Project Arcturus by PEXON

[pexon]

Welcome

this transmission
from a fallen star
otherwise known as Arcturus

 




CASE:- Lian Li PC-V1000L
MOTHERBOARD:- MSI Z270 Gaming M5
CPU:- i5 6600K (7700K TBA)
GPU:- SLI MSI GTX 980Ti 6G GAMING or MSI GTX 1070 FE
RAM:- Crucial 16GB Sport DDR4
SSD #1:- Intel 600P M.2
SSD #2:- Crucial MX300 525GB  
HDD:- Samsung M8 500GB 2.5"
PSU:- Silverstone Strider 750W or SuperFlower LEADEX Titanium 750W

Hello! Time for another build log. Off the back of my Overwatch build, I was itching to start a new build, something a little different this time, no theme really, just a nice, clean and sleek build; only one chassis brand to help me achieve this... Lian Li. My first big project was a Lian Li and I have been wanting to build in one for a while, the PC-V1000L caught my eye and got the creative juices flowing.

 

Lets get the case out of the box. 

 

 

 

 

 

inb4 it looks like a Macintosh

 

 

Easy LAN access with those wheels! 

 

 

Original plan was to go for MDPC-X Platinum Grey and Shade 19, but I am still unsure as the idea is to keep it clean and simple; however, it may need some colour later on down the line 

 

First up, sleeving those USB 3.0 front panel headers 

 

 

 

 

Light is bad on the following photos (sorry)! I ordered some aluminium angle and some plexi to mock up a lightbox/ midplate and mother board tray cover

 

 

 

I have some more pictures to add this weekend, just waiting for them to upload on imgur! 

 

Happy weekend! See you soon. 

James/pex

[HeroXLazer]

Yay, Pexon is making a build.

[pexon]

 Time for another one, really looking forward to this

[Bananasplit_00]

that looks like the most modable case iv seen in a while  you can do anything with that! hope it turns out great, sleaving sure did

[pexon]

As promised, here is another update

 

I order a sheet of 6mm thick aluminium for the midplate, but when I picked this up from Overclockers on Friday afternoon and installed it in the case, it wont work, its way to thick... 

 

 

I went with the M5 as the dark grey heatsinks and reasonable sleek visuals will suit the build better than most of the new Z270 boards from any vendor, so many RGBs. The XPower board would have been great, but 350 for a Z270 is a little too much for me, maybe if I was going X99, but hey. 

 

 

 

 

 

I will be reusing some Crucial RAM from a previous build, the white heatsinks will add some nice contrast to the black/ anthracite mobo

 

 

I think I will remove the stickers once the boards been tested etc

 

 

Next up, some drilling. I wanted to create a nice clean look for the cables, namely the 24 pin as I am still undecided on the SATA cables, or if I should go all M2 SSDs or go for an external NAS.... Anyway, I used a cable comb as a guide and drilled through the plexi mobo tray and case with a 3.5mm drill bit, luckily there wasn't any chipping of the plexi, I took it nice and slow. 

 

 

NOTE:- SLEEVING COLOUR is not the final product, just some spare wires I had ready sleeved

 

 

 

 

It needs some filing to neaten up a little (but I cant find my round jewelers files). With that said, I am really happy with the result using an old Makita 240v drill lol

 

 

I realllly like Vanilla sands, it was my original idea to go with Plat grey and VS, but I don't think I can make it work.

 

Anyway, cheers for looking!

[Bananasplit_00]

the 24pin through the case wall is probably the best thing iv seen in quite a while. that looks just insainely good!

[pexon]

Right, cable update!

Managed to get the 8 pin and 24 pin, they need to be taken down a little bit. I plan on cutting each wire to different lengths to get all the cables laying perfectly in the rear of the case...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty time consuming getting each cable through the mobo tray and secured in each connector!

 

 

and even MORE time consuming pulling them through to the right curvature! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progress looking good! Next update will hopefully have some watercooling stuff involved

 

 

[Bananasplit_00]

i assume thats not the CPU cooler you are going to use  i guess thats just on there for simple testing right now

[pexon]

haha yea, just on there for testing purposes

[pexon]

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates, I've been really busy with work, plus no sign of the watercooling gear as of yet, so not a lot of progress can be made yet... 

 

I managed to have a play around with the 24 pin however and I found that a few strands of MDPC-X Vivid Violet and a shake up with the pattern works wonders breaking the cables up and made them pop a little better. I am planning on integrating more Vivid Violet in one way or another and perhaps adding some light purple/ lilac fluid... hmmm..... 

 

 

 

 

 

Also had to do a bit of bodging with the top rad, even though the case is massssive, the top will only really support a 30mm thick rad and a set of Scyth 12mm fans in order for me to get a nice cabling job on the 8 pin showing through.... 

 

 

 

 

 

Small MDPC-X Cable clamps and some stainless countersunk screws later...

 

 

 

Cheers for stopping by!

[Yahtadi]

What fans do you use for top rad? Its so thin! Gorgeous

[pexon]

Scythe Slip Stream if I remember correctly

[HelplmChoking]

Wow that thing is huge!

[Bananasplit_00]

3 minutes ago, Rangaman42 said:

Wow that thing is huge!

its about the same size as my case, i wouldent concider my case huge, my case has a way more filled up interior so that could be why lol

[HelplmChoking]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

its about the same size as my case, i wouldent concider my case huge, my case has a way more filled up interior so that could be why lol

 

True, it could be because it isn't filled. It still looks very long, the gap between the motherboard and HDD cage seems huge. But then, I think anything more than my mATX mid-tower seems too big  the curse of using Apple gear for years.

[Yahtadi]

On 2/3/2017 at 3:35 AM, pexon said:

Scythe Slip Stream if I remember correctly

How does it perform? is it loud at 70% ?