[Project] BalROG

Doing some tests to find the prefect fans for my needs. This is the ambient sound noise at night...

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Gentle typhoon at full speed:

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Ambient sound noise during corsair sp120 tests (done in the daytime):

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SP120 Quiet Edition at full speed (12v):

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SP120 Quiet Edition (7v - using the included adapter):

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SP120 High Performance at full speed (12v):

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SP120 High Performance (7v - using the included adapter):

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All this tests are not accurate & do not serve as a guide or comparison on which fans are noisy/silent. Its purely for my own usage, to finding the fans that will suit me well. I decided to use the corsair SP120 quiet edition in my build since I am going with a push + pull setup. Gentle typhoon is a good fan no doubt but its not pleasant to my eyes :P

Oh and I also got my top panel replacement from nzxt already :D

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Tiny update:
Before you guys say anything, I would like to remind you that I already mention before I start this worklog that this will be a very slow build which explains why there isnt much yet. So I just finished installing the gaskets in my rig, I am the very paranoid type of person when it comes to sound. I am planning to go for the ultra silent rig yet performs well in cooling which explains why I keep changing fans from SGT to SP120 high performance to quiet editions and its pretty obvious why I am installing gaskets all over the places haha. Anywhere there is fans contacts, there will be gasket! Also my supplier only had the 360mm size so I had to cut it to fit at the front radiator.

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Flowsensor is here! I had to make a special order for this since cant get it locally!

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And some 'rare' fitting sizes & g1/4 rotary's since local retailer only carry 1 size :(

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Best part of unpacking is to find suprised goodies! Its not that it very expensive or what but its just the surprise that you get free stuff makes the whole experience happier. The packaging is superb too, wrapped in bitspower own bubble wrap!

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I know its been sometime since the last update & I apologize for that. Was busy so had to put the work log on hold. Don't worry though, I am free now for a month or so. You will be seeing more updates now. I just finished installing the gpu waterblock, ek bridge & the backplate (I forgot to take picture of the final product). Anyways I plan to start making fill ports tomorrow on the luminous panel.

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Almost forgotten to remove the original asus washer haha, luckily I realized it otherwise it might not have good contacts with the waterblock :lol:

As promised, more updates today :) Had to draw circles for making hole to fit the fill port.

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It worked out great, perfectly aligned but I have a new problem.

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So my main objective was to get the pump directly under the reservoir but its super tight. As you can see there is no gap at all between the pump top & the luminous panel.

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Another problem was the pump inlet fitting & the fillport is not aligned. The pump is a little too thick so it offsets outwards a little bit. And also the 45deg rotary isnt straight. I can solve it by rising the pump higher but I dont have space though to rise the pump so had to use 20mm extender at the radiator :P

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As for the pump offset problem, I had to use a dremel to grind the pump cover or whatever you call that round circle thing that secures the pump top & the pump. Basically I trim the gripping material a little bit so that the pump can enter inwards a little more. Sorry for not taking a lot of pictures, when it comes to modding, taking pictures is my less priority since I spend too much time doing the actual work :P

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Made the 2nd fillport yay! My initial plan was to put this flowsensor at the reservoir inlet at the top & use extenders from the fillport to the bottom of the gpu inlet. So that I can run a straight tubing from the bottom to the gpu inlet. This will give the straight tubing that we usually see in acrylic tubing builds but then I thought why not replace the extenders with my flowsensor? Plus it will be easier to see on the luminous panel instead of the top & also save me from using extenders therefore less cost! That long extenders is just for aligning, will replace that with compression fitting & tubing.

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I tell you, this is probably the hardest part in my build so far! First I need to attach the pump to the fillport at such a tight space, then from the fillport I need to connect to the reservoir at such a tight space to work with. Once everything is set, I had to connect this small piece of tubing to the radiator & oh boy...it was so hard! Because I cant move the pump or have enough space to work with. Took me more than 1 hour to get the lower portion done. I had to remove to rivets at the back of the casing to fit this luminous panel properly below the pci bracket & I also drilled 2 big holes at the bottom acrylic panel to route the pump wire from below the casing & also allow me to adjust the pump speed. Not convenient to adjust the speed from under the casing but at least I have the option if needed. I plan to connect this pump on a lamptron cw611 though so it will allow me to adjust the speed through the fan controller instead.

