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Project Day Z

Introduction

Now you may be asking yourself: "Gee Sushi! What is Project Day-Z all about!?" Well, Project DayZ started as an idea I had sometime last year. I believe the summer of 2012 or just after it. I knew I wanted to make a tribute build to a mod of a game that I loved so why not mod your computer after a mod? A mod in a mod!! MODCEPTION!!!
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I had heard stories of a mod being made that would blow people's minds and I watched alpha gameplay of the mod since before it was released. Then when I finally got the mod, which I even bought ARMA 2 just to play it, my mind was blown. So before I start, some of you out there may not know what "DayZ" is. Day Z is a mod for a game called ARMA 2. (You may skip this section if you like.)
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia - DayZ Mod
DayZ is an award winning free 2012 multiplayer open world survival horror mod designed by Dean Hall for the 2009 tactical shooter video game ARMA 2 and its 2010 expansion pack, ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead. The mod places the player in the fictional post-Soviet state of Chernarus, where an unknown virus has turned most of the population into undead, violent zombies. As a survivor with limited supplies, the player must scavenge the world for supplies such as food, water, weapons and medicine, while killing or avoiding both zombies and other players and sometimes non-player characters - in an effort to survive the zombie apocalypse.

DayZ has been widely praised in gaming media for its innovative design elements, with Kotaku and Eurogamer describing it as possibly the best zombie game ever made, PC Gamer calling it one of the most important things to happen to PC gaming in 2012 as well as one of the five scariest games of all time, and PC PowerPlay giving it its Game of the Year award as well as ranking it as the overall fifth best PC game of all time. The mod reached one million players in its first four months on 6 August 2012, with hundreds of thousands purchasing ARMA 2 just to play it.

The mod version of DayZ remains in continued development by its community. The standalone game version is currently in development by Dean Hall and ARMA 2 creators Bohemia Interactive.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia - Day Z Stand Alone Game
DayZ is an upcoming multiplayer open world survival horror video game in development by Bohemia Interactive and the stand-alone version of the award-winning mod of the same name. The game is set to release on PC for Microsoft Windows via digital distribution platform Steam, and is currently in closed testing.[1]

The game places the player in the fictional post-Soviet state of Chernarus, where an unknown virus has turned most of the population into undead, violent zombies. As a survivor with limited supplies, the player must scavenge the world for supplies such as food, water, weapons and medicine, while killing or avoiding both zombies and other players and sometimes non-player characters - in an effort to survive the zombie apocalypse.
DayZ was invented, developed, created, and designed by this man. It is his dream and now it's our pleasure.



I just want to say THANK YOU DEAN "ROCKET" HALL!!
 
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I want to apologize to anyone that's been waiting for this build log. I know I've told more than a few people it's coming for months now but I have been very busy with school. (Trying to get into CMU!
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Shout out!
So to begin I need to thank a few people. There are a list of artisans here on OCN that need a big shout out.

Dwood (Darrell) - Darrell and I have been talking back and forth since at least November on ideas for my build. Everything from a pedestal, to fan covers, a midplate, a cover, some custom Komodo block LED covers, and more. Thank you Darrell for all the time you have given me towards my ideas and helping me see my goal! (Also thanks for helping me on my business project as my interviewee.)

FrozenQ (Alex) - Alex and I had been mauling over a custom reservoir since January or February. I finally came up with the idea of an Erlenmeyer Flask and Alex made sure it happened. He ordered a polypropylene flask from a plastics company that specializes in scientific research equipment and put together something truly unique. Thanks Alex for making one damn nice custom reservoir and helping me with my business project.)

Mayhem (Mick/Michael) - Mick and have been talking for months as well as soon as I sent him a prototype of the reservoir being fashion. He loved the idea and I tried to task him out with creating a custom dye that would compliment my build but he ended up getting caught up at work with his Aurora project. (Thank you also Mick for helping me with my business project.) Well Mick realized we had gotten disconnect throughout the months, I with school and him with work and he remembered me asking for a unique dye never before done. I recently reminded Mick, told him of my build so far and said: "Well Mick, it's Mayhem's or nothing. I've got custom parts, a custom reservoir, and some damn expensive gear invested into this PC; if I can't get Mayhem's then I won't use any dye at all." So Mick apologized that it wasn't able to happen, sent me some dye and said: "Here ya go mate, have fun!" Truly unexpected as I know he is very busy. Thanks Mick for all you have done brother.

On to the build!

Components:

The components have seen quite a change over the last year as I just keep upgrading until I felt it was where I wanted to be. I will post links later on in case anyone wants to look the components up.

