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!
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.
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...
Yep. Ugly and dorky I know.
That's an H80 on the i7.
Also it's very green... I do love green but a green 20" cathode is total newb-city imo. "What is this PC-PartPicker!?"
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.)
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!?
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.
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!
(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.
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.