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This is what you get when you dont have motherboard. Had to hang the gpu with strings to get the accurate measurement for the fillport locations.

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So far everything is looking good, will work on the psu side cover & at the front. Took me more than half a day to get the lower portion routing done. It looks simple but I did a lot of small modding here & there to get it in such a tight space.

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The luminous panel is just a prototype though, but I dont plan to change it since is amount of work I need to remove the fittings & put it back is such a pain. If the led 1 day failed then only I will decide to create a new luminous panel with laser engraved instead of hand sanded for better light distribution. I also have an idea to make a aluminum bracket to fit the led inside whenever it fails, this will make the whole replacing led process easier. Basically what I mean is instead of using black tape to hold the led strip to the side of the acrylic, I will create a thin spacing with aluminum instead.

Not sure if you understand what I am trying to say but for now I think I will just use the current luminous panel.

Thanks to [@pristine] for borrowing me his hole saw :P Making fillport will be super hard without it! But the hole saw is a little small for the bitspower diameter so I had to use grinding stone to sand the hole further so that the fillport can fit inside nicely. I know the holesaw was designed like that because when you make hole with metal, you can use the fill port threads to screw the fillport in but not with thick acrylic panels :)

pristine, I will return it back to you soon :D

The side cover is a little high so I will need to trim it a little bit.

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My design is to put another acrylic at this angle to help the airflow from the radiator.

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Due to short acrylic panel, I had to glue another acrylic to it :P I am going to cover it with matte black sticker so the colour dosen't matter. Most importantly is to make good use of the resources you have! Don't waste it :D

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Done with the whole cover but I had to make a hole & attach a screw to keep the acrylic panel touching the luminous panel otherwise there will be a gap :(

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Easy to remove too, so cable management from the psu shouldn't be a problem. Just pop it out & plug in hehehe

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I know the side panel is not straight but this is probably the best I can do with a dremel. Once I put the sticker I think it wont be noticeable.

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Now I need your suggestion, should I cover this part like below? Full cover or partial?

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If I cover it fully then the 5.25" drive bay part also I will need to cover...

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Or should I just cover the top part, meaning the radiator & sp120 fans will be visible. I plan to make an ROG logo ...still thinking which to go for since full acrylic cover is very common & everyone done that already. I am thinking of doing something different.

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Got my vinyl from [@kray_keigo] today. Serious good high quality stuff :thumbs:

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As you can see from the picture, my previous cut with the dremel wasn't that perfect. Shaky hands :P so a quick fix with eproxy & you won't even notice it hehehe

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My touch & go card definitely helped me in applying the sticker without bubbles :D

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I am quite satisfied with the psu cover considering this was my first attempt, not so satisfied with the luminous panel yet as you all know but since this isn't a sponsored build or what sort, just my personal rig so who gives a fark :P I can perfect the luminous panel but that would mean me taking apart the panel, unscrewing lots of fittings here & there that took me quite some time to get it in place with such a low clearance plus I might need to spend probably another RM50-100 to get the material, laser cutting etc so I think i'll pass.

In case if there is a leak during the leak test somewhere under the psu cover & I couldn't fix it without taking apart then I might consider getting the luminous panel perfected. Lets just hope no leaks ya :P

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Still deciding to go with 5.25" bay cover with acrylic + matte black sticker or acrylic + ROG logo. Once the side panel is on, there won't be any difference so I am still thinking on my options

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It's either bending the metal or cutting it off with a dremel. Went with the lazy method lol otherwise the acrylic panel wont be able to sit nicely over here.

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Hero & haswell is here, yeah I went for hero finally. Dont intend to wait for formula any longer plus I got hero from a friend at an attractive price :)

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So I did the usual process, install cpu, mobo standoff etc..before putting on the waterblock with thermal paste I decided to open it to take a look inside & what a horror!!! Oxidation so badly, this is basically my fault though. I run the loop for 2days & drained it for some changes but didnt let the components to dry properly & just left it there to dry itself haha. Also if you notice the o-ring somehow left those black marks on the copper & it was hard to remove it even with vinegar. Not exactly sure what is going on but I hope it dosen't leak. o-ring condition is still good though...

