Yeah it can be a bit frustrating applying it and getting the bubles out. Patience is deffo required. It's a bit of a dust magnet but worth the...
Oh it wouldn't be with this build, not yet anyway. I'm thinking of a sandybridge build for my son who's getting into pc's (from consoles) at last!
Thanks for the very kind comments everyone, especially the reference to MDPC!! I'm getting the itch to go back to watercooling though now lol so...
Thanks guys :D
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For the lighting in this build I was just going to let the LED fans do their bit but to add a few minor highlights to the rest of the build I...
I originally had the Bitfinex Spectre 120mm fans planned for the HS but it made it look too black so I plumped for Prolimatech Vortex 140mm in...
Time to finally start building. I seem to have spent so long preping and modding stuff :(. Anyway here she is, the Rampage III Extreme: [IMG]...
Before cracking on with the mootherboard prep I wanted to clear up a few odds and sods so 'carbonised' the GPU's to match the build: [IMG] Next...
The hard drives should go connector side showing, however I don't like looking at cables and prefer to keep the look as clean as possible so...
So as this case doesn't have inbuilt SSD holders I decided to mount the drive to the motherboard tray. Sticking the SSD to the tray would have...
Now for the fans: I innitially bought some of these in 120 & 140mm guise: [IMG] [IMG] and while they are good fans, I really wanted some with...
Minor update: Memory I was gonna sell this kit and go for a 12gb kit but in all honesty I wouldn't make use of 12GB and despite having some...
Remember the white frame? Sanded down, primed and then sprayed black: [IMG] Carbonised :D [IMG] I decided to keep the revolution 'arrows, if...
You can get heatshrink in different shrink ratios. I chose 3:1 as that gives a good tight fit without too much 'shrinkage', if that makes sense....
So with the psu now stripped down it was time to kiss my fingers goodbye. I thought I'd do a mini guide to braiding but there are more...
And so it begins.... First off I had to strip down the PSU ready for braiding. Here's a quick reminder of the PSU as it looked: [IMG] Looked...
Details: [IMG] After spraying the HD racks red and liking the look I went on to do a few more little touches: I was gonna use some plain black...
5.25/HD racks: [IMG] These were easy enough to do however I won't be making all of the cutouts as I prefer the 'stealth' look. The only holes...
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