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I got sumz of the lighting rigged up today as well as got some major components installed...
In the light, you can see what is actually in it...
But at night... the lights come out to play!
Check out the button..
I am going to try and find a warm day to paint (unlikely), so when I hit the panels up with some color I will post again.
Nice mate, that's basically what my rig looks like, lighting wise, until I get my W/C set up with UV green coolant.
I read that you got a 750 watter for the PSU, let me know how well that works will your vid cards when you get them, I just got a 750, same proc, dual 8800gt's, watercooling (exact stuff), and then the only differences are that my memory is ddr 2 1066 ocz, and board is the maximus, watercooled edition. Oh and I have dual 500gb drives.
I'm a little worried my PSU might not be powerful enough...
ALSO I'm going to try to use my C2D block, instead of spending another $50. DD's website says that the cooling is lowered by 5-10 degrees Celcius when switching to the new block.
I might just use a 240 and 120 radiator for the whole system. The only things being cooled atm are my mobo and cpu.. hopefully the gpu's next.
Great worklog so far, I'm looking forward to the rest!
I am running an 8800GTX, Q6600 and same mobo (DFI LANParty) plus water cooling on a 550W PSU and it works fine.
Yeah, for SLI I'll need more power. I read somewhere that the GT's are the most "green", everyone seems to care about that nowadays. My cards will use about 275 watts each. So 2x that and we get 550 right away.
Yeah you are right. I utilize around 450W of my 550W PSU, when I got SLI I am getting a 800-1000W PSU.
I'm praying that my rosewill 750 watter will do the trick now, I'm afraid!
It's not a super name brand... but I've had a 600watt one for over a year by them and it works like a charm for my setup now!
Got some new parts today and thought I would flaunt them.
There is the finished front of the case... FINALLY! Forgive the fingerprints :P
A little pic obscuring a few things... Such AS:
A brand new MC-TDX and 4GB of Crucial Ballistix Tracer!
And the best part about this DVD rom drive...
So all in all, today was a good day for Part Crysis. Now I just need my Video Cards and CPU and I can boot this thing!
Yay I love new tech. Can't wait to see this mod completed.
Well, I plan to do the paint when it dries up a little (HUGE storm in the NW US), but after that I won't be able to do much, holidays and rent and all... But when I can afford to finish it, it will be so worth it.
Okay, here are some pictures. I got a new D5 pump, I did some wiring changes, I got some HD coolers (thanks for the gear Antec! (dave)).
I also redid the paint on the top panel, and I think that it turned out really nice.
I just need to finish up the side panels, install the Proc and GPU, and the system is ready to go!
Here is the new paint:
Here is the front.
The insides in all their entirety:
The heart of the system:
very sexy! I have the core 2 block and I'm going to try to cool a quad core cpu... I hope it's okay, I just didn't want to shill out the extra $50 for what looks almost the same.
New hardware, nice. I wanted a D5 but it was a little out of my price range.
LOL, yep, I had to have the D5 because of the flow path. The nozzles go JUST where I need them to.
As for the video card, looking like I will be doing a single 8800GTS 320 in there for now, then in February a 9800GX2. Because of the pump, I cannot fit SLI. Also, the eVGA step up program is out of the question at this point becuase I can't be without a video card for 3 weeks lol.
And oh yes, the block is VERY pretty. It's not about looks though, the columns allow for more heat dissapation.
Got the solid side painted.
Comin' around the mountain...
Here is a shot of the plumbing.
Pumped with fluid.
And lit up!
Now I just need to wait to step up my 8800GTS and borrow my friends EXT hd to transfer DATA, and I am ready to go!
Looking good mate. Great work.
Thanks man! I am actually ditching the CF front. I am doing a whole new thing with it, I think it should look pretty good when all is said and done.
I still have to:
Use putty to shape the front panel
Paint the front panel
Clear Coat all Panels
Almost there, I need to finish it up by February 18th, so wish me luck!
Good luck lol.
I got some putty and sandpaper to clean up the front panel:
I am going to try out this really neat looking trim... it was pretty cheap and looked good.
And some paint... what is the masking tape for I wonder...
The rough edges:
Filling them in:
Lights off: Yes I fixed the waterblock!
Lights on:
Motion shot:
Comments and suggestions welcome!
Looks cool mate, I hope to have mine looking like that, except green coolant.
Yeah! Looks nice dude. Especially the colors!
I installed Vista on the system last night. I will post pics of the system in its "finished" state when I get home.
You dont say...
Installing windows with a PS2 keyboard :D
And enjoying my new system..
looks good, can't wait for my q6600 and water cooling. what temps are you getting?
My cpu is around 25 load, which is good, but not accurate. The waterblock I have is designed for quad cores, and the video card is not in the loop yet.
I will be doing all the benchmarks and final photo shoots when the final hardware is in it. Right now it is a bit of a franken PC.
Nice work. Looks great.
wow wow wow!!! Is that the RAM that is making the white glow, or did you put white LED's up in there? I LOVE the colors bro...great work!
I Believe that white ish glow is the UV CCFL lighting up the UV reactive RAM slots, cameras don't pick that stuff up so good, they are meant to be yellow and orange lol.
The RAM is Crucial Ballistix Tracers, which have White leds under the heat spreader to give it that look, pretty cool ey.
I knew what the RAM was lol, too overpriced for me lol. I know my camera shows UV colours up weird, pretty cool with the white LEDs though.
Thanks for the kind words guys.
Just wanted to let you know this project is on Hiatus. I just moved into my first House, so money is going to be tight for a few months. I am actually going to restart the project, I wanted to so it perfect, so I have to restart. I am going to get the chassis powercoated Gloss black, paint the front bezel gloss black as well.
I decided that the Crysis theme wasn't working, so I am going to make the computer match my samsung monitor.
Anyways, I'll be bumping this from time to time to keep it from dropping off the list.
Does anyone know a good website where I can buy whole sheets of carbon fiber (stiff), and at a low price?, and a good place in portland where I can get some inexpensive powdercoating done?
The carbon fiber would be best if it was able to be custom cut. The sheet I need would have to be around 30x30 inches, which costs a TON of money, but I would only need about a third of the material itself.
Thanks in advance!
Bumping it back up.
I won 5th place at the PDXLAN mod competition, my computer will be featured in CPU magazine as well :)
I'll get pics up as soon as I have them myself, I finished it the night before PDXLAN, so the only pics of it finished are in CPU magazines hands, so I am waiting on them at this point.
Great job man. Can't wait to see your next mod ;).
By the way everyone. Just wanted to show you something...
If anyone has the June? issue of CPU Magazine, the one with the TRS80 in it.. you may recognize a familiar name. I dont have a scanner so I can't show you, but I think you should pick it up :)
Congratz buddy.
Too bad we don't get CPU mag in Australia.
