Scratch Build – In Progress Loramentum - Fan Upgrade! - Update 27th January 2017

Do me a favour,ask your plater if he can do copper on to Alu?
I have much need of such a thing.





Nice build touches,I like.

 

I think they should be fine doing that. I believe the process for gold plating aluminium involves plating it in copper, then nickel and finally gold, so sticking to the copper stage would be feasible I imagine. Not sure what their pricing would be though or how it would compare to other places. You should call up and check, I found them very pleasant people to deal with, even if their side business is a bit wacky (water vortex implosion something or other, nonsense really).

http://www.cirelectroplating.co.uk

 

Might I ask for the details of the PCIe extension for the graphics card? Brand? any loss of through put?

 

Whilst I haven't had the chance to actually use it yet, there are a fair few over on OCN who will attest to the quality of these 3M riser cables. I picked mine up from DigiKey.

 

Thank you. That adds a bit more flexibility in my plans.

 

Small update

Haven't had much time to work on things sadly as it was my birthday yesterday, so took some time to do things with everybody. I may have also ordered some goodies that should be arriving tomorrow (that hopefully you'll approve of). I did have a little time to make the 8 pin CPU cable though. I was very happy to find that the RM650 has a 1:1 pinout for this cable, so it matches the 24 pin perfectly.

All crimped up


This is how the cable will sit with the 24 pin


And sleeved


Since every part of this cable is on full show, I had to be sure there were no errors


And this is how it'll sit. The lighting is a little off on the sleeve here as it was reflecting the view from the window, it's much warmer in person.

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Very nice man, black and vanilla sands? I think shade 19 would have worked really well instead of black as well.

 

That's the baby. I really like how vanilla sands fits with the gold theme without driving it home too hard, the muted colour just seems to fit really well. I've seen a few people using gold sleeving that actually shines too, something just doesn't quite look right IMO. Shade 19 would have looked pretty good too, although black fits very well with the matte black acrylic front.

 

UPDATE!

Well DPD managed to screw up my delivery today (first time they've ever failed me) and went to the wrong house, where of course nobody was in either. It's happened with the postman before so I reckon I know which place they went to, this wouldn't have happened had the drivers not changed though. Either way, that'll now be arriving tomorrow instead

However, I managed to finish the GPU cables instead and also take care of the cable management. The main lot of cables are basically done now, just SATA and fan ones left (oh and the pump). I want to make sure that the back is nice and clean, cable wise. I'm sick of wall mounted builds being effectively mullets, all business at the front and party at the back. No this will be organised and neat everywhere.

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Lot of nice things going on here really into this

 

Cheers, been pretty quiet around here recently

UPDATE!

So by now I was hoping to be able to show off what was due on Friday, however, DPD had other plans. Originally they delivered to the wrong address (how does this even happen??), I phoned up rather angrily and was told that if the driver couldn't turn around right away (I called within ~5 minutes of being told nobody was home, when I was...) then it would be redelivered on Saturday. Well Saturday came, and then went, but no package. Incensed, I sent a very angry email off to their customer services (since the phones weren't operated by humans at that time) demanding to know what had happened and why things weren't happening. Many apologies later they said that it'll be delivered again on Monday before 12. Fingers crossed that actually will be the case.

Failing that, I decided to address some little aesthetic issues, namely the PSU fan and the SSD enclosure. I wasn't originally going to void the PSU warranty, but to hell with that. Must say it wasn't easy masking off the SSD so that only the rim was visible for painting.

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Woof.

That's all.

 

Hell yeah probably my favorite "wall mod" build. I love the milled channels, that is what made the build for me. So cool. Great job!

 

Great details. I so can't wait to see this in its carry case.

 

Well they are the in thing at the moment, I wonder if we'll look back in a few years time and wonder how so many builds were done without them? A little bit like how we often do with acrylic tubing (although maybe not that mainstream).

You and me both, as soon as the stand materials arrive I'm hoping to make this a reality.

 

UPDATE!

So all my packages arrived today!

Including my ascendancy to the mechanical keyboard master race! I was a bit tired of typing on my Apple scissor-switch keyboard, which although pleasant for documents, was not too good for gaming and would leave my fingers aching. So I opted for a Ducky Shine 3 with Cherry MX Browns, which I must say are heavenly to type on. Naturally I'll be modding the heck out of this thing later on, although not for this project, I'll reserve that for Azure Redux.

I also received the plastic and the on/off switch. It's a yellow ring vandal switch, but will mostly be hidden, I may see to the aesthetics too and make it black. I also finally got to work on the stand!

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So much going on, GREAT STUFF!

Its come together very nicely indeed!

 

Certainly is all pulling together. Managed to get some sanding in earlier to get the stand edges all nice and flush. Since I have to work pretty late over the coming week, I'll be relegated to hand tools, meaning slow, arduous progress. Still, it's already looking much better and that's after only 35 minutes or so.

Also this keyboard is bliss to type on. Still getting used to things but damn is it addictive.

 

Maki, this is rather awesome.

That Pulp Fiction reference is spot on.

 

Thanks Wayne! This has definitely been the most exciting build I've embarked on so far, so many things that I had to learn and pick up along the way, plus the community response has been amazing.

UPDATE!!

First up I was to apologize for the first two, out of focus pictures. I accidentally left my camera on autofocus and didn't notice that it had decided that the background what what I wanted... Flicked it back into manual for the last ones at least.

I didn't have much time this week to make progress, simply put life had me finishing work at 7-8pm with a 1 1/2 hour commute on top of that, add in dinner and you can imagine there wasn't much time around. However, today I got to finish very early, so managed to complete the stand legs! (Well, mostly complete.) I filed and machine sanded the edges of the pieces so that they were pretty smooth and consistent. Remember that I cut these pieces with a jigsaw, so they were a little rough and inconsistent. It took roughly 5 hours of sanding, but I got them to where I wanted.

Next was a lot of fine grade sanding by hand. I went through 120, 320, 400, 600, 800, 1200 and 2500 grits and finished off with a round of polish. I'll probably go over the edge with a specialist plastic polish so as to get a really good shine. I'm very happy with how things have worked out, they're very similar to the renders I made earlier. The best bit though, is that they work! Once the brackets are in, this rig'll be very stable indeed.

Just after machine sanding (grr blurriness)


At 800 grit


Reminder of how the renders came out


All polished up




She holds!
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