Another year…
As some of you know. I quit my project Fallout 2.1, and told back then that I was planning something new. A project I call: Victorian renaissance. This isn’t the name this modification will get when I finish it. I am still debating on a name that suits a project like this.
Let’s start revealing some things I have so far. Some of you have probably noticed I had a link in my signature. This linked to a Wikipedia page, for those who have missed it here is the link again--here--. Since I have changed it to link to this thread. But I could have linked it to this Wiki page just as easy--here--.
Now we know what I seem to have in mind, let me tell you some facts.
I Have an Antec P182 case and I have disassembled it completely. With this done I could Reassemble it again using Google Sketch Up to the mm accurate. This helped me a lot in my design. Since I could undo designs that didn’t work for me. Here is a very early render and it has changed since. Ill post newer versions later this week.
Rendered with the open source rendering program Kerkythea.
Hardware,
It won’t be revolutionary since I won’t be upgrading my current pc as I see no need to do so.
My current hardware:
- CPU: AMD phenomII 940 Black Edition
- GPU: Nvidia XFX GTX260 Black Edition
- Mem: 4x 2Gig. DDR2 1066 GEIL Black Dragon
- HD1: 80 Gig. Intel Postville G2 SSD
- HD2: 320 Gig. WD Scorpio Black 2,5 Inch or maybe I’ll be able to include my 300 Gig WD Velociraptor
- PSU: 750 watt Corsair HX750W (which is modular)
There is one upgrade possibility, and that is in the GPU department I would love to add a twin of my GTX260.
Cooling,
As seen on the render I made, I plan on water cooling I think it’s a must for any modified case out there. But that is just my opinion.
I’ll be using:
- CPU Block: D-TEK FuZion v2
- Rad1: Black Ice GT Stealth 120
- Rad2: Black Ice GT Stealth 360
- Pump: Laing D5 Revision 2 Variable Speed with Ek Top (As seen in the render)
- Res: EK-Multioption reservoir 250
Also I’d like to add scythe copper memory heat spreaders (more for looks).
Design,
You are probably brainstorming as to what I am planning, I will not let you wait any longer. let me give you 5 points I will be working around.
- Copper, brass and flat black.
- Motherboard cover. One that will pull eyes to the parts I would like to be seen.
- Overkill Water cooling. (yes its only for the CPU, it got a little hot past summer had to clock it down from 3.8 GHz way back to stock 3.0 GHz. It won’t happen again when this is finished.)
- Clean look, No visible HD (Ok maybe one) and as far as possible no wires shown(and where they are visible still nice and tidy)
- And yes you could have guessed, it will be Steampunk.
So far so good, I say thanks for reading.
Yours Cheron.