Well I have had a lull in the boxes I was building for a friend due to a bad PSU so I have some free time to play around. I have been looking around for some long black SATA cables, but alas this was not to be. Found red, blue, and green. Why no basic black? So here is a pic of what I started out with. Nice translucent candy apple red color. ;D
Unfortunately this wasn't going to make it so it was time to go scrounging the local electronic shops to get some nice basic black sleeving material and heatshrink. Here is with the sleeving put on. Yes I did them two at a time to cut down on the case clutter.
Here is one of the completed assemblies. Notice the evil red glint?
Well as you know I am also working on lapping all my waterblocks. So the next set of pic's is a work in progress. Here is my Silver Cuplex XT block. Came with a super finish, but it wasn't as flat as I wanted. Here is the way it came to me.
Here is a pic of the inside showing the internal pin array.
Here is a pic showing the condition after about 20 laps with 800 grit wet and dry sandpaper. You can see that the sandpaper is only touching the outside of the block. The center was concave about .002 of an inch. I was kind of bummed about this till I also saw a post on another forum from someone with the same problem on a G5. So grin and lap it.
So what do you do with a PSU when you get it? Some people use it, but I decided to mod it seeing how it wasn't exactly what I wanted. So the first thing to do was to ditch all the molex conncectors.
Oh yeah I also decided I didn't need the SATA power connectors. snip snip
The other molex connectors need to go as well and what could you possibly need a floppy drive connector for?
Since I had all the molex connectors off I decided to try my hand at a little painting with a black Dykem Mark & Code pen. Black molex connectors are hard to come by. :-/
So now that I had fun with my dikes it is time to catch some zzzz's. Now that everything is cut off I can get busy doing all the custom wiring. Every piece of wire on Feeding Frenzy is totally custom. I either snip snip to size, solder, or make up my own custom cable assemblies. Oh one last thing.
I recently acquired a pair of interesting fan grills in 80mm and 120mm size. Well actually they were a gift.
My plans for these are a bit of a secret, but I will give you a hint. They won't be used as fan grills and it will be truly something unique to go on Feeding Frenzy.