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Case Mod - Complete ⭐ MODZERO JUICE - NFC SYSTEMS S4 MINI #80 (FINISHED 13.12.17)

Discussion in 'Project Logs' started by MODZERO, 15 Dec 2016.

  1. ADmodz

    ADmodz Go hard or Go home

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    Stunning dude.
    Great build
    Congrats
     
  2. MODZERO

    MODZERO Minimodder

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    Hahahaha, a reply, on Bit-Tech.... well I never. lol thanks buddy. See you at LAN.

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  3. Guest-56605

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    In a word - EPIC :thumb:
     
  4. MODZERO

    MODZERO Minimodder

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    Cheers! Glad you like it. More to come..... just waiting on COLDZERO now..

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  5. MODZERO

    MODZERO Minimodder

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    UPDATE 6.1

    Hi, Things have been quiet on the build front for some time now. I've been crazy busy. I'm now a married man and 8 weeks away from welcoming my first child into this world. I've continued to use JUICE as my daily driver and boy does it continue to impress. A couple months back I uploaded a quick snap showing a quick side panel mod I'd done in time for Insomnia 61 gaming festival. Having the side panel fitted makes the chassis as a whole much more stable.

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    LAN was awesome (it always is), providing 5 days of freedom from the rest of daily life stresses. Shortly after I came back, I received a message from a dude called Victor. He'd seen my fabricator had fallen through and kindly offered up his time to help me out (what a guy!).

    I sent him my CAD design for the Matrix Orb display bracket and he's run with it, correcting the mistakes I'd made and bashing out a prototype.

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    Designed to attach to the 120mm fan mount on the S4 mini, Victor has opted to laser cut the design from acrylic. Then mill out where required and tap the holes.

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    First attempt cut and ready for the mill.

    Victor lives in the US and operates OPEN BOX STUDIOS I recommend you get in touch with him if you're looking for some design/fabrication work to be carried out.

    I'll be back with another update once the parts arrive.

    J.​
     
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  6. MODZERO

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  7. Cheapskate

    Cheapskate Insane? or just stupid?

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    ^ Is that a premature postication?
     
  8. MODZERO

    MODZERO Minimodder

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    UPDATE 6.5

    I'm back folks, quick build update before the final shots go live on Monday. JUICE had always planned to have a tempered glass side panel. Josh over at NFC kindly hooked me up with a couple extra panels to aid my development a way to mount the glass.. which was easy enough. The vented portion of the panel was to be cut out leaving a frame (as the side panel makes up part of the chassis structural strength it had to be the basis for the tempered glass mod) to mount the glass. Which, was to be attached using six standoffs to provide enough clearance for ventilation. Easy right? Well, yeah... finding somewhere that could make the glass turned out to be far more expensive then I'd hoped. it's a small piece that needed to be tinted, tempered and have six mounting holes. When each of my quotes came back in the hundreds I decided to put a pin in it.

    As I'm using the Noctua NF B9 REDUX, the fan sits just a few mm too high for the stock side panel to fit. This wasn't to be an issue with the tempered glass approach, so instead, I opted for a simple side panel cut out.

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    Using one of the powder coated panels Josh sent ( I still have a beautiful BMW estoril blue side panel which I may give away to another S4 mini owner) I masked it off and marked out how I'd like it to look. The centre-left hole meant a clean, straight square frame wasn't an option. But that would have been boring anyway. So I left the vented section above that hole in place and kept a single vent down at the bottom right (a little nod to my love of Parvum Systems chassis).

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    It was the first time using my oscillating tool and wow, for cutting at least, I've retired my dremel.

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    I re-masked it and used some small hand files to clean up the lines.

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    Then it was a couple primer coats (grey) and a couple more in a satin black automotive paint (It was all I had in my shed, left over from my old FT03 3D printed Matrix Orb mount, who remembers that?).

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    Removed the tape and job done. you can see where the satin finish is still reflecting some light... I'd use matt black if I were to do it again.