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The usual vinegar + warm water + lime solution

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So since I am doing push + pull config, available space is quite tight considering I am using RX radiators. To make sure I have sufficient spacing, I made myself 120mm fan body to estimate the distance when installing my loop. This is because I dont have any 120mm fans spare & the sp120 fans I ordered will arrive in 3weeks time :lol:

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Started with cable sleeving, just the internal I/O cables only though, psu cables haven't yet and oh boy it was time consuming alright. Took me more than 2hours to get it done. Hard since I had to sleeving while standing & the cables are quite thick & of different sizes.

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Current loop, short, simple & clean :P

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I sleeved using MDPC sleeving & I find it way better than colortrail sleeving in quality wise. Colortrail is quite good too & most importantly cheap but MDPC is much easier to sleeve but too expensive lol. I almost used up all my sata sleevings already for the internal I/O cables such as usb cables, etc. Need to get more for the sata cables. I am a little OCD on stuff like these, I know you dont really need to sleeve it but thats just how I roll. Maybe I am a perfectionist?

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ModMyToys pcb installed! :P

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So yesterday I was sleeving the switch 810 front I/O cables & I used up most of the sata sleeving which was meant only for the sata cable. Sadly its enough to sleeve 1 sata cable only so now I got to order more.

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I am using MDPC sleeving btw and the quality is top notch. Applied a little super glue to the sleeving & cable so that it will not come out no matter how hard I pull it. I had bad experience with previous sleeving I did on 24pin cables so this time I will be adding super glue to give that stronger hold.

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Time to start filling up the loop.

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I plan to go for blood red colour to match the ROG theme.

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Just experimenting with how much dye I need.

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I only added 1 drop red & 1 drop blue but the liquid turned straight away to dark purple. This means the red ratio must be more than blue.

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Sadly I was too confident & added lots of red & 1-3 drops of blue straight away into the loop. It straight away turned to purple. Now I got to drain the whole liquid & flush it with distilled water & get the ratio right. Learned my lesson lol, then I mixed the dye in a seprate 1.5 bottle first & started filling the loop from the bottle.

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I got the colour that I need, the ratio I used was around 20drops of red & half a drop of blue. I drop the blue into a small glass of distilled water & slowly fill the water into the 20drops of red water. Used around half a glass so approximately only half a drop of blue is required.

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Upper part red looks fantastic but the luminous panel kinda make the red looks yellow/orange at the bottom part.

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Ignore the cable mess, I am playing around with leds. Apperantly the 3mm & 5mm leds I bought was wrong, they are not giving constant light. The led is have the "pulse effect" blinks & dims, blinks & dims etc. This may be nice for some people but I dont really like it so I got to find the correct ones now haha.

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So do you like my reservoir? I hope the tiny bubble stays hahaha it gives a really nice effect to it, but unfortunately there are few scratches on the res. Oh well, people are not going to stare at it too long anyways right? :P

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I did some red touch up today, just to highlight more red colour in my build since its pretty dark atm. Sanding the pci bracket is a pain in the ass I tell you, wished I had some paint stripper lol.

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Here is the optical bay cover. Its a temporary cover I think. I haven't decide yet should I make a big ass ROG logo at here or just mount ssd over here. Oh & yeah, I painted some screws hehe, looks nice isn't it...

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Initially I was thinking to make a luminous panel to display the ROG logo in white + red like how kier did with his build, but then I am thinking if I were to get SSD then where should I mount it. You know you gotta "show off" if you are using SSD right. So I am still deciding. Sorry for this blurry picture, lazy to adjust the camera ISO haha

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Also kustom pcs is out of lamptron CW611. Noooooo!! Gotta wait for them to restock D:<

Didnt had any progress last week because my father accident 2weeks ago so I was staying up night in the hospital. Another bad news is that the rig is partially done, so I been playing games on it. Finished far cry 3 on it but today when I was listening songs the display suddently just went off. Now there isnt any display from the graphic card. I think my graphic card died so will need to test it & most likely send to RMA. This is farked up :lol:

I am almost done with it, just left to install the remaining fans & make custom cables but shit happens. I was hoping to finish this build by end of this month but...

