Eatspower.

[AlienALX]

Decided to use my TV PC as my desktop. CPU is not as good, but GPU was better.

 

11700KF

Z590 Tachyon

32gb 8 Pack Dark DDR4

Cooler Master Cryo 360 TEC

6950XT with Bitspower Premium CNC block

Thor PSU

All Bitspower tanks and fittings, 360mm rad for GPU.

Various SSDs

Lian Li Odyssey X

All Lian Li fans

Lots of RGB, and I mean a lot.

 

CNC pump cover (made on my machine)

 

 

 

A video of the finished internals.

 

 

And then move onto the external. For this I am making a very large RGB lit plate as a 1:1 of the internal tanks and loop.

 

So carbon. Real forged carbon.

 

 

And wood. Real wood.

 

 

Then design.

 

 

5mm cast silver. Note, the carbon and wood will be machined into inlays to go inside.

 

 

That is now done. Onto the 5mm cast Opal white.

 

 

I shall be machining this on Friday. I will update then.

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Oh yeah, of course the PSU shroud  was CNC too.

 

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OK so that is my small pieces all drawn up and put into Easel.

 

 

Obs the carbon will be last as I need to move the machine. Might do it in a bit tbh, now it is just cuts on thin pieces.

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If you were wondering where it will live. Front and centre on the case. Here. (well, the PC on the right lol)

 

 

Ignore the cluster of mess on there. It too is currently a work in process, and shall be getting  wrapped with this.

 

 

That was actually the first thing that was supposed to happen before the new monitor, speakers, amp, stands, keyboard and mouse. Oh and this entire build of the GPU loop. I always get side tracked.... Scratch chin.

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Man this build looks SICK!

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Thanks dude.

 

I began filing and edge sanding on the silver piece last night. I got half way around before calling it quits so I’ll crack on with that today.

 

Tomorrow will be the last day of stress machining so I’ll be glad when I don’t have to babysit the machine all day.

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that reservoir setup is bonkers. noice!

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I realised last night I did not  go into a lot of detail about any of it. Time.. time is the enemy.

 

The larger bottom one is indeed a res. The others are flow meters. I already had one I bought years ago, and the others were on sale for £9.99 each. My kinda price

 

 

They are held together with Barrow rotary fittings. Not the easiest thing to do, but I got there. The problem with these flow meters is that they are notorious for restricting the flow. All because of how the stop fittings go in.

 

 

So that these don't spin.

 

 

It's very daft. So, I fitted an extension and port polished them out with a dremel.

 

 

Wherever they met or the inlet port. I also removed the blades etc. Makes a lovely cascade now. Kinda like the very large sponsored builds with tons of reservoirs in, but at an affordable price for the laymen like myself.

 

Yesterday I set off the machine on a nearly 4 hour job. It failed. Was all my fault as usual. So, to cut down machine time I am going to cut the channels for the wires and LEDs completely out of 5mm opal.

 

 

50 mins est. And then just make a back cover out of either 3mm solid white or the leftover carbon sheet. IDK yet.

 

 

19 mins est. More my limit on the racket it makes

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OK slowed down the feed rate and plunge rates. Took about 30 mins.

 

 

Came out lovely. Doesn't match perfectly as I had to do a lot of filing to the silver one, but I can live with it for sure.

 

 

So it is just the mid piece to do now. Will tackle that in a couple of weeks when I am back at the machine.

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OK finally some more done. My screen and the cable (Strimer) arrived. Screen will be mounted  to the front of the build, Strimer modded into two 8 pin EPS (Lian Li do not sell those, I will make my own)

 

 

 

 

 

I bought some black extensions but they are too thick for the Strimer LED things. I need to make some cables no doubt.

 

Any way, for now I am back on the "feature" LED RGB thing. I have now finished  the middle piece, and drilled tapped and countersunk it. The back  is now removable.

 

 

 

 

Quite terrifying but I basically clamped the two together after marking  out the 3mm back (lots of clamps) then drilled through both  to 2.5mm, then removed the back and drilled it to 3.2mm and countersunk, before finally putting a M3 tap in the drill and tapping  the holes in the middle part.

 

The top face part will be glued down to the middle part later. I need to fix in the wood and carbon permanently first.

 

I did  bring  all my soldering tools with me, so there is that.

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OK so the wiring and soldering is done. The white stuff is liquid electrical tape.

 

 

I need to find a RGB cable now to  connect to it.

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We finish tomorrow.

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Christmas upgrades.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oh god what a happy bonus (note, 14th gen ready)

 

 

It has no bios flashback so I was pooping my pants  thinking I might have  to take my 12700k out of the PC it's in.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoqNEKIiiSI

 

So aye. Two custom made black EPS cables and a Strimer, and one finished RGB thing. Will hook up the EK screen shortly to make sure it is good. I am hoping Lconnect shows on that and scales...

