Hi Everyone, I'm a long time lurker of these forums, and have been an avid follower of some of the simply awesome project logs for quite a while now. Looking around these and other forums has really inspired me, but made me realise that my fabrication skills, good as they may be, just don't stand up in the face of some of the stellar work I've seen on here. As for my level of experience: I've put together gaming machines for myself and mates over the years, and know my way around components, air cooling and basic boxes pretty well, but I don't think I'd end up with the polished mod result that I'd want as a first attempt. So I thought, why not consider being a patron of the modding arts? It would be excellent to be involved in something really novel, and get a fantastic looking machine out of it in the end. The basic spec I'm considering is a water-cooled i7 gaming machine with an SSD and a 2x crossfire or SLi GPU setup. Powerful, quiet and reasonably portable are the watchwords I guess... Beyond that, I really like the aesthetic of project flow, and I'm totally amazed by that swiss project "edelweiss". So now that I'm considering this, any good advice on taking the next step? Thanks for reading, hopefully I've got the right idea posting here, but all corrections, suggestions and advice is most welcome. CT.
Welcome to BT! I'd say the best way is to look around for logs you like from nearby folks (we've got great modders worldwide, but shipping is hell), establish communications and see if they'd be willing to work with you and vice versa. Pricing would be fairly expensive for a commissioned custom case mod (I'd expect, no experience either selling or buying) and I'd bet that you'd be requested to pay a certain amount up front as a deposit or to cover materials. Yeah that edelweiss was cool, wasn't it?
ModMinded, thanks for the warm welcome. Sound advice, I'll keep looking at builds. There are some really talented modders locally (Eastern Australia) I'll get in touch and see what happens. Otherwise I could bite the bullet and try something less ambitious as a first project... Maybe an upcoming corsair obsidian 800 with white water cooling tubing ala pure... Mankz, Thanks for the link, I've seen their work around the place, and I'm really impressed... I think the freight and customs costs could be a killer though. I'll drop them a line and see if they've sent stuff out here to Oz before. Thanks guys, CT.
My small shop will do international, so long as the money is there. Check out Mithril, link in sig. Can do traditional, but almost every piece that can be is custom fabricated here in my shop/lab.
