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congrats!
Congrats on geting published!! :up:
A very nice OC mate, congratz on the mag feature also, very cool :D.
Thanks very much guys :):up:, I'm still stoked to see a mod of mine in a mag lol :D:banana:.
May as well use this moment to let you all know what I should be up to in the coming months.
All this idle time I have since finishing it is making me eat & smoke too much so I'm getting fat & unfit so it's time to get my bum to a gym or start another mod I'm weighing 240lbs & want to get down to 210 so thats either a hefty amount of sawing/filing/sanding to be done or a month of daily gym sessions or half & half, it would be cheaper & more fun & constructive to get a load of aluminium & mod so I'm leaning more towards doing a mod, have the rematch with my first scratch build done asap but without rushing it (something I've learnt along the way do not rush a mod) so I can do a new original next year :D.
I do have the majority of a rematch with my first scratch designed, so shouldn't be too far off before I get into it, only trouble is I think I cracked the best air cooling layout possible with the air cube so any future mods will have to be better or at least match the performance of it.
The only way I'll beat the air cube performance wise is by going with faster louder fans if I stick with air which I want to for the Lian-Li X2000 alike (180mm silverstone penetrator's spring to mind) so I'll need to come up with a good sound & vibration dampening solution or a good fan controller, be more of a challenge to sound proof it :D.
Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to mix up designing & checking out more mods here TBCS as I've not done so for a while & this is my favourite modding community :), guess it's because it's a pure concentrated modding forum, I've grown to really like bit-tech since signing up there but this just feels like home for modding to me :):up:.
Sorry this took so long, I had to clean the jealousy off of my keyboard before I could type it: CONGRATULATIONS.
Excellent end product, you deserve it.
Congrats man!
Hi blue & billygoat hehe :) thanks mates I was going to get started on a remake of my first scratch build but it's being postponed for a bit, according to the mag article the prizes I won was.
Fractal design newton r2 650w modular psu
Fractal design define r2 case
Biostar TA870+ motherboard which supports the six core AMD cpu
4gb ddr3 corsair dominator 1600mhz c8
So all it needs to make a complete system is a cpu, optical drive, possibly a sound card, possibly a tv card & the rest I have spare sat in boxes.
So I'll make this my first forum displayed pre-made case mod, on bit-tech's own review of the case they say it is pretty poor on cooling but good on everyhing else so that'll be the first thing I focus on improving & I'll get a better idea of what to do to it when I get it, to me it looks quite a nice case inside & out so I'll be careful & hopefully tasteful on how I mod it.
Looking forward to doing my first case mod on a forum with parts I have not bought woohoo :D, I'll give it my best though, not a rush job :).
Currently in the design process for my Lian-Li x2000 alike rematch Just doing a few hours here & there & figured a nice simple way to make my own pci/io back expansion piece which I shared the sketchup file on bit-tech, it includes a standard ATX & XL-ATX, it's a simple piece made from 3 layers so no complicated bending needed.
I believe it's one of those sooo simple ideas that no one thinks of it lol :D.
The sketchup 7 file is here.
http://www.mediafire.com/?zilaf6qd6cjzicy
Thought I'd share this simplised pci back piece I made in google sketchup 7, I seen a solid billet pci back piece on bit-tech recently & was inspired me to make this & I'll be doing these in all my upcoming cases.
Took precise measurements from a good Lian-Li one & made a layered version which would be easy to make, for it to hold together it would just need cutting, drilling, countersinking & tapping & use small countersunk bolts or even sticking together.
The idea is 3 layers.
First layer that attaches to the case would be 1mm sheet aluminium with a 5mm gap for mounting holes.
Middle layer 12mm acrylic which both sides attach to with either tapped holes or thread inserts for expansion cards.
Final layer would be 2mm aluminium the one with the slots cut out.
Thought why not share, I think this could put an end to salvaging a main part for scratch builds :).
