate for it:



"Old style" FC-680:



I also plan on getting this set of blocks for the motherboard. It was just released by a German brand called "Liquid Extasy". It's not a popular brand, but it looks serious. Their shop is a bit weird as you have to wire-transfer your payment (no Paypal option atm). Anyway, it should be in stock around April so it may get added after the build is completed:



Bitspower multi-link adapters, some new sleeving (Mdpc orange):





Rest of the colors:



Close up (the blue is way way off, I promise better pictures later on):



First attempt at uni-sleeving:



Swiftech "uber" 655, -B model with BP modkit & v2 top:



BP 80mm multi-z res (tube only):



Complete res, 250mm



I also got the upgrade kit so I'm covered in both tube size (I've got 80, 150 and 250) and both variations, either attached to the pump top or separated because all parts are interchangeable! :)

Close up:



BP res brackets for 140mm radiators:



Unboxed:



Close up shot:



Lian Li case feet (also got the wheels, not sure which I'm going to use yet):


 
// Updates from May-June 2013
 
Psu cables wip pics:
 

 

 

 

 

after seeing the white r4 in real life I ought to make a project with it, someday.

Done some more sleeving but not enough to show it off yet.

Anyway, in the process, my atx pin remover gave up and broke.

Fortunately, my dad had an idea... we used a disc cutter to shape one of the round edges of the tool into a new set of prongs:



Cool, huh? Now I can delay ordering a bunch of new ones from overseas.