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    So ive had my Silverstone Tj07 case for a few years and have never really got round to doing anything cosmetic to it.


    The hardware inside has been over-volted and over-clocked since it was built with both the graphics card and processor being watercooled.


    Although already outrageously fast running at 5ghz with 16Gb of 2133mhz RAM on a Samsung 512gb SSD and bios hacked 780gtx boosting to 1300mhz at 1.3volts, I wanted to get rid of the conventional platter hard drive (used to store downloads, pics, video etc) and the DVD drive. I also wanted to move the reservoir from the front and clean up the interior. I also wanted to clean up the bottom compartment to improve airflow for the radiator.


    I fabricated some perspex panels to cover the rear, front and base, I moved the water pump up from the bottom compartment and brought the reservoir inside (changing to a tube res), I also added a 140mm radiator to the front to supplement the 120.4 in the base. I added a second SSD and mounted that along with the primary drive on the back of the motherboard.

    The new frontend needed sorting so I fabricated a grill to cover the 140mm fan and some more Perspex to cover the internal from view.

    Im pleased with the cleaner looking front


    I also added four USB3 ports to the front replacing the USB2 and firewire ports that came on the case originally


    Now to give it a test run

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    Nice! GTA 5 in 4k @60fps should not be a problem then? Guessing you have got a 4k monitor(or two!)
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      Originally posted by Soran View Post
      Nice! GTA 5 in 4k @60fps should not be a problem then? Guessing you have got a 4k monitor(or two!)
      I run an IPS iiyama at 2560x1440 and an Asus Pro Art at 1920x1200. 4K is a massive jump in hardware requirement for very little visual improvement with current games. GTA isn't really my bag to be honest. Im currently playing modded versions of Empire and Napoleon Total War (Total Factions mod), my flight sim and some BF4.
      My gaming laptop is running nicely now that ive modded W8.1, added an m2 SSD and doubled the RAM, noisy as hell but then again a quad core and NV 970m do generate a lot of heat under stress, even the mobile versions.

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