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It was so small that mine wouldn't fit into it
Yeah they are a tad expensive, and the laser tube needs replacing every 2 years, that costs £3k per tube!
Update #4 - 20/03/2010
Grabbed a line jig and a tungsten carbide cutter to have a go at the top radiator cut.
Marked out with a template.
Fitted the line jig to the dremel.
Started cutting, but then my Dremel died. Must be faulty, I've only had it 2 weeks! A replacement is being sorted at the moment.
My wc'ing stuff from EK Waterblocks arrived! Massive thanks to Eddy, him and his company are absolutely incredible!
Quad rad for the bottom - thing is huge! I've never owned a rad bigger than a single before.
I'm starting to learn my softbox/lighting setup quite well now.
CPU block - I really like the boxes, much nicer than the plain brown boxes you get with other watercooling stuff.
Got the white acetal top to go on it to match the rest of the build. White acetal is my new favourite material!
The hold down plate is finished in a textured black powdercoat.
Perfect mirror finish base. Was surprised how perfect it was!
Two Laing DDC 10W pumps. I personally don't like the high pitched noise from the 18W version (if you can't hear it, you are old!) so I got two 10W to make up for the power loss! However they look a little dull...
So some more of my new favourite material to join them together! This is a dual DDC pump top.
The construction is quite interesting - it is made of two sheets of acetal which are then bonded together - how i don't quite know, i imagine by some kind of electro-welding process. If you stick a light behind the block of acetal, you see there are actually o-rings embedded inside the acetal. Neat engineering!
Fitted to the pumps. Inlet is in the top, outlet at the side.
Will be interesting to see how much pressure this thing generates. Custom tops normally increase the flow rate and head a lot. The one thing the DDC lacks on behind the D5 is the flow rate, so I'm hoping that this top will help with that.
Let me introduce the twins!
Nickel plated fullcover 5850 waterblocks with white acetal tops. I actually just sat and stared at them for a couple of minutes when i first opened the box!
White acetal is pretty dam hard to photograph.
The red stickers you see on all the blocks are warranty stickers, so I won't be removing them yet. I may try and sneakily move them to somewhere that won't be seen.
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Like the CPU block, mirror finish on the base.
Dunno what to say really! They talk for themselves.
These are RAM backplates designed to help cool off the ram on the top side of the card. They also look ridiculously awesome!
There were issues with the first version of this, they did not fit the 5850 properly. This has been fixed though.
Om nom nom
I need to finally decide on my fittings soon. After getting all this nickel goodness, it is tempting to go with silver shining bitspower instead of matt black. Decisions decisions...
Nickel orgy!
Fav picture of the lot!
A massive thanks to EK!
I would also like to introduce two new partners:
MIPs Waterblocks are sending me one of their RAM Cooler 6 memory waterblocks.
Enermax have been incredibly generous, and are sending me a Revolution85+ 850w PSU and a load of Enermax Cluster fans!
Last edited by oliverw92; 15-06-2010 at 10:40 PM.
Amazing!!!! It looks like you have a great (and very sexy) case underway. The CAD work is really impressive too. Planning always seems to make things go that much smoother.
Thankyou! Yeah planning makes things really easy. I took all the measurements for the drive bay straight off the SketchUp model. It means I can instantly see if a component is going to fit or not by just dropping it in.
What you gonna do with it when it's finished? Feel like doing a Robin Hood and donating all the rich people's stuff to the poor (me)?
ha jokes.....you can always wishWhat you gonna do with it when it's finished? Feel like doing a Robin Hood and donating all the rich people's stuff to the poor (me)?
i want that tool you got for your dremel! looks handy, and might i add you take damn amazing shoots with your camera
It was so small that mine wouldn't fit into it
This thing gonna last me ages, hopefully all through uni! I won't be able to mod for the next year at least, so it has to be good and has to be finished within 2 months!What you gonna do with it when it's finished? Feel like doing a Robin Hood and donating all the rich people's stuff to the poor (me)?
Thanksha jokes.....you can always wish
i want that tool you got for your dremel! looks handy, and might i add you take damn amazing shoots with your cameraYeah it is, it's best for wood and plastic.
Update #5 - 27/03/2010
Enermax Revolution PSU arrived! Nice fit inside the case, lines up perfectly with my cable management gap.
I need to make a new PSU bracket to get rid of the horrible square holes and also flip the PSU.
Radiator in place.
This will be mounted on a quad rad stand.
I've realised i now have space for push pull on the quad rad, which will be quite nice!
This is how the pump will be mounted. This is all that will be in the bottom compartment - anything else will end up making it cluttered, which is what i want to avoid.
There will be a tube going up from the top of the pump to the reservoir in and, one going to the rad from the pump then one from the rad up to the GPUs.
I should be able to get some attractive loop designs into here.
A load of Enermax Clusters! 9x 120mm, 2x 80mm.
The silver rings will be powdercoated like i did for MiniMe. I am not sure whether to go for white or black for them, opinions?
Don't have enough fans now, i need two more to do push pull on the quad rad.
Here is the PSU box. It is pretty big!
The texture of the casing is really nice. It is pretty resistant to impact too.
There is also a big enough gap around the area where the permanent cables come out to get sleeving in, unlike alot of PSUs such as the Corsair ones.
Nice simple design for the back. Hoping the LED isn't a silly colour!
I may paint the red grill white. Will find out if that voids the warranty first though.
Nice texture.
And that's it for this update
Currently getting the mobo blocks sorted out. My RAM block is having a custom white top made for it which should be here soon too!
Big thanks to Enermax:
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I love these things but whats the point in all this?
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Whats the point in what? The entire project?
Update #6 - 29/03/2010
A few people wanted pics of the motherboard blocks. These were custom made for the previous owner by Duniek. The copper has tarnished since then and the acrylic is a bit scratched and dirty.
They really don't suite the look of the build as is, so I am going to have some white tops made and get the copper cleaned up and nickel plated.
Copper could do with a polish!
This MOSFET block is genius engineering - Duniek is an absolute god at making waterblocks!
The block has to clear some chokes, which is why the acrylic is so complex in design.
YOu can see the cut out for the chokes.
This is the big SB block.
Again, could do with some cleaning.
And the NB block - I think Duniek has a generic design for this, since the copper part is identical to the copper part on my Zotac 9300-itx block, also by him.
Last edited by oliverw92; 15-06-2010 at 10:52 PM.
Dude, I love your projects!
Any the way you get sponsors lol.. Do you bribe them??!
ThanksDude, I love your projects!
Any the way you get sponsors lol.. Do you bribe them??!
Nope, just email them!
Ahh. Very good! Pretty lucky you got access to some good machinery too!
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