And so it began! i started out with about 2.5 square meters of acrylic, and now have little left.
I would like to thank my new sponsors, www.matronics.dk for sending me some AWSOME light for this project! f#ck ccflīs. get some led strips from there i used them in my privious build, and the one they send me for this one takes the cake! RGB strips with wireless sound controller! Thanks! Tune in soon, and i will update the video with the light effects And thanks to bitspower for helping me out with some goddies that you all know whats gonna be
some of the parts matronic sent!
I also got the parts painted! matte black ftmfw!
i used theese black rivets to rivet it all back together
also got some wire stuff home
now what is all this going to be used for ? :S
THIS!
that ended out like this. See all that wire? Its starting to make sense now huh?
imagine all the little holes where there is wire in, like you see above
that they be sleeved, so that every wire will look like this
Now for the explanation.
The 7 holes that sits in a square in the upper part of the cabletray is getting these inserted into them. You can then swap psu as crazy often as you like, since you dont have wires running in a maze through thousands of holes.
Now for the fun part.
I had to solder the correct cables to each of the 24 pin connector, since they were made with different lengths. Say hello to mister happy solder station!
slowly, but certanly getting all the buggers on, and applying heatshrink on each, so that i wont have any fires in there -.-
fans will have an output port like this:
and the pump will have a slightly different one here:
some of you have seen this pic:
The thing that was in homers background is this:
And it will be mounted like this on the backplate
And how it was put on. I tapped 4 mm holes and used some black dome head 4 mm bolts i have.
The dome head bolts will also be used on the front.
And as you can see, the 24 wires is taking up quite a bit of space in the cable tray:/ dont know if i will be able to fit the 12 wires for the 6 pins, but i have to
The fans also got some love
And the 8 pin got sleeved. This will also be done to the 24 pin, and 6 pins.
The little buggers in front is the clips that i had to use, to get the extender. took some time to get done, but it will be worth it!
i think that was that for this update Next time i will have some more goodies to show you, some of them from my new sponsor, and a little something something that i got made instead of the res i have now
worth the wait? If not, ill update again in a week or so
is that a 120.9 raddy on your case, or are you just happy to see me?
Okay, it would seem that some fokes has misunderstood the difference between my cable tray, and my motherboard tray. This update should clarify that
Would the real Motherboard tray PLEASE stand up?
As you can see, this is the motherboard tray, 2 peices of acrylic sandwitched.
Now this is the cable tray, which someone though would have the motherboard mounted on it too.
How does all this play together? we will get back to that later First, a big thanks to Vincent from Bitspower for sending me some goodies!
Old versus new pass trough fittings
This must be the sexiest fittings on EARTH!
Everybody has bitspower battlemechs, but how many have custom bitspower holders? (no really, theese are gonna be used in another project i will link too soon )
And a custom version of Jon Lundīs PomPlex reservoirs
This combo will be placed on the top of the reservoir, and will work as inlet, and fillport.
The little plastic bugger inthere is a port for LEDīs, and i am gonna use quite a few of theese in the build i think. Should light the reservoir up nicely
And now for the cables! You probertly already saw this picture:
But here is some more money shots:
Before we continue to the cable tray, i would like to show the pump, and the sleeving on this. Instead of putting heatshrink on, i opened up the housing, and put the sleeving in, STEALTH style!
And now, i got the case partially riveted back together! (you will notice some small silver screw like things, these are tempory rivets lol! )
Notice the motherboard tray inthere?
Some people asked me if the weight of the psu wouldnt destroy the psu holder in acrylic, and this is where i am planning on putting a support plate (the plate you see there is not the final plate, its a dish i made for myself of scraps made 3 others with names on to the rest of the fokes in the dorm lol!)
And what will it support? The psu and the pump of course! IMO this looks SEXY!
And with the sides on!
Oh look! A tiny window for the reservoir
And now, Will the real CABLE Tray please stand up, and get in place
And with the motherboard tray out
Sides on
I still need to rivet the middle plate inthere, but that cant be done before the cable tray is completely done, and so far i ran out of heatshrink -.- Oh well... another order then
sadly though, the vf model wont be in stock until a months or so, so it will take some time before i get it:/ but that will give me time to get the cable tray and a lot of other things done!
First of all, got nominated to mod of the month on bit-tech wuuh thats my second mod over there that gets nominated, and both have been used as front page pics
I got new toys!!! More tools wuuh best gift a modder can get besides hardware!
Had to use it for the passtrough fitting from bitspower!
Glued the two green and black plate from the motherboard tray together. Needed some weight to make the glue stick better
The fan and 6 pins plugs sitting flush with the cable tray
Some macro shots!
New hardware! New tools AND hardware in one update woot ! An msi gd85 with usb 3.0 and sata 6 GB/s, and a Intel i5 750. Put in, and cables on:
How the radiator will be put.
The mod will be lit by a 1.5 meter smd lcd strip with 10 smd ledīs pr. 10 centimeter. with the controller i can adjust brightness from dull to Christmas tree strenght!
Light it up!
And here is a great pic (if i may say it myself lol) of the motherboard tray inside the case.
Thats all for this time! The case has to be send to madrid the 5īth so it can be shown to all the other great modders who will attend campus party europe 2010!
I made quite a bunch since last time, among other things these two plates. One to support the psu, and one to hold the passtrough fittings from bitspower.
The idea is to put two QDīs there, so taking the motherboard tray out will be a breeze!
The aquaero was placed in the top along with the RGB controller, and fits well into the PCB theme
As you can see, everything is sleeved in green and black colors!
The cable routing from the RGB controller wasnt easy, but i managed to fit it under the aquaero.
The hole to all the connectors for the aquaero!
The sleeving for the 24 pin, coming out of the kabel tray
The rest of the cables for GFX, aquaero, power etc.
And light!!! Red ^
Green ^
And my personal favorite, blue / uv ^
The inside with green light ^
And blue / uv, where the contrast between the green and black is wicked IMO
One of the best shots IMO!
The inside again. The cpu cooler and gfx are gonna go. Just dont know when i will have the cash to get a grafic card lol
And three of my favorite things, watercooling, sleeving and bitspower! (in modding that is )
The edge of the psu mounting plate!
And a picture of the green sleeving.
And a little present from Jon Lund! He told me about this idea on our trip to madrid, and i have wanted to get them ever since.
In the front you can see a normal LED plug, while the two in the background is the ones Jon sent me. They are longer than normal and spreads the light much better.
So now you saw them! And you know who made them first He will start a production run of theese soon, and will hit retailers in a little over a month!
Put into the Lund reservoir, that he also made lol
And here it is in the reservoir, a little hard to see, but its inthere
Loop is gonna go:
Reservoir -> Pump -> flowmeter -> Radiator -> cpu -> gpu -> back to reservoir
The pump will vibrate a bit, so theese rubber grommets was applyid.
Hope you enjoyd this update! Until next time, happy modding!!!
-p0Pe
is that a 120.9 raddy on your case, or are you just happy to see me?
Re: PC-Beto
i used them in my privious build, and the one they send me for this one takes the cake! RGB strips with wireless sound controller! Thanks! Tune in soon, and i will update the video with the light effects
And thanks to bitspower for helping me out with some goddies that you all know whats gonna be
Next time i will have some more goodies to show you, some of them from my new sponsor, and a little something something that i got made instead of the res i have now
