Excalabur50
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Cause it's not easy being green (sung in Kermit voice) LOL 
It is looking good though
It is looking good though
Project Dianoga (Previously: Project Elvis)
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AlienALX
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Cause it's not easy being green (sung in Kermit voice) LOL
It is looking good though
Yeah it's a total kermit atm lol. Once the black parts start going in (and the silver ones) it should break down quite a bit though. I've started the cable management. This includes sticking down all of the molex connectors with 3m foam tape and duct taping down the wires.
It was never going to look nice tbh. Sadly I ran out of tape, so had to stop about half way through. That should come tomorrow hopefully, then I can sort it all out. I managed to snap a molex pin though so that will need replacing.
AlienALX
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The rad for the back came.
Sadly it does not work with any of my fittings, as it needs extensions. I decided to remove one from a fitting on the res and that was where the fun began. For three hours I was desperately trying to track down a leak. In the end I traced it to a bad Oring, replaced it and all was good in the world again but I managed to get absolutely nothing else done apart from a bit of a touch up on the rad. Maybe later tonight I will flush it.
I did buy this though.
Sadly it does not work with any of my fittings, as it needs extensions. I decided to remove one from a fitting on the res and that was where the fun began. For three hours I was desperately trying to track down a leak. In the end I traced it to a bad Oring, replaced it and all was good in the world again but I managed to get absolutely nothing else done apart from a bit of a touch up on the rad. Maybe later tonight I will flush it.
I did buy this though.
Tolemac
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Are you going to paint this at all?. as I want to paint my one at some point and I have a spare black one if you need it bud
AlienALX
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Nah I want it silver dude. When I got my bay res it came with the front I showed a few pages back. There was no spare silver one.. The one I bought is from the newer one too, mine goes horizontally. It doesn't really matter though, the fill line will still be the same 
AlienALX
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Another £15 (rad and fittings). Four hours of pretty much stripping the entire loop down yesterday because I had to remove a extender I had used and had a leak. One hour of stinking like the fish and chip shop. One hour of asst painting (touching up etc). Then the fan hit the fittings so I had to mod that (another 30 mins).
Was it worth it?
/Cartman - Totally.
The duct tape arrived this morning. I will get onto the cable work later
Was it worth it?
/Cartman - Totally.
The duct tape arrived this morning. I will get onto the cable work later
AlienALX
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Yeah I'm going to try Elementary first but a friend is sending me a load of distros on a laptop hard drive so I can take my pick
In theory it should Hackintosh, but the last time I tried it kept stalling on installation. I will look into that once it's all back together
In theory it should Hackintosh, but the last time I tried it kept stalling on installation. I will look into that once it's all back together
Excalabur50
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Damn dude that's coming together really nicely
AlienALX
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Thanks man I really mean that
Yeah, this part is cool because it's when it all starts to come together. I reckon another two days build time and I should be pouring in coolant.Well despite living in the sunniest town in the UK (statistically proven apparently, never knew until I put the name of it into Wikipedia !) it seems the sun does not want to play ball today so the pics are kinda dark. Last night I fitted (and leak/pressure tested) the CPU block though. The pump outlet feeds out into the block, then I had to turn 90' in order to make it into the rad. This means a slight rethink of the fitting situation but I will get there
I actually don't mind the chain guns being white and chrome at all really. At the end of the day for everything this rig cost around £200 to mod. And at some point I want that to be known, that I didn't spend that on nothing but fittings. Also once the green lights go on you will be hard pushed to realise, and the insert parts are chrome so it's only really the pole things.
And a shot of where I am at.
Now because I have added more wiring I need to flip it around and do some more cable management work. I won't be doing any more plumbing for a few days, because last night the skin on my left pointer finger decided it was going to detach from my finger leaving me with some huge blisters. I actually felt it separate too, strange feeling. I've tried using rags, but I just can't seem to get the same level of grip.
AlienALX
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Thanks dude. I will be watching your mod don't worry and if you need any help just ask. I will be going into hiatus once I am done with this because seriously it's been a month long, seven day a week twelve hours a day project. When I am not working on it I am thinking about what to do next, so mentally it's never ending.
When I picked the name for the rig (I usually think long and hard so that they have multiple meanings)* I never knew it was going to look like the subject matter. This is a Dianoga in full.
