Scratch Build – In Progress Epic PC X Series 20.10.2010 Its over, finished, complete. Come one come all :)

No, this is madness!


THIS IS MADNESS!

Wow, how about that for a spoiler




Forced myself into toolpathing hell and went about getting the cuts for the PSU done. At this stage of the mod I had hid away the radiators and made the HDD bays presentable so why not give the PSU the same treatment?



Since I had gone with MPDC-X, it wasn't good enough to have it just lying around sprawled all over the place. Sleeving your cables doesnt give you a licence to have bad cable management.



I wasnt prepared to stop there though, every cable would be managed, every cable would have a route to follow and a purpose. I had to go cut a whole set!




Slowly but surely becoming more efficient with the CNC, multiple cut win.










The PSU cover was a lot of fun, I even used the side of the panel to etch in my website (very much still in construction).





I need to finalise the route the ATX cables will take and once I get the other cables sleeved, ill do some shots of the PSU in the case. The cover is bolted onto the PSU with all the 6 screw points covered with m3 cap screws. I bought a heap of the things for the waterblocks and now they are paying dividends here too. Cap screws are legendary.


Until this thing is mounted, I will leave you with some compugraphical porn.










Oh and a big thanks to my sponsors! Lamptron has sent out a very VERY big box of goodies! Did I mention it was big? More on that when it arrives!

 

It runs on solitare?!?!

 

I miss the sparta thing

 

whoa! u own a cnc machine?

 

There is nothing a CNC cannot run

Sigh TOO BAD!

 

This mod is so sweeeeeeeeeet. Can't wait to see how the cabeling turns out.

 

where to buy acrylic

hey i've been looking at your posts and im amazed ,i was going to buy a simple acrylic case when i came across this post, but you have inspired me to build my own , i only have one question , where do you buy your acrylic sheets from ??

 

Cheap meant if Solitare powers the CNC machine?

 

Oh of course, is there anything solitare CANT power?

 

Solitare can't power solitare!

 

So its been raining and I had some time to sit down and let my fiancee finish all the sleeving Kidding, we both worked on getting the sleeving done, lets just say its been tedious, anyone that sits down and enjoys an afternoon of sleeving is not from this planet, we just cant be friends.






The PSU shield has paid dividends in turning chaos into order







I dont know what to say about this other than I really like how it has turned out.




Sleeved my sata's and played around with some depth of field, Im not the photo pro I want to be but I hope to get there one article at a time.



Probably shouldnt sleeve on your bed, its just not a good idea....







I am all ready for the install test fit, I'll leave that for tomorrow though

 

NOOOOOOOOO!!!

not tomorrow!

 

Well actually I just woke up, so later on tonight???

 

the hell that sleeving is nice!, just one question, that system of connecting the disks to the same energy supply "like in paralell" does not cause anything on the discs?

 

I got one word for you..... TEASE!



lol looking forward to this evening

 

that wire shield is another step to PSU perfection, ingenious!

 

Gotta love the teasing

That cable array is nice!

 

I like your project, and the cnc mill you use to cut out the different parts.

 

Very nice, I liked the 1000 watts of win

 

looks great man! but im curious, why the huge hules for the sleeved wires? would have looked better if it was a tight fit

impressing work with the acrylic and design!