Featured Build Logs #005 - Voting Thread (Part 2)

[Whaler_99]

Featured Build Logs #005 - Voting

 

Submission thread can be found here.

 

THE POLLS are in the two separate threads, due to vote limitations. Please see the other thread HERE to also votes on the other entries.

 

NOTE: You can vote for more than one build!

Eligible Builds

Submissions in violation of any of the rules, or which did not
adhere to the template, are not eligible for voting and will therefore
not be making an appearance in this thread.

1 - Only submit your own build log. You cannot submit if you have won in the past three months.

2 - Your build must be completed. Do not submit "In Progress" builds.
3 - Description cap of 200 words.
4 - Do not include specs, please have a detailed list of specs in your actual Build Log thread.

Additionally, we reserve the right to not accept submissions for other reasons.

 

My apologies to all entrants and the community, we let this last submission post go on way to long. As such, there will be THREE featured winners for the top three voted builds as well as a ONE mod selected build. A lot of great submissions this time!

 

Entrants:

 

thekeemo - Widow Maker
SamStrecker - MintyFresh Watercooling
NannerBeans - Nilfheim Contained
ciobanulx - TOXIC CHROME
Najuno - BIG BOY
_TechPuppet_ - THE RIDDLER
Denned - Project Lava Flow
ZenModz - Power Cell
Enz0man - Enz0man's Dream Rig
BaltazarBuilds - Hackintosh Build
Angry_Postman - Mineral Oil HTPC
theatomicbrainfart - Ouranos
MarlonSJR - How do you like your GPUs? Medium-Well?
givingtnt - Scrapyard Flight Simulator
TheRawView - Project Red Gotham
brandishwar - Absinthe
neSSa - H.A.F. REBORN
Stealth80 - Iced Blood
bartimaeus555 - Wabisuke
Hasle - #trooper
darwin1859 - Project Erebus
50mm - Reinforced
Micdeez - Project Insidious
Eazy - Xenon v2
shu.tography - ZENITH ZBOX Mobile Workstation
MorningStrummer - XB'owner
byalexandr - LS3
Drixen - GreenLANTERN
Virgule - We're all mad here
Corwin111 - Ice Queen
MEC-777 - Stalker v2.0
clarkmcc - CSLC
Shahrukh - Project Alpha
killRMODZ - Core V1 Mini k|ngp|n Edition
SpaceTurtle917 - Trigonometry
kickasssloth - The Quantum Loop
Ladybug Adventures - PS3- PC
53by9 - Janus 2.0

[Whaler_99]

Forum ID: thekeemo

Build Title: Widow Maker | It will kill your components

Thread URL: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/536063-widowmaker-it-will-kill-your-components/

Description: This is a build that comes with idiocy sweat tears and blood. It has has killed more components that you can count on two hands, it is definitely not the best looking build but it has character and a past. It has gone from a X79 build with a Giagbyte Assassin 2 and a GTX 650 built in Egypt with horrible prices to a 4790k gaming build with a GTX 690 in a cardboard case and finally settling into a H440. There is no way you can fit the character of this build in a short description you really do have to check the log.

I am most proud of the performance I am able to get under $700 USD

 

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Forum ID: SamStrecker

Build Title: MintyFresh Watercooling

Thread URL: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/451275-minty-fresh-extreme-ghetto-watercooling/

Description: Most Ghetto of the ghetto. This is what happens when a group of highschoolers have an hour for lunch everyday. The whole loop is custom made and the temps went from 90C to 63C overclocked to 3.1ghz. 

 

 

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Forum ID: NannerBeans

Build Title: Nilfheim Contained

Thread URL: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/503060-nilfheim-contained-nannerbeans/

Description: My goal for this build was to fit as much hardware as possible into the smallest case that can fit 2 GPUs and custom liquid cooling. This is the result. After going through some dead DDR4, and a dead motherboard I decided to upgrade from the SLI 780 ti Kingpins that I was initially going to put in it and went with SLI 980 Classifieds. It also has a 5930k with 32GB of DDR4 ram, 4 Crucial MX100 512GB ssds in RAID 0 for 2TBs of SSD storage total on the Asus X99M WS board. All in a 390mm x 380mm x 220mm modded case (Silverstone TJ08-E). The great thing about this build is that the main parts are all white and black so I can change the color of the fluid to anything and it would match.

