Case Mod - In Progress The BlueBerry Muffin!

The BlueBerry Muffin

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Special thanks goes out to Freddy from Highflow for his amazing work and quick customer service​

The Background​

I get inspired rather easily... My last build was thought up of while i was drinking a very refreshing and fresh orange+sanguine juice. This build is no different. Once a week i treat myself to a blueberry muffin, and one day while i had taken a big bite out of it, i found myself, looking at the colours, and thinking, wow.... i want a computer this colour. Hence, The BlueBerry Muffin is born.

The Hardware​

- Asus Rampage II Gene
- Intel Core i7 920
- Sapphire 6870
- 2TB HDD + INTEL 510 series 120GB SSD
- 6GB DDR3 1600Mhz Dominators
- Silverstone Strider 750w
- Lian Li V351

The Cooling​

- Ek Coolstream 240
- EK 6870 FC Blcok Nickel
- EK 6870 Backplate
- MIPS ASUS GENE Series Fusion-Block
- 4xCoolermaster Excaliburs
- Koolance RP 402x2
- EK Supreme HF Plexi CPU Block
- 2 x Laing DDC-1Plus MCP355 12V
- EK Compressions 10MM (3/8 ID - 1/2 OD)
- Koolance 10MM (3/8) 90 degree rotary

The Accessories​

- Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra
- Aqua-Computer Temperature Sensor Inline
- Koolance INS-FM17 Coolant Flow Meter & Adapter Board INS-FM17
- 240 Rad Stand
- Nexus Extra ventilation PCI Brackets
- 19MM Bulgin Silver / Orange LED
- NZXT 24x White LED Sleeve
- PCI bracket with 2x G1/4
- Tube Cutter 10-40mm







Case got back from Powder Coaters yesterday! So here it goes...


The case came out exactly the colour i wanted, but unfortunately, some parts of the powdercoating wasnt great. The were a few discrepancies, enar the areas where he needed to bolt the case down, but luckily for me, none of those areas show!





I cut out the bottom of the HDD support so that my GPU+Block could fit.


The white Pop Rivets were horrible to work with, they kept flaking, and i ahd to keep redoing them :/ must of gone through like 100! eventually i got them all in place and with minimum destruction.




And thats the Lian Li V351B (B for Beige )

Tomorrow, im taking pictures of parts

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Until next time... heres a treat
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Well thank you kind sire, looking forward to more updates - I think this can become an fun mod!

 

The background for this project ist great!


I like the beige colour .

 

Where you perhaps stoned when eating said muffin? Since that usually the kind of ideas you get when your stoned That's why they are so unique and unique is in most cases good And this looks good so far

 

A genuinely unique mod. Love the concept and the the colour (don't think ive ever seen a beige computer before)!! Can't wait to see more.

 

Thanks fortunately i wasnt stoned, or else i would end up eating my computer!

Thanks, i wanted to give it a unique feel white and black backgrounds get boring

mmmmm MUFFINS!

You have, (depending how old you are ofc) 286/386/486 came in white cases that became beige in like a month!

damn, at work and have no speakers! Didnt knwo there was a song!!! AWESOME!

 

Yeah, never thought of those, i had an AST (don't know if they're still going)that did the same, and I was also one of the unlucky ones who ended up with a beige snes cos of the crud grade of plastic they used in a large number of them.

 

[COLOR="#Purple"]So... Update time (Warning!!! PICTURE HEAVY UPDATE!!!!)

Just want to say Thanks to my Sponsors for making this project a reality

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I finally got some time to work on the build and take some pics. Sleeving and RL took over the past few days, hence why this update is so delayed

So i went ahead and bought a small 3.5" fan controller, nothing fancy, just something to do the job and make this machine run quietly Ofcourse it was custome painted to match the build (although the colour is SLIGHTLY off and i got a smudge of my finger print on it :/ (i am already curretnly repainting ), 1 tone lighter, i dont think it will be annoying, anyways, this is going to be on the side of the case that is up against the wall)

Rear Side: (for some reason i like this picture)


Next up, i went ahead and painted the fans according to my theme. (I didnt paint the actual blades, because i was afraid of getting paint unevenly sprayed and resuklting in vibrations)





Next, i placed them on my radiator (which was also painted the same colour as the fans) and set up the stand. Looks beefy eh?





Oh, Wait.... Wahts this?


Oh, lol... My 6870


(Can Anyone figure out what i did to the picture above? )

Next Up: The Motherboard!

The motherboard tray has been painted white, and the back apnel is Beige to match the entire case. (Tubing is only for testing purposes, and will be replaced with the same colour tubing.)





And one with the GPU installed aswell. I think the contrast of the purple tubing on the white backplate is nice


And now, what delayed this update for sooooooooo long....
Sleeving Shots













I hope this update is what you guys were waiting for

Now.... TIME TO TRY AND GET ALL OF THIS INSIDE THE CASE

Untill then... Be Safe [/COLOR]

 

love those colors!!!!!

 

Excellent work so far, sweet colors, and fantastic photos!
I think its going to be the next ''million dollar pc''....

Καλή συνέχεια!

 

That first pic made me think this would be a tan/powder blue/blackish blue color scheme, which would have looked awesome.
Your color setup looks pretty good too, though.

 

Thanks don!

Thank you, I dont really mind if it gets a name for itself, or put on a website, all i care is that people enjoy what they see and read

Yeah, RAL colours are limited (especially when you dont have sampels infront of you...)
Nonetheless i think it came out good too

 

Man I was hungry when I entered this thread. That sleeve is just incredible, must have taken many, many hours.

 

Looking very nice, and the quality of the pictures are amazing, but I still can't forgive you since coming into this thread have urged me to buy a blueberry muffin for lunch..

 

This looks great. The colours of the sleeving are awesome. Cool pictures too

 

Suscribed Looking very nice. what sleaving is that?

 

MDPC-X , I'd bet my left nut on it.

 

Yeah, everytime i sleeve my psu, i SWEAR that its my alst... but that never happens!

YAY! Muffins are awesome for lunch and breakfast!

Thank you!

Its MDPC-X

what about your right one?

hopefully gonna get some time to update over the weekend.

See you soon

 

Subbed, something about those colours. It works in my eyes and interested to see how you go on this.

I like the fans just as you have done it, just the right amount of black. Are you happy that you didnt paint the fan blades in the end?