Project: I AM IRON MAN

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Some of the hardware started arriving! My custom cables and my motherboard are here! I decided to go X99 instead of C170 since I'm going to be doing some streaming on this computer going forward.

That being said lets look at the Part that the CNC guys finished up for me today.

After a little razor work we get the rest of the reactor for painting.

Painted up, just waiting on the EL panels to get here from china.

The motherboard for this project. Quad Channel DDR4, M.2 slot, and a ton of IO... Sadly the USB 3.0 header isn't oriented the best direction, so that's gonna be a little messy in an otherwise clean build.

Motherboard in it's new home.

Close up of the bottom

Behind the panel.

I have more parts on the way including cable combs. Everything for this build has been purchased, it's just elbow grease and assembly from now on.

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Doing a video update today. I thought it was pretty cool to watch, I didn't get the entire process because my memory card filled up. Let me know what you think!

http://youtu.be/9k7lg2WVqy4

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Memory and SSD are here

Memory installed with a peek at the cables.

Put the M.2 in. The green really sticks out.

Creative vinyl application to hide the green

5820k Installed... I was surprised that it installed upside down, but it's not a big deal.

Water block installed, added cable combs, and bent up the tube from the CPU to the radiator.

Same image without flash.

GTX 980Ti added in.. MMMM pretty... I'm loving the back plate.

Filling attempt (this one ended in disaster, I ended up filling the loop with a different tube and funnel combo later...

Tubes all in place, and yes, I used a ton of paper towel... Let's not go into it... I had good reasons.
The loop is leak testing and i'm working the air bubbles out.

The Original plan to go with gold fluid just looked aweful with the metallic gold paint and the anodized gold fittings. Adding a third gold color into the mix just looked bad... So red fluid it is.

oh, and Here's a shot of the mask

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My first of 2 EL panels came in, So here's the album for fitting the top lighting.

Plexi Fixed in place

EL Panel wired and installed

Lit up. Hulkbuster Approves.

Got the mask almost complete.

Paint!!

and peel.

Still waiting on the EL panel for the front mask... The computer is sitting on my desk, windows is installed... Overclocking is complete... but where's the fun of showing off the final pictures before everything's complete!!

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Final Update time! This build is Finished.

Higher quality images will be available on my personal website/build blog page diluzio.us

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Just for giggles, My wife took pictures of my ghetto photo studio set up in the living room.

The backdrop area

Using the projector as a studio light

I hung the back drop from a curtain rod and a door using some clothes line... yep.... but the results were good at least.

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Also. after some tinkering here's some benchmarks!

Stock clocks

CPU @ 4.3
Gpu at
1450 Gpu
4000 Mem

Temps were topping out at 68 (package) on CPU and 65 (core) Gpu.