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Project :: Silver Shadow

Yeah It looks really great guy, Keep up the good work on the Chieftec, Glad I'm not the only one to mod a Matrix case, Mine is in Lime Green/Silver and I'm modding It to allow a full eatx motherboard, 3.5" hdd bay mounts drilled out(2 minutes tops) and Now I'm awaiting both the motherboard back from RMA and a Dremel moto tool and flex shaft to mod the bottom of the 5.25" drive bay some(Clearance issue with motherboard there). :D
 
Sounds good Zoom, I love Chieftec cases, dirt cheap and so much potential :D

Don' t forget to post a log over here, look forward to seeing your work :)
 
Leeum said:
Sounds good Zoom, I love Chieftec cases, dirt cheap and so much potential :D

Don' t forget to post a log over here, look forward to seeing your work :)
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Yeah, So true. You forgot built like a battleship. ;)
 
Has anyone tried adding glycol or other additives to their loops for looks? Glycol and uv lights should go well together. I imagine the uv would make the yellow of the glycol really glow.

Do people who have water cooling rigs use any type of water treatment? I work in water treatment so I'm curious.
 
RedBearX said:
Has anyone tried adding glycol or other additives to their loops for looks? Glycol and uv lights should go well together. I imagine the uv would make the yellow of the glycol really glow.

Do people who have water cooling rigs use any type of water treatment? I work in water treatment so I'm curious.
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They sure do. I posted this in the 'show your video card' thread.

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Running a mix of ACFluid BlueMotion and Blue Revealing dye, looks pretty purdy in the dark :D Just looking for another dual UV CCFL kit.
 
Leeum said:
Now that everything was installed and ready to go, I plugged everything in to make sure it was going to run. Another case of press the power button and hope…

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It’s alive :D
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Damn thats ghetto lol J/K. Nice to see that it works. :D
 
Nice job man. Good job on setting up the watercooling.

Thats the problem with some resevoirs, they just suck up the air bubbles before they can move to the top. Hence forth the reason I switched to a T-Line =P.

The only thing left for you to do is get some sexy shots of the completed product. =D, nice job, the time and effort is obviously well worth the final product.
 
KrakenGuy said:
Thats the problem with some resevoirs, they just suck up the air bubbles before they can move to the top. Hence forth the reason I switched to a T-Line =P.
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Yup that's the problem. If you look at the Danger Den reservoir there's some perspex seperating the inlet and outlet forcing the bubbles up. When I find some perspex I'll make something along those lines because with the sponge being in, the reservoir lights blue instead of white :p

Just the front bezel to go, shan't be long now ;)

Cheers :D
 
Here’s an update with the side panel. Just like the top panel, the Perspex needed a few bits here and there cut out to accommodate various parts of the case chassis. The main part that needed cutting was a section for the case handle and lock.

As you can probably see, when I was drilling the top bolt hole I went too fast and cracked the Perspex :( Let's hope I get away with it.

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It was then a case of getting it screwed to the panel with the and hoping the crack didn’t interfere with any of the cuts. The case handle is abscent from the following pictures as it's going to be taken to the painters with the front bezel.

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Lucky? That’s more than lucky :D

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A shot from the front.

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A shot with the panel against the wall.
 
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What happened next was more of pleasant surprise than anything else, it seems the Perspex is UV reactive which creates a funky hazy blue effect. Here’s a shot next to the running rig :D

That’s all for now, I’m hoping to get the front bezel to the painters this week.

Stay tuned :D :cool:
 
Damn dude, that's some seriously nice lookin' work. If I get a water cooling setup working that looks half as good as yours, I'll feel uber pimp.
 
tsuehpsyde said:
Damn dude, that's some seriously nice lookin' work. If I get a water cooling setup working that looks half as good as yours, I'll feel uber pimp.
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Hehe cheers, you may be heartened to know this is my first mod and water cooling loop :D
 
Oh... My... God... Could that case be anymore beautiful...

Like, I saw the Blue Persplex on the case itself, with the window, and I thought "Holy shit." then I saw the fasteners holding the persplex on, then I thought "Oh my god, hot." then I saw the UV effect.

Wow. This should totally be on the front of the HardOCP.
 
Here's a few updated pictures of the loop :D

I flushed the system out and replaced with some fresh water. I also added a little Coolercases Dark Blue dye which is a much better colour match than the blue revealing. Another plus is that the water is blue without UV light aswell :)

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It's also running without a sponge. When filling the system I made sure to get the res full and left it to bleed motherboard side down and...bingo, no more nasty froth :D
 
nice nice, lovely blue in there. my blue is very "aquamarine" i think i might drop a few drops of that into my res see if it will "filll out" the blue in my loop.

i love how you even sleeved the wires going to the leds. awesome.
 
