The SLOB Build Log

[wattermain]

Thanks Markes12344. From some of the builds I've heard of, that are in the competition, it should be a great battle. Wishing them all luck

[Father Fuzzy]

Nice freakin metal work wattermain

that is an awesome mobo , im still rockin a couple

[wattermain]

Thanks Father Fuzzy. I love this board. Had it locked away in a Lian-Li PC-Q25 for quite a while. Now I can look at it every day

[wattermain]

The Heatkiller GPU block is mounted with 2.5mm screws that are nutted to the block.
The Block is held to the card with 2.5 X 5mm F/F standoffs.
In order to screw the backplate to these standoffs, I used an 1/8" plastic spacer so that the screws would not not go into the spacer as far before tightening down.
The backplate for the 6790 is made from .080" aluminum.and is attached to these standoffs and to a standoff attached to the rear bracket mounting hole.

[wattermain]

Made this jig for measuring wire lengths.
Removed wires from atx cable and put them in jig. The pinout on this Corsair AX750 did not seem
to be the same as other pinouts I've seen online.
Maybe I was looking at them wrong, but this is mine.
ATX cable had four double wires at the PSU end. Moved the splices to the middle of the cable.
Soldered a wire into the pin that came out of the 24 pin connector.
Melted the paracord to the crimp pin
and covered the joint with heatshrink.

[wattermain]

Finished sleeving PSU cables with black paracord. Sewed them together using Alpen Wasser's tutorial on Youtube.
It's a great tutorial. Sewed both ends of ATX cable back to the middle so that all of the crosses and splices would
be hidden behind the PSU. Ended up like this.
This is close to the way the PCI-E cable will sit.
Had to install cables before the motherboard. Those cable management brackets won't let the connectors pass through.

This build log is now up to date. Hope everyone enjoyed the ride as much as I did. Next up, finishing the tubing.

[Hooded]

Nice sleeving. Very well done indeed

[wattermain]

Thanks very much Hooded. It's funny isn't it, when you think about doing the wiring, you don't really look forward to it, but once you get going, it becomes kind of enjoyable.

[10e]

Looks great. I love the naked metal look, and the sleeving plus cable management look bang-on.

Yeah, I think sleeving can be therapeutic as long as you don't burn your fingers doing it haha.

[wattermain]

Thanks 10e. I think the bare metal look has a lot to do with my lack of painting skills. Hope to one day tear it down and powder coat it or have it anodized.
Now, you just look at it and it gets scratched.

[wattermain]

The lights are on and the fans are running. Finished running wires back to the fan splitter and the LED splitter. Powered the splitters temporarily.
Plugged the ATX , EATX+12v, Fan and Pump sensors, Power/ Reset switches and Sata cables into the motherboard.
Thanks going out to logicalways for his information sharing in The Hexgear Green Cryo Build log. Using a black background in these photos makes a
nice difference. Nowhere near his but still nicer. I was going to use the bigger photos from the Album but I'm getting file size grief.
Here's some shots of the cables dressed in. (and some not so dressed in)
In a previous post I said something about finishing tubing, but there is still a way to go on the wiring

[easynator]

Very well crafted! I love what you have done so far!

[wattermain]

Thanks easynator. Up until now it's been it's been 90% inside work. Pretty soon gonna have to decide what kind of front and side panels
will look the best.

[wattermain]

Finished connecting all of the fans to the Phobya PWM 8 X 4 pin splitter.

and the LEDs to the Phobya 6 X 3 pin splitter. Both splitters are fed from the white terminal block.



Connected the tubes feeding the GPU block,
to the pass thru fittings in the midplate
and then installed video card.

Those sata ports on the board are in a pretty bad location.

[Jameswalt1]

Super impressive build dude