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I have several pairs of Corsair USB headphones so i wont be using it

Sounds cool

[Guest]

Sounds cool

I see what you did there...

[Random_her0]

Torn between this and another Parvum build for my next build. Will follow closely!

[B NEGATIVE]

The 2mm laser cut copper panels are back and the first of the sanding passes has been done just for some pics....
 
A LOT more polishing to come yet,along with a cut copper top panel.
For me...this is pron.....








Now im focusing on the res and the accent pack that I want...white is doing nothing for me......
"Addictions ... started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were ... less intelligent than goldfish."
WILLIAM GIBSON, Zero History
Copper is <3
 

Torn between this and another Parvum build for my next build. Will follow closely!

 
 
Does that help you at all?

[SympathyRS]

Really nice build, looks awesome with dat copper 

[wolfgang]

The copper. Its so beautiful. If I did just that to the case I would be Happy.

[Guest]

 

The 2mm laser cut copper panels are back and the first of the sanding passes has been done just for some pics....

 

A LOT more polishing to come yet,along with a cut copper top panel.

For me...this is pron.....

Now im focusing on the res and the accent pack that I want...white is doing nothing for me......

"Addictions ... started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were ... less intelligent than goldfish."

WILLIAM GIBSON, Zero History

Copper is <3

 

 

 

 

Does that help you at all?

 

Copper is love, copper is life.

I love how the copper looks even now I would be happy with that. It don't need no polishing.

[B NEGATIVE]

Really nice build, looks awesome with dat copper 

 

More copper to come and,my party trick,paint work.

 

The copper. Its so beautiful. If I did just that to the case I would be Happy.

 

No...MUCH more to come...

 

How about a custom res behind the front panel.......

 

Copper is love, copper is life.

I love how the copper looks even now I would be happy with that. It don't need no polishing.

 

 

The copper has another few processes to go thru before its finished.

 

Then its being mirror polished.

[d33g33]

Those RAM heatspreaders are complete insanity.

 

Copper looks really good mate!

 

You're getting a lot better at taking and working with your photos as well!

[B NEGATIVE]

Those RAM heatspreaders are complete insanity.

 

Copper looks really good mate!

 

You're getting a lot better at taking and working with your photos as well!

 

 

Yeah,I finally worked out my lighting requirements and the positioning of them.

The last ones where top lit,I think that style suits me.

[d33g33]

Yeah,I finally worked out my lighting requirements and the positioning of them.

The last ones where top lit,I think that style suits me.

Looks really good mate, well done.

[Ralphington]

This looks so nice, even though it's only just started, I'm guessing the waterblocks will have copper on them too? is this going steam punk or just simple sleek copper?

[wolfgang]

More copper to come and,my party trick,paint work.

 

 

No...MUCH more to come...

 

How about a custom res behind the front panel.......

 

 

 

The copper has another few processes to go thru before its finished.

 

Then its being mirror polished.

I know that you have a lot more thats going to be added. I would just be happy the case as it is right now.

[B NEGATIVE]

This looks so nice, even though it's only just started, I'm guessing the waterblocks will have copper on them too? is this going steam punk or just simple sleek copper?

 

 

No steam punk here...more future retro like the feel of William Gibson's books.

[nchilds98]

I think copper looks retarded but this looks awesome, great pictures too.

[B NEGATIVE]

“If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.”
― William Gibson

The good folks at Be Quiet have been busy bees and sent me the PSU and fans for the build,I chose the Silent Wings 2 and a Power Zone 1000w for this,both products have exactly what I need,bomb proof quality and a nice spec sheet!

Start with the fans?

These are 120mm Silent Wings 2 fans,PWM and open cornered with a plethora of bits in the box,I have opted for the single side mounts as the rads will be inside the case with the fans in the bays.

Specs:
Fan speed @ 12V (rpm)
1500
Air flow @ 12V (cfm, m3/h)
50.5 / 85.8
Air pressure @ 12V (mm H2O)
1.63
Noise level @ 12V (dB(A))
15.7

















And the PSU,the same one as I used in the EK build I have going an and CLOS3 IMPACT although i used a 750w for that one.











