soulza
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yep took this into account , the psu is at the bottom of the case behind the housing with the fan facing downwards through a vent with a magnetic dust cover to extract any heat there , there is also two intake fans at the front that suck cool air across the cable looms , because each wire is sheaved and held by spacers there is above normal venting being applied , there are sensors in the case that detect when it starts to heat up , when a pre set temp is reached or detected , the two top fans which are both coolermasters kick in and quickly suck out all the warm air , three fans are on always and are controlled by a front panel fan controller that was built into the case , however i have ordered a new fan controller that makes the three perm on case fans intelligent and will control how fast they need to spin to keep a pre set temp. the PSU cooler fan is also intelligent and throttles up or down when needed , temps even when playing tanks dont come even close to danger levels.
still waiting on silver metal decals from USA to arrive but sprayed my templates today and added them to the setup.
NOTE i have now moved my monitor front center,
here are some external shots with lights on.
this is what the pc looks like when i am using it ,its lit and of course side panel is on. but to see work done i needed to switch the pc off and remove panel ,due to lighting coming out to bright in photos
so lets look inside
straight away you will notice the custom white cable loops i added ,these are extensions and very easy to add to your system ,i also added blue SAT cables for my drives.
spayed the psu cover edge rather than the whole cover, this is stuck on only and easy to remove , same with the back ports cover , very easy and cheap to do.
GPU cover i just finished ,may stay with it or change it out when my decals arrive.
all the above modding cost very little indeed infact the case cost the most and that was under £50 ,cables around £25 , plastics i went to my local builders merchants and looked in the kitchen section for the plastics ,far cheaper than ordering acrylic online ,add one can of black paint and a roll of masking tape and thats it. a very cheap way to give your old pc a facelift.
i have ordered decals , new front panel fan control and headphone holders
today i started to make my graphics card back plate and the back panel IO cover , took ideas from this video,
have the shapes cut and the IO panel stuck together , now need to respray and add the decals, i also have the PSU cover to decorate , waitting on my brother to cut the shapes out i need for that , i am working in evenings until thursday so can do that until then ,should have all plates done and new sata cables installed and loomed by the weekend.
well its a few months down the line since my ban and i have not since spent one penny on wargaming , in fact i spent the money on my pc instead
i will not be the only one that decided not to spend any more money at all , how long this game keeps dictating to its clients we will see
my white braded power cables came this morning , spent a bit of time mounting them on the cable spredder clips and adding them to the pc , waiting on blue sata cables now then will post pics
pics are not mine but these are what i did with the cables and clips mountings
over clocking
i am no expert at over clocking and until recently its been said that the non -K intel processors are locked to overclocking,
my cheapish cpu is a I5 6400 @ 2.70 ghz that when boosted rises to around 3.2 ghz , this is good enough in my setup to pull 100-120 fps when in high detail mode in world of tanks,
because i dont use the pc for anything more demanding its enough as it is but then i read the other day that if you change the bios you are able to unlock the cpu for over clocking and whats more you can get some massive boosts.
so i read this and thought hmmm……………………. well in the end i had to try it , as it stated it was a 2 min job due to the abillity to flash the bios within the bios no usb trickery needed.
the major draw backs when doing this is not stability , it is that certain items are switched off like fan management and incorrect temp readouts of motherboard and cpu amoungst other things, being i just re housed into a new case i didnt think it
wise to actually keep the over clocked settings until i am certain i am not causing issues.,
so i downloaded the bios i needed for the Asus z170-p my motherboard and saved it where i could get access to it easily from within the bios,
then i had to change a few settings that i had listed from a guide i found on the internet via google (same as link for bios for motherboard to allow the overclock)
saved, and rebooted , ran cpu-z and boom !!!!! 4.519 ghz compared to official 2.7 ghz or in practice 3.2 ghz boosted massive boost of around 70%
i also ran benchmark software and the thing performs better than a low end I7 this is straight up and well documented on the internet if you dig around for it.
first attempt of doing it i found unstable so lowered the ram frequency slightly (think i read to do this somewhere) , and i got it spot on the second time, although my ram was set to slightly slower than it should be.
however after all of this i have reverted back to out of the box settings for now, i still dont know enough about over clocking at this stage and need to find other users that have done this and the settings they have used and also any solution they have used for temp monitoring and fan managment.
anyone here who actually has been able to follow this and knows what i am talking about please add a comment below.
my missus sits to left of me , so i set the monitor this was as i can still chat to her , also what you cant see out of picture is my big tv is wall mounted just off to the left and above the monitor , i have an hdmi cable running from pc to the tv if i want to use kodi or watch sport , lastly because my missus is to the left of me she cant see my screen
lollike i said , add the code and there was or still is a .py file within xvm , if they removed it you would need to get a copy from the xvm version that had it , the stand alone damagelog mod used to have this as well but that also got removed
remember this is not for over tank markers , its for your damage taken log
i think you can show reload times over tanks if they do not include crew skills and the like i.e base reload times for tanks, when ever you watch live matches in tourneys they show the reloads in bar form , this mod was broken a while back by maggz he never said how he did it but he did say the code is already within the game itself , i always liked the bars better than the number readout and have kept an eye out for it but no luck so far, but maggz did say the code is in the game.
just found the code it used to be in the damagelog.xc file of xvm , it would show reloads of someone who had hit you only in the damage log taken
// Таймер перезарядки (см. damageLog.xc).
“timerReload”: {
“enabled”: true,
“updateEvent”: “PY(ON_TIMER_RELOAD)”,
“x”: 240,
“y”: 0,
“width”: 300,
“height”: 252,
“screenVAlign”: “bottom”,
“shadow”: { “distance”: 1, “angle”: 90, “alpha”: 80, “blur”: 5, “strength”: 3 },
“textFormat”: { “color”: “0xF4EFE8”, “size”: 16 },
“format”: “{{py:xvm.damageLog.timerReload}}”
},it was included in older configs but not sure if they took it out or not , if they did its a simple case of re adding the .py file to current build i would think.
i have done so before , i was so used to using speedtree/tundra that i forgot to remove it for screenshots , there is a argument for it though by saying that the screenshot is from a replay file and not live in battle and can be checked by looking at the fps counter as it shows two actual and recorded fps, i got away with it once
