budget system with quick side panel mod

[naughty]

Hi People

here goes my first thread here. Some of you guys may know me from PC Format or Systemshock and you may have seen this mod there so theres nothing new for you to see. For the others who dont visit those places here is a description of the rig i built to replace my aging socket 775 celeron setup. The system is comprised of the following hardware :

Gigabyte Sumo 5115 case
Antec High Current Gamer 750 watt power supply
Asus P8Z68-V pro/Gen3 motherboard
Intel i5-3570k "Ivy Bridge" CPU
Corsair H100 Liquid cooling
16 gigs Kingston Hyper X DDR3 1600 Ram
Gigabyte Radeon HD6970 OC edition
Lite-on Blu-Ray writer
Western Digital Raptor X hard drive
Win 7 Pro 64 bit operating system

i ran out of cash so hence i decided to re-use my old Raptor hard drive - future plans include getting either two small SSD's in RAID or one larger SSD as the O/S drive and then using one of my 2TB drives for storage

so on to the pictures

the insides of the Rig without the side panel - note that i will be doing lots more cable management .... i have lots of plans on how to hide the cables even though the case does not really have a great layout to allow for cable management

then this is the side panel attached with the room lights on

room lights switched off

the ram has its own cooling

closeup of the insides

insides with the case lighting switched on

rear of the case showing the liquid cooling

now in these last two pics you can see that the side panel window is edged with u-channel rubber which seems to be coming loose - this was deliberately left unglued because i dropped some superglue on the perspex of the window - so i will also be redoing that somehow so the side panel will improve when i have the time

 

[Futs]

Nice, how did you manage to get the rad outside? Did you have to disconnect the tubing to do this?

The pictures don't show it.

 

[ThatGuy_ZA]

Nice, how did you manage to get the rad outside? Did you have to disconnect the tubing to do this?

The pictures don't show it.

Probably cut the fan grille out of the chassis?

Nice build!

 

[naughty]

i did not disconnect any tubing - i had to cut the rear fan grilles out - and then i extended the cut slightly downward and the cables fitted into the square extended cut i made at the bottom without having to do any more disconnecting and cutting and then i used 4mm thick bolts (around 40mm in length on the inside fans and the stock ones that came with the kit on the outside) to attach the fans and rad to the chassis as well as to each other - kind of like what LeX says above

Nice build!

Nice

thanks guys

 

[naughty]

whoops sorry double post - can someone delete this one please

 

[DeusExMachina]

Dude this is by far one of the best builds I've seen, how much did it cost if you don't mind me asking? Also you seem to be a Gigabyte fanboy like myself, I'm aiming to build a complete Gigabyte system from case to motherboard to psu, awesome rig mate.

 

[Senshi]

Welcome to carb Naughty.

You might remember me as SLicK/Cookiemonster back then

 

[naughty]

Dude this is by far one of the best builds I've seen, how much did it cost if you don't mind me asking? Also you seem to be a Gigabyte fanboy like myself, I'm aiming to build a complete Gigabyte system from case to motherboard to psu, awesome rig mate.

thanks very much for the compliments and apologies for the terrible quality pictures - it was amongst my first replies here and i could not figure out how to get past the reply template form only allowing GIFS so i converted my jpegs so i will repost the pictures when i can resize them again because i think there are size limitations on pictures here too, but i have now figured out how to post jpegs.

the system cost around between R10k to R11k or thereabouts and i used some parts that i already had like the hard drive and blu-ray writer etc which would have added a fair amount to the total but cost nothing at the moment. There is nothing wrong with being attached to a brand but i am generally very neutral when it comes to brands i do not have a preference and i tend to use whatever i can get my hands on at advantageous prices

still a bit of work to do so i will update as i continue on the project but it has been fun to do so far

Welcome to carb Naughty.

You might remember me as SLicK/Cookiemonster back then

thanks for the welcome .... i definitely do remember you .... i suppose i will have to catch up to everyones new usernames at the moment but im sure theres plenty of people i know in this place who are using different nicks

 

[naughty]

okay - here are some better quality pictures - apologies for the bad gifs earlier but here are the pics i posted in all the other forums

the external view of the case - you can see where the glue fell in this pic onto the case side panel

H100 block

caselights on

rear of chassis

side panel opened

gigabyte name lighting on the floor while the room is dark (this was done by gigabyte and is not a mod)

hope that these pics give you a better idea of how the mod looks than the other bad quality pics

 

[Dirtdiver]

I love the way you mounted the cooler, awesome idea

 

[PSI'D_OFF]

Looks good.

 

[megustav]

Maybe get 2 of these for the outside fans. You can use prettier ones ofc

 

[naughty]

Maybe get 2 of these for the outside fans. You can use prettier ones ofc

yeah - i have lots of 80mm fan grilles lying around - just dont have any 120mm ones and i already asked the lasercutters if they could make me some with that flaming skull logo in the centre out of steel or stainless steel - and all they are waiting for is my drawings and exact sizing ..... so its in the pipeline after the lasercutters reopen

im also considering powdercoating the grilles black - the mod is nowhere near completed and still a fair bit of work to do till its where i want it to be

 

[naughty]

just realized that i forgot the main picture in my last batch of pics posted ie this was the "money" shot

 

[Al Capone]

Very very cool man !!