Corsair 900D Unforgiven - The Metallica Build

[unknownsolde]

nerdgasum

[Jimstah87]

This is unbelievable work!!! Never seen anything like this before. Simply stunning!

[Marco Martinho]

holy mother of craftsmanship

[onevoicewild]

 

 

 

I'm working to trim in around the Quad grill. The problem that I have is that the factory grill cover that comes with the unit overlaps the top of the fans and has an angled section to it, so the quad grill won't lay flat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see how much the grill over laps. My hopeful solution is to flip the grill upside down. The angled section will still be in the way, but not as much. It will be necessary to start grinding on my case now. Nothing like cutting holes in $350.00 Dollar cases that dosn't have any parts available yet. No pressure !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This bracket is getting in the way of the panel sitting flush, so I had to cut out just a bit and it worked perfectly.

 

 

 

Preliminary fitting of flipped factory grill. There Is very little room between the inside and outside of the OverKill grill so I didn't want to take off to much at one

time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still need to deal with the angle, which is at the bottom now, I think I have a solution but it's going to involve a very expensive risk. I'll show you the rest of this after

I'm released from the insane asylum.

 

 

 

[TicTac]

Looking awesome i want to see more!

[onevoicewild]

Hey People ! It's time for us weekend warriors to get our major work done! It came to me that I would have to take some material off the bottom of the grill to get it to line up with the angle of the door. This is were the risk comes in. This grill costs more money than 3/4 of the cases in the world cost! for me It is worth every penny! because of how it makes the build look. The commitment to start grinding on this does have a high pucker factor though.

 

 

I went back to my sanding strip so I could put a matching angle on the bottom of the grill.  These grills are made from a fairly hard Aluminum alloy so sanding away the material is slow, but that is a good thing so I don't go to far. I screwed down a second board to set my angle for the matchup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fortunately my plan worked out and this trimmed in the side perfectly.  I'm very happy with how it came out!  Now I can start painting the fans and add the Saw blades to them and It will start looking more like our plan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I added a small brass strip to cover some square holes that just didn't fit.  I wasn't sure how I would bolt down the factory grill after I flipped it?  It turns out that it is sandwiched in between everything and any further mounting bolts were unnecessary. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have some Black Anodized diamond plate being shipped in, so maybe I can start modifying it next weekend.  Thanks everyone for following our build. 
 

[Pure]

Freaking sick... everything.. watercool tubes...pipes in this case.
The only thing that scares me are the blades on the fans, they definately would keep people away from touching :D

[P1xxel]

thats just amazing.

probably my favourite build here.

and also your setup in general with the monitors etc. looks very cool with a nice matching colour scheme.

[Blade of Grass]

THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!LKDFSHGKHNSAJLGNMSKDG

 

Well worth the cap rage.

[SimpleQuantumComputer]

Although I'm more of a Megadeth guy I must say, this is outright awesome! 

[alpenwasser]

@onevoicewild: You do realize that it's against the forum rules to post porn on

this site? :lol:

Seriously though, nice going so far, very much looking forward to the rest of this.

[xIHexIx]

I saw your concepts of this build on the overclock.net forums when we were still waiting on a release date and thought it looked amazing, glad to see that it is becoming a reality, and a very nice one at that.

[d33g33]

BAD. ASS.

[vrb747]

EPIC! Thanks for sharing the pics. Im drooling.

[onevoicewild]

Wow Thanks everyone I really appreciate the great response. It definitely pushes me on to make this be an awesome build. We are just having a blast doing this. I was so into it one night I was spraying primer in the dark at 4:00 AM after I'd been modding all night and happy to do it. He he Obsession!

[Skullfire94]

One Amazing Build Rite There!

[onevoicewild]

Another rendered version of the case.

 

[KushKomputers]

I can't wait for this to be completed!! 

[onevoicewild]

I have to give a Big thanks to Bill Owen with MNPCTECH who has mentored me in more ways than I can count and Ronaldo Buassali who is a facebook channel manager for Corsair Brasil.  He posted pictures for Unforgiven - The Metallica build and we got about 2000 views in 2 hours.  They have an incredible fan base all over south America.  The Brasilian people are incredibly friendly.  Check them out - https://www.facebook.com/CorsairBrasil  they speak Portuguese but can generally translate to English. here is a translator -  http://translate.google.com.br/

 

 

Sam Made 5 Logo's for Corsair Brasil that they currently use.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't have a translator for Bill Owen ! you'll just have to figure it out?

 

 

[onevoicewild]

I think that everyone has already seen this? but just in case. I really like the floppy drive.

http://www.corsair.com/us/900d-seb

[onevoicewild]

Here are some new renderings Sam made. Some of them are not quite as crisp as we would like. His little laptop Toasty is pushed to the limit doing this depth of detail. Sam may be working on a dual Xenon rig soon that is designed for this kind of work. I can't wait to see what he can do when he isn't held back by processing power!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would really love to have one of these Pinball machines! when I was a kid the first time I played one I started winning free games and it's been a life long addiction ever since.

 

 

 

 

 

[onevoicewild]

I was originally going to use a Z77 Mother Board Because I wanted An EX ATX board to fill the space In this large case and the Bang for the buck is good. But now that the Z87 boards and processors are out I want to switch over to the newest processor. I'm not sure which brand I'll use yet? We will decide when we get to that point. Sam has rendered a couple of Graphics cards for your viewing pleasure. Thanks every one for following our build.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[onevoicewild]

Working on a ton of stuff at the same time.  I had a little trouble getting the paint on the quad grill fans, but I soldiered thru and finally got them like I wanted.  My problem was spraying multiple parts right next to each other and the over spray was growing fur on them. Lesson learned.  Once I started painting one part at a time and the covering them up to keep stuff from settling on them  I got the desired effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to my wind farm.

 

 

 

 

 

Learning how to get the factory paint off the saw blades faster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The SEM self etching primer I use is heavy on the toxic fumes so I had to primer the Aluminum grills outside between rain storms with the cotton wood flying.

 

 

 

 

I will be using the slotted mesh in various places inside the case.  I still need to polish the top layer which sits on a layer painted gold on the black case background. I had to trim the grommets to fit back in the holes because of the extra width.  I will have to take care that I don't short out the mother board.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jbcrazy]

Master!  Master!  

 

That's what you are dude.. a Master.

 

When I watch these pics it's like Nothing Else Matters.

 

This build... is number ONE!

 

This is gonna Seek and Destroy the nearest Apple Mac Pro!

 

... Oh horrible puns...  :(

 

The bad metallica puns are as bad as this computer is good. 

 

Ridiculous sir.  Ridiculous.

[Nit3Rid3R]

Why do I have a feeling that I have seen this before?