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BloodLines (Alien Inspired HAF-X) (Completed)

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#1 ·
Ok so i have taken on a project and i thought it would be cool to do a build log.

I want to create an Alien (As in the movie) inspired HAF-X. I have been planning this build for over 6 months so it should be a really fun one.

-SPECS-

CPU- AMD Phenom II x 4 975
MOBO- Asus Sabertooth 990FX
GFX- (UNDECIDED)
RAM- Corsair Vengence 1600mhz (2x2g)
HD- Saegate Barracuda (160g)
CASE- Coolermaster HAF-X
PSU- XFX 650w XXX Edition

-COOLING-

KIT- XSPC Rasa RS240 Kit
RAD- Extra XSPC RS120 Rad
FITTINGS- Ek Compression, XSPC Compression, Enzotech 45's,
HOSE- Primochill (UV Green)
ORGANISM KILLER- Silver Kill Coil
FANS- Gelid Wing 12 120mm x 4, Bitfenix 120mm, Stock CM Fans

I have so many lights and stuff sitting around I won't type it all out got to keep some surprises.

Will be working on this build for the next month or so Hopefully you all enjoy the Build Log.
UPDATES
Just got a shiny new camera so taking pics is gonna be a lot easier.

Ok so I got my case a few days ago and was so excited to start I didn't even take photos of it stock:)
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But we all know how they look stock so here is one stripped .(My girlfriend was pretty horrified to see me pull this out of the box and just start tearing it up for painting and modding.)
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After I tore the case done i prepped it all up for painting with a bit of a sand and scuff.
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Then on to primer so far Iv only got done the primer on the metal parts (2 coats). These pics are of the 1st coat.
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Heres a couple other panels I'm working on.
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I also built a DIY spray booth just for this job.(Truth be told I got sick of cat hair on everything I paint.) It's just an old psu with some 120mm fans hooked up works fairly well.
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I got bored while I was waiting for the paint to dry and after a quick search on the ever helpful OCN forums I decided to stealth my DVD . Here is the guide I used. Thanks to Mithrandir8 For making it.

Mithrandir8's Haf Stealth Guide[/B

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That's it for now will add some more Paint pics when I'm done with the paint then on to some sleeving!!! (and waiting for parts in the mail.)
 
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Ok so I have been flat out this week got HEAPS done all over the show. Been painting working on the window mod, Sleeving + Lots and lots of parts have arrived. So let's get to the pics....

Super sexy motherboard and some more watercooling stuff that has shown up.
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So here is some more painting photos I finally got some color on the plastic parts . As of this moment paint is done (Except for 1 HDD tray.)
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All that's left to do with these is Cut and polish which will be done late next week ounce everything has cured nicely.

So waiting for paint to cure is no fun at all luckily my 550 paracord (Lime green of course) showed up yesterday so I made a good start on sleeving still waiting on the heat shrink, so these are only half sleeved got everything done bar my CCFL's and fans which are all still in the mail.

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My sweet handmade (I'm not paying 15 dollars for a pin remover) Molex tool works great all it is , is a screwdriver + a steady Dremel.
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Here are all the parts I sleeved so far.
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Hopefully my heatshrink shows up soon so I can get some better photos of all this Sleeving mayhem .Although It will be nice not to have to sleeve for a few days cause my fingers are really sore.

I also have started making some custom nameplates. They don't look like much at the moment but they will have a nice metal finish maybe some blood splatter havent decided yet.
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The other major work iv got done this week is chop out the side 200mm fan Since we are watercooling this panel was pretty unneeded + it look heaps better when you can see all that hard work inside. Still waiting on my acrylic to show up so it's just a chop out for now.

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Cutting this out was a total head game these panels are nearly IMPOSSIBLE to replace in Australia so failure wasn't an option ended up coming out great. Amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it.

Ok so that's it for this weeks updates hopefully more presents show up in the mail this week and I will add a Lil more progress to the build log.

I'm at about the halfway point with this build and am starting to get very excited and anxious to see how it's all going to look when put together.
 
#3 ·
UPDATES 3 12/08/2011

OK ..... I have been flat out on top of day to day living I got the flu which never helps anyone but iv tried to soldier on none the less. Got quite a bit of stuff done over the last 2 weeks and the project has finally had parts put back into it.Which as anyone who has done any kind of modding its nice seeing it go in instead of coming out.

So down to the fun my acrylic FINALLY showed up a month after ordering it, good thing I wasn't in a hurry. The place I got it from also refused to cut it to my template so I received my square plastic and cut it to size.
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Then it was a as easy as a couple holes in the acrylic pop the clips back through add a bit of u-channel and we have a full side window panel for my Haf-X.
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Also got my handmade nameplates where finished this week and they came up better than I had hoped.I used 3m Dinoc brushed aluminum film , Some red model airplane paint for the blood splatter (Tamiya Paint Gloss Red Enamel.) and A.C. Ryan Blackmagic 2 UV green paint. Which isn't the nicest thing to work with but glows like fallout.
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A while ago I got an idea to carbon fiber a few bits and pieces and my film finally showed up so I have done the duct and a few case highlights and also finished up some sleeving.
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I added some green leds into the top 230mm fans.
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I wanted my rad mounted flush with the case so i needed a way to mount a 120mm fan onto the outside back of the case I am waiting on some black screws so this is only half on at the moment but this is what I decided on.
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Also added some green grommets onto all my fittings.
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So the other big overhaul this week is i got some of my painting done. Polished lovely and installed I still have all the plastic parts to finish but there are a few shots of some finished paint and some stuff installed enjoy.
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So as of now I'm only waiting for some Molex plugs my graphics card, CPU, fans, switches and some other minor stuff we should be all done in the next fortnight. Getting up to the exciting part of the build and really looking forward to the end result.
 
