Gadgetory

now as you guys already know if you're following without me out and the me on Twitter at Linus Tech and I am resurrecting the personal build project I found the perfect motherboard the GA x79 su p50 coil wine great look it'll match everything else that I got going on here really well so my next step is to start making some cuts into the case for cable management the reason I didn't want to move ahead with any cable management holes before I had finalized the motherboard is because where would I cut the holes if I don't know where the cables are going to be running and what kind of a board I'm going to be using so I'm going to be cutting some cable management holes I'm going to be painting some things myself so things like the outside of the optical drive I'm just going to be priming and spraying with a textured black whereas the bulk of the case components I'm going to be sending away to mountain mods to be painted in black once I have made my necessary cuts so it never hurts to give a metal surface a quick scuff just to make sure that the primer will adhere so I'm not going for a perfect finish on so I won't be over complicating things in terms of the preparation process there we go make sure that's working you always want to apply spray really really lightly like under do it as opposed to overdoing it this can be recoded in as little as about half an hour so I'm not not too concerned about getting perfect coverage no one will ever see the top of the optical drive but I'm feeling the sticker off just for the sake of semi completeness here and when you're done I actually make sure you're always in a well ventilated area when you're done with an aerosol always make sure you clean out the nozzle before you're pretty finish well those lines seem pretty straight trusty Dremel never fails I got to do CPU cut out I decided not to do any cutouts for you know ATX 24 pin or whatever else I'm just going to bring them around like I used to and then I do want to do a cutout here for routing various stuff under the bottom of the motherboard same thing here and to the back of the to the back of the backplate I'm also going to do a CPU shut up just that I can easily change CPU blocks and yeah so here's a couple cuts having been made with the Dremel for the CPU cut out and do two more of those and then I think the last cut is going to be down here for the cable management and we're making some progress here and more progress so I have done the CPU cut out that's some freehand dremel in right there actually pretty straight all things considered should I have marked it yes but I didn't so there you go so now there's see there's a door for the for the CPU cut out so uh that'll give me the ability to close it off when I'm when I don't want acting I'm just kidding I'm gonna just take that off there alright so there you go now I will be able to easily install CPU coolers or remove them without any difficulty um I'm also really not sure what to do about this that looks kind of goofy with that little gap there so I might just take this all the way to the edge but I might just leave it I mean it's in the right position it's sort of the right size for the eight pin now all that's left is I want to do some cuts sort of along the bottom here so that I can run things like front panel connectors and stuff like that behind the motherboard without without any difficulty so more progress it's all good all right so let's call that pretty much it for this personal rig update so I've thrown the hardware back into the case just so that I can do a little bit of test fitting so number one is the hole for the eight pin connector is good and I'll be able to run sort of fan wires through there and stuff and anywhere where I don't want to run fan wires through here if I want to be even more hidden there's also a hole drilled here I should widen that a little bit before I'm done actually I can take these ones and those ones cathode lights can have their wires run through there so this ya actually know what this might just be for for the eight pin so what else have we got that's new other than that you're not going to be able to see many changes from this side so you can see now I can run the the SATA cables from my raid card to the back of the mother or tray where all the drives will go just find my one of my thing to drive so the drives will go back here and then the SATA data cables will come through here on the back so I've got two more cable management holes this one's for like front USB or front panel connectors all that kind of stuff I was thinking about cutting one here for SATA cables if I ever decide to plug the drives directly into the motherboard but I decided not to sometimes II can see the motherboard cutout is lined up correctly so I've got access to all four holes back here there's that eight pin I decided against cutting holes over here for 24 pin and PCIe there's just I don't think there's any perfect way to do this so unfortunately I'm stuck with mounting the t-virus kind of here I'll just be kind of hovering off the motherboard trade there and this is going to just go around it and this is just going to go around it yes I know it's not ideal but I don't really see a better way to do everything at this point with how much Hardware I'm cramming in here I mean remember this is going to be full of a radiator I thought about doing a mid plate here but just time and effort constraints I'm not going to end up doing it so I'm just going to get the whole thing powder-coated once I've made all the cuts all right more cuts that I need to do so I need a way to get all these cables up past here past here because the side panel closes right against this so I'm going to cut big holes here to here so that I can move all my cables up this way I'm going to widen this one right here and that's going to give me two really good options actually no it'll probably do I'll probably do something here as well three good options to get cables from the back of the system down to the bottom of the system without running them through the existing cable routing holes here so that should pretty much fix my only complaint about the TJ o7i well no my two only complaints cable management's terrible and the the interior should be black so once we get those cut and powder coated we should be good to go thanks for checking out my personal rig update and stay tuned for more I'm hoping to actually get this done within the calendar year I know I call it personal rig update 2012 so so we're on the clock here if it runs into 2013 my title will no longer be correct