 

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Forum ID - ciobanulx

Build Title - TOXIC CHROME

Thread URL - http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/343799-toxic-chrome-modded-corsair-250d

Description - I would like to enter my TOXIC CHROME Corsair 250D build! Fully custom watercooled 250D with the idea behind it being to fit as much watercooling gear as I could while keeping things nice and clean. With two reservoirs inside, two radiators and watercooling on the CPU, GPU and RAM, all with PETG tubing, I think the build came out very clean and definitely packed full of watercooling gear. Some of the mods done to the build, which are all by hand, are 3 custom window panels, different mountings inside the case as well as the awesome custom front panel. Have a look for yourself and let me know what you think!

 

 

 

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Forum ID: Najuno

Build Title: BIG BOY

Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/515458-big-boy-build-finished/

Description: I´m introducing here my new Corsair 600C build. It packs not only a ridiculous amount of PC power, but features also full custom watercooling including PETG and an external radiator. No fans or radiators in the actual build needed! I like to build my PCs nice and very clean and as silent as possible. With this current build noise isn´t a topic at all. The 600C was modded to fit all my needs for this build. Besides looks the system overclocks all components very decent. I wanted to go with a 3 color build and I think the result looks great! From my personal stand point I can say, that this build is definitely an eye catcher. Check out my build log and leave me a comment.

 

 

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Forum ID: _TechPuppet_

Build Title: THE RIDDLER

Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/149652-green-h440-special-edition-the-riddler-completed/  

Description: Here's my Riddler H440 Build! What you'll notice first is the extensive airbrushed mural on the outside of the case. Another vivid aspect is it's bright green fluid that complements the purple in the build, using purple anodized screws for more color as well as purple and green PET sleeving, I toned the green down a little by purchasing a Redharbinger FMJ series reservoir cover. I placed the reservoir up front, horizontally  between the GPU and PSU shroud, by drilling holes in the PSU shroud to mount the reservoir on the EK reservoir brackets so it would sit comfortably underneath my GPU. I mounted my EK PWM DDC pump on the backside of the hard drive cage to mount it up. I then purchased PETG tubing and a heat gun and taught myself how to bend, all done free handed. For all the details in the build, I bought a Silhouette Cameo and added decals with vinyl to give it that little extra something.

 

 

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Forum ID: Denned

Build Title: Project Lava Flow

Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/462599-denneds-project-lava-flow-caselabs-s5/

Description: This is my CaseLabs S5. For a while I had dreamt of building with this case, color scheme and hardline tubing. So finally I got the chance to do all of those. It took a few month to get it all build and completed, but I think it was completely worth it, and I would like to expand on the build sometime in the future.

 

 

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Forum ID: ZenModz

Build Title: Power Cell

Thread URL: 

 

Description:   A Cylinder PC with water cooling loop that runs inside and outside of the case. This is my first ever Scratch build, and only my second PC Mod. I wanted it to be different from any other PC out there, And the only way I could do that was to build one from the ground up. I wanted it to run very cool and still stand out from the normal square looking PC. So I sat down and started to design one. And from the start I know it had to be a round case and needed to be themed based, And Star Wars was first on my list of themes. The Power Cell has 3 x 120 slim EK rads in the top part of the case, Each rad has 2 fans fitted to it in a push pull taking air from the inside of the case blowing it out the top. The cool air is pulled in from the bottom vents at the base of the case, That air enters the case from under the back of MoBo cooling it as well.

