Project: Destiny [Update 02/06/2008]

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Post by DAE_JA_VOO »

Good work Sean :)

I hope you enjoy the painting :? I've been busy with Endorphin's paint job. Painting SUCKS :?
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Post by Samaya »

Looks good man. What colour you going to paint the case?
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I haven't decided on the colour scheme yet, I am in two minds about it at the moment, silver with black accents which would mean I need to have the front panel and aluminum bits re anodized in silver or keep it black and splash some chrome about...

I do how ever know its going to have red lighting with red coolant in the loop. :-)
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Post by Skidd »

O I also have designed the name for the case :-) Will find a spot for this on or in the case somewhere.

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Post by Firestrm_ZA »

lookin good Skidd.... ill be joining the mod party soon.... just awaiting my p180 from I34z1k then ill start :P :P
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Post by Samaya »

Nice man!! Like the destiny logo
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Update time guys :-)

Here we have the radiator in place just to check clearances
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As you can see I'm clearing a normal ATX PSU by about 1/2cm
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On the front of the case its right up against that bit I bent out.
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Closeup of the mounting hardware I am using
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These ones that are standing up conflict with the radiator, I'm going to have to shorten them...
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A nice side shot of the grill attached
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I then moved on from there and decided to mount the cooling blocks. Here we have the motherboard I managed to get for free.
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Gigabyte is one of my favorite brands.
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And the CPU, nothing really special but its good enough.
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First thing I did was remove the standard northbridge cooler.
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Got the Swiftech MCW30 out and placed the 4 cushioning pads on it that came with the kit.
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And here we have it mounted.
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The CPU was next and as always the installation went really smooth. Swiftech FTW.
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I then moved onto the graphics card, a Asus 7900GT with a Zalman cooler on it. This used to be my old one until I went to a 8800GT.
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Removed the Zalman cooler and gave it a clean.
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Next got the Swiftec MCW60 installed.
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Final units done and ready for some watercooling.
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The barb attachments I am still waiting for are EK units, I also have some Vandal Resistant switches and a set of Billet Machined Aluminum case feet coming from MNPCTech (If they would respond to my email!), and last on the list of stuff I am waiting for is a Zalman ZM-MFC1 Plus 5.25" 6 Channel Multi Fan Controller in silver, 4 Evercool 120mmx25mm aluminum fans and another 4ft of Tygon R3603. :wink:
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Post by Animal »

Looking good Skidd. Can't wait for the end result.
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Post by WiK1d »

Do you know what would look really nice?

a) At first I thought that that radgrill was mounted flush to the panel, that would look awesome.
b) An E8400...
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Post by Skidd »

LOL I will look into the flush mounting wik, and the E8400 would be nice, you going to give it to me? :lol:
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Post by Samaya »

Nice update Skidd. Wish I had money for water cooling :cry:
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Samaya wrote:Nice update Skidd. Wish I had money for water cooling :cry:
Yeah same like me. Lucky man with watercoolers in the PC BOX and modding think... That your new PC Skidd ?
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Na SI this will be my GF's machine when Im done with it :-)
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Post by Skidd »

Samaya you must make a plan now man...

Once you go watercooling you dont go back hey ;-)
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Post by Skidd »

Update ;-)

Well I got the front panel back from the Water Jet guys, and all I can say is there was no way I could have cut it any better myself.

Sorry this pic is a bit blurry but they where kind enough to give me back the piece that came out.
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Here is whats now the front panel.
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Close-up of the cut. Very nice.
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I then quickly slapped a Radgrill onto a fan (please not this is not the final fan thats going to be used here) and it went in real snug like.
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It is a very tight fit with once its in and Clarence is minimal here by the front IO door.
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And from behind it overlaps a bit by the fan which is fine.
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I then marked and drilled out the mounting wholes to mount the grill.
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Gave it a quick tap to accept 4mm screws.
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And perfect, exactly how I want it to be.
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Sorry blurry pic again but you get the idea.
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Post by UrBaN »

Looking good man!

BTW What do they charge for that type of work? (the water cutting)
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wickedsick haha
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Post by Skidd »

UrBaN They charged me a little under 200 bucks to do this, it isn't cheap but I didn't have any tools that could have done that cut, well not so neatly anyways. Also because its a once off thing they tend to charge more for that stuff.

psYChowIt Thanks :wink:
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Post by chowzen »

nice one skidd.. :)
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Post by Lithe_Joint »

Skidd up to his business again? Looks flippin marvelous :notworthy:

Why don't you want to use that fan?
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Post by Samaya »

Looking good dude! Always impressive work from you :D
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Post by Skidd »

Lithe_Joint wrote:Skidd up to his business again? Looks flippin marvelous :notworthy:

Why don't you want to use that fan?
I have got other fans coming hey. Still got lots of work to do here as well, but its all in good time. :)
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I want meh gewdeehs :\
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Post by Skidd »

Samaya wrote:Looking good dude! Always impressive work from you :D
Thanks man :wink:
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Post by DoOb »

I cant believe this place Banned You Sean, Thats really sad to hear.

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Thats just one less person with great ideas and knowledge on this forum.
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