Project | White | Finished!

[Oskarw90]

Hi guys!

This is a build log about a build i started about two months ago.
The goal with the build is to create a clean looking computer for both gaming and 3D graphics which im currently studying.
This build will go in the color scheme, Green, White, Black.
Featuring a Plastidipped motherboard, watercooling using rigid acrylic tubing, sleeved PSU and a delided processor.
Check Pictures for more information.
 
Components:
MSI GTX 780
Intel i7 4770k Delid
Gigabyte G1. Sniper m5
Corsair Dominator Platinum
White Fractal Design 630W PSU
Fractal design  Define R4 White
I will be watercooling using two 280mm radiators
 
To Do List:
Sleeving the PSU (DONE)
Plasti-dip motherboard (DONE)
Choose watercooling parts (DONE)
Install watercooling (DONE)
Create custom Chassi mod (DONE)
Delid Processor  (DONE)
Sponsors:



 
Corsair is sponsoring this build with Two neutron GTX 120Gb SSD Drives,
Dominator Platinum RAM and all around of their awesome AF 140mm Fans.
Aquatuning is sponsoring this build with a Alphacool 280mm radiator
 
Sleeva.se provided the sleeving for this build

Apperance Goals:
I am going for a really clean look, with a White motherboard and with bent acrylic tubing with lime green coolant.
Cables will be kept to a minimum and will as much as possible be hid behind my motherboardtray.
HDDs will be mounted behind the motherboardplate, which i got a mod for.
The Neutron SSDs will be mounted visible in the chassi.
I am using a cylindrical reservoir, which also will be mounted visible


Updates:

I finally Finished my project!
The sleeving was harder to get straight then what i thought! since my Sataports are filled up there are almost no room for a clean run
But i'll let the images speak for themself!

Big Thanks to Corsair, Sleeva.se and Aquatuning for their support in this Project! you made it Awesome!













Thanks again! Now it's time to start planning for my next project which i hope will be finished by Dreamhack Summer 2014! it will be a VERY special one, so stay tuned!


Best Regards
Oskar Wallin

[Oskarw90]

Updates and picture heavy parts:

I will post one or two pictures from each update i make in this first post, to keep it living and updated.

 

 

Keep yourself updated!

I will convert some entries from my other buildlog in Swedish and get you guys some more pictures from each stage!

The UPS elf came with lovely presents from the Corsair Santa this morning!

I benched them using Aida64 and im getting ~30.000MB/s read/write/copy

I must say, this is the first Dominator Platinums i've had and oh lord do they feel good! You could feel the quality!

Thank you Corsair! Thanks to you two guys for making it possible! (you know who you are )

 

 

Okey guys! Almost finished, due to some Bad luck (Shitty handling), you have to disregard my unsleeved cables to the graphicscard until i can get a hold of more sleeve and a new connector...

Watercooling is finished, all tubed up, Running windows off two neutron gtx 120ssd striped, awesome benchmarking preformance

I'll let the pictures do the talking here. (remember that this isn't final look. I have a couple of more cables to manage and i wanna light it up properly for beautyshots.

 

 

The fans might not be optimized for radiator mounting, but they are dead quiet and keeps my CPU at 1.3V and 40 degrees under full load! and they look awesome! 

 

Thanks for the encouragement guys!

I was thinking i might show you guys a little Pic of how it looks right now, ready to be assembled tomorrow!!

Tomorrows plan:

Resleeve a couple of cables that i didn't get happy with.

Mount my hardware in the chassi.

Start the bending of all the hardtubes for the watercooling.

(Basicly i want it to be done by tomorrow  )

 

Sorry Guys for the extreme long wait for an update! 

All my watercooling stuff has arrived! 

Two 280 mm Radiators, One slim and one 50mm.

Im using a cylindrical res from EK and a 4.0 Pump.

For CPU block im using a Acrylic top Copper block from EK aswell.

 

My new extension to the motherboardtray is done, and fills out the void the HDD cages left pretty nicely ( more pictures on that shortly)

 

As for my sidepanel, the hole had been cut out and im just waiting for the paint to dry until i can start fitting the window!

 

All my corsair Products are starting to arrive, and i must say those LED fans look incredible, i'll do a full feature update on these, SSDs, together with the Dominator platinum memories once they arrive aswell! 

