Hey Alex, my handle used to be jrmichel (it's ok if you don't remember, lol) and I've followed your progress and chatted back and forth with you in comment sections for years. To give you an idea of how inspiring you are, although I come from software development, in my spare time, I've learned CAD, built my own CNC, created custom waterblocks and will be launching my e-store in the next two weeks. If it turns out to be successful, it will be in large part because of you. I'm eternally grateful to you either way! Much love, my friend.
I don't think people actually understand how crazy this casemod is already. This is absolutely bonkers in terms of measuring and creating parts. If I may add 1 tiny thing. The bottom of the chassis kind of looks out of place now. So much awesomeness and custom aluminium and then there you see the white chassis grill on the bottom. Imagine that being covered with a thin aluminium grill instead. Love your work as always Alex ❤
@@timwarning9326 Yeah that was bugging me too, I’m just going to replace that panel entirely, it doesn’t need the vent as I won’t be using the windows anymore.
Nice see you working on mods again. This work was great, taking advantage of the CTE concept and a good part of the original case, literally giving meaning to the art of "casemod". Congratulations
Amazing Job, like always your work has always been so clean cut and to my eyes perfect. I look forward to the day I can get my hands on a cnc machine so that I can bring to life my cuts as i design them! Look forward to more of your builds and welcome back, nice to see an OG on the youtube platform again!
Love to see your work. am so happy you are doing vids on youtube again. I think the auto focus issue you were having, was because of both you the case and you back walls being very close in color, so the cam could not figure out what to focus on.
I remember when I bought that Axminister radial drill from you many moons ago. Your work and progression is nothing less than excellent. I'm so incredibly curious to see how your journey continues.
@@shazra1173 I’m hoping to do some smaller rigs down the line, although probably not the full on SFF thing as personally I don’t enjoy that much (too much about space optimisation rather than having fun).
I see your Weird Coffee Person t-shirt - do you think you might do a coffee related project in the future? A custom manual lever espresso machine with your skills and flare would be a super interesting project to see!
@@pirugnappo Indeed I have! At the time this was filmed though I hadn’t quite got the method right though so didn’t use them. Getting the join right on transparent ones is much less forgiving.
@@jrmichel1975 I do a chunk of things for Corsair and have also done a fair bit of EK stuff. TT sponsors things specifically for Computex a lot, which the others don’t tend to do.
I’d be curious, how many hours usually goes into one of these projects? Like you obviously are coming in with a lot of experience, but like how much time do you have to invest into cad and design and prototyping to finalize mod (approximately)? I think it’s hard to really quantify the scale of one of these projects through a screen and would be interested in your take.
@@TheDwight1379 I probably would recommend more sleep and time than I had 😂 I probably left it on selective focus in that section, with the crosshair over to the corner or something. It’s a Nikon Z9 so there’s not much I could “upgrade” to, so to speak.
an idea for your store ? MEMORY HEATSINKS!!!!!!!! my god these ECC memories are FKN UGLY!!! , so yea , custom memory heatsinks for popular RAM modules , and i bet implementing the RGB aint that hard with some 3d printed clear PETG
@@woe2you yeap i do remember , thats why i dont know why he havent made some simpler ones for other common ram kits or ECC memory kits that doesnt have heatsinks most of the one ive seen , have the holes on the top and i hate that
@@СавелийМерц-р5ь Yes/No. I don’t have the equipment for working with sheet stock in an interesting way, so it would just be boring flat stuff. I much prefer milling larger pieces of plate instead.
Hey Alex, my handle used to be jrmichel (it's ok if you don't remember, lol) and I've followed your progress and chatted back and forth with you in comment sections for years. To give you an idea of how inspiring you are, although I come from software development, in my spare time, I've learned CAD, built my own CNC, created custom waterblocks and will be launching my e-store in the next two weeks. If it turns out to be successful, it will be in large part because of you. I'm eternally grateful to you either way! Much love, my friend.
I really love getting to see your quality work on here on a regular basis again!
I'm so glad you're making build videos again! Your channel inspires me.
Looking forward to seeing your changes next time!
I don't think people actually understand how crazy this casemod is already. This is absolutely bonkers in terms of measuring and creating parts.
If I may add 1 tiny thing. The bottom of the chassis kind of looks out of place now. So much awesomeness and custom aluminium and then there you see the white chassis grill on the bottom. Imagine that being covered with a thin aluminium grill instead.
Love your work as always Alex ❤
@@timwarning9326 Yeah that was bugging me too, I’m just going to replace that panel entirely, it doesn’t need the vent as I won’t be using the windows anymore.
I’m so happy to see you back on RUclips!!!
Pure quality. This guy's work is just exquisite.
Nice see you working on mods again. This work was great, taking advantage of the CTE concept and a good part of the original case, literally giving meaning to the art of "casemod". Congratulations
You're so lucky you get to do what you love!
Amazing Job, like always your work has always been so clean cut and to my eyes perfect. I look forward to the day I can get my hands on a cnc machine so that I can bring to life my cuts as i design them! Look forward to more of your builds and welcome back, nice to see an OG on the youtube platform again!
"Mooooooom! Alex is posting pr0n again!"
Always a pleasure dude, looking forward to the future installments.
