Guilty

[kier]

Hi fellow modders,

It was a matter of time but here it is... my first real scratch build
Thanks to Nate from E22 for the design.

Sometimes you see a design with a wow factor. This happend too me with this design. After some consultation we decided to try to build this design.
Nate the design and I'm building.

Sponsored by:







And designed by:



The design:



The hardware that comes in is still a suprise...even for me 😉 , but anyway there will be an SLI set and some cool watercooling

After buying aluminum strips and other stuff at the hardware store, it was time to start building. After some fitting and measuring the frame was created. I still had an old Mobo tray from a old TJ07.







Cut some plates of acrylic and placed it.



For measuring I have an old blown up Classified.









Made the door/ cover for the PSU



And cut to size the front plate



Now it's a matter of drawing lines on the inside. The result after sawing and filing.







Cut holes for the fans at the front and the lid on top covered with acrylic



Covers closed



Placed some nice 120mm NorthQ fans to see how it looks.













More updates coming very soon 😉

[kier]

In order to get a nice even glow I've placed sixth single LEDs in the case feets.









And mounted.







The plate and feet.





Connected everything.



And placed the components back.





In the dark.

[R_O_G_L_O_V_E_R]

Great Project.. the best i ever see.. congrats.. keep going..

[kier]

Thank you very much 🙂

[Chewitt]

WoW, its a shame you are not in the UK as i would have loved to invite you down to Platform 2013 to show of the PC, Truly stunning work.

[kier]

Thanks, UK is not that far 😉

SPONSOR Update!!!

Provided by ASUS :



Last Thursday I didn't left the house, because I knew there was a very nice package coming

Thank god for tracking 😉



And in the afternoon the yellow / red guy came 🙂



Omg this is exciting 😉



ASUS has sent me two beautiful GTX 780 DirectCU II cards. TheASUS GTX780-DC2OC-3GD5



And of course...Unboxing:



The box,



And another box,



The accessories:
- 1 x Power cable
- 1 x SLI Bridge
- ASUS GPU Tweak & Driver



The GPU



Beautiful picture, isn't it



The ASUS GTX780-DC2OC-3GD5 GeForce GTX 780 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Vide...

• Graphics Engine: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
  
• Bus Standard: PCI Express 3.0
  
• Video Memory: GDDR5 3GB
  
• Engine Clock: GPU Boost Clock : 941 MHz/ GPU Base Clock : 889 MHz
  
• CUDA Core: 2304
  
• Memory Clock: 6008 MHz ( 1502 MHz GDDR5 )
  
• Memory Interface: 384-bit
  

The card features a self-designed PCB that features a 10-phase VRM.
This ensures that the card can deliver up to 30% more voltage and less noise is present,
enhance power efficiency by 15%, widen voltage modulation tolerance, and improve overall stability and longevity by 2.5 times over reference.



The GPU has the latest generation DirectCU II cooler. These features as previous models two fans. One is called Cool Tech fan, it combines two types of fans and thus creates more air flow that benefits the cooling capacity.









Beneath these fans is an aluminum cooling surface present with five heatpipes. Four of them have a thickness of 8 mm.

[kier]

The central heat pipe is 10 mm.





Power Connector: 6 pin / 8 pin



Ports:

• HDMI 1 x
  
• DisplayPort 1 x
  
• DVI 2 x
  

And a nice aluminum backplate is also present,





And some more nice pictures of both







Was a bit worried they would'nt fit because of the dimensions (28.7 x 14.73 x 4.06 cm)
But no problem 🙂







So now we wait for the great waterblocks from EKWB, but they will be released soon
Until then ..... Game on 🙂

[R_O_G_L_O_V_E_R]

great graphic cards... congratz..

[Chewitt]

You are more than welcome, VizMan will be there as will a few other of the high end ROG PC's still trying to get official attendance from ROG what would be truly epic.

If you do want to pop over it is in Hull (Kingston Upon Hull - the main ferry port for the UK in the North Sea) so its straight off the ferry and 3 miles down the road to the show 🙂 , fire me a PM if you are interested and i will sort you out with a show ticket.

[DeKiller]

That's looking very impressive and ROG worthy there mate! I love your water cooling solution.

What's the intention for this rig? a show case or a lanning box?

[kier]

Thank you so much my modding friends... great to hear

Update!!!

Sponsored by:











There he is again!!

Took a while but.....we continue where we left off. First a great gratitude to HighFlow for the beautiful sponsorship due some required items.
What would I do without HighFlow??



What I have ordered for this build:

Masterkleer - HighFlow - 3/8 ID - 1/2 OD - Clear



A NZXT Frontpanel Cable Set





PSU 24-Pin extension cable



And a PSU 8-Pin CPU extension cable



I'd also needed some adapters and chose the Alphacool HF 5-Way Splitter





And the Alphacool HF 3-Way Splitter



I'm also trying some things/ ideas with some Lamptron switches, such as the Lamptron 19mm DOT Red



And ordered 2 Lamptron 19mm RING Red



More on this later. Naturally need some valves



Of course a beautiful Highflow T-shirt



Thanks Highflow And Freddy

Bought some nice SSDs which come in handy in this build

Thanks Peter 🙂



The back as it was



Customized a piece of acrylic with 4 SSDs inside



Placed like this



A red piece of acrylic where i've mounted the SSDs... and is easily removable



mounted the big transparent plate



Cut a recess for the cables





Made this black





Placed an LED strip behind, but still need one more