Lamptron cw611

Nothing major, just got myself a lamptron cw611 today. Going to be busy for this few weeks since lots of deadline to meet so wont be doing any modding anytime soon :P

SSD

Just got myself SSD, will be modding these soon. Just found out the dvd rom is not working due to loose contact with the sata power cables. I guess my method of pushing the wire into the EZ crimp connector is wrong :lol: Will need to redo the sata cables & also the hdd part. 

late update

Did some wiring on the fan cables & seems like 22awg wire is just nice for crimping. Will be restocking 24awg wires as well soon because for making fan spliter, 22awg is a little too thick. The most is you can cramp two wires into 1 pin therefore if you plan to split single 3pin to 3x3pin that might not be possible.

Had some idea with red leds, credit goes to keir though since I saw him doing it for his mod & decided to copy it to mine hahaha  iirc he used acrylic to give the nice underglow effect but I am not that OCD & this is my own personal build so decided to go with plain led.

solder the wires to the led as usual

Strip off a small portion of the transparent material so that I can bend the led

 Tada! 90 degrees 

It gives a nice red underglow effect eh? Pretty sweet, although using acrylic would be better but lazy la. Need to make custom acrylic, glue it, measure, fit it etc...

 It even lit up the rog red line section & nope I didnt power up the board yet

Just a few shots on the current progress. My gpu is back from RMA already, will be getting some thermal pads on monday from HoNeYdEwBoY & my loop should be up by night  All I need now is lamptron cw611 & the build will be done I guess, just some minor touch up here & there like the fan sticker etc. Hopefully will be ready before 4th October & I am sure you all know whats on 4th october right? 

Not much modding today, just adding up the red led so made some custom wires for my customer & a psu jumper for me to test the leds. Oh & I also will need to get 2 corsair force gs ssd for this build. Will be modding the SSD too

almost done

Got some 22awg wires which I plan to make custom 3 pin cables. It turns out 22awg wire is kinda bigger so I might need to play around with it later if its suitable or not. Hopefully shouldn't be a problem because I saw lutro selling 22awg so I guess it could work.

Got the remaining fans for my build

Because I only got gasket for 120mm sizes, I had to make my own gasket for the 140mm fan :P

As usual, need to sleeving the fan cables...

Build is almost done, but I will need to get the custom ROG fan stickers to cover up the corsair stickers :lol:

I got 11 corsair fans in here at the moment, that means I spent ~RM800 just for fans bwahahaha. Only if my mum knew about it...

Will get some ROG stickers :)

Oh & I am still waiting for Lamptron CW611, most likely by end of september it will arrive. No news on the GPU RMA yet, hopefully I can get it soon. Asus faster speed up the process...battlefield 4 is coming out soon :(

I had some minor problem with fitting the fan due to the cpu EPS cable. The cable was just slightly too thick. I could force the fan in there but there will be a slight flex to the motherboard & the connector so I didnt want to risk it. Decided to mod the corsair fan instead. Removed the rubbery material & cut of the lower plastic section

Everything fits nicely now and I replaced the old tubing (not really old, just few weeks old). Now I am left with hooking up the leds to a 3pin connector & everything should be set. Just need to wait for gpu & fan controller.

RMA

Not much of an update, been lazy during this week plus I am waiting for my 22awg cables & sp120 fans so nothing much to do atm for the build. Its pretty much almost completed, just a little touch up here & there is needed.

So I was testing which looks better on the sata cable, I guess heatshrinkless looks much nicer as expected.

 My switch 810 has an LED button for the leds at the back I/O. So I decided to hook up my luminous panel to this button so that I can use it to switch on the panel & off when is needed. I went straight to cutting the wires & hardwiring the luminous panel to it & it wasn't working. I didnt use a multimeter to test the voltage but I suspect the voltage is running around 3.3V which is the standard voltage for most leds. I thought since the front panel were powered up with a sata power cable, the voltages should be 12V but I was wrong. So I had to scrap that idea off, it would be great though if I could use this LED button :(

Turns out pretty nice :)

Bad news though, I had to drain the loop because as I mention earlier my GPU died so I sent it for RMA. Turns out the tubing is having some slight plasticizer issues. I think so, I haven't do a close up inspection to it but its most certainly not crystal clear. When the loop was filled, its not really noticeable but it is once I drained it. Kinda surprising though because I thought primochill advance lrt wouldn't have this issue or at least what I been hearing from others.

I am not exactly sure what the hell is going on, maybe because I mixed durelene + primochill? Or was it the biocide? Lots of factors are to be considered, so I will be doing some tubing testing tomorrow. Another excuse to update the plasticizer thread that I created haha, I been so lazy that I didn't bothered updating that thread anymore :P

Anyways I am going to replace all this tubing with my left over primochill & flush the loop at least twice. Will see how it performs, if problems still exist then I am going with acrylic tubing. Also I am currently deciding should I replace my Maximus VI Hero to Maximus VI formula? Already drained the loop so I could also change the motherboard eh?

So far I am almost done with the major cable management. Already sew and sleeve the EPS, 24pin, sata cables. I am left with molex, will get it done tomorrow :)