Project: Black and White wavemaster: CPU Magazine Front Cover

i live an hour's drive south of LA in Walnut, near diamond bar (mabe youve heard of it )
yea i know my project is a bit ripped off so far but itll start getting more original

 

Only walnut I know of the is the street down the road from my house. But I also live about an hours drive south from la in irvine. Near everything good and holy.

 

new update (WITH DIGICAM PICTURES!!), well here it is:

ok first of all heres an overview of the case:

i had to resand the sidepannel to fill some holes that came to my attention ><;;


picture of what is visible from the "window"


rad mounts held in there by hand


the res brok -_- imma have to fix that later too T_T


ok heres the res mounted with scews and all that junk.... how is it staying up you ask?


a revolutionary new mounting device called... THE RUBBER BAND lol a little unorthadox but it gets the job done and dosnt look half bad


back-is vies of the case


blury shot of the pump o_o dont know why i took that...


someone took a shot of me while i wasnt looking... haha i look so.. angry and *** the heat is causing all this acne T_T

oh before i go heres a little picture of my side project:

gonna start of restoring my school back pack soon

well ill try to update again today if possible, for now, peace out

 

heres the idea for the paint job:

ive always liked the idea of racing stripes, but at the same time i wanted a "sprawling" paintjob , one that isnt confined by the boundaries of the case, so.. i came up with this (sorry its kinda Shite, ill try to post up a sketch some time)
Racing stripes down the top and front and branch off the to sides to spell out a llarge "W" and "M" (brownie points to the first person to guess what that stands for)

 

Sweet idea and good job so far!
Subscribed.
Keep it comin' !

 

I have similar WC parts....
DD tdx
maze4
alphacool laing DCC-plus w/ top and res
bip2
sythe $6 jab-tech fans not <10 dba more like 29
interested in your temps later

looks good

 

For the hinged case panel, you could make it a lot cooler if you put one or two of those cylinders from car trunks, so that the panel opens up slowly when you unlatch it, and makes that schooosh sound. Plus, it would hold itself open, so no hood rod getting in the way.

 

haha yea thats what i though i should do but it turns out the cylinders cost ~200$ each acording to my buddy who instaled a couple in his car -_-, i have a question for yall, how do i get rid of this... waterfall sound from my res lol is the only way to fill it to the top?

 

200 is way off, dude 20 or 30 would more close to the real stuff,
the problem with thoes rods is that they have a lot o force, i got some around here, you have to pres on them with you're whole body to compres it

 

you could always DIY make your own, a simple plastic cylinder, closed off at one end (air tight), and have like aplunger in the other open end of the cylinder, then s you close the case it compresses the air inside the cylinder, when you unlatch the hinged door, the pressure exerts a force and moves the case panel open. Depending on how tight your plunger is in contact with the cylinder will depend on how slowly or fastly the case side panel will open.

Ok, so its not as cool as the actual one that would make the cool sound but if you were desperate, it would probably work fine...

*stashes that idea for later mod*

*kicks self for sharing ideas*

dragon2309

 

Just buy a pnuematic cylinder it would work much better.

 

hm.. anyone willing to find me a link to where i can get a good one CHEAP. I dont have a job or anything and busted most my money on the WC parts ><;;

 

was out all day today for volunteer work, didnt have time to do much but here are some pics

i mocked up what the paintjob might lo9ok like, the masking tape is suposed to be where the stripes are suposed to be

top

"W" on the side

 

http://www.mcmaster.com/ 922

 

funds are low so this project is on hold at least till friday, its my birthday and im expecting to receive enough money to finish the project, so not much of an update today. I desperatly needed my computer so i just put it in a ghetto setup, mainly composed of masking tape and cardboard boxes here are the pics


messyness

radiator is a box lol

pic of my Hiper Type R PSU

nv 68 with water flowing through it

haha i lied, i DID do some "modding", i installed silver SATA cables for my Hardrives, one of em is still pink cause the WD120 wont accept the SATA2 but all my other legacy SATA drives accept them no matter, ill just pop off the SATA 2 clip on the last cable and it SHOULD fit

pic of my monitor setup, one on my desk, and one on my nightstand for in-bed movie watching

 

That second monitor is JUST for in-bed movie watching?!

Why don't you use it as dual during the day, and then just move it back by the bed before going to sleep.

 

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both monitors are linked to my PC in a dual mon setup... it just that one is on my nightstand, i like my dualmon setups when the two monitors are not right next to each other
hope that clarifies things?

 

well i got bored and wanted to work on my PC so i photoshoped a plan so yall can see where this thing is going.

the big black area is the MOBO cover,
white is the areas that are gonna be cut out to acomidate cabling and tubing,
the grey is the watercool tubing,
the red X's is where the reservoir is suposed to be
the red areas on top is where the hinges are gonna go
the white circles on the bottom are holes imma drill to acomidate severl Neodium (AKA rare earth magnets) to keep the PC door closed
EDIT: i measured it out and ive figured that it is impossible to fit in the case, a "car-style hood stick" long enough to keep the side pannel proped up in that position, so im going to install the hinges on the side so the side pannel can swing open like a car door, either ill keep the neodium magnet idea, or ill just use some cabinet magnets
other things imma do are:
carbon fiber vinyl the front
get some custom decals printed
polish a few aluminum peices on the side
add some furniture casters to the bottom of the case

 

ok i got a few goodies in the mail yesterday and i began work again here are the pics:


heres most of the stuff, small tools and paing supies are still on its way


here are the electronics parts: couple swiches, bag of white leds, bag of blue leds, resistors, solder, etc etc.


ok so i also got the carbon fiber vinyl from MNPCTECH and i put it on the pront peices of the wavemaster
here are some more picso fthe carbonfiber:




as you can see, i finaly fiugred out how to use the "close up" function on my digicam


all the misc cables sleved


and i managed to razorblade the old HS that was on my northbridge, it seems like it was stuck on with some reeally sticky tape, ill be replacing it with a Zalman passive NB HS and getting some arctic silver thermal paste

now to the garage:

^i lost my work goggles so i used my paintball mask, and i realized this thing is way better than the 5$ goggles i got at the ahrdware store. Paintball mask lenses are rated to last one blast from a shotgun, it covers my entire face, so no more metal scraps fly into my face, and it looks cooler


heres the overall shot of the mesh installed this thing was a b**ch to cut without metal snips :\, i had to strap a peice of scrap aluminum on it so that the jigsaw would not completely destroy it


i cut the hole for the barb a little off center, i will fix that tomarrow


heres a shot of the rad hole i cut but never got around to posting a picture of

well thats about it for today, heres a little teaser of what is to come

 

Damn, that vinyl looks realy good on the front!