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Alright well here are some pics of the side panel getting cut by a water jet, the video will come shortly however it didnt come out to well as I dont have a digital camcorder so I had to use my digital camera.

Alright first up we have a picture of the cut out design show on the screen.



Here is a show of the water jet bed that the side panel will lay on when its getting cut.



Shot of the side panel put in place ready to be cut.



Calibrating the water jet before cutting.



and now for the cutting....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMNF8S35i3o

All done not a quick spray of water to clean it off




hmm Im sure I can come up with something to use these scrap pieces. ^_^



now to take it home and give it a test fit



Oh ya it came out perfect...




Grabbed some left over modders mesh, here is a test fit.



Here is the mesh painted and installed to the side panel

Looks pretty awesome. Very clean cut! Are you planning on painting the edges so they aren't silver?

robodude666 wrote: Looks pretty awesome. Very clean cut! Are you planning on painting the edges so they aren't silver?

nah I like how it breaks up the black on black when the light hits it.

A few more shots with the lighting going....

So ya I decided to redo the side panel Spider platform logo, this one still has a similar concept but this one has some neat things incorporated into the spider, see if you can spot them, it shouldnt be to hard.

Love the side panel cutout of AMD's logo.

Not really liking the spider web on the logo design. I think it would look much cleaner without it.

or the spider web might not be detailed enough, I will try something else a little later and upload those results, also one of just the spider.

Whit the impending release of the 4870 June 25, I'd take it you'll be getting quite a bit of work done very shortly. So far, great job, and keep up the work!
PS. Can I haz?

ya not to much longer until the 4870x2 might be released so ya Im wrapping things up on this case. ^_^ tomorrow Im getting the rest of the stuff needed to finish the hard drive cage and then will be moving on to the rest of the etch work and paint work and some more minor fab work.

Nice job on the water jet cutting, I'd have all mine done that way if I had the extra cash all the time. .........
The rig is coming along nicely......................

thanks, right now Im working something out with Eddy (EK Waterblocks) about getting the Supreme with the brand new jet plate option and two 4870x2 blocks sent my way so I may have some of the first ones rolled off the line so Im looking forward to that. ^_^

I also have the D-Tek Fuzion v2 heading my way so I plan to do a shoot out between the V2 and the Supreme with the Jet plate and see which way I go.

Small Update:

GSkill was kind enough to send me their totally kickass DDR2-1100 4gb Kit for my RubyRED build. ^_^

Well Im happy to say that I just got done talking with AMD, they are going to jump on board and sponsor me their new Phenom 9950 Black Edition CPU

Dang man, kaze you are the best modder I know of!... Then again you are the ONLY modder I know of, but nonetheless you go full out everytime!!! This one is totally kickass, just like all your others, keep up the good work! I can't wait to see the end result!

So as I mentioned AMD became a sponsor for this project and for our site, and today I received the CPU from Fedex and well are you guys curious as to how they shipped it???

Well here you go.....


The Main Packaging



Sub Packaging





Cradle




CPU




Whats sweet is that this cpu came straight from one of AMDs Fabs in China and was one that the die was picked from one of the centers of the wafer so its a much higher quality cpu so it should yield better OC results, I hope. ^_^

Not to much longer before I can get my hands on a Motherboard with the 790FX and SB750 chipset but there are a few companies that will be releasing their versions soon so Im not 100% who I will go with but I guess it will be determined on which company wants to jumps on board then its them all the way. ^_^

Oh and a small update:
I cut out an exhaust opening for the front fan, meshed it, and installed a tribal grill that worked with the theme of the case.

So that is what you have been up too. Awesome packaging, you are really getting the special treatment.

***Ben

LOL Epic packaging. Imagine if one of the pins on the processor broke somehow already

ya that would have sucked but luckily thats not the case.

Alright so I have a question for all of you and that is yes on handles or no on handles....

If you are going to be moving it around a lot then you should keep the handles. But I think they do not go with the mod and actually make it look tacky.

***Ben

ya if I was going to use it I would powder coat them black but I had them from a review so I was like hmmm should I or should I not, Im not sure if it makes it to busy up there or not.

I think its better without the handle as it seems too busy for me and also I wouldn't even have handles on top since I'm sure you will try to showcase your computer by putting it on top of desk/tables so that will make it harder to grab the handle from top.
Wow, made lots of progress lately. Noice!

ya I have decided against the case handles, it just would be too busy up there and even if I had the case handles on there I would still be to paranoids to carry the case by them lol I probably would end up bear hugging my case where ever I go versus holding it by the handles =p

Wow well it seems to be coming along really well. I agree with the no handles. Just really too busy. Otherwise I think it looks great. Keep on going man!

It would have been neat if AMD filled every slot in that CPU tray

ya that would have been awesome but again Im happy with at least the one ^^

daemon wrote: It would have been neat if AMD filled every slot in that CPU tray

Lol, that would be amazing. But hey you take what you can get. Well wow this is really coming along well it seems like. The final product should be really nice.

ya Im in talks to get a few more parts in and what not, but with life well there are fun bills so its slowed me down a bit but I should be able to get this system done sometime in October.

WOW, just found your page today and I cant get enough! All the free stuff you're getting is awesome! I wish I could get some of the love from AMD and the such, lol! Cant wait to see more!

thanks and that update I have been talking about should be happening sometime on the later half of next week.