[Intel NUC] The microprocessor

Morgoth · Sep 28, 2013

man i love ur work keep it up

gdubc · Sep 28, 2013

Subbed....beautiful work...just beautiful!

Ace_finland · Sep 30, 2013

TRWOV said:
wow! speechless.

subd

Thx!

Morgoth said:
man i love ur work keep it up

Thx, hopefully i will get some final shots tomorrow if i get it all together!

gdubc said:
Subbed....beautiful work...just beautiful!

Cheers!

GreiverBlade · Sep 30, 2013

Deep breath......

1

2

3!

Mother of g.o.d!!!!!

a.k.a : Sub'D :rockout:

ste2425 · Oct 2, 2013

Dam that's fantastic pal, love watching logs of mods like this. We used to have a fantastic guy called MKmods who used to do great mods to the same quality as this. Try searching for him if TPU keeps posts from that far back.

Sasqui · Oct 2, 2013

ste2425 said:
We used to have a fantastic guy called MKmods who used to great mods to the same quality as this.

He was just plain awesome. This build is one hell of an original, sublime execution... and if anyone has any connections at intel, they should see this!!!

AsRock · Oct 2, 2013

ste2425 said:
Dam that's fantastic pal, love watching logs of mods like this. We used to have a fantastic guy called MKmods who used to do great mods to the same quality as this. Try searching for him if TPU keeps posts from that far back.

Yes, so every so often things on here remind me of that nice guy who was around.. Funny he was thee only one who used to agree with me about a PSU should be at the top of a PC case lol..

Anyways Great job there and thanks for sharing.

Ace_finland · Oct 3, 2013

GreiverBlade said:
Deep breath......

1

2

3!

Mother of g.o.d!!!!!

a.k.a : Sub'D

Thx!!

ste2425 said:
Dam that's fantastic pal, love watching logs of mods like this. We used to have a fantastic guy called MKmods who used to do great mods to the same quality as this. Try searching for him if TPU keeps posts from that far back.

Thx for the very kind words! I will have a look for him!

Sasqui said:
He was just plain awesome. This build is one hell of an original, sublime execution... and if anyone has any connections at intel, they should see this!!!

THX!! Maybe i should spam them

AsRock said:
Yes, so every so often things on here remind me of that nice guy who was around.. Funny he was thee only one who used to agree with me about a PSU should be at the top of a PC case lol..

Anyways Great job there and thanks for sharing.

Lol, thx!

Ace_finland · Oct 3, 2013

Final update!

Was thinking a while how the easiest way to get a film on the acrylic, after some searching i found some transparent acetate film with an adhesive backing on ebay. Ordered a glossy version made for inkjets. Printed out to test it and it looked alright, but def not as glossy as i imagined. For some reason it would not stick well to the transparency film either. So fixing to problems at one go i decided to try and spray it with a clear coat and using sticky tape over the color. In the end the sticky tape had as even surface as the clear coat and no dust in it. So decided with sticky tape.

The result

And now for some final pictures

For some reason the acrylic ain't as glossy as real life but i can't use any other functions than auto on this camera

Hope you like it

Crap Daddy · Oct 3, 2013

Fantastic!

Random Murderer · Oct 3, 2013

Incredible work! I absolutely love the light shining through the acrylic

What's next?

Ace_finland · Oct 3, 2013

Crap Daddy said:
Fantastic!

Thx Crap Daddy!

Random Murderer said:
Incredible work! I absolutely love the light shining through the acrylic

What's next?

Thx! I love working with acrylic and lights

What is next u ask? Well i entered in the cooler master mod competition but i don't even have a design yet. But i do have an idea and it will be called Project Duplex

I will make a build log here as soon as i have the design done

theonedub · Oct 3, 2013

I went and looked at the designs that were picked over you for the Intel NUC/Bit-tech competition, and I have to say that only one or two of them are in the same league as this.

