Arise 'Bumblebee'!

[BigIan88]

Part 1 - Case - Complete
Part 2 - Components - Pending
Part 3 - Watercooling


Sadly a stick of memory lost its life so I am down to only 4GB at the moment but specs are:

• i7 3770K
• MSI Z77 Mpower
• 4GB Avexir Mpower 2400mhz
• 2x Corsair SP 120's (ring painted yellow)
• CM Silent Pro Gold 1200w PSU
• Corsair Carbide 500R painted in Vauxhall Solid Yellow 40C (with 20.6g Gold Yellow EP added) and 3mm acrylic side window added to replace mesh
• 2x2TB Western Digital Green HDD's mounted on a Nexus dual 3.5" to 5.25" adapter
• 256GB Crucial M4 SSD
• Lamptron 6 channel fan controller
• HIS HD 7950 painted Satin Black
• Thermal Take Contac
• Custom cabling

Components coming soon:
Replacing memory with higher capacity sticks of same brand
Additional HDD's
Additional SP 120 fans
2nd 7950 for X-fire


Black and Yellow extension cables

Slightly tinted Acrylic window (3mm) with U-bend test fitted - Edges will be rounded off and the U-bend will be fitted properly when I get going.

All black 90cm round sata cables, no more inconsistency or right angled Sata cables (Words cannot explain how much I dislike them!)

Supplies!

MOAR supplies

Extra paint

The test panel (a side panel from a cheap spare case)

Cleaning, prep and lubrication

Testing grit level

MOAR sanding

Cleaning off the excess liquid (now blackened)

Sanded and cleaned with tack cloths

Applying the primer

Primer applied!

Applying the 1st coat of custom mixed paint

Paint applied

Tacky/Sticky paint

My dad pointing out the chemical reactions in the paint

The drying game

 

[BigIan88]

Case disassembled, sanded and primer applied.

Nothing too exciting today other than preperation work im afraid (lots and lots of sanding).

 

[BigIan88]

 

[BigIan88]

 

[BigIan88]

Still needs a few things added here and there to make it look a little more like a transformer (such as hotwiring an LED autobots logo to the fan controller and sticking it behind the front panel mesh) but its a damn good start

 

[UkGouki]

nice cant wait to see more

 

[MrKambo]

oh wow that looks awesome!!!

looking forward to updates

 

[BigIan88]

The first things for me to sort out are:

Additional fan for the front intake
RMA faulty memory stick
Replace CPU cooler


Whilst the 7950 was in bits I applied some new thermal paste (Noctua stuff) and its running around 12c cooler than before!

 

[tinytomlogan]

Proper build log!

Good idea to have a post and then C&P in to the OP though dude

 

[Gamepro105]

Loads of pictures. this looks brilliant!

 

[BigIan88]

I just set my D5100 to take photo's every minute and then I went through the 100's of photos at the end and chose the one's that shown what I was up to at the time

 

[Gurt11]

Nice, just got the MPower too any further plans?

 

[BigIan88]

Nice, just got the MPower too any further plans?

See post 1 & 8 :lol:

 

[Gurt11]

See post 1 & 8 :lol:

Ow yeah, right, sorry :lol: I was too dazzled by the pics

 

[Gerner]

Lovely case!
Got a 500R myself and I'm very pleased with it.

When you paint it with spraycan do you sand it afterwards to get a glossy finish?

Best regards
Gerner

 

[BigIan88]

Used 600 wet & dry to take the original paint off, cleaned it and gave it 2 coats of primer (white) then did 2-3 coats of the custom yellow paint and left it to cure for 24 hours.

I was impressed with the finish as it is so I left it at that BUT the intention was to lacquer it then use 1200 wet & dry to even it all out if it didn't look the part.


On a side note - OCD Monkey strikes again

The noise from the Tt cooler got on my nerves along with having an empty fan slot at the front. Sooooooooooooooooo I put the Antec Kuhler 620 back in (for now) and mounted it in push/pull and put some Akasa Apaches (black) in the front. All controlled by the fan controller

On a side note, Avexir need to get a move on with my RMA request, that single stick of memory is looking a little lonely

 

[BigIan88]

Now the temps with a moderate overclock (set for so the prev cooler could cope, will nudge up a little more now)

 

[Gerner]

On the case why don't you make some effects, like the bumblebee on your desktop. Some scratches here and there. Might give it that last touch, instead of being a machine-bee

Best regards
Gerner

 

[BigIan88]

On the case why don't you make some effects, like the bumblebee on your desktop. Some scratches here and there. Might give it that last touch, instead of being a machine-bee

Best regards
Gerner

I toyed with the idea of having it 'worn' but its too much work for me to do at the moment as its taken me all week (I booked time off work to do it) to get this far and im back in work on Monday.

Perhaps sometime in the future, just don't have the time at the moment

 

[seumasbeathan]

It is a lovely build