Nice job. Love the step by step photos. Will check back

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Good morning DDCM fans and followers!
 
How about another DDCM desk PC update?  
 
I have a couple updates to post, but we’ll start with the first one to say “We are now moved into the new house!!”  One of my first tasks was to reorganize the garage into a workable area for me.  Below is my new dungeon.

 
Then I turned my broken laptop into a HTPC in our bedroom so we can relax before bed with a show.  Look at that cable management.  Second picture is the wires behind the small 21” screen.  The only way it’d be better is if I ran power to behind the screen instead of having the surge protector run up the wall.  After which I built my wife a murphy desk below so she had a place to work and didn’t clutter up my desk project.




 
It took a week but Spectrum finally came out and hooked up our internet.  Before they showed up I went ahead and mounted the wifi router in the hallway for the best whole house signal.  Last picture is my communication wall with the modem, power strip, and gigabit switch.



 
Finally I could get down to work and got the wood filler and started filling in the nail holes, gouges, and small cracks in the wood in preparation for sanding later.

 
Next I drilled and tapped the new motherboard tray.

 
Took my R9 290 and tested my fit with my server ATX board next to the Alphacool reservoirs.  In my next post we start pulling out our water cooling gear and more :D


 
Until next time, Happy Modding!
 

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Good morning DDCM fans and followers!
 
How about another DDCM desk PC update?  
Let’s get this update started with one of my favorite photos so far.  The Alphacool Flow Meter Square Plexi edition. That polished plexi just makes my heart flutter.  Should be interesting to see it in action with the red fluid lol.
 




Next was a super daunting task of painting our ASUS Sabertooth 990FX motherboard to get rid off all the green and tan and make it red.  Steps: take it out of Night Shark, tape up everything and slip non sticky tape in all the slots and cover any exposed pins, then paint the crap out of it from every angle but straight above, remove tape and pray it turns on…..
 







Once it was painted and all sexy red and black, we installed our customized Alphacool XPX cpu waterblock.  We painted the brackets red, swapped out the alphacool logo with the red replacement cover. Looks like it was created specifically for my motherboard…… oh… I guess it was haha
 




After the motherboard was sorted out, we turned our attention to our AMD Radeon R9 290.  After stripping it bare of the turbo jet cooler, we installed our Alphacool block and backplate.  To mount it to the backplate, we drilled and tapped 6/32 into the backplate and put motherboard standoffs on.  Then screwed the motherboard screws in from the back, securely holding our mounting plate in place.
 







If you enjoyed this update, just wait for the next one! It will include pictures of our first time bending acrylic tubing!!!  It was a learning experience for sure.
Until next time, Happy Modding!

rjohnson11
This man has some very serious skills. I can't even draw a straight line.

Haha, the flattery is real.  The kind words are definitely appreciated!   Next update will have our acrylic tube bending..... so more straight'ish lines soon. 

rjohnson11

DDCustomMods
 
Haha, the flattery is real.  The kind words are definitely appreciated!   Next update will have our acrylic tube bending..... so more straight'ish lines soon. 

Looking forward to the tubing pics.

Going to see if I can crank out the tubing update before I crash for the evening :p

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Good morning DDCM fans and followers!
How about another DDCM desk PC update?
We left off last time with a completed watercooling loop…. but still had to paint. So we start off by stripping it down to the bare wood.


While I waited for some wood filler to dry, I went ahead and painted our Alphacool NexXxos radiators, PSU mount bracket, GSkill RAM heatspreaders, and the fan grills for our rear intake fans.




Once the filler was dry, I wasted no time sanding it down. Then just testing a theory I checked the fit of the InWin RGB LED strips and how I was going to run the cable. After the cable test, I brought the desk inside to be wiped down with a damp cloth.




Once it was clean and dry we started painting it black by cutting in the corners and angles first. Then we broke out the 3” brush and filled in all the big areas.




If you’re still reading this far, the next update will be the components installed and the loop set back up and hopefully filled! Leak testing here I come!
Until next time, Happy Modding!

Loving the color and the woodwork.

sweet rig! love it!

Sleinous
sweet rig! love it!

Thank you :)

WOW!
 
That is what I call dedication!
 
Very nice

MasterMiner
WOW!
 
That is what I call dedication!
 
Very nice

 
Thanks!  It was definitely worth the time and effort :D

rjohnson11
Looking forward to those final pics.

Hopefully it'll be soon.  Having some GPU issues.... trying to figure out at what point it is happening... Just randomly goes black screen and I had it once have a multi colored fuzzy screen.  Tried different slots on the motherboard with no change, so will keep everyone updated when I figure it out :D

that is some build mate so clean