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FD Meshify S2 with LCD side panel build log

Evil_Crab
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After couple of years of moving between countries and gaming on a laptop I've decided to build myself a proper battlestation ?

 

This build was inspired by Ragnorok64's mod I saw on Reddit.

LCD side panel was built using old Samsung 203B monitor and small driver board from AliExpress.

 

Case is actually FD Meshify S2 and FD Define S2 hybrid. I really like aesthetics and air temps of Meshify, but at the same time I need white interior (which is only available on Define) for an LCD panel. I was too lazy to paint it, so I bought both cases, swapped front and top panels and sold Define S2.

 

I'm planning to finish the build within couple of weeks. In the future I want to upgrade it to Zen 2 processor, next gen Nvidia GPU and install custom loop.

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor  (Purchased For €335.00) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H115i RGB PLATINUM 97 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (Purchased For €130.00) 
Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut 1g 1 g Thermal Paste  (Purchased For €10.00) 
Motherboard: MSI - X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM ATX AM4 Motherboard  (Purchased For €200.00) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (Purchased For €320.00) 
Storage: Western Digital - Black NVMe 250 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (Purchased For €235.00) 
Storage: Western Digital - Black NVMe 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (Purchased For €70.00) 
Video Card: MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card  (Purchased For €720.00) 
Case: Fractal Design - Define S2 White – TG ATX Mid Tower Case  (Purchased For €130.00) 
Power Supply: Corsair - 1000 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For €165.00) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit 
Case Fan: Corsair - LL120 RGB White with Lighting Node PRO 63 CFM 120mm Fans  (Purchased For €100.00) 
Monitor: LG - 34GK950F-B 34.0" 3440x1440 144 Hz Monitor  (€1020.00) 
Other: Corsair Commander Pro (Purchased For €65.00)
Other: CableMod Pro ModMesh Cable Extension Kit – Black/White  (Purchased For €50.00)
Other: CableMod AIO Sleeving Kit Series 2 (Purchased For €20.00)
Other: LCD side panel mod (Purchased For €130.00)
Total: €3700.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-02-22 21:03 CET+0100

 

 

 

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@WereCat

ok now this is epic 

Systems:

Main Gaming:                                                        Windows XP:

Ryzen 5 2600                                                               Intel Pentium 3

Asus RX 580 OC                                                     1GB DDR2

Patriot Viper DDR4 8GB                                         Asus Motherboard

Asus ROG B450-I                                                   Dell 300W

Corsair CX 450                                                       ATI Rage 128 Fury Pro

                                                                               

FreeNAS Server:                                                   Windows 98/95 duel boot:

I5 3400k                                                                  Pentium Pro

Patriot DDR3 8GB                                                  HP Vectra motherboard 

Gigabyte Ultra Durable                                           500MB RAM

Rosewill Glacier 600W                                           Soundblaster 16

                                                                               Matrox Mystique

Random PC:                                                         

AMD Phenom x4 850                                          Key:

Kukete A78                                                          Motherboard

Kingston 4GB DDR3                                            Memory

Dell 500W                                                            Power Supply

                                                                             Graphics Card

Other Gaming:                                                    Sound Card

Ryzen 5 2600                                                       Processor

Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming

MSI 1050 OC

Hyper-X 16GB DDR4

EVGA 750 B2

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Quite an interesting build, I love it!

Intel Core i7 9700F / Cooler Master 212 Evo / GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER / 16 GB G.SKILL RAM @ 2666MHz / GA-B365M-DS3H / EVGA 500w PSU

HP Pavilion Gaming 15 / Ryzen 5 4600H / GeForce GTX 1050 / 8 GB @ 3200MHz

 

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2 hours ago, CUDAcores89 said:

Can i jerk it to porn on the LCD while playing games?

in that case i think you might want to remove the polarisation layer and make some of those glasses so noone else can see :P 

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

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"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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Been thinking of doing this to my Lian Li PC-O11, got any pointers? still pretty unsure on what the process really is even if i know how it works

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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50 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Been thinking of doing this to my Lian Li PC-O11, got any pointers? still pretty unsure on what the process really is even if i know how it works

I was following this guide for the panel disassembly. Then I masked extra space around the panel with the vinyl wrap, attached the panel using double sided acrylic tape, added backlighting (high intensity cool white led strips, 120 led/m, ~1800 lm/m). Panel is being controlled by a small driver board from AliExpress(I could have used original board from the monitor, but it’s quite bulky) and everything is powered by PSU via Molex - 12v DC adapter.

