Project: Sleeping Beauty - By Evoss

[Evoss]

Sleeping Beauty

As a few of you may know, I have been meaning to build a new PC prior to going to University. A few things stood in the way though, waiting for products to be released and waiting for manufacturers to update their products to work out some niggles.

However, the time is here. I have named the project "Sleeping Beauty" because since I will be staying in a shoe size boxed room at University, I would like it to be silent, but powerful and amazing to look at as well, so I think the name works.


Build Spec:

Case: Corsair 650D
CPU: Intel i7 2600K
Motherboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2 Z68
Graphics Card: EVGA Geforce 580GTX DS
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4x4Gb
PSU: Corsair AX 850W
SSD: Corsair Force 120Gb
HDD: Samsung F3
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100

Braid: MDPC
Fans: Akasa Apache Black
HDD Silencer/Cooler: Grow Up Japan Smart Drive


The first job to be done was to remove the front mesh on the Corsair 650D case. The reason behind this is that the mesh created positive pressure behind the mesh and created a whine, so it had to go in order to keep it quiet.


Corsair 650D prior to modding




Corsair 650D stripped




Items placed aside




Front view, prior to grinding




The weapon of choice






Little test cut




OcUK had to be in here somewhere




Grinding, need a pretty picture too!




Nearly done




Done!




Front view




Front/side view




Now it was time to put the bits and pieces back in it, but there was a lot of little bits of metal floating around the case, and I didn't have any cans of compressed air lying around. So I had a scout around the farm and came back with this. needless to say, it did a fantastic job.




Everything back in, and edges touched up






Link To Photo Album: https://picasaweb.google.com/revans.uk/PCBuild2011MeshMod?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCIKD7-uopI-MgQE&feat=directlink

Original Post: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18308929

[Evoss]

Braiding Time

This came in the post, 3 days earlier then expected big thumbs up to Nils @ MDPC for such a quality a product.


Love the personal touch






Inside the magical brown envelope, with more personal touch from MDPC






What a mess




Final shot of the 24pin braided cable




24pin, 8pin, 6pin and 3 SATA cables braided





Graphics Card Colour Strip Change

I wasn't too keen on the blue strip that ran along the EVGA Geforce 580GTX DS. I spoke to the EVGA rep and he said as along as a card can be sent in its factory conditions it wont void warranty, so he said this was all clear as it is just a piece of adhesive green vinyl.


The card, stanley, ruler and vinyl




Green strip looks great, adds to my green/black theme

[Devilz]

very well done, and good selection of hardware

[Evoss]

very well done, and good selection of hardware

Cheers, Ill get the finished build up tomorrow.

[Devilz]

do post 3dmark and wei score

[The Mighty Elvi]

Any chance you could edit the parts lists with their prices?

I've kept the Computer Shopper May 2010 which is all about building your own PC, but prices/specs may have changed.

[Toby]

looks good! but them fan's would look green 

[Adam]

Should run FTK nicely next year

[Evoss]

Should run FTK nicely next year

haha, it might struggle a bit xD See you in Sept maybe?

[Jimp]

Looks like a serious build  Best of luck with it man, looking great so far