[Case Gallery] Black Box

Darknova · Jan 7, 2008

To view this case mod, go here.

Specs:
Intel E4400 @ 3Ghz
Scythe Infinity
MSI P35 Neo2-FR
Powercolor HD3870 512Mb with Accelero S1 @ 810Mhz/2.5Ghz
2Gb Corsair XMS2 PC6400 @ 1000Mhz
Auzentech X-Plosion 7.1 soundcard
Scythe Kama Bay
250Gb Samsung SATA HDD
500Gb Samsung SATA HDD
Hiper Type-M 580W PSU
Samsung 20x DVD-RW
Lian-Li PC-7 Plus

Mods:
Minor Cable Management.
Aftermarket cooling.
All heatsinks etc. replaced with Arctic Cooling MX-2.

ShadowFold · Jan 7, 2008

Nice, simple and good specs. I like it

9/10

Dia01 · Jan 7, 2008

I agree, simple and practical! 8/10

Grings · Jan 7, 2008

9/10, what a fine selection of components!

eh, when did you get an auzen x-plosion?, guess what i've got?, bloody hell (well mines actually a club 3d theatron agrippa, which is a relabelled x-plosion!, jusy as well i didnt get that lian li pc7 now (i got a cm690 instead)

tzitzibp · Jan 7, 2008

Nice one!

tzitzibp · Jan 7, 2008

Nice one!
Good choice of components 9/10, good cable management (hide the red sata cable) 8/10... I like the name 10/10!!!
not as clean as it could be though! 5/10
basic mods....7/10

good effort, I like the work done...7/10!!!

my rigs...

http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/1172.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/1155.html

Darknova · Jan 7, 2008

tzitzibp said:
Nice one!
Good choice of components 9/10, good cable management (hide the red sata cable) 8/10... I like the name 10/10!!!
not as clean as it could be though! 5/10
basic mods....7/10

good effort, I like the work done...7/10!!!

my rigs...

http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/1172.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/1155.html

Good cable management? I think it's atrocious lol. And yeah, I'll get around to hiding those cables eventually.

My air compressors on the fritz at the moment so all I have is a brush to clean it at the moment lol.

Grings said:
9/10, what a fine selection of components!

eh, when did you get an auzen x-plosion?, guess what i've got?, bloody hell (well mines actually a club 3d theatron agrippa, which is a relabelled x-plosion!, jusy as well i didnt get that lian li pc7 now (i got a cm690 instead)

Bloody hell Grings... you're starting to scare me

tzitzibp · Jan 7, 2008

I said good, not great.... good for trying... and hide the red cable....ha ha ha!
oh! try the brush then....

Duffman · Jan 7, 2008

nice rig.

do you still have the stock fan in the Scythe Kama Bay? It blows donkey balls...well actually it doesn't blow much at all. I replaced mine right away.

Darknova · Jan 7, 2008

Duffman said:
nice rig.

do you still have the stock fan in the Scythe Kama Bay? It blows donkey balls...well actually it doesn't blow much at all. I replaced mine right away.

I know, it's pathetic. I'll get around to it eventually.

I'm working so much at the moment I just don't have the time or energy to put any real effort into my PC unfortunately. Except for the upgrade to the 3870 it actually hasn't changed in months lol.

btarunr · Jan 7, 2008

That's what I call "Smarter Choice". Good selection of components, nice overclock. I'll give you 8/10

What I like: The Lian-Li case, the Scythe cooler, the OC to the CPU.
What I didn't: Nyaah, everything is just fine, please mention your video-card's OC (if any).

EnergyFX · Jan 8, 2008

If I were to vote I would have to give you a 5 or 6 right now. Good selection of parts for a simple and practical build, but they're just slapped together with very little attention to neatness. I'm going to withold my vote for now since you mentioned you still have work to do. I'll keep an eye out for progress.

Darknova · Jan 11, 2008

EnergyFX said:
If I were to vote I would have to give you a 5 or 6 right now. Good selection of parts for a simple and practical build, but they're just slapped together with very little attention to neatness. I'm going to withold my vote for now since you mentioned you still have work to do. I'll keep an eye out for progress.

Mind if I ask what you mean by little attention to neatness?

As for carlos, this is an ENGLISH speaking forum, post in English or you will be ignored.

EnergyFX · Jan 12, 2008

Darknova said:
Mind if I ask what you mean by little attention to neatness?

2 things mainly. First off, and it might just be the lighting and camera angle making it look worse than it actually is, you need to dust out the case. Second, the cables can be made considerably neater.

If you want the highest votes form viewers, you need to take a lot of time prepping your rig for the photos. Look at it like getting a car ready for a car show... lots of detail work to get the oohs and aahs.

Comprende senior? HAHA

Darknova · Jan 12, 2008

EnergyFX said:
2 things mainly. First off, and it might just be the lighting and camera angle making it look worse than it actually is, you need to dust out the case. Second, the cables can be made considerably neater.

If you want the highest votes form viewers, you need to take a lot of time prepping your rig for the photos. Look at it like getting a car ready for a car show... lots of detail work to get the oohs and aahs.

Comprende senior? HAHA

Dusty, yeah I know. Finally got a replacement for my compressor so I'll give it a good clean today.

Cables....well have you actually ever seen my case in person? I know I need to neaten up the bottom section, take up the slack etc. but the rest of the cables are about as neat as they are going to get. There is just no where to put the cables. No removable motherboard tray. No holes in motherboard tray. So everything has to be routed behind the 5.25" bays, or across the motherboard itself for some of the shorter cables, like the 8-pin power

Silvertop · Jan 13, 2008

I voted 10/10 because:

It looks amazingly impressive to me -- otherwise, I wouldn't have voted!

