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9. What's the best part of your rig?
Personally I like the custom red vinyl detailing work, I think it really finishes off the theme, and many people have made positive comments about it.
10. Any dislikes, things you should not have bought?
11. Did you modify anything ? cases/video cards/other? Did you do it yourself? Walk us through it.
Everything is custom in this project – full acrylic watercooling loop, handmade cables and plenty of mods too. For the theme, I wanted to get as close as possible to pure red and black, which meant anything that wasn't black or red would be removed, covered or painted. So the first mod I did for the build was a custom laser-cut motherboard tray. This black plexi piece was designed to cover the silver backplate of the case, as well as giving a good surface to mount the pump and to add detailing work.
The other custom plexi parts I had cut are the cover for the power supply compartment, and the I/O shield for the motherboard to hide the metal sockets. The I/O shield was made from three plexi pieces, which I glued together. I used a vinyl cutter to make the detailing work to match the MSI red PCB-style graphics, which I think really adds a unique style to the build.
Other mods include under motherboard LED lighting, a custom EK badge and black painted thumb nuts for the CPU water block, black vinyl on the motherboard capacitors, and red vinyl pinstriping on the edge of the GPU PCB.
12. Your 3DMark scores
Firestrike Extreme - 8853. I am still fine-tuning the overclocking though, so will score even higher!
13. Do you have any future updates planned ?
No, I think this build is complete.
14. Does your rig or mod have a name ?
Project Eris.
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