All looks good apart from the paint on the sides.
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All looks good apart from the paint on the sides.
I figured out what I did wrong with the paint.
I forgot about the silver undercoat. The blue paint is a flat blue, and you are supposed to spray it thinly over the silver undercoat. I layed down the silver undercoat, then laid the blue down too heavily, so that the silver undercoat did not show through.
At least I know that it will be easy to fix.
Thats good, just sand back and re-spray.
I had the urge to finish this up, so I went ahead and dipped into the savings to order a sheet of carbon fiber vinyl. It should be arriving in a few days, and I will update at that point. I will be getting home from work in about an hour, and I plan to finish painting my panels at that point.
And I finished making the front bezels actual form. I still have to clean it up and prepare it for wrapping in carbon fiber vinyl... This is gonna look sick.
Just finished up the panel for the bezel.
Here is how it is mounted to the faceplate. I will be cleaning this up, possibly with some bondo, or I may just wrap it with the carbon fiber.
And here is what the whole thing looks like.
I also fixed up ONE of the side panels today... I don't know WHAT happened, but it came out fine tonight... check it.
Paint looks much better now.
Thanks man! The case is really coming together, I can't wait to get my power supply tonight! I used up the last of my paint on the window panel so that it would be ready when my trim arrives tomorrow, so I need to get more paint in order to finish the opposite panel.
I will post pictures of my PC Power and Cooling 750 Watt Quad Silencer tonight when I recieve it!
MY PSU arrived!!!!
The box is a thing a beauty.. simple and sweet...
Look at this thing!
Holy Powerful PSU batman!
Matches the paint... sweet!
Hiding the wires...
And finally, here it is installed... its freaking beautiful, can't wait to power it on.
That's a lot of cables lol.
Holy Powerful PSU batman! I lol'd so hard
Nice job! I can't wait for you to power it on either!
mines 850!!! haha, still nice though :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dexaroni
the paint looks a bunch better +rep.
Thanks for all the kind words guys!
Yeah, this thing does have a ton of cables. I especially like the abundance of SATA connectors (6), as well as the 4 pci-e plugs, 2 six pins and 2 eight pins for pci-e 2.0 power.
The unit really is very powerfull, the specs show a max load of 825 watts, an 85 percent efficiency (which means it uses most of it's power), and it stays cool and quiet.
As for the paint, yeah, I would have to agree with you there. I am getting my window kit tonight, I have some black gloss trim coming in that I intend to sleeve on there, I need to sleeve one of the floppy power plugs on the PSU itself as well since it will be in plain sight powering the SLI configuration.
Solid work there dude.
+rep
Can't wait to see the SLi setup in action
Thanks man!! I can't wait to see the SLI in action either, I will probably be putting a pair of the newer revision 8800GTS in there (the 65nm one scheduled to come out soon).Quote:
Originally Posted by simon275
I got my trim last night, and the install went OK, it was a little tougher than I had hoped it would be. I got all of my wires sleeved, and they look great. I will get some more pics tonight once I clean all the excess caulking off of the window.
one thig i noticed is that your side panels are a little warped/bent up, you planning on reinforcing them or straightnening them somehow?
cool other than that and the front looks very cool
Eh, that was a problem I was hoping no one would notice :D.
I am going to see if I can salvage this one, if not, I intend to order another from Antec and then cut a new hole in it, because this one is just weak as hell, and kinda bent up. Hopefully I can clean it up, if not, I will be replacing it. Luckily, I can still finish the rest of the PC without a side panel :)
I have some updates, a LOT actually. A lot of stuff came in so I got some work done.
First I decided to clean up the window.
I think it looks a lot better now, I bought 5 feet of trim, and it was all wavy and looked like crap, this fixes that problem for sure. It also removed all of the bends and dents. Here is a before and after pic for comparison:
Before:
After:
Next I sleeved the wires in the system, the switch, the SLI power connectors, and the LED lasers. Here are some pics of that:
And of course I had to wire up the switches:
I grabbed a bottle of Fluid XP Phantom Black, my favorite brand of coolant, but I still want to try out Dangerdens PC Chill.
And finally here is the front panel, I haven't applied the carbon fiber, so this is NOT the final look. But what you do see here is the finished layout and shape.
I ordered a Sound Blaster Xfi Fatal1ty Pro edition, so I can't wait to get that and take a look at it.
I'll update the thread when the carbon fiber and sound card arrive!
Teh Carbon Fiber vinyl came in today. I got it from rally graphics. Really good price and speedy shipping.
Here is a picture of the vinyl itself, really nice stuff, should look great!
Does nobody care about Part Crysis anymore? :P
WELL START CARING... because I present to you...
Some carbon fiber crap.
Check it.
I think it turned out pretty good... what do you think?
