Project: Blackout Extreme

[davep]

Project: Blackout Extreme

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Status:

Need New CCFL Wire & More Braid

Braid One CCFL Wire & One Fan

Custom 3 Bay Drive Cover And Powered High Gloss Black (Still Waiting For Marcus)

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PC Specs

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Case - Custom Mountain Mods Case (Recieved With Problems, Not Painted!)

Pannels I Choose (The Top, Left & Right Are Full Aryrlic Clear Pannels)

CPU - Intel I7 965 Extreme

GPU - 2x Nvidia 295 GTX Dual

Hard Drive - 3X WD VelociRaptor 300GB - Raid 0

Optical Drive - LiteOn LH-20A1S11C 20x SATA

Corsair 6GB DDR3 Dominator PC3-14400C9 1866MHz (3x2GB) Triple Channel DDR3 (TR3X6G1866C9DF)

Mobo - Asus Rampage 2

Sound Card - Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional

2X Sunbeam Rheobus (Powder Coated Black)

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Water Cooling Specs

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Rads - 3X Feser 120.3

GPU Waterblocks - 2X EK Nvidia 295GTX Waterblocks + Ram Backplate

Tubing - XPSC 1/2 Clear Tubing

Pump - 3X Ultra Dual DDC

Watercool DDC Dual Pump Top

EK DDC Pump Plexi Top

CPU Waterblock - EK Supreme Waterblock (Plexi)

Mobo Waterblocks - EK Full Set, Mosfets, Combined NB & SB In One Water Block - Plexi

Barbs / Fittings

- Feser 1/2 Compression

X 20 - Fans Being Used - ACRyan Green UV 120MM

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Painting / Modding

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- Powder Coated High Gloss Black - The Case (Marcus Has Done This)

- Powder Coated High Gloss Black Again- EK Supreme Frame, DVD Drive, Lian Li HD Caddy, Lian Li Stealth Drive, External Hard Drive Caddy, 2x Sunbeam Front Plate (Marcus Has Done This)

- Custom 3 Bay Drive Cover And Powered High Gloss Black (Still Waiting For Marcus)

- Three Fans Joined Together On One Single Power Connection (Done)

- Every Wire Braided In UV Green, Including Changing The Stock PSU Braiding, All Wires Will Be Braided Seperate (Done)

- 4X 12" CCFLS

- 2X Lighted Vandal Switchs (One For Reset Button & The Other For Power Button)

- MCPCTECH Billet Manhined Aluminum Anodized Black Feet

- Move Sata Power Connections, So It Fits Pefect & No Annoying Slack Wires

- Green LEDS Around That Waterblocks So They Light Up (Not Sure How To Secure Them Yet, Has They Dont Have LED Mount Holes)

 

[davep]

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Case Modding & Assembling

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Mountain Mods Was meant To PowderCoat The Case Mirror Black

But Turned Up Unpainted

We Agreed On Part Refund

With Enough To Cover All PowderCoating Costs, So Off It Went To Marcus000

For A Black High Gloss PowderCoat Service!

Pictures Of The Case Unpainted

Pictures Of The Case Painted & Putting Together!

Powder Coated DVD Drive (High Gloss Black Again)

 

[davep]

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Building Log

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Installing Mobo Waterblocks On The Mobo

Braiding Time (Oh The Fun)

Pumps

PCIE 6 & 8 Pin Power Cables (Looks Like A Washing Line Lol)

Installing

 

[davep]

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Final Pictures

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VIDEO

http://s158.photobucket.com/albums/t107/dd123pp/Blackout%20Extreme/?action=view&current=movief.flv

 

[Luigi]

wow, looks very interesting Indeed, will look forward to seeing this finished...

Where did you get the bitspower pieces from?

 

[Molotov]

Crazy build is crazy but it'll look incredible and no doubt have performance to match.

How much is all of this totalling dave?

 

[davep]

Get thos barbs from performance pcs in the usa, aint got them yet

Yeh it should be brillant, not gonna work out how much this is costing

 

[davep]

Ok updated my first postswith some progress at last

 

[SwaleSmith]

looks like this is gonna be a nice pc

 

[Daza]

Time to rain on the parade,

I sure hope that you've bought a few heatsinks for the little chips around the northbridge which you havent covered yet, look on the back of the heatpipe assembly youll see theres a few that NEED covering due to them hitting upwards of 90c underload, as were prooved by the x48 version.

Bar that not looking to bad.

 

[davep]

Are you sure mate, surly ek what have covered them if it was needed

 

[tinytomlogan]

They dont cover the extra bits needed on the Rampage extreme original matey, theres aload of mosfets to the left of the SB that need sinks.

 

[Daza]

Aye.

For the sake of what £15 odd, just get the sinks, im sure as hell you would be kicking yourself if when you switched it on there was a nice cloud of blue smoke.

 

[tinytomlogan]

'Magic Blue' smoke at that

 

[davep]

Ok Updated the first few posts guys

Yep have brought some heatinks has well

 

[tinytomlogan]

Am I seeing double?

 

[davep]

woops lol

ok sorted, must have copied the wrong one, last night

 

[Rastalovich]

Awesome log.

Outrageous kit !

hehe

 

[davep]

Thanks Mate

 

[davep]

updated guys, sorry for the lack of updates