Heavily modded Hyte Y70 with a steampunk theme. Basically everything you see here is modded in some way.
Everything is made by hand (I don't have a CNC machine). Painting the logos on the GPU and adding the strip along the top help maintain a consistent aesthetic.
Actually two sticks of RAM, couldn't get four stable. Attached the fin accessory kit from the second pair, filled it out perfectly.
7" stats screen in a walnut housing. Custom UI running on Aida64.
Nixie tube clock. I rebuilt the housing to fit in the build (both physically and aesthetically), but the internals of the clock are from Poltava Workshop in Ukraine - full credit to them for its functionality.
Masonic lodge coins to cover the rear of the fans. I used paint to add accents and shadowing to them.
Noctua once chided me on Twitter for painting their fans. I know it's not recommended, but it sure looks great.
Cables are handmade. I used a metal refinisher and paint on the cable combs to get the copper look.
This is a remote start switch for the PC, connects via BT to a PCI card behind the GPU. It started off as just a yellow and black box with a red button.
Steampunk-themed build in a Hyte Y70
I had a lot of fun with this one. This was a client build; he wanted a steampunk theme, a Nixie clock, and some Masonic symbology worked in. Otherwise, I was given free rein (and a generous budget). The build includes heavy case mods, painting, cable work, woodworking, and some UI design/software work.
Basically everything you see was modded in some way. Everything was done by hand; I don't have a CNC machine. All the wood is real walnut. All the little metal accents were bought off Amazon, but almost every one was modified and hand painted. I got the Nixie tube clock from Poltava Workshop in Ukraine, but had to transfer the parts to a new enclosure as it wouldn't fit where I needed it to. The stats screen is based on Aida64 with a custom UI I designed.
We did lose two fan positions, but with 5 high-quality intake and 3 exhaust, it doesn't appear to have affected temps at all. Both CPU and GPU will get up to mid-60s while gaming, and it's almost completely silent.
I tried, at the client's request, to get two kits of RAM to work to fill out the DIMM slots. When that failed I just stuck the extra fin accessory kits to the side. Worked perfectly from a cosmetic perspective. Other than the RAM issues, the build was great - no issues with hardware at all.
If you made it this far, thanks for taking the time. If you want to check out my other work, you can find it on IG @grimms_workshop.