My PC Build - AMD ATI ASUS Mushkin Pioneer Western Digital CM ... (w/ MDPC-X Sleeving)

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Been wanting to share this for awhile now, ... but have been concentrating on other things.

This is my PC I built two years ago, ... that I am typing on right now.

Original Specifications:

ASUS M4A87TD EVO
AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition (3.5GHz)
Mushkin Enhanced Ridgeback DDR3 1600 (8GB)
Sapphire ATI Vapor-X Radeon HD 6770 PCI-e 2.1 (1GB GDDR5)
ASUS Xonar DS 7.1 PCI
Mushkin Enhanced Callisto Deluxe 2.5" 60GB SSD

Western Digital Caviar Black 3.5" 1TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA 6.0Gb/s (x2)
Pioneer Electronics DVD-RW SATA Combo
Pioneer Electronics Blu-ray/DVD-RW SATA Combo
Cooler Master Hyper 212+ CPU Cooler (2 BladeMasters in push/pull config)
Mushkin Enhanced Volta 600W PSU

ALL sleeve, crimps, molex housings, molex connectors, molex pins, mounting/routing hardware used was obtained from MDPC - Million Dollar PC -, out of Germany ... ( http://en.mdpc-x.com ). This stuff is light-years ahead of other offerings on the market like "TechFlex" ... both in coverage, & quality.

Anyway, ... I started off with an empty Cooler Master Elite 330 chassis I had, & went from there ...

After removing the front bezel & panels, plus dirty, old fans, ... I ended up with this ...

New 120mm "intake" fan with blue LEDs, of course! (A matching exhaust fan, too ...)

I decided to custom cut/sleeve all wires, cables for nice look, protection, organization, & better airflow/cooling should I begin overclocking.

Here's the front power switch/reset panel all sleeved ...

... now mounted.

... Audio/USB panel, above, too ...

I had to get my mitts on a cute 'lil tool so I could pop out pins before sleeving Cooler Master 120mm BladeMaster CPU cooling fans' cables ...

SATA 6.0Gb/s cables from ASUS ... for SSD & Blu-ray drive data ...

Being that orange is my favorite color, I figured I'd stray from the color scheme & sleeve the SSD SATA cable as such ...

More coming ...

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Build thread con't. ...

Mushkin Enhanced Callisto Deluxe 60GB SSD

Front of case with audio/USB & power/reset panels, Pioneer Electronic optical drives, & the Mushkin SSD.

The Mushkin Ridgeback RAM I used ...

Now came the fun part! To be really effective with airflow, organization, etc., modding the power supply is a big piece of hardware to pay attention to. This PSU was not fully "modular", so I voided the warranty by cracking the case, then I measured FOUR times, & cut ONCE!

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After removing a little over 10" of unnecessary cable(s) for this build, & this case, I crimped on new Molex crimps, & changed the ATX end from a 20+4 to a 24, ...

... but before sliding them into the new connecter, I sleeved all 24 wires with 1/8" black sleeve. I also removed an even 12" off the ATX 12V rail, & sleeved them gray ... Then I initially powered it up ...

Anyhow, I mocked everything up, except the storage drives, & got the following BIOS screen ...

That safe boot was good enough for me to load Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

More coming ...

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Before I could button everything up, I had a handful of things to finish up.

I needed to construct a 6-pin power cable for the video card, & sleeve accordingly, ... along with a five-connection, daisy-chain SATA power cable to run the SSD, HDDs, & opticals ... & to have it run out of one 8-pin "out" on the PSU.

I built the videocard cable & sleeved it black.

I'd been collecting individual parts for 6 months, so I was excited to just get it going. (this was far from my first PC build, ... but definitely the first that I attempted to mod/customize this much.)

Original Specifications:

ASUS M4A87TD EVO
AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition (3.5GHz)
Mushkin Enhanced Ridgeback DDR3 1600 (8GB)
Sapphire ATI Vapor-X Radeon HD 6770 PCI-e 2.1 (1GB GDDR5)
ASUS Xonar DS 7.1 PCI
Mushkin Enhanced Callisto Deluxe 2.5" 60GB SSD

Western Digital Caviar Black 3.5" 1TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA 6.0Gb/s (x2)
Pioneer Electronics DVD-RW SATA Combo
Pioneer Electronics Blu-ray/DVD-RW SATA Combo
Cooler Master Hyper 212+ CPU Cooler (2 BladeMasters in push/pull config)
Mushkin Enhanced Volta 600W PSU

Windows 7 Ultimate x64

CURRENT Specifications:

ASUS M4A87TD EVO
AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition (3.5GHz)
Mushkin Enhanced Ridgeback DDR3 1600 (8GB)
Sapphire ATI Vapor-X Radeon HD 6770 PCI-e 2.1 (1GB GDDR5)
ASUS Xonar DS 7.1 PCI
Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 2.5" 90GB SSD

Western Digital Caviar Black 3.5" 1TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA 6.0Gb/s (x1)
Pioneer Electronics DVD-RW SATA Combo
Pioneer Electronics Blu-ray/DVD-RW SATA Combo
Cooler Master Hyper 212+ CPU Cooler (2 BladeMasters in push/pull config)
Mushkin Enhanced Volta 600W PSU

Windows 7 Professional x64

Attached accessories:

Monitor: Hanns-G 22.5" (HDMI-cabled)

Keyboard: Logitech G11

Mouse: Razer Death Adder Left-Handed Edition

Mouse Pad: Razer Goliathus Control Edition - Large (14" x 17.5")

Speakers: Logitech Z-4

Headphones: Sennheiser HD 595

Printer: Canon PIXMA iP2820

Scanner: Canon CanoScan LiDE 110

Webcam: MS LifeCam VX-3000

Blah, blah, blah ...

This box sings right along, while being one of the quietest I have ever built.

7.4 Average on Windows Experience Index.

Closer look at the sleeving by MDPC-X ...