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Hey CS....been snoozing for awhile again...:laugh: Nice work...love the Koolance pump and the idea of blowing air up into the case from the bottom is one that I favor...my CM690 case comes with a 120mm fan vent on the bottom and I made sure to put an intake fan there. After all cool air seeks lowest ground right?

Cheers dude....good to be back :toast: :)
 
Hey CS....been snoozing for awhile again...:laugh: Nice work...love the Koolance pump and the idea of blowing air up into the case from the bottom is one that I favor...my CM690 case comes with a 120mm fan vent on the bottom and I made sure to put an intake fan there. After all cool air seeks lowest ground right?

Cheers dude....good to be back :toast: :)

You have to think. Hot air raises up. that's why it's all ways good to have the top fans exhaust.

Now, it's funny that you have posted. I have been snoozing due to work, but It's going to be time to play come this weekend. Why? I just spent $130 on aluminum to fix this baby the way I wanted it to be. I didn't try this time getting ahold of MM, I tried in the past and ohwell.. Now, I got 2-24"x24" pieces and 4-9"x24" pieces coming tomorrow. That will give me a extra 24"x24" and a 9"x24" to play with.

So, probably come tomorrow, if not tonight, I'll have what I'm thinking of doing up for everyone to comment on.
 
You have to think. Hot air raises up. that's why it's all ways good to have the top fans exhaust.

Now, it's funny that you have posted. I have been snoozing due to work, but It's going to be time to play come this weekend. Why? I just spent $130 on aluminum to fix this baby the way I wanted it to be. I didn't try this time getting ahold of MM, I tried in the past and ohwell.. Now, I got 2-24"x24" pieces and 4-9"x24" pieces coming tomorrow. That will give me a extra 24"x24" and a 9"x24" to play with.

So, probably come tomorrow, if not tonight, I'll have what I'm thinking of doing up for everyone to comment on.

That's right Hot air rises. That was the selling point for my CM RC690 I have 2x120mm exhaust on top one out the back....2x120mm intake on side panel one right over my Big Typhoon VR for a nice vortex...1x120mm intake lower front panel and of course...the bottom intake 120mm. My case on the floor where the air is coolest. In winter I crack the window a bit just to get cool airflow along the floor....under full load my 9850 @ 2.9Ghz 1.3v is a cozy 48-52c :)

Looking forward to your lower intake mods...I'm sure you'll see a difference in your GPU temps.
 
That's right Hot air rises. That was the selling point for my CM RC690 I have 2x120mm exhaust on top one out the back....2x120mm intake on side panel one right over my Big Typhoon VR for a nice vortex...1x120mm intake lower front panel and of course...the bottom intake 120mm. My case on the floor where the air is coolest. In winter I crack the window a bit just to get cool airflow along the floor....under full load my 9850 @ 2.9Ghz 1.3v is a cozy 48-52c :)

Looking forward to your lower intake mods...I'm sure you'll see a difference in your GPU temps.



Very nice on the temp.. Now need to get a better quad. lol..

Yeah, I'm cutting out the whole 18 fan bit.. That's to much I feel. So instead.

3 fans in front. 120mm
2 fans under GPU's. 140mm
2 fans in back. 120mm
1 fan blowing onto GPU's. 140mm
3-4 fans up top for rad. 120mm
*1 fan sucking out from the side, near GPU's. 120*


That last one I'm thinking if it will help. Having a fan sucking out all the heat that the other 3 fans pushing. 2 from the bottom, one on the gpus.. It's a question on it all.. The biggest thing is me thinking about doing the PSU at the front of the case.. making a cover to place over it and going that route.. Don't know yet till I can get things going. Best part. Silverstone refused my psu, said I knew what was going on myself and still did it, so I have a extra psu, of the same kind, to test the psu placements out..


Blah, two more days till I can play and I gotta work 13 hour days.
 
Update time!:

Wow, it has a been a long time since I really did this. But, I have to thank MK for getting me to finish it.. It gets a little discouraging when something just can't seem to go the way you wanted it.. Fact, this started out the way I didn't want it to. So, now it will finish the way I wanted it.

Reason. $85ish worth of Aluminum from onlinemetals.com. Their a great site for any type of metal that you want. I was able to do the following.