The water cooling loop runs in and out of the case 3 times each time parsing through one of the rads then runs back to one of the outer case res'es 3 times then to the res in the center then to the CPU then back to the pump and then repeats, 

 

 

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Forum ID: Enz0man

Build Title: Enz0man's Dream Rig

Thread URL: 

Description: I have been wanting a badass custom built gaming computer ever since I started watching Linus Tech Tips and getting into the PC world. After recently acquiring sufficient funds to do so, I decided to finally go through with it. There are no amazing mods or any world firsts, but for being my first ever custom rig, running into many unanticipated difficulties along the way, and doing everything with the limited skills and tools that I have, I think it turned out beautifully.

 

 

 

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Forum ID: BaltazarBuilds

Build Title: 2015/2016 Hackintosh Build

Thread URL: 

Description: I'm new to the forum, but very well versed in the tech community. This is my most recent Hackintosh build. Primary use is post processing of wedding photography, graphic/logo design and soon to include HD drone footage. Enjoy!

 

 

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Forum ID: Angry_Postman

Build Title: Mineral Oil HTPC, in a fish tank, with fish.

Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/543968-my-htpc-in-mineral-oil-in-a-fish-tank/

Description: Combining two projects of mine that were long overdue I have finally succeeded in building my fully function mineral oil cooled HTPC and put it inside a fish tank with actual living fish.  No the fish aren't in the oil; geez I get asked this a lot.  I literally sit down on my couch, turn the TV and amp on, turn the HTPC on with a double click of my wireless remote/mouse/keyboard and voila!  There are 21 fish in total.  It's a mess, but a pretty, and functional mess 

 

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Forum ID: theatomicbrainfart

Build Title: Ouranos

Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/545021-corsair-780t-ouranos/

Description: X99 build that I did to better do my school work, get better at overclocking, and game on.

 

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Forum ID: MarlonSJR

Build Title: The "How do you like your GPUs? Medium-Well?" Gold Rig

Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/545259-gold-rig/

Description: After my last system, which was black and red (haha every PC ever) I was getting tired of this color sheme, and was interested in using an uncommon accent color. Gold it was. Which was a good looking, but hard to get decision (thinking about how awful my painting skills are). So actually there weren't so many choices I had when shopping hardware. Didn't matter: works great, looks great!

 

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Forum ID: givingtnt

Build Title: Scrapyard Flight Simulator

Thread URL: 

Description: this is a flight sim for under 582$. 4 screens for FSX. 3 in surround. the build is to be delivered to my air cadet squadron in 2 days (saturday). in the picture, you see a 27" display, wich is mine. and will be replaced by one thats alredy overthere. as I don't have it here and I needed to speak with nvidia to make surround work (been that for the past 2 days.. uuh drivers). anyway, it works now. FSX and War Thunder both run at a pleasing 30 FPS for a 5760x1024px setup ran by 660ti's 

 

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Forum ID: TheRawView

Build Title: Project Red Gotham

Thread URL: 

Description: My goal was to watercool in the Node 804 and make it look good without sacrificing hard drive space. I have seen other watercool Node 804 but none that I thought were great looking. I really like all Batman Movies and really anything to do about Batman so I wanted to make this build centered around Gotham/Batman. I set off modding the case by cutting out windows and cutting a little groove to pass a watercooling tube from one side to the other. Painted it and then proceed with the build. Watercooling it was a little easier than I thought it was going to be, one of the hard things was getting the cables inside of this was the hardest part. Every cable had to be perfectly measured and cut to length or this computer build would not work. The SSD in the front are vinyl and the watercooled tubing is PTEG with bitspower fittings. The whole storage in the end comes out to 13.5 TB, 3 4 tb HDD and 1.5tb of SSD’s. I am very happy with the way that this build came out.

 

 

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Forum ID: brandishwar

Build Title: Absinthe

Thread URL:

Description: Absinthe is a custom water-cooled system with the green glow that inspired its namesake, the Green Fairy watching over, waiting to take hold of any gamers that succumb to her temptations. While the system overall is about 18 months old, recently the system underwent a significant upgrade, which was perfectly timed with a need to give it a thorough cleaning.

