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Special Thanks.
First of all we would like to express our gratitude to ASUS Taiwan, ASUS Malaysia, Cooler Master Taiwan, Cooler Master Malaysia and Intel for the parts and supports given to us at Mod'n'Go Design.
It is our pleasure to work with you guys for the upcoming Computex 2014 that will be held in Taipei, Taiwan in early June.
Thanks to the sponsors for the beasty items.
We will use in a good way. :lol:
Not to forget thanks to those who involved in this project directly or indirectly.
c.c - Mr. Vahn Hew for the great idea and Mr. Nur M for his effort in helping me to complete this build.
Components Specifications.
Specifications for the build as below :
INTEL CORE i5 4670 ES
ASUS Z97 DELUXE
ASUS AMD RADEON 290X DCU II OC
INTEL SSD 730 SERIES 240GB
COOLER MASTER COSMOS SE
COOLER MASTER V700
COOLER MASTER NEPTON 140XL
COOLER MASTER JETFLO
Hello guys and ladies.
This is our second full sponsor build after Gold Digger back in 2013. We will stick with Gold and Black theme since the new ASUS' mainstream board comes with gold and black theme color. This build will be focusing on the newly launched ASUS' mainstream board, ASUS Z97 Deluxe.
The gold painted parts are lesser compared to ASUS Z87 Deluxe and the gold finishing is more solid and nice compared with the previous board.
The idea is to show the ASUS Z97 Deluxe features on the build. We gonna strip off the original front panel and replaced it with custom made one and we also gonna fit it with custom powers supply cover with distinctive features of the board on the panel. That s the basic idea of the build.
Back to the parts from the sponsors.
ASUS, Cooler Master and Intel are the sponsors that involve in this project.
Components and parts.
Parcel from ASUS Taiwan arrived first.
The parcel consist of the mother board itself ASUS Z97 Deluxe, gpu which is ASUS AMD Radeon 290X Direct CU II OC, Intel Core i5 4690 ES (Haswell refresh) and Intel 730 Series SSD.
White box for the early bird 😛
This is our second full sponsor build after Gold Digger back in 2013. We will stick with Gold and Black theme since the new ASUS' mainstream board comes with gold and black theme color. This build will be focusing on the newly launched ASUS' mainstream board, ASUS Z97 Deluxe.
The gold painted parts are lesser compared to ASUS Z87 Deluxe and the gold finishing is more solid and nice compared with the previous board.
The idea is to show the ASUS Z97 Deluxe features on the build. We gonna strip off the original front panel and replaced it with custom made one and we also gonna fit it with custom powers supply cover with distinctive features of the board on the panel. That s the basic idea of the build.
Back to the parts from the sponsors.
ASUS, Cooler Master and Intel are the sponsors that involve in this project.
Components and parts.
Parcel from ASUS Taiwan arrived first.
The parcel consist of the mother board itself ASUS Z97 Deluxe, gpu which is ASUS AMD Radeon 290X Direct CU II OC, Intel Core i5 4690 ES (Haswell refresh) and Intel 730 Series SSD.
White box for the early bird 😛
ASUS Z97 Deluxe.
Inside box consist of DVD Driver,the board and IO shield LOL.
Intel Core i5 4690 'stuck' on the board
Does it looks gorgeous compared with the older z87?
Heads here for more detail on the board.
OCDrift-ASUS Z97 Deluxe by Owikh84
Since we do the paint job ourselves we decide to bought this respirator from 3M.
Quite handy. No more polluted air for the lung.
It serves many purposes not just for paint job.
Quite handy. No more polluted air for the lung.
It serves many purposes not just for paint job.
ASUS R9 290X DIRECT CU II OC.
Next the GPU
ASUS AMD Radeon 290X Direct CU II OC.
The GPU came with pre-stick gold color ready to match the color theme.
Intel 730 Series SSD.
Next the GPU
ASUS AMD Radeon 290X Direct CU II OC.
The GPU came with pre-stick gold color ready to match the color theme.
Intel 730 Series SSD.
The big thing.....
Cooler Master parcel just arrived on our door step.
Plenty of stuff to be dig in later.
Someone try to 'hijack' the parcel and he succeeded by overpower us.
He looks so happy and even chewing the fan's accessory.
Cosmos SE.
Jetflo 120 x 6 units.
Nepton 140XL.
V700.
Cooler Master parcel just arrived on our door step.
Plenty of stuff to be dig in later.
Someone try to 'hijack' the parcel and he succeeded by overpower us.
He looks so happy and even chewing the fan's accessory.
Cosmos SE.
Jetflo 120 x 6 units.
Nepton 140XL.
V700.