 

 

If not I will have to buy AIDA and pee around making my own.

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OK. So I got bored and bought an air cooler. £15.99.

 

 

Basically I am not at home I am at my mother's. I have a room there. Have been over for Xmas.

 

I fitted the NVME drive I got into the middle slot (the PCIE 3  one, as it's  a  PCIE 3 drive). I then took the heatsink from the top slot and flipped it 180  so it would fit. The big cooler will be in the top slot any way.

 

 

Fit  cooler.

 

 

Then update  the BIOS.

 

 

At which point I tried to install Windows. But it failed as the board has no WIFI. So, I used the  workaround. Press  F12 + Shift, then enter OOBE\BYPASSNRO.

 

This got  me past that. I then tethered my phone to it for WIFI and installed all of the drivers and  software. I then fitted the water block, booted it very quickly to test before packing it away. 

 

I will resume when I get home at the weekend

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OK one last treat. A gen 4 NVME. The 512 will not be fitted, instead I will have the 1tb in there now for Windows and two 2tb NVME with the latter reserved (the gen 4) for modern games.

 

 

I got  a nice deal  on that.

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Good afternoon.

 

I didn't want to make this post yet as I am sat on the floor with a really bad back lmao. Problem is the photos were building up and otherwise it would have turned into a monster post.

 

So to catch up. I got home on Friday and started to strip the PC down.

 

After which I installed the new second rad.

 

 

End tanks are linked down here.

 

 

Not much else needed changing apart from a new return line. That is up here.

 

 

The new SSD and cooler came just before I left.

 

 

And so.

 

 

 

Unfortunately I had a spill and the GPU had to come apart and be dried and rebuilt into the block, as well as all of the boards and stuff in the bottom.

 

Then I fitted the board.

 

 

The long return hose will go into the CPU block at the top... I think the hardest part of that was fitting and positioning the Strimer EPS that never existed and stopping it fouling the fan. I got there eventually, however. Now obviously the rest was a known entity at this point, so about 7 hours later and it was back in one piece.

 

 

 

It is still enormously stealthy on the hoses which was awesome.

 

 

 

 

And then a side quest. I rebuilt my Hunstman Elite a while ago using phantom caps from Razer after two sets failed to fit. I have a spare now which is nice. However, the wrist pad pleather was rotten and falling to pieces. Cue Ferrari coloured leather.

 

 

Then.

 

 

Before finally 

 

 

This is why they are called phantom caps.

 

 

OK so why am I not working on it and finishing it? well, it seems I have a jonesing for pain.

 

 

Ugh. The reason for this extra pain is I want it done and never have to do it again. I will leave you with this parting shot. Totally too bright and over blown, hence why I have not showed the new lighting scheme. I will have to darken the final pics to make it match the real world.

 

 

Until next time....

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OK so to finalize this stage.

 

Many many hours of wiring. I know it looks awful, but there is just nothing you can do when faced with so much. Tidy safe and able to fit the panel is going to have to be good enough.

 

 

Note carefully where the front monitor wires go. There is literally just enough room there to get them through. So like I said, ugly? yes. Right? also yes. They come out like this.

 

 

It was there I realised something. The screen was not going to work on the floor with the PC plugged into the TV. There is only one HDMI out, and the TV was using it. I did try plugging it into the onboard with limited success. IE I got to see it working but it was refusing to see the GPU as monitor 1. I knew when moved to the desktop it would be fine, but obviously because of that it would not work as intended until it was back on the desk.

 

So with the worst part done it was time for a wedgie.

 

 

Which took several attempts. I got it there in the end, though.

 

Turn him back around.

 

 

Inside pics. The silver fan shrouds are gone, they distracted from the Proart IO cover IMO.

 

 

 

Besides with the additional silver and acrylic on the block it didn't need it.

 

 

 

Note I do not have the LEDs on in those pics. This is because the red LEDs look pink and washed out on photos for some reason. "Booting rainbow farts" though, look fine.

 

 

 

With the very dark glass on it looks much better with the red active. The front thing looks too bright, though. IRL it looks completely different to this.

 

 

 

OK so after 10 hours of Indy I realised I really should use the TV PC next to it, or it would remain there for gawd knows how long. So this morning I buttoned it up.

 

 

 

 

 

And then finally moved it into place. At which point the screen was connected and set up successfully.

 

 

And.

 

OK so things needing to be done still. I don't like the hole in the side of the monitor on the front panel. Obviously they had to do that, but it looks crap. So I need to machine a couple of side plates to be attached to cover them over. Other than that? I would say it is pretty much spot on.

 

So next it is onto where we began, the desk itself. Well, after my lil N64 project I have cooking.

 

Until next time.......