JorjP Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/bannerfans_14938868_zpsb1bw0dcu.png Hello everybody!!! Since This is my 1st post here let me introduce myself to the community... My name is George Pournaras (aka Jorj-P ) , I'm 32 and I'm from Greece... I 've been into PCs generally from the age of 10 but as a hobby. I started building watercooled PCs only 5 years ago and been modding pretty much everything i can get my hands on... The Following Project is named "narcisa" after my girlfriens name who brought many ideas to the table and never complained about listening to me going on for hours talking about modding and watercooling... I recently bought a second-hand Corsair Air 540 which was brutally cut in some places and was half painted white so I'm thinking of modding whatever i can to give it a more "classy" and "leathery" feel.... Hardware is kinda old compared to the beasts lurking in these forums but at least it gets my job done and offers me whatever i need... CASE : Corsair Air 540 M/B : Asus Maximus IV Extreme B3 CPU : Intel Core i7 2600K RAM : Corsair Dominator 4 x 2 GB 1866Mhz VGA : EVGA Titan SC OS Drive : OCZ VERTEX 3 120GB Data Drive : Seagate Baracuda 1TB PSU : Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W ( old but damn neverdying) And now to the watercooling stuff : VGA BLOCK : EK-FC Titan SE - Nickel + EK Titan Backplate CPU BLOCK : EK Supremacy EVO Clean CSQ RAM BLOCK : EK dominator x6 ( from old build) PUMP : Alphacool VPP655 D5 variable speed pump Pump Top : EK D5 top 360 Radiator : EK Coolstream PE 360 (front) 240 Radiator : Hardware Labs GTX 240 (top) FANS: Enermax Cluster White led fans 120mm Resercoir : Koolance tube reservoir 200mm (from old build) Tubing : Primochill Clear Acrylic tubing 13/10mm + Primochill Primoflex LRT 13/10mm tubing fro the back of the case Fittings : Primochil Rovolver White Acrylic tubing fittings + EK Angled fittings Coolant : Mayhems Pastel Red Cables : Icemodz Custom Cables In R.O.G colors More Updates and pictures of the progress soon..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorjP Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 Ok Guys..... Update time... Had some work done over these days so here we go... Case Completely stripped.... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150214_151530_1_zpso1lqv68e.jpg http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150214_151601_1_zpsgowxrvuc.jpg So i started working on some 1mm thick aluminum covers to "revamp" the case a bit... Motherboard tray... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150110_213300_zps2lw8ihfc.jpg Bottom Cover...... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150214_155558_1_zpsnldozkdd.jpg Test fitted with the front EK coolstream PE just to get an idea of how things are looking... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150112_221050_zpsatzvrtvx.jpg Also made a Front rad and top rad cover. There is going to be cutouts on the cover surfaces for the rads and Custom "hand made" grills for the cutouts... Top rad... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150206_201830_zps0s2rveto.jpg Test-fitted the front Rad cover without cut... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150204_132916_zpsrvjgw3hm.jpg Since all the covers were made ( 90% finished) I decided to start making a reservoir base and cutout on the left front side of the 540... 1st off all cut the case... :evil: http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150215_204804_1_zpsjtrsqrto.jpg And then cut the original 540 plastic cover a little bigger than the 5.25 slots size to accommodate the reservoir base behind it... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150210_213014_zpshsnimvm4.jpg Rough cuts but they were perfected later ( sanded - filed) Decided to make an aluminum cover for the plastic cover as to stylish it up a bit...Also dressed it up in white leather and drilled a new power switch hole... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150213_204337_zpsz572hopy.jpg http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150220_131533_1_zpsiozqlk9z.jpg Dressed up and ready with plexi window installed... Plastic and generally all case parts will get painted.... Thats just to testfit stuff... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150220_162105_1_zpss9tv6xjb.jpg Next up.....Reservoir Base.... All acrylic bended.... peace of cake... :D: http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150216_222518_1_zpshn4sgwu4.jpg http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150218_142808_1_zpsjhc357oi.jpg Finished with res installed.... This will also be dressed up in white leather as well... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150218_161325_1_zpsdiysfwej.jpg I hope you people like it so far.... Many more need to be done.... hopefully case will get painted by monday and in the meantime I will start working on the leather work on covers.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorjP Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 Ok People...Final Update with finished Project photos... The case came home from paint job yesterday and since i had all the covers and parts ready i decided to go on a modding marathon and complete it as fast as i could... Took me 24 hours to assemble all the covers - parts - cable managment and loop filling plus leak test but it definately deserves it.... Starting of block placing... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150302_135727_zpsvur7ahwa.jpg Parts placed in case.... Sorry for not including some mid-procedure shots of work in progress but i use my phones camera ( poor me) and many of them didnt turn out that good tbh... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150303_001048_1_zpsd7byfqcb.jpg http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150303_001038_1_zpsduhejnh3.jpg Fron aluminum cover dressed up in leather with power switch on and custom lace work... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/900x900px-LL-30851101_9aa0b8d0772764be58ea2f61c91be1c1a67dd70924675aa7d01c1b272b1f62be_zpsawhjhlj2.jpeg Primochill acrylic tubing bended and in place..... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150303_071946_1_zpsehx7o0pd.jpg I cut a 2mm thick acrylic ROG logo and covered it with black and red vynil for the bottom cover... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150228_171107_zpsovxi7bmc.jpg And finally with all the wires and parts in place, loop filled and tested here are the final photos of project 'narcisa'... http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150303_142702_1_zpsvlzahb1f.jpg http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150303_144702_zpsvumkwmzm.jpg http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150303_221321_1_zpsbusg4zdg.jpg http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150303_221455_zpsrovo3cgz.jpg http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150303_221506_zpsw4jyj7gj.jpg http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/ac21/jorjpcreations/IMG_20150303_221229_zpsmzbmijru.jpg I really hope you guys like it and I would really appreciate your opinions and suggestions on this..... Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wytnyt Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Very nice,it's amazing what can be done with a 540... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnould1 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 fan tastic! really good job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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