 

 

 

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Forum ID: neSSa

Build Title: H.A.F. REBORN

Thread URL: 

Description: For a long time I was totally focused on benchtable and so followed projects based on them, but now I'm going back to my old love "PC Cases". Although I can not think of any possible on the market that could satisfy me the way he came out of the factory , there's one that I'm particularly emotionally attached to, no matter what its shortcomings. From there came the idea with the intention to try to bring the same to the level of perfection, technologically and aesthetically and functionally.

Case that has been resisting the technical novelties but so many times has been used on the modding scene, which I've already been working on by bringing together two of the same in "Cubex" PC mode (http://www.sspcmodding.com/cubex/), now comes to order as an undying idea to incorporate, on and in him, so much more! It is His Majesty the HAF 932 and HAF hence the name Reborn as the rise of the phoenix 

 

 

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Forum ID: Stealth80

Build Title: Iced Blood

Thread URL:

Description: This was my second build utilising water-cooling, the first one being a modded Antec 902 with a 240mm Rad. After seeing so many great builds about the internet I decided I would like to have a proper go at it. However been married and newbie modder chart topping components were out of the question as the wife controls the purse and most (except my sponsors -thanks Mayhems/Primochill!) pretty much laughed at my enquiries for sponsorship, which is what I expected lol. The main parts of my first build were transferred over and the 902 placed in the bin .

   I decided on the Thermaltake X9 pretty quick as it is modular, has vast mounting configurations for radiators and offered horizontal mounting of the motherboard. I originally opted for flex tubing, which initially pleased me, however during last 6 months or more, I noticed rigid was quickly becoming more common place and it looked great. I also wanted to go SLI for the first time as 4k on a single 970 was heart breaking! So now the rig is complete and it performs great!

 

 

 

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Forum ID: bartimaeus555

Build Title: Wabisuke

Thread URL: 

Description: My first PC build, so I decided to go all out. Housed in a Phanteks Evolv ATX, there's 3 980ti's, a 5930k, and 32gb of RAM, all water cooled. All the cables were sleeved by me, with sleeving whose colour I designed  and ordered from a factory specifically for this build. I went for an all black motherboard as it looked the cleanest in a build like this.

 

The case needed slight modifications to fit the top rad so it wouldn't hit the RAM blocks, but everything worked out in the end.

 

 

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Forum ID: Hasle

Build Title:  #trooper

Thread URL: PROJECT LOG

Description: My very first water cooling adventure for everyone to see. I went a bit bonkers with the piping, in an effort to get it as stringent and harmonized as possible. Not just connecting outlets to inlets, but adding some complexity to maintain symmetry. Definitely learned a lot, and my pad smelled like melted plastic for weeks. Worth it. 

 

 

 

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Forum ID: darwin1859
Build Title: Project Erebus
Thread URL: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/364009-build-log-erebus-x99-900d-h2o/
Description: After several months planning and work, Project Erebus has finally reached completion. The massive 900D houses a full rigid watercooling loop, with the dual D5 pumps and one of the radiators hidden away below the midplate, and a Coldzero kit giving a clean look in the top section. Erebus is an ancient Greek god of darkness, and I tried to capture that feeling with the theme for this build. The custom-sleeved cabling, sprayed fans and custom-made purple pastel coolant from Mayhems were all carefully designed to fit perfectly, set on the black background. Other mods include the black Plastidip I/O ports on the motherboard, and stealth 5.25" bay fan controller, which really complete the clean look.
 

 

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Forum ID: 50mm

Build Title: Reinforced

Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/452895-project-log-reinforced-tuf-z170-sabertooth-980ti-sli/?page=1

Description: Reinforced was a great project and i really enjoyed building it. To showcase the ASUS Z170 Sabertooth Mark 1 the theme of this mod is "The Ultimate Force". I chose the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX since it looks as if it was made for the motherboard. The mod features a custom CPU waterloop with unique premixed coolant by CoolForce and to light it up i installed two rigid UV LED strips. Using my scroll saw i created Armor panels to cover things and make the build look more TUF. To complete the mod i made custom sleeved cables and illuminated logos on the acrylic covers.