Here is what I have been busy designing over about a month doing bits here & there, then recently finished it up when my internet was bad for nearly a week, vents & other bits will be added when I'm actually making it as my sketchup skills are more limited than my practical skill, but I have the basic structoral form of what I want to make so I have the specs at hand as a good guide.
This was going to be a rematch with my first scratch build & still is but with more flair & a steeper challenge as I attempt to lose the squareness of my cases :D, I know making a square box is easy to me now so if I stuck with square cases there would be minimal challenge for me so wouldn't be learning anything new, don't get me wrong building a perfectly square case is not as easy as some might imagine especially the first time with no previous experience but when you've done it once or twice it gets really straight forward & easy.
Anyway it's going to cost me about £100 more than my last case for aluminium because I'm using a range from 1mm sheet to 4mm sheet & various flat bars & angle bars, I'll need to buy a 12" disc sander so I can make perfect joints & get perfect edges, I've worked out the cost & it's pretty scary compared to my previous cases.
£220 for aluminium with vat & delivery if using sheets :(, but about £80 to £100 if only using bars :).
£50 for plastic with vat & delivery
£30 round about for high tensile bolts & bits.
so £300 or £200 for absolute basics & this is going fully diy.
£50 upto £200 for finishing (paint or powdercoat or anodise or a mix of all 3)
£70 for 10 Enermax UCTB12 T.B.Silence fans or could re-use some I already have but fans keep evolving to be nice & quiet with enough airflow & nice looking which is why I'd prefer to get new ones.
I could do a budget version by using flat bars fixed together which would seriously lower the aluminium cost which I may do + it would be a chunkier case, it'll be interesting to make a case like this purely from flat bars & angle bars while being inspiring to others wanting to make a bada$$ case with a nice small budget, just needs a slight redesign which I'll sketch up before I commit to starting.
So this would be an even higher premium case than anything I've done before, but still cheaper than a top level consumer case, this time when designing I totally disregarded budget & just designed then worked out how much it'll all cost, I did design a water cooled case like this but I just don't like the size it has to be to hold all the water cooling gear not to mention the awkward tubing when it comes to maintenance so I'm skipping water cooling & staying with air for 1 last time ;).
£120 for the sanding disc machine, but this will be a great purchase as I know I'll always have a good use for it, the manual mitre saw I have would go perfect with this.
Met my saving goal so I could go all out on doing this now, but a 32" sharp led 100hz 1080p screen is highly tempting me, but if I got the screen I could sell my 24" led monitor & my 26" samsung monitor putting me close to my budget goal again so I'll probably do that :).
About the design:
All but the rear fan would be mounted independantly to the mobo tray not being screwed into the exterior panels, the bottom storage section will be like an air tunnel, the mobo cooling section will have imediate airflow right next to the mobo & the fan below will give just enough space for the ridiculously long ati 5970 just so it's an option, there will be a fan mounted between the psu & mobo tray & a fan above the mobo tray with a duct to go out the rear, I don't think xl-atx or the like is going to be a new standard so I'm sticking with standard atx, a 10 slot mobo tray is huge & guess it's only applicable to 4x gpu users which I'll never be.
So the only cables that will be slightly visible would be the mobo power cables, sata cable, power switch/led cables & gpu power cables so should look & be really clean on the inside & out.
The hdd tunnel is nice as each hdd cage slides in being held down by flat bars, then a flat bar slots in front of them & they are secured.
The pci expansion piece will involve a chunk of aluminium with pins sticking out to act as a 1 piece lock down for all the pci slots & screwed in from behind.
I'm doing it this way instead of making a new thread because no orders have been made yet so this is fresh off the design stage, then I'll add all this to the first page of the log with some actual progress :), so just think of this as a hazy preview of whats to come next from me.
And now the design pics, any suggestions for a name are welcome, I'm all thought out after designing this for the time being :).
Could be a couple of weeks to a couple of months away before I start.
:):up:.
I like the sketches. will watch out for more!