Main Components:

Originally it consisted of:

Case - Corsair 500R
Motherboard - MSI Z77 GD-65
CPU - i5-2550k OC'd between 4.6 GHz and 5 GHz depending on the whether. (If it's cold outside I can go for higher. haha)
RAM - 8 GB of Mushkin Enhanced BlacklineDDR3 1600MHz set to 9-9-9-24
GPU - XFX BE DD 7970
PSU - 750W Rosewill Hive
HDD - 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3
SSD - 120 GB Mushkin Enhanced Chronos

What's in it now:

Case - Modified NZXT Switch 810
Motherboard - Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 Z77
CPU - i7-3770k
RAM - 16GB of Mushkin Enhanced Blackline DDR3 1600MHz set to 9-9-9-24
GPU - 7970 in Crossfire
PSU - 1000W Fully Modular Seasonic 80 Plus Platinum
HDD - 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3
SSD - 120 GB Mushkin Enhanced Chronos
Sound Card - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD

Water Cooling Components:

CPU Block - Mayhem's DT5
GPU - Two Komodo 7970 modified. (Slightly)
Radiator - Black Ice GT Stealth Gen 2 420.30mm from Hardware Labs
Radiator - Alphacool NexXxoS Monsta 480.86mm.
Tubing - Durelene 3/8s by 5/8s tubing.
Fittings - All compression, angled, straight, and other: Bitspower and Enzotech.
Pump - Alphacool Full VPP655.
Reservoir - Custom made Erlenmeyer Flask from FrozenQ Mods.

Things to still buy:

[ ]SSD - 240 GB Mushkin Enhanced Chronos or 256GB Samsung 830.
[ ]A third 7970 (In the far future.)
[ ]Some UV spray paint. (Waiting for Cleaneon to have some more in purchase.)
[ ]Silicone.
[ ]Fluorescent Dust
[ ]Green/Yellow UV paint.
[ ]5.25" bay lighting controller/switch. (Anyone know of a good one you can recommend? It will be used for cathodes and leds.)

Misc. Items:

Fan Controllers - Scythe Kaze Master Pro (Black)
Fan Controllers - Bitfenix Recon (White). [I'll be painting the Recon black.]
Fans - 5 Akasa 140mm Vipers.
Fans - 8 Scythe AP-15 120mm.
Sleeving - MDPC-X The sleeving color will be MDPC-X Toxic Green and Schwarz (Black).
Dwood Custom - Pedestal, face cover, midplate/psu cover, fan grills, GPU block covers, HDD cages, and more.
Dye - Mayhem's and only Mayhem's. I will be mixing up a bunch of different types until I can find the color I want.
CCFL - 5 UV CCFL for lighting effects and 1 white CCFL for the midplate.
 
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Pictures of the last year of gathering and tinkering with my pc.
This is win the project started to really happen; when I started collecting my nice parts.


The case before modding.


No I took those ugly aerocool shark fans out. No green led fanboy fans for me.


This project months ago took over my entire room.


Just getting my G1.Sniper 3 from Newegg.


Looks good so far.


Side by side of the G1.Sniper 3 and the MSI Z77-GD65.
(That GD-65 can overclock a i5-2550k like a champ! I'm going to reuse it and see how far I can push it.)


IO Panel? Why not? lol


Installed with room to spare.


Ah the comparison of two giants. That i5-2550k overclocks like a beast, better than my i7 IB for sure. Then again that i7-3770k has hyperthreading which is useful for school and it also has native PCI-e 3.0 with other really nice features. (Is it better? Maybe, maybe not. I do miss my i5 SB.)


I always where latex gloves when I handle my water blocks, CPUs, GPU dios, etc. All that oil on your hands can really mess your components up. I don't think people realize how destructive the human body can be!
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Another angle.


The top is the XFX 7970 Black Edition with a Swiftech Komodo block on it. The bottom is a Diamond 7970 I got for a steal back in the Fall of 2012. Went to Microcenter and they had that 7970 on sell for $369!!! That was crazy considering at the time everyone still had them for like 470 - 500. So I *yonked!* and walked out a happy customer.


Running on air for now until I can get the rest of my water cooling installed or so I thought. Ran into an extensive financial downfall for a number of months and it ended up staying on air.
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Life can be so cruel.. all those water parts and just not enough to finish it off.


X-Fi Titanium HD Sound Card. I love this little bugger.


Seasonic. It's like the Crown Royal of PSU.


Dat fully modular...
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Yep. Ugly and dorky I know.