 

 

 

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Forum ID: Micdeez

Build Title: Project Insidious

Thread URL:

Description: Bringing form and function together, I present to you my first attempt at a custom build. There was certainly great challenges involved in this project, but with a vision and budget in mind, I am utterly pleased with the results. A lot of consideration was made to maintain clean symmetrical lines of the tubing and selection of parts to keep with the overall theme in mind. I hope that my successful attempt of an understated, pure clean industrial design springs forward future projects (and sponsorship's!).

 

 

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Forum ID: Eazy

Build Title: Xenon v2

Thread URL:

Description:

The main theme of course was to get the best price to performance I could while creating a PC powerful enough to Stream/Render/Multitask/Game with ease and have the life span of around 4 years.

 

It is a fairly modest build that the average joe can afford that is also passionate about computers and building.

 

So there you have it, my ultimate price to performance personal PC

 

 

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Forum ID: shu.tography

Build Title: ZENITH ZBOX Mobile Workstation

Thread URL: 

Description: 

My main goal with this build was to build the most powerful computer that I can afford in the world's smallest case, and LIQUID Cool it so I can travel with it. Travel light, travel anywhere and have no compromise in computing power. I will be going on exchange soon and I'll be draining the loop, putting it in my backpack, and carrying it on the plane. photographer without borders

 

 

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Forum ID: MorningStrummer

Build Title: XB'owner

Thread URL: 

Description:

Ever since the Xbox one was released, I was pretty certain a pc would fit in there. So finally after a couple of years planning I gave myself the go-ahead and started to work on what I had in mind. Turns out my planning was almost perfect and thus I managed to not only put a high end gaming pc in there, but I also managed to give it the upper hand and water cool it. The end result, spectacular, if I may say so myself.

 

 

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Forum ID :: byalexandr

 

Build Title :: LS3 - Custom 6.2L Mini ITX Gaming Machine

 

Thread URL :: 

Description :: This is my almost completely scratch built Mini ITX case. It sizes in at an internal volume of just 6.2L, smaller (by far) than any other case on the market, and it definitely utilizes every cubic centimeter available. It's sort of the pinnacle of my passion for small form factor, and it makes me happy knowing that nothing else comes close in terms of size.

 

 

 

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Forum ID: Drixen

Build Title: ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ PROJECT: GreenLANTERN

Thread URL: 

Description: This is an innovative, yet simplistic build that features cost saving measures to ensure that unused extra parts can be used in conjunction with new, modern and elegant implementations effectively.

 

 

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Forum ID: Virgule

Build Title: We're all mad here

Thread URL: 

Description: This build is centered around the Alice in Wonderland theme. A good portion of the budget has been utilized to make this build unique, while maintaining a great performance for high refresh rate 1440p gaming. As the movie's moto says : " We're all mad here". We're all mad about something ; our passion, our craft, our love... this surely qualifies as a result of this state of mind.

 

 

 

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Forum ID: Corwin111

Build Title: Ice Queen - Inspired by Scrapyard Wars

Thread URL: 

 

 

Description: 

This will not be my personal rig, I just decided to find some used parts online, put them into a new case, prettify it and... well I haven't quite figured out the "and' yet.

 

 

 

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Forum ID: MEC-777

Build Title: Stalker v2.0

Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/481658-build-log-stalker-v20-custom-micro-pc-build-complete/

Description: Stalker v2.0 is a custom micro portable gaming PC built on a very strict budget. The case is a heavily modified old HP Pavilion desktop chassis, shrunken down to a much smaller volume, yet is still capable of housing high-end components. I built this PC to be an easily portable gaming PC I can take to LAN parties, friend's houses or anywhere. Design and name is inspired by the Stalker game series. 