Anyways thanks to [@HoNeYdEwBoY] for the rams :wub: I didnt know the ram led has a pulse effect. I thought it was just a normal constant led (didnt read reviews :lol: ). Remember previously I had 3mm led for the raystorm & I didnt like the blinking effect, but since the ram has a nice pulse effect to it, I think maybe adding that blinking led to raystorm might match. Will test it & see how it goes :)

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Sleeving the 3mm leds.
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So I started adding fans on top & the standard 3cm radiator screws doesnt fit so I had to custom make my own screws that is slightly longer.

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Started sleeving the fans too. Yes I am a perfectionist I guess, even fan cables I will sleeve even though its already black. Usually small touches like this can make a difference in a build.

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Time to make my custom 24pin cables & sleeve it :P

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Its my first time creating custom cables so I had to experiment on which technique works best with which tools. I spent like around 1hour with 25pins for trial & error & finally manage to get the perfect technique that works best for me.

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Because of that I would like to create a short tutorial for you guys :lol: I said before I wanted to share my cable sleeving technique but I guess I'll pass that since you guys can watch lutr0 videos. His guide is probably the best out there & when I first started I followed his guide as well.

So basically to make custom cables you will need 3 important tools. First is a regular all in 1 tool for wires that you can buy from hardware shops. This is a must have tool, I use this to cut my wires, cut my M4 screws to custom sizes, strip the 18awg cables & even cable crimping. The second tool is used to entertain yourself during this long process :P Its an e-cig. The 3rd tool is obviously crimping ratchet. I am using a decent crimping ratchet which is why additional steps are required to get the perfect crimp. Maybe if you get those expensive ratchet life will be easier, I dont know because no way in hell I am going to spend more than RM100 to get a crimping ratchet, mine cost less than RM50.

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First step is to strip the insulator.

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You will need to estimate yourself, so there will be some trial & error involved.

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Because it can't be too long or if its too short then you wont be able to get a good crimp grip.

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Next is to placed that wire into this pin, but the pin wings are straight & I find it hard to crimp them because they will be shaking & the pin can easily fall off. So what I do is I bend the wings first to a curve shape & then only insert the wire, this will reduce the amount of movement & chances of the pin falling down is reduced.

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Just remember to place it properly in the ratchet or you will destroy your pin.

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Do ignore my beautiful fingernails ya :P

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See, now its easier to place the wire into the pin. The way I estimate how much insulator to cut is the amount of copper wire should be sufficient that its able to enter in the "pin square house". Just barely, like a tiny mm only because you dont want too much in there or you will have a hard time connecting the male pins into it later.

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Anyway once you done placing the wire, carefully put the pin & wire into the ratchet & crimp it fully.

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This may look a good crimp to you, but its not. Because if you pull the pin from the wire, with sufficient force the pin will come out. No mater how hard you crimp it with the crimper, the grip is just not too strong.

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This is where the other tool will come in handy. As you can see, the crimping curve is much sharper, so I just need to crimp the pins again to give that "extra grip". You will know how much pressure to apply with trial & error. Too much & your pin will break, too little & the gripping strength wont be strong enough.

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Once that is done, I can pull the wire from the pins as hard as I want & it wont come out. Of course if you pull really hard it will come out though but it should be sufficient la for our usage.

Installed the corsair fans. I am thinking of replacing the corsair sticker to something else. Maybe rog logo stickers instead? Hmmm

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I have no issue with the clearance at the ram or cpu heatsink for corsair fans in push pull config but I will be having problems at the 8pin cable for the cpu.

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Not sure how I am going to put the fans over here, maybe I will need to modify the corsair fans, might need to cut the shroud with a dremel I guess.

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Shit ton of connectors for custom cables.

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I went with heatshrinkless style :)

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My custom cable doesn't work directly from the psu due to different cable layout from the original psu cable layout. So I had to rearrange the cables back to the original layout. I was hoping the 24pin cable didnt need to follow original layout but apparently not. I think gpu cables & 8pin cables the layout doesn't matter as long as the wire colours are right. Will see how things goes.

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Double wire! We meet again...muahahaha

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After rearranging the cables to original layout, it works. Readings all seems alright, 24pin custom cable success!

