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Update time!!

I cut a piece of mesh to cover the holes left in the side panel and put some trim on it to dress it up a bit then hot-glued it into place.



I also got a bunch of random parts soldered to the ProtoStack dev board to make it look more industrial-ish. All I need to do is wire up the LEDs that this board will be controlling.



Thanks again to NZXT for sending me a 2M red LED strip!! I removed the module from it's PCI slot bracket and mounted it to a spare standoff hole on the backside of the motherboard.



Then I removed the motherboard and hot-glued the LED strip to the case under it.



Looks pretty sweet :D



I also tested the fans and my fan controller and found that for some reason the Sentry 2 wouldn't even get the Turbine Master fans to even start spinning. :? If you tapped the blades by hand they'd spin right up, but not from a dead stop. So I replaced them with a pair of Gentle Typhoons and a sweet ACRyan radgrill



I also got my Indigo Extreme TIM installed on the CPU



Next up I got all the UV LEDs sleeved. I started with the 2 3mm ones that go into the CPU block, then did the 5mm one in the res and also swapped out the 2 3mm blue ones in the flow meter with 2 3mm UV ones. The camera makes the UV look super bright, but with the coolant I'll be running it should look perfect. :D



I also got 3 more WD Caviar Black 500GB drives to go with the one in my current rig. I plan to put the OS onto the 96GB SSD then do a RAID 1+0 with the 4 500GB drives.



I got the SATA cables sleeved with the copper sleeving from MDPC-X. I must say, their sleeve is THE BEST! Dirt cheap and looks great!



Speaking of sleeving, I did the PSU. I wasn't going to, but I had to. I did it with a mix of the copper brown and tungsten gray from MDPC-X. I did ALL the wires. I ended up cutting and extending the 8-pin CPU wires so they'd reach without needing the adapter that Tt included with the case. I also cut off the un-needed cables and heatshrunk the ends inside the PSU to keep things clean. Enjoy :D


That's all for now!

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That sleeving looks smexy. :)

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Looks great! I'm uber jelous for the WC RAM XP

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man its all coming together!!

think some black velco straps around some of those sleeved cables would look nice? (like on the video card)


Really like the red led's around the mainboard and the UV lights in the blocks and such.


them UV lights actually ought to help kill off microbes in your water system lol!

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I actually put some small black zip ties on the VGA cables to clean them up a tad, they look much better now lol. As far as microbes I don't think I'll have that problem with the fluid Kayin is sending me :D

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Love the shot of the PSU with the warranty sticker broken! :twisted: Do you get a deal with MDPC-X or something? It seems pretty pricey to me to do a whole system in single sleeve with shipping from Europe. Granted it does look better than anything else out there.
Build is coming together nicely, should look awesome when it is finished!

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@TheMainMan - Its only $0.22 per foot + about 9euro for shipping. Whole system sleeved for around $80. Where other sleeving is $0.59 or more per foot making sleeving a whole system well over $150.

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Ahh, thanks for the explanation. I hadn't priced out other sources beyond the cheapo kits at a local store (I use them for builds for people who don't care about interior looks). I've been looking at the MDPC-X stuff for a long time but haven't been able to justify that kind of cost while still being a student, so I just get to drool over the pictures of those of you who can:)

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the MDPC-X stuff is only like $0.20USD/foot lol it's CHEAP

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I put some zip ties on the PCI-e cables to clean them up a bit



I also picked up these sweet aluminum hose clamps for all the 3/8" tubing. I wanted the same ones for the 1/4" but they were all out, so I got the standard plastic clamps



I picked up this Bitspower radgrill for the rear fan



But the green wasn't cutting it so I painted it to match the rest



I also got a pair of Lian Li blank 5.25" drive covers and some military switches.



I taped, marked, drilled and mounted everything :D



The other holds a 16x2 LCD and a Bulgin button.



I decided to go with a single LCD versus the 2 for simplicity's sake, and the fact that I only really needed one anyways. I also painted both panels to match as well.



Now I figured I'd do something different with the 1/4" clear tubing for the RAM. I wanted them to do something rather than just be there. So I tried some different routing setups and settled on this one. I cut up some spare plexi I had laying around, sanded, drilled and painted, and here is the end result. This will look sick once the fluid is in there :D


That's all for now. I've been working a lot with the coding for everything lately. All that's left to do really is finish the switch wiring, finish the airbrushing and integrate the flow meter into the coding one the system is up and running!