This Cyberpunk 2077 gaming PC build is straight out of Night City

This gorgeous Cyberpunk 2077 rig is full of glowing goodies – it seems prefer it got here straight off the road in Night time Metropolis. Dystopian fiction fan Richi Bowzer spent a 12 months creating this gaming PC, which may boot into two PCs for two-player gaming, and has an unimaginable quantity of {custom} paintwork, in addition to a nifty display on the PSU shroud.

Due to our quickly rising PC building Facebook page, we’ve seen many {custom} gaming PCs, from mods based mostly on current case designs to scratch builds. Right here we discuss to the creator Richi about how he constructed this Cyberpunk 2077 theme twin gaming PC.

PCGamesN: What impressed you to construct this Cyberpunk 2077 PC?

Richi: I’ve been a fan of the entire dystopian theme for a very long time – I even loved the up to date Blade Runner movie! I learn the Bruce Bethke books after I was youthful, and for me he’s the founding father of the entire dystopian future concept. I even have an enormous assortment of cyberpunk and dystopian future wallpapers, so when the sport was introduced, a mod on this theme was all the time within the works.

I wished to incorporate a display as nicely, however too many modders are rocking the 7″ ones now, so I went on aliexpress.com and located a 14″ 1,280 x 390 mini ultrawide display, and determined to go down that route. As quickly as I discovered it, I believed it will make a great {custom} rain meter or monitoring display, then the sport got here out with ultrawide adverts, so I selected to show them on the display as an alternative.

My design cues had been fairly easy – I wished to make it look dystopian, and never comply with the yellow and blue theme contained in the case, because it was already on the surface. I simply wished to create a dystopian/cyberpunk look inside. I pictured it in my head and it got here out nearly 90% how I imagined it. I additionally wished to get a complete exterior lighting proper across the setup, utilizing a Philips Hue setup across the displays and desk.

That’s a tremendous paint job. Take us by your portray course of.

I get a bit foolish with regards to portray. Firstly, I measured the panels, which after all meant stripping off the panels off together with the entrance one – that was fortunately a easy job with the Lian Li Dynamic 011XL, because it has screws holding it in place fairly than rivets. I then wet-sanded all of the panels with 800-grit sandpaper, so the etching primer may chunk into it.

For the again panel, I made a stencil (I make all my stencils with a Silhouette Cameo 3D printer – top-of-the-line investments I’ve ever made), to masks the design. The panel was then coated with two coats of Createx Pearl Silver, Pearl White after which Pearl Crimson.

After the paint hardened, I sanded the panel with 1,400-grit sandpaper to scuff the picture and provides it a worn appear and feel – I even sanded a little bit of the anodized aluminum across the paint so as to add to that impact. The opposite panels had been first coated in yellow with a touch of lime 2K paint, then two coats of lacquer to guard it.

I custom-designed the stencils in my very outdated copy of Photoshop, then used my Cameo to plot them out. I laid out the stencils, after which put down my very own mixture of Createx Pearl Inexperienced, Pearl White, and Pearl Blue, once more then sanding them down with 1,400-grit sandpaper to make them look worn – I sanded away edges and full traces of paint. After this, I used 3,000-grit paper with water to flatten it down, after which used some 400-grit paper to sand the sides of the highest panel again to silver.

One of many hardest elements was jamming a small screwdriver into the sides of the entrance I/O ports, as I wished although to chip off the paint across the ports to provide them the entire worn vibe. This was then all completed off with 4 coats of 2K lacquer and compound rubbing (by hand), after which polished.

It was a whole lot of work, and it’s arduous to see all of it, however I do know I’ve performed it, and that sits proper with me. The panel paint in studio mild and commonplace lighting simply reveals up a inexperienced type of shade, but it surely modifications to blue beneath actually vivid mild, with a sparkle to it. The primary portray recommendation I’d give is to organize nicely, after which put a great deal of sweat and elbow grease into the colour sanding, in addition to the compound rubbing-down of the completed lacquered product.

How did you go about making the glowing adverts on the GPU backplate?

The plate was made up for me by Ricardo at ColdZero on his UV printer, which permits semi-transparent prints.

The design is my very own, though I took some adverts from the sport and made one other to representing the truth that the GPUs are made by Nvidia – I designed an advert round that and tailored it to suit the futuristic theme.

How does the display on the PSU shroud work?

