Hello guys,
 
I would like to welcome you to my project log, which shows you about my process at the project "Gaia".
 
This is (or plans to be, hehe), as you might know from the category, a mod rig.
 
I'll not explain everything and sometimes you might wonder why I post about things that ain't biggies, but after all its a log of my process and I don't force me to anything, so it might go on slower, faster, stop a while.. :-)
 
I don't post this to build something in a matter of short time or with an final goal before my eyes, it is more a process of change, growing. I have ideas, thousands of them, and I'm going to try out some. Let surprise hit us both! ;-)
 
Ah and by the way: I don't own a 1000$ camera, nor a photo studio, just a cheap 30$ cam, so don't expect super high resolution endless quality images.. but I try to catch what I want to show, and hope it's worth watching.
 
Another thing is, that I suffer (if you would call it that way) from perfectionism. This has good and bad sides. One of the bad sides is, that I might take much, much longer to create something, just because I don't want to leave any fingerprint, as example. Sounds funny but stresses one alot, really.
 
Lets begin. (They are from today night over there in europe so the project has basically just started, I'm awake since 24 hours and I don't want to write a long explanation for those right now, sorry. But if you got questions, just ask. :-)):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
My cute dog:

 


 
Don't wonder about the stock boxed cooler, just temporary until the real deal is planned and created. :-)
 
Questions, critics, anything? Be welcomed!

The dog definitely makes it. Looks good.

Nice looking build. The dog is beautiful!

Beautiful, I have a pc-p50 armorsuit, and I love Lian-li.

Very nice!!!

Great rig!

sweet dog . I love huskies/malamutes, they are one of my favorite breeds. Super friendly and smart too. Nice rig. I don't know what I'm more jealous of, the dog or the 580 classified.

very nice looking. good luck with the build

Hello Pyrebuilder and Gold Leader, thanks for your kind words and wishes! :-)
 
@Gold Leader: Hehe, your german is nearly perfect!
I've watched 8 below (german title: Antarctica - Gefangen im Eis) several times, its a very nice movie!
 
Yes, that's a Auzentech X-Fi Hometheater HD. Their soundcards are really nice and they offer even better working drivers than Creative itself (and better support). Creatives hardware rocks, but their driver support sometimes makes you triple facepalm..
 
Unfortunately you can only swap out the front channel OpAMP on this one but the used parts are already very high quality so its fine for me. :-) Maybe soldering the other channels OpAMPs would be possible, didn't try that yet.
 
Edit: ah forgot about the spider: Yes, the standard side panel has a spider window and ATI CFX logo but I ain't using that one. After all it will be a mainly black-red mod rig with some silver accents. :-)
 
I'll use completely black sidepanel replacements and modify/cut them myself (with the help of some friends machines as my cnc router project is stopped for a long time).

Hi guys,
 
little update: Trying out my ideas (not cut/shrink'd exactly, just garbage parts):
 

 
Still waiting for some parts, orders, etc. while playing around with "new" sleeve ideas which break with the 1-color-per-cable-standard.
 
In the "real deal" you won't see the cable color through. :-)
 
Edit: And one more tryout, thistime with heatglue-shrink, to prevent the short sleeve parts from moving.. ah and color fitting cables. ;)
 

 
Edit: Some fan connector cable sleeving (right = before, Noiseblocker standard cable, left two cables = afterwards, those are just for the front door so just black (stealth color :-D). Other side from the cables is not yet done, waiting for parts to measure the needed length. :-)
 

GOOD JOB SO FAR!

 
Great looking build man! Can't wait to see it finished!

+1 for the dog! nice looking husky!

Hi Guys!
 
@Jeffsmoky728: Hehe, yea she's very cute but from time to time a real pighead! But most of the time she's very nice.
 
@Gold Leader: Hehe, yes the Classifieds look good but I wonder whats the difference between the Classified and Classified Ultra except the higher clocks.. probably nothing.
 
I got the Lian Li sidepanels in black already (2 years ago hehe), without windows.. but will cut my own ones with a friends CNC mill/router or an laser cutter. Your sidepanel fits very well and looks good! I just don't want to buy another sidepanel if I have some there already, so I'll see what to cut in them.
 
But to decide the final window layout I first need to position the stuff inside, so I know what the windows should show if one looks through.
 
I hope my mainboard gets "released" (more like shipping ready) there quickly, its planned for tomorrow, so I might have it monday. But they moved the date already 4 times.