Have you submitted pics on Bit-tech so they can see what they are missing?

xvi · Oct 3, 2013

Don't forget to post pictures over at that Intel NUC/Bit-tech competition you mentioned in first post. Let 'em know what they missed out on.

Looks awesome!

theonedub · Oct 3, 2013

^ Get out of my head :laugh:

Ace_finland · Oct 3, 2013

theonedub said:
I went and looked at the designs that were picked over you for the Intel NUC/Bit-tech competition, and I have to say that only one or two of them are in the same league as this.

Have you submitted pics on Bit-tech so they can see what they are missing?

Thx for the kind words! I like the builds that are there and there were a lot of entries so i can imagine they had a hard time choosing which ones to send parts to.
I have a build log over there as well so they know what i've been doing. Think i will send some pics to Intel as well

xvi said:
Don't forget to post pictures over at that Intel NUC/Bit-tech competition you mentioned in first post. Let 'em know what they missed out on.

Looks awesome!

I have

theonedub said:
^ Get out of my head

haha, great minds think alike

Ja.KooLit · Oct 3, 2013

OOhhh La La...... nice one.....

really looks good....

ne6togadno · Oct 4, 2013

fantastic

Shou Miko · Oct 4, 2013

the output looks awesome, nice little maskine

HammerON · Oct 4, 2013

Excellent mod :toast:

Your skills are very impressive

GreiverBlade · Oct 4, 2013

BIS REPETITAM *enhanced dubstep remix limited edition*

MOTHER OF F***ING G.O.D(forgive me, for i had to)

i love the disclaimer in the initial post wich say you dont have much electronic skill for your custom mill... modesty anyone?

also if you thanks people it would also be appreciated to thank them via the thank button but your thank in a post and finished work is just so awesome that i fail to see any point in what i wrote just now ... just plain AWESOMNESS! :rockout:

im tempted to "try" to begin a same kind of mod (but for REAL CPU in AMD style, DONT HIT ME IM JOKING

) for my Zotac ZboX HD AD01 and also fail... hard

lemonadesoda · Oct 4, 2013

Top dog!

xBruce88x · Oct 4, 2013

simply amazing

GreiverBlade · Oct 4, 2013

xBruce88x said:
simply amazing

amazing? wait you think of "AMAZING!" steve jobs style? nahhhh its WAY MORE THAN THAT! even APPLE cant come with a designe like that and if they do for the mac mini then Ace_Finland can SUE them HARD!!!! (note to Ace .... PATENT IT!) wheel of fate reversal !

Ace_finland · Oct 5, 2013

night.fox said:
OOhhh La La...... nice one.....

really looks good....

Thx!

ne6togadno said:
fantastic

Thx!

puma99dk| said:
the output looks awesome, nice little maskine

Thx!

HammerON said:
Excellent mod
Your skills are very impressive

Cheers!

GreiverBlade said:
BIS REPETITAM *enhanced dubstep remix limited edition*

MOTHER OF F***ING G.O.D(forgive me, for i had to)

i love the disclaimer in the initial post wich say you dont have much electronic skill for your custom mill... modesty anyone?

also if you thanks people it would also be appreciated to thank them via the thank button but your thank in a post and finished work is just so awesome that i fail to see any point in what i wrote just now ... just plain AWESOMNESS!

im tempted to "try" to begin a same kind of mod (but for REAL CPU in AMD style, DONT HIT ME IM JOKING ) for my Zotac ZboX HD AD01 and also fail... hard

Thx for the thanks button, in other forums i have gotten warning for using them

But now i know

Do it! i would love to see that! Regarding the mill it took me a long time to figure out the electronics

lemonadesoda said:
Top dog!

Thx!

xBruce88x said:
simply amazing

Thx!

GreiverBlade said:
amazing? wait you think of "AMAZING!" steve jobs style? nahhhh its WAY MORE THAN THAT! even APPLE cant come with a designe like that and if they do for the mac mini then Ace_Finland can SUE them HARD!!!! (note to Ace .... PATENT IT!) wheel of fate reversal !

Thx! your comments are heartwarming

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