That's an H80 on the i7.
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Also it's very green... I do love green but a green 20" cathode is total newb-city imo. "What is this PC-PartPicker!?"
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MDPC-X vs. Sunbeam. MDPC-X is 100 million times better. Though I need to visit ol' Nilsy's MDPC-X site and order some more parts. (I secretly just want to get another goofy drawing.)
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So now everyone will know that it's my edition! THE MICHAEL EDITION! (Alright enough goofiness.)


Put it on, take it off over and over until I get it down pat.


Whoever sleeved this didn't do a bad job.


Testing out how to do this on some old cables. First time I ever tried sleeving was sometime last fall. I figured if I destroyed the pins on this oh well.


OMG! Seasonic has their PSU cables locked down like Fort Knox!


DID YOU REALLY NEED TO SUPER GLUE THE HEATSHRINK AND THEN SHRINK IT!?
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Oh those colors will look nice and purtty together mmhmm..


I tried to use heatshrink and it just looked super ugly. Nothing even close to Lutro0 or the pictures on MDPC.


So I went shrinkless!


First rails I ever sleeved.


Doesn't look to bad. That's Seasonic Logic for you. Even if there is only 8 wires lets put it in a 12 wire molex connector. Then on the wires that need a 12 molex wire connector they decide to split the wires off.
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The Swiftech 7970 Komodo Full Cover Water Block.


Taking that cover off and revealing it mysteries.


Just a normal LED gives it it's nice effect.


Putting it back on for safe keeping. But oh are we going to mod this!


A fat piece of acrylic. This will soon be green.


Seasonic connectors.


Looks up from the PSU side doesn't it? I count 12 wires.


But wait!? What's this!? 12 wires into an 8 wire connection!?


Looks to be. Oh how this makes sleeving a pain. haha That's the problem with sleeving. You get to a section of wire and you realize that it's split so you have to somehow sleeve the end point together. Very odd when you first do it.


Sleeving my PCI-e wires.


It looks nice. Now I need to train the cables so they look Lutro0 nice.


Little known fact - I actually reversed the 12V rails and the COM rails. Then I couldn't figure out why my PC wouldn't turn on for half a day. lol The best part was I tried to use a multimeter and everything read correctly. Why? Because I reversed it at the end point and not coming off my PSU!
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(What a rat's nest eh!?)

Testing out my wires before I put my 7970 back in. The was honestly one sitting in a desk drawer with a 7970 Komodo block on it.


OH LOOK! A PACKAGE! I do love packages..


Ooh.. from FrozenQ?


Damn fine job Alex.


Now that biohazard symbol we must change for sure. I asked Alex to give me a template to work with and he did.


Now I will take it and paint it over a nice black which will silhouette the reservoir most lovely like.


This is a custom mounting clamp.


He did a most extraordinary job at fabricating it. I designed and idea and he accomplished it well.


It was still wet from when Alex leak tested it.


Alex leak testing it. I forgot why kind of dye he used but it made a nice effect. Mick (Mayhem) said: "Oh don't worry. Mayhem's can do much better."


Then at one point I got bored and decided to swap my heatsinks. Mind you this was during my financial crisis when I didn't have the money to finish my water cooling loop.


Took off the old reference cooler.


Pulled out the DD sitting in the drawer.


Some concept design from Dwood. This will go over the 7970 Komodo block led with green acrylic.


Front panel of the Switch 810


Idea for the monster 480 rad. This is a 4.120 fan grill.


Concept idea for how my midplate/psu cover should look.


Cover before painting.


Grill before painting.


A picture of my fan grills unfinished.


My pedestal.


My PSU Cover.


How the image came out.


My messy area.
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That's a 24" ASUS and a Catleap. One day it will be 3x27" Korean monitors. Maybe the new Qnix ones.


My desk nice and shiney. It will house my 87 inches of monitors. I will be getting a filling cabnet or some drawers to put my PSU on the right side of it.


Testing how the res my mount. UGLY WIRE CITY!


From the front. I think I will put a panel in the back where that gap is and mount the res onto it.


Alex had to scrap this res because the milling and drilling went south on him.


A nice little picture from Xioxide. I love how they send you a picture in an email proving your stuff is packed up. Just awesome customer service.
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Pictures of the DayZ custom made parts.

The DayZ Project.


Midplate accent with other parts in the back.



The front cover. "What's your story?" - Some people may recognize this from the DayZ fan website.



Zombie fan grill. For those who are fans of zombies.



The biohazard LED covers for the Swiftech Komodo 7970 blocks.



Pedestal back. TriptCC logo from Dwood.



Pedestal window side. I got an extra-large window because I want to show case something cool but that won't be until much later.
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Pedestal with Mr. Teddy. Even Teddy-bears love DayZ.



Because warm, fuzzy Teddy-bears and a zombie apocalypse go hand in hand!



