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Project: Diabolo
- Thread starter Luciel
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Hi Everyone!
I´m back from the Campus Party Milenio, got to meet some great people/modders and see some really good work! Diabolo was put togueter and was taken to this event, however, it´s by no means finished, it was merely made "presentable" for the event. The official presentation of the finished product will be in the Murcia Lan Party on the 6th of December.
For the purpose of updates, I will ignore the fact of the process I took to get it ready for the event in question and continue with the last update I did before then : )
Right so, I´ve put the frontal togueter to see how it would look and judge if I needed changes. First problem, the upper grill was measured wrong, so to much space was left between such and the horns, luckyly, I have spares so will be doing that again.
the 275s have been painted:
the X-Fi Titanium:
The Sabertooth:
The PSU cover (I have left the psu untouched aside from the sleeving I´ll be doing as a sign of respect to my sponsor).
I left the cooling running all night to test for leaks with no problem so I put it in, mounted the radiator, haven´t mounted the pump yet, it´s simply sitting on one of the bays, mostly to see where I want to put it). And turned everyone on, just to make sure everything was working, and surely enough, it was. Only one GPU in though as I´ll be using the other one on my current rig so I can use it meanwhile : )
I´m currently debating about the horns. While it´s my first time doing such structure, and decently happy as to how it turned out, I´m not 100%, the simetrical different doesn´t really bother me, plus it would be incredibly hard to do so, specially with such materials, It´s the size of them that bothers me.
One of the ideas that came up was to cutting them to a point and shaping them hell-boy style, what do you guys think?
That´s all for now, I´m waiting on some materials to arrive before I can continue.
I´m back from the Campus Party Milenio, got to meet some great people/modders and see some really good work! Diabolo was put togueter and was taken to this event, however, it´s by no means finished, it was merely made "presentable" for the event. The official presentation of the finished product will be in the Murcia Lan Party on the 6th of December.
For the purpose of updates, I will ignore the fact of the process I took to get it ready for the event in question and continue with the last update I did before then : )
Right so, I´ve put the frontal togueter to see how it would look and judge if I needed changes. First problem, the upper grill was measured wrong, so to much space was left between such and the horns, luckyly, I have spares so will be doing that again.
the 275s have been painted:
the X-Fi Titanium:
The Sabertooth:
The PSU cover (I have left the psu untouched aside from the sleeving I´ll be doing as a sign of respect to my sponsor).
I left the cooling running all night to test for leaks with no problem so I put it in, mounted the radiator, haven´t mounted the pump yet, it´s simply sitting on one of the bays, mostly to see where I want to put it). And turned everyone on, just to make sure everything was working, and surely enough, it was. Only one GPU in though as I´ll be using the other one on my current rig so I can use it meanwhile : )
I´m currently debating about the horns. While it´s my first time doing such structure, and decently happy as to how it turned out, I´m not 100%, the simetrical different doesn´t really bother me, plus it would be incredibly hard to do so, specially with such materials, It´s the size of them that bothers me.
One of the ideas that came up was to cutting them to a point and shaping them hell-boy style, what do you guys think?
That´s all for now, I´m waiting on some materials to arrive before I can continue.
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| Motherboard | MSI Pro Z690 |
| Cooling | Corsair H100i elite |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB |
| Video Card(s) | MSI 4070TI Super |
| Storage | 960 GB Sandisk SSD |
| Display(s) | 27 inch Predator 144 hz 2k |
| Case | CoolerMaster HAF X |
| Audio Device(s) | Onboard |
| Power Supply | Corsair AX1200 |
| Mouse | Logitech G502 Hero |
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Changing the shape of the horns would be an interesting idea, perhaps you could make them slightly smaller and have them closer to the case for more of a sleek look?
Edit: You make me want to start heavily modding my HAF-X lol
Edit: You make me want to start heavily modding my HAF-X lol
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| System Name | Red Giant |
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| Processor | Intel Core i7-12700K |
| Motherboard | MSI Pro Z690 |
| Cooling | Corsair H100i elite |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB |
| Video Card(s) | MSI 4070TI Super |
| Storage | 960 GB Sandisk SSD |
| Display(s) | 27 inch Predator 144 hz 2k |
| Case | CoolerMaster HAF X |
| Audio Device(s) | Onboard |
| Power Supply | Corsair AX1200 |
| Mouse | Logitech G502 Hero |
| Keyboard | Corsair K95 Platinum |
| Software | Windows 11 Pro |
I would need a good idea for a mod first, I was thinking of doing something in red similar to this:
http://www.mnpctech.com/casemodblog/2011/04/25/the-sleek-cooler-master-haf-xl-case-mod-by-kier/
but I just don't know about my timeline for it because whatever I do needs to be done by December 7 for a large school project presentation.
http://www.mnpctech.com/casemodblog/2011/04/25/the-sleek-cooler-master-haf-xl-case-mod-by-kier/
but I just don't know about my timeline for it because whatever I do needs to be done by December 7 for a large school project presentation.
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At first glance, it doesn´t seem extremely complicated, led strips, colour coded fans, a bit of paint if you want more red, I guess at the end of the day it depends on your previous experience doing that sort of thing. It also shouldn´t cost to much, and you have plenty of time if plan ahead a schedule, I say go for it if you want my oppinion, it would look killer in red : )
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| Keyboard | Corsair K95 Platinum |
| Software | Windows 11 Pro |
I'm decided that I am going to go for some mid to large scale modding of my HAF-X I just need some sort of confirmation whether or not I got the job I applied for first since although it won't cost much it will still cost something lol and looking through your pictures in this log makes me want to see what your build looks like with everything in it XD
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Thanks Darkleoco, it will still take a while, weirdly enough my deadline is similar to yours, 6th of December. It will mostly take a while as I plan on redoing/reshaping the horns as I´m not happy with them. I also need to do the sleeving, amongst many other details : )
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to me, it's not quite impress like its name, but i'll wait until u finish this rig completely. :shadedshu
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Well, it's interesting.
