Friday, 11 October 2013

Current progress

Cable management


Current progress on how it looks like. I am almost done with it, just left SSD modding & few finishing touches.





Guess where I am going to mount 2 SSD? I think its pretty obvious right?



Ordered some ROG fan stickers already, will be replacing all the corsair stickers with it.


My legendary ultra fine magnetic filter, the rear fan is an intake to bring fresh air to the radiators so thats why I need a fan filter for it.



Had some few hiccups

Was almost done with the rig so I was testing it & turns out my hard disk & optical drive wasnt working. Checked in bios & it didnt detect the drives so I thought maybe something is wrong with the sata cable connected to the motherboard. After diagnosing it, it turns out the power cables isnt working properly. Had to remove the custom cables I made & redo it.


The EZ crimp connector isnt making a very good contact with the wires. I guess in order to use this type of connector, I will need 16awg wires instead of 18awg.


Seems like no sleep tonight for me...

Yeap, now its working. Redo the wires but this time I didnt sleeve it, too lazy already. Wires will be hidden anyways so wouldn't make much of a difference.


And another problem now, seems like the corsair fans isnt working with lamptron cw611. Fans all are working, I tested it before.


Had to strip off this 3pin pcb, to test it. Is it faulty? After doing few tests, it turns out the 3pin extension cable that I made was wired wrongly :lol: no wonder nothing seems to power up. My bad for being a fool, luckly no fans burnt for wiring up the + & - wires wrongly.


Time to continue modding, just adding some finishing touches.


I know, I am pretty crazy right? There is so much leds in my rig that I lost count of it already...


Turns out better than I expected!


Quick question, is 12.7LPH a good flow rate?



Wednesday, 2 October 2013

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


Friday, 27 September 2013

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 laugh.gif 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 smile.gif 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