Whiplash [450D][in progress]

[CJPowell27]

But won't the PSU get hot?

PSUs don't really get THATT hot and it will also

be able to get some fresh air from all the extra

airflow.

[austin541]

NIce!

[TheInverseKey]

Fair point plus if he is using that PSU in the picture then the fan will be off most of the time.

[kingdorian]

Fair point plus if he is using that PSU in the picture then the fan will be off most of the time.

 I'm not as you can read in the starting post, I'm using a seasoinc m12II evo 850Watt. But it won't be a problem, the psu might get a couple degrees hotter but I'm sure it won't overheat... And since seasonic psu's have excelent build quality the couple degrees hotter will make a big difference...

[TheInverseKey]

Ooops didn't read that

[kingdorian]

Ooops didn't read that

The h1200i is 2,5times more expensive then this one and its overkillness level is over 9000 for just 290's. It is a nice psu but I'd rather spend my money on another part.

 

Update 5,5

I've finished a programming project so I've got some more time to work on this built next couple of days. Also I should get paid in a couple of weeks so I might already buy a second 290 . And bought some black bolts and nuts today.

I'm still waiting for the 4790k to arrive in the stores here so I can pick it up together with my motherboard.

[theMLGbro58]

That looks really cool, The cable sleeves look really cool man.  

[kingdorian]

That looks really cool, The cable sleeves look really cool man.  

Thanks!

At the moment I'm trying to figure out how to do the mounting of the psu in a decent way. Hopefully I can post some pics of it tonight.

[kingdorian]

Update 6

Today's battlefield:

Today's battlescars:

So thats said not the serious stuff.

I figured out a way to mount the psu, I'm going to make an acrylic panel in the top of the case between the h100i and the fans on it. This should a help airflow through the radiator (the linus h100+ductape vid) and b it probably is going to look cool (atleast in my opinion) and c I can mount my psu in a safe way. Here the result of an evening of hard work. (I watched the first half of the Dutch footbal match but it was to boring so I went to work on my pc instead Once a nerd always a nerd). 

First I cut out the remainings of the 5,25" bays since I'm going to do things different then I originally planned. 

After that I cut a acrylic panel the size of the top and sanded the edges. After that I drilled the holes for mounting the rad and finally I started cutting the holes for the fans. Sadly half way through the second one my last fretsaw broke so I couldn't finish it tonight.

(Don't be afraid the acrylic is not scratched only the protection foil is)

What I've still got to do is cut a hole for the tubes of the h100i to go trough and a hole for the psu to exhaust its heat. Since I'm going to bolt the psu to the acrylic panel using the holes that are normally used for securing the psu.

 

Ofcourse this piece of acrylic is going to be covered with white vinyl and black vinyl after that. The white vinyl will help the light of the red LED's I'm planning to put into the pannels to light up the edges red spread better inside so the edges get a nice even glow.

The more I work on this project the more respect I get for the real hardcore modders that do scratchbuilts and that sort of stuff. The amount of time it consumes is incredible. It look very simple at first sight oh cut a panel of acrylic but in the end I spend 3 hours cutting some 5,25" bay's out and sawing and sanding a panel of acrylic...

To be continued (hopefully tomorrow)...

[Tearass]

Let the more serious modding begin.

[kingdorian]

Update 7

 

First off all I want to appologise for posting this later then I said I would. 

 

I have not made much progress the last couple of day's. The first thing I've done is I finished cutting the acyrlic panel. I testfitted it, reajusted it, testfitted it, reajusted it and so on . It cost me a whole afternoon. After that I had to sand all of the edges of the panel as smooth as possible that also took me around 2-3 hours of work.

 

(Testfitting the rad)

This is how how the psu is mounted right now. As you can see its sagging a bit so I made two support screws.

This is what it looks like from the top, note that all the white (the masking tape) will be black. Do you think the psu has enough ventilation now? I think so. If not I might put a fan in between the exhaust of the psu and the top of the case.

This is what the panel looks like before sanding.

This is what the panel looks like after sanding:

So as I said it cost me a lot more time then I expected but it fits pretty tidy now.

I've put the vinyl on it on one side. But I cannot finish the other side because I'm still waiting for the led's to arrive. They should arrive monday or thuesday. Then I can go soldering.

 

I don't know if I explained it earlier but my idea is to put black vinyl on both sides of the acrylic panels and put led's inside the panel so the edges have a nice red glow around them. It should give a pretty cool result I would think. But I'll post some pics for you asap. (Should be Thuesday or wednessday)

 

I also sleeved 5 fans and I'm also glad with how those turned out however I don't think its worth taking and posting picutures of

 

 

[kingdorian]

Update 8

 

The LEDs arrived today so tonight I'm doing soldering and work on lighting the panels.

 

A longer update with the end result of the LEDs will come soonish! Now I will get back to work, testing what happens if you put the LEDs in a acrylic panel with both sides covered and how many centimeters distance between LEDs I have to keep to get a nice even glow going through the panel.

[davidbuss]

Update 8

 

The LEDs arrived today so tonight I'm doing soldering and work on lighting the panels.

 

 

-snip-

 

 

A longer update with the end result of the LEDs will come soonish! Now I will get back to work, testing what happens if you put the LEDs in a acrylic panel with both sides covered and how many centimeters distance between LEDs I have to keep to get a nice even glow going through the panel.

