Case Mod - In Progress Official "John Hanlon Fund Raiser" PC Build (Thank you Mach!)

Blue and white motherboard! Theme continues.

Awesomeness.

 

Love the look of those compression fittings also.

Ohhhhh I'm loving this so much my words are all over the place , so I'll just say this at this stage.

Case modding by the 1 & only Bill Owen
Totally kickass paint job by the awesome Brad Galvin
Awesome cheapskate waterblock
Sleeving is looking perfect by Lutro0 & I agree what Nutman said about the paracord, plus it really looks excellent.
Quality system building to come from Darth Beavis
A brilliant load of vendors chipping in really nice parts
A truly awesome show of community spirit which is always an excellent thing to see.

So awesome

 

FAST friggen thread, Man!
Freaky looking fittings, Darth. I really like the white ones.

-Last cut on the waterblock. John, I may need you to ship some of those diapers you were joking about. Changing the pulleys to max the grab and slowing to .18 IPM didn't keep it from binding four times. I'm sure yo can imagine the monkey frantically punching arrow keys and chewing on the carpet with his butt.

-The edges of the slots are uneven. Now you know why professionally made ones are sometimes off. This stuff requires more torque than my little rig can handle.

-Oh, and there's no way I can clean 'em up. I was so frazzled by the end that I totally didn't see that screw until it was too late. Hey, that saw was shot anyway.

-The good news is that it really doesn't show thanks to the side channels. Performance should be on par with my AMD block.

 

It is zooming forward fast now, I even missed the paint update post until just earlier.

Cheaps I like the totally faint & totally insignifficant imperfections that you can't even see anyway, makes it all the more hand made.

Looks excellent quality mate. rep

 

Gigabyte said mobo will be upgraded to P67X-UD3-B3 version

 

I've never owned a full ATX motherboard. so many options on that board! Thank everyone from me.

 

Hey, i was just wondering what i need to do to get my name added to the list of Sponsors? I mean i am spending time and money for the grills, though its not like i cut each hex out by hand or anything. I actually have a team of mice that do it for me, monkeys were too high in labor costs as they got tired of bananas after a while.

 

Wow... without internet for 2 days and this thread is huge!
I'm quite impressed with both the quality and speed that this is moving along with. The willingness to help is amazing, from not only the community of modders, but also manufacturer sponsors!

 

If someone will get me DB's address, I'll get it in the mail tomorrow. I'm just glad to be able to help.

 

I will fix with Bill Owen. You have my thanks and heart.

john

 

Lucky dog! You still have a post office? Mine is 2 buses away from my digs. Closed the one 6 blocks away.

the john

 

My heart to you.

john

 

In my opinion with the fans having a blue glow, the water block and pump a blue tint and the mobo blue and white, I would 100 percent go for white tubes with red fittings... you know it makes sense, just picture it in your head.

 

^ Does indeed make sense.

 

This mod is going to kick some serious booty for sure!!! What an amazing partnership, it shows the power of the modding world! GO GO GO guys!!!!!!!!!!!

 

@DarthBeavis, Please Private Message your address to anyone sending you hardware (Darth is in charge of procuring hardware)

I'll add Darth's "Out of Box Mods" to front page and look over thread and add anyone donating misc hardware to front page

Those recently added to front page!

Thank you to these bit-tech Members who have donated Hardware to the build!

Kayinblack donated DDC Waterpump
Furballzen's business PCModul.us has donated 240 radiator grill / 120mm fan grill

240 Honeycomb Radiator Grill from PCModul.us

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Any word from Paslis? Or was he knocked down in the stampede?

 

It's my 2nd post in this thread but I wanted to say that to us lot that can't mod but love looking at other peoples work, this is something amazing to watch. So many willing to help and restoring faith that people are decent after all and won't just sit and take take take all their lives but give give give and then some. Really pleased to be watching this unfold and to see how things work out. #Take a bow son...take a bow#

 

@cheaps, no word from Paslis.

My original intention was to mount a 280 radiator on the ceiling, but 30mm of space between ceiling and motherboard would have made internal access miserable. Mounting a radiator in the bezel would mean sacrificing the entire HD column, so installing a 240 radiator in the floor was the most logical solution. This requires modifying the bottom of HD column to accommodate the radiator. Here is some photos I'd taken during this process. The HD column was repainted Matte White, to match the interior of the Define R3.



Remove the Factory pop rivets with 1/8" drill bit







Used 4.5" Hole saw....

 

DDC made it into the mail today. Should arrive soon.