Hey everyone, I was asked to do a mod for Dreamhack Summer 2016 for Esport United in Sweden TO GIVE AWAY TO A LUCKY SUBSCRIBER. It was a big succes and a 13 yr old LAN gamer present at Dreamhack won it and was overwhelmed with happyness. Which was amazing to see and experience. Neddless to say... WE'RE DOING IT AGAIN FOR THE WINTER EDITION W00000000000T Again we are partnering up with Thermaltake and MSI which is amazing. But this time we also have help from HyperX, Intel and Razer. Since Dreamhack is all about Esports the theme for this project is OVERWATCH with a character sidetheme TRACER. Which is another excuse to use orange This time I will be using the Thermaltake Core X31 chassis. Because of the rules I hereby post a few pics of the first mod. I don't like using cases in their regular way. So I am going to change the position of the radiator to begin with.
I did some painting on the radiator mounting so it blends in with the system and doesn't become the focus of everything. I picked up this pile of plexiglass from the lasercutter. This is my 2nd pile. The first thing I made with it is this nice PSU cover and midplate. The Overwatch name logo with a lightbox behind it to make the letters and triangles illuminated. See you at the next update.
Man, every one building these Overwatch PCs. I don't get it at all (not played it). Still, yours looks like it will be the best so far.
Nice work! Must be very nice to give it away and see the smile on the winners face Also, that makita! We had one just like that when I was young! Battery died in the end and cost to much to replace. From what I can remember it spins quite slow but was a hefty piece! Is your battery still fresh or did you get a new one?
Thanks Andreas. We did the same during Dreamhack Summer 2016 and a 13 yr old boy won it. He and his friends were bouncing all over the place. He had called his dad a few times. We also contacted his father because he was so young and wanted to do things nicely. His dad told me later on that he had friends coming over each day to come and look at his kick-ass-system hahaha Puts a HUGE smile on my face It is quite a few years old now. Came with a quick charger and 2 batteries. They both still work, but I am only a hobby user. It doesn't get as much use as with you I imagine
Next up was to unpack the gfx card. The MSI Aero is basically a reference design but with a PCB from MSI factory (with ref design though) and an own MSI aircooler on it to replace the expensive FE aly cooler. Next update again soon
Thanks a lot Andreas -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I was fitting the parts I was unhappy about how the pump and top ended up in terms of hight. Plus I wanted a nice and clean chamber for the SSDs to be in. And lastly I had the idea of adding 2 orange "ornaments" to the PSU box with one also being where the cables would come out of. So I got to work The orange parts I had already lasercut, the black parts I made with my jigsaw. All parts were bent with my trusty ghetto plexiglass bending wire. I am very happy with the results. The SSD box looks nice from all sides. Even from the bottom it looks like I was always supposed to be there. More updates soon.
Thank you very much Thank you. Here is another update for you --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was (sorry this happens more often) so into the modding that I forgot to take a lot of pictures during the proces Here are a few though. I created 5 lightboxes in total for this project. One left, one right, one behind the 2nd sidepanel and one behind both Overwatch logos. Here are 3 pictures of the right side lightpanel and the one for the front of the case where only the circular logo will be. How about this custom GPU backplate I had UV printed? The detail is amazing and a very nice finish is on it. I was at the same moment busy building up the system. Here you can see the radiator mounted together with the Thermaltake Premium RGB fans. There you control using Windows software. Not only the colour and brightness and illumination mode, but also the fanspeed itself. With a new update you can also do this using your phone with an app. The fact that their controllers are basically fan- and lightcontrollers is pretty sweet imo. have not seen any other company do that. Not that I have tried every fan in the world, but you know what I mean. As you can see I also made a 24 pin extension cable and an 8 pin extension cable. The same will be done for the GPU cable. See you at the next update
Dunno man not sold on the back plate. I suppose I will hold judgement until the build is done, but right now I don't think it would look right. A few of the Overwatch builds I have seen recently have looked stunning, until the end when the people doing them stuck on a load of random pics. I know that's the characters (not played it myself) but I dunno man, I just don't think it will look right. It's like building a colour coded car and then randomly sticking on a photo at the end.
Hate to be that guy, but kinda agree with Vault-Tec.. IMO you should have gone with an image of Tracer if you wanted to go the picture route. That one could make the build turn into a generic Overwatch PC, whereas before it was going down a Tracer theme mod. Just my $0.02!
Well it was always an Overwatch mod with a Tracer sidetheme. But I hope I can prove you wrong with the final pictures of the mod ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to the deadline and some issues where I had to remake a lightbox I didn't have time to shoot pictures at home. I did make some at Dreamhack itself. Here is a short video I made at the Cooler Master Casemod competition.
Here are a few photos made by someone with a decent camera on the Esport United booth at Dreamhack Winter 2016. The image used on the illuminated sidepanel was made by Warren Louw. An amazing artist. I asked him if I was allowed to use his image if I put his signature next to it and he was very cool about it. If you want to check out his work go to: https://www.facebook.com/ArtofWarrenLouw/?ref=ts&fref=ts He has a masisve following with over 350k likes!
