Corsair 900D Unforgiven - The Metallica Build

[Leonard]

I am not a lover of heavy metal but geezz Louise this looks really good! One for the live stream linus.

[AraSarkisyan]

OH MY GOD. WOW. TOO GOOD FOR WORDS.

[onevoicewild]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. All the game themes were taken. Ha ha So here I am. I really love the people on this forum! Everyone is so supportive, not a troll in site. :P

[Ineko]

Wow! 

 

Everything about it is just amazing! 

 

Keep it up, can't wait to see it finished. :)

[Guest]

This will be build of the week. End of story.

[Nicktrance]

This will be build of the week. End of story.

 

I think it needs to be finished first :p. Maybe Linus should make a build of the year title once there is a year's worth of BoTW.

[unidentical]

I am aroused.

 

Meanwhile, elsewhere, Lars in unimpressed and thinking about suing you

[Do Until Loopy]

Toasty is fresh back from a nice format wash so you can expect a few more renders hopfully at higher rez now i cleaned off all the randum files :P

 

Any requests for angles or settings please post a sugestion.

[Axis]

This will be build of the week. End of story.

 

Week ? I believe once it's finished it will be Build of something for a very long time!

[Deus Ragno]

Not really to my taste. But hey, it's not me who's gonna use it so more power too you I guess. Cool idea.

[NeCoNLive]

900D is still pretty new.. NO CLUE HOW YOU DID THIS SO FAST !!

[onevoicewild]

Thanks everyone - Me and Sam are just having fun building this. We have a lot of good stuff just over the horizon. working on the check list, one by one.  In a way I'm not sure how happy I'll be to get finished. The process is pretty satisfying.  I started to go into Dremel with drawls so I has to switch gears and find something to cut on. ha ha

 

 

Deus Ragno - That's the great thing about different tastes! If we all liked the same thing, how boring it would be. I appreciate you posting anyway.

NeCoNLive - We actually started work on this 2 months before we had a case. It's a little challenging modding an imaginary case but thanks to Sam's great rendering skills, it helped us get this off the ground. I kept busy working on some of the bling while we were waiting for the case. As far as I know we were the first ones to start modding a 900D ha ha . I still have a long way to go, with the details. My Boss has this crazy Idea that I'm supposed to show up for work when I could be modding. DX Thanks for checking us out. :)

[Deleon.David]

amazing. simply amazing

[OddlyShapedTree]

Very impressive, interested in seeing the final product.

[onevoicewild]

Did you ever feel like it was the best day of your life? When the big brown truck pulled up and dropped off three boxes, there was no way I was going to wait to get home to see just what was inside? I really didn't know for sure. I can't remember being this excited in a long, long time!

 
 

 

 
 
 


 
 
 
 

Corsair - Thank you !



 
 

When Corsair offered to sponsor The Metallic build they ask what other parts we might need to assist with the build? I was overwhelmed at even getting sponsored and didn't want to be greedy, so I asked for the basics that we needed. I offered some possible options of parts we could use and without exception they supplied us with the best possible Hardware from the list. I'm blown away at how much they stepped up for us!




 
 



 
 





It's a good thing I'm a little hard of hearing, because this many fans might make a bit of noise! It's funny but I'm the rare bird that doesn't mind fan noise. The gentle drone of a server room gives me a warm and fussy feeling.
 


 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 


 
 
 

 
 
 
This is really a dream come true for me. I was already a Corsair fan before I ever thought about building this computer. Come on ! Corsair has always made the best Ram that you can buy and when they expanded their product line into other areas they maintained the same high level of quality and innovation. Sound like a commercial? Dang right ! The thing is that's exactly how I feel. I've lusted after every single Item they provided with the exception of the fans. I'll have to get deeper into water cooling before I start lusting over fans! Ha ha






They even through in a full set of single braided cables and the power supply already comes with a full set. I think I'm set for life.





I want to thank everyone that made this happen! Corsair George, Sam - Do Until Loopy, Bill Owen, Ronaldo Buassali from Corsair Brasil and all the people how have shown their enthusiasm for our project! This Build would never have been possible without each and everyone of you!