Cats like DayZ too.
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I will be putting acrylic on the back of some of these parts. They will not be left bare.
 
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subbed ... need to get a aquaero too man !~ forget the bitfenix @~
 
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subbed ... need to get a aquaero too man !~ forget the bitfenix @~
Send me some links. I bought the Recon off a guy here on OCN who bought it and didn't need it so he sold it to me for 20 bucks and we split shippy. Good game trader too. I'll either use it and paint it black or find something else. What I am looking for right now is a switch box for my lighting so I can individually control it. I want to do it from my 5.25" bay.
 
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Send me some links. I bought the Recon off a guy here on OCN who bought it and didn't need it so he sold it to me for 20 bucks and we split shippy. Good game trader too. I'll either use it and paint it black or find something else. What I am looking for right now is a switch box for my lighting so I can individually control it. I want to do it from my 5.25" bay.
it is not the cheapest, but a build this awesomesauce needs one ( has its own cpu on the fan controler so wonce you prog it it will do what ever you want. has some very nice accessories

https://www.frozencpu.com/images/products/pdf/aquaero_5_en_2011_08_22.pdf

inst. guide ( although not the newest. )
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/13696/bus-271/Aquacomputer_Aquaero_5_LT_USB_Fan_Controller_Liquid_System_Controller_53095.html
lt model ( do display but does everything , recommend getting waterblock / or passive heat sink for the vrms though.
( they also sella 3.5" mount kit for this )

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/17839/bus-335/Aquacomputer_Aquaero_5_PRO_USB_Fan_Controller_Graphic_LCD_Liquid_System_Controller_53090.html
mid level ( pro ) non touch screen buttons no remote.

comes with a passive heatsink.

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/13215/bus-259/Aquacomputer_Aquaero_5_XT_USB_Fan_Controller_Touch_Screen_Graphic_LCD_Liquid_System_Controller_w_Remote_53125_Newest_Revision.html
top level comes with 4 extra buttons on the front ( built into the touch screen ) a touch screen and a retmote ( great for htpcs )

i like it because it can read the sensors on your board and gpus. and you can tell it to adj your loop, fans accordingly.

you can also get things like fill level pressure ( love aquacomputers in line water temp sensors ) flow sensor ( non mechanical ones, and mechanical ones )

again not cheap, but i have yet to see a fan controller that can give me this much control ( saving for it atm )

ask shoggy any questions he is their rep on OCN and very helpful guy !~
( of course you can ask me as well )
 
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Thanks guys. I have a lot of modding and fixing to do but the wife and I have been busy so this build is being put on the back burner. I promise I'll update it though at least every few days if not daily. I don't want my wife to think this pc is more important.
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I made her a garden today instead of building my pc or buying pc parts haha.
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I'll add some new stuff probably tomorrow when I can snag her camera.
 
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Thanks guys. I have a lot of modding and fixing to do but the wife and I have been busy so this build is being put on the back burner. I promise I'll update it though at least every few days if not daily. I don't want my wife to think this pc is more important.
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I made her a garden today instead of building my pc or buying pc parts haha.
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I'll add some new stuff probably tomorrow when I can snag her camera.
also swiftech just released their qdcs .... should look in to those i think they will blow koolances outta the waters.... smaller more customizable. and cheaper in the long run !~
 
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Hey fellas and ladies or whoever. I'll be a bit longer on updating this because of some complications at home. I have all the parts I need to start it but I don't want to do it without a camera for the moment. Would be pointless to not show what I did so it's sitting in boxes.
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my phone has an HDR mode & a tripod. i'd come over, but you're waaaaay over there
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my phone has an HDR mode & a tripod. i'd come over, but you're waaaaay over there
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Bought a camera today! So starting tomorrow when I have day light I'll take some pics and start on the modding of things. It's been very hectic over in my house lately.

Thanks for all who subbed so far. You won't be disappointed as soon as I get off my butt!
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cant wait my friend !~
 
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Dat Res is just so AWESOMESAUCE!!!

~Ceadder
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Dat Res is just so AWESOMESAUCE!!!

~Ceadder
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I thought you died on me! lol You still in Kansas with all the Tornadoes!?

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This is incredible, do a super light coat of brown/dark green over everything afterwards.
Great idea man thanks. I will have to find some paint I like and see if I can give it that nice rustic look.
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I will be posting pics a bit later today, I have to do some things around the house for the wife.
 
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New pictures here.

I will try and post some more pictures soon. Now I need to finish my sleeving and do some other fun and time consuming projects. I'll post as I go for sure. I won't be doing anything this weekend as my dad is coming up from Texas, I'm in PA, and we are going to the Indi 500. All my race fans and gear heads out there know.
 
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