[Build Log] Delilah 2.0
- Thread starter Layer Cakes
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Kaapstad
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So, a few days after that disaster, the replacement pump arrived, another cracking deal on facebook :lol:
Mounting did take a little bit of expert hole drilling to get it secure..
Freehand work like this is not my strong suit and the very reason CNCs exist :lol:
So everything was done again! But then I had a couple of drinks and kept thinking about how much work i'd been putting in to a rig with a 3rd gen CPU.
So this happened..
MSI x299 Gaming Pro Carbon with an EK RGB monoblock.
No idea how i'd afford a CPU and RAM, but £200 for the pair.. I sort of convinced my self :lol:
Nice looking board, did it come with the monoblock fitted or did you do it yourself.
Layer Cakes
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It's an EK monoblock, just popped off the vrm cooler and popped it on
Kei
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Very nice. That should be quite a considerable upgrade. I seriously considered x299 and a 7900X before going down the amd threadripper route. Still strikes me as daft that intel don't solder the IHS on their x series HEDT parts anymore.
I really wish I could get a monoblock for my threadripper system.
I really wish I could get a monoblock for my threadripper system.
Layer Cakes
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Layer Cakes
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After purchasing the motherboard and monoblock, I've just been completely put of budget so I couldn't go and order a CPU and RAM straight away. In the mean time though, I've done these few bits 
First thing was replacing the semi modular Cooler Master PSU. I know it wasn't a hugely important thing to do, but with space on this build being such a premium, the current setup of having excess cables tucked behind the pump and cable extensions bulging everywhere, it just made sense. So I picked up this RM1000X from Corsair as I know I can easily get custom braided cables for it.
I then did a bit of work running the cables for everything I could without a motherboard. Not the neatest I know, but there's a lot going on back there!
Next, I replaced that ugly (imo) GPU connector block and replaced it with two Alphacool single card adaptor blocks and once I had that roughly sorted, I finally did a test fit.
I'm really please with how well everything fills the case. I've pretty much got the same amount of hardware as I had in the HAF X I started with, but just packed in to a smaller box. I may have mentioned before, as much a I love the huge impressive towers, the empty space those builds usually have is a real pet peeve of mine. Well that and unnecessarily long tubing runs
All there was to do then was wait until I have the budget for CPU, RAM, braided cables and an M.2 drive.
So in the mean time, I picked up a plexi connector set for the GPUs as well as adding some white under the lenses to really make the logos pop.
Finally, I added some vinyl to the top of the cards and the SLI bridge. I've ended up getting MSI GPUs and a mobo so I thought i'd push it a bit. Plus, their dragon logo is super cool. Even if it was a right pain to cut and weed.
More to follow soon.
~~ Lucy
First thing was replacing the semi modular Cooler Master PSU. I know it wasn't a hugely important thing to do, but with space on this build being such a premium, the current setup of having excess cables tucked behind the pump and cable extensions bulging everywhere, it just made sense. So I picked up this RM1000X from Corsair as I know I can easily get custom braided cables for it.
I then did a bit of work running the cables for everything I could without a motherboard. Not the neatest I know, but there's a lot going on back there!
Next, I replaced that ugly (imo) GPU connector block and replaced it with two Alphacool single card adaptor blocks and once I had that roughly sorted, I finally did a test fit.
I'm really please with how well everything fills the case. I've pretty much got the same amount of hardware as I had in the HAF X I started with, but just packed in to a smaller box. I may have mentioned before, as much a I love the huge impressive towers, the empty space those builds usually have is a real pet peeve of mine. Well that and unnecessarily long tubing runs
All there was to do then was wait until I have the budget for CPU, RAM, braided cables and an M.2 drive.
So in the mean time, I picked up a plexi connector set for the GPUs as well as adding some white under the lenses to really make the logos pop.
Finally, I added some vinyl to the top of the cards and the SLI bridge. I've ended up getting MSI GPUs and a mobo so I thought i'd push it a bit. Plus, their dragon logo is super cool. Even if it was a right pain to cut and weed.
More to follow soon.
~~ Lucy
Layer Cakes
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Thanks! What started as an intermediate upgrade has now resulted in everything being replaced apart from the front 360 rad, fittings and reservoir!
Layer Cakes
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Thank you! I'm debating if I should add another one on the inside of the glass? It's fidley as hell to do though
Layer Cakes
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Just cutting them on a silhouette plotter.
Great thing about vinyls is they can always be removed! Makes it easy to change up the theme if I wish
AlienALX
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Oh OK. Yeah I bet that's a fecker to pick. I thought picking a Bitspower dragon was bad enough.
Layer Cakes
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Probably takes around 10 minutes. It's all about making loads of redundant cuts so everything peels off in the same direction
AlienALX
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Yup that's the exact method I use. Get it under a spotlight so you can see it properly, then cut loads of relief cuts between the plotter cuts and remove in sections.
I tell you what is annoying.. When you spend ten minutes and then realise you've been pulling out the actual graphic. Then I go !@!!***!!!. lol. I tell you what it reminds me of on the fiddly scale.. Straightening Intel motherboard pins under a magnifying glass. Your eyes go out of focus for a second and it all just merges into one
Layer Cakes
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Yup that's the exact method I use. Get it under a spotlight so you can see it properly, then cut loads of relief cuts between the plotter cuts and remove in sections.
I tell you what is annoying.. When you spend ten minutes and then realise you've been pulling out the actual graphic. Then I go !@!!***!!!. lol. I tell you what it reminds me of on the fiddly scale.. Straightening Intel motherboard pins under a magnifying glass. Your eyes go out of focus for a second and it all just merges into one
I do all of my redundant cuts with the plotter! I don't trust myself freehanding razor blades :lol: :lol:
I've don't that one a few times too.. I was doing a vinyl of Mia from pulp fiction lately and realised I was weeding the wrong part. Finished it up and used it as a spray paint stencil instead!
It is damn fidley though, but compared to some of the vape stuff I do it's nothing. Working with 40 AWG wire is on an entire different level of fidleyness
AlienALX
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haha vaper too, eh? That is one thing I have not dirtied my hands with yet is making coils ! I built my way up to dual coiled monsters, but found I was going through vape like crap through a goose so I just dropped back to the old single coil. I wouldn't mind, but I've got a taste for very expensive bottles of vape (like £30 for 100ml) and I was going through it so fast it almost made it not cheap any more lol.
Layer Cakes
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Yeah I make all my own coils and use pretty much exclusively mech mods. I work part time in a vape store so I don't have to worry about juice and such! Mind if I ask what juice your using?
AlienALX
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Usually imported stuff. ATM I am using Candy King Sour Worms which is a take on the sour worms you buy in the USA. Neon Nightcrawlers or something? I want to try their Swedish Fish flavour next (it's not fish, it's a red fish shaped candy from the USA). I also use Marshmallow man III which is marshmallow with a hint of strawberry, and Choco Donuts (which is exactly how it sounds). Other faves of mine are Puppie Slush grape and blue raspberry.