Lol
I think shiny surfaces make autofocus go crazy. I love your work man.
Love to see your work. am so happy you are doing vids on youtube again.
I think the auto focus issue you were having, was because of both you the case and you back walls being very close in color, so the cam could not figure out what to focus on.
Awesome build, looks sick with the LEDs! 🙂 Did you think about bead blasting for the aluminium finish?
@@alkemicar I reckon some parts are going to be bead blasted while others will be just anodised. I’m still mulling over the colours and whatnot.
1:51 now this is the quality content I subbed for 😂
dude this is absolutely crazy... that crystal distro plate aw gohd... purrfect
I remember when I bought that Axminister radial drill from you many moons ago. Your work and progression is nothing less than excellent. I'm so incredibly curious to see how your journey continues.
@@samwalters4205 I hope it served you well! That must have been summer 2016 yeah?
Watercool Heatkiller Radiators with the brushed stainless steel sides would have been a nice match for this build.
I’d love to see you get into itx form factor mods.
@@shazra1173 I’m hoping to do some smaller rigs down the line, although probably not the full on SFF thing as personally I don’t enjoy that much (too much about space optimisation rather than having fun).
Hoffmann shirt ftw
“In your own time”😂 amazing!
I see your Weird Coffee Person t-shirt - do you think you might do a coffee related project in the future? A custom manual lever espresso machine with your skills and flare would be a super interesting project to see!
@@slunce12 I may or may not be planning to mod my GS3 at some point 👀
i wonder what filament you used for all of these printed parts, it has quite a nice translucent effect to it, fantastic video as always !
@@ingediaingedia4368 It’s Eryone Transparent PETG, probably my favourite filament as it just prints so consistently.
@@PraetexDesign thanks a lot!
I love the synthetic vibe it gives, very futuristic texture, whishing you good first layers!
Hi, I love your videos, keep it up! Have you ever considered using transparent gaskets?
@@pirugnappo Indeed I have! At the time this was filmed though I hadn’t quite got the method right though so didn’t use them. Getting the join right on transparent ones is much less forgiving.
Case mod.... 90% of case... YEEEEETTT!!!!! 😂
2:48 and that's why I use manual focus only xD
Looks so good 🤩
The Warercool Radiators would fit the theme a lot better... however I do understand EK sponsored the build
@@yamuiemata Actually EK didn’t sponsor this one, the Watercool rads simply weren’t available at the time 😅
@@PraetexDesignI don't think I've ever seen any other sponsors than TT. Am I wrong?
@@PraetexDesign thanks for clarifying
@@jrmichel1975 I do a chunk of things for Corsair and have also done a fair bit of EK stuff. TT sponsors things specifically for Computex a lot, which the others don’t tend to do.
We want to buy parts!!! 😂😂
the mounting of the fans is excellent. Would you like to make a 3D model publicly available?
@@СавелийМерц-р5ь I might do once I’ve done the refinements.
So glad you are back!!! FUCK NDAs and non competes!
I’d be curious, how many hours usually goes into one of these projects? Like you obviously are coming in with a lot of experience, but like how much time do you have to invest into cad and design and prototyping to finalize mod (approximately)? I think it’s hard to really quantify the scale of one of these projects through a screen and would be interested in your take.
I'm not going to apologise for perpetuating that joke, cos it's as funny now as it was when you did the 1kD.
Nooo! I'm just about to start a build in exactly the same model case. Now, no matter how good a job I do, I'll be thinking "What a piece of junk!"
@@christophersmith108 🫂
Nah man go for it!!! The sense of achievement from making your own build is always worth it! Alex's stuff just gives us more to strive for! 😁
I think your camera is protesting your choice of font by refusing to focus reliably 😜
Do you recommend that camera? 😂😂
@@TheDwight1379 I probably would recommend more sleep and time than I had 😂
I probably left it on selective focus in that section, with the crosshair over to the corner or something. It’s a Nikon Z9 so there’s not much I could “upgrade” to, so to speak.
You likely have the focus issue because you wear glasses. Eye detection is tricky with reflecting glasses :)
Wich Controller did u use for RGB ?
@@JJ-gk5tn It’s the Phanteks digital RGB one
@@PraetexDesign thank u so much
And please keep up the awesome work
Love ur videos
an idea for your store ?
MEMORY HEATSINKS!!!!!!!! my god these ECC memories are FKN UGLY!!! , so yea , custom memory heatsinks for popular RAM modules , and i bet implementing the RGB aint that hard with some 3d printed clear PETG
The ones he did for the Thermaltake Invitational a couple of years ago were gorgeous.
@@woe2you yeap i do remember , thats why i dont know why he havent made some simpler ones for other common ram kits or ECC memory kits that doesnt have heatsinks
most of the one ive seen , have the holes on the top and i hate that
LEEEEEEEETSGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Wouldn't it be easier to cut metal sheets than to mill thick plates?
Не проще было бы раскроить листы металла нежели ферезеровать толстые пластины?
@@СавелийМерц-р5ь Yes/No. I don’t have the equipment for working with sheet stock in an interesting way, so it would just be boring flat stuff. I much prefer milling larger pieces of plate instead.
Hey Alex, I sent you an email, I’m eager for you to see it and tell me your thoughts.