Project: ORION by Koradhil

[Koradhil]

I already said something about my new project when I completed my last one, Mystique. My new project, Orion is the successor of one of my first big projects, Nimex. Although Nimex was never completed, it was one of my first successful casemods. It was mainly a showoff case and I went a bit crazy on that project, which unfortunately resulted in a low quality finish. Since then I've learned a lot from my mistakes. Gemini and Mystique were both aimed at a high quality finish, while keeping things simple.
With Orion, I'm again building a real show-off rig like Nimex, but with the quality finish of Gemini and Mystique. I have chosen to go with a black/red color theme, using a bunch of red LED fans and a lot of UV red acrylic. Also the hardware has been selected to match this color theme. Like Nimex, Orion will be based upon a SilverStone case, a black TJ07. It's going to be watercooled like all my projects.

Considering that this is a completely new system and I'm just a student, I had to get some financial support. Luckily I found some companies willing to sponsor some products. Many thanks go to these companies for their support.

The hardware
» SilverStone TJ07 case
» EPoX EP-AD580 XR motherboard
» Corsair Dominator Twin2X-2048 PC8500 DDR2 memory
» Sapphire Radeon X1800 XL graphics card
» AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ processor
» Recom Power Engine 600CF power supply

The case, power supply and fans provided by Recom.

The EP-AD580 XR motherboard provided by EPoX.

The Radeon X1800 XL provided by Sapphire

Some SketchUp work

Corsair sent me some Dominator memory, including the Dominator Airflow.

Naturally the blue is a no-go in this casemod, so the stickers had to go.

The fans will be replaced by red LED fans and the sides will be decorated with some red carbon fiber film.

My sketchup model of the Dominator Airflow can be downloaded here.

[XcOM]

dude that looooks soo cool, its going to be sick, i wish i could get companys to sponcer me parts to do a mod, my next mod is going to be huge, take loads of time, and be KICK ASSS.

Anyway, thats DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLABLE, even the sketchup gets my mouth wet.

[Drum Thumper]

This is gonna be good. Can't wait to see the end result!

+rep and a /subscribe as well.

[si-skyline]

It seems all very nice i like your sketchs

I can see you really paying attention to the finer things in this mod :p

plus how in the hell did you get them to sponser you? hold a gun to there heads j.k

cant wait to see more
si-skyline

[M!ST!CX]

Cant wait to see it complited

[NocturnaL]

MMM another sponsered Mod, this should be good

[Koradhil]

I got the red carbon film today. I had hoped it to look better than this, but since I got it I'll use it anyway. Perhaps I will replace it later if I find something better.

And applied to the Dominator Airflow:

[_ferry_]

I think for small pieces like this the foil will be fine.
Well, knowing you, this mod won't be 1 of the 1000'th stick-some-carbonfoil mods Good luck!

[Cool1Net6]

This looks hot. I want to follow this one...

-Cool-

[Koradhil]

A minor update, the watercooling parts arrived today. There's still some parts I need but this is most of the stuff. I already had the single radiator but I put it there to get an overview pic.

A list of the parts:
- Alphacool Nexxxos Pro2 radiator
- Black Ice Xtreme 1 radiator
- Aquacomputer Aquagratix X1800/X1900 VGA waterblock
- Aquacomputer Aquatube black reservoir
- Innovatek HPPS Plus pump (12V Eheim 1046)
Also got a whole bunch of compression fittings, some for 8x1.5 Tygon.