I really like this display – it’s hooked as much as a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1650 Tremendous card behind the motherboard tray, in addition to one of many most important GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPUs. It performs a video of ads from the precise sport – I needed to drive across the sport and screenshot all of the ultrawide adverts, then combine them up with some video adverts from the sport (the movies had been ripped from sport recordsdata). I feel I overdid it, although, as the overall size of the advert loop is seven minutes.

It serves a twin objective too, because it’s additionally related to an UnRAID boot drive. The machine has two totally different setups as well – one common one utilizing all of the {hardware}, and the second through UnRAID has two digital machines (each is separated into ten cores, 16GB of reminiscence and a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti every). It’s fairly advanced, and there was fairly a little bit of trial and error concerned in getting it to work this fashion. Nonetheless, it means I can boot up a separate mode that permits two players to play on the one rig.

The place did you get the Keanu Reeves mannequin?

This was in all probability the most affordable product in the entire setup – it was £22 on Amazon – a cut price when you ask me.

There are some substantial curves within the tubing down the underside. What tubing did you employ, and the way did you chop and bend it?

It’s 14mm Bitspower Crystal Hyperlink Tube, and I’m in all probability going to upset just a few folks now, however my bending instruments simply contain a hacksaw, a tube insert, a reamer, some sandpaper, a warmth gun and a few Mayhems silicon twine bending spray – no mandrels are wanted.

With acrylic, I prefer to warmth a considerable quantity of the tube, then I bend it, lay it flat on a clear floor and do any minor adjustment whereas it cools. I work by sight with my bends and don’t measure, say, the curves on the backside. I begin with an even bigger piece than I want, get the bend as tight as attainable, then reduce it down earlier than ending it off with a reamer and sandpaper. Good-quality tubing is the important thing to getting good curves.

The magenta and cyan lighting actually helps this machine to face out. How did you intend the lighting setup within the PC?

I simply wished a complete dystopian really feel contained in the rig, and blues, reds and magenta are on the forefront of that model, so it was a pure alternative. The GPU waterblock’s lights, in addition to the higher and case lights, are all related to the motherboard through a Bitspower DRGB hub.

The GPU backplate, CPU block, MOSFET block and two entrance window lights are related to a Razer Chroma ARGB controller, which after all permits particular person LED shade decisions. This helps with the GPU backplate, because it permits me to pick the LEDs beneath the panel to match the colour of the particular photographs with which they line up, enabling them to pop a bit extra.

What specs did you employ, and may the PC truly run Cyberpunk 2077 at respectable settings?

There’s a 28-core Xeon with two GeForce RTX 2080 Ti playing cards and a GeForce GTX 1650 Tremendous. And sure, it performs nice with ray tracing at respectable settings. The settings are toned down barely for the dual-system mode, but it surely nonetheless runs nice.

Did you come throughout any difficulties?

Organising an UnRAID system to run two digital gaming machines was fairly powerful, as I used to be a noob to all of it. I attempted the GPU pass-through route and bought it working, however the VM utilizing the pass-through stored stuttering and crashing.

Setting it up as a dual-boot system was a ache as nicely – I ended up with two drives for UnRAID and digital machines, after which two drives for the one Home windows chilly boot and a whole lot of partition drives. I’m sick to loss of life of making RAID arrays, then deleting them to get the fitting steadiness!

How lengthy did it take you to finish this construct?

I wouldn’t prefer to guess the variety of hours, however I did begin planning it correctly over a 12 months in the past – the pandemic had an enormous impact on the time, although, because it’s not straightforward to mod (even with a shed within the backyard) with a four-year-old (now 5) at house.

Are you fully proud of the tip outcome?

I really like the tip outcome. The one half I’d change if it was attainable could be an even bigger case. The motherboard fills all however perhaps 2in or so to the fitting of the within of the case when you take a look at it from the aspect – it was powerful getting all of the gear into the case with three radiators and followers on them, however then that’s the enjoyable of modding I suppose.

Cyberpunk 2077 PC construct specs

Right here’s what Richi used to construct this unimaginable PC:

That is really unimaginable work, Richi. We notably love the display on the PSU shroud, and the graphics card backplate, however we’re additionally surprised by by your portray and etching work, in addition to the water-cooling system. There’s a lot occurring, you don’t know the place to look!

In case you’ve constructed a rare PC of any description your self, then we’d like to see it! Ship us your work via email or be a part of our Facebook group stuffed with {custom} PC builders to indicate off your rig. Oh and go examine your PC in opposition to the Cyberpunk 2077 system requirements.

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