Hello
- "today we see our motherboard tray"
this one....



- "no! this was a prototype to facilitate the placement of the various holes"
then in fact we received the aluminium plate
- "and we report on this the holes "



the concept of the tray is of the formwork style...
- "so we use some auminum profile"
indeed! and this makes it possible to pass the different cables inside



- "then we makes some holes at different locations depending on the type of cable"



what you do on the back plate???
- "big hole.... "



setup on the case....
- "main compartment"



and low compartment....
- "where take place the two barrels"



here we'll put the slim radiator



so! we return on this motherboard tray....
- "completing with some cable channel"
on the front plate



- "and on the back we put some wood vennering...."
visible through the other plate



- "a large picture window!"



we use an acrylic plate



a lot of cable channel on the bottom



placing in situ
- "with motherboard and graphic cards"



back side



we install the radiators too



- "then we have to put the reservoir?"
yes but not any reservoir



bye bye

hello
- "hi! tha last day, we see our new reservoir "
yes! but we keep the Thermaltake reservoir too



- "the goal of the game is to get inside one another...."



no 36 solutions....
- "we need to cut the bottle "



we can see quite a lot of ways to realize the cutting of the bottle
- "we choose this way "
we took rope and a bottle of alcohol to burn



- "we wrap the rope around the bottle"
at the cutting point
- "we did three laps because our rope tended to go out too fast"



we make a knot....



.... and we cut the extra



- "then, now, we remove the rope"



we put some alcohol on a small container....



- "and we let the rope soak the time it soaks well "



during this time we fill a larger container of cold water



- "we put the rope back on the bottle"
we wipe off excess alcohol



we ignite the rope
- "at this time it is necessary to turn the bottle on itself so that the heat is distributed on all the turn "



when the flame goes out....



- "....we must quickly plunge the bottle into cold water"
to create a thermal shock
- "and at this moment we have to ear a little sound..."



meaning the cutting of the bootle



the cut is not always as clear as we hope.... ops
- "we needed to repeat the operation on other bottles ..."
in order to achieve the expected result
- "and you had to drink all that wine "
no comment....



but there may be some worries when playing with fire .... is not it Xray....
- "oh yes..... my finger will not contradict you.....



now we can plunge the bootle on the Pacific reservoir
- "yes !!!!"



to the next time!

hello
- "hello! today we take care of graphics cards!"



we receive the new Thermaltake waterblock for this Strix



- "so first we have to remove the original heatsink"
there are 6 screw fixing it
- "yes! four with the GPU and two others for the mosfets"



- "and hop the heatsink can be removed"



first step accomplished



- "well! we continue removing others screws...."



- "fixing the backplate"



- "we take the instructions for use "



we need to place the thermal pads on the memory chips and mosfets
- "Thermaltake has the good idea to provide a set of pads sufficient to reiterate the operation "



- "It remains only to put the thermal paste on the gpu"



as you see, we have to put some white spacer on some locations



- "we need 7 screws to fix the waterblock on the graphic card"
we begin with the GPU



first one....



- "and the other one "



we finish them with the Thermaltake backplate



- "but these backplate no fit with our theme based on wine cooling.... :unsure: "
so we took a wooden board from a bottle box for wine



- "we cut it to the dimensions of the backplate"



- "we will bring him the little touch that sticks to the theme"
for that, we use our plotter....
- "in order to realize our stencil"



transfering it on the wooden board



- "some black paint later...."



- "we begin removing the outer side of the stencil "



we continue on one side....



- "and voilà !!! "



other wooden board???
- "of course! for the second graphic card "



same stencil?
- "yes"



- "always pay attention during the transfer so that all the details remain in place"



- "camouflage session for the rest of the wooden board before painting"



we have added a signature in relation to the previous model



- "and we add some details on the edges "



then we finish with this graphic cards
- "cool!"



see you soon

hello
- "coucou!"
after the graphic cards, we have the motherboard also...
- "the maximus formula VIII is already well prepared"
especially with its fairing



- "more we can see a backlight placed in two locations"



but the ROG theme not fit with our theme....
- "and we want to have a more neutral color on this fairing"
more black....
- "all black "



we do not stop in such good way!
- "yes! we continue in the customisation"
the name of this mod is Wine Cooling....
- "so we take a little piece of aluminium with a wood veneer"
and we begin cutting the first letters



- "a bit later...."



