The BlueBerry Muffin

[barfastic]

The BlueBerry Muffin

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Special thanks goes out to Freddy from Highflow for his amazing work and quick customer service​

The Background​

I get inspired rather easily... My last build was thought up of while i was drinking a very refreshing and fresh orange+sanguine juice. This build is no different. Once a week i treat myself to a blueberry muffin, and one day while i had taken a big bite out of it, i found myself, looking at the colours, and thinking, wow.... i want a computer this colour. Hence, The BlueBerry Muffin is born.

The Hardware​

- Asus Rampage II Gene
- Intel Core i7 920
- Sapphire 6870
- 1TB HDD
- 6GB DDR3 1600Mhz Kingston's
- Silverstone Strider 750w
- Lian Li V351

The Cooling​

- Ek Coolstream 240
- EK 6870 FC Blcok Nickel
- EK 6870 Backplate
- MIPS ASUS GENE Series Fusion-Block
- 4xCoolermaster Excaliburs
- Koolance RP 402x2
- EK Supreme HF Plexi CPU Block
- 2 x Laing DDC-1Plus MCP355 12V
- EK Compressions 10MM (3/8 ID - 1/2 OD)
- Koolance 10MM (3/8) 90 degree rotary

The Accessories​

- Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra
- Aqua-Computer Temperature Sensor Inline
- Koolance INS-FM17 Coolant Flow Meter & Adapter Board INS-FM17
- 240 Rad Stand
- Nexus Extra ventilation PCI Brackets
- 19MM Bulgin Silver / Orange LED
- NZXT 24x White LED Sleeve
- PCI bracket with 2x G1/4
- Tube Cutter 10-40mm

Until next time... heres a treat

 

[l3p]

I'm curious
Tell some more about your previous builds and off course yourself
Goodluck !

 

[soppy]

Very curious to how that colour scheme is going to look, also really love the LiLi cubes

Are you going to make a window in yours?

Goodluck and keep those pic's coming!

 

[Celly]

The crazy stuff is always the best. Looking forward to it

 

[Duriel]

updates!!!!1!!
Good luck btw

 

[barfastic]

Case got back from Powder Coaters yesterday! So here it goes...


The case came out exactly the colour i wanted, but unfortunately, some parts of the powdercoating wasnt great. The were a few discrepancies, enar the areas where he needed to bolt the case down, but luckily for me, none of those areas show!


NIK_9605 by barfastic, on Flickr


NIK_9606 by barfastic, on Flickr

I cut out the bottom of the HDD support so that my GPU+Block could fit.

NIK_9609 by barfastic, on Flickr

The white Pop Rivets were horrible to work with, they kept flaking, and i ahd to keep redoing them :/ must of gone through like 100! eventually i got them all in place and with minimum destruction.

NIK_9608 by barfastic, on Flickr


NIK_9613 by barfastic, on Flickr

And thats the Lian Li V351B (B for Beige )

Tomorrow, im taking pictures of parts

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[Fedmas]

Omg nice. But what the hell! Where have you made the pictures . What a background with that colors.

 

[Skydrone]

Mooie hardware hoor. Deze ga ik volgen.

 

[barfastic]

Omg nice. But what the hell! Where have you made the pictures . What a background with that colors.

I have a small studio setup in my basement, its where all my builds and photography goes down

Mooie hardware hoor. Deze ga ik volgen.

if translate.google.com works well, thanks

ok, so small update. just some pics of parts that will get crammed inside the case

Koolance RP402x2 With Dual Laing Ultra, and Serial adapter/insert

4 of these Excaliburs will be cooling the radiator in push pull config

The PSU responisble for giving the parts a life

Purple 3/8" Masterkleer:

and..... the sleeving begins... goodbye fingerprints!

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[Fedmas]

Nice update .
Really like your colors.
Skydrone said (translated)

Nice hardware you got there. I'll follow your worklog

 

[soppy]

where can i admire youre other work logs?

 

[Sw333t]

4 of these Excaliburs will be cooling the radiator in push pull config

I can see that you've chosen these fan purely for the looks, i just can't imagine that they will work perfectly on a radiator. Because the sides are open, i think they won't produce good static pressure.

 

[barfastic]

where can i admire youre other work logs?

I dont have any hosted on here, but i can guide you to them if you send me a pm.

Nice update .
Really like your colors.
Skydrone said (translated)

Thanks for the kind words, and the translation!

I can see that you've chosen these fan purely for the looks, i just can't imagine that they will work perfectly on a radiator. Because the sides are open, i think they won't produce good static pressure.

they produce around 2.9mm h20, which is quite high! i got them for functionality. The pen sides, should pull in more air than a normal fan in this case, reason for this, is because, the case has an extra opening on the bottom in the front. and with normal fans that is pretty much blocked!

 

[Sw333t]

That is impressive, didn't thought they would produce that amount of pressure. Hmm... pretty much the best turbine look fans for radiators .

 

[kier]

Didn't saw this one earlier over here but on extremesystems.
At the end of the log "sponsered" by HF, so maybe he is also over here, and........yes
Looking great allready

 

[barfastic]

Thanks for the compliment Kier. (Especially when it is coming from someone like you!) Cant wait to see what you ahve in store for us next as well

 

[barfastic]

[COLOR="#Purple"]So... Update time (Warning!!! PICTURE HEAVY UPDATE!!!!)

Just want to say Thanks to my Sponsors for making this project a reality

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I finally got some time to work on the build and take some pics. Sleeving and RL took over the past few days, hence why this update is so delayed

So i went ahead and bought a small 3.5" fan controller, nothing fancy, just something to do the job and make this machine run quietly Ofcourse it was custome painted to match the build (although the colour is SLIGHTLY off and i got a smudge of my finger print on it :/ (i am already curretnly repainting ), 1 tone lighter, i dont think it will be annoying, anyways, this is going to be on the side of the case that is up against the wall)

Rear Side: (for some reason i like this picture)

Next up, i went ahead and painted the fans according to my theme. (I didnt paint the actual blades, because i was afraid of getting paint unevenly sprayed and resuklting in vibrations)

Next, i placed them on my radiator (which was also painted the same colour as the fans) and set up the stand. Looks beefy eh?

Oh, Wait.... Wahts this?

Oh, lol... My 6870

(Can Anyone figure out what i did to the picture above? )

Next Up: The Motherboard!

The motherboard tray has been painted white, and the back apnel is Beige to match the entire case. (Tubing is only for testing purposes, and will be replaced with the same colour tubing.)

And one with the GPU installed aswell. I think the contrast of the purple tubing on the white backplate is nice

And now, what delayed this update for sooooooooo long....
Sleeving Shots

I hope this update is what you guys were waiting for

Now.... TIME TO TRY AND GET ALL OF THIS INSIDE THE CASE

Untill then... Be Safe [/COLOR]

 

[kier]

hmmm, I wanna eat that muffin
Beautiful pictures and love the colors :041:

 

[Wally1987]

Amazing colors me likez

 

[Sw333t]

(Can Anyone figure out what i did to the picture above? )

I really like the idea of using a backplate as "frontplate". Was it hard to mount it at the frontside of the gpu?
Edit: Clearly your fuckin with my brains .

Further, those colours... personally i wouldn't use any of those colours. But when joined together, they look freaking nice.

Splendid job!