Alot more pictures will come either tonight or tomorrow during the day, but for now this is what i can get you!

 

IMG_8166 by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

IMG_8139 by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

 

IMG_8136 by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

 

 

I used a special rubber based paint called plastidip to paint my motherboard.

You really have to do some careful masking to get it right and even then, it's a risky thing to do.

I think it came out good, right?

Masking by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

First Coating by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Second coating by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Peeling by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Painting Capacitors by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Painted Capacitors by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Overview by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

Here is a chain of pictures from my delid of the processor

I did the stresstests with Prime95, Aida 64 and monitored the temperatures with HW monitor,

you can see my before and after temperatures below.

Före temp Delid Haswell by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Core #0: 85C

Core #1: 84C

Core #2: 81C

Core #3: 75C

Core temps are quite high and uneven at 1.264v (1.284 with offset)

Now that i have something to start from, i'll begin.

Here is the processor before the delid.

Start 4770k by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

I start working the corners with the blade, being really careful not to touch the surfacemounted components on the processorns left side (VRMs?)

börja med hörn by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

When i finished the corners, going all the way through the silicon, i started working on the sides. put pressure on the blade but do not "Saw" just a wigling motion will do the trick.. be careful!

Delid efter hörn by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

When i managed to get through the silicon, the IHS just falls of by itself. If it's still stuck, try twisting it a little.

innan rengöring by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Scrape of all the remaining silicone with something plastic. i used a creditcard. Clean everything properly with Isopropanol 98%

rengjord by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

I used CLU as the media between the IHS and chip.

CLU applicerat by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Spread it out, by recommendation from the manufacturers. it's HIGHLY conductive, so keep it away from the surface mounted stuff!

CLU utspridd by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Here's the processor delidded in the socket. Remembered to clean the bottom of the processor incase i got some grease on it from handling it.

Monterad by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Here is eveything mounted, i didn't have to use glue since the bracket will keep the IHS firmly on the processor. i just had to be careful putting it back in the same position as it was before.

Monterad IHS by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

The delid took me about 45 minutes!

After temps:

Efter temp Delid Haswell by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

Core #0: 59C

Core #1: 60C

Core #2: 63C

Core #3: 60C

this is alot cooler then before and you can see that all the cores are much more even!

[JAKEBAB]

wow what how did u make the pcb white?

[beebskadoo]

[AlwaysFSX]

Motherboard looks like clay

[Freaky_spider]

how the hell did you paint the PCB???? i WANT to know!!!!!!!

[Oskarw90]

how the hell did you paint the PCB???? i WANT to know!!!!!!!

 

 

Motherboard looks like clay

 

 

wow what how did u make the pcb white?

 

 

Thanks guys, Since u guys are asking, i'll show you some pics from the painting process.

 

I updated my second post with pictures from the motherboard painting, to save people from loading all the pictures, i am removing them here.

I basicly took a couple of hours removing all the heatsinks and carefully masking everything. 

 

When everything was masked, i used a special rubberbased paint called Plastidip.

it took 3 coatings to get the result i wanted and from what i've seen from the sensors, it's only affected the load temperature by 2 degrees celsius on motherboard.

[Freaky_spider]

 

Thanks guys, Since u guys are asking, i'll show you some pics from the painting process.

 

 

Masking by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

 

First Coating by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

 

Second coating by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

 

Peeling by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

 

Painting Capacitors by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

 

Painted Capacitors by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

 

Overview by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

I basicly took a couple of hours removing all the heatsinks and carefully masking everything. 

 

When everything was masked, i used a special rubberbased paint called Plastidip.

it took 3 coatings to get the result i wanted and from what i've seen from the sensors, it's only affected the load temperature by 2 degrees celsius on motherboard.

 

ive asked this question before and people have said plastidip but they said they didnt know if it would work....

SO gonna do this when i get around making my ultimate build!!!

[AlwaysFSX]

That's insane.... Good to know how you did this so now I can whenever I get a motherboard worth painting

[jameshumphries47]

I really like the look of this keep us updated

[LonliestofAll]

-snip-

Wow!!! Just.... Wow!!!