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2 minutes ago, Evil_Crab said:

I was following this guide for the panel disassembly. Then I masked extra space around the panel with the vinyl wrap, attached the panel using double sided acrylic tape, added backlighting (high intensity cool white led strips, 120 led/m, ~1800 lm/m). Panel is being controlled by a small driver board from AliExpress(I could have used original board from the monitor, but it’s quite bulky) and everything is powered by PSU via Molex - 12v DC adapter.

feels reasuring that the video starts with "modding gone horribly wrong" :P thanks though, il see if il give it a crack or not, my motherboard is black so that would hinder it a bit so we will see if i end up doing it 

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

feels reasuring that the video starts with "modding gone horribly wrong" :P thanks though, il see if il give it a crack or not, my motherboard is black so that would hinder it a bit so we will see if i end up doing it 

In case of O11 in addition to the masking side panel around the LCD you’ll probably have to mask the front panel as well, otherwise it will be super bright outside the case. The lightstrips needed to illuminate LCD use LEDs with the brightness similar to phone camera flash LED and you need 120 LED/m strips. 

 

In theory you can paint your MB with PlastiDip, but I wasn’t comfortable with it, so I’ve got a silver one. 

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PSU and motherboard arrived today. Tomorrow I'm picking up most of the other stuff and if I'm lucky I'll get GPU on Saturday.

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I decided to do a little stress test for the backlighting before gluing it to the side panel. I want to be sure that LED strips will stay cool enough.

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2 hours ago, Evil_Crab said:

Got everything but GPU

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Is there a reason you sprung for the HX100i?

8086k

aorus pro z390

noctua nh-d15s chromax w black cover

evga 3070 ultra

samsung 128gb, adata swordfish 1tb, wd blue 1tb

seasonic 620w dogballs psu

 

 

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2 minutes ago, mxk. said:

Is there a reason you sprung for the HX100i?

I want to keep PSU in zero RPM mode and futureproof a bit(who knows, mb one day SLI will be great again).

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On 2/20/2019 at 12:06 AM, Evil_Crab said:

Here's LCD in action:

OMG!

 

Cant wait to see how this build turns out! My definition of rgb components is of today: "customisable lcd backlighting" ?

 

Thats just freakin awesome!!!!!

 

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Just finished building the system. Also I had to paint white GPU support because it was super ugly. 

Back side is a bit messy because of extensions, next time I should probably get cable kit instead. The system POSTed without any problems and is currently running in the default “Unicorn vomit” mode. Tomorrow I’ll install windows, adjust fan curves and lighting and will start working on the Rainmaker setup for the side panel

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On 2/23/2019 at 4:46 AM, Evil_Crab said:

Here's how inside of the side panel looks like with the LCD and LED strips installed

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Details separate people.

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Very nice, love it :D

 

Please quote my post, or put @paddy-stone if you want me to respond to you.

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  • ASUS x53e  - i7 2670QM / Sony BD writer x8 / Win 10, Elemetary OS, Ubuntu/ Samsung 830 SSD
  • Lenovo G50 - 8Gb RAM - Samsung 860 Evo 250GB SSD - DVD writer
  •  
  • Displays:-
  • Philips 55 OLED 754 model
  • Panasonic 55" 4k TV
  • LG 29" Ultrawide
  • Philips 24" 1080p monitor as backup
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  • HP ProLiant G6 Server SE316M1 Twin Hex Core Intel Xeon E5645 2.40GHz 48GB RAM
  •  
  • Gaming/Tablets etc:-
  • Xbox One S 500GB + 2TB HDD
  • PS4
  • Nvidia Shield TV
  • Xiaomi/Pocafone F2 pro 8GB/256GB
  • Xiaomi Redmi Note 4

 

  • Unused Hardware currently :-
  • 4670K MSI mobo 16GB ram
  • i7 6700K  b250 mobo
  • Zotac GTX 1060 6GB Amp! edition
  • Zotac GTX 1050 mini

 

 

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the build itself is very goog, but with the LCD panel ... it's awesome ?

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