Posted November 16, 2013 Project Blank Let’s cut it short, I’m going to treat myself with a new PC. I’ve been quite obsessed with mechanical keyboards after my last build “Phenomenon” ; which I’ve learnt how to mod it and spend all my PC budget on them and made my bank account cried . Anyway, this time it would be a pc which would run me for the long run, so if anyone expect me to do major or big time mod like I did previously; don’t be, well there will be but its just minor mod. It will be a classic looking build which the components itselves I’ve chosen carefully to suit the build and stand for itself. I tried to grab myself the highest quality components my wallet can afford, not trying to be a cry baby but I have limited option on components here; besides with all those water cooling stuff which I’ve to order from the US, it would cost me twice as much if I have to pay for the custom tax (fingers crossed) Won't be revealing all the components I’m going to use now, but some components will be taken from my previous build since I think they can still serves me well Anyway, I will be updating this first post occasionally for some updates; this will be a slow log since I am taking my time to make something perfect for the long haul. Estimated to be done by end of December And also. I will be playing around with my camera for the shots as well, so stay tuned! List of components: CPU: i7 4930K Motherboard: Asus Rampage iv Extreme Black Edition Case: Caselabs SM8 RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum (4x4GB) 1866 GPU: 2x Powercolor R9 290 OC PSU: Seasonic Platinum 1000w Sound card: Asus Xonar STX SSD: 2x Samsung Evo 120gb (Raid 0) HDD: 2x WD Caviar Black 1TB Water cooling: CPU: EK Full nickel clean GPUs: Aqua computer Kyropgrahics 290 block with Active XCS Backplate Motherboard: EK RIVBE Block Radiators: EK XTX 480 and 360 Fittings: Primochill rigid and Bitspower adapters Reservoir: Aquacomputer 880ml Aqualis Pump: D5 Tube: Primochill Tube Black GPU: Aquacomputer nickel with active XCS backplate Fans: Gentle Typhoon AP-15 with NZXT Sentry Mix 2 Lighting: NZXT White LED This post has been promoted to an article Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 Author Index: 1. First few components arrived 2. Case assembly and more stuff 3. Disassembly of the old rig 4. Old blocks washed up, test fitting, radiator paint result and new GPU 5. Mini update, more Caselabs love, painted radiator final result 6. So many goodies! wee... 7. GPU get dressed and radiator test fit 8. Reservoir mounting 9. Motherboard block, AC backplate problem 10. Fan controller, new PSU and bending the tubes! 11. More tube bending, cleaning and CLU applied 12. Tubes done! Cables management on the way 13. Final shots! Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 Author First up ! I received these a few days ago, been a busy week but full of packages especially for my keyboards addiction And this came in yesterday, will be sharing my love on trooper figures hobby too. I have a few and they will randomly appears on my shots whats inside are : Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 Why's 670's? Also from personal experience raid 0 SSD'd is a waste. Anyway's subbed this will be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 -s- If you dont make this look amazing i will be very disapointed. dat black edition!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 Looks great, good pictures. Love the Black Edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 Highest quality components without making your wallet cry? And this is what you get like the troopers sneaking into the pics Stock coolers - The sound of bare minimum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 Author Why's 670's? Also from personal experience raid 0 SSD'd is a waste. Anyway's subbed this will be good. I have it in my current rig and its still running my 1440p solid! I try not to upgrade for just one generation of GPU, I usually skip a generation for upgrade actually raid 0 is more for prestige to me, but I heard Linus said in one of his video that he can feel the difference of raid 0 ssd in his rig with normal single ssd have the budget and chance, might as well give it a try If you dont make this look amazing i will be very disapointed. dat black edition!. Will try my best sir ! Looks great, good pictures. Love the Black Edition. Highest quality components without making your wallet cry? And this is what you get like the troopers sneaking into the pics Expect more to come Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 This could turn out to be one hell of a sexy rig! Stoked for this build! phanteks enthoo pro | intel i5 4690k | noctua nh-d14 | msi z97 gaming 5 | 16gb crucial ballistix tactical | msi gtx970 4G OC | adata sp900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 Nice pictures with the toy soldiers and all ! Would love to see the final pics also be so nice and creative CPU: AMD FX 8120 @4.5Ghz - CPU cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 240M Watercooling - Mobo: Asus M5A97Pro - GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Vapor-X @ 1200Mhz - Memory: Kingston Hyper X 16GBs DDR3 - Storage: Kingston SSD & Seagate Baracude HDD - PSU: Cooler Master V850W PSU- Case: Cooler Master Cosmost II -- Build Log old PC (HAF XB): 'the Cube': http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/36288-the-cube-cooler-master-haf-xb/ -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 Author This could turn out to be one hell of a sexy rig! Stoked for this build! Nice pictures with the toy soldiers and all ! Would love to see the final pics also be so nice and creative Stay tuned! Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 This is going to be so goood! Oh btw what are you taking these shots with? -Followed- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 Author This is going to be so goood! Oh btw what are you taking these shots with? -Followed- Using a 5D mark III and 50mm f/1.2 Lens I'm pretty disappointed with the lighting tbh, always busy in the afternoon so I cant do natural sunlight shot meanwhile if I do it at night , my 'workshop' lighting will be too yellow might drop at local ace today and buy some white lighting Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 16, 2013 Author Hint... Hint.... Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 17, 2013 dat bord | Contact Information | My Teamspeak : Austs1.gameservers.com:9334 | Steam: Iamtictac456 | My other aliases include Scruffy and Scruffy Biggems :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 17, 2013 Author dat bord I know yea... It took me 5 minutes to decide to buy it when I saw on the local forum its on limited sale already wasn't planning to do a socket upgrade Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 17, 2013 Hint... Hint.... <...logistics...> Hm, Canoga Park... smells like Caselabs? BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 17, 2013 Hm, Canoga Park... smells like Caselabs? Thought it was familiar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 17, 2013 Author Hm, Canoga Park... smells like Caselabs? Thought it was familiar Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 22, 2013 Author Major update in a few days! Commander Bly at work Also picking up more packages tomorrow from the post office Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 24, 2013 Author Ok as promised, I've spent most of my day yesterday assembling the case, had some minor issue but its fixed apparently I've mistakenly installed one of the back panel upside down and ended up unable to mount the side panel the case in the manual is matte black and they print the manual in black and white.... :rolleyes: I've a lot of goodies came in yesterday, not gonna flood you guys with plenty of product shoot photo pretty sure you can see the product photo in their website or any other build log Anyway here's the half assembled Caselabs SM8 Honestly I know I didnt choose the wrong case, this case has everything I want a case to be well built and that full Al and here's the fully assembled one, pardon me for the finger prints In the other hand I've received new package for my water cooling I'll be using a rigid tubing from primochill, the fittings will be all black from primo and bitspower and the tube will also be black though I'm still not sure whether this all black thing would work' I'll see how it goes if it doesnt look good I'll get some other color tubes anyway I'll be using a Di water for this time, I'm done with colored coolant staining my blocks The other thing that excites me the most other than the case is the reservoir man now I know Aquacomputer make some serious stuff, the quality of their reservoir is just outstanding and new CPU block for the highlight in the case Lastly, as I've said MORE STAR WARS Wanna share my love for keyboard as well, this thing just came in yesterday along with the watercooling stuff its a Korean custom keyboard with custom keyset This is just a few of my custom keyboard collection Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 24, 2013 i want that keyboard you know were i could maybe find one | Contact Information | My Teamspeak : Austs1.gameservers.com:9334 | Steam: Iamtictac456 | My other aliases include Scruffy and Scruffy Biggems :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 24, 2013 That keyboard looks amazing! please tell me where i could find one! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 24, 2013 Author i want that keyboard you know were i could maybe find one That keyboard looks amazing! please tell me where i could find one! Thanks! You can check his sub forum on Geekhack http://geekhack.org/index.php?board=148.0 or go http://gonskeyboardworks.com/ he has a couple different type of keyboards to custom, mine's one is 67g lubed MX blues go nuts Phenomenon - Project Blank - Pinky Promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 24, 2013 Mother of expensive keyboard, does it feed me or something? i5 4670k| Asrock H81M-ITX| EVGA Nex 650g| WD Black 500Gb| H100 with SP120s| ASUS Matrix 7970 Platinum (just sold)| Patriot Venom 1600Mhz 8Gb| Bitfenix Prodigy. Build log in progress Build Log here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/119926-yin-yang-prodigy-update-2-26-14/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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