Just curious, what did you use to cover the acrylic? It looks like some sort of thin plastic. (Maybe?) I'm doing something similar in a scratchbuild I'm working on. From what you've shown so far, this is gonna turn out great 

[kingdorian]

Just curious, what did you use to cover the acrylic? It looks like some sort of thin plastic. (Maybe?) I'm doing something similar in a scratchbuild I'm working on. From what you've shown so far, this is gonna turn out great 

First of all thanks!

I used adhesive plastic, you can buy it at every hardware store. It is normally used to cover windows and that kind of stuff. I first put on a layer of white (because this reflects ligtht better then black ) and over that I put a layer of black

[kingdorian]

Update 9

It has been a while since I posted an update but its in a store near you right now

 

First I finished the LEDs on the top panel.  Here is it when I'd done one of the two led strings. (of course the white tape is temporary)

With one led string and only one side covered with adhesive plastic:

The bright spot is much less bright in real life, its only there when you look at it straight but you won't look at it straight because there will be a fan on top of it (the other side it is in this picture). But the effect of it on the fans is quite nice I think, the whole fan gets a nice red-ish glow but it does not lighten up the case as much as ordinary led fans do. Only fan becomes red

 

I also picked up my motherboard and cpu. The guy in the shop almost started drooling when he took a look at the motherboard (not kidding).

The ram is made to go with this motherboard in my opinon.

The picture kinda failed, its even better "live" (in real live ).

After that I finished the second ledstring:

 

The lighting on the edges is not as smooth as I would like but the only parts it is visible will be trough the fanholes and psu exhaust hole. But at the other panels I will put the lights 1/3 closer to eachother or someting. Also there is only adhesvie plastic on one side of the panel as of this picture. There is plastic on both sides now and it smoothens it a bit but I haven't got pictures of that (yet).

 

Eventually I made the panel that is going to be behind the motherboard. But actually I cut it twice, the first one broke because the acrylic was less flexible then I thought it would bee (oops). That took me 2 hours of extra work, cutting and sanding .

 

To get the dimensions and the placement of the cable routing holes right I first cut it out of cardboard.

(don't worry the 24pin hole is going to be a hole per cable )

But its finished now and it fits seamlessly (thats what she said, before one of you posts it I thought I'll just post it myself... )

 

Next update will be the finished panel with adhesive plastic on it and the holes cut out I think.

[EldarNi]

Looking forward, nice build so far

[mythicalbeast]

Dude, too much text. I don't have time for all this.

[zombiepixel]

next time try grey and red for the cable sleeving! ik it doesnt match the black scheme but trust me it looks way better! TRUST ME! good example here

[SageC]

next time try grey and red for the cable sleeving! ik it doesnt match the black scheme but trust me it looks way better! TRUST ME! good example here

 

 

Ooh, can I get a link to that build?

[zombiepixel]

Ooh, can I get a link to that build?

i got it from google images but this might be it http://www.overclock.net/t/1190500/project-black-hawk-down-custom-water-cooler-corsair-800d

[kingdorian]

next time try grey and red for the cable sleeving! ik it doesnt match the black scheme but trust me it looks way better! TRUST ME! good example here

 

 

Thanks for the tip but I don't know, the built is a bit overwhelimg, think but I'll take have a look at it. It could turn out either really well or really crappy ;P

 

Also an large update on the back panel is incoming tonight (my time).

 

edit: no update tonight yet, it started raining so I had to stop earlier and I had no time left for taking pictures

[kingdorian]

Update 8

 

Its time for another update

 

First of all I've tried drilling the holes for the 24 pin, it was a freaking pain in the butt to get them all lined up properly. It took me three nights to figure out a way at wich they where decent aligned. One of the things I tried was drawing them in autoCAD, printing it and drilling the holes as best as possible.

It failed...

Then I thought of making a kind of guidance system. This was the result.

As you can see its a lot better. And the fuckups aren't realy even noticable when the cables are running through the holes as you can see here.

This was the system I used. You might be able to see the staples in the right bottom corner. I added 4.5mm of staples everytime then drilled the wholes and so on.

The end result of drilling the 24pin. Apart from the 3 fuckups it is decent imo.

With the cables trough:

And here you see the 24pin in its natural habitat.

 

After that I started on the passtrough for the pcie power cables, it was a loooooot easier

I also made the cable passtrough for the ssd.

Since its an ssd I'm just going to use double sided tape to secure it.

Then I drilled the holes for the cables that are coming from the psu to go trough.

The motherboard plate finalized.

 

I finished of my saturday with a bit of sawingSundaymoring I did the cutting of the holes in it.

 

Testfitting the fans.

I did not have enough bolts and nuts so I the guy at the technical service at my work is going to search if he can find some more just laying around somewhere so I can use them

Because I wasn't statisfied with how the top plate turned out I took a vile and viled its some more to make the edges more straight.

And the result.

 

As you can see I might have to redo the adhesive plastic.

 

[kingdorian]

Its been a wile since I posted an update. I already told this in another topic but.

Thanks a lot!

 

I've done some minor things last couple of weeks. The system is assembled and in use now, but I still need to finish a ton of little things, buy some fans, fix the pci-e cable sleeving and most of all I need to add al the led's.. Which will require me to "dismantle" almost the whole pc, so I can't use it for 3-4 days then, thats not to big of a problem since I can use my laptop. But since university started last week I really haven't got 2 to 4 subsequent full days that I can work on this. I think finishing it will happen during Christmas brake (3 weeks no colleges). 

But I will post some pics of the small things I've done since the last update this weekend 

"You know, its sad but true" (if you don't get the reference google "Whiplash song" and "sad but true" ^^)

[mikat]

OMG your from holland me too and i am also from zuid-holland

me too