kevior
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How hard was the sleeving that you did? I feel that if i could get blue cables that would be just the accents that i need to go with all the black
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How hard was the sleeving that you did? I feel that if i could get blue cables that would be just the accents that i need to go with all the black
if you do plan on putting a RAD in the bottom i think you will need a different mother board. you can probably get by with 120.3 and offset towards the left side panel. that is a lot of rad for a mid tower. good luck on your endeavors
as for the sleeving. it wasn't to hard. just took patients, lots of patience.
watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rmj5B8z1Os
as for the sleeving. it wasn't to hard. just took patients, lots of patience.
watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rmj5B8z1Os
kevior
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Thankyou very much for the video. Will come in extremely useful, im sure.
About the motherboard and radiator. Check this image a second:
About 160mm of room which is pleanty of room for a 140mm radiator + cables. Also, the hard drive cage can be cut out pretty easily.
The only problem is that if you have more than one graphics card, you wont be able to fit in a 60mm radiator and probably not even a 30mm one unless you're cooling your GPU's with a fairly small water block.
kevior
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Matte. Mine had textured matte black it was nice but smooth matte black defiantly looks the nicest. The outside would look nicer gloss back however. Then a layer of good old clearcoat
You said about clearcoat. Would it be possible that you could send me a halfords link to some clearcoat. I'm not quite sure what i'm looking for
Just a quick update, i can buy the four things i mentioned directly from corsair for about £40. And this is what my basket looks like so far, minus the clearcoat.
Is there anything else I might need?
In addition to this. How much (in length) braided cable and heatshrink would i need to do the entire power supply, roughly?
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Is the case steel or alu?
If its alu you need etch primer too (and normal primer to go over the top)
If its alu you need etch primer too (and normal primer to go over the top)
kevior
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Pretty sure its steel. £26 seems a bit low for an aluminium case
Do you know how much braid i will need for a normal power supply?
dalewakelin
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What are you using to sleeve it? If you are using paracord it is cheap enough to get 60 feet of it just to be safe. If you are using MDPC it is expensive so i would just get what you need. I would say 30 feet would even be more than enough. I have never sleeved a psu so i dont exactly know. I plan to however in a few weeks 
Halfords Clearcoat:
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_724401_langId_-1_categoryId_165495
Halfords Clearcoat:
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_724401_langId_-1_categoryId_165495
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kevior
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What are you using to sleeve it? If you are using paracord it is cheap enough to get 60 feet of it just to be safe. If you are using MDPC it is expensive so i would just get what you need. I would say 30 feet would even be more than enough. I have never sleeved a psu so i dont exactly know. I plan to however in a few weeks
Halfords Clearcoat:
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_724401_langId_-1_categoryId_165495
I am not sure which this is. Its pretty cheap so i guess its paracord: http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=12208&cat=2258&page=1
dalewakelin
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About 24 hours i would leave, the clear coat i would leave for about 72 hours. That sleeve isnt paracord, at least i dont think it is. It is pretty cheap though, if you look at the cut it has fluff which is really annoying if you want to do your whole psu. MDPC has little/or no fluff.
for my 8 pin PCIe, 6 pin PCIe, 8 pin CPU, and 24 Pin Mobo connectors i used close to 30 meters. i ordered 20 meters (65 feet) from Nils (MDPC) and that barley covered the 8 pin PCIE connector, and 20 of the 24 pin connector. i think i read somewhere, after i ran out, you need about 15 meters to do a 24 pin connector. of course all this depends on your power supply, i used a Corsair HX850 and the cables are pretty long. the easiest way to get the right amount is to measure the length of your cables and multiply that by the number of wires you have and then multiply that by 1.15, to give you an extra 15%
example
cables measure 61cm, you have a 24 pin, 8 pin CPU, 2x6pin PCIe's total wires equals 44 wires multiply that by 61cm.
that equals 2684cm = 26.84m
then multiply by 1.15
so 26.84*1.15
, and that gives 30.86m
example
cables measure 61cm, you have a 24 pin, 8 pin CPU, 2x6pin PCIe's total wires equals 44 wires multiply that by 61cm.
that equals 2684cm = 26.84m
then multiply by 1.15
so 26.84*1.15
, and that gives 30.86m
kevior
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Wow. Didn't realise that much was involved. Doesn't look it when its in a system, eh? Did you use paracord or MDPC?
Also, how do you go about sleeving the cables that go into the power supply (in my case all of them
) do you have to open up the power supply or do you just shrink as far down as you can go? And does this mean that i will need to get fairly large heat shrink (before being shrunk)?
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kevior
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Ignore my last questions
On the MDPC website, there is sleeve which is available is just SATA and small sizes. Will one of these sizes also fit the connectors for standard cables for 24 pin, 8 pins, sata power, ect?
kevior
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Thanks again man. You've been a great help. If you have any other suggestions or advice feel free to let me know
dalewakelin
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B-Magic Blue, more hardware uses the same colour.
kevior
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Thanks man, also what colour heatshrink, blue or black?
yassarikhan786
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B-Magic blue. I've seen it and it looks gorgeous. Black heatshrink would look the danglies I think.
