Neptune's Trident

[Boddaker]

Thanks guys!

I'm finishing up a cool piece for the video cards, and should have another update for ya tomorrow. It's a cable cover that will route all those unsightly video card power cables down through the motherboard tray and hidden from view. And of course it's trident shaped. :p

[Scotty]

This looks great, awesome job.

[Boddaker]

Made a piece to cover the ends of the video cards, where all the power cables plug in. I wanted the cables to be hidden,
so I fashioned a trident-shaped cover that routes the cables down and through the motherboard tray. I'm making
my own extension cables too, so the actual power cables from the psu will plug into these behind the mobo tray.

Here is the mess of cables: two 6-pin plugs for each card = 36 wires!

First thing I did was glue them all together with some acrylic and styrene spacers.

Once glued, I can remove them all as one.

After measuring, I cut out the trident shape and side pieces.

Gluing them together, using the ruler as a square:

Testing the cable assembly in the cover..

Test fit on the cards (one of many, many test fits lol)

Another test fit, this time with more side pieces glued onto the cover:

You can see how the cables are being routed to the center of the cover and down.

After the usual sanding-filling-sanding routine, the cover got a coat of white and pearl, like the others.

Here's a close up shot of the hole I made in the motherboard tray, where all the wires will go through. The cover will
conceal this hole from view.

A wide shot of the video cards with cover. The cables are not plugged in yet. I will need to have the case reassembled
to finish the wiring on the other side of the mobo tray.

A final close up shot of the cover. I had hopes of permanently gluing the cable assembly into the cover, but plugging
all six connectors in at once proved very difficult at best, and would be near impossible when concealed by the cover.
So I will be leaving the cover loose.

Next up are the three custom bottom plates for the vid cards.

[Kumo]

Nice idea with that cover. Maybe a light effect under it, would be nice.

[nevermind1534]

Nice idea with that cover. Maybe a light effect under it, would be nice.

Would be nice, but hard to do with the wires in there, I would assume.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Mate, that was suck a cool idea. I have never thought to do anything like that, very nice idea.

[Indybird]

I'm loving those power connectors, if you don't mind I'd like to copy off of that idea for my future crossfire setup.

Every post you find another place to perfectly integrate the trident theme. Not only is this mod clean, but it uses some creativity...I like that.

-Indybird

[Boddaker]

Nice idea with that cover. Maybe a light effect under it, would be nice.

Would be nice, but hard to do with the wires in there, I would assume.

Yeah, I was thinking about doing a glowy effect on this piece as well (which is why I made it from the blue transparent acrylic), but I decided against it since it will be right next to the hard drives, and the vid card bottom plates will have a glowy EVGA logo on them. And I dont want to overdo it.

Mate, that was suck a cool idea. I have never thought to do anything like that, very nice idea.

I'm loving those power connectors, if you don't mind I'd like to copy off of that idea for my future crossfire setup.

Every post you find another place to perfectly integrate the trident theme. Not only is this mod clean, but it uses some creativity...I like that.

-Indybird

Thanks guys. I always disliked how the power cables on video cards are always placed right out in the middle of everything, so I sought out to do something about it.

[DonT-FeaR]

:O i love it

[rendermandan]

Dude...... So nice!