Yeah it did turn out pretty good. I was wondering what you were gonna use the carbon for , and what you were going to do to the front due to it being all scratched.
Hah, that front was NOT going to be put into the mod looking like that. Those pics were mockups of what was going to come up, then the pics of it all scratched up were me sanding it so the vinyl would stick well. I had intended to put CF on it all along!
Well either way it looks great. Looks like my Logitech G7 lol.
sweet job man, looks professional as far as i'm concerned. +rep.
I bet it looks even better in real life ;) Photo's arent good voor CF.
My Xfi came in today. Here are some pics for your pleasure.
Honestly, I hate this guy (Fatal1ty). I have a friend who met him and said he was a spawn camping jerk at E3, he was rude, and as far as I can tell, he seems like a punk kid who plays too many video games, and people act like if you use his hardware you will be a better gamer. Regardless, I bought "his" card.
I mean... it IS a nice card. Its a nice black color with gold accents, and the sound quality cannot be beat in this price point. The fact that I only payed 60 bucks for it may have had something to do with it's purchase as well...
This is Fatal1tys logo... I can't do much about it... However, I am considering changing out the red LED that throws off my case theme for a blue LED, but I am not sure if that is worth voiding my warranty... I am going to make sure it works well before I mess with it.
The cool thing about this card is that it has 64 megs of onboard RAM, in addition to (correct me if I'm wrong) a 200mhz processor, which is some hardcore tech for a soundcard. What it's for is buffering all the sound files into the card so that it uses up less system ram and less of the PCI bus, which is good in my book. Here is the "XFI Ram Module (X-Ram)"... I think it's just a hunk of plastic and the um... RAM modules to the bottom left of it are the X-RAM, but whatever.
I also ordered a 22" Samsung monitor today... should be here by friday, can't wait to boot up TF2 in High Def!
Nice, new tech, can't go past that.
Nice card and an even better monitor:)
After looking at that PCB again I would say the RAM is the two chips directly above the heatsink. From what I remember from seeing other pics of that board that "plastic chunk" has a cable in put on it allowing you to attach a Fata1ity faceplate/control center for the sound card (volume, treble, bass, headphones, mic etc...)
Yeah, like I said you would think the RAM modules would be the RAM, but leave it to creatives er... creative marketing team to mess up definitions.
The cable for the front plate is that big long connector on the right edge of the card. That plastic hunk just houses the LED and the Fatal1ty logo, I realized this as there are only 4 leads going into it, there are no traces on the board itself.
Header attached courtesy of imagispire
Awesome header, looks great.
Yes it does, thank you VERY much jdbnsn!
As for the project, it is temporarily on halt due to funds, but on monday, my 22 inch monitor is arriving so I will be sure to get some pics of Crysis running on that.
I am also immediately blowing my paycheck on a new load of parts, let me lay down what I am getting for you guys.
500GB WD Caviar SATA
4GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2800
ASUS 20X SATA DVD Burner
2x OK Gear UV Blue SATA Cables
Keytronic Classic U2 Keyboard
G5 Mouse
Dangerden MC-TDX 775
Thermochill PA 120.2 Radiator
I am also buying some more paint to finish up the side, as well as some clear coat to make it nice and glossy.
Oh noez! I had to weigh my options, and I got a promotion at work to a Case Manager, so I won't be able to get any work done all next week! Sorry if anyone suffers from withdrawls, I promise you the wait will be worth it.
Withdrawals ::twitch:: I don't suffer from withdrawals
Congrats on the promotion.
Congrats on the promotion, hope it doesnt keep you away from your mod for too long.
Thanks guys!
I intend to order all my new parts on most likely tuesday (as soon as I can cash my check), so they should arrive around that friday or possibly monday. As for painting, I will probably fix the paint on the window tonight and get it ready for a new coat, I need to pick up some more chrome, some more blue, and then I need to hit it all with some clear coat so that it doesn't chip.
Sounds good, keep us posted.
Well, I am going to go all out with the paint on this, I figure why spend 2000 on hardware then half ass the paint?
I intend to get an airbrush and get some custom paint mixed up and spray a nice Candy Metallic Blue with a clear coat over that onto it.
Does anyone know of a good online store to order lacquer paint?
And the updates have arrived!
I got a new set of toys from the guys at DD:
PA 120.2 Radiator, MC-TDX waterblock, and a free bottle of PC Chill!
Threw the mounts on the mobo:
And I got the sexy new radiator mounted up front!
And here are some new parts I got to increase the pleasure of my current system, as well as my new one:
Keytronics Keyboard:
Samsung 226BW Monitor:
Wewt!
Aww, that's the monitor I want so bad lol. I have a Swiftech Apogee GTX on my DFI mobo.