AsphyxiA · Feb 20, 2008

i love those lian-li cases. their cheap, no frills, and easy to mod. plus stock they look nice. Good system specs, i like it nice and simple. 8/10. Only gripe, you need to manage those cables a bit more. they won't constrict airflow but.. make it look pretty

Processor	AMD 5800X3D
Motherboard	Asus Strix B550-F Gaming
Cooling	Corsair H100i
Memory	2 x 32GB Corsair Vengeance
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Pulse 6800XT
Storage	1 x 1TB 980 PRO, 1 x 1TB Corsair MP510 Force
Display(s)	1 x Dell 27" 165hz
Case	Lian-Li O11D Evo
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1000W P2
Mouse	Logitech G502 Lightspeed
Keyboard	Logitech G915
Software	Windows 11 Pro x64

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Processor	AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8ghz
Motherboard	ASUS M4A87TD EVO AM3 AMD 870
Cooling	Stock
Memory	Kingston ValueRAM 4GB DDR3-1333
Video Card(s)	XFX ATi Radeon HD 5850 1gb
Storage	Western Digital 640gb
Display(s)	Acer 21.5" 5ms Full HD 1920x1080P
Case	Antec Nine-Hundred
Audio Device(s)	Onboard + Creative "Fatal1ty" Headset
Power Supply	Antec Earthwatts 650w
Software	Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Benchmark Scores	-❶-❸-❸-❼-

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Motherboard	Asus ROG X670E GENE MATX
Cooling	Phanteks Glacier One 280MPH AIO
Memory	G.Skill 48GB (2x24GB) F5-8000J4048F24GX2-TZ5RK Trident Z5 RGB 8000MHz DDR5
Video Card(s)	ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX OC Edition 24GB GDDR6
Storage	Crucial T700 Gen5 2TB NVMe \| Crucial P5 Plus Gen4 2TB NVMe \| Crucial P5 Plus Gen4 1TB NVMe
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Audio Device(s)	Onboard SPDIF --> Logitech Z-5500
Power Supply	Seasonic ATX 3.0 VERTEX-GX-1000
Mouse	Razer Mamba Chroma
Keyboard	Razer Cynosa V2 Chroma
Software	Arch Linux

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Motherboard	MSI x570 Tomahawk
Cooling	XSPC Raystorm Edge,EK QS P420M,EK D5pwm Revo Res
Memory	32gb Corsair Vengeance RT 3600 cl16
Video Card(s)	Zotac 3070ti Amp Extreme
Storage	Samsung 980pro 1tb x2
Display(s)	MSI MPG321QRF QD
Case	Corsair 7000D
Power Supply	EVGA 1000 P2
Mouse	G900
Keyboard	Corsair k60 RGB PRO
Software	Win 11

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Processor	Intel® Core™ i5-3570K
Motherboard	P8Z77-V LX
Cooling	1x custom W/C loop/ inflow:6x120 /outflow:4x120, 2x200
Memory	Viper 3 Black Mamba (4x4GB)
Video Card(s)	Powercolor LCS 5870
Storage	1X 128GB OCZ, 2 x 1.500 Gb Seagate
Display(s)	Samsung 24" LC24F396
Case	custom MDF case (I BUILT IT) check sig.....NOW
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Tagan 900 watt
Software	Win 7 RC / Open office / Games

[Case Gallery] Black Box

Darknova

ShadowFold

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Dia01

Grings

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Duffman

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btarunr

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EnergyFX

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Silvertop

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AsphyxiA

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Processor	Intel Xeon W3520 @4.2Ghz
Motherboard	evga Classified 760
Cooling	Prolimatech Mega Shadow with Dual Noctua NF-P12 fans
Memory	6GB Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 (3gb x 2) 1600
Video Card(s)	Sapphire 5870 Vapor-X
Storage	Corsair P128 SSD for OS, 4 Samsung 500GB in RAID10 For Storage
Display(s)	Samsung SyncMaster T240HD
Case	Corsair Obsidian 800d Twin Zalman ZM-MFC Plus fan controllers
Audio Device(s)	HT\|OMEGA CLARO
Power Supply	Antec Truepower 1000
Software	Win7 64bit ultimate

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Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
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Cooling	DeepCool Gammax L240 V2
Memory	2x 8GB G.Skill Sniper X
Video Card(s)	Palit GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GameRock
Storage	Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB
Display(s)	BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch
Case	Corsair Carbide 100R
Audio Device(s)	ASUS SupremeFX S1220A
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W
Mouse	ASUS ROG Strix Impact
Keyboard	Gamdias Hermes E2
Software	Windows 11 Pro

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Cooling	Full liquid (everything except power supply)
Memory	4Gb OCZ DDR2 PC9600
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Storage	Dual WD Raptor in RAID 0 (300Gb), Dual WD 1Tb Cavair in RAID 1
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Audio Device(s)	X-Fi Fata1ty (bleh!)
Power Supply	Ultra X3 1000W
Software	Win 7 64bit

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Storage	1TB western digital black 2.5"
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Audio Device(s)	Onboard DSP, sound forwarded to Onkyo receiver in 2.1 mode
Power Supply	Fractal Design 430w itx PSU
Mouse	Logitech Wireless gaming mouse
Keyboard	Logitech Wireless, Xbox One S controller
Software	Windows 10 pro