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88EVGAFTW · 08-22-09

10-22-2009
I believe I am at a point now where I can call this COMPLETE, alas

I got the mesh from the powdercoater today, I thought I should have done them in Bengal red but meh, he wasn't gonna do Bengal red for 2 weeks.

Thanks everyone for looking and the comments and suggestion. Thanks to Syrillian and SmasherBasher for always being there (team chat in L4D

) and giving good feeed back and ideas, and thanks to anyone else who gave me any suggestion at any point during this process.

Enjoy

10-19-2009 Finished the SATA Power cable sleeves and made the hole larger under the fan controller to route the cable, added the new mesh WHICH STILL HAS YET TO be powdercoated, so it is not how it will look in the end.

I think this whole "lil project" of mine is almost done, just need to paint the mesh and that shouod be it for now, no more sleeving for me.

And the incredibly useless helper

if only she had opposable thumbs to help me sleeve

(sisters cat, not mine

but I take care of her

)

10-17-2009 Got the other side panel water jetted at my friends shop, also picked up some mesh from another friends CNC shop. I have yet to get the mesh painted, I will do that monday.

8th Update, just a lil more cable management and sleeved some molex wires which now blend in with the rest of the bundle

Compare this:

To this:

GRPace · 08-22-09

Dude awesome work there. Love the sleeving it makes all the difference.

88EVGAFTW · 08-22-09

7th update 9-28-200
NorthBridge water block added, and got the new GTX under water also, but hope to get a heatsink for it instead of ramsinks.

SIZE="5"]**Sixth update** 9-28-2009[/SIZE]
Sleeved the 8 Pin mobo, I need to go get some more sleeves to sleeve a few other wires.
Also as you can see I need 4 more feet to finish those wires.

Coming along great, don't know what to do about the molex connectors and fans <_<

looks like a PITA to sleeve those molexes that are daisy chained on the strand of wires.

**Fifth update** 9-21-2009
Got some cables sleeved, I ran out of heat shrink for the 8 pin mobo cable and for some molex connectors I wanna do
This is an Enermax 1250 watt Galaxy PSU

**Fourth update** 9-18-2009
So Xoxide went out of business but I got a SICK deal on an Enermax Galaxy Evolution 1250 Watt PSU. First off..... this thing is a BEASTTTT at 7.5 Inches long and 16, yes 16 sata power connectors and 6 PCI express Power cables

I didn't get to use all connections on it as you will see but I should have plenty of room to expand in the future

Overall I am very happy with this build right now and satisfied finally

Here are the pictures, I hope to sleeve it sometime within the next few weeks, I am not really bothered by the stock sleeves so I will let myself rest from sleeving

***Third UPDATE 9/08/09***
New side cutout for the radiator to breathe much better

Thanks to Motoray who lives 5 minutes from me and his steady hand work, I would have cut this side all haggard were it not for Raymond. Thanks! SORRY about your 140mm Fan

My idle and Load temps went up by 4C-5C everytime I put the side panel off so now that the side vents, they are back down to 40C

25mm Yate Medium speed fans keeping my CPU idling at 40C and vid cards at 40C also

Load on the cards is ~45C

GRPace · 08-22-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by 88EVGAFTW

The PCI express power cable sleeves are a bit on the short side as you can see, they were tailored to my Antec 1200, I might just leave em, don't feel like sitting there for 2 hrs sleeving all of them >.<

Haha didnt even notice them

I never thought of just sleeving the end! I might consider this doing this.

88EVGAFTW · 08-22-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRPace

Haha didnt even notice them

I never thought of just sleeving the end! I might consider this doing this.

Yeah, it saves you a bit of money by not having to sleeve all the way, them cables are LONG especially one of my Molex power strands, its almost 4 ft

can't imagine wasting almost half a pack of sleeves on that one, the sleeves I buy at Frys are 20 ft packs.

That poor little radiator

It is starting to suffer, I can hear it crying

My load temps went up by ~5C and the idle temps are up by 4C after letting the PC warmup

Winter is coming, I think ill stick it out with this rad instead of getting an RX360 or a RX480