The cheap Radiohead build.

[AlienALX]

I recently picked up a TR 1920x and X399 Gaming Pro Carbon from a buddy for £200.

 

 

Originally I was going to upgrade the dying Alienware.

 

 

But decided to go full water. Now do note, I said cheap. The GPU I already had (2070 Super) and the PSU (750w Aorus I got for half price last year) and memory and hard drives. I bought this distro plate.

 

 

On sale. Then I found this case for £48.

 

 

Again on sale. The idea behind this was to use up all of the left over gear I had. The first thing I did was remove the water cooling gear from a build I hadn't used in over two years.

 

 

 

Then ordered some cheap stuff. Cheapest ram coolers (12v 4 pin)

 

 

2 sets, obs. Then a cheap cable set from Amazon.

 

 

I got those because they were the only set I could find with twin 8 pin EPS, that I needed.

 

I ordered the cheapest pump top I could find.

 

 

And a cooler for it.

 

 

The cheapest 3 pin RGB controller I could find.

 

 

The cheapest 4 pin 12v RGB hub and 5v 3 pin RGB hubs I could find.

 

 

 

And then set to work. The block was left over from another build so cost me £0 this time, though it was only £30 new.

 

 

OK so first up, rip the case apart yes.

 

 

Replace the honking great 200mm fan in the front with two Eloops left over from another build, and fit the two spare RGB frames I had left over from a build I did two years ago.

 

 

Get rads ready. The fans on these are Silverstone Air Penetrators. I have had them about four years.

 

 

Fit rads, and test fit the Cooler Master vertical riser I had in a box. Remember, I said I was going to use up as much crap that I had lying around as possible.

 

 

Yup, that'll do.

 

 

Then fit the singlemost expensive part of the rig, the distro.

 

 

Put the RGB on life support from the old Alienware and test.

 

 

And start plumbing. Before you say it yes, I don't like hard tubing at all I think it's horrid.

 

 

Fit pump top and cooler.

 

 

Fit CPU whilst simultaneously crapping my pants. I've done this three times now and it still scares me.

 

 

Mmm, piles of mess.

 

 

Nearly kinked, but not.

 

 

Fit board and run cables.

 

 

Receive the wrong coolant (FFS)

 

 

Get refund for red coolant order more.

 

 

Then change mind and order black.

 

 

Make sure GPU fits before hacking up the case.

 

 

Fit and secure pump

 

 

Fit Bitspower res that was my old one.

 

 

 

Test fans with rig on life support from old rig (note there is no coolant in it yet)

 

 

 

Yup, they work. Bust out hair dryer and remove old ram coolers and fit RGB cheap ones.

 

 

Test in old rig.

 

 

More testing.

 

 

Fill.

 

 

 

 

 

Then leave it running on life support (pump and fans) for several hours to bleed and burp it. And then build.

 

 

 

Connect up RGB to distro.

 

 

And the pump top.

 

 

And then mod ever so slightly.

 

 

Just a PSU cover to make.

[Senzelian]

Could use a little more green I think.  

 

[AlienALX]

Well you would have had a green CPU block but the LEDs clacked it lol.

[dizmo]

All that work on the inside....and you get a case...without a window?

[AlienALX]

I ordered the one without the window because it was cheaper. It was half RRP at £60. I had no intention of using the window, it was just the cheapest case the distro was known to fit.

 

I will be getting a sheet of tinted acrylic and making a full clear panel. Oddly that was my plan originally, but the case that turned up had a window that was broken.

 

 

So the company part refunded me the cost of an entire piece of smoked acryl to replace it with (hence the case cost me £48). Which was a bonus, as that is what I was going to do any way.

[A1200]

Radiohead build - an OK Computer I like it ☺

[AlienALX]

It was going to be the Fake Plastic Trees build I have been planning for over a decade but I always promised myself that would be a scratch build like no other.

 

So I kept this simple for now. Well, simple in my terms.

 

I did however start ordering stuff for the build when it does happen.

 

Thom Yorke, live at Astoria "This song is about Canary Wharf"

 

Railway token.

 

 

Green plastic watering can

 

 

for a fake Chinese rubber plant.

 

 

And the fake plastic earth.

 

 

 

 

It's coming one day. I also managed to snag these. They are an incredibly hard to find promo set of decals from when Radiohead were in South Park in 2001 (Scott Tennorman must die)

 

[AlienALX]

Finished it today. Cable management took me a while.

 

 

 

I peeled the stickers off of the PSU and left it black.

 

[AlienALX]

Yay, I found the unfindable. It's only taken me since launch.

 

 

 

A company out of France make blocks for GPUs that don't have any. Cool beans ! should arrive next week !