Car Redrod

[JoshuaF]

Love the 900d

 

Parts:

• Intel I7 3770k (Delidded)
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• Corsair Obsidian 900D
• MSI Mpower Z77
• MSI GTX680 Lightning
• 16GB GSkill DDR3 2133(Tightened to CL8 at 1600)
• Western Digital Caviar Black
• OCZ Agility 240GB
• NZXT Hue LED kit
• Corsair AX850 w/ red cable set
• LG Bluray Burner

Cooling:

• XSPC RX360
• XSPC EX360
• XSPC Raystorm Acetal CPU block
• EK MSI GeForce 680 GTX Lightning GPU block 
• Swiftech 655 pump w/ EK acetal top
• NZXT Sentry Mesh fan controller
• Primochill Blood Red 1/2"x3/4" tubing
• Many Bitspower fittings
• Two Koolance VL3N QDC sets
• 2 3-pin power distribution PCB 5way fan block.
• 6 Scythe GT AP-14 fans
• 6 Corsair SP120 Quiet edition fans
• Bitspower Water Tank Z-Multi 250 Inline Reservoir - Ice Red

 

The 680 Lightning blue lights are kind of bothersome in my red theme, but oh well. Unless someone knows how to turn them off?

 

 

Cable management the best I could with so many wires it was really tough. There is so much room behind the motherboard tray that I was able to put my old NZXT mesh to the side of the front radiator with some 3M tape. I did remove the 3M from the CPU backplate don't worry.

 

My stealthed optical drive.

[piplupgao]

How did you do the stealthed optical drive?

[JoshuaF]

You have to remove the front plate from your DVD drive busing a small flathead screwdriver on the tabs. Then I used a dremel to trim the sides and the tabs off of the bay cover. I attached the cover to the front with normal 3M tape. If you do it you must put the drive in first and push it back farther then put the cover where it normally would be. Then push the drive forward into the cover with the tape on the drive. Then just screw it in as normal. I am not very good at describing things I know.

[JoshuaF]

Just gonna hazard a guess here man, but when you mounted the waterblock to the GPU, there should have been some kind of LED visible?

Not sure what you mean by that.

[unidentical]

Just gonna hazard a guess here man, but when you mounted the waterblock to the GPU, there should have been some kind of LED visible?

 

 

Not sure what you mean by that.

 

 

Well that blue light that you dont like comming from your GPU is only a LED light. So when you installed the waterblock and reinstalled the backplate, there would have been a lead or power sourse to power that blue LED. So perhaps remove the backplate and have a look, you may even be able to change its color to red.

LEDs are soldered directly to PCBs, it's not a power plug sort of thing.

 

As far as I'm aware on the lightning there is no way to disable the lights.

 

And I'm positive there's no other colour.

 

Anyhow, I think it looks good with the blue to offset. Too much red is a bad thing.

 

Also, it you wanted to you could remove the back plate, block off the led holds with epoxy and a dab of black paint, or something similar.