2 24"x24" Aluminum 5052 .63t sheets for 15.29ea {30.58}

4 9"x24" Aluminum 5052 .63t custom sheets for 12.96ea {51.84} + {$3 special cut fee(one time only)

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Only reason you just see 3 panels.. I took that picture last.. lol


Now, here is what I'm thinking at doing it all.. Well, you see it bit by bit..

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Don't you love how big the screen is and that small little thing? lol.. Now, reasoning for what I'm doing.. I wanted to have the front Flush.. nothing on it at all.. The Blu-ray drive can open til it hits a 150* angle.. so, why not give it a 90* one? I just wanted to do the one bay, I didn't care for the cover and the "bay drive" hdds.. Yeah, it cuts down on the cables, but I really don't want but just the SSD in the case. Grabbing ether a raid cage or a NAS for the finish of this build.. Get the lease amount of stuff in here.. Hell, I'm even thinking of putting the drive in the back of the case. FrozenCPU does custom length power cables, so I could easily do it.. case is only 2f in each ways..




Now, for the cuts.. It was a fun thing to do. First off was drilling holes for the ends. Line everything up for the cuts.

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After doing all the sides, we went in to the rails. Line everything up so we can start the offset rad. i still wanted to do a quad.

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Set it to where the rad will sit flush with the back end. That gives me enough room for me to do two things

Res on the top, allowing it to do a 1/4barb fitting the out of the pump/res to the rad. So, I don't have to use any tubing what so ever. Plus, It gives me a filling port for the top. I'll most likely get a "longer" res tube, so I can do it up right.

From that, we went and set up the rad. 4 fans. It was a pretty easy thing to do. Since I'm not using a Thermochill rad, all I have to do is line up 4 fans perfectly


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Then from that, I grabbed a mock painted fan and got the pilot holes for the 114mm hole saw to start it's magic

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From that it turned out like this.


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I'm pretty amazed on how it turned out.. It turned out a WHOLE lot better then the side rad wholes that I did.. But, this time I did it right..


So, after doing that.. man, the Black clouds started coming along.. dang it.. Cleaned up and will do more Thursday. Short day.

Now, here is the difference between what he sent me, and what I just did.


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The one on the Right is what I just did.. Forgot to add that it wasn't quite the same size of the panels that the case sends.. so, got out the saw and cut it to size! I think it was like a 1/4 on the top and side difference.. So, probably a saw cut..

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Well guys.. That's it for tonight.. I'll add a bit more in a bit.. Late for dinner!

Thx MK for setting me straight on doing this fully.. Also thanks to RM and his parents for allowing me to do it there. Good day.

Later
 
nice to see it coming along mate, you could of got MM to do all this for you but then its getting the plans to them so they understand.

good luck with it all matey :toast:
 
nice to see it coming along mate, you could of got MM to do all this for you but then its getting the plans to them so they understand.

good luck with it all matey :toast:


Blah, it's not the same man! I want this my own.. Not something someone else will get.. That's why I flipped the front.. lol

thx man.
 
So that's you on the left and RM on the right? :p

Looks like the hard work paid off man. Looks real good. :)
 
Found a place in city that does anything you need powdercoated. Left a message for estimate on it.

Got a thought in my head, at work now, on doing small "spacers" for the front and putting mesh around the spacers to cover the gap.. what you think?
 
CS, is that painters tape your using? Does it reduce the amount of finishing on the cuts?
 
CS, is that painters tape your using? Does it reduce the amount of finishing on the cuts?

I think its to protect the finish of the panels, just in case.
 
CS, is that painters tape your using? Does it reduce the amount of finishing on the cuts?

I didn't see any reduction on the finish. It doesn't grab on to the piece like others would. Easy to come off. Even with the Powdercoat side panel had nothing wrong with it after I took it off a few days later.
 
Sorry let me rephrase the question. Does using the painters tape cut down on time cleaning up the edges of the cuts?

Not sure what material the case is anyways, alum? Steel?

I'm going to be making some cuts on my Obsidian and thought to use some tape over the cuts to help reduce the jagged edges.
 
Sorry let me rephrase the question. Does using the painters tape cut down on time cleaning up the edges of the cuts?

