Zak's Hevy Plex SLB!

[Defyant]

Zak's my 8yr old son and best freind! in amongst all the modding i endulge my self i promised to take some time out last school hols and share some Dad and Zak time modding him his own PC.

Zak had an ageing antec superlanboy, altho it wasnt a bad looking pc!had all the bling a 8yr old needs! Zak had asked if we could make hime somthing new :)

So! heres what we made together! it was a great way to spend a week and together we came up with some pretty cool ideas.

Zak's Hevy Plex super Lan boy.


I decided a new case was needed for what we had planned and a good supply of 6mm thick cut to size plex panels and tubes!


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Next was to make the custom res's for this mod.

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cut and prep the side plex panel, heax head bolts are use for an industrial look.

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A top window is added using the same method


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and the window side is done the same way to match

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[MrSlacker]

looking good so far. he is a very lucky 8 year old.

[Defyant]

It was decided that would ditch the door in favour of somthing that would fit in with the rest of the mod.

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Some Extra lighting was added to help light up the side tanks

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Next was to bolt up the rad/fans and add the powerbus.

Using RCA type multiport to supply power to the fan, this powerbus will also supply power to what will be this mods main feature.


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The main feature of the case will be custom made light leads that will supply light to the plex panels.

Custom leads have to be made for this.i call these,

Defyant Style Flex leads

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the leads will plug into the rear power bus and can be used in a "hot swappable" way.

Double adaptors can be added to supply power to more leads.

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Zak now has a feature of lighting effects he can change as he desires.


Next was to move onto an idea i used in HPR2 but this time i let Zak choose the choice of material to use.

Zak chose Mirror flex panel!

First thing was to cut a new facia panel

As can be seen also testing the "full blue Look" with his matrix orbital.

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[Defyant]

Mother Board Madness!

I'd used this mod on HPR2 effectively.

Using a template made from more "seethru" plex material i made a template for what will be Zak's mirror plate mother board stealth cover!




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simple scoring method was used to bend the mirrow plex and hot glue was used to reinforce the inner scorings.


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Also a matching "dummy back panel" was made.

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Fitting up the cover and back panel


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wire sleeving!

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At this point i'd relised i'd need to add some power to supply is X800 toxic card.

a molex was modded and added to the side dummy wall.

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While the back wall was out, i'd also decided to add a Vent to the top of the stealth cover.


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bolt it all back in add the wireing. starting to take shape!

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Next was to add the plumbing.... Getting this to look "just right" was a must! as this was going to act, with lighting as the main internal feature of the mod.


some nice "flowing" curves were added to the plumbing...

Next was also to rip the platic protective coating off the mirror plex!

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We were impressed!!

a super clean looking area with flowing curves and sharp lines.

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[Defyant]

Light Moods!

time had come to let Zak play with his new toys!


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With a single LED directing light thru the back of the case , the mirror pansl do thyr job and refelct light back onto the clear water tubes!

the effect is almost stunning.

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Lights Out!


Next was time for a lights out test :)


the first light display id of the outer case using the Blue LEDS and the iner being lit with a red. Cool outer with a hot engine room

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Next was some cooool internals with a hot exterior


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Some Diff Res effects, all cool water or water thats cool at the bottem and hot uptop!
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The combo's are endless and to this day Zak still has fun swapping and changing giving the mod some longentivity, wich isnt easy when your dealing with 8yrolds!

heres a shot of Zaks full setup with matching monitor


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and one more of the Happy chappy himself :)

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Was the best week a father ,son could have cant wait to do it again :)

[MrSlacker]

hey you wonna addopt me, i promise, we'll have a lot of father-son mods! ;)
great work! how much of it did Zak do? :p

[Defyant]

hehe thanx mate :)

Zak actually made 2 of the flex leads, a cool little cover for his rear rad fan, polished all the edges on the plex panels, did a good share of sanding ...but more than that he was just there! 90% of the time listening and talking....... i think i actually got to learn more about my sons likes dislikes school interests even about a girl freind!!!! in that one week than 8yrs!...sounds like a corny movie dosn't it...perhaps right there is really my greatest accomplishment yet!

[X child]

WOW! That's awsome that you can share something you like to do with your son. I'm attempting the same with my 7 year old. Great mod as usual and it's great to see you spreading the mod around.

Where did you get the mirror flex from? Online or hardware store? I've been looking for something like that for a while but wasn't sure it existed.

[Frakk]

Defyant im happy for you :D im sure you will have more of these weekends together. unfortunately im past the age when my dad could show me cool stuff, now its the stage where we argue about how to do things around the house. he wants to do it his way or himself just like me, and the two never matches :D however I got him a new hsf and he was carefully watching when I put it in and it was good times. Now i can imagine a whole weekend like that :D anyways the mod looks good and he must be very happy.

[Cymae]

awww I wish my dad'd do something like that with me, thats so cool! Unfortunately, my dad doesn't mod, and im a newbie myself :(

[timmer]

Well atleast my desktop is better than a kid's thats half my age. Wait, no it isnt.

I'm sure you have a very happy kiddo.

[Cymae]

i agree, you're kid's got a trippier mod that alot of us old people.

[Zeus]

hehe, how cute...cymae calls us old people

[Cymae]

well in comparison to an eight year old boy!

[Zeus]

I know, just razzing ya

[inspiredbyasphalt]

two thumbs up for the case and ill be his mates are green with envy that hes got a cool dad to make him something that great (well come to think of it im green with envy...!)

[Xato]

Lets go roll him for the case.

[Xbrid]

i Q. what waterblock is that on the CPU?

[inspiredbyasphalt]

Lets go roll him for the case.

OH YEA!!!

[Defyant]

thanx heeps again guys :)

The CPUater Block is a locallyade block By Cathar, its the G4 model, thyr considered one of th best, Cathar has also just released a Fill silver base version of this block if you have a spare 300au :)

[Xbrid]

Cathar has also just released a Fill silver base version of this block if you have a spare 300au :)
WOW! :eek: what a bargin!!! those thing must sell like crazy!!! :D :D
Sorry, but it think i'll pass on that one. :D

[jonopaul01]

Very Nice mod. Like the LEDs.

[Mr.Guvernment]

incredible! great to spend time with the kids and do an awsome mod!