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Time for cable sewing :)

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This gonna be a long process so bye bye, see you next month :P

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Just done the 2nd stitch, was doing the 2nd stitch but the thread broke so had to redo it :lol:

What is hard? Making heatshrinkless sleeving with colortrail? My 24pin actually is a mixture of mdpc & colortrail (only for black colour). The only difference I find is colortrail sleeving diameter seems to be slightly smaller & while mdpc is a little bigger. So if you stretch it, mdpc can actually stretch more than colortrail. So its much easier to put sleeving on cables for mdpc compare to colortrail (bear in mind my colortrail sleeving was last year batch, maybe now its improved idk).

Another good thing about mdpc is the heatshrink. Its way way better than colortrail, its much bigger in diameter seems to compress better when heated. So its much easier to put the heatshrink on sleevings with mdpc, if colortrail everytime I need to put the heatshrink I need to use needle piler to stretch it. Again my colortrail sleeving is very old batch, maybe the newer batch is better idk but just bought 2 more packet of colortrail because I am running out of sleevings & mdpc is costly. Thats the only difference I can spot, colour wise they are both the same.

For heatshrinkless sleeving, there is no difference if you use mdpc or colortrail. Both works fine, its all about the technique you use. Once you mastered the technique its easy :lol: I follow lutro0 guide, his guide is basically the best out there PERIOD. Although his videos are long but its very informative believe it or not. Practice makes perfect, just like how I "wasted" around 20pins to master crimping to make custom wires. Now that I got my technique right, crimping wires are quite easy & I haven't have any wires that came out of the crimp so far even when I had to rearrange the 24pin cable layout to the original layout from the psu manufacturer.

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24pin should be done by tomorrow, then will continue on 8pin & 2x 6pins :lol: So much work yet so little time. I have yet to diagnose the problem with my pc, I suspect need to RMA graphic card. Need to borrow my friend gpu to test :stars:

I said see you guys next month but I am in a good mood to post an update, so here you guys go. Not much progress anyways since sunday I was pretty free & couldn't do anything because I am out of black sleeving. Should be arriving monday though :) 24pin cable done! cpu 8pin & graphics card custom cables are done too, just need black sleeving for the cpu cables & my D5 pump.

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I couldn't stitch it all the way because of the layout of the wires. I just dont understand why psu manufacturer can't produce pin layout that is exactly the same as on the motherboard. I mean c'mon, if they can standardize pin layout on motherboard then why cant they do that for psu also? But then again I am not an electrical engineer so there must be a reason for it, i'll probably be too dumb to understand anyways so i'll just accept what it is :P

Not that bad anyways, this part will be under the psu cover so you will not even notice it. Also I learned that I need a thick long ruler & I will need to drill it to my table because to make extension cables I MUST get the wire measurement exactly the same for all the wires. Not even 0.5cm difference otherwise it will not turn out to be straight & nice in the end. So if I were to provide custom extension services to others, measurement is really important, but then again I am not sure if I have enough time to provide such service because its kinda time consuming to be honest.

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I dont even need to do any cable management here...its that easy LOL

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Here is a comparison on mdpc sleeving colour with colortrail. Top is mdpc, bottom is colortrail. Btw don't get me wrong with my previous post. Colortrail is no doubt a good sleeving with decent quality, its just that I think there is room for improvement for it the be perfect. I am just sharing my experience on using both type of sleeving because it might help anyone who is deciding. Both requires a different technique of measuring the sleeving so you will need to figure that out.

Support local product hehe, not many country have their own local sleeving you know. In the end all depends on your budget. Btw I am going to try some china sleeving too, its way way cheaper than colortrail & mdpc haha. Its all about trying things out & getting experience.

cc: [@HoNeYdEwBoY]

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Here is the custom gpu cables.

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Notice the caps are still there? Yeah I pull it out from the original cable & soldered to this cable. Kinda time consuming but hey I don't go the nick crazymofo for no reason :P You can also argue I didn't need to stitch my 24pin all the way at the back since once the side panel are on I wouldn't even notice it, but then again don't forget I am crazy :P

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Anyways this part will be under the psu cover, so you wouldn't notice it anyways :)

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I wanted to test my gpu cable with the psu tester but it turns out I used the wrong connector. I used the 8pin cpu connector instead of 8pin for gpu so I will need to remove the pins tomorrow & insert in the correct connector lol. I thought both were the same, well this is why I love DIY...I learned a lot while doing it. If I were to ask someone to do for my I wouldn't learn sh*t.