Not sure what material the case is anyways, alum? Steel?

I'm going to be making some cuts on my Obsidian and thought to use some tape over the cuts to help reduce the jagged edges.

To me, using painters Tape is a easy fast way to do it. don't have to worry if your marking is wrong, write on it and don't mess up the product. Now, with everything else I'm going to do, I'll have a "mockup" of the cut, so I know I'm making a clean straight cut. Don't want to go messing things up!

Even if I did eye ball the 9x24".. the panels of the case isn't the same size, of the case, so I have to cut down all side panels..
 
Update 5/20/010

So, what do you do on your early day off? Well cut your computer case!


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Oops, there is no turning back anymore!


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It does look to be totally different now. Now just gotta take apart my loop, get my tubing here, I can mess with the loop in the case. Still thinking about the psu in the front.


I'm probably going to have the top look like this.

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It's not the correct place on where I'm going to have the blu-ray drive.. once the water loop is in, I'll make the place needed for it. I know I'm going to go and make a custom window panel now. That way I don't show the stuff that isn't need to show.. System is only thing worth wild!

Now, here is where it gets strange on ya.. I'm thinking of doing spacers for the panels. don't know what yet, but I'm thinking of

Spacing all around. With Mess covering it all

OR

Spacing "Front panel-top screws" with the "top panel-front screws" having the same spacing. that way it has a like a 20* angle at those places.. It would probably be less of a angle since I won't go higher then 1/2" spacers..


Well that's it for now.. But got a teaser for ya..


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:D
 
i haven't looked through all 41 pages yet, but from what i've seen on the last page you've put a lot into this project, its lookin pretty good. I'm sure it'll be amazing when its done!
 
Update 5/22/2010

Thanks Bruce, but I gotta say, the last few pages are the ones that count with this build.. Like I say.. My mind changes a little too often.


Update: 5/22/2010:


Well, I took out the loop to work on the case tomorrow. So, air going till I get it in the case.. but, I gotta say.. This Noc is making me hate going to water.. lol.. Systems are just a bit higher then water, but about 3c* of a difference.. I don't even want to think about priming it.. it'll probably be about 15-20c higher.. lol

So, anyone want to know what I was thinking? Well, I took a post from MKmods on this idea. Something that I wanted to do a while ago, but never did..


Here we go.

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Now, I know.. there is some paint chips on the rad.. I had some Velcro strips on it and well, it wasn't nice once I pulled it off..

Now, MK, I know what you where talking about.. it's nice to have it to where there isn't any tubing used for it.. But, as you can see from this next picture, it works quite right for what I was thinking.


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It's perfectly the height that I wanted it to be. Only thing will be, I don't have a need for the fill port barb that I got.. If I add a bigger male/male coming from the rad, I can do it, but I don't think it will be needed. it's nice the way it is now.

Well, that's it for now. Tomorrow:

  • Cut whole for pump top
  • Cut front wholes
  • line up screw wholes for front panel
  • Work on cutting the back and making panel for it.
 
CS can you link me to those tops & res for you pumps please mate, is that the D5?

looking awesome bro :toast:
 
CS can you link me to those tops & res for you pumps please mate, is that the D5?

looking awesome bro :toast:

Koolance PMP-450/s

with:

Koolance 30mm body and res top.

I got it at Performance-pcs.com but the pump top is out.. so I'd suggest you could get it threw koolance itself. Since they do international shipping.. I just knew I could get it faster threw PPcS when I ordered at the time.
 
Small Update: 5/23/2010

Didn't have the ability to do much today. But, did the one thing that I wanted to do..

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On the Case

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As you can see from the next picture, I'm just a few barb short of getting it fixed the way MK suggested.
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Man, it looks sweet! I love how it looks. Can't wait for it to show the black once I get it all cut.


So, now I'm going to get off Wednesday early, I hope, to which I'll do what I wanted to.


:toast:
 
ha, love the mounting of the pump
 
SR1, no doubt the other one looks really bad.

Yeah the sr1 was the thought since I was wanting to go with Gentle Typhoon's for the fans.. The Xtreme stealth was just for the factor of it being a G1/4 at the top and bottom of the rad.. less tubing needed if I wanted to add that rad..
 
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