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    Really happy with how it turned out. With the panel in place the whole chassis is rock solid, zero flex.

    So that's it. The final shots go up on Monday once Gigabyte shares them, soon after I'll do the final build log update. I'll post all the photos and talk a bit more about the Matrix Orb display.

    Thanks for checking it out.

    J.​
     
  9. MODZERO

    MODZERO Minimodder

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    urghhh, wish this forum auto-resized images. Sorry folks.

    J.
     
  10. Cheapskate

    Cheapskate Insane? or just stupid?

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    Love it. :D
     
  11. MODZERO

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    Cheers buddy.

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  12. MODZERO

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    UPDATE 7.0 - FINAL SHOTS

    Hi folks, well it's time to wrap this project up. JUICE came from a strong desire to build a LAN rig in the NFC Systems S4 mini chassis, to running it 24/7 as my daily driver. I'd have never thought I'd get so much performance from a 250 watt PSU. I've some plans to move to an i7 and GTX1080 using the HD-PLEX 300 Watt PSU and my current 330 DELL brick. But for now, it's finished and I'm delighted with it.

    I want to extend a huge thank you to Josh from NFC Systems, the team at E22, my boys at Gigabyte UK and my eleventh-hour hero Victor at Open Box Studios. Without your help and support, it would never have happened.

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    • HYPERX FURY DDR4 2400MHZ 16GB (2X8GB) RAM ​
    • HYPERX 3K 240GB SSD X2 ​
    • SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2-2280 250GB NVMe SSD​
    • HDPLEX Hi-Fi 250W DC-ATX PSU ​
    • NOCTUA NH-L9i COOLER​

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    I'll be back in the new year with two projects, MODZERO JABBA and MODZERO 42. The later being my sequel to MODZERO FORTY. I've some exciting and originals plans underway for the HEX GEAR R40 chassis and can't wait to show you guys. Around the same time, I'll be doing another buddy build, MODZERO JABBA has been over two years in the making down at Parvum Systems and stands to be quite the eye turner when complete.

    Thanks for following along.

    J.







     
  13. AML_customs_pc

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    I seen this on facebook, glad there was a build log, you have done a great job.
     
  14. MODZERO

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    Thanks chap.

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  15. BeauchN

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    I love the S4 Mini and that is a cracking build!
    Having just re-read the log, I'd forgotten how much effort you'd put into getting the wiring right. Certainly worth the effort :thumb:
     
  16. Jay Locke

    Jay Locke What's a Dremel?

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    Really love it.
     
  17. MODZERO

    MODZERO Minimodder

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    It was great to have been included in this year's Mod of the year awards! Great to have received not only a nomination but an honourable mention in the final results too. Thanks for the votes chaps. I'll be back with two new builds this year (at least). Starting mayhaps with my MODZERO JABBA build.

    J.
     
  18. MODZERO

    MODZERO Minimodder

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  19. Mojo

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    Hope Jo doesn't mind but thought i would add to the thread.
    For those that didn't know - i became the proud owner of Modzero Juice a few years ago now and then later went on to became the owner of Modzero Dyno too (that can be found here)
    Joe has a proper eye for detail and i have loved his builds but Modzero Juice had started to look a little run down after all of these years - i haven't been the most careful.. i lost a panel in a house move and the front had become a bit chipped.

    Some changes were in order

    Internals were adjusted slightly -
    Intel I7 - 9900k
    Kingston FURY Beast RGB 64GB Memory.
    WD Black M.2 drive.

    Joe sold it to me back in the day without the graphics card (i think.. or i bought it and sold the card on) but essentially it was going to be used as a glorified file server and housed a Asus pci card housing 4x m.2 drives. Which ran flawlessly!

    I decided to upgrade the graphics card to a Palit 2060 TI

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    Always cut myself and incur an injury. It wouldn't be modding without it -

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  20. Mojo

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    I'd made a bit of an attempt to change the front up by adding some grill/mesh.. which worked for a little while but it wasn't perfect.

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