Leeum said:
Here's a few updated pictures of the loop :D

I flushed the system out and replaced with some fresh water. I also added a little Coolercases Dark Blue dye which is a much better colour match than the blue revealing. Another plus is that the water is blue without UV light aswell :)

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It's also running without a sponge. When filling the system I made sure to get the res full and left it to bleed motherboard side down and...bingo, no more nasty froth :D
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Those LED's make the blocks just BLING baby! :D
 
tsuehpsyde said:
Those LED's make the blocks just BLING baby! :D
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Cheers :D I'm experiementing with the white balance atm, all the shots I take with the white LED's in are 'in your face' a bit :confused:
 
My next was to get the front bezel ready for painting. It was outside to my usual sanding spot to get this done ;)

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This time I used a sanding block and 220 grit paper as the bezel is ABS plastic.

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I also sanded the fan controller, the bay covers and the case handle.

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Here you can see the compassion between the sanded front door and splatter finish bezel.

As I ran out of sandpaper to finish the rest of the bezel and case feet, I got a few bits and bobs done that I’d normally leave to the end :)

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Take the standard Chieftec front panel LEDs…

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With a little bit of swapping we now have a blue power LED and white HDD LED :D

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Here’s the Bulgin blue ring LED switch I picked up a while ago. The only problem was the LED’s inside had been fried by using the wrong resistor. I could either use the switch as it was or attempt to fix it… I’m sure you can guess the route I took ;)

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By sawing the blue plastic section off the back and removing the internals, this is what I was left with. The centre section moves up when the button is pressed, this means I can glue another switch inside which it will press.
 
I then decided to experiment with a few LED’s. The choice is between…

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Blue

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White

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Or both? This picture didn’t come out very good, it is actually half blue and white which personally looks pretty funky.

Let me know what you think. I’ll have an update very soon as the painter is back off his holidays this week ;)

Stay tuned.
 
Looking great bro, having a great time looking through the log. really liking the side pannel with the uv Perspex. Looks awesome. Makes me want to run out and build a new rig....buuut the old wallet wants none of that ;) Keep up the good work, looking forward to an update ;)
 
Ta very much for the comments :)

I’ve finally had that well needed day off (to talk to my teacher about grades for 10 minutes) to get some work done on the mod.

You might remember my plans a few updates ago to cut away the floppy bay covers to fit the LCD inside, I since scrapped the idea and decided to take a different approach.

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I started by cutting a piece Perspex the same size as the dual floppy bays, the edges were then sanded and polished.

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I had a go fitting some mirror window tint but didn’t have much luck as the stuff is really hard to work with. Coolmiester offered to help out and fitted the stuff himself, he made an awesome job :D

My task for today was to finish the sanding of the front bezel.

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Here it is after the sanding work.

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A close up of the floppy bay area.

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I sanded the ridges of the power and reset buttons right down and enlarged the power button hole for the Bulgin switch :)

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Here’s how it looks with the bits installed. The reset button sticks out a lot more now it’s been sanded down, it makes it a lot easier to press though ;)
 
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Then with the mirrored plexi fitted ;)

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This is how the LCD will be mounted, (obviously a bit tidier for the finishing stage ;) ) the insulation tape stops it going anywhere and once the front bezel is snapped back into place it will be held in place.

Time for some eye candy :D

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This is how it looks in daylight.

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A closer shot.
 
…and now some shots in the dark.

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:D

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Different angle.

All the sanded bits n’ bobs will be taken to the painters on Monday, then it’s just a case of doing the bits I’ve forgotten about and fitting everything back together.

Stay tuned :cool:
 
Was just curious as to how you plan on reassembling the switch? I've got a Bulgin switch that I was thinking of having anodized, but was a bit leery about having to disassemble then reassemble the switch to have it done ...
 
lamarth said:
Was just curious as to how you plan on reassembling the switch? I've got a Bulgin switch that I was thinking of having anodized, but was a bit leery about having to disassemble then reassemble the switch to have it done ...
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The plan is to get a whole load of blue-tac and fill the whole inside of the switch. Then try and embed the working switch so it touches the inside of the bulgin, hopefully it should work out :)
 
that's really really cool. it'd look even cooler if the rest of the case matched it, i.e. the whole case (front at least) looked like that, then one part lit up and was an LCD. can you adjust it so it isn't backlit (kinda) but just the letters light up?
 
damn your still workin on this?? i love that case man esp with wat youve done with it :p
 
wow... you've put a lot of good work into this project. Nicely done so far!! :)
 
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