[Build Log] Project Dark Knightmare

[bmawn]

BY BMAWN

Hello! My name is Oskar, I'm 21 years old and I currently live alone in a small apartment in Sweden. This project will mark my second custom build, and I can't say how excited I am to share this journey with you. Last year I started planning my first ever custom loop, which then evolved into something else entirely and in the end it resulted in a pretty cool project which ended up getting the name "White Dream". The gallery recently hit 11000 views which is far more than I expected it to reach. With some newfound confidence I am now looking to improve from previous experiences and I've taken all critisism positive and negative with me to learn how to make a build like this better.
 
Anyways, that was a short presentation about me. Now lets talk about my next project. With influences from one of our most iconic superheroes of all time, who also happens to have his 75th anniversary this year, I am looking to create an interesting piece with a couple of nice details to honor the caped crusader himself, more popularily known as Batman.
With darker colours, mostly black with some influences of grey I will do my best to make this build as clean as possible.
The case used in this build is a Hex Gear R40 with black accent packs, I will also repaint or anodize the silver coloured aluminum profiles black.
 
 
A list of the hardware used in the build can be seen below:
EVGA X99 Micro Socket 2011-3
Intel Core i7 5820K
EVGA GTX980Ti SC+
Kingston HyperX Predator DDR4 16GB
Corsair HX850i
Samsung EVO 850 250GB
WD Green 1TB
Cooling:
Coming soon...

[bmawn]

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[JT8101997]

Well this looks interesting. Can't wait to see where it goes

[bmawn]

 Hi everyone, I hope you had a pleasant week.
As this build progresses, I am looking to improve my photography knowledge, including learning photoshop on a deeper level. Hopefully both you guys and me will be able to see some improvement looking at the first pictures I post here compared to the ones I will conclude the build with.

For those interested, I will be using a Canon EOS 70D housing with a Canon EF24-105mm objective, for editing I will use Adobe Photoshop CS6. I appreciate every single bit of critisism, without it I will not improve at my craft.

 For todays update I've been polishing my photography skills by taking some pictures in raw format and then editing them in photoshop to get my own touch to them.
If they take too long to load or if they look like crap please tell me. Otherwise just enjoy the pics:

And yeah, there are fingerprints, smudges and dust. I know. Seeing as this baby is going to get a hefty makeover pretty soon I feel they are a charming addition to the pictures. That will conclude todays update. Feel free to comment or follow, I promise I will do my absolute best to deliver.

[bmawn]

Hello again!

I've been editing and working with photoshop a lot and it resulted in me creating my very own logo. I've decided to call it "by bmawn", a clean looking logo which I will use as a watermark on all my photos and on most of my content. Just a small update, but I felt it was worth sharing.

Hopefully I will be able to start the build itself sometime during next week, I've ordered all the parts so now I only have to wait.

I probably wont update anymore this weekend, and I hope everyone will enjoy it as much as I will.

Until next time!

 

My facebook page can be found at www.facebook.com/bybmawn as well. Feel free to drop in and like the page! It would mean a lot

[bmawn]

Well this looks interesting. Can't wait to see where it goes

Hey thanks man!

Hopefully it will go in all the right ways.

[JT8101997]

When i first saw this i read it as drunk nightmare... Haha sounds like an interesting build either way Nice case btw i've seen a couple other builds in it on the forum and they all turned out fantastic.

[bmawn]

When i first saw this i read it as drunk nightmare... Haha sounds like an interesting build either way Nice case btw i've seen a couple other builds in it on the forum and they all turned out fantastic.

Haha not even close man but thanks I guess.

Yeah snefs ice blue angel and p0pe's engineering station are among the greatest builds I've seen to date.

[bmawn]

 

Hello people! Sincerely hope that you had a nice week.

Yesterday I recieved a package from Mayhems, see pictures below:

The clarity of glass is way higher than say, acrylic or PETG, so hopefully this will bring out the best of the Aurora fluid that I will be using.

 

In the package there were two bottles of Mayhems Pastel Black concentrate, one bottle of Mayhems Aurora 2 Silver concentrate and last but not least three 500mm long tubes of Mayhems brand new very own glass tubing. Can't stress how excited I am to try out glass tubing in this build and I can't thank the guys at Mayhems enough for these products.

The package from highflow and my fittings will most likely arrive monday or tuesday at the latest, so this week will be hectic with a lot of building and updates (hopefully).