If you can bear some constructive criticism, this is what I think:
Horns are an 'organic' feature. In order to make them fit in better with the case, the front of the case has to be more 'organic'; using tech components to form a robotic looking 'face' does not fit with the aesthetic, it needs something more artistic. You went wild with the horns, you needed to go wild with the face of the case, otherwise it only looks OK from the side.
Something more subtle would have worked better with the case and components; like a bony ridge along the top of the case, and much smaller horns.
But that's just my opinion.
Looks like you've put a lot of work into this, I wish you well.
If you can bear some constructive criticism, this is what I think:
Horns are an 'organic' feature. In order to make them fit in better with the case, the front of the case has to be more 'organic'; using tech components to form a robotic looking 'face' does not fit with the aesthetic, it needs something more artistic. You went wild with the horns, you needed to go wild with the face of the case, otherwise it only looks OK from the side.
Something more subtle would have worked better with the case and components; like a bony ridge along the top of the case, and much smaller horns.
But that's just my opinion.
Looks like you've put a lot of work into this, I wish you well.
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Hi Everyone,
First of all I´d like to apologize for the delay on finishin this, I had to wait for several thing sto be delivered and once I finally got them I was already busy with AIO AL (a.k.a. nameless mini-mod) and already had my mind set on doing the second mod in a week "Fallout Cause SP", and of course after that I had the final lan & modding event of the year to go to (from which I just got back yesterday). Today I did the finishing touches (several changes had already been done as bits arrived but I wanted to wait till the end to post the final pictures) but to put it all togueter, since my last post. The following things have been changed /added; 1. The horns, as you all know I wasnt 100% happy with them and decided to shorten them and make them as symetrical as I could but I decided to not go all the way to hell-boy style, so I stayed somewhere in between. 2. The paint on the front. I wanted to do something simple that would shape the face that I maded with frontal components. I had done this in the past for a friend and I found a simple V helped a lot, so I went for that and quite happy with it. 3. Touch ups and darkening of certain outside sections, these you couldn´t tell all that much in photos but it was simply something that was bugging me so went ahead and did it. 4. Fix 2 scratches on the side panel. These happened in my last trip and while they wherent that noticeable... you know, just had to fix it. 5. Internal paint touchup, esentially went and redid the inside paint, same colour, but it just needed a second coating. The only left was the frontal spacer for which I couldn´t get a replacement as the spacing between it and horns is quite visible and would´ve preffered to close it up but, not much I can do now. If I come across one (I think they are the same on all CM HAF cases) I will defo do it up : )
On a side note: I know this mod has been 50/50 all the way, I hope with the final pictures to have changed the mind of some of you who didn´t like it. Personally I am now completely happy with it and quite proud of the result having in mind it´s my first time with epoxy and foam as modding materials. I can´t get over on how much I love the skin effect either. To those that still don´t like it, well... I can´t make everyone happy, as long as you like any other of my projects, I´m happy ; )
One last thanks to Cooler Master & Kingston for helping out a lot with this project specially someone from Kingston whom I will not mention by name (you know who you are) who has been extremely helpfull all the way, thanks!!!
So here you go, the final pictures of Project: Diabolo:
Thanks for reading!
First of all I´d like to apologize for the delay on finishin this, I had to wait for several thing sto be delivered and once I finally got them I was already busy with AIO AL (a.k.a. nameless mini-mod) and already had my mind set on doing the second mod in a week "Fallout Cause SP", and of course after that I had the final lan & modding event of the year to go to (from which I just got back yesterday). Today I did the finishing touches (several changes had already been done as bits arrived but I wanted to wait till the end to post the final pictures) but to put it all togueter, since my last post. The following things have been changed /added; 1. The horns, as you all know I wasnt 100% happy with them and decided to shorten them and make them as symetrical as I could but I decided to not go all the way to hell-boy style, so I stayed somewhere in between. 2. The paint on the front. I wanted to do something simple that would shape the face that I maded with frontal components. I had done this in the past for a friend and I found a simple V helped a lot, so I went for that and quite happy with it. 3. Touch ups and darkening of certain outside sections, these you couldn´t tell all that much in photos but it was simply something that was bugging me so went ahead and did it. 4. Fix 2 scratches on the side panel. These happened in my last trip and while they wherent that noticeable... you know, just had to fix it. 5. Internal paint touchup, esentially went and redid the inside paint, same colour, but it just needed a second coating. The only left was the frontal spacer for which I couldn´t get a replacement as the spacing between it and horns is quite visible and would´ve preffered to close it up but, not much I can do now. If I come across one (I think they are the same on all CM HAF cases) I will defo do it up : )
On a side note: I know this mod has been 50/50 all the way, I hope with the final pictures to have changed the mind of some of you who didn´t like it. Personally I am now completely happy with it and quite proud of the result having in mind it´s my first time with epoxy and foam as modding materials. I can´t get over on how much I love the skin effect either. To those that still don´t like it, well... I can´t make everyone happy, as long as you like any other of my projects, I´m happy ; )
One last thanks to Cooler Master & Kingston for helping out a lot with this project specially someone from Kingston whom I will not mention by name (you know who you are) who has been extremely helpfull all the way, thanks!!!
So here you go, the final pictures of Project: Diabolo:
Thanks for reading!