Project: Urahara

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Ok guys it's time for a build/project log.

This will be my own personal gaming Rig, so as such will be named after my current Avatar, Kisuke Urahara (from the Anime Bleach), and as such the Rigs colouring will be Green and Black, with a little bit of white here and there.

Here is a pic of the character below.
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I've started this project to help keep my mind away from other darker thoughts in my life recently in my current battle with depression. Hopefully this creative outlet will help me stay positive and preoccupied during the times ahead.


Now lets start with the case, the Silverstone Raven RV03.

This is my current case, a case which I am very fond of. I practically stole this thin off ebay for £50 last year and since then it has housed my PC.

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It has been modded to allow the case to contain a full water cooling loop (ill update with pics soon), with a 240mm rad in the back and a thick 280mm radiator in the bottom.

Further modifications are still to be made to the case, but will be fully cosmetic. These will include Painting the Plastic strips on the top and front of the case [currently sanded down (pictured below)] and putting a custom design on each side panel.

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The Full specs of the PC will be as follows;

CPU: Intel i5 4670k
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87 G1-Sniper
Ram: 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP White 1600MHz Memory
GPU: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X
SSD: Samsung 830 128GB
HDD: Western Digital Black 500GB
Optical Drive: Liteon IHOS104-37 BluRay drive (I use it don't judge me!)
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro 1000w

I'll update this thread later with my water cooling specs and a few glamour shots of components later, but just to tide you guys over here is the current state of my rig.

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One thing I will add is that the G1-Sniper's built in on off and reset switches have been very useful recently, so +1 Gigabyte for putting that feature on such a moderately priced motherboard.

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Go to page 6 for Completed Pics!
 
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i look forward to seeing more of this build, Urahara is one of my favorite characters from bleach
 
I too have watched a fair amount of Bleach. Kisuke Urahara is one of those chars that has their own thing that makes them awesome. Let's hope your build will turn out just as if not more awesome than Kisuke.

As a side note, If your trying to mimic kisuke then where is Benihime?
 
As a side note, If your trying to mimic kisuke then where is Benihime?

Oh, that would be telling, rest assured the Crimson Princess [Benihime] will make herself known in this build.

I'll give you a hint, I'm using an XSPC GPU waterblock.
 
Ah ha until i got the stencils i was not gonna say anything but im doing a bleach theme my self (ill give you a hint in involves ice)

Looking forward to seeing this develop :) one thing apart from Benihime were will his iconic hat be lol :)
 
Ok, took a few photos of the GPU water block.

It is the XSPC Razor R9 290/290x block & backplate. I managed to get the block cheaply on ebay and bought the backplate directly from XSPC.

Here is the Water Block

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And here is the Backplate

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I will need to get some new thermal pads before I can do anything as far as water cooling goes, so painting will have to come first. I should get some of that done over the weekend.
 
I've been wondering for a while... can you use those backplates without using the wcblock? Also really looking forward to seeing what your build looks like now and it improving :)
 
UPDATE

I got the Corsair Fan rings painted!

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The strips along the front of the case are the same colour, but they were not dry for me to pack them up and take on the bus :(.

I've been wondering for a while... can you use those backplates without using the wcblock? Also really looking forward to seeing what your build looks like now and it improving :)

No it won't, well at least the XSPC one will not.

It would make the screws holding the GPU's cooler in place too far away to properly hold the GPU cooler.
 
im thinking of stenciling his pic on my blanking plate which will go the length of both the hdd cases and just etch my Alias into the lower left of the case. (C70 for ref)

im just worried about the other main thing i wanna do lol
which is painting the red on my mobo blue
lol unless ASUS would make a one off Blue Maximus V Extreme lol
ATM im using blue lighting to wash out the red.

what other signatures you got planed or they a surprise?
 
im thinking of stenciling his pic on my blanking plate which will go the length of both the hdd cases and just etch my Alias into the lower left of the case. (C70 for ref)

im just worried about the other main thing i wanna do lol
which is painting the red on my mobo blue
lol unless ASUS would make a one off Blue Maximus V Extreme lol
ATM im using blue lighting to wash out the red.

what other signatures you got planed or they a surprise?

I look forward to seeing this :).

I think I will hold my cards close to my chest for now. I still have to wait for a few things to arrive.
 
ha i am the same with a few bits, :)

just woried about my mobo.

Yeah, I was planning to get an all black motherboard for simplicity, but then this G1-Sniper appeared on Ebay for £70.

It may be the wrong shade of green, but it is more than good enough for me.
 
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