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Hi everyone!

My first post here and what's a better way to start than a worklog? :D

This build was finished around nine months ago, but here's a short retro worklog.. Here's a photo of the finished build for starters:

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Specs are nothing special - 3570K @ 4.4GHz, Maximus IV Gene-Z/Gen3, 16GB RAM, HD5850 @ 888MHz, Strider 750W and 120GB Vertex 3. Still fast enough and pretty silent considering it's an open-air case.

Anyway, back to start.. Build started with a huge sheet of 3mm aluminium, some 5mm aluminium and jigsaw. Some cutting later I got bunch of parts. Here they are mostly taped together just the test how it looks like:

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After that I cut and glued some L-profile into the sidepanels - these will hold the shell in place.

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Bending the shell was probably one of the hardest things in this project.. Meter long sheet of 1.5mm was hand bent to create shell for the case. I even made small mistake and had to move other bend some 5mm. However, I'm very happy with the result!

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Then it was time to start building IO-panel with some old hardware. The side fan enclosure was later dropped since I wanted to mount Aquaero 5's display there instead.

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Most of the warm air exhausts from the top so I built a custom grille there.

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With most parts ready it was time for the boring part - filling and sanding the chassis. This took forever to do and I even repainted it since I wasn't completely happy with it.

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At this point Ivy Bridge was released and I got rest of the parts for this system too. If someone is wondering why I'm using P67 board with IB the answer is simple - I got the board very cheap! :D

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Stealing some power from another system.. :p Had to update BIOS for full Ivy Bridge support too.

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And here comes the best part! Finally installing components in the case!

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But still some more work to do, especially with sleeving. For that I got a nice packet from Nils:

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This time I went with heatshrinkless sleeving.. IMO looks much better than heatshrinks.

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At this point I was slightly rushing to get it all together for Assembly Summer ´12 LAN-party. Got it all together in the end anyway and it survived just fine roadtrip to the party! Here's some photos from the ASM'12 and the mostly finished system:

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Some final photos too:

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I've been using this case now for around nine months and it has been great. Doesn't even gather dust as much as you could imagine and is reasonably quiet - pump in the Kühler 620 is usually the loudest component.

There's still some things I could improve or do differently, but I'm saving those for a complete rebuild. If you have comments and/or constructive criticism, I'd be interested to hear those! :D

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Wow man this is really cool!

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Just WOW. This is a piece of art!

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It's really awsome. I like that open case solution!

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Awesome, great metalwork... this should be featured on the stream. You should do this for a living if you aren't already.

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Thanks guys! :D

@ Tomislav Matic, Case modding for living? I wish I could do that!

@ Samdb, yes, it's a custom motherboard cover. Made it from 1mm aluminium - in fact it's cut from an old Lian Li sidepanel.. And mounted with 12mm standoffs.

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This is amazing! I really hope you get showcased on the live stream.

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Absolutely stunning. Incredible.

I would pay lots and lots of money for someone to make me one of those. You could easily make some serious cash here.

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Turned out well man awesome job :P

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Wow, wow wow wow wow wow, this is....amazing...I am just...speechless. Good job man.

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Dude that is so baller, you win one internetz :-)

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Thats mad! One of the nicest looking scratch builds I've ever seen. I wish I the time and money to do that

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HOLY BAJESUS !!!! one question you're not scare of other people might take part of it ?

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Holy shit... Mind blown Just mindbogelingly beautiful. How is that even possible to do by hand?

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Thank you everyone, much appreciated!

HOLY BAJESUS !!!! one question you're not scare of other people might take part of it ?

Not really.. LAN-parties in Finland are reasonably safe - it's extremely rare that something is stolen.

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I think I'm in love..

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This is awesome. Gets my vote of Build log of the week. :)

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I love it!

If there was something I would have done differentely, it would have been the litlle display, it somehow just looks like it doesn't belong there.

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WOW... just WOW....If this doesn't get build of the week, I'll steal Linus' cats...

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