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Hey guys heres another build log I am working on. I have been playing a lot of Supreme Commander Forged Alliance lately and always use the Cybran so I thought I could incorporate that somehow.
This will be watercooled and be a pretty sweet machine once it is assembled. The plan is to make it as clean as possible and also functional. I would like to use some red and smoked acrylic in this build but we will see how that all goes. This is my first real case mod that I have ever done so here it goes. And I want to apologize in advanced for the cell phone pictures. My DSLR is down for the count at the moment but I will hopefully be getting that taken care of soon before this is all over.
Parts List:
-Asus Maximus Gene V (bought)
-Corsair Force GT 120G(bought)
-OCZ ZX 850W Fully Modular PSU(bought)
-NZXT Vulcan of course(Owned)
-NVidia GTX 670(Bought)
-i5 2500k(waiting on school)
-Eheim pump(friend had this and gave it to me)
-2x120mm Radiator(Unknown brand, friend also gave)
-FTW V2 sleeve Red, Black, White with precut heat shrink
The Pump/Radiator and Reservoir were all given to me by a friend. I wasnt going to say no to free watercooling stuff. I am unsure of the quality of the products but if it works and gets the job done then its alright. The best part is that it was all free.
Now not to bore you guys anymore lets get onto the pictures.
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Got the sleeving and heat shrink in the mail. Just waiting on the black, I ordered that separate so it came a day after.
I then cut the original heat shrink and sleeving and found this....I did some sleeving on the ones without capacitors but now I am at a standstill on this as I am unsure if I want to remove them or just heat shrink over it all. I think I will just heat shrink over all of it with one big piece.
Now I decided to move onto the most important part of the build, the case. I mounted the radiator up front and made some measurements for cutting for the most airflow I could get. At first I started out with some aluminum strips to basically make a new structured front. But after it was mounted it was fairly solid anyway.
Here is the test fit of the Radiator
During this time I taped up the spots I wanted to cut. I started using a dremel and I just could not control the thing, and it was taking forever. My uncle was generous enough to give me his tool chest with a bunch of tools so I thought now would be the time to see what was in there. I opened up the drawers and to my surprise there was a whole drawer of snips in there. Found the straight edged ones and got to work.
Here is my taping job and the after cutting. You can probably see in the bottom left of the upper square where I was using the dremel.
While I had the scissors I decided to make an 8 pin routing hole as there is nothing there and didnt want to have wires laying around. And yes that is electrical tape.
Well that is it for now. Today I plan on doing the test fitting of the pump and reservoir. And to hopefully continue on this sleeving adventure. Thanks for looking guys!
Chris:thumb:
This will be watercooled and be a pretty sweet machine once it is assembled. The plan is to make it as clean as possible and also functional. I would like to use some red and smoked acrylic in this build but we will see how that all goes. This is my first real case mod that I have ever done so here it goes. And I want to apologize in advanced for the cell phone pictures. My DSLR is down for the count at the moment but I will hopefully be getting that taken care of soon before this is all over.
Parts List:
-Asus Maximus Gene V (bought)
-Corsair Force GT 120G(bought)
-OCZ ZX 850W Fully Modular PSU(bought)
-NZXT Vulcan of course(Owned)
-NVidia GTX 670(Bought)
-i5 2500k(waiting on school)
-Eheim pump(friend had this and gave it to me)
-2x120mm Radiator(Unknown brand, friend also gave)
-FTW V2 sleeve Red, Black, White with precut heat shrink
The Pump/Radiator and Reservoir were all given to me by a friend. I wasnt going to say no to free watercooling stuff. I am unsure of the quality of the products but if it works and gets the job done then its alright. The best part is that it was all free.
Now not to bore you guys anymore lets get onto the pictures.
Got the sleeving and heat shrink in the mail. Just waiting on the black, I ordered that separate so it came a day after.
I then cut the original heat shrink and sleeving and found this....I did some sleeving on the ones without capacitors but now I am at a standstill on this as I am unsure if I want to remove them or just heat shrink over it all. I think I will just heat shrink over all of it with one big piece.
Now I decided to move onto the most important part of the build, the case. I mounted the radiator up front and made some measurements for cutting for the most airflow I could get. At first I started out with some aluminum strips to basically make a new structured front. But after it was mounted it was fairly solid anyway.
Here is the test fit of the Radiator
During this time I taped up the spots I wanted to cut. I started using a dremel and I just could not control the thing, and it was taking forever. My uncle was generous enough to give me his tool chest with a bunch of tools so I thought now would be the time to see what was in there. I opened up the drawers and to my surprise there was a whole drawer of snips in there. Found the straight edged ones and got to work.
Here is my taping job and the after cutting. You can probably see in the bottom left of the upper square where I was using the dremel.
While I had the scissors I decided to make an 8 pin routing hole as there is nothing there and didnt want to have wires laying around. And yes that is electrical tape.
Well that is it for now. Today I plan on doing the test fitting of the pump and reservoir. And to hopefully continue on this sleeving adventure. Thanks for looking guys!
Chris:thumb:
