Water Alien Rebirth

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Worklog of case mod I’ve started December, 22.12.2006 wich I intend to subscribe on the 2007 international CM Contest.
22.12.2006

Name: Water Alien Rebirth (i'll redo the Leadership Alien 3 Gamer case from zero, implementing water cooling)

HARDWARE CONFIG

MOBO A8N-E (COOLER MODED)
2048 DDR (COOLER MODED)
Athlon 64 4600X2
MSI NX7900GTX 512 (CM AQUAGATE-VIVA)
Audigy 2 ZS
2HDs 80GB Sata2 em Raid 0 - Samsung
DVD 111D Pioneer - DVD GSAH10A LG (CM Rounded UV Cable - Blue)

Case:

Some instrumentals, materials and work photos

My Herbalife tea"Gás"

Dremel Saw in action

Improvisation

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After a Dremel sanding

My worktable, almost there.

Notebook for the next updates:

23.12.2006
Some other pictures

The table as i left yesterday

Replacing nails for screws

Suporting big screws

For internal reinforcement

Sand it with Dremel

Cutting the suport screws

Just ready for a cleanner job. A lot of dust has flooded my room

Some materials over the table and other are coming soon from e-bay.

The real case:

Nice mousepad, fine for hard pc working for long periods of time.

This dragon will take a 2-3 days of hard engraving work, but it have to be done.

‘Here we go

Closer

Oops...

The base.

Materials (epóxi, fiberglass, polyester, PVC glue)

Paints

Aliens...

A baby et ...

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Huge CNPS9700LED bought on e-Bay to CPU, the VGA cooler will be the Cooler Master Aquagate-viva

New stuff

For a professional cable sleeving mod on ST550EAG:

Plastics

More plastics, for texturing (I’ll try a new technic, pay attention)

23.12.2006

Updates

I am deciding to paint the original cables of my ST550EAG, its very nice worked out, doesn’t need the full mod, just a paint and molex replacement.

A 360º view

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I’ll move the HDs case.

Holy Dremel

25.12.2006

A little update

24.12.2006
Today updates:

A beautiful day...

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Chipset cooler mod

After a lot of sanding...

Working on de case base:

Put into Coreldraw and printed on adesive tranparency paper:

Without an apropriated bit i've bought but still don't get it here, i used a wrong bit and screw it up everything, this is the results...

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26.12.2006

Today i started the ST-550EAG MOD, and just realize their coolers are soft to replace, so i decide to replace de 92mm for a 120mm.

It was a hard work today, cutting with dremel and soffering with Dremel Router, but i learned something today and tomorow i'll work better. (i hope)

Photos

Breaking news... really !

Cooler i'll change.

Easy

'Gas'

CM 2007, Here we are

chip :shock: with Dremel

Sanding

Cut done !

Cutting plex-glass with Dremel saw maybe not a good idea (i'll use apropriate bit with router to redo de cut tomorrow)

Learning...

Piece of... cant say !

Trying

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31.12.2006 / 01.01.2007

I decided doing some tests with leds ligthing before going on with the project.

These rivets are for tests purpose only.

Seems the idea works

I was running up to do some soldering works when the UPS arrived, damn ! For one second i thought the CM WC had arrived, but was another Dremel I've bought to do engraving jobs(this one is diferent of mine because it start at 5000 rpm and goes to 35000, the other one i have goes from 10k rpm to 33k rpm)

Dark photos are not what i can do best...

Some news at the font modding... (still leaning to use the Dremel router, if anyone knows where i can find any kind of tutorial, please, tell me where)

Doing these borders results in a very nice finishing.

I reached out a very nice fit on this piece

Some hand sanding with 360, 600 and 1200 sands, respectivelly, to acomplish the final results...

Dust, dust2 and dust2007...

The concept:

Now i'll do a 120mm hole at center of the top and put an nice one cooler with leds on with. (i'm thinking put blue light inside to contrast with red lights an red UV reactives i'll use inside de case.

It's all for now, i'll put more soon...

Coments are very wellcome...

See you and happy new year for everybody !

Pedro Torres

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Hi everyone,

I am working on a new font cover, because, i want to put a 120mm fan and the cover i've made do not have left enough space for it. (it's a very small font, i coudn't believe)

Look at that:

Alson, today i've ordered a CM Dual Storm fan for the VGA memory chipsets that will changed when the CM Aquagate-viva arrives.

I want thanks to all of you for the coments you've made, they're very wellcome and makes me very proud. This also lets me believe i am doing something nice here.

Originally Posted by tybrenis

Wow. This is looking truly amazing, my hat goes off to you. Great job so far, I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Thank you tybrenis, i proud to accept your eulogious references to my work!

Originally Posted by Omega

Awesome, Keep up the work!

Thank you, i will !

Originally Posted by sgtm

I agree. Great work! +rep.

Thank you, sgtm !

Originally Posted by DaveW

This is a fantastic worklog with a lot of effort and great photography. Keep up the good work!

+Rep!

-Dave

Thank you Dave, i'm loving doind this, including taking work pictures...

Originally Posted by NocturnaL

Very nice table, i spy a razer mousepad, but wheres the mouse? i <3 mine

Seems like one, but it's not a joke, 'the mouse is on the table' ?!

Originally Posted by Indybird

Very nice mod, love the feet!

Thank you, i've walking a lot by hardware store to another 'till find this one... It will win a texturized paintig later...

That it for now, see you later...

And, again, thank you and very happy new year to all of you !

Pedro Torres

PS-> Sorry any english mystakes.

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Originally Posted by Airbozo

Nice work so far, I am monitoring this one. I like the creativity here!

BTW: I notice you have your refreshments handy, What are you drinking?

It's a delicious and energetic herbalife tea... Really nice.

Originally Posted by jdbnsn

Welcome Pedro,
I agree with everything above, great worklog!
Jon

Thank you !

Today i got an item wich is essencial for this project, and will define some of the next steps and was what i was wainting for. It was delayed about 20 days by brazilian aduana services...

I consider it one of the bigger conquest to my project, because this is the most important reason i am doing the mod, to cool down the system and let it more stable, besides the beautifull look and fantastic performance of Zalman CNPS9700LED.

This cooler is very compact and many says it really works... bought it for a reasonable price but was hard to find it, so, i bought somehow at e-Bay and wait a lot 'till put my hands on it.

Some pictures:

Now, with theese CM WC in hands, i'll decide where to install it and will next it do some cuts in front panel and other parts of case.

I hope to rear some words of others owners of this WC, most of then, general tooks about it.

I found it absolutely amazing. Very well designed and finished, it is a small piece of art and technology, no doubts about... The only "to do" thing is, maybe, a lapping on block to add some shinny, what you folks think about it?!

Thank you for the coments, see you soon !

Pedro Torres.

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Today i removed the foots that will be fixed with screws later and did some cuts behind the case to do a small widows that allow light to pass by.

While cutting, i got these 2 smal tanks models that will be used in some exterior textures details. I am wainting the airbrush arrive here to start painting some exterior parts.

The tanks:

Pieces:

Small window for light pass trought...

Cuted:

Some sanding to revel the cut imperfections.

After a hard sanding, this result:

As i spected the WC is small and will fit in that space left by HDs.

Tomorrow i'll do their cuts and for small ET instalation. Also, i'll start some fiberglass working...

Thank you for beeing here,

Pedro Torres.