now as you guys already know if you're following me me me on Twitter at Linus I
am resurrecting the personal build project I have found the perfect
motherboard the GX 79s up5 zero coil
wine great look it'll match everything else that I got going on here really
well so my next step is to start making some cuts into the case for cable
management the reason I didn't want to move ahead with any cable management
holes before I had finalized a motherboard is because where would I cut
the holes if I don't know where the cables are going to be running and what kind of a board I'm going to be using so
I'm going to be cutting some cable management holes I'm going to be painting some things myself so things
like the outside of the optical drive I'm just going to be priming and
spraying with a textured black whereas the bulk of the case components I'm
going to be sending away to Mountain mods to be painted in Black once I have
made my necessary Cuts so it never hurts to give a metal surface a quick scuff
just to make sure that the uh primer will adhere so I'm not going for a
perfect finish on thiss so I won't be over complicating
things in terms of uh of the preparation process there we go make sure that's
working you always want to apply spray really really lightly like underdo it as
opposed to overdoing it this can be Rec in as little as about half an hour so
I'm not not too concerned about getting perfect coverage no one will ever see
the top of the optical drive but I'm peeling the sticker off just for the sake of uh semi completeness here and
when you're done uh actually make sure you're always in a well ventilated area
when you're done with an aerosol always make sure you clean out the nozzle
before you're uh before you finish well those lines seem pretty straight trusty
Dremel never fails so got to do the CPU cutout I decided not to do any cutouts
for um you know ATX 24 pin or whatever
else I'm just going to bring them around like I used to and then I do want to do
a cutout here for routing various stuff
uh under the bottom of the motherboard same thing here and uh to the back of
the uh to the back of the back plate I'm also going to do a CPU cutout just so
that I can easily change CPU blocks and
yeah so here's a couple cuts having been
made with the Dremel for the CPU cutout
going to do two more of those and then I think the last cut is going to be down
here for the cable management and and we're making some progress here and more
progress so I have done the CPU cutout
that's some freehand dremeling right there actually pretty straight All
Things Considered should I have marked it yes but I didn't so there you go so
now there's see there's a door for the uh for the CPU cutout so uh that'll give
me the ability to close it off when I'm when I don't want act no I'm just
kidding I'm going to just take that off off there all right so there you go now
I will be able to easily install CPU coolers or remove them without any
difficulty um I'm also really not sure
what to do about this that looks kind of goofy with that uh little Gap there so I
might just take this all the way to the edge but I might just leave it I mean it's in the right position and sort of
the right size for the eight pin now all that's left is I want to do some Cuts
sort of along the bottom here so that I can uh run things like front panel
connectors and stuff like that behind the motherboard without without any
difficulty so more progress it's all
good all right so let's call that pretty much it for this personal rig update so
I've thrown the hardware back into the case just so that I can do a little bit of test fitting so uh number one is the
hole for the eight pin connector is good and I'll be able to run sort of fan
wires through there and stuff and anywhere where I don't want to run fan
wires through here if I want it to be even more hidden there's also a hole
drilled here I should widen that a little bit before I'm done actually I
can take these ones and those ones cathode lights um can have their wires
run through there so this yeah actually know what this might just be for uh for
the eight pin um so what else have we
got that's new other than that you're not going to be able to see many changes
from this side so you can see now I can run the um the SATA cables from my RAID
card to the back of the motherboard tray where all of the drives will go just
find my my one of my things are drives so the drives will go back here and then
the uh SATA data cables will come through here from the back so I've cut
two more cable management holes this one's for like front USB or um front
panel connectors all that kind of stuff I was thinking about cutting one here
for SATA cables if I ever decide to plug the drives directly into the motherboard
but I decided not to so there's the you can see the motherboard cutout is lined
up correctly so I've got access to all four holes back here there's that
eight pin I decided against cutting holes over here for 24 pin and PCIe um
there's just I don't think there's any perfect way to do this so unfortunately
I am stuck with mounting the t- virus kind of here we'll just be kind of
hovering off the motherboard tray there and uh this is going to just go around
it and this is just going to go around it yes I know it's not ideal but I don't
really see um a better way to do
everything at this point with how much Hardware I'm cramming in here I mean
remember this is going to be full of a radiator um I thought about doing a mid
plate here but just time and effort
constraints I'm not going to end up doing it so I'm just going to get the
whole thing powder coated once I've made all the cuts oh right more cuts that I
need to do so I need a way to get all these cables up past here past here cuz
the side panel closes right against this so I'm going to cut big holes here to
here so that I can move all my my cables up this way I'm going to widen this one
right here and that's going to give me two really good options actually you
know what I'll probably do I'll probably do something here as well three good
options to get cables from the back of the system down to the bottom of the
system without running them through the existing cable routing holes here so
that should pretty much fix my only complaint about the tj07 well no my two
only complaints cable Management's terrible and the uh the inter interior
should be black so once we get the cut and powder coated we should be good to
go thanks for checking out my personal rig update and stay tuned for more I'm
hoping to actually get this done within the calendar year I know I call it
personal rig update 2012 so so we're on the clock here if it runs into 2013 my
title will no longer be correct