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I would say the build right now is around 85% completed. Tomorrow I will sleeve the remaining cables & start on cable sewing. Then I will be borrowing my friend gpu tomorrow so I will test if my gpu is having problem then I will probably RMA it. Lets hope its gpu & not mobo because I really dont want to remove that motherboard out. Once all these is done, my 22awg cables should be here together with the remaining SP120 fans & its time to make custom leds with 3pin fan connectors because I will be hooking it up to a fan controller.

Apart from that, its going to be august, meaning kustompcs should be restocking lamptron CW611 anytime soon. Gonna order it once they restocked unless local distro can bring it first? I doubt it, its been months I & there isnt any update from local seller so screw it.

Not much of an update, been lazy during this week plus I am waiting for my 22awg cables & sp120 fans so nothing much to do atm for the build. Its pretty much almost completed, just a little touch up here & there is needed.

So I was testing which looks better on the sata cable, I guess heatshrinkless looks much nicer as expected.

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My switch 810 has an LED button for the leds at the back I/O. So I decided to hook up my luminous panel to this button so that I can use it to switch on the panel & off when is needed. I went straight to cutting the wires & hardwiring the luminous panel to it & it wasn't working. I didnt use a multimeter to test the voltage but I suspect the voltage is running around 3.3V which is the standard voltage for most leds. I thought since the front panel were powered up with a sata power cable, the voltages should be 12V but I was wrong. So I had to scrap that idea off, it would be great though if I could use this LED button :(

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Turns out pretty nice :)

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Bad news though, I had to drain the loop because as I mention earlier my GPU died so I sent it for RMA. Turns out the tubing is having some slight plasticizer issues. I think so, I haven't do a close up inspection to it but its most certainly not crystal clear. When the loop was filled, its not really noticeable but it is once I drained it. Kinda surprising though because I thought primochill advance lrt wouldn't have this issue or at least what I been hearing from others.

I am not exactly sure what the hell is going on, maybe because I mixed durelene + primochill? Or was it the biocide? Lots of factors are to be considered, so I will be doing some tubing testing tomorrow. Another excuse to update the plasticizer thread that I created haha, I been so lazy that I didn't bothered updating that thread anymore :P

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Anyways I am going to replace all this tubing with my left over primochill & flush the loop at least twice. Will see how it performs, if problems still exist then I am going with acrylic tubing. Also I am currently deciding should I replace my Maximus VI Hero to Maximus VI formula? Already drained the loop so I could also change the motherboard eh?

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So far I am almost done with the major cable management. Already sew and sleeve the EPS, 24pin, sata cables. I am left with molex, will get it done tomorrow :)

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Got some 22awg wires which I plan to make custom 3 pin cables. It turns out 22awg wire is kinda bigger so I might need to play around with it later if its suitable or not. Hopefully shouldn't be a problem because I saw lutro selling 22awg so I guess it could work.

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Got the remaining fans for my build

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Because I only got gasket for 120mm sizes, I had to make my own gasket for the 140mm fan :P

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As usual, need to sleeving the fan cables...

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Build is almost done, but I will need to get the custom ROG fan stickers to cover up the corsair stickers :lol:

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I got 11 corsair fans in here at the moment, that means I spent ~RM800 just for fans bwahahaha. Only if my mum knew about it...

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Will get some ROG stickers :)

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Oh & I am still waiting for Lamptron CW611, most likely by end of september it will arrive. No news on the GPU RMA yet, hopefully I can get it soon. Asus faster speed up the process...battlefield 4 is coming out soon :(

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I had some minor problem with fitting the fan due to the cpu EPS cable. The cable was just slightly too thick. I could force the fan in there but there will be a slight flex to the motherboard & the connector so I didnt want to risk it. Decided to mod the corsair fan instead. Removed the rubbery material & cut of the lower plastic section

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Everything fits nicely now and I replaced the old tubing (not really old, just few weeks old). Now I am left with hooking up the leds to a 3pin connector & everything should be set. Just need to wait for gpu & fan controller.

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Did some wiring on the fan cables & seems like 22awg wire is just nice for crimping. Will be restocking 24awg wires as well soon because for making fan spliter, 22awg is a little too thick. The most is you can cramp two wires into 1 pin therefore if you plan to split single 3pin to 3x3pin that might not be possible.

