Zombie Mods - The Dark Carnival (this tall to die)

[AlienALX]

Rig – The Dark Carnival
Built by – Zombie mods (aka me)

Specs.

CPU – AMD FX 8320 4.7-5ghz
Motherboard – Asus Crosshair V FZ
Memory – Mushkin, 8gb 2000mhz
Graphics card – AMD Radeon 7990
Cooling – H100 for CPU Xilence fans throughout.
Storage – OCZ Revodrive 128gb boot, 5 x 500gb WD Pipeline.
PSU – EVGA G1000
Case – Bitfenix Colossus
OS – Windows 8

Keyboard – Alienware TACTX
Mouse = Razer Boomslang 2007
Monitor – AOC 27” 3D 1080p

Mods. Front mod, side mod, rear mod, top mod. Cover panels, pump cover etc. Front intake is a 180mm Enermax Apolish Vegas. 3” LCD screen (ever wonder where the Pandora got its programmable screen? Wait no longer…) PSU cover, VRM and memory cooling fans.

Rig idea. It is based on the Dark Carnival in L4D2. Hence the big wheel fan in the front and zombies.

Photos






This is now my lady's 24/7 gaming rig. Nice, ain't I?

 

[Feronix]

Hmmm the others were nice but I have to admit I'm not a fan of this one - even if the ideas were implemented pretty nicely! Guess I'm more of a simplistic/uniform look guy.

Anyway, what's up with the tiny fans on the motherboard heatsink and RAM, and are they meant to look like a smiley face with the GPU shroud as mouth?

 

[Doomslayer]

For me to much Red, The Red LED striped wreck it IMO

 

[AlienALX]

Hmmm the others were nice but I have to admit I'm not a fan of this one - even if the ideas were implemented pretty nicely! Guess I'm more of a simplistic/uniform look guy.

Anyway, what's up with the tiny fans on the motherboard heatsink and RAM, and are they meant to look like a smiley face with the GPU shroud as mouth?

I don't know if you've ever ran or overclocked a FX 8 but trust me they're greedy swines. They can take upward of 1.5v and when you do that the VRMs get hot. Very hot lol.

Even with the massive sinks the board used to get so hot that you couldn't touch the IO. 8+2+2. Serious VRMage.

If you look at the Xilence red wing still you'll see the logo is a X. But turn it around and you get a + and it looks like the med packs in L4D.

The red LEDs are on kill switches, so can be turned out. What you don't see in the photos there is the etched side window. Trust me, it likes LEDs.

This was also my first foray into modding and I didn't have a very big budget.

Lovely powerful rig though, I love showing up the Intel boys in massively threaded apps

For me to much Red, The Red LED striped wreck it IMO

Etch without lights = poo. The side matches the front. When I start clocking the logo on the front of the rig changes



There's a lot more to the rig than meets the eye. It was built primarily for overclocking. I can get over 5.3ghz out of the 8320 which puts me in the top 1% of the world on basic cooling.

 

[Feronix]

Fair enough on the fans and lighting dude, thanks for clearing that up

I think you need to show us the side panel!

Also, I just cannot unsee the face

 

[AlienALX]

Side panel pic above. It's my all AMD rig and FX 8s, whilst not as hot as people make out (72c and it's all over) do need some seriously hefty VRMs.

See the three buttons on the front? they're all for overclocking. Kill switch, direct key to bios and hard reset. So all I do is press the middle one and it reboots no matter what the status straight into bios.

And she's fast alright. On solely threaded apps she easily kills my 8c 16t Xeon.

 

[Doomslayer]

Side panel pic above. It's my all AMD rig and FX 8s, whilst not as hot as people make out (72c and it's all over) do need some seriously hefty VRMs.

See the three buttons on the front? they're all for overclocking. Kill switch, direct key to bios and hard reset. So all I do is press the middle one and it reboots no matter what the status straight into bios.

And she's fast alright. On solely threaded apps she easily kills my 8c 16t Xeon.

IMO The red LED strip kinda bleach it out

 

[AlienALX]

IMO The red LED strip kinda bleach it out

Looks far worse without it

But at the end of the day stuff like this is what makes the world spin We're all different and we all express ourselves differently.

All of the modding I do is grass roots. IE - any one can do it for cheap and you don't need to be a millionaire. So I just work with what I have, mainly acrylic, paracord and my trusty cheap tools.

Most of the rigs you see that look like they belong in a museum are woefully not very powerful. IE people cheap out on one GPU and say a mainstream CPU. Me? I want the best performance, looks come second.

 

[Doomslayer]

Looks far worse without it

But at the end of the day stuff like this is what makes the world spin We're all different and we all express ourselves differently.

All of the modding I do is grass roots. IE - any one can do it for cheap and you don't need to be a millionaire. So I just work with what I have, mainly acrylic, paracord and my trusty cheap tools.

Most of the rigs you see that look like they belong in a museum are woefully not very powerful. IE people cheap out on one GPU and say a mainstream CPU. Me? I want the best performance, looks come second.

I'm just not a fan of non white LED strips, any colour apart white will bleach it out

 

[AlienALX]

I'm just not a fan of non white LED strips, any colour apart white will bleach it out

Again you are pushing your taste as the gospel dude.

The rig is red and black there's just no getting around it. Adding white LEDs would look awful. In fact, adding any kind of white lighting to a mainly black rig will get you nothing but a dust identifier.

This rig is red and black. I've done one in purple and black, orange and black and black and white. I assume you would prefer something like my original Hackintosh.

LEDs also look awful in photos. They're quite bright and cause all sorts of camera bleed. White ones look blue, etc etc.

But thanks for pointing out you don't like the rig I appreciate that. It just shows diversity

 

[hmmblah]

The etching on the window is kick ass! That's my favorite part of the build.

 

[AlienALX]

The etching on the window is kick ass! That's my favorite part of the build.

The VFD is a lot of fun. I can run video through it and everything

Etching is good fun though. All you need is a cheap Dremel knock off and a good grinding bit

If and when I ever put the side on the Cosmos 2 I'll cut a window in and etch it.

 

[Doomslayer]

Again you are pushing your taste as the gospel dude.

The rig is red and black there's just no getting around it. Adding white LEDs would look awful. In fact, adding any kind of white lighting to a mainly black rig will get you nothing but a dust identifier.

This rig is red and black. I've done one in purple and black, orange and black and black and white. I assume you would prefer something like my original Hackintosh.

LEDs also look awful in photos. They're quite bright and cause all sorts of camera bleed. White ones look blue, etc etc.

But thanks for pointing out you don't like the rig I appreciate that. It just shows diversity

I'm just giving you my opinion on your build, if you don't want people's opinions then why are you posting it on a forum site then

 

[AlienALX]

I'm just giving you my opinion on your build, if you don't want people's opinions then why are you posting it on a forum site then

You know a long time ago I used to have that attitude. Then I grew up and realised that sometimes in life you just gotta shrug and walk on by.

You're right, I posted it on the internet. Where you're going wrong though is finding yourself needing to point out that you don't like it and trying to ram your point home.

I get it dude, OK? you don't like it. That means that I did it right. Because put simply if you liked it I most certainly wouldn't.

BTW that modern folklore of "But you posted it on the internet" is no replacement for Granny's "If you can't find anything nice to say don't say anything".

Trust me on that.