So updates will start raining in this coming week,so please feel free to follow the thread

Thats all from me today, have a pleasant weekend.

[Overkilled]

INB4 spell checker

[bmawn]

INB4 spell checker

Fixed now! Thanks for the constructive critisism

[Overkilled]

Fixed now! Thanks for the constructive critisism

I was talking about Knightmare I know it was intentional it was just a bit of sarcasm

[bmawn]

I was talking about Knightmare I know it was intentional it was just a bit of sarcasm

Ah, I thought you meant the word "sincerely", it was misspelled so I fixed it.

Blame me for being tired tonight lol.

[Necrodead]

Cool, glass tubes. +follow

[bmawn]

Cool, glass tubes. +follow

Thx man!

[bmawn]

Small update: fittings got stuck in swedish customs, but it should be resolved quickly. If all goes well I should have them by the end of the week!

Hope you had a nice weekend

[gipsy danger01]

Lokks amazing, subbed[emoji106]

[HellaflushMcSwaggins]

Lokks amazing, subbed[emoji106]

Since when can you use emojis on forums?

[gipsy danger01]

Since when can you use emojis on forums?

Since smartphone and tapatalk app i guess[emoji41]

[HellaflushMcSwaggins]

Since smartphone and tapatalk app i guess[emoji41]

kewl

[Cicada]

IN for the glass tubes. That's awesome.

[Exotath]

omg glass!

 

What is the best way to cut them?

[MadyTehWolfie]

I see the dark wheres the nightmare?

[bmawn]

Nice to see some activity here! The glass cutting is still being sorted out as of how I will do it, but you can cut the tubes in a number of ways, one is explained my mayhems in their video which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatHIylk2UQ

 
Today I finally recieved my fittings after spending one week at swedish customs. So with that said I will most likely be able to start this build up this coming weekend!
I snapped some quick pictures of what will be used in the build and also something else entirely which will make my gaming rig one step closer to being complete. An ASUS Rog Swift PG279Q. Been gaming on this since I came home and man oh man is it a good monitor. The IPS panel looks way better than the TN panel on the PG278Q. Haven't managed to get the 165Hz refresh rate working but I'll get there eventually. Last work day of the week tomorrow and I will probably start moving stuff over to my parents house to prepare for building, but tomorrow night me and some friends are going to see the new bond movie, Spectre.
Updates will come more frequently now hopefully, and I'll also set up a better environment for taking pictures.
Until next update I hope you'll have a great halloween!
 

Also, a full list of the watercooling parts:
Mayhems glass tubing 12MM
Mayhems Black Pastel concentrate
Mayhems Aurora 2 concentrate
Hardwarelabs Black Ice Nemesis Radiator GTS 240
Hardwarelabs Black Ice Nemesis Radiator GTS 360
Aquacomputer Aquatube Black
Bitspower CPU Block Summit EF True Black Version
Alphacool VPP655 - Single (D5 pump)
Bitspower D5 MOD TOP - Black "S" Model
Bitspower D5 MOD KIT - Black
Fractal Design Venturi HP-12 x5
Barrow fittings
 
Note: I also bought a NZXT GRID+ to control all of the fans. I've used the regular NZXT GRID fan hub before, so I figured I would give the GRID+ a try. This will help me keep the motherboard clean from all of the fan cabling. Everything will be sleeved.

[bmawn]

 

Hello everyone, I cincerely hope that you've had a great week!

Before you keep on reading I'll just quickly say that this will be a text only update, since I've disassembled my main rig. Tomorrow (friday) or during the weekend I should be able to get set up with photoshop and other tools to be able to get some better content uploaded as well using my dads workstation, this update is being written on a slow laptop.

 

Anyways, my week has been really hecic, starting sunday with packing stuff to bring to my parents home, couldn't move the stuff monday so I did it tuesday. Finally came home very late so I only had time to get set up in the workshop. Wednesday and thursday (today) though I got a lot of stuff done on the build. More on that when I can post an update with pics (probably tomorrow).

 

I know I said that updates would be more frequent as soon as I started building but I just haven't been able to get time off to write here on the forum.

So yeah, I'm sorry for not keeping my word. I will try my best to make it up to you!

So for all of you who doesn't go clubbing fridays, expect a more content filled update tomorrow night.

 

Just felt I needed to update the log. If you are really curious as of what is happening as I do it, follow my facebook page. I upload content there as soon as I work on the project.