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Just lately (I am 46) I started playing games online against friends. I've never really liked that sort of gaming but it's been brilliant. One of the guys hosts a LAN night (well, did before COVID) and I have been there and had a right laugh. However, due to COVID we have been playing online a lot more rather than locally. I decided we should have a gaming server for things like L4D and L4D2, as there are hardly any proper Valve servers left now and all of the self hosted ones have stupid cheats on them like never ending ammo, no reloading needed and etc. This ruins the game, IMO. We also want a server for Valorant and a few others.

 

So after a recent upgrade I found myself with a pile of parts. I can't sell them as they have some niggling faults, so I decided to donate them to the cause. First up is this, probably the most horrific motherboard ever made.

 

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I bought it last year for a Xeon. Specifically because it is about one of four boards that can run this Xeon. It's a 16 core 32 thread Haswell E ES. Which may get split into VMs, or may just be used as is.

 

I have a PSU, it's an old Cougar 550w unit.

For cooling I have a H80i V2.

For memory someone donated two 4gb sticks of DDR4, enough to get us up and running.

Drives I have, as well as an SSD

GPU will be an old Quadro.

 

And so on. I also have a butt load of RGB fans and general junk left over from other builds I want to use.

 

So we needed a case. However, this board is pretty darn big and thus you need a pretty big case for it. My buddy almost bought a case, but it was a bit small. I told him to hold off and I would scout the classifieds on forums here in the UK.

 

This came up.

 

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For £45. It's brand new too.

 

Now note, this build is going to be pretty nasty. However, that is the entire point. The guy who will be setting it up HATES RGB, he HATES flashy PC parts and he HATES cases covered in glass. So between us we've decided to troll the living daylights out of him and send around this enormous great grotesque work of RGB puke.

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Where were you while we were getting high?

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Oh you just wait until I get started lmao.

 

It has to say Godlike everywhere too, natch.

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Been cleaning. Here are some of the parts.

 

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16 minutes ago, AlienALX said:

Been cleaning. Here are some of the parts.

 

 

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Have you ever heard about ESD?...

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Have you ever seen anti ESD brushes? Look closah. CLOSAH.

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4 hours ago, AlienALX said:

Now note, this build is going to be pretty nasty. However, that is the entire point. The guy who will be setting it up HATES RGB, he HATES flashy PC parts and he HATES cases covered in glass. So between us we've decided to troll the living daylights out of him and send around this enormous great grotesque work of RGB puke.

If you can wait for delivery, AliExpress has some truly terrible crimes in the RGB-tat section... some on ebay too, but easier to find them on AE.

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I don't think so mate. It's very, very strange. 

 

Big Chungus is here...

 

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Big Chungus is big. Very big. *Morgan Freeman* "And it was that moment" yeah yeah.

 

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It comes in two parts, the base is separate. 

 

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A size 10 for scale.

 

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Obviously for £45 the case did have two issues. Firstly there is no headphone wires for the front (who gives a toss) and secondly it wasn't built properly and they had not riveted in one side of the PSU "holder" thing. It was bent and flopping around.

 

There were already some of these scratches, but I did add some myself. TBH? I may not even bother touching them up as you will never see them once the base is on and the PSU is in. If you do? I will touch them up with some satin black. I ended up using my 90' drill attachment so I could get in, and instead of doing two small rivets I did one big bugger off one.

 

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Trust me when I say, that's never moving anywhere again lol.

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Somehow I don't think this should ever overheat.

 

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Doh what a friggin dumbass. I fitted the cooler in the wrong way around. Have fixed that. Started cloth taping as I have no cable ties, realised it actually looks quite good. Then I thought "Hey I can unscrew that bracket like thing and hide the joins behind there" then I realised it was riveted in.

 

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Seriously I have never, ever seen such weird design decisions in my entire life. There is the weirdest thing ever going on with the front alu behind the glass. I will get a pic of it when I take the glass off next. I'm starting to think this was a prototype tbh. I won't go into why I know that, but let's just say the guy I got it off would have access to such things.... Oh, and the PSU cables won't reach as I suspected. Not bothered though, these cost me £11. 24 and 8 EPS. I already have molex in red etc and a 6 pin PCIE.

 

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Holy Mary, mother of god.

 

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One thing is for sure. I won't be needing a Christmas tree this year.

 

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What I am happy about the most is how both of the remotes work with both of the RGB controllers. Meaning I have two, and only need to use one (so one spare).

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Update. I am currently clearing out piles of old wires and crap pulled from the PCs I have been stripping this year. So I am doing a big clear out, whilst doing this too. Earlier I fitted the PSU and wired up the USB 3 & C and the board headers.

 

I also fitted in the PSU.

 

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Some more wiring etc.

 

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The GPU got a custom back plate also. I need to do something about the edges of the card, as that green is honking. I also need to finish the edges but the most important thing of all is it fits really well.

 

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The AIO has been driving me bloody nuts so I tied it up out of the way.

 

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Spent three hours doing this.
 
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Only to find I can't spell my own user name.
 
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Am going to leave it, to remind myself not to be a spaz.

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Cables are here. I was just hoping to reach the board. Seems Phanteks are trying to reach the moon.
 
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Whilst digging around when I got here I found an old sheet of glitter red acrylic. God knows how long I have even had this. I don't even know what I bought it for, and a piece was missing so it must have been years ago.
 
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Drives looked a bit crap, so that looks a little better.

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I mentioned an oddity with the case a couple of pages back. I promised to take pics.
 
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Designer at Kolink, after the case had been made.. "Oh s**t, it's totally wrong and doesn't line up !"
Engineer at Kolink "Hold my beer and give me my hammer !"
 
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Did this too.
 
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When you troll hard and end up getting trolled yourself.

 

I hated those DS logos on the fans. Decided to draw some up in red. Only my printer is running out of ink and this is what I got.

 

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Pink with light pink stripes lol. They were too good to throw away :D

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Big Chunguuuuuuus, Big Bad Chungus.

 

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Apologies for the water mark. I forgot I had reset my phone recently.

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