Project: Mod in a Week // Giving new life to an old mod (Completed)
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It´s 14.00pm
It´s taken me a while to update as I had a crysis, it seems that a part of the masking tape on the front side hadn´t stack down well so paint got under, so i had to re-do the coats on the surroundings + lacquer in order to fix it, but all well now!
And the rest of the parts:
Time for lunch and I have to go out afterwards, but for this evening I will get rid of all the masking tape on the case, assemble it, and do cable management + mobo.
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It´s 22.00,
The exterior of the case, aside from a couple of details, is done and all pictures from now on are taken with the better camera, notice the difference? Also, the inside of the case is NOT stained, that´s just a reflection, don´t worry : )
I´ve managed to save the plexy for now, until I can order a new one (using heat to clean really hard stains and fix most scratches).
Now painting the 3 HDDs (again, just the safe side), the casing for the front end of the x-fi, the casing for the WC pump and the mobo heatsink.
Also, the current look of the gpus without cooler (being painted), one of the GPU coolers and the mobo without mobo heatsink (being painted).
Feeling tired but I think I´ll prob do a bit more before dinner, it seems I´ll be using the laptop tonight.
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It´s 00.25am
A quick update before I get some dinner and go to bed.
HDDs are finished.
So is the sound card frontal unit.
And here a preview of how the case looks with the psu, dvd rewriter, memory card reader and sound card frontal unit in it.
See you tomorrow!
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It´s Wednesday the 1st of June (White Rabbits!) 13.00
Today, after a day withouth sleep and another falling KO way to early and therefore waking up at 6.00am, I finally had a good night sleep. So I woke up at 11 and went straight to business. In the last 2 hours, I have finished all the painting in this project, now all that´s left is putting it all togueter in the case!
First, the ASUS EN GTX 275:
The Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatality
The eVGA 790i Ultra SLI nForce motherboard
The water pump in it´s frontal casing
And finally for now, what´s behind the front door of the case.
That´s it for now, see you in a couple of hours with more updates, if nothing bad happens, I think I could finish the project today, so really it should be "Mod in 3 days" : )
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It´s 18.00
Things are starting to take final shape... (in order of progress)
Cable management in a case that´s 10 year old, not designed for this or this hardware or liquid cooling is a complete and utter
, also, wish I had cable sleeves.Next update, should be the final picks (if all goes well that is)
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Project is finished, and while it was a week project, somehow managed to do it in 3 days.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Mod in a Week // Giving new life to and old mod, newly renamed to "Acid Burn", enjoy.
PS: You´ll notice that depending on the pick, it´s one shade or another, this is because in some I didn´t use the flash so the leds would show up, so the real color are the ones with flash (i.e. the greener green).
Thank you all for reading and watching as the mod went from start to finish, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did doing it and I´ll be happy to answer any questions about it and the process.
I will at some point post new picks are the are some minor alterations I will eventually do when I can get to it, for now, my feet hurt to much
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a tribute to Nvidia
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I honestly didn´t have nvidia in mind when I was doing it, but several people mention it, it´s also the last chipset nvidia did for motherboard and I´m using nvidia gpus on this mod and the color scheme fits so I guess so yeah! : )
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what method did you use to paint the motherboard's heatsinks?
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Acrylic paint (water based, with no disolvente), because they are mostly water, they do not prevent the heat from spreading out (like plastic or synthetic paints do) so it does not affect the performance of the heatsinks.
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nice a have some main to try this method
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good luck! And if you need any help send me a private message : )
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Luciel ha scritto:
good luck! And if you need any help send me a private message : )
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Nice!
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thanks!
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Good Work
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