The hardware is in and has been tested,not aircooled for years too,I had to go and buy an aircooler can you believe! Not one in the house! The Bitspower package is on route from the ever fantastic team at Bitspower tho so it will be coming off again really soon!next up is the res and acid etching!


“I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pitbull's tested positive. Twice.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

[Norman_the_Owl]

Oh man, this hexgear build just became my favorite. I <3 be quiet!

[B NEGATIVE]

I spent the morning in the garden with quantities of HCL and peroxide,20 mins of stirring later and the test pieces are ready to look at.

Its about .015mm deep right now so the exposure time needs to go up to around an hour to get the effect im looking for.

Once I have achieved the depth I want then I can go on to the next step

[Yeater]

Oh man, this hexgear build just became my favorite. I <3 be quiet!

how can u be a bequite fanboy with 3 nf-f12    

[Norman_the_Owl]

how can u be a bequite fanboy with 3 nf-f12    

They were 10 bucks

[Yeater]

They were 10 bucks

I also have NF-F12s wow thats a great deal was just wondering

[B NEGATIVE]

You know what your trouble is?... You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do something you never thought of.

WILLIAM GIBSON, Burning Chrome


The loop has arrived from the team at Bitspower,my gratitude to Lily and Vincent @ Bitspower for their continued assistance with what I do.

One of the reason i chose the GENE is for that really good looking 'full cover' mobo block they do.







Under pinning all that is the Summit Cpu block and a beastmode VRM block,very well finished in the usual Bitspower way.
That is to say,very well.



Now you cant have Bitspower and not talk fittings.

I went with the Carbon Black fittings and the Enhance compression fittings,to me the best looking fitting Bitspower makes,here is a selection of what Im using.
More eagle eyed members will no doubt question my use of angled fittings when I could easily bend it, recently I have come to like a mix of styles,not all bending and some strategically placed fittings works wonders for cleanliness.

















And watercooling the ram,not a necessity but, coupled with that mobo block, should look pretty good.













Then we come to the GPU blocks,not a hard choice,a plain slabsided look makes a nice canvas to mod on,copper panels will be made to fold over and cover most of the plexi up,leaving space for the back light from the LED holes in the block to shine thru,a kind of evolution from the GPU block in CLOS3 IMPACT.







Finally! Discreet logo's!



They also come with backplates....



I have a pair of D5's going spare so......yeah.......





No 24v this time tho.....

Looks like my weekend just got full......

My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years’ time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop.

WILLIAM GIBSON, Distrust That Particular Flavor

[B NEGATIVE]

“Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after the explosion. Most of him, anyway.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero


Today is block the mobo day.

The bare board in all it glory!





You would not believe the effort required to get the chewing gum off of the SB.......



The VRM looks almost bare....but purposeful.



Blocks on!

Even without the cover block,it looks tidy and close fitting



If I can strip the nickel,or more likely,find someone else to do it (Nickel stripping is just toxic nasty) then the top cover may be left off. Otherwise all the nickel will be black painted except in the waterchannels for all the blocks,nickel is not going to work in the is build.



This panel will be laser cut in copper I think....



And with the distribution block fitted.....looks heavy....because it is.



Now Im torn on the decision to watercool the RAM,it looks really good as it is, a very good match to the block setup.

Post you own thoughts on that....





And back in the rig with the cards in.











The blocks themselves are easy to fit,no struggles nor mis-alignments to report.

There will be a copper shroud covering most of the top of that acrylic block covering the whole of the I/O,folded down both sides,cleaning up the silver ports out of the way.



“Take me home," she said, and the words hit me like a whip. I think I shook my head. "Take me home." There were levels of pain there, and subtlety, and an amazing cruelty. And I knew then that I'd never been hated, ever, as deeply or thoroughly as this wasted little girl hated me now, hated me for the way I'd looked, then looked away, beside Rubin's all-beer refrigerator.

So--if that's the word--I did one of those things you do and never find out why, even though something in you knows you could never have done anything else.

I took her home.”
― William Gibson

[SympathyRS]

Wow, those blocks look so cool. Really liking what your doing here

[wolfgang]

Looks nice. Personally I dont care for that huge coverblock.