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.