The Dark BirdCage

[vincent0143]

Hello people of LTT!

 

I just thought i'd share my build with you. This build started about a year ago when I finished my first build. After about a month I realised that this was a very bad looking build (IMO) so it didn't take long before I started torturing the Shinobi. I started by removing the 5,25'' and 3,5'' bays since in wasn't using an optical drive and was only using one HDD. the second change I made to the case was a large sidepanel window. The window itself is made from a 4mm glass sheet which caused a problem with the hyper 212 evo I tried to install. The cooler was to tall to fit with the window installed so I replaced it for the smaller TX3. With the 3,5'' drive bays removed I had to find a new place for the hdd. I made a small hdd holder out of the original hdd bays. Soon after that I got an external hdd enclosure because the wd black makes an aweful noice when it busy (wd says it's all fine but the noise is really weird). The games libary got transferred to the 840 EVO and the pc is much quieter now because the hdd doesn't have to work as often as before. When I got the Z87 Mpower and the yellow parts were blacked out (this needs to be done again, I know ) I was happy enough to finally post it on the LTT forum.

 

The original build:

 

 

Temporary ''test bench''

 

 

The drive bays have to go!

 

 

The empty case

 

 

without the psu shroud

 

 

The ghetto hdd holder

 

 

The Dark BirdCage is finally completed!

 

 

 

With the heatsink blacked out

 

 

 

 

Specs:

CPU: Intel I5 4670K

Motherboard: Msi Z87 Mpower (blacked out)

GPU: Msi GTX 760 HAWK 

RAM: 2 x 4gb Corsair Vengeance 

Storage

- 120gb samsung 840 ssd (windows)

- 500gb samsung 840 EVO ssd (Games & Programs)

- 1tb wd black external (data)

CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper TX3 evo

PSU: Corsair CX750m

Case: Bitfenix Shinobi (slightly modded)

 

Plans for the near future:

- an ssd mounting plate that will look something like this:

 

Plans for the (not so near) future: 

- an anrduino powered fan controller that can also control rgb leds

- RGB led strips

- watercooling (something like an fractal design s36 and a universal gpu block)

 

I hope you enjoyed my first build log!

 

 

[liveturbo24]

looks pretty good