Soldato
Hey all,
So finally getting to do something a little different with a build and doing some modding. This is a little in flux with certain parts, colours, design but progress has been made over the last few weeks so thought I would share where I am at and where things are aiming for.
Hope you enjoy
First up, parts list. All purchased to get it working.
Main Parts
NEW Current build cost is coming in at £4697.28 for whole system, with tower costing £4198.34 of that. As above got cables and custom transfers to go cost wise. I have also got to make a PCIE riser shroud from some steel plate I have and will go black and pick up another heatsink for the second M.2.
Proposed Design Images:
General Build
With the above all set out in concept and that I have now started putting parts together that I have managed to purchase currently. The MATX board of course was step 1 to making this all work. The case is officially only designed for ITX boards.
Fortunately the case is an all metal/glass construction which meant I could drill & tap the 2mm thick aluminum motherboard tray to suit the larger mobo. For this I had tried different orientations to suit hole positions bearing in mind the other cutouts to the frame from stock. This lead to the conventional rotation of the mobo.
Cabling
Utilising an SF power supply has meant there is plenty of room for cabling and tidying. Custom cables will be getting produced, which at the moment I am talking with To The Wire on FB to do the cabling in January (earliest available). That will include the 24pin & 8pin mobo cables, two PCIE cables as needed for the GPU (unless go 3080 with 12pin) and custom cabling the DDC pump to use just the fan header rather than the Molex for power.
I have yet to confirm details and also depending on the case fans (looking at the Lian Li Uni fans) might have those done too. Oh and also I am loosing the front IO panel and switching to just a stock on/off button that needs integrating into the case and also have the cables done.
Work complete
The white panels have been stripped of paint and cleaned ready to off to be anodised black. I am yet to do the pre-finish and give the panels a brushed look to match the heatsinks on the Gigabyte Mobo.
As can see from pictures I have test fitted the mobo, blocks, one of the radiators (waiting on the PE) and I have borrowed a CPU to get windows installed and check components are working at this stage.
I am currently in process of making the custom plate to cover the front IO section as per the renders. This will be made from 0.9mm aluminium and also anodised to match. Underneath will be a 2mm orange acrylic panel to match to give the orange edge as per render.
Current build images:
So finally getting to do something a little different with a build and doing some modding. This is a little in flux with certain parts, colours, design but progress has been made over the last few weeks so thought I would share where I am at and where things are aiming for.
Hope you enjoy
First up, parts list. All purchased to get it working.
Main Parts
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950x (Purchased)
- GPU: AMD 6900xt (Purchased)
- Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M Aorus Pro MATX (Purchased)
- RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3600-CL16 (Purchased)
- Drive: 1x Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB M.2 NVME, to be used as OS & software drive (Purchased)
- Drive 2: 1x Sabrent Rocket Q 4TB M.2 NVME, to be used as games drive (Purchased)
- Case: Antec Striker ITX case (Purchased)
- Power Supply: Corsair SF750 80+ Platinum (Purchased)
- CPU Block: EK-Quantum Magnitude - AM4 Copper + Acetal (Purchased)
- Reservoir/Pump: EK-Quantum Kinetic FLT 240 DDC PWM D-RGB Plexi (Purchased)
- Rads: EK-Coolstream SE240 (Purchased) + PE240 (Purchased)
- EK-Torque HTC 14mm hardline - Black (Purchased)
- EK-Torque HTC 14MM Fitting colour pack, this will get re-anodised in orange to match system (Purchased)
- EK-Torque Angled 90degree Rotary Fittings - Black (Purchased)
EK-Quantum Magnitude Accent - Black , this will also get re-anodised in orange to match system (didn't purchase, change of plans)
- Coolant: 2x EK-CryoFuel Solid Fire Orange 1L (Purchased)
- Fans: 4No. Lian-Li Uni fans, one set of 3 with controller + single additional (Purchased)
- Iiyama G-Master GB3466WQSU-B1 34" 3440X1440 144Hz monitor (Purchased)
- Logitech G915 Lightspeed RGB wireless keyboard (Purchased)
- Logitech G903 Hero wireless mouse (Purchased)
- Logitech wireless mouse mat
- Logitech Pro X Wireless headset (Purchased)
- Generic headset stand (Xmas present from family member)
- Custom wiring to PC (Price TBC, approx £150 on quote)
- Custom anodising to plates/panels (All done, see photos below)
- Transfers for logos/names (Price TBC)
NEW Current build cost is coming in at £4697.28 for whole system, with tower costing £4198.34 of that. As above got cables and custom transfers to go cost wise. I have also got to make a PCIE riser shroud from some steel plate I have and will go black and pick up another heatsink for the second M.2.
Proposed Design Images:
General Build
With the above all set out in concept and that I have now started putting parts together that I have managed to purchase currently. The MATX board of course was step 1 to making this all work. The case is officially only designed for ITX boards.
Fortunately the case is an all metal/glass construction which meant I could drill & tap the 2mm thick aluminum motherboard tray to suit the larger mobo. For this I had tried different orientations to suit hole positions bearing in mind the other cutouts to the frame from stock. This lead to the conventional rotation of the mobo.
Cabling
Utilising an SF power supply has meant there is plenty of room for cabling and tidying. Custom cables will be getting produced, which at the moment I am talking with To The Wire on FB to do the cabling in January (earliest available). That will include the 24pin & 8pin mobo cables, two PCIE cables as needed for the GPU (unless go 3080 with 12pin) and custom cabling the DDC pump to use just the fan header rather than the Molex for power.
I have yet to confirm details and also depending on the case fans (looking at the Lian Li Uni fans) might have those done too. Oh and also I am loosing the front IO panel and switching to just a stock on/off button that needs integrating into the case and also have the cables done.
Work complete
The white panels have been stripped of paint and cleaned ready to off to be anodised black. I am yet to do the pre-finish and give the panels a brushed look to match the heatsinks on the Gigabyte Mobo.
As can see from pictures I have test fitted the mobo, blocks, one of the radiators (waiting on the PE) and I have borrowed a CPU to get windows installed and check components are working at this stage.
I am currently in process of making the custom plate to cover the front IO section as per the renders. This will be made from 0.9mm aluminium and also anodised to match. Underneath will be a 2mm orange acrylic panel to match to give the orange edge as per render.
Current build images:
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