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Thanks! I've been working on it over the past 2 years. I stripped apart the case and painted the 2 side panels white with a bit of black dusted on it for a carbon look. (as if it were near a rocket engine) I took out the sliding door on the front and painted it to look like thermal tiles similar to the ones on the bottom of the space shuttles. I ripped out the fan controller on top since it had way too many cords coming out of it....seriously it had like 24 cords coming out of it for fans and lights. I dremeled out the fan controller from the frame and some modders mesh in it. (got the idea from MNPCTECH). I took off the feet and handles, painted them safety yellow. The whole design is inspired by the USCSS Prometheus ship from the movie "Prometheus"

^^ that whole section was done around August or September 2013

I made the acrylic window sometime in 2012. I was thinking about ordering the one from MNPCTECH but its like $160 without tax or shipping 🙁

The current components are
Coolermaster Cosmos II
i5 2500k at 4 GHz
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
16 GB Corsair Vengance 1600 MHz RAM
MSI GTX 680
256 GB OCZ Vector SSD (boot drive)
60 GB OCZ Agility SSD
1 TB Western Digital Black HDD
Corsair RM750 (replaced my raidmax that just died....never cheaping out on my psu again)
Asus CD/DVD drive
NZXT Sentry Mesh fan controller
and some Coolermaster Sicleflow 120mm green led fans

The liquid cooling components are
Swiftech Apogee HD waterblock for the 2500k
EK 680 water block for my GTX 680
Swiftech MCP655 pump
Swiftech MCRES Micro reservoir
XSPC 360mm thick radiator (in the basement of the case)
Danger Den green tubing
XSPC black chrome compression fittings

I think that's everything. Let me know if you have any more questions

PS: here is a picture of where the fan controller was and how i re-meshed it

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Yeap Brandon - you've really got an amazing system there. Like I said, you might want to post a build log link. IF you don't then make one up and I'm sure you'd be contributing to the community as a prime example of being dedicated to minor/major mod works.

Might I add that your cable management skillz are off the chart. If Motopsychojdn was around he'd have cried in joy 😀
 
You know the new fad is using acrylic tubing to pipe your loop. I'd suggest straightening that res, getting some Pearl UV yellow courtesy of Primochill and some matching yellow zip ties or just get some perfect seal fittings...then you can call you inner themed build complete 😀 since the green and yellow are a lil conflicting - that's my 2 cents though.

Thanks for the link, I'll be sure to check them pics out!
 


Yes the yellow and green are a bit conflicting but i cant decide which i should go for.....ill probably remove the feet and handles again and paint them green.

I like having the regular tubing since it would make it easy to reconfigure the tubing with it being flexible.
But thank you for the suggestion.
 
I wasn't talking about my own, but about Brandon's after his remark about the yellow and green conflicting. With a "citrus" theme, there is no conflict.
As to mine, I'll see if I can take and post some pics this weekend. I'll warn you though, my cable management skills are infantile compared to some of these guys; I've avoided posting so as not to enrage anyone, but perhaps it will motivate me to try to clean them up some. I tell myself it can't be too bad, as my temps are always reasonable...
 


Cabling is that hard..i stilll have about a month till i build my first PC but its very easy...Depending on ur case. Fractal cases are good so just take some time :)

 
Phoenix doesn't look too bad, but Omega has lots of extra cables with no real way to hide them. It's got a 2-drive backplane at the bottom, an eSATA connector AND an external drive dock in the top, and I have a RAID1 pair plus a boot SSD and an optical drive in it.
 
Post and we shall not judge - nay we shall assist! :)

C'mon Onus, you should be banned for patrolling and not posting on the member gallery! 😛 Now if only Moto were here to lighten things up...?

Brandon - the tubing I mentioned/linked is the best out there in terms of being plasticizer free(sort of speaking), with the right color tone for your build. I agree hard tubed builds are a PITA to work with esp if you swap hardware out frequently... but other than that its really simple to maintain/flush and fill since the hard tubes themselves don't cloud like regular flexible tubing.

FYI-the link I provided is of flexible tubing and not acrylic tubing :)
 
Just finished up my build in a new case. Lancool Dragonlord. Picked it up on craigslist for $20 and painted the inside black. Yes the cable management is not the 100% best it could be but I am happy.

Build consists of:
i5 2310 @ 3.3ghz
8gb RAM. (2x2gb and 1x4gb in dual channel)
MSI z77ma-g45 (from when I had an NZXT Vulcan microATX case)
EVGA gtx660TI SC
Antec HCG-750 (non-modular. You don't even want to see the back panel.)
Coolermaster Hyper T4 with 2 Kingwin fans (couldn't use a hyper 212 EVO with the NZXT Vulcan so This was the next best thing)




 


Thanks!

I feel like my mATX board looks a bit goofy and out of place.

I always love getting new stuff and messing around with my rig. I can't seem to stop changing little things and whatnot. I think I finally found a case I will stick with for more than a few months though. I have never had anything made by Lian-Li, but I have to say that it is MUCH better quality than I expected. I would compare it to a Corsair 300r in quality and feel.
 
My Cosmos II Update

Today I repainted the legs and handles a matte black (similar to stock just less shiny)
I also painted the right side pannel matte white with black dusted on it just like the other white panels

The other day I went to Home Depot and picked up some weedblock material. This stuff works great for cheap custom dust filters. I applied some to the back side of the dual fan door on the bottom of the case with some spray adhesive. Also put some on the custom mesh on top where the I/O and fan controller use to be. Now my case should be much less prone to dust.

Oh I also bought a small Air Filter to reduce the ammount of dust in my room in the first place.

High Quality photo gallery

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It looks very nice, Brandon. Just try not to paint it too much over and over again so that the metal starts to die or anything weird like that. Looks amazing. Although, I would have made it Mostly black and had the front slider for the fron I/O red and also the handles red. Matte of course that is.


PS: GO ANGLES!!!! Why did they get rid of trumbo ????? Not like 2002-2006 🙁
 
Thanks!
If I ever paint the legs and handles again ill buff off the paint with a steel wire buffer.

PS: Not sure....haven't really been watching them much the past couple years....kinda gone down hill.
 
The steel wire will help! Yeah i usually watch them only when the games they play COUNT and help them get to the play offs....They have gone downhill. Anyway, Nice build! Read my quote for my Specs. Will post pics hopefully in a month or so when the case arrives! All the parts are there but not the case :/
 


'Haha awesome. Thanks xD Question...might sound nooby but I have pc parts ...everything all packed in the original box and the mobo and gpu are in anti static bags....but all the boxes are on a couch...is that safe? Also the 4670K BOX with the cpu and cooler in it are on the couch...is that unsafe?
 

Just to agree with the above poster. When the parts are packed, they are packed in a way that is safe for storage.

I have NEVER blown a part with static to be honest and have built many a system in carpeted rooms. I have blown voltage regulators/op amps and a rail splitter(other projects) from my own mess ups. I think I will never do it again since I KNOW I messed up.
 
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