SPiC Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 The folks from ASRock provided the ASRock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming-ITX/AC motherboard and the ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX590 8GB OC graphics card for the project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPiC Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 TeamGroup also provided a 2x8GB kit of its Delta RGB 3000MHz RAM as well as two 250GB Delta RGB SATA SSDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPiC Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 As this was a simple, balanced gaming PC build, it was decided to buy an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 processor, as it’s sufficient for most games and is affordable. It’s an easy upgrade if a more powerful processor is later needed as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPiC Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 After receiving the components, I started fitting and refined some details of the project. For example, a new mounting plate for the SSDs was designed that helped show off their RGB lighting and hide their cabling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPiC Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 Side covers were also made with special air intake wings, which are not only decorative details, but also give rigidity to the side covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPiC Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 Despite carefully designing everything digitally and getting the parts precision laser cut, some errors were introduced during the bending and assembly. As such, the design of these side covers had to be tweaked to get the gaps around them nice and even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPiC Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 Time for a paint job The rough assembly was successful and I had a brutal aluminum spaceship in front of me. People compared it to a projectile, which to me meant I’d succeeded in conveying the sense of speed and movement I was aiming for. However, I didn't plan to stop there. For a long time I was in doubt, but nevertheless I decided to paint the case in contrasting colors. The plan was to have a dark colour for the main body, so it sinks into the background a little more, and then have a bright white for the wings and front panel, visually turning them into a kind of frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prototoxin Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Looks cool! Nice project you got there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPiC Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 Once the decision was made, the case was disassembled and shipped off to get powder coated. I had to wait a long time for the parts to return due to restrictions imposed in connection with COVID-19. However, eventually they did arrive and I was very pleased with the result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPiC Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 Final assembly was a bit tricky, due to the compact placement of components making for very little room to manoeuvre. It was the cable management that took up most of the time, though this was made a little easier by having all the perforations to use for fixing cable ties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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