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Good work Sean

I hope you enjoy the painting I've been busy with Endorphin's paint job. Painting SUCKS

Looks good man. What colour you going to paint the case?

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.

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

lookin good Skidd.... ill be joining the mod party soon.... just awaiting my p180 from I34z1k then ill start

Nice man!! Like the destiny logo

Update time guys

Here we have the radiator in place just to check clearances


As you can see I'm clearing a normal ATX PSU by about 1/2cm


On the front of the case its right up against that bit I bent out.


Closeup of the mounting hardware I am using


These ones that are standing up conflict with the radiator, I'm going to have to shorten them...


A nice side shot of the grill attached


I then moved on from there and decided to mount the cooling blocks. Here we have the motherboard I managed to get for free.


Gigabyte is one of my favorite brands.


And the CPU, nothing really special but its good enough.


First thing I did was remove the standard northbridge cooler.


Got the Swiftech MCW30 out and placed the 4 cushioning pads on it that came with the kit.


And here we have it mounted.


The CPU was next and as always the installation went really smooth. Swiftech FTW.


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.


Removed the Zalman cooler and gave it a clean.


Next got the Swiftec MCW60 installed.


Final units done and ready for some watercooling.




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.

Looking good Skidd. Can't wait for the end result.

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...

LOL I will look into the flush mounting wik, and the E8400 would be nice, you going to give it to me?

Nice update Skidd. Wish I had money for water cooling

Samaya wrote:Nice update Skidd. Wish I had money for water cooling

Yeah same like me. Lucky man with watercoolers in the PC BOX and modding think... That your new PC Skidd ?

Na SI this will be my GF's machine when Im done with it

Samaya you must make a plan now man...

Once you go watercooling you dont go back hey

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.


Here is whats now the front panel.


Close-up of the cut. Very nice.


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.


It is a very tight fit with once its in and Clarence is minimal here by the front IO door.




And from behind it overlaps a bit by the fan which is fine.


I then marked and drilled out the mounting wholes to mount the grill.




Gave it a quick tap to accept 4mm screws.


And perfect, exactly how I want it to be.


Sorry blurry pic again but you get the idea.

Looking good man!

BTW What do they charge for that type of work? (the water cutting)

wickedsick haha

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

nice one skidd..

Skidd up to his business again? Looks flippin marvelous

Why don't you want to use that fan?

Looking good dude! Always impressive work from you

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

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.

I want meh gewdeehs :\

Samaya wrote:Looking good dude! Always impressive work from you

Thanks man

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



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