- "...we tweak the cutting lines"



and....
- "tadaaaa "
tadaaaa???
- "yes! tadaaaa like drum roll "



- "we make two little holes...."
and fix spacers



bye bye Maximus VIII....
- "welcome Wine Cooling!"



next?
- "the cover of the chipset heatsink"
with the ROG logo...
- "indeed, so we take a llittle plate aluminium"



as the "Wine Cooling", we fix a wood veneer on it



and we choose a new logo!
- "yes, and what is the best logo in relation to wine?"
a bottle
- "better! three glasses of wine "



- "so we take advantage of the backlight coming from the heat sink"
nice!



other modification?
- "no, it's all"



motherboard is ready?
- "quite.... we will solder some wires on its internal face to hide some plugs "
see you

hello
- "hello! today is sunday..."
then little update
- "so...."
let me guess! aluminium plate !
- "no! not this time! wooden board"



funny form your wooden board !!!
- "yes! in fact there are two board"
and at your feet what this ???
- "I'll play to the bricklayer...."
you want to build a wall ???
- "that's the idea "



- "one piece by one piece..."
I see that you started to trim round
- "yes! with grinder"



- "all right! I finish the second part too"



- "we tweak the details"
with black paint



- "the small touch with some shiny mosaics"
okay... that's nice... but why make a wall ????



- "to dress the location of the barrels "



- "I show you this in the case"
okay!!!



- "better with the barrels"
nice!
- "nothing better than to mount a wall to dress our cellar : "



see you soon

hello
- "Hi! the last time, we can see the barrels in place on the X71"
indeed
- "but we can see another updapte on this X71"
....
- "remind! we had finished the new structure of the case with our new aluminum plates"



- "but we were not going to leave the case as well "
so....
- "all in black !!!!"



- "main compartment"
as lower compartement....
- "black "



- "on the back"
black???
- "black "



- "underneath"
black too...
- "well not all : we keep the feet "



- "backstage side, we had protected the inner face which contains the wood board"



- "we can notice two small details at this level"
which are ???
- "this one first "
a cutting?
- "yes...."



- "the second detail take place upper "
two long screw! but for what ???



- "sorry! but at this moment, I can not answer this question : : "
okay......

see you later

hello
- "hello "
now we have completed the structure of our X71
- "indeed! so we can beginning to customize inside the case"
and.... aluminium plate
- "always not! again we take a wooden board on which I made a hole"



- "we cut it to the right size"
taking place....
- "on the case! "
okay.... but where???
- "ah! at the bottom of the main compartment"



what it is at your feet???
- "new stencil!"
I only see a red trick....



- "oh! okay! better like this!"
yes!



- "we transfer it on the wooden board"
always we pay attention in this work



- "counter to the backplates, we took a brown paint"



we remove the stencil
- "starting with the letters"
more easy...



- "then we take care of the castle"



- "et voilà !!! "
like a board of wine bottle boxes



I see you make another hole on this board
- "yes! it is for the passage of the tube coming from the reservoir"
okay!
- "here is how the board in the case"



see you soon

hello
- "merry christmas B) "
we continue customizing inside the main compartment
- "today we care of the front radiator"
yes! we were not going to leave the radiator like this.... so.....
- "we take a gold leaf"
what !!!!!



- "okay.... we take an aluminium plate in this case...."



if you want... but what is this gold leaf????
- "my cutting stencil , I have no more red ...."



- "then, we stay on the red wine theme"
I see that
- "some vine leaves and a bunch of grapes"
we would cut this with our scroll saw
- "before we have drill some holes"



and we start quietly with the first vine leaf



- "nice!"
yes?
- "of course!"
then, we continue on the others vine leaf



- "few minutes later....."
few minutes???
- "no?"
not really !!!
- "well, so few hours later "



we finish all the cutting



- "we remove the stencil...."
and we begin sanding the plate



- "we tweak the details"



modding is not an exact science....
- "yes! As you can see, we added a few cuts on some vine leaves"



and we folded one of the edges of the plate to cover a little more the radiator



- "the idea is to put a backliight to bring out the cut"



yes! because we paint the fairing in black



- "before leaving for an upcoming update"
here is a small video of my use of the scroll saw

https://www.youtube.com/embed/GoQttNlnRX8

Merry Christmas