AMD rebuild: Frank(enstein)

[Necrodead]

This was my main PC for a few years, and its spent over a year in it's current setup and I wanted to move on to hard tube! I would use acrylic, but I'm going to deal with PETG one last time since I had leftovers from my last build. Here is what it looked like before:



Here is now:



Half done with the carbon fiber vinyl on the backplates.


I wanted to upgrade to intel, but I can't afford it right now. Trying to make it to Zen.


PSU cover I had milled way back when I did my Air 00 stuff.


It may be hard to see but this is a dark metallic graphite colour. The rads look really good, just waiting to dry for clearcoat.


Some EK ram blocks in order to watercool the ram this time.

[bungwirez]

great to see an upgrade Necro. good luck.

[alex5389]

I'm in a similar situation myself about the amd vs intel / rebuild vs build dilemma, will wind up rebuilding my bluehawk build. The vinyl looks great! Looking forward to more pron.

[DazMode]

black looks nice.

[dvnoakes]

Good luck! I'm a little bit of an AMD fan as well.

[Necrodead]

More pics of the EK ram blocks because they look so good.




I made this acrylic plate and velcro-ed it to the case. I also had to cut between the original holes to make these ones fit where I wanted them, so the 24pin is horizontal and not an angle.

[dvnoakes]

I love that wrap! Nice work! Looking forward to see how this one turns out!

[Father Fuzzy]

sweeeeeet ram blocks

nice work on the cable shield

[Necrodead]

Thanks guys! This one is coming together quite quickly, as I've been informed I have to clean out my workshop... I mean the dining room for christmas by the 14th, lol. Started on the tubes today;

I decided to paint the top fans in the same colour as the rads,


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Figuring out the tubing runs and what fittings to use. I have so many black fittings now and I'm gonna have some extras left over even.


Do you guys like my flow meter? I'm not sure I want to put it in or not yet, so any opinions are welcome.


Did a few runs this morning.

[nass]

flow indicator is cool idea should have put a couple in mine hard to see res fluid moving. Build is looking nice so far. You have the same workshop as me lol

[Hooded]

Yes sir this is really shaping up nicely.
Great work Necro.

[Necrodead]

Thanks guys. Anyways flow indicator didn't work. I guess I don't have enough flow with a single DDC and all the other parts, or too much turbulence in that spot maybe. So I only had one piece of tube long enough to replace that run, so I was pretty lucky.


I tilt the case otherwise you can't fill the res because the surface tention of the water gets it stuck in the fill port.


I flushed a few times already but maybe one or 2 more to get all the pastel out of the waterblocks I think.

[Chann3l]

That thing is looking great. Really love the vinyl work

[Bartacus]

Looks great Necro!

[bungwirez]

very slick Necro. great use of curvy 90s in your tube route.