Gorast Paloski - North Macedonia [Tt CaseMOD Invitational Balkan 2025]

[AXE]

Dear,

This is your official Tt CaseMOD Invitational Balkan 2025 thread!
Post like your life depends on it! Show everyone what it means to be a modder and make North Macedonia proud!

 

[Goki223]

Hi everyone! My name is Gorast Paloski, I am a CS student and modder from Ohrid, Macedonia. This will my third mod in my portfolio, but first ever case mod so it will be a new and awesome experience for me. I would like to thank Thermaltake and our other sponsors, AMD, ASUS and Samsung for organizing this event and also for the opportunity to be a part of such an event.

Here I will post updates and progress of my case mod for this competition and will keep you guys up with my work. More photos and information are on the way so stay tuned!

 

[neSSa]

Srecno!

 

[Goki223]

Hi everyone!
A small update to keep you up. In the photos I'm showing the rough positioning of the hardware. Although it might look as it is the same as planned in the case, if you take a closer look you'll see that the motherboard is 10ish centimeters closer to the front than normal.

The plan is to move the motherboard tray upfront so I get a larger "chamber" in the back of the case. In the back partition I will place the PSU and the radiator and I will add a window to the back panel which will provide a nice showcase for the parts in the back. Also for this to be possible the GPU will be mounted with an extender and not directly in the MB. The GPU has to be mounted to the farthest slots to fit everything. Also on the left panel I will make a window that will give a nice display to the GPU.
For now I'm mostly working on the CAD's for the custom parts and panels so I don't really have a lot of things to show apart from these photos, but more are coming very soon!

 

[neSSa]

To volim, tehnicka resenja i pomeranja unutar prostora, samo cepaj!

 

[Goki223]

Alright so, until now I had not revealed the theme of the build. The whole thing will be made in a Star Wars Stormtrooper theme, and will contain Imperial empire inspired elements from Star Wars movies. Here are the cad drawings of all the custom parts / panels. All of these will be made from steel sheets.

So there will be custom MB tray and another tray which will hold the PSU and reservoir, one cover which will be in the inside, covering the bottom part of the MB and covers on the side panels and back panel. On the first picture everything is as it will be in the end and bottom picture is with every part separated.

 

[Goki223]

Hi guys. Another update, lots of cutting and sanding today!
I removed the MB tray and cut a big piece of it. The frame that I am left with will go back in the case, for it adds a structural integrity to the case and also it will help a lot for the cable management.

The edges on the cut part look very rough and badly cut and that's due to it was my first time using a grinder and a front grinder (Dremel), but they are not as bad as it looks, it looks rough mostly because I took some paint off while sanding it but I will be painting it so it will look and be a lot better.
One more thing for today, the LCS kit I got is one from before AM5 I suppose, so I don't have the AM5 mounting brackets. So I had to improvise on that part. I cut the hooks from the stock motherboard cooler mounting and used the black plastic parts as spacers and screwed the waterblock in with the stock MB screws.

 

[Goki223]

E sad za one sa više iskustva, dali je ovo okej rešenje za montiranje water bloka ili da ipak moram da nabavim odgovarajuci mount?

 

[Goki223]

Big update today!
In the past couple days all the custom parts were cut out and painted. There were some problems and mistakes from my side so the painting process took 4 days .



But all is done now and the inside of the case is now built. The tubing is yet to be done and for me it’s the hardest part for it is something I have never done before.



Also the GPU got a new look to match with the build.



So in the coming days the tubing will be done and the exterior of the case is the last part.

 

[Goki223]

Tubing završen i pc je u funkciji. Savijanje cevi je trajalo ceo dan ali sam na kraju zadovoljan kako je ispalo. Prvi put radim custom loop i mogu reći da sam se namučio ali su cevi ispale skoro pa perfektne, s time što se imperfekcije ne vide u računaru.


Leak test takodje prošao bez greške



Ps. Najbolji prijatelj u celom ovom postupku

 

[Goki223]

 

[Goki223]

Stranice kucista su gotove. Ostaju jos neki detalji koje cu dodati na njima (bice i nitne sa kojima se spajaju obojane u boji pozadine i da sredim nekoliko imperfekcija oko farbe i to ce biti to.

 

[neSSa]

Izabrao si jednu od mojih omiljenih tema, napregni jos malo projekat!

 

[animaN]

E sad za one sa više iskustva, dali je ovo okej rešenje za montiranje water bloka ili da ipak moram da nabavim odgovarajuci mount?

To ćeš znati na osnovu temperatura! To je jedino merilo! Ako su temperature super, to je to, rešio si problem!
btw super mod u najavi! Bravo!