He got the whole setup for free. Give him a break. If you want to gripe at someone, I paid (a lot) for my case and electronics, and they're Alienware too. PC internals might not be, but I have a full ESA setup in mine from the Area51 it used to be. But if you want a challenge, getting that to play with non Dell components and expanding its capabilities is enough of one that you ought to be busy for a little while. Kier is one of the best of the best, and Dell recognized it by giving him this setup. Why not put your bias aside, give the case itself another look (who else has motorized venting that's controlled by software?) and let the man work? Modding is doing with whatever you're given sometimes. By that definition, this is definitely modding.
I first saw it on Fangame's project Fury last year http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=197169&highlight=top+vents&page=10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9oBDD1wpR4 But I agree, I haven't seen any other manufactured PCs with it. I agree, though, let the man get on with it.
That's what we do here. We build ridiculous mods for fun, because we can. If you don't like what's going on here then stop punishing yourself. Find something else more to your taste. There are lots of interesting things happening here and you can just ignore the ones you don't like. I do it all the time. OK, well, that statement is just sad.
By all means, don't let us hold back your arogance. Come one! Come all! Massive ego on display! You have to relax man, if your a well respected member on other forums then I'm surprised you would have that kind of attitude on this one. And with that I'm all done hijacking Kier's thread. Kier... my apologies
Thats really impressive. I like the way that you've changed the lower side pannels rather than reuse the old one. I've always liked the Alienware design, I saw one at the I-series a few years ago, and I am very interested in whats going into it next. PS NOTE: Could a mod not just delete the argument above? It doesn't add much to the topic, or could just be moved to the rant section?
Or just ban the user for being a stinking troll? Looking forward to the mod by the way kier, and that's something because I don't often venture into this section (I get too jealous )
Thanks you guys but please relax Owndapwn is free to give his opinion, I don't mind. This forum, his community and there builds are great, no matter what some individuals say.
Sorry guys. I was just having a bad day yesterday. Just the straw that broke the camel's back, but that's still no excuse to take it out on you blokes. I have nothing against the OP, his modding skills, or case modding. Just Alienware, as they, iBUYPOWER and CyberPowerPC manage to simultaneously cut myself and other small-time IT's out of a sale and rip off the customer. If no other computer brands existed, and custom building was illegal, I'd breadboard myself a PC. Nothing. They make decent desk ornaments (Albeit large). But as a computer, they're good. As a gaming computer (As they advertise it), they're well below sub-par. An Alienware would make a better video / 3D modeling computer than gaming. For gaming, an i7 is useless (Most games only use one or two cores. Quad-cores are only recommended for gaming builds so you can run a recording program, Teamspeak, music, etc in the background). Then they put a GTX 555 (OEM 550ti) in a ~$1500 gaming PC. The 550ti is a ~$130 GPU, and the 6850 is a better ~$130 GPU. (Source) Unless you have triple or quad GPU's, LGA 2011/LGA 1366 quad cores just raise mobo prices. If they didn't throw out "extreme gaming" so many times and they lowered the price ~30%, they'd be great prebuilts. Also, can that first 680 even breathe? ._. I thought my board had a tight fit for Crossfire, with it's one PCI gap...
No problem Actually I dont care what kind of hardware they put in. They give me this system to mod with and i am very happy they give me this opportunity. It is tight yes, but the GPU's will be watercooled
I want to believe..., that you will remove this funny X-files era alien head from the top Nice progress so far, of course
Update!!! Hi Y'all, I had a nice update in mind about the internal and the beautiful water blocks. Unfortunately GLS did it again... destroyed my package and send it back to Slovenie.... Thanks again GLS! So this time only an update about the internal parts. First I have some RAM coolers mounted on the Dell RAMs I also changed the CPU cooler. Before: Shorten the tubes, turn the cover, turn the alien and re-route the cable Internal: First cut and bent a custom cover What hides the 5.25 bay Made it black Placed it Next cut a piece of green acrylic to the right size with two small pieces for mounting the midplate and side cover Which will be like this The midplate. Later on there will be holes in it and a vinyl cover with the brand names which will be illuminated from below The side cover is also made of aluminum with recess for the power for the side panel And last... made a cover next to the motherboard tray,which will hide all cables Next week after the waterblocks are in, the case will go to the coater and turns completely black.
Update!!! Received a beautiful package today. This time GLS did a good job Early christmas EKWB your the best Unpacking can begin First some EK-PSC Fitting 10mm - G1/4 Black No build without EK-PSC Adapter 90° G1/4 Black And offcourse the EK-PSC Adapter 45° G1/4 Black Two beautiful EK-CoolStream RAD XT (360) And for the great Nvidia GTX680 GPUs 2x EK-FC680 GTX - Acetal + Nickel CSQ Linked with a EK-FC Bridge DUAL Serial CSQ And don't forget the EK-FC680 GTX Backplate - Black CSQ (QClass2) This time I will use the new EK-BAY DCP 2.2 Combo Reservoir - Acetal With this the EK-DCP 2.2 (12V DC Pump) Filled with EK-Ekoolant CLEAR (premix 1000mL) Thanks Gregor and everyone from EKWB who made this possible. Don't forget to look at the great new site from EKWB CooledPC and show your system to win great prizes
I love that res! Didn't know they did combo to hold a dcp 2.2... It's one of my all time favourite pumps for a silent build (I have one running at 5v 24/7 on my xb360, you just can't hear it at all!). Thanks for showing!
Hah, I've been waiting on a delivery from GLS for almost a week now. Bloody courier didn't find my house so decided to leave a gun sight in my local pub and claimed that he called me to confirm if that was ok (which he didn't)! On-topic, looks like were in for some WC cheesecake soon!