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Had some idea with red leds, credit goes to keir though since I saw him doing it for his mod & decided to copy it to mine hahaha :lol: iirc he used acrylic to give the nice underglow effect but I am not that OCD & this is my own personal build so decided to go with plain led.

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solder the wires to the led as usual

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Strip off a small portion of the transparent material so that I can bend the led

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Tada! 90 degrees :clap:

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It gives a nice red underglow effect eh? Pretty sweet, although using acrylic would be better but lazy la. Need to make custom acrylic, glue it, measure, fit it etc...

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It even lit up the rog red line section & nope I didnt power up the board yet :D
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Just a few shots on the current progress. My gpu is back from RMA already, will be getting some thermal pads on monday from [@HoNeYdEwBoY] & my loop should be up by night :) All I need now is lamptron cw611 & the build will be done I guess, just some minor touch up here & there like the fan sticker etc. Hopefully will be ready before 4th October & I am sure you all know whats on 4th october right? :P

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Not much modding today, just adding up the red led so made some custom wires for my customer & a psu jumper for me to test the leds. Oh & I also will need to get 2 corsair force gs ssd for this build. Will be modding the SSD too :)

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Just got myself SSD, will be modding these soon. Just found out the dvd rom is not working due to loose contact with the sata power cables. I guess my method of pushing the wire into the EZ crimp connector is wrong :lol: Will need to redo the sata cables & also the hdd part.

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Just saw this rig in facebook today. Seems like the red led at the mesh looks pretty cool so I might be copying the idea :hehe:

Actually I did think of inserting leds in the mesh area but didnt really go for it because the red leds that I have is pretty bright so I am afraid it might not turn out that good. I think I might have a solution for that though, going to sleeve the leds to reduce the brightness if its too bright :)

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Nothing major, just got myself a lamptron cw611 today. Going to be busy for this few weeks since lots of deadline to meet so wont be doing any modding anytime soon :P

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Was almost done with the rig so I was testing it & turns out my hard disk & optical drive wasnt working. Checked in bios & it didnt detect the drives so I thought maybe something is wrong with the sata cable connected to the motherboard. After diagnosing it, it turns out the power cables isnt working properly. Had to remove the custom cables I made & redo it.

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The EZ crimp connector isnt making a very good contact with the wires. I guess in order to use this type of connector, I will need 16awg wires instead of 18awg.

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Seems like no sleep tonight for me...
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Yeap, now its working. Redo the wires but this time I didnt sleeve it, too lazy already. Wires will be hidden anyways so wouldn't make much of a difference.

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And another problem now, seems like the corsair fans isnt working with lamptron cw611. Fans all are working, I tested it before.

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Had to strip off this 3pin pcb, to test it. Is it faulty? After doing few tests, it turns out the 3pin extension cable that I made was wired wrongly :lol: no wonder nothing seems to power up. My bad for being a fool, luckly no fans burnt for wiring up the + & - wires wrongly.

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Time to continue modding, just adding some finishing touches.

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I know, I am pretty crazy right? There is so much leds in my rig that I lost count of it already...

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Turns out better than I expected!

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Quick question, is 12.7LPH a good flow rate?

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Cable management

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Current progress on how it looks like. I am almost done with it, just left SSD modding & few finishing touches.

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Guess where I am going to mount 2 SSD? I think its pretty obvious right?

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Ordered some ROG fan stickers already, will be replacing all the corsair stickers with it.

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My legendary ultra fine magnetic filter, the rear fan is an intake to bring fresh air to the radiators so thats why I need a fan filter for it.

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Here is some shots of the current progress. Just left SSD modding, currently testing the SSD before I start modding it :D

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Dat ROG logo :rolleyes:

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And its almost done! I would say its around 98% completed. Just left few tiny touch up that I need to do. This is my last update for this week, next week I will be busy with exams & stuff so will continue working on it the week after that. ^_^
 
Decided to do some cleaning for my rig & finally manage to mount the SSD in the proper place. Rig was pretty much done for quite some time, just recently did some tiny touch up for the ssd.

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Well I'm impressed! A lot of detail in this build log, uber Kudos! & I'm glad I'm not the only one who mocks up with card first :lol:

I'm going to bookmark this for future reference some tidy tips in here.
 
Very tidy build.

Next time you copy and paste please remove references to buying and selling, this is not allowed.
 
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