Case Mod - In Progress Candy Cube - Water and Air - November 8th.

I'd say go with the blood iron

 

Asus p5k deluxe

 

DFI Cheesecake

 

Ok folks, have done lots of little jobs while i'm waiting for the last parts to arrive. I've decided to go with the P5k and it should be here soon ! Had a mountain of sleeving to do and i've got through about half of it before running out of heatshrink, i've still got eight 120mm fans to sleeve !! Here's a few led's for the cause ! :-



Decided to go for a bay res in the cube, the double bay XPSC jobbie should suit the case and the black Feser that will occupy it !! :-



And i went for the Swiftech GTX cpu block but decided that the "aluminium" word was out so this is the solution ! :-





You'll see the finished item in situ soon ! I could mount the EK gpu block too but i want to make sure all these parts work together when the mobo arrives so that will be later.

 

A word to the wise folks if taking your Swiftech block apart and putting it back together, dont overtighten it - i just decided to nip up the bolts half a turn and stripped one of the threads in the block base !!! It'll be a re-tapping job !

 

Used to be a problem with the SS Storm also.

This guide might be of some use to you rather than using oversized bolts

Using A Helicoil To Fix A Stripped Thread

 

Colossous, about that res...

Is its acrylic cut at 45* then glued, or is it all 90* cuts through out it?

 

It looks like it's 90 throughout.

 

Thanks for the guide Coolmeister - curse my big hands lol !
Its a square double bay res guys so 90 degree corners ! Optical illusion time !!

 

Ok folks, i finally have all the pieces to get the job done, i had 3 hours this am before i had to work and having started the other day with the sleeving of wires/fans etc i thought i'd show you the end product of around 5/6hrs of soldering and sleeving and this is about 80% of what i have to do !!



I have a few hours in the morning to start some work on the stealth covers i have in mind so more updates soon !

 

3 hours again today before work, got down to dressing the mobo and Graphics card. Its my 1st time with waterblocks so i took my time and was very methodical. As i said in an earlier post i stripped the thread changing to the copper block on the Apogee GTX and after talkin to Tom at Chilled PC i decided to get the D-tek Fusion block (with the accelerator nozzles) as its rated better for quads anyway and i can get the GTX fixed at leasure and use it on another build and not hold up this one !!
Heres some pics of todays progress :-







More soon folks !

 

Right, its out with the tools time !! Stealth covers and acrylic to cut and 2 hours before work !!!! :-

My friends the tin snips and AC Ryan Mesh !


Once cut its the bend it over the edge of a bench technique !



Both sides bent !


Holes drilled and in need of finishing but its off to work so - can you guess where its going ?





Got all the acrylic cut and the other mesh i wanted too and now i've had to phone work and say i'm going to be an hour late lol !!!

 

Lol, scarily enuff sounds a bit like me! So far so rockin man! Love that paintjob! Gotta be seen in the sunlight though! I demand pictures!

Joe

 

Hmm, last mod of the day !! Had a glasses accident at work !!



Bit of heatshrink and a ciggie lighter later !

 

Hehe nice one Rich good old heatshrink

 

Had a chance to work on the side and top panels today before work, i've got smoked plexi glass to replace the originals so the first job was to drill them using one of the original panels as a template :-


I've decided to paint the inside of the plexi panels, from the outside with no lights on they should look plain smoked but when the insides lit up it should show up the shapes i've sprayed :-





I also got quite a few pieces of plexi sorted for the interior and heres a taster allthough this wont be staying like this !! :-



Tomorrow i've got lots of black things to spray !

 

You know, you can just tell you love doing this kinda stuff............sticks out a mile and shows in every update

 

He he, i dont know whether to laugh or get myself comitted but you're right dude !