[JAKEBAB]

 

Thanks guys, Since u guys are asking, i'll show you some pics from the painting process.

 

I basicly took a couple of hours removing all the heatsinks and carefully masking everything. 

 

When everything was masked, i used a special rubberbased paint called Plastidip.

it took 3 coatings to get the result i wanted and from what i've seen from the sensors, it's only affected the load temperature by 2 degrees celsius on motherboard.

 

So Sexy!!

[hiyayhi]

Wow this is awesome!

Insta follow but could you please try to not center your writing and stuff? I don't know why but it just ticks something off inside me...

[legopc]

wow... just wow

[delet my acc pls]

Painting PCBs?

[Oskarw90]

Thanks everyone

Wow this is awesome!

Insta follow but could you please try to not center your writing and stuff? I don't know why but it just ticks something off inside me...

Haha, i actually did everything aligned left, but it looked so boring  i'll move it back if people likes it better!


 

[atrash]

That looks pretty amazing. I can only guess how awesome this build is going to be. Potential BOTW here..

[TicTac]

Wow that motherboard looks awesome man nice job

[d33g33]

Awesome, awesome...

 

I bet you weren't even a little bit nervous painting that mobo

[BaconMan]

And the best bit about the motherboard paint is that you can peel it all off! Very nice build, can't wait to see it done!

[snoopy82481]

Looks good so far. I don't think I have the sack to delid my cpu. I would probably screw something up and have to spend another 250 bucks I don't have.

[kazuu91]

Really love what you did to that motherboard. I wouldn't have the guts to do that

(Antar att detta bygge hamna på SweClockers i något skede, om jag nu inte missat det) 

[Oskarw90]

Looks good so far. I don't think I have the sack to delid my cpu. I would probably screw something up and have to spend another 250 bucks I don't have.

 

 

Really love what you did to that motherboard. I wouldn't have the guts to do that

(Antar att detta bygge hamna på SweClockers i något skede, om jag nu inte missat det) 

Tack! den ligger redan på Sweclockers under samma namn

 

And the best bit about the motherboard paint is that you can peel it all off! Very nice build, can't wait to see it done!

 

 

Awesome, awesome...

 

I bet you weren't even a little bit nervous painting that mobo

 

 

Wow that motherboard looks awesome man nice job

 

 

That looks pretty amazing. I can only guess how awesome this build is going to be. Potential BOTW here..

Thanks guys! Keeps my spirit up!

All my watercoolingparts are coming in this week or beginning of next week! Expect a few updates during the weekend.

I will probably do a test mounting of all the components in the chassi! (not watercooling  yet though)

[Oskarw90]

Sorry guys for my bad activity on my buildlog!

My watercooling equipment was delayed and only arrived here this monday, while i was at vacation in Paris.

Im currently leaktesting everything, but what i can tell you is that it's Awesome.

Im using a 4.0 EK-DCP pump, A EK CQS Acrylic waterblock and a regular 200mm Cylindrical Reservoir!

I also finished my full cover Motherboardtray and im getting ready to start assembling everything pretty soon. 

My package from corsair is arriving around Christmas, so i'll use the days between christmas and newyears to finish my build off and present the final result!

I will update you guys with some beautyshots of the watercooling gear tomorrow!


Thanks!

Oskar Wallin

[Oskarw90]

Sorry Guys for the extreme long wait for an update! 

All my watercooling stuff has arrived! 

Two 280 mm Radiators, One slim and one 50mm.
Im using a cylindrical res from EK and a 4.0 Pump.
For CPU block im using a Acrylic top Copper block from EK aswell.

 

My new extension to the motherboardtray is done, and fills out the void the HDD cages left pretty nicely ( more pictures on that shortly)

 

As for my sidepanel, the hole had been cut out and im just waiting for the paint to dry until i can start fitting the window!

 

All my corsair Products are starting to arrive, and i must say those LED fans look incredible, i'll do a full feature update on these, SSDs, together with the Dominator platinum memories once they arrive aswell! 



Alot more pictures will come either tonight or tomorrow during the day, but for now this is what i can get you!

 

IMG_8166 by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

IMG_8139 by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr

 

 

IMG_8136 by Oskar Wallin, on Flickr