#4 ·
FINISHING IT ALL UP

So like always it's been a while between posts.... But it's finally all done and I'm really happy with the end results. So first il show you what I had to finish up.

This is a danger tape sort of design I decided on for my "active" HDD tray it came up pretty nice in the end. Was a lot of taping involved .
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Also decided to make a Plate for my badges.
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Now this is another idea I have been toying with since the start of this build and wasn't really sure if the software was going to work and if it was gonna fit in the space I had intended for it. It's just a 4x20 LCD screen I picked up off Ebay for $15 . I loved the idea of being able to display my stats on the inside and this does it all . Was a really tight fit and the software took some tweaking for win 7 but I like it.
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Then we finally get up to some more installing and some leak testing/bleeding. As are most people fist time water cooling those first few pours of water into the res feel really unnatural, but after a few hours of leak testing I'm confident I got a nice sealed up system. I'm really loving the temps I'm getting on H2O it's great.
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Read on to the next post for final results....
 
#5 ·
FINISHED...FOR NOW

Ok so everything is hooked up loop is filled and bled only thing to do is boot it all up... 1st boot perfect except for a really loud ticking I panicked and turned it all off. Turns out it was nothing major just one of my temp probes hitting a fan . A bit more thermal tape and we try again perfect second boot nearly silent. I'm sure you all know that feeling off a perfect boot after a long build is awesome.

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2nd Boot
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More detailed shots.
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ALL DONE
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This build has been great fun and I would like to thank everyone on OCN that has helped me out throughout the duration of it. Especially the sabertooth 990fx thread and the Haf club thread . If anyone has any questions about anything feel free to send me a pm.
 
#12 ·
Haven't updated for a while now been sick with the flu not much fun. Have a pretty big pile off photos off small things done to the project but nothinng major.

Hopefully will have a photo update in the next 3 days STILL waiting on acrylic sheet and a handful of stuff including grills ,lcd (Late Edition 3rd LCD ) , molex plugs, switches minor items without which I cant do much.

Will be ordering my GPU and CPU next week so the deadline for this project as off today (Delivery Providing) should be a fortnight. The next photo update wont be anything to special because I want to keep the best stuff till last.
 
#19 ·
Yeah the fan controller is a aerocool srike-x. At some point il take photos in sunlight because the paint is a lot darker than the photos show is more of a dark green than fluro.

And I have thought about painting the gpu cooler but I might get another card yet and put it on water so I don't want to be stuk with a green card just yet.
 
#21 ·
How do you like that Aerocool Strike X? have any problems with it? Ive been looking at that on for awhile just havent pulled the trigger yet.
 
#23 ·
Yeah just a week and a bit after completion im about to go into remodelling mode lmao... gonna be throwing a bigger rad in top changing the lighting around because its just not right (I have a lot of uv lighting sitting round that just isnt up to scratch.)

Also going to remove the stealthed dvd and switch to an external so i can ram another fan in my 5.25s.Waiting for the waterblock for my mobo to be released aswell so theres another addition ....money money money arggghhhh.

As for the strike-x i like it. I am always messing with it and havent had an issue with it yet. Plus it just looks so good .
 
#26 ·
So after an Epic long day yesterday (think I got to bed round 4) I got it all done.All that is missing is my New lights. Run into a few problems with pump placement and the Koolance mosfet and NB just wouldn't co-operate but I got there in the end and am now running a fair bit cooler!

So first I stripped it all down and drain my rasa kit off. Took a few photos of the heatsinks and board because Iv never seen anyone cool this board so it may be of use to someone else.

Last Pics Of Mobo....
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Back thermal tape on heatsink-
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Mobo Mosfets and NB
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All pretty Stock Now for the Blocks....This was NOT fun at all. The heat Transfer plate I got was to long I knew this before I got it the Sabertooth 990 FX needs a 12.5mm Plate . oolance only had 14mm and 10.something. I thought longer was better than too short so got the 14. I measured before I bought and new id have the clearance problem was lack of mounting options.

I managed to rig it so the NB and Mosfet block used the same mounting posts. Originally I was going to use the Ek NB block but after building there is no way it would have fitted on.
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Then we fitted on the EK Supreme Block which was easy as in comparrison to the Blocks id just done and the XSPC rasa id done in the past.
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Skip forward a few more hours ,Relising around 10 PM that I had no rear mount options for my new RX120 Drilling into my case at around 10:30PM Neighbours love me. Nearly the same again around 11 for the pump but we will get to that.
Cables run tube run Leak testing and bleeding begins !!

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In this next photo you can see how I mounted my pump and rear Rad notice the new Airplex 360 up top to. This is the fattest 360 I could fit in this without mod.I added another temp sensor too.
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All closed up and Living to fight another day. Thanks for reading! (Il add pics of the new lighting when it arrives.)

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