Paint.
Order 3 cans of custom mixed 2K paint in aerosol spray can which cost 7 bucks per can.
Some big paint shop can provide you with custom mixed color paint service if u need small portion only.
It s not worth it to buy 1 litre paint just for few minor paint jobs.
This will do for the job.
2k aerosol can spray paint.
Dark Gold mixed with sparkle.
Good thing about this can u can change the nozzle from horizontal to vertical, which one suit your style and environment.
The rest is cheap Bosny paint which cost around 2 bucks per can
Order 3 cans of custom mixed 2K paint in aerosol spray can which cost 7 bucks per can.
Some big paint shop can provide you with custom mixed color paint service if u need small portion only.
It s not worth it to buy 1 litre paint just for few minor paint jobs.
This will do for the job.
2k aerosol can spray paint.
Dark Gold mixed with sparkle.
Good thing about this can u can change the nozzle from horizontal to vertical, which one suit your style and environment.
The rest is cheap Bosny paint which cost around 2 bucks per can
Stripping off.
Now it is time for stripping the casing.
Cosmos SE is quite simple built casing.
Main chassis is made like other CM casing and the plastic covers outside is either screwed on the main chassis or clipped on it.
As for the bays it do have bulky hdd bays for it size with few on the side and 2 are hidden at the bottom of the case in which we will tear it all and 'throw' it away.
The front panel consist of 3 lock ready 5.25 bays' cover and the rest (below) covered with mesh grill cover which can be easily removed if you need to do some clean up.
It s quite different with Cosmos 2 where underneath the mesh grill cover there are 'bones' of another panels hidden underneath where cosmos SE directly showed the 3.5 bay parts when you removed the front cover
All the parts will be removed to allow 3 fans attach in front (with custom mount panel) and new custom diamond theme front cover.
Now it is time for stripping the casing.
Cosmos SE is quite simple built casing.
Main chassis is made like other CM casing and the plastic covers outside is either screwed on the main chassis or clipped on it.
As for the bays it do have bulky hdd bays for it size with few on the side and 2 are hidden at the bottom of the case in which we will tear it all and 'throw' it away.
The front panel consist of 3 lock ready 5.25 bays' cover and the rest (below) covered with mesh grill cover which can be easily removed if you need to do some clean up.
It s quite different with Cosmos 2 where underneath the mesh grill cover there are 'bones' of another panels hidden underneath where cosmos SE directly showed the 3.5 bay parts when you removed the front cover
All the parts will be removed to allow 3 fans attach in front (with custom mount panel) and new custom diamond theme front cover.
Unboxing in progress.
Overall it is a great case but the interior is a lil bit cramped.
Beside the Big Bro.
The JetFlo 120. Requested for Turbine Master 120 but since they have no stock for it (EOL) they replaced with Jetflo Red LED which the only color available that time.
The fan's blade is detachable type however it is quite pain in the a$$ to detach it. Some are easier than others. You need extra force to detach the blade out of the frame.
Just be extra carefull doing it so you will not 'detach' the blade from the round core. 🙂
As per shown in Cooler Master Website.
Overall it is a great case but the interior is a lil bit cramped.
Beside the Big Bro.
The JetFlo 120. Requested for Turbine Master 120 but since they have no stock for it (EOL) they replaced with Jetflo Red LED which the only color available that time.
The fan's blade is detachable type however it is quite pain in the a$$ to detach it. Some are easier than others. You need extra force to detach the blade out of the frame.
Just be extra carefull doing it so you will not 'detach' the blade from the round core. 🙂
As per shown in Cooler Master Website.
Designs.
Next we go to the design and theme. We have few designs in mind but somehow we end up with something blink2.
We choose diamond theme as recommended by our local famous 'table maker' from Vector. They shared some ideas with us. Since this build is for ASUS latest board we also discussed with them for their preferences to be included in the build. They did shared with us some of the board preferences and designs and we started to work from that.
Some basic drawing for the diamond vector.
The placement of the diamond panel.
With fan's vector included
90% design colors illustrared. Main color is black while gold will be part and partial (lesser) and some transparent pieces for original look of real diamond.
Next we go to the design and theme. We have few designs in mind but somehow we end up with something blink2.
We choose diamond theme as recommended by our local famous 'table maker' from Vector. They shared some ideas with us. Since this build is for ASUS latest board we also discussed with them for their preferences to be included in the build. They did shared with us some of the board preferences and designs and we started to work from that.
Some basic drawing for the diamond vector.
The placement of the diamond panel.
With fan's vector included
90% design colors illustrared. Main color is black while gold will be part and partial (lesser) and some transparent pieces for original look of real diamond.