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Forum ID: clarkmcc

Build Title: CSLC (Consumer Server Liquid Cooling)

Thread URL: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/577653-temp-results-custom-loop-in-a-dual-xeon-780ti-dell-2u-server-8k-realtime-render-server/

 

Description: What makes this project unique, is its one of the very few stock data center servers that has a custom loop squished/attached/installed onto/into it. I pulled my radiator from my last rig, picked up two waterblocks and BAM, my temps are rarely over 30C even under load. Oh did I mention I squished a full graphics card in there? It currently acts as a gaming rig/file server/render server and can real time edit 8k footage by using RAM drives. While the original server (C2100) was 2U, it is now 3U with the modifications. The advantage to liquid cooling in this “case” was it’s very quiet and runs extremely cool for the components that are squished into it.

 

 

 

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Forum ID: Shahrukh

Build Title: Project Alpha

Thread URL: 

 

Description: My first ever water cooling build with tons of mods and paint jobs , custom hdd mount with hardline tubing , It was tough for me to do a hardline tubing for my first ever build , All went perfect and i am quite happy with it .

 

 

 

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Forum ID: killRMODZ

Build Title: Core V1 Mini k|ngp|n Edition

Thread URL: 

Description: First modded build that sparked something more.  Wanted to do something that wouldn't be done or not considered.  Thus came the k|ngp|n card.  Was a fun build and love building on itx and matx cases.  I made custom one offs for this build because I couldn't get what I needed through normal shopping.  Espcially with the music activated bezel ran by FadeCandy.  Color scheme is red, carbon fiber, black chrome and black.  Enjoy!

 

 

 

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Forum ID: SpaceTurtle917 

 

Build Title: Trigonometry

 

Thread URL: 

Description: The components are mounted to a peice of 1/8in Baltic plywood that is painted with the design of the 2 csgo skins "trigon" and "asiimov". First ever mod at the age of 15. It has old parts with air cooling. The cables run underneath and the board is 2 inches of the wall with a wooden orange trim around the edges to hide the cables underneath. 

 

 

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Forum ID: kickasssloth

Build Title: The Quantum Loop

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Description: A high tech piece of military equipment, hidden from most eyes, locked away in a basement, it was left untouched for 25 years, but now its back... and boy does it look cool!

 

 

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Forum ID: Ladybug Adventures

Build Title: PS3- PC

Description: After my PS3 YLODed and the fixes stopped fixing I decided to put a pc into it. This is not a high end build but that being said, everything is swappable and you can upgrade the components easily. Yes, the cable management is horrid but as Luke discovered it doesn't cause an issue with air flow.

Used Zotac motherboard

Used Intel core 2 duo 2.13 Ghz

220 watt psu

Zalman low profile heat sink fan

It works great as a media player/pc. I think it looks cool and it looks pretty stock.

 

 

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ForumID: 53by9

Title: Janus 2.0

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/588528-janus-20/

Description:

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others" - Ayn Rand

What can you achieve when you don't worry about who you're trying to beat or what can you create? Life moves at a constant pace. We don't realize what we have done until we sit and look back.

I have been doing Folding on my Computer's down time to hopefully find a cure for Cancer (the previous build was dedicated to it and my father who passed from it). The Division was released, we all love it or hate it. After it's launch I realized how much time I was spending in my office and what it was doing to my computer. I figured it was time for a whole office upgrade. There is a new monitor being created by Samsung that is 32:9 and 49 inches. When that time comes my desk will shrink somewhat (I made it slightly modular). A dual monitor setup has always been the dream but the evil bezel in the middle has always prevented that from being a reality. Having a 32:9 monitor fills that gap and I'm quite excited for it.

 

[Whaler_99]

My apologies to all entrants and the community, we let this last submission post go on way to long. As such, there will be THREE featured winners for the top three voted builds as well as a ONE mod selected build. A lot of great submissions this time!