Now every time you work on it from the nice side you create problems on the other. Every time you shove through a wire, plug, SATA cable etc you then need to go around to the other side and make sure it is as flat as it can be. When Alienware designed the Predator 2.0 and its more expensive brethren the 2.1 they only designed to carry a Firewire, front audio header cable, USB cable and some flat ribbon wiring for the LEDs. They never meant for any one to run anything else through that channel, and spare wires like extra 6 pin PCIE for example went through a small hole and were stored in the roof.
Look at this.
It actually looks like a Dianoga. It's been fiercely difficult managing the cables on this rig. In the past I have done it similarly but at the end I would lie the rig down on its left side and then literally kneel on the outer panel to make it fit. However, that was when the case was all alu and there was no acrylic to crack by using such force. So I have had to literally stick everything down so that it does not exceed the size of the gap. IIRC it's about 1cm, just enough to hold the cables for the 24 pin for example.
It's so tight that if you leave the catches on the 24 pin, 8 pin ETC they are too big and the side won't shut, it's that tight. So they've all come off.
And....
Thankfully all I have left to do now is the 6 pin PCIE (that ironically is a ribbon flat cable, wish they'd done that to the 24 pin and 8 pin !) and three Molex (maybe four, or five..) but I have left room for those thank goodness.
* I usually like to have more than one meaning for a rig name. Rise of the Triad was called that because Alienware call it the triad, plus it was an old video game.
When I picked the name for the rig (I usually think long and hard so that they have multiple meanings)* I never knew it was going to look like the subject matter. This is a Dianoga in full.
Now every time you work on it from the nice side you create problems on the other. Every time you shove through a wire, plug, SATA cable etc you then need to go around to the other side and make sure it is as flat as it can be. When Alienware designed the Predator 2.0 and its more expensive brethren the 2.1 they only designed to carry a Firewire, front audio header cable, USB cable and some flat ribbon wiring for the LEDs. They never meant for any one to run anything else through that channel, and spare wires like extra 6 pin PCIE for example went through a small hole and were stored in the roof.
Look at this.
It actually looks like a Dianoga. It's been fiercely difficult managing the cables on this rig. In the past I have done it similarly but at the end I would lie the rig down on its left side and then literally kneel on the outer panel to make it fit. However, that was when the case was all alu and there was no acrylic to crack by using such force. So I have had to literally stick everything down so that it does not exceed the size of the gap. IIRC it's about 1cm, just enough to hold the cables for the 24 pin for example.
It's so tight that if you leave the catches on the 24 pin, 8 pin ETC they are too big and the side won't shut, it's that tight. So they've all come off.
And....
Thankfully all I have left to do now is the 6 pin PCIE (that ironically is a ribbon flat cable, wish they'd done that to the 24 pin and 8 pin !) and three Molex (maybe four, or five..) but I have left room for those thank goodness.
* I usually like to have more than one meaning for a rig name. Rise of the Triad was called that because Alienware call it the triad, plus it was an old video game.
AlienALX
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I'm hoping once I have done back there that I will never, ever need to go there again lol. The storage drives are going in the roof, so I will run some spare SATA cables and power runs up there. This rig is going to be a Linux box that saves me putting 12 hours a day on my gaming rig. Hopefully it will prolong the life of my main rig, plus I get to fiddle with Linux for some fun
Surfie
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I'm hoping once I have done back there that I will never, ever need to go there again lol. The storage drives are going in the roof, so I will run some spare SATA cables and power runs up there. This rig is going to be a Linux box that saves me putting 12 hours a day on my gaming rig. Hopefully it will prolong the life of my main rig, plus I get to fiddle with Linux for some fun
Ahhh Linux. The true pity is that it never really made it as a corporate OS. Sure, there are many companies who use it - but it has nowhere NEAR the traction the Winblows has.
I personally tend to use VM's when I feel like fiddling with Linux. I can't justify it as my daily driver. My personal favorite distros are Debian, SuSe PCLinuxOS and Fedora Core (formerly: Red Hat). Mint is also not bad - but it's VERY Windows like. Personally disliked Ubuntu - but I can see it as a good place to learn.
I just noticed the hole in the roof (I must be going blind!), am I correct in my assumption that this will be a fill port for you?
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