[Iorveth]

DUDE THIS IS FREAKING AMAZING !

[Denned]

Insaaane! :blink:

[nicholaswillems]

No words can describe this fine piece of work :D

[YouRezz]

2 words : HOLY CRAP

[alpenwasser]

No words can describe this fine piece of work :D

 

2 words : HOLY CRAP

Sometimes the internet has perfect timing... :lol:

Seriously though, those are some nice goodies you got there, looking forward to what

you'll do with them. :)

[Royal_Rasta]

sick pc build

[Axis]

:wub:  Corsair :wub:

 

 

sick build dude! :blink:

[chirag.rh]

Beautiful! That. Is. All.  :wub:

[onevoicewild]

Hello to everyone at Linustechtips. The signature Metallica emblem needed to be mounted on the upper bezel of the case. I wasn't sure just how I was going to deal with the external drive bays. As always I committed to this plan and hoped I could find a solution or in the worst case, I just wouldn't be able to use the external bays.

 



What I decided to try was attaching the diamond plate and the 360 Nautilus OverKill grill to the removable factory fan cover.  This lines up the whole diamond plate in front of and covers the drive bays.  Now I will be able to use the drive bays when needed by temporarily removing the front panel, which is very easy to do.
 


This plate was fairly thin anodized aluminum so I just cut it out with a Dremel. I had a very hard time finding an acceptable diamond plate. Most of the ones you see online are only renderings and don't exist in the real world.
 
 
 


Because I had to settle for a pattern that was different than we would have liked, I would have to come up with a special finish to keep it from being just another Diamond plate case. What I planned to do was flat sand the peeks on the plate and then polish them. I was sanding away and the aluminum underneath was starting to come through. Then a voice came into my ear from the master ! ( Cheapskate ) STOP NOW ! I had wished I hadn't gone quite so far on the 360 grill, even though it came out great, I thought I would listen this time. YES MASTER Ha ha I really like how it came out! something unique and it fits the build look nicely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If I don't get to many distraction I should get the rest of the plate finished by the weekend.  I have to do some magic on the front fans, because they sit to far back for what I'm doing.  The Mother Board and processor should be in my hands tomorrow!! Great more parts that I can only look at. DX

 

 

[onevoicewild]

Thanks guys! good luck has followed me hand in hand throughout this build and I couldn't duplicate it with a crystal ball.  Still got quite a ways to go, But the ride is 3/4 of the fun. 
 
I got a Mother board and a processor today!  No matter what you pick someone will tell you that you should have got this one or that one.  When Me and Sam originally started planning this, I had picked a gigabyte ud7 EX ATX board with the Z77 chip set and a 3770K processor. I chose this because I thought it was the best bang for the buck.  At the time I was really Hot for the 2011 but it would be hard to stay away from the six core if you went that far.  It was fortunate that we never really set much of the hardware in stone and Sam helped pick some parts like water blocks that didn't leave us trapped. What I'm trying to says is. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We Got a Haswell !!  Oh and that 4770K thingamajiggy
 
Fortunately the pricing on the new stuff is comparable to the Z77 and 3770K so it's awesome to be using the new stuff.  When I say using,    I mean looking at it sitting on a shelf. Ha ha ha  I haven't had much urgency to finish up to this point, but damn all those great Corsair parts and a new Board are calling me like a sirens song.  Still this is a luxury, when I did my last build I was using the computer at the same time and had to get it working again before I quit for the night. That was 4 AM one night, but it was worth it.

 

 

 

The main features of this Board - It's Freakin Gold !!  

 

Actually This board is heavy on connectivity options. PWM on all fan headers, Thunder bolt, some Wi Fi thing that connects to smart phones. Bla, Bla, Bla
Did I mention It's Freakin Gold ha ha ha

  

 

  

 

 

 

 This has been quite the deal. First we had a build log without a case. Then we had a case without any parts, but piece by piece